The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 2, Ligonier, Noble County, 7 May 1874 — Page 1

The Flationn] Lanwer Published by ; JOHN B. STOLL, LIGONIER, N OBLE COUNTY,IND. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Strictlyin AAVANCe. .couseveesreasessoneces o .$2.00 g Thispaper ie‘publiahed onthecash iﬁ m:iflc, its proprietor belteving thatitis justasright for him to £mand advanee pay, as it i 8 for City publishers, §¥ Anyperson sendinﬁ)& club oflo, accompa-~ aied with the cash, willbe entitledto acopy of the paper,foroneyear,free ofcharge.

CITIZENS’ BANIK, LIGONIER, : INDIANA. | DEPOSITS received subject to check without notice. ADVANCES made on approved collaterals. MONEY loaned on long or short time. NOTES discounted at reagonable rates. om)l-;ius for first-class securities executed on commission. o ‘ AGENTS for the?urchasc and sale of Rea) Estate. INSUIiMNCE POLICIES writton infirst-class comanies. : § EX-CHANGE botht and sold, ‘and drafts drawn on all the princiEa cities of Europe. .- - AGENTS for the Inman line, } s Hamburg Line. PASSAGE TICKETS sold on all the principal seaports of Euro,pe" MERCHANTS’, Farmers’ and Mechanics’ accounts solicited, and all business transacted on lberal terms, il STRAUS BROTHERS. Ligonier, Ind.}j Oct. 23d,.1872-26 »

] . - Lake Shore & Mich.South’n R. R. On and after December 14, '73, trains willleave Stasions as follows: o : - |GOING EAST: - Sp.N.Y.Ex. Atlc. Ex. Accom. Chicag0......... 850 am.... 535 pm.. . E1khart........{1250 pm.... 950 ... 420 am G05hen......;... kllB Lo 1010 gl Millersburg.... 125 211025 T Ligonier.. i it XB¢ 5039 .. 5% Wawaka....... t 149" ...31051 Eia BB Brimfleld ......t157 -...11059 e Kendallville.... 210 aoritl 19 iea6oo- - atTolede 525 a 2 AN ... 3000 | GOING WEST : sil T01ed0..........1210 pm....1145pm.... 4 30 pm Kendallville.... 331 pm,.i. 310 am..., 840 Brimtield ......[t1345 ....1327 ..., 900 Wawaka....... 1355 cueel3:36 iene 914 Ligonier........ 404 Tao - L 900 Miilersburg.... 1418 ... 1405 .... 950 G05hen.......... 435 V.., 828 Lo 10 Rlkhart.......q. 455 veee 445 ... 1035 ArriveatChicago92o ... 850 .... Tlsam tTrains do not stop. : Expressleaves daily both ways. . Accommodat’n makescloseconnectionatElkhart with c’raimﬁoing Eastand West. ; CHAS. PAINE, Gen'lSupt.,Cleveland. J.N.ENEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier.

. - . Pittsburg, Ft. W. & Chicago R. R. / _ From and after March 29, 1874. | GOING WEST. ; } Noll, No 5, No 7, — No. 3. |FastEx. Mail. Pac Ex. NightEz. Pittsburg...... 2:lsam 6 00am 9:4oam 2 15pm Rochester..... -.-.-.. 7 80am 10:50am 3 25pm < A11iance....... Hdoam 11 00am J:4opm 6 13pm ‘0rrvi11e....... 7:lsam 12 sépm 3:23pm 7 50pm ‘Mansfield..... 9:2lam .3 16pm 5:22pm 9 55pm Crestline...Ar, 9:soam 4 00pm 5:55pm 10.:25pm Crestline. ..Lvilo 10am & 00am 6:lspm 10:35pm F0re5t........ 11'3dam 6 40am 8 13pm 11:A9pm Lima..........12:34pm 7:53am 9.85 pm I:o3am Ft Wayne..... 2:55pm 10:45am 12:30am 3:25am Plymouth...., s:o4pm I:4opm 3:2Bam 6:osam Chicago ....... 8.20 pm 9:3o§m 7:3oam 9:2oam GOING EAST. : : NoSB, No 2, No 6, Nod. ; Mail. Fast Ex. Pac Ex. Night Ex. Chigago......: s:lsam 9 20am 5 35pm 10 20pm Plymouth..... 9:26am 12 10pm 9 10pm 2 22am Ft Wayne....l2 40pm 2 35pm 11 30pm 5 50am Lima.......... 3:oopm 4 2lpm 1 38am 8 C4dam + F0re5t:....... 4:2opm 5 22pm 2 45am 9 23am Crestline .. Ar. 6:lspm 6 50pm 4 20am 11 15am Crestline ..Lv. 6 15am 7 10pm 4 30am 11 30am Mansfield ..... 6 50am 7 37pm 4 57am 11 58am 0rrvi11e,...... 9 13am 9 29pm 6 40am 1 58pm A11iance.......1120am 11 10pm 8 35am 3 40pm Rochester..... 210 pm ...i.... 1042 am 6 02pm Pittshurg ..... 3 30pm 2:2oam 11 45am 7 10pm No. 1, daily, except Monday; Nos 2,4, 5,7 and 8, daily except Sunday; Nos. 3 and 6 daily. "

