Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1875 — Page 4

INDIANA NEWS ITEMS.

All«M fount?. Henry Prangon, of Fort Wayne, broke his right leg the other afternoon by slipping upon an icy pavement He was just recovering from a severe illness, and it is now feared that this last trouble will cause him to lose his life. Hon. John Hough, of Fort Wayne, a prominent politician, died at Fort Wayne a few days ago. He was a Republican Presidential elector in 1868. Dr. Hitchcock, of Kalamazoo, Mich., was riding on the cars between Fort Wayne and KendallviDe the other day, in attendance upon Mrs. Ranney, of Delphos, Ohio, and Mrs. Markham, of Kalamazoo, the latter of whom was suffering from temporary aberration of mind. As the ladies were quietly seated, the doctor stepped into an adjoining car, when Mrs. Markham, the insane woman, attempted to leap from the car, then going at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Mrs. Ranney attempted to restrain her and both were thrown violently to the ground. The demented woman As not injured, bat Mrs. Ranney had both legs broken and her head crushed in, fatal injuries. Pariew County. The City Marshal of Washington and the editor of the OaxetU engaged in a fight the other mprning, which resulted iu the discomfiture of the man of letters. The encounter was brought about by an article containing some severe reflections on the Marshal’s official conduct A few months ago he whipped the myrmidon of the law, and now honors are easy. Floyd County. Charles Goney, of New Albany, recently shot a widow named Eleanor Bruecht, and thinking he had killed her committed suicide by shooting himself. Fraaklln County. James 8. Osborn, a farmer fifty-three years old, from Andersonville, eloped a few days ago with a Miss Alma Faurate, aged fifteen, according to a Rushville dispatch of tbe 30th nit Osborn has a wife and five children, of whom one is married. Harrison County. The Corydon Democrat tells the story of an unfortunate affair near Laconia, which resulted in tbe death of an insane man. It ’Vims that one night, about two weeks ago, ?Teter Fink, a highly-respectable citizen, was aroused from his slumbers by some one bounding against the door and trying to force it open. Mr. Fink sprang from bis bed, and called to ascertain who was there. By this time the stranger made a bound against another door of the house a few feet distant from the former, but sassed to break it open. In a few minutes another effort was made to force tbe door by some one bounding against it. Mm. Fink then sprang to the door and held it while her husband got his gun. They then again called to the party outside and inquired what they wanted, bat received no reply. They then opened the door. The itr mg tv muted again to run, when Mr. Fink fired at him, mortaßy wounding him. The w imnfcif man was then taken into the house and pruned to be insane. He died in five or si days afterward. A hack laden with passengers for Union City recently overturned on the pike between Richmond and that Diace. One of the lady passengers had her arm broken, another a shoulder, and all were more or less injured. The hack, after the accident, was fit only for kindling-wood. Tippecanoe County. A $40,000 poor-house is one of the luxuries the citizens of the county are dreaming of. Vigo County. * A drunken spree in Middletown a few nights ago ended in the shooting of John Nash by a young man named Lynch Patton. Tbe latter had not been arrested at last accounts. Wayne County. James Wilson got a quantity of coal-oil upon his clothing while filling a cask with that fluid at Centerville, the other day. After wiping his clothing and the floor with old papers he went to throw them into the stove when the fire ignited his clothing and he was instantly enveloped in flames. The prompt assistance of by-standers, who rolled the unfortunate man in the snow, saved his life. As the cars stopped at the watering-tank at Cambridge City, a few nights ago, Mr. J. F. Walleck, Superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was a passenger on board, stepped off the train, supposing they were at the depot, and fell through a bridge to the ice beneath, sustaining a compound fracture of the leg and several severe injuries about the head. He was not found until some time after the train left, no one having seen him fall.

INDIANA STATE LEGISLATURE.

