Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 September 1886 — Page 4

on Talma go preached bis sermon on his return from bis sum - Brooklyn Tabernacle ue following text: -'ehalt be missed, because tby seat will J>ty.—I Samuel, xx, 18. ion the table the cutlery and chased ware of the palace, for King Saul to a state dinner to-day. A distinplace is kept at the table for his in-law, a celebrated warrior, David name. The guests, jeweled and come in and take their places, people are invited to a king’s banthey are very apt to go. But before covers are lifted from the feast Saul

around and finds a vacant seat at »table, He says within himself, or peraudibly: st does this mean? Where Is my ^in-law? Where is David, the great r? I invited him. I expected him. A vacant chair at a king’s bau- > fact was that David, the warrior, »en seated for the last time at his Ber-in-law’s table. The day before Utan had coaxed David to go and octhat place at the table, saying to jld in the words of my text: bou shalt be missed, because thy seat will faipty. fie prediction was fulfilled. David was r«ed. His seat was empty. That one cant chair spoke louder than all the ocSied chairs at the banquet. In almost >ry house the articles of furniture take Uving personality. That picljuro—a dnger would not see any th ing remark* l eitheynits design or execution, but 1 ihan all the pictures of xembourg. T ou revho admired

tu remember 1 cradle—you gd that Bible t of it. And dept in it. who died ■in all your ghtyrvoiced t th^lLbafore this banof wine- ’. drowned .p from the Many have hincy Adams’ ^of Representa- , cant chair in 1 Henry! Clay’s V’can Senate, ft chair in -* vacant h hation; fant to you '•chairs in r.nesa chairs Arc we any t when they Father’s vacant ’ he to sit in the Fie chair. They f me, and some1 heir place and you jump up chair.” arm-chair, for ice was, and he His hair is a litttle depressed, for was not milch den

r fashiont.^^|^^Bj.>r1 though you may have scggeste^^some improvements, father does not want any of your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. I sat at the table of one of my parishioners in a former Congregation; an aged man was at the table and his son was presiding, and the father somewhat abruptly addressed the son, and said: “My son, don’t now try to Show off because the minister is here.” Yonr father never liked any pew customs or manners; he preferred the Old way of doing things, and he never looked so happy as when with his eyes closed, he sat in the arm-chair in the corner. From ^ Wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippers. z what placidity! The wave of the past i of his life broke at the foot of that Perhaps, sometimes, he was a little impatient, and sometimes told the ( story twice; but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover! I hop# you did not crowd that old chair, liat it did not get very much in the Sometimes the old man’s chair gets nuch in the way, especially if he has unwise as to make over all his rty to his children with the underling that they are to take care of him. seen in such cases children crowd | old man’s chair to the door, and then l it clear into the street, and then bwd it into the poor-house, and keep on bwding it until the old man fell out of it

i Into his grave. - t • Bfc,) But your father’s chair was a sacred RTplace. The children useil to climb up on Hrthe rungs of it for a good-night kiss, and Wr the longer he staid the better you liked it. r But that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furniture dealer would not give you fifty cents far it, but it is a throne of influence in yonr domestic circle. I saw in the French palace and in the throne room the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, but the most significant part of it was the letter “N” embroidered into the hack of the chair in purple and gold. ‘ nd your father’s old chair sits in the me room of your heart, and your affections have embroidered into the back of that chair in pnrple and gold the letter **F.” Have all the prayers of that old chair been answered? Have all the counsels of that old chair ^been answered? k out, old arm-chair! History tells tis of an old man whose three sons were victors in the Olympic games, and when they came back, these three sons, with their garlands, and put them on their father’s brow, the old man was so rejoiced at the victories of his three children that he fell dead in their arms. And are you, O man, going to bring a wreath of joy and Christian usefulness and put it on your father’s brow, or on the vacant chair, or on the memory of the one departed? Bpeak out, old arm-chairi With reference to your father, the words of mv text have been fulfilled: Thou Shalt be missed, because tby seat will be empty. X I go a little further on in your house, and I find the mother's chair. It is very apt to be a rocking chair. She had so many cares and troubles to soothe that it must have rockers. I remember it well. 1^ was an old chair and the ankers were almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the chair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as it moved, but there was in tha Jbund. It was just high to show us children to put our into her lap. That was the bank we deposited all our hurts and . worries. O, what a chair that was 1 II was diffsrsnt from the father’s chair; entirely different. You ask me how? 1 can hot tell, but we aU felt it was different. Perhaps there war about th Is chair more tenderness, more we had done wrong. When were wayward father scolded, but cried. It was a very wakeful In the slek days of children other could not keep awake; that chair pt awake, kept easily awake, knew all the bid lullabies and those worldless songs which mothers •E to their sick children—songs la which