‘gye . Gr. Rapids & Ind. and Cine., Rich. & Ft. Wayne R. R. ¢‘olzdenud Time Card. Daily, except Sundays. 1o g take ej’ect,%lrch Ist, 1874. - GOING NORTH. “Express, Express. Accom. Richmond J. .ocadlies ol 1010 am 350 pm Newport.. Jcisnaicis : 1038 ¢ 420 ¢ Winchesten....ci.ii s oL UG Ridgeville.l..siiieei. i Y 1148 %t 531 e Portiand..jaiitiiis . -1215 pm 600 ** Decaturyid e soie iy L Fort Wayne, D......... 800 am . 2 Rspm Kendallville .. occocl. 916 .04 03 , Sturgifee. . s cin BT 88l 911 ch‘do‘-.............11 it o 0 Ka1amaz00.............1215pm 655 ** Monteith L. ols L9l se s q5O, 8 Grand Rapid5........a. 240 Y ‘915 Grand Rapid5........d” 31C * 928 am . “Heward Uty . cisuvions BIR St il] 48 % ; ‘Up. Blg Rapidaii i L 610 4612 44 2% | Reci1(11tﬂ.............. 6oz ¢ 194 ¢ Clam Lake1.....c..c000 8207 245 pm Traverse Oty il se o 0 640 * GOING SOUTH. Express Express Express Traverse Oy - iocais. 730 am Clam Lakej ..ol i 500 am 1105 ** l{(aedCit}'{..,.;..<...... 627 ¢ 12 39pm Up. Bi§ apids.... ... 0L 105 Howard City.......... Boh 0 925 't Grand Rapigs......:\.. 1010 ¢ <430 * Grand Rapids. .....d.. T2samlllo ** 435 ' Monteith,sbia oo oo 080 l 340 pm . 600 # Kalamarag; iviiin 0986 %01 25 vl6 404 Mendon .[|..ciiao.. 1042 ** 755 Sturgls .ol csiiie TERS 8¢ : 836 ** Kenﬁ‘a]lville....'....';..;l2 42pm . 959 ¢ FortWayne......i,.'... Ihs: 1116 ¢ ‘Decatur..d .. ...ifiiiis SO7 * Accom Portland. .;.....}.1... 416 ** 650 am Ridgevillel. . iiicta Lo g 4 SBy 1d 4 Winchester. . ..ol 0 500 742 *° Newportef i sl oo 49 #.830 % Richiond ..o iif s iB5 % 1000 : Expresg traing leaving Richmond at 10 00 a m stop all night at Grand Rapids, !

Michigan Eake Shore Rail Road. Trains run daily except Sunday. - Condensed time card, taking effect Nov. 3d, '7B. GOING NORTH, GOING BOUTIL. Expr. Mail, STATIONS. gepr = Mail 350 pm 810am..Kalamazoo..1120 am 645 pm £32 855 ‘% Monteith....lo27 ** 586 ‘¢ 515 ¢ 1637 S ANemaN 5 i 050 ‘521 ¢ 6054 1083 ‘' .. HMamilton!.. 910 ' 438" 637 *¢ 1104 % iHolland:. /.. 840 % 4084 748 ¢ 1210pmGrand Haven, 741 ** - 306 * €34 ¢ 1255 .., Muskegon.. 700 ** 225 ‘¢ ; . R, MYgRS. General Passenger and Ticket Agent Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich. R. R Time Table No. 8, taking effect Monday, the 28th : day of October, 1872: + | GOING BDUTH, STATIONS. GOING NORTH. N 0.2 | No. 4 i . No.l N0,.3 425 pml2oo m a.....Waba5h....1700am 130 pm 340 ¢ 1040 am .Nor. Manchester 750 * 230 * 825 * 10120 * ~..SilyerLake....Bl7 * 315 ** 230 « 905 ¢ _....War5aw,...:.905 ¢ 425 ¢ 210 S+ 8120 % i BBOshurg L. 9R5 1600 %" 160 “+ 9150 ** Lo cMultora. ... 945 't 530 ' 126 © 720 ‘. Nesy Paris. 1005 ' 556 ** 105 ** 700 ¢ ..dp.Goshen,ar..lo2s ** 620 * 100 ** ..ar.Goshen,dp..lo3o ** 12304 .....81khart;.....1055 ** Trainsrun by Cleveland time. A. G, WELLS, Sup’t.

1868. 7 E 1874. . EYE AND EAR. ' DR, C. A. LAMBERT, . (LATE OF OHIOAGO,) OCULIST and AURIST, 41 GOSHEN, INDIANA. Drs. WHIPPY & KIRKLAND, HOM@EOPATHISTS. - Office over Wilden’s Bank, . GOSI{EI\T, - INDIAINA. Calls from a distance promptly attended to. ; P. W. CRUM, ‘ Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, « « « , Indiana. ‘Office’over Sack’s Bakery. Mayl2th, 1874, ' &, W.CARR, Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, » «t'» & = - IND., Willpromptly attend all callg intrustedto him. Office and residence on 4th Street. C. PALMITER, , Surgeon and Physician, Office at Residence. Ligonier, = « «» = Indiana. A.S. PARKER, M.D., HEOMEOPATHIST, fiice on Mitchel street. Residence on Eaststreet. Office hours from 10t0 12 A. M., and 2 to 4 ». m. . KEI(DALLYILLE, INDIANA. .~ H. A. MOYER, (Successor to W. L. Andrews,) ~ SURGEON DENTIST, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. LIQUID Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for the * painfess extraction of teeth, All work warranted, Examinations free. @ Office, Second Story, Mitchell Block. L, B4y J. M. TEAL, DBEBENTIST, | Oorner of Mitchell and State Sts., Mom‘block east of Post Office, room Kondeina gver the Kond;lil‘ville Fruit ﬁoul:, endallville, i ~AI work ted. Kenda‘l‘lam l‘,ﬁl. e " IR Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. . LIGONIER, ~ - - - INDIANA. Office second floor front, Landon’s Brick Blocke ATTORNEY AT LAW, LIGONIER, . - - INDIANA, @ Office In Mier's Block, 72

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- L. COVELL, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, LIGONIER, INDIANA. - Office, over Beazel Brothers’ new Harness Shop, i Cavin Street. el j‘_.__._.___,_’__.____.._,. e JAMES M. DENNY, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office in the Court House, - ALBION, - - - - - - [IND. 815 ALBERT BANTA, ’~ Justice of the Peaee & Conveyancer. LIIGONIIER, INDIANA." Special attention given to conveyancing and collections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. Office over Straus & Meagher’s store, . May 15 1873 15-8-3

D. W. GREEN, . ? . , Justiceof the Peace & Collection Ag't, Office with 9r. Landond, second floor Landon’s . Brick Block. " LIGONIER, - INDIANA. 9 T PHILIF A. CARR, AUCTIONEER, Offers his seryices to the public in };}c‘zneral. Terms moderate. Orders may be left at the shoe store of, P. Sisterhen.. f ' Ligonier, January 8, 73-37 | i

() H YES !—AI i farmers who have sales to cry will do well to callon : JOSEPH S. POTTS, . KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. = = He is as good at that as he ig at selling bed springs and up-land cranberries. Office at the Agriculture Store of G, A. Brillhart. -42-6 m CONCORD & CATAWBA WINE. We gell Mr. L. SHEETS’ Wines. Pure — Nothing but the Juice of ; the Grape. . - SACK BROTHERS. Ligonier, July 3, '71.-tf e ee e : C. V. INIESS DEALERIN MONUMENTS, Vaults, Tombstones, AND BUILDING STONES LIGONIER, IND. ! : April 12, 1871.-50 _ :

H. R. CORNELIL., Is now prepared to take GEMS of a superior quality. Having purchased one of the great American ¢ Opticah Company’s MULTIPYING GEM CAMERA, Which has facilities for making 9, 18, 36, or 72 pictures, all at one sitting, the nation can now be supplied with first-clags werk at a trifling expense, withinthercach ofall. Thefoilowingaretheprices: 7 Pictures forgloo 16 o WL e o o L DO, 32 o SE L 800. 70 e L 100 PHOTOGRAPHS THE SAME PRICE! Ligonier, Ind., Nov. 15,1871.