Senate, Jan. 27. —Bills were passed—changing the time of holding court in Warren, Fountain, Vermillion, Jasper, Benton and Newton Counties; enabling the United States to acquire land in Evansville for a postofflce... .The joint committee of the last Legislature made a report on the subject of plans for a new State-House, recommending three plans. The minority recommended the plan of Myers, of Detroit A bill was submitted with the report providing for a commission of five to superintend the erecting of the structure.... Bills were introduced——providing for the erection of two additional insane asylums, one to be located at Evansville and the other at Logansjfort; providing for the sale of the State swamp lands at $1.25 per acre; authorizing criminal Judges to issue writs of habeas corpus ...The report of the Judiciary Committee to indefinitely postpone the bill allowing husband and wife to testify for and against each other was concurred in.... Adjourned. House. —Bills were passed —in relation to the removal of line fences in certain cases; encouraging the destruction of wolves and foxes by offering rewards of S2O for wolf-scalps and $5 for those of foxes; amending the General Banking law so as to abolish the bureau relating to that business in the Auditor of State’s office.... The Clerk of the Supreme Court reported as to the publication of reports during the last six years... .The report of the State-House Committee was received and ordered printed.... Bills were passed—fixing the time of holding court in Benton, Jasper and Newton Counties; preventing the shooting of wild pigeons when nesting; permitting the sale of large tracts of land, etc.... Adjourned. Senate, Jan. 28.—After receiving and filing a number of committee reports the Sen ate went into Committee of the Whole on the special order, the liquor traffic. Speeches were made by Messrs. Samingshausen, Baxter, Grove. Bell, Johnson and Hough.... The Senate adjourned without reaching a vote. House. —Bills were passed—extending tiie time of credit on sales of lands of decedents’ estates in the discretion of the court; allowing Judges of Superior Courts to appoint attorneys as judges pro tem.; legalizing taxes assessed in the town of Auburn, De Kalb County; and preventing the killing of any small birds, including quails, at any time of the year.... Resolutions were adopted favoring the improvement of the Ohio River and asking Congress to make liberal appropriatkms therefor.... Adjourned. Senate, Jan. 29. —An interesting discussion ensued on a bill to amend the Divorce law. It was finally referred to the committee with instructions.... The House concurrent resolution turning over the State-House plans to the Joint Committee on Public Buildings was concurred in..;.ln the afternoon tiie temperance question was discussed in Committee' of the Whole, the debate being

carried on by Senators Given, Sleeth, Henderson, Baxter, Neff; Scott, Bell and others. After a long time thus spent tbe committee rose and reported the resolutions to the Senate. The vote was then taken amid great excitement, with the following result: Local option—ayes 28, noes 20; personal liability—ayes 31, noes 16; joint criminality in case of sale—ayes 42, noes 6... .Adjourned. House.— Bills were introduced—enabling owners of wet lands to drain through other lands; repealing the law allowing interest on judgments.... Bills were passed authorizing County Commissioners to purchase or build gravel roads on authority of a petition of the majority of the voters of a county; providing that in salts where tbe defendant defaults the bill of particulars filed and sworn to by the plaintiff at the beginning of snch salts shall form sufficient basis on which to form judgment.... .Adjourned. Senate, Jan. 30.—Petitions were received asking that salaries of county officers be reduced... .The Committee of Elections, in the contested case of Walker v*. Larue, reported in favor of Lafue, tbe sitting member, which report was unanimously concurred iu ....The Senate Prison Committee was granted leave of absence to visit the Northern State Prison....A resolution instructing the Committee on Education to report a bill abolishing the office of County Superintendent of Schools was defeated by ayes 20, noes 22.... Adjourned. House.—A majority of the Judiciary Committee reported affirmatively on the resolution asking if it bp constitutional for this assembly to redistrict the State for Congressional and legislative purposes. The minority reported negatively on the same. The majority report was adopted—ayes 43, noes 85.... A resolution was offered recommending that a new insane asylum be built, to be located near the site of the present asylum in Indianapolis. The resolution called out a long debate, which continued until the receßs....ln the afternoon a bill was passed making abortion a felony punishable with imprisonment from one to ten years.... Adjourned. Senate, Feb. I.—The bill allowing County Commissioners to vote aid to railroads to the extent of 2 per cent, of the tax duplicates was reported upon favorably.... A resolution was passed instructing for specific and lower salaries for State and county officers and reducing the salary of criminal Judges to $1,200....A bill was Introduced making the receipt of interest on public moneys a felony .... Adjourned.