H. C. WINEBRENNER & CO., HOUSg,' BBIGN AND ORNAMENTAL PAINT EIRRS, Grainers, Glaziers and Paper-Hangers. SHOP AT SOUTH END OF CAVIN STREET i BRIDGE. : : - Ligomnier, - - = - Indiana, Whitewashing and calsomining done to order. Bay Give us a call befure letting your work, and we will gnarantee satisfaction. 8-1. c.B-47-Iy. TEEGARDEN HOUSE, Laporte, Indiana. . V. W AXTEEE, ¢ : : Proprietor. Laporte, April 5, 1871. STOP AT THE i KENDALLVI LLE, INDIANA. NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods trom the L. S. &M. 8. R. R. Degot', and four squares from the G, R. R R.— Only five minutes walk to any of the prlncl&aul business houses ofthg\%ity. Traveling men and strangers will find this @¥first-clage house. Fare §2 per any..: - J. B. KELLY, Proprietor, Kendallville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 i A. GANTS, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - . INDIANA. . ' | o _ Is prepared 20T i to doanything L AT e intheirline. A a 7 * succesful pracBo el S ias® > ' gice of over 10 b e e e aanaaisss s him in sayiug: ?I ‘*%, j_tir % that he “can N RTG e i< giveentiresat. CE e -w'” isfactionto al] j PR o who may be:stow their patronage. E®¥ Office one doornorth of Kime’s, Mavin St. i !

SACK' BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. CavinStreet, Ligonier,lndiana. - Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes’, &c., ChoiceGroceries,Provisions, YankeeNotions,&c¢ Thehighegtcash pricepaidrerCountg Produce ‘Mayl3,'6B-tf. i ~~ SACK BRO’S.

W. A. BROWN, Ma.nufuc‘t"nrer of #nd Dealerin all kinds of » FURNITURE, SPRING BED BOTTOMS, - ' WILLOW-WARE, - ; BRACKETS, &c COFFINS&CASKETS 41w}pys on t{mnd,_' and will be furnished to order, . Fanerals attended with hearse when desired. Cer. Csatx?i‘;f }gl?log:]:d Str.} Ligonie‘r’ Ind '~ August 7th, 1873,-8-15.

Banking House 0g . 3 OoOF SOIL.. MIER, Conrad’s New Brick Block, LIGONIER, IND’NA. - Money loaned on long and short time. , Notes discounted at, reasonable rates, i Monies received on/deposit and interest allowed on epecified time, Exchange bought and sold, and Foreign Drafts drawn on principal cities of Europe, . 82 - TO THE FARMERS: YOU will please take noilice that I am still en%aged in buyin¥- wheat, for which I pay the highest market price. / If you do not find me on the street, call before selling, at Iny Banking Office, in Conrad’s Brick Block. SOL. MIER. Ligonier, Indiana, May 7th, 1874.—tf

. HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, / , :?’ 5N : H v AN J 1, ; “"‘o"‘§ ) i v(\‘"‘:'-. o ' { 2> ..x_‘--*~ : -~ & | 7 N g Wy e Y - Yo ‘ ’?!‘7 / il(.’vv} 2 Watchmakers, Jewelry, AND DEALERSIA ‘Watches, Clocks. JEWELRY AND FANCY GOODS! Repairing neatly and promptly executed, and warranted. Agents for Lazarus & Morris’ Celebrated < oo dßpectacies, cn w anomxe bigwatch, corner Cavin & Fourth streets, Ligonier, Indiana, .43 Jan, 1,1874,

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i -JAKE’S LUCK. | ! . “Whatever will Mr. Squimps say? Oh, girls, to think of it—poor, washedout Amanda Liza, with her check aprons and faded calicoes —to think of turning out an heiress! Whew! it takes my breath away. What’ll Jake do now, I wonder?” . ; . Miss Jenny Smith was an acknowledged leader in the Squimps academy. She had maintained her rotund person and round, good-natured face in spite of sour bread and seant rations. We thin and starveling girls looked up to her as a star of the first magnitude. We clustered around her in high conclave, as she sat on a desk in the school-room during the absence of our worthy preceptor. - = £ “Oh, she’ll never think of- Jake again,” eried a sharp-faced girl in the corner.’ . i

“I’ll -bet she will,” rejoined Miss Smith, slapping her hand energetically on her old grammar. Miss Smith had “big brothers,” which may partly account for the vim with which she was wont to express herself. “But, oh, don’t I wish it ‘was me! To think that Amanda Liza, that I used to lend my old collars to ——” : “Young ladies; Miss Bimm!” cried a warning voice; whereat Jennie, with more haste than dignity, abandoned her lofty position, and -tliere was a general stampede for seats as Miss Bimm, the head teacher, came sailing in, followed by Mr. Squimps, the principal, black, tall and solemn as the shadow of a lamp-post. New for the stricter rules, longer lectures on propriety, and a general surveilanege founded on certain recent occurfences. : =

What would Mr. Squimps say ?" Ay, to be sure that was always a question of importance, and Mr. Squimps always said a good deal. Here was an especial theme for his eloquengce; for the case of Amanda Liza, who had been his bond-slave for ten years, cufted and cornered, making no sign, and at last turning out to have relations of her own and a heap of money, and leaving his establishment *“for good and all” in his absence, was a leetle too much for human nature, as he declared. For M. Squimps did;not disdain to descend to “familiar -¢olloquialism” once in a while as a relief from the high mental strain of too much Latin and lexicon.

Mr. Squimps should have been a public' speaker—so his wife declared, so all his friends affirmed—only the trouble was he never would have known when to stop. There was no “cork up” to him, the girls declared. Once given a little rope, a small vexation, an incidental jarring of his arrangements, and Mr. Squimps flowed out into limitless rivers of rhetoric. He argued his point down to the last whittle, wound up splendidly, touched up his side whiskers,, looked” around for applause, turned over his wristbands, and before you knew it, began again. b : ;

This was a splendid opening, this of Amanda Liza’s—a girl whom he had taken out of “pure” charity when her folks died of fev'er,*a, girl whom he had educated, brought up in his fam-ily,—and-—and ' Mr. Squimps felt himself possessed on this occasion of all the stock in trade necessary for an orator. :

“And Mr. Squimps like a father to her.too!” cried: Mrs. Squimps, elevating her shriveled little hands. ‘ Mrys. Squimps was a small, wrinkled lady, rustling about of an afternoon in a stiff, voluminous silk, so little, so shriveled, she seemed to rattle in it as she walked, like a withered kernel in a walnut shell.. She had had the benefit of Mr. Squimps’ - eloquence the greater part of her life, and was much like a worn out text—thin and thumbed and faded. ; : ;

The good lady was hunibly aware of her deficiencies. A mere bit of ‘quartz, she did not attempt to shine even in her husband’s refulgence. ' All real authority in her department was delegated to Miss Bimm, who carried things' with an air, taught the “higher branches,” and took the lead. ' Mrs. Squimps meekly took the kitehen, eminently fitter, as her husband declared, for that department, which was the foundation of all others, The foundation prepared under the supervision of Mrs. Squimps was not very substantial. < But elegance was the aim, gentility the law, at the academy, as Mrs. Squimps observed, and no one asked twice for the same dish. An army of hungry girls, he remarked privately to Mrs. Squimps, would devour all before them unless properly restrained. Under this aspect sour bread and chill pancaf{es were judicions. L : ‘ .

Amanda Liza, the girl about whom we weze all just now in a furore, had assisted Mrs. Squimps and the maids in the kitchen of a morning, likewise of evening; between these she generally sandwiched the thin hour which she denominated her “education.” She was a slim, drooping-eyed little thing, who never spoke up for herself; and if Jake had n’t. spoken up for her once in a while, I think she would scarcely have held her owl under Mrs. Squimps’ motherly sway. : = “old Jake,” as'we called him, was a black-eyed, ragged lad of eighteen, the factotum of the schogl, general fag, boot-black and boy-of-all-work to the establishment, with an occasional elevation to coacliman. Jake was' subject to a state! of chronic out-break, restive, forgetful of rules, and “dreadful sassy,” the maids declared. But Jake had his ideal, and that ideal was “Miss Manda Liza.” Her pale, patient face, her soft; quiet voice were potent with him. The girl was really poorer than Jake, lower in the seale, and with no apparent chance of rising from her bondage, but she recited with the young ladies, and it. was Jake’s high ambition to hellxl) her through with her chores and get.her into class, = Jake’s guardianship of the girl. was .an aeccepted fact in %e school and village round about. Nobody dared play any tricks on Amanda Liza.

“Just wait till I get my luck, an’ I'll teach you!” was Jake’s admonition, accompanied with a clinching ‘of his sturdy fist, that ably seconded the argument. - ! . The girl took'it all' very quietly in her gentle way, and seemed to have a kindly regard for Jake—mending his stockings—a thjng Jake gallantly declared “she should n’t do never again; he wouldn’t have no ladies waitin’ on him.” e i Ladies! The girls used fo nudge each other and smile; but for all that, they were very good to Amanda Liza, whose faded dress and meek ways set her apaft’#iorh the noisy youtlifilnesd of the rest of ms. 'We never begrudged the extra polish which Jake, in his capacity of beot-black, bestowed nﬁon hfr shoes, and we did pot laugh when' those same shoes made. their appearance one day adorned with a resplendent pairiof steel buckles, which were.

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afterwards discovered to be extracted from the coachman’s rig in which Jake occasionally did duty, and to which, lam sorry to add, he was igno'miniogjly compelled to restore them. Occasionally, on some rare holiday, we girls had the privilege of a drive out into the- country, when the Squimpses’ superannuated sorrel, covered with an elaborate netting to conceal its deficiencies, and pricking up its tasseled ears with quite a show of spirit, would set off on a brisk trot,no doubt, by the prospect of a grassy nibble along the road. Gay times were those. Jake was at his jolliest, and we all—old Dobbin included—forgot our “short commons” and long lectures, and grew hilarious together. Even poor Amanda Liza, quietly stowed away in the back seat, brightened up in the sunlight, and was meek and merry. Once, I remember, old Dobbin cantered along so friskily that he upset the whole party on the mossy bit of rising ground, and whisking his long tail facetiously, quietly betook himself to pasture, while we picked ourselves up as best we could. © “We might have had worse luck,” said Jake, as he plucked Amanda liza out of-the heap, shook’ her out, and wiped the dust from her black apron, leaving the rest of the party to look after themselves. Which we did, scolding and laughing by turns, and giving, quite by accident, the front seat beside Jake to Amandai Liza the rest of the way. fLh e ‘Ah! the twilight evening was warm and mellow, the fields were fragrant, and we heard a refrain of the grand, eternal poem on the jolting seat of the old ‘wagon, though Jake was silent the rest of the way, looking furtively now and then at the girl beside him, and being very attentive to old Dobbin. Poor Jake! Amanda Liza had shot up clean omt of his reach since then, and what we wanted to know was whether the girl would remember him now in the days of her elevation. A wealthy uncle, a splendid home, and money on her own account—ah! no wonder we had not seen Amanda since. . i 1

“They touched her off like a skyrocket, and she vanished,” said Jake ruefully. e “Had she vanished for good? Then poetical justice | was a myth, and Amanda’s patched shoes and faded dresses were not more worthless than she. We waited. We watched the windows furtively. We pricked up our ears at every ring of the door-bell, but weeks passed, and the golden coach-and-six in which our Cinderella was to arrive did not rattle up to the Squimps academy. , I think we had almost given it up, and Amanda Liza’s base forgetfulness and ingratitude were becoming an old story; when one day at noon Jake came rushing in among us, hot and shining, and holding between his thumb and forefinger a dainty billet. He looked an embodied “hurrah” at that moment. :

But, to tell the truth;Jake could not quite make 6ut the writing, for ‘with all his “opportunities,” as our worthy principal designated his vicinage to wisdom and learning in the capacity of shoe-black, the lad was unable to ‘decipher manuscript—-hadn’'t the pa tience,” he declared. i Jennie-Smith read the letter for him amid the general applause. Justice and righteousness had triumphed, it appeared, and Amanda Liza had proved hersgelf a “regular brick,” and Jennie, with beaming eyes, observed handing back the precious scrap of pdper to Jake, who carefully wrapped it in his ragged handkerchief. The letter contained a brief invitation to thelad, urging him to come and see his old friend-—a day was appointed for the visit, and the street and number where she was to be found were written out in a school girl hand. A fashionable and wealthy quarter of the city where Jake was not likely to be very familiar. .