House —Bills were introduced—making the salary of criminal prosecutors SI,OOO n addition to that now fixed by law; providing for the prosecution of felonies not punishable by death by information; to provide for the appointment of town and city officers in case of vacancy instead of by special election ; indicating the order of business in Circuit Courts; for fencing lines of railroad.... Bills were passed—introducing the public warehouse system and inspection of grain; making void printed agreements in promissory notes to pay attorney’s fees in case of suit; for the sale of trust lands in certain cases....A resolution was offered directing the Committee on Education to investigate into the alleged difference between the cost of education in State and denominational institutions.

Bknatb, Feb. 2. —Petitions and memorials were presented—praying for reappraisement of real estate in 1875; to cut down the salaries of officers; to abolish the office of County Superintendent; setting forth alleged abuses in connection with the State University.... The Committee on Temperance submitted a majority report to regulate the sale of liquor, providing that retailers shall pay S2OO and wholesalers $400; for local option; for personal liability; drunkenness a misdemeanor punishable by fine; selling to minors a misdemeanor, etc., etc. ....A resolution was passed instructing the Finance Committee to report a bill authorizing a reappraisement of real estate in 1880 and every fifth year thereafter. .. .The resolution for an insane asylum at Evansville and for one at Logansport was tabled.... The Committee on Prisons were authorized to investigate the manner of letting contracts in the Southern Prison.... Bills were introduced—granting a pension of $lB per month to J. C. Bates—who lost an arm in repelling Morgan’s raid; appropriating $83,200 for the Morgan raid sufferers.... Adjourned.

House. —The Speaker announced the Committee on A pportionment.... The House bill reducing the number of Senators to twenty-five and Representatives to fifty was tabled.... The bill to abolish the Criminal Court of Floyd and Clark Counties passed .... The House bill reducing the number of Grand Jurors to seven was reported on favorably, and ordered engrossed.... The bill authorizing the dismissal of County Superintendents for immorality was tabled.... The Committee of Education reported in favor of indefinitely postponing the bill for admission of colored children into white schools where no separate schools are provided for them. A minority report was made with a bill, providing for taxing people in districts who object to mixed schools to maintain separate schools. The majority report was agreed to ... .Bills were introduced—limiting the number of convicts to be contracted for any one kind of labor to 100; for the registry of births and deaths; for the relief of Morgan raid sufferers .... Adjourned.

Instinct of Birds.

It is interesting to observe the provision which birds make for their daily wants and with what certainty and success they are provided by instinct. The woodpecker grasps the trunk of a tree with his claws, and, standing upon his tail, by repeated strokes of his bill penetrates the hardest wood an inch or more until he finds the worm of which he is in search. In summer a common habit of it is said to be to lie with its long tongue protruding alongside of an ant-nest, drawing it in whenever covered with the ants, a favorite article of food.. The nuthatch opens the shells of nuts by repeated blows of his sharp, horny hill. During the winter a few shellbarks or walnuts cracked and placed above the ground will attract useful and pretty little birds. The butcher-bird, which lives on insects and smaller birds, is said to secure the latter by imitating their call and thus drawing them near him; and has a habit of impaling upon thorns such insects as he does not need at the time. Perhaps the trick of gathering what he does not want, and wasting what might be serviceable to others, is learned from his intercourse with man. The whippoorwill will sit upon a fence-rail and give utterance to the most mournful notes, as if his mother-in-law and all his other friends were dead and he was ready to follow them; but death to the insect that believes in the sincerity of the mourner’s wailings, or imagines that he has lost his appetite; the guileless moth is seized and swallowed without the bird even suspending his sad strain. Crows and sea-gulls are fond of shellfish, bat, being unable to open them, carry them to a great elevation and let them fall on the rocks beneath in order that they can indulge in the delicate morsel within. In this manner it is said a philosopher’s head was broken in ancient times, being mistaken for a stone. Whether this is true or not I cannot say, hut I know that it would be difficult to fracture some of the heads of savans in a similar manner at the present day. The bald-eagle obtains his subsistence In a very discreditable but ingenious manner. He calmly sits on the limb of some prominent tree, near the margin of