Jake set himself to work without loss of time, about blacking his boots, albeit the appeinted day was somewhat about a week ahead. But it would take a deal of fixing, he explained confidentially, to get ready, and he hadn’t much to fix with, Jake'’s normal condition was not that of a dandy, certainly. He could only, as a general thing, be lured by the prospect of a drive to “red himself up,” as Mrs. Squinips said. To beragged and et alone was his heaven. But this time he arose to the greatness of the occasion—he brushed and scoured, washed out his sole white shirt, dusted and straightened his battered old hat, and mended his, trousers. “But, Jake,” said Jennie Smith, one day, “what’'are you going to do for a coat.” - .

Unhappy suggestion! Jake looked again. He hadn’t thought of that.— Certainly he couldn’t make his appearance in that overgrown coachman’s rig, in which he was wont to illustrate the academical respectability on the road. And he had nothing else. No necessity had ever before developed itself for anything save shirt sleeves and a woolen jacket. ‘ An awful pause came over our deliberations for Jake. Miss Smith whistled, and finally suggested her wa-ter-proof—we were all ready to fling ours at his feet—but. Jake couldn’t go muffled like an Italian brigand. e shook his head, : Night elosed without any solution of the difficulty, but we trusted that somehow the lad’s quick wit would find a way out it. _ The next morning, however, a new gensation turned us from the contemplation of Jake's disasters. The house had been robbed. We were all terribly scared, and Squimps wasin a fever of declamation and wrath. His coat—his best beloved blue black coat, in which he was wont to dignify trusteé meetings, orndment his pew on a Sunday, and pay visits of state to his patrons—his coat had been stolen. His coat, a man so devoted to the interests of education that he scarcely had time to go to the tailor’s; to think that an ungrateful, inappreciative, idle world should have permitted him to be robbed! He raved, he stormed, he threatened vengeance, he lectured us on the degeneracy of the times, and we forgot our Latin. Vague forebodings of lurking assassins, masked robbers, and frequent skirmishes into the wardrobe and dormitories about this time kept us all frn a_mervous flurry, to the exclusion of all thought of Jake. But late one twilight afternoon, as we sat huddled in’ the windows of the long school room, ﬁaitiﬂg-wfor the supper bell, we saw him issue from the outhouse.— Oh, horror! Oh, apparition of terror! For with its tails nearly touching the ground, his long sléeves overlapping his hands, Jake wore without 'goubt" tl,th;gugsing ‘coat, boldly marching in his Stolen finery down towards the ,rdgd in aight,,pf. W cEEnR In sight of sharper eyes, too it seem-

ed, f¢ not far from the house Squimps himsdf pounced upon him, j Poaq, kind, light hearted Jake! We held xr breath that day and the next, for Jike had been marched off to prison, ald Squimps’ eloquence and morality vere in full flow. He said a longer grace than ever at dinner, and we wereall glad when, hungrily eyeing the stanty beard, we heard the visitors’ lell summon him to the parlor.— T thitk we were in better appetite than sual that day, and we left little behin¢ us for our Mentor as we filed up stiirs toward the schoolroom.— Passirg the parlor door, there rushed out upn us a little figure in a trailing silk dress and bonnet full of nodding French flowers. It was Amanda Liza. : j .

“Oh, girls!” she cried, hysterically, bewildéred with an apparent desire to embrac the whole troop. -“Poor Jake!” Squimps, tall and solemn, rose with dignity, and closed the parlor door upon their further conference. We heard him make this consoling remark: “I always knew he’d come to no good!” : It seemed that Amanda had learned of Jake’s mishap through some stray newspaper, where the well-known rame of the virtumd vengeful Squimps had met her eye. She comprehend® the situation, and came to the academy to plead for her old friend. We waited the news of Jake's fate breathlessly, nodding and whispering among ourselves. For there would be a trial or something terrible, of course we hardly knew what. Squimps was away all the afternoon, the classes. were demoralized, and we stood idly gazing out of the window at four o’clock, when a carriage came up the drive. To our amazement Jake sat on the box, elate and erect. Hesprang down and opened the deor with a flourish, and out stepped Squimps. “And I'm going to live with Miss Mandy Liza forever!” cried Jake, when he came among us, his face lit up with a glory as if he were departing from heaven. ! ‘

Would Amanda Liza dress him ina blue coat and brass buttons, and make him her coachman at good wages?— Ah, what arise for poor Jake! Amanda Liza was his saint, his angel, the hem of whose garment he touched Teverently. There was no commonplace element about such a love as this, and Jake would be content to let down her carriage step and look after. ponies all the days of his life, we thought. And that was the last we saw of him at the Squimpses’. But years after, when I was traveling in Australia with my husband, Mr. Smith and myself were invited to the ranch of one of the magistrates there, whose broad estates covered miles of mountain and meadow, and who owned almost literally “the cattle upon a thousand hills.” In the lady of the mansion, a delicate and dainty personage, I recognized with a cry of surprise and delight my old school-mate, Amanda Liza; but I did not know the portly dignitary upon whose arm she hung until I heard her laughing whisper—“Oh! Jake, don’t you remember old Squimps ?” - '

L e——————— -—— : DeXKalb County Items. [From the Waterloo Press, April 30.] Work will commence next week on the Canada Southern Road, for certaii, Jacob Miller’s farm house in Stafford was consumed by fire on the 16th instant. ; . The iron horse om the B. & O. road willi soon make regular visits to this county.. = ' The school enumeration of Auburn foots up to 444. 217 males and 227 females. The United Brethren church at Corunna, will erect a brick house of worship this summer. : - Warner & Co’s circus is to exhibit at Butler one week from - next Saturday, we understand. =~