the water, and with his wings raised a few inches from hia body eagerly watches the movements of the fishing-eagles busily engaged in searching for their favorite food. Ere long he sees an osprey dive heavily into the wide expanse before him, mid reappearing with a scream of triumph, bearing in his hill a struggling fish. Then the gaze of the eagle is riveted on his compulsory purveyor, his wings are extended and be passes through the air like an arrow in pursuit of his less powerful relative. By superior strength and speed he overtakes the osprey and by repeated attacks makes it drop its much-prized food. Knowing that if tbe fish touched the water it would swim off and be lost, the bald eagle by a long swoop never fails to catch it on its downward course. In winter, when the Chesapeake Bay is full of ice, and fish cannot be obtained, the eagle becomes very bold and fearless and will often approach close to the sink-boxes of the gunners immediately after a heavy discharge at a passing flock of ducks, and carry off in safety a killed or wounded bird, apparently knowing that it can do so without injury to itself, as the guns could not be reloaded before it was far away with its prize. It is unfortunate that our national bird should indulge in the degrading habit of living sumptuously on the property of its weaker species; but it is not exceptional in this respect, as the king of birds only does what is often done by the kings of men.—Exchange.

A Story of a Sparrow.

A writer in the London Science Gossip relates a remarkable story of his experience with a foundling sparrow. Three years ago a young sparrow felLfit his feet upon the pavement from a house-roof. He earned it home, where a servant girl took it in charge and swathed and tenderly nursed and fed it, administering to it sopped bread from her own mouth. The bantling took to its foster-mother and to its diet, and grew to full stature. It was finally, with a desire to give it its liberty, placed in the garden, where it remained until another sparrow, apparently of its own age, made love to it, and finally enticed it away to a more natural condition of sparrow life; but not so far away as that it forgot its early friends, whom it frequently visited, and continued to recognize with signs of affection. If the nurse was in the garden, the grateful little creature would fly to her, perch upon her head or shoulder, and retain its position when she was walking, gathering flowers, or the like; and it was perfectly at home with all the household. A pane of glass in a kitchen window was fitted with a hinge for the admission of the interesting pet, which did not fail at breakfast, dinner or supper time to make its appearance, and tap at the window with its beak until it was opened for its entry, when it would fly to its loved and faithful nurse and partake of its usual feed from her mouth. This happy intercourse has been continued for three or four years, during which the sparrow has raised three or four broods, on which occasions food has been left for it upon the window so as to be at all times accessible for supplies to the risiDg generation. On one of these occasions the number of its visits to the food was no less than 237 in one day.

A $500 Counterfeit.

One of the Secret Service officers of the United States Treasury Department recently discovered that a SSOO United States Treasury note had been in circulation in Maine about which there was a doubt as to genuineness. The note was found at one of the hanks in that State which had stopped its circulation, although the cashier was himself in doubt as to whether it was a counterfeit or otherwise, it having been examined at the bank by a gentleman who is engaged in teaching the art of detecting counterfeit money, and pronounced by him a genuine hill. It was sent to this city and has been examined by the chief operative of the Boston district of the Secret Service Division and by an expert at the Sub-Treasury, who both have pronounced it a counterfeit. For the benefit of that portion of the public who have many five-hundred hills we have made an inquiry at the New England office of the Secret Service in this city and Mr. Kent informs us that the difference between a genuine SSOO United States Treasury note and the counterfeit is that on the genuine the buttons on the coat of John Quincy Adams are perfectly round, while on the counterfeit they have an irregular or mire of an octagonal form; on the genuine the small toes of the female figure of Justice are full and natural, while on the counterfeit the small toes are very small and the little ones very obscure. He says there are very few of these notes in circulation or even in existence, and that probably no counterfeit, not excepting the fives of the National Bank of Chicago, has ever been issued which is so well calculated to deceive. —Boston Journal. The Youngstown (Ohio) Register tells a tough story. A man employed in one of the iron mills in that place had a finger cut off m the large shears. The Register closes the “item” with this statement: “ The first intimation that Mr. Cook had of his misfortune was from a fellowworkman, who picked up the end of the severed finger from under the shears and handed it to him.” If that man should be hanged he wouldn’t know anything about it until some kind friend called his attention to the account of the execution in the newspapers. <tr A veby hospitable lady, who does not live over fifty miles from Utica, gave a party for her friends, among the young misses and masters, the other evening. Round d&nces were proposed, when the lady said: “I cannot allow you to have any round dancts. If any of the boys wish to hug the girls, Jet them sit down upon the tetes and go right at it in earnest, but—no round dances, mind you!” Wasn’t that sensible? —Clara Louise Kellogg tells untruths. She sayS she wouldn’t marry the best man in America. It is ft joke, however. She knows we’ve been married a number of years.— Rochester Democrat.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Cbyataluzed Maple Sirup.— m Inquirer” writes: “Can anyone account for the formation of Crystals in canned map)* sirup? What is the remedy for thei june?” The sirup was evaporated to the point of crystallization probably. The remedy is to dilate it with water to the required consistency.— Rural New Yorker. One grist difficulty experienced by all young housekeepers is to decide on the degree of heat necessary to cook ordinary dishes in an oven. It would be well to use a thermometer constantly in the kitchenjetting 160 degrees be the standard of heat for roasting meat; puddings and rich cakes; puff-paste and sponge-cake would need a greater degree of heat Cbanbkrry Rolls.—A Boston paper publishes the following excellent recipe for cranberry rolls: Stew a quart of cranberries in sufficient water to keep from burning; make very sweet,strain and cool; make a paste, and when the cranberry is cold spread it on the paste about an inch thick. Roll it, tie it close in a cloth; boil two boors and serve with a sweet sauces

Water Pound Cake.— Three eggs, two cups sugar, half cup of butter, beaten together ; three cups of flour, two tablespoonfuls baking powder, one-third of a nutmeg stirred in the flour, and one cup of cold water. Pour all together, beat hard a few minutes, bake in a quick oven. Place a piece of paper over the top of cake'pan to prevent the cake from becoming too brown. Sometimes the second paper is necessary. The cheap paints, mixed with milk for kitchen floors, last a season very well, but scale off with use and have no gloss, and must be renewed each year. Painters recommend zinc paint, yellow ochre, or gray, ground in oil and thinned for use with equal parts of boiled oil and Japan varnish. Two coats of the paint give a hard, glossy surface that will last twice as long as the cheaper sorts. The best painted floor needs to have a coat of Japan paint once in three years at least to keep if in good order.—Cor. Cincinnati Times.

Danger of Using Carbolic Acid.— The veterinarian of the London Field, in a long article on this subject, claims that all accidents resulting from the use of carbolic acid in any form are to be attributed entirely to carelessness in the preparation of the acid for use in the various mixtures made for the purpose of destroying parasitic insects. The acid in its pure form is, no doubt, poisonous, but the various preparations recommended by veterinarians are harmless if made and used according to the directions. Farmers, as a class, are inclined to the use of strong remedies, and if a preparation of one-fiftieth part carbolic does good they are tempted to, and often do, try one-tenth or more of the acid. Detecting Copper in Pickles and Green Tea. —The Manufacturer, and Builder says: “There is a notion that green tea owes its color to copper; this is an error. If there were copper enough in it to affect the color it would be highly poisonous, and a small quantity would produce symptoms such as nausea, etc. It is simply due to the kind of tree, the leaves of some tending to dry with a green, others with a black or brown color. Cut the suspected pickles into small pieces, and put on a little diluted liquid ammonia; shake it up well, and if the least copper is present the liquid will become beautifully blue. We have never seen green tea which indicated copper by this test.”

Economizing the Heat of the Body.

The correspondents of the London Times have been discussing several matters connected with the weather, one of whom makes the following very sensible remarks in regard to economizing the heat of the body: He warns persons against allowing themselves to be unnecessarily cold within doors, comparing it to the act of a spendthrift who wastes his capital in his youth and has no income left for his old age. To keep warm, to retain heat within the body instead of spending it, is just as judicious as to husband money with proper economy,- and every one who wishes to be able to face cold with impunity should regard the avoidable expenditure and loss of heat as foolish extravagance. To attempt to “ harden” people, and especially against cold is all nonsense. Cold can only be resisted by vital combustion within the body, and the body can only burn what is supplied to it, and that only in the measure of the capacity of the furnace. Every one who is exposed to cold draws upon his heat-producing power for hii means of resistance, and has so much less remaining with which to meet the next demand. Persons who live in warm houses, and who wear warm clothing, may go out into any degree of cold with impunity, while those who suffer themselves to be half-chilled at home must expect to be half-frozen when they are abroad. In regard to food, adults would do well systematically to eat more fat than usual in winter; and children may often be induced to do so if it is concealed by any of the familiar artifices of cookery. The thick gravy of an Irish stew, for example, may be made to carry much fat that would otherwise be wasted; and if the matter cannot thus be managed it will be found that nearly all delicate children will readily take cod-liver oil during jhe colder months.— N. Y. Observer.