The Steuben Circuit Court is in session, with 148 civil, 30 State and 27 probate cases on the dockets. : Fifteen tons of mail matter, on an average, pass over the L.S. & M. S. Road daily between Chicago and Buffalo. ! i

. Some of the persons who have been carrying Canada Southern claims for many months, are now realizing upon them. : Waterloo will celebrate the coming National Anniversary. Itcan scarcely rain two years in succesion on the 4th of July. " LARGE CALF.—A calf belonging to Ed. Campbell of Smithfield, weighed 150 Tbs when 10 hours old. It was 2 feet 4 inches in height. The calfis a decided curiosity, and Ed. promises to exhibit it at the coming fair, if it lives and grows. ' An individual, signing himself E. S. Jones, is trying to procure an agent, in this county, to sell “Patent Lifting Jacks.” The implement is calculated ostensibly. to ‘lift wagon wheéls, in lubricating the axles; but after examining one of the agents’ contracts, we conclude . that it is better calculated to lift $4OO bank notes out of the hands of the unsuspecting, for the purpose of lubricating the pockets of the enterprising Jones. 2

§ Large Yield of Corn. The Nebraska State Board of Agriculture last year offered a premium of fifty dollars for the best yield of corn in that State in 1873, which was awarded to Mr. M. M. Nelson, of Cass county, upon the following showing: - The crop was raised on thirty-five acres of ground, first prairie broken in 1871, and the. cost of cultivation was as follows: Plowing, $1.25 per acre........ 543.75 Pianting dsets. 4 0 018005 Cultivating, $l.BO “ ........ 63.00 Alarvestingigies . o L 43S Total cost, $4.75 per acre. ... $166.25 These thirty-five acres yielded three thousand, two hundred and two and one-half bushels — being. ninety-one and one-half bushels per acre. The variety was the *mahogany,” and its wei%ht averaged sixty-three pounds to the bushel. Giee e The above statement was supported by affidavit as required by the Board.

- THE general and grateful recognition with which the democratic press of the country has hailed the hardmoney message of President Grant is wilfully misconstrued by the opposition. The democratic endersement neither goes back nor forward of the immediate occasion. It is simply an avowal of praise justly due to a man who in the time of his country’s trial has thrust aside partisans and partisanship and planted himself firmly on a Jacksonian platform. When the democratic press fails to applaud the triumph of democratic prin(tfg_les it will be false to its mission.—Harrisburg Patriot,

-'~ THE GREAT OVERFLOW. tad Five Million Acres under Water—One Hundred and Seventy Thousand-' People Afieeted. The New Orleans 7'imes says that the extent of tlie.damage which has resulted from the great overflow, is just beginning to be fully understood. | That it was vast, was readily conceived, but that it should involve 5,000,000 of acres and a population of 170,000 was apparently beyond reasonable | calculation. Yet such is really the case. In the cotton regions it is now, ascertained that four ef the largest and richest parishes preoducing cotton have been inundated. The parishes of Carroll, Morehouse, Richland, Madison, Franklin, Tensas, Caldwell, Concordia and Catahaula, are all overflowed, embracing 2,500,000 acres. The amount of cotton land in these parishes in actual cultivation, is estimated to be two hundred and fifty thousand acres, besides one hundred thousand acres in corn. These estimates include. only the large places, leaving out hundreds of small farmers and all the estimates for cattle, hogs and gardens. The population of the nine parishes'is 20,394, according te tffxe census of 1870. In the sugar produc¢ing parishes the ascertained facts discover an equal, if not a greater am%unt of ruin and suffering. These parishes are Point Coupee, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Inerville, Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, St. James, St. John, the Baptist, st. Charles, Tirrebonné and Plaqueniines. = The over ° flow in those parishes cbver nearly two hundred and fifty thousand acres, tilled, and untilled, including a production of - 30,000 hogsheads of sugar, besides a large product of rice and crops of small farmers, of whom there | are many hundreds who have lost theirstock and pretty much everything else they possess. | The population of these parishes, according to the census of 1870, was 50,368 whites and 72,741, blacks, making . g total of 122,609, from which must be deducted the population of East Baton Rouge, as.a small portion of that parish has suffered from the overflow. That deduetion being made, the parishes named contain'a population of 103,609. Inall the parishes named it is believed that more than 25,000 people are now in actual suffering for the necessary supplies of life, and that in less than sixty days the number of those whose circumstance will require alleviation will increase to mere than 50,000 per-. SORnS. ‘ MzeMmpHlS, TENN,, May I.—Many reports have been sent from here in reference to the overflow, some of which partook of a senﬁational characfer, as, for instance, the damage at (Qceola, Ark., where it stated that the levee had broken, the town was inundated, and the inhabitants were in a perilous condition, when the fact was that a small traverse |levee had broken and pa.rtizﬁly flooded the town to the depth of ten inches. | A brief review of the entire situationimay proveinteresting. From Cario to this point steamers can‘not make the landings on the west "bank except at| wharf-boats, and_yet, with the exception of Oceola, no Serious damage to the planting interests has resulted. | From the Louisiana line up there are no levees on the Arkdnsas side except a local one, and a large portion J% the country is subject to inundation, jand is scarcely settled, as is the case gpposite here, where the river spreads out to the high lands near Madison, a distance of over forty miles. The St Francis valley is generally a foot above the overflow, and | the planters are waiting for dry weath- | er to begin. planting, while the river valley is inundated up # Indian Bay, but, for reasons already given, the damage is light. Ten thousand dollars would probably cover the loss of stock, etc. The Arkansas Valley is overflowed’ up to Arkansas Port, but like the others the damage is light, and $15,,%00 will probably cover the damages here. From| the mouth of the latter down is where the greatest damage resulted, and where destitution undoubtedly exists among all classes, but particularly the laborers and their | families, ILarge portions of the Tal/lahatehie and Yallaboosha bottoms ‘have been overflowed for some time, but at the latest acceunts the water was subsiding; but another crevase is reported at Catfish Point, making the fourth in that vicinity, though as yet but few plantations have been injured. Sunflower River has so far carried off the main body of the water, escaping through the Hushpauckany creveasse and Deer Creek, and the plantations have suffered materially; but from Milliken’s Bend 25 miles above Vicksburg, is where the greatest damage has been done, and where the greatest destitution and suffering exists. |

Interesting to Invalid Ladies.} HARLEMVILLE, Columbia Co., | i N YgJduly 9, 1873, /| R, V. PIERCE, M. D.: Dear Str—Y our favor is just received. I intended to have written to you several weeks since concerning the improvement/in my health, which is now very apparent. I have used one bottle of Favorite Prescription with the best results, although I will admit I was somewhat discouraged after its .use (for a short time only). I took it under very disadvantageous circumstances—having the supervision of the house and during the season of “house cleaning” I was obliged, thro’ the incompetency of help, to do more than I ought, and, of course, suffered dreadfully, lifted when I ought not to have raised my hand, and did all I could to bring “oxder out of chaos,” — but upon laying aside all cares and continuing the remedy I find after using less than one bottle to be so much benefited that I have discontinued the use, with no return of the symptoms of which I wrote you. I have suffered terribly and what added to my distress was the consciousness of not proecuring relief from'ordinary sources, at times it seemed about impossible to stand so great was the distress. All' of those severe neuralgic pains have disappeared, they were so. bad at times I could hardly walk without some external pressure. They seem to have left me like magic, sud-_ denly, and have had no return; all other symptoms have been removed. The severe weakness and faintness have disappeared, and 1T can go up stairs with comparative ease now. I would have informed you ere this of my improvement, for I axl)precia;te it, but I was fearful it was only transient benefit I was receiving, but I think’ sufficient time has elapsed to consider. the beneficial results permanent. Accept of my best wishes for your future : success and your kindness in advising We.. Nerylesly, 0 -+ Mrs, M. Nerris SNYDER. One thousand and idrt‘ysm‘gfzps%j frauds are undergoing investigation in’ the Pension office, ™ * 7 T

Examinations for State Certificates will be held by the members of the State Board of ‘education in the city of Fort Wayne, conducted by J. H. Smart, beginning on Tuesday morning, the 7th of July, at 9 o'cloek. | At the close of the examinations the Board will meet at the office of Superintenffs\d’f’ Public Instruction in, Indianapolis, to examine the papers of the candidates.. Immediately thereafter, each candidate will be informed of the result of his examination— There will be First and Second grade Certificates, and the standard of qualification of each is as follows:. ..

SECOND GRADE. .= - . | 1. Satisfactory evidence of good | moral character, certified by boards of trustees who have employed the can- | didate, or by other reliable persons known to:the Board. . -~ i Si2. Superior professional ability, ascertained in the manner above indicated and also certified by Teachers of eminent ability known to the Board. 3. A comprehensive knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching; twenty-?yen months of‘ practical experience’in the school room, nine of which shall have been in this State. - 4. ~ Scholarship—l. A -thorough knowledge of the branches énumerated in the 147th section of the school law. 2. The Constitution of the Unit‘ed States. « 3. The elements of Natural Philosophy. - 4. The Art of Composition. 5. Morsls/ .> L S odE Those who pass a satisfactory. examination in the above named subjects, and who furnish the testimonials referred to will receive a setond grade certificate. ol / FIRST GRADE v 5% “Those candidates who, in addition to the requirements for a second grade certificate, shall pass a satisfactory examination in the following branches, will be entitled to afirst. grade certificate: Pl e o 1. EL Algebra. 2. Geometry, (three ‘books.) 3. Elements of Botany. 4. Qutlines of General History. 5. Ele‘meénts of Rhetorie. 7: Elements' of Zoology. -.- v nd CERTIFICATES FOR TEACHING: LATIN L AND @ERMAN ¢ & 5 6 Candidates for - State Certificates, may be examined in. regard to' their knowledge of the Latin and German languages. In case the'examination im either or both of these branches shall ‘receive a separate certificate of his ability to feach these languages; . Provided, He shall first be found entitled to hold the regular State Cer#ificate. oG eneh s Bl Any candidate failing to secure the first grade, may receive a second grade certiticate, on applieation, provided he obtain seventy-five per cent. of correct answers in the questions for the second grade: i Lo s bt Teachers must notify the members of the Board by whom they expect to ‘be examined, on or before the 20th of June, stating the place ‘at which they will appear: and the grade for which they will apply. - e e As required by law, each applicant _shall, previous to examination p_a,fy.t.he Examiner five dollars, which can in -no case be refunded. = ~* ] : Teachers who have received second grade certificates may be examined in the additional studies required for the “first grade, and if successful shall re- . ceive a first grade certificate. = - " ¢ . MILTON B. HOPKINS; - Pres’t of the State Board. A. C. SHORTRIDGE, Secretary.. =

: Pity Himy. o 0 The man who attempts to manage a newspaper to -please -everybody, should be pitied.” He who publishes a paper in such a manner &s to please. nobody, should beidespised; and he who makes’ his ‘paper a circulating scandal monger and a inedium for personal abuse, should be loathed. - = The first never expresses an opinion on any subject. ‘lf he writes an article a quarter of a column in' length, the closing paragraph.will neutralize the commencement, and the reader is left in doubt -about the editor’s “position.” He is a poor, -weak, vascilating “trimmer,” a fair specimen of unarmed neutrality. = -el Ble el ~ The sécond makes an attack in one issue of his paper and takes it back in the next. ‘He advocates one measure to-day and the opposite to-morrow.—/ He is on both sides of the curreney. question, the tariff question, the temp--erance questions and all other ques-: tions that agitate the public mind.— He blows hot and cold. He is a demoralized weather cock, changed bythe faintest breath. = ‘7 i -

The third is an-ink demon, who fichts under the black flag of -piracy.” His hand is turned against every man, whether he be in public or private life. He invites all to walk the plank. His foul sheet is read only by the vicious and depraved, and even thieves, prostitutes and murderers blush for its indecencies.- ot e

We are not -of those who claim to know “how to run a newspaper;” but a grain of common sense should teach one to avoid the first; common:prudence, the second, and common decency the third style of journalism. While it is impossible.to publish a paper: without .giving offense, yet it is not difficult-to command the respect of a large majority of the thinking men in a community.—ZLogansport Pharos. " 5 s i i