The Action of Drains

In my travels among farmers, and especially among those who believe in drains and their attendant improvements, I am surprised that many do not properly understand the manner, or rather the position, in which the water enters the drain. It is of course understood that a drain only removes the surplus water, and hence a common barrel filled with earth may be taken as the representative of the under- soil. If into this barrel we pour water until the earth becomes saturated the surplus will* run over the top and our barrel represents a soil too wet fer cropping. If, previous to putting in the water, we make holes in the side of the barrel at different distances from the

bottom, they will represent so many drains laid at different depths. If we now pour in the water we will find that it will first sink to the bottom of the barrel until all the soil is saturated, and then the surplus will rise and run out at the lowest opening; if this affords it vent as fast as poured in at the top it will rise no higher, but if the supply exceeds the ability of the opening the level will rise until it does find escape, even though this be over the top. Ho it is with the open soil. All soils have a point at which the water permanently utands; in seme places on high land this point is far below the surface, and in low lands too near the surface for successful farming. When rain falls it sinks into the soil until it meets thjs water-level and rises in the exact proportion to the amount of rain; if deeper openings are not found the low ground is overflowed, but if properly-constructed drains are laid the surplus escapes before approaching sufficiently near the surface to interfere with the crops. Even where the drain is too small to immediately give vent to all the surplus water no harm ensues, because the action of the drain is kept up to extent after the rain ceases to fall and until the level is reduced to that of the bottom of the drain. We may then assume that water enters the drain from the bottom, and that on soft ground drains are often closed by the soft mud or quicksand being forced up from below, and very seldom if ever from material from above; hence on this kind of bottom it is safest to use narrow boards under the tile. Theoretically, tbis water-level should be at the bottom of the tile all over the drained land, but practically it is found to rise between the drains to a height which varies with the nature of the soil and the distance of the drains apart. This is chargeable to the capillary action of the soil, raising the water like a sponge.— Cor. Country Gentleman.

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. —Martha Washington breakfast caps for young married ladies are new. They are not especially pretty, and if Martha ever wore one she must have looked a veritable guy!

Bleeding from Lungs, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Consumption -A Wonderful Cure.

Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 13,1874. R. V. Pierce. M. D-, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir —l have suffered from Catarrh in an aggravated form for about twelve years and for several years from Bronchial trouble. Tried many doctors and things with no lasting benefit. In May, ’72, becoming nearly worn out with excessive Editorial labors on a paper in New York city, I was attacked with Bronchitis in a severe form, suffering almost a total loss of voice. I returned home here, but had been home only two weeks when I was completely prostrated with Hemorrhage from the lungs, having .four severe bleeding spells within two weeks , and first three inside of nine days. In the September following I improved sufficiently to be able to be about, though in a v6ry feeble state. My Bronchial trouble remained and the catarrh was tenfold worse than before. Every effort for relief seemed fruitless. I seemed to be losing ground daily. I continued in this feeble state, raising blood almost daily, until about the first of March, ’73, when I became so bad as to be confined to the house. A friend sugdfped your remedies. But I was extremely’skeptical that they would do me good, as I h«l lost all heart in remedies, and began to look upon medicine and doctors with disgust. However, I obtained one of your circulars, and read it carefully, from which I came to the conclusion that you understood your business, at least. I finally obtained a quantity of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy, your Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets, and commenced their vigorous use according to directions. To my surprise I soon began to improve. The Discovery and Pellets in a short time brought out a severe eruption, which continued for several weeks. I felt much better, my appetite improved, and I gained in strength and flesh. In three months every vestige of the Catarrh was gone, the Bronchitis had nearly disappeared, had no Cough whatever, and I had entirely ceased to rtuse blood; and, contrary to the expectation of some of my friends, the cure has remained permanent. I have had no more Hemorrhages from the Lungs, and am entirely free from Catarrh, from which I had suffered so much and so IODg. The debt of gratitude I owe for the blessing I have received at your hands knows no bounds. lam thoroughly satisfied, from my experience, that your medicines will master the worst forms of that odious disease, Catarrh, as well as Throat and Lung Diseases. I have recommended them to very many, and shall ever speak in their praise. Gratefullvyours,

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