: . Untaxed Property, : [From the Indianapolis Sentinel.] it It has occurred to the Auditor of State that all the wealth of the State ‘ is ‘not included in the taxables.’ By - the 7th section of the assessment law, certain classes of property are exempt from taxation. There are’reasons beyond that of mere -curiosity that the value of this part of the State’s wealth should be ascertained, both in the aggregate and in elassification. = Mr. Wildman ' has addressed a cireular to all the county auditors, asking them to furnish the desired information.— To facilitaté the reports, e has prepared also a blank with columns and the following heags_: ."Property of the United .States, Church Property; Benevolent and charitable institutions, fire engines, implements and buildings, educational institutions, and“all other property.” - County auditors are requested to fill and return this blank, giving the fair cash “xg%ll'%e, of all the property described according to the. “best of their .knowlé%e and belief.” There will be “f6od ¥or thought” .in. an éxhibit of this sort.. The dmount, of such property which is exampt from tpxation will peGHbIY stptlan SN who have notthought @bﬁhﬁjgﬁ -3 "“m‘j are several aspects in Whicht Sich information will figiire to advantage in the statistical %QI ‘ﬁﬁbil,‘,‘f erning theé State of Indiana, =~

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; GENERALITEMS.. A number of cities have forwarded money or supplies to the sufferers from the Mississippi overflow. Y = The saloon keepers at Edgerton, 0., have sued prominent. crusaders for false imprisonment, laying damages at $lO,OOO. 1 Lo The Missouri Leg&slaturo ‘has just passed an act prohibiting any change in the text books of the schools for five years from the Ist of January, 1875. - A blessing this. ; i Blatherskite Logan says that it' has ; been his fate to break with every late’ administration. That is the highest compliment that has been paid-to Johnson and Grant for along time.—Sentinel. - Intelligence has reac¢hed the country of the death of the Right Rev. John Gottlieb Auer, American Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in West Africa.. Bishop Auer was consecrated im Philadelphia, A pril The proposition to fix the inauguration of the President on the second’ Wednesday in May, to extend. the short session of Congress to that tine, and to hold' the Presidential election in October, meets with much favor from the country. i :

The temperance crusade has reached England, making a first appearance at Manchester.- It is not likely that i the movement will accomplish much. ! Drinking of beer and strong liquors is * so universal a practicein that country that it would be as easy to transform the nation into vegetarians as to make it temperate in the use of stimulants. The Supreme Court of Arkansas has decided that the question as to who is the rightful . Governor of the State— Brooks or Baxter—rests entirely with ‘the Legislature. That body meets on ?he 11th of May -and will doubtless, . mmediately on convening, settle the muddle without the intervention of: the Government or State military. I~ TuEk last report of the condition of the national banks of the country shows that their stock of currency in éxcess of the reserve required to be held in their vaults would enable them -safely to expend their loans and discounts one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. The legal-tender reserve is now higher than it has been since 1868, . : : : 5

. THE LaFayette Journal of the 21st contains a well written article on the political situation in Indiana, in which it strongly urges upon the Republican State ‘convention the necessity of adopting a resolution indorsing the Baxter law. Without indorsing the' law it thinks ‘the Republican party will march to certain defeat at the State election next Fall.

THE RAILROAD COMPANIES of Wisconsin make a serious‘threat. They. declare that if the law passed at the recent session of the Legislature of that State for the control and regulation of the railroads shall be enforced, they will absolutely discontinue running through trains. ' In this eventthe Post Office Department at Washington will, it is alledged, take possession of thjl roads to such an extent as to cause the mails to be transported over them._ ; . ANDREW JOHNSON is a eandidate for election as United States Senator from Tennessee. He will'¢canvass the State during the approaching political cam-= paign, and suffer the people to decide whether they have any use for such services as he is willing to give. Mr. Johnson is a hard-money man. He avows his sentiment on this subject with commendable freedom. The: election of next fall will show what is the prevailing opinion in Tennessee on the currency question. ; THE attorney general has decided ‘that when &smalbcontmctor fails to fulfill his centraet, a new contract cannot be made with the post office department without a .re-advertise-ment of the route. To make a contract valid the advertisement must embrace a complete schedule of the route. | This will have the effect of preventing the collusions by which one party abandons a contract and another receives it on more favorable terms which are kept secret from the ‘public. | ? _

' LAKE navigation has opened for the season, but the announcement brings no comfort to vesselrowners. ;Fréights are ruling so low that it is hardly profitable to undertake business. One gentleman lubriously stated the terms offered to be, “Wheat in ballast to Buffalo and 25 \cents per ton for coal on the return.” Here is cheap’ transportation with a vengence. The explanation of the present depression in rates is partly found in the fact, which we' stated yesterday, that the shipments of grain by rail during the past winter were larger than ever before in the history of this city.—Chicago T7ribune. s E : !

The fearful extent of thé Mississippi overflow is shown in a'list of twenty crevasses, of various - widths and depths, t;hg, combined length of which is ten miles and the average depth five and three-fourth feet. The amount of water poured over the fertile tands of the great agricultural districts of the South is incalculable when we think of the rapid stream of the giant river thus pouring over the levees at the rate of 1,400 square miles of water hearly six feet deep every twenty-four: hours. It would submerge the whole ~eounty of Wayne two and a half feet deep in less than one day.—Cambridye City Tribune. = : 2 —_— ! The Foremost Tonic of the Age. | Taking into'consideration the character of its vouches, the history of its cures and its immense annual sales, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters may be ' fairly entitled the Foremost Tonic of * the age. Tt is not only a tonic but a censtitutional and loecal alternative, and its tendency is to substitute healthy for diseased action throughout thé - sysfem. If the stomach is feeble and torpid it produces a vitalizing impression ‘upoen its muecous tissues. *No sooner has the dyspeptic swallowed a dose of it than hie knows by his sensa‘tions that his stomach-has received an accession of vigor. It increases the desire for food and the ability to digest and assimilate it. If the liver i derelict, it improves ;the condition of the organ. Bﬂdimpar? to it & new and healthfwl impulse. The bowels being obstrueted, it promotes the flow of bile into the intestinal: canal and thereby rolieyes them and re-establishes ﬂ:gz gami*a%h action, . ~luﬁ,e%?t;ums e . 1, the nerves and the kidneysis | equﬂmwafln MMM‘ters and regulates the whole systemdt < S Rt et LT Gl the amount ﬁgi y the &: R. &1. ° Rail road in tha county is $1,528.65,