Influen ces are oomblned. That olid chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may be set Up In the loft or the garret,, bnt it hdlds a queenly poorer yet. When at midnight you went tnU that prog-shop to get the Intoxicating dr> ^jht, did you not hear a voice that said: “My son, why go in there?” And louder than the boisterous encore of the place of wicked amusement, a voice saying: “My son, what do you here?” And when you went into the house of sin a ■•oioe saying: “What would your mother do if she knew you were here?” And you were provoked with yourself, and you charged yourself with superstition and fanaticism, and your head got with your own thoughts, and yon went home and you went to bed, and no sooner had you touched the bed than A voice said: “What a prayerless pillow! Man, what is the matter?” This: You sure too near your mother's rocking-chair. t “Oh, psbaw!” you *ty. “The e*« nothing in that. I’m 500 miles off from where I was born. I’m 3,000 miles off from the church whose bell was the first music I ever beard.” I can not help that; you are too near your mother’s rocking-chair. “Oh,” you say, “there can’t be any thing in that; that chair has been vacant a, great while.” I can not help that; it is all the mightier for that; it is omnipotent, that vacant mother’s chair. It whispers; it speaks; it weeps; it carols; it mourns; it prays; it warns; it thunders. A young man went off and broke his mother’s heart, and while he was away from home his mother died, and the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out: “Oh, mother, mother! what your life could not do your death shall effect. This moment I give my heart to God.” And he kept his promise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With' reference to your mother the words of my text were fulfilled:

Thou ahalt bo missed, because thy seat will be emptiy. Some one said to a Grecian general: “What was the proudest moment in your life?” He thought a moment and said: “The proudest moment in my life was when I sent word home to my parents that! had gained the victory.” And the proudest and most brilliant mo* ment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents that you have conquered your evil habits by the grace of God, and become eternal vie* tor. Oh, despise n t parental anxiety! The time will come when you will have neither father nor mother, and you will go around the place where they used to watch you, and tind them gone from the house, and gone from the field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud fob forgiveness asyou may over the mound in the churchyard, they will not afiswer. Dead! Dead! And then you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother’s brow ju-d before they buried her, and you will take the cane with whieh your father used to walk, and you will think and think, and wish that you had done just as they wanted yon to, a yd would give the wot'ld if you had (never thrusts pang through their dear old hearts. God pity the young man who lias brought disgrace on his father’s name! God pity the young man who has broken his mother's heart! Better it he had never been born; better if the first hour oi’ his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and sopulchered. 'there isnobalim powerful enough to heal the heart of; one who has brought parents to a sorrowftil grave, and who wanders about through; the dismal cemetery, rending the hair and wringing the hands and crying: “Mother! Mother!” Oh, that to-day by all the memories of the past and by all the hopes of the future, you would yield your heart to God! May your father’s God and your mother’s God be your God forever! S. I gc( on a little further; I come to the invalid’? chair. What? How long have you been sick? j “Oh, 1, have been sick ten, twenty,; thirty years.” Is it possible? What a story of endurance! There are in many families in my congregation these invalid chairs. The occupants of them think they are doing lio good in the world; but that invalid** chair is the mighty pulpit from which they have been preaching, all tihes e years, trust in God. One day on an island just off from Sandusky, Ohio, ;I preached, and there was a great throng of people there; but the throng did not impress mei so much as the spectacle of just one face—the face of an invalid who was wheeled ;in on her chair. I said to her afterward! “Madam, how long have you been prostratecT?”. for she was lying flat in the chair. \ “Oh,” she replied, “I have been this way

nlteen years." . . I said: “Do you suffer very much?" ! “Oh.^rgs,” she said, “I suffer very nuch, I suffer all the time; part of the time}[ was blind. 1; always suffer.” “Well,” I said, “can you V-eep your courage up?” “Oh, yes,” she said, “I am happy, very happy, indeed.” Her face showed it. She looked the happiest of any one on the ground. Oh, what a means of grace to the world, these invalid chairs. On that held of human suffering the grace of God gets its victory. E lward Payyon, tthe invalid, and Richard Ba xter, the invalid, and Robert Hall, the invalid, and the ten thousand of whom the world has neve- heard, but of whom all Heaven is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God’s eye and the eys of angels to rest on is not a throne of earthly power, but it is the invalid’s chair. Oh, these men and women who are always suffering, but never complaining—these victims of spinal disease, and neuralgic torture, and rheumatic exruciation will answer to the roll-call of the martyrs, and rise to the martyr’s throne, and will wave the martyr’s palml But when one of these invalid’s chairs becomes vacant how suggestive it is I No more bolstering up of the weary head. No more changing 1'rom side to side to get an easy pos: tion. No more use of the bandage, and the cataplasm, and the prescription. That invalid’s chair may be folded up, or token apart, or set away, but it will neve/ lose its queenly -power; it will always preach of trust in God and cheerful submission. Suffering all ended now. With respect to that invalid the words of my text have been fulfllled: Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty. 4. I pass on and 1 find one more vacant chair. It is a high chair. It is the child’s chair. If that chair be occupied, I think it Is the most potent chair in all the household. All the chairs wait o* it; and the chairs aro turned toward it. It moans more than David’s chair at Saul’s banquet. At any rate, it makes more racquet. That Is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it,. How that child breaks up the hard worldliness of the place, and keeps you young to sixty, seventy and eighty years of agel If you have no ohild of your own, adopt one; it will open Heaven to your soul. It will pay its way. Its crowing in the morning will give the day a cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. Yon do not like children? Then you had better stay out of Heaven, for there are so many there they would fairly make yon crasy t Only abont 300,000,000 of themt The old crusty disciples told the mothers tn keep the children away from Christ. “You bother Him,” they said, ;fou trouble the Master.” Trouble Him! He had Oiled Heaven with that hiadefbeaWe.

_ Aplonew In California nji tkitltr Oka •n* yaar or two after his residence la Sierra Nevada County there was not a single child in all the reach of a hundred ■dies. Bat the Fourth of July came, and the miners were gathered together, and they were celebrating tie Fourth with oration and poem and a boisterous brass brand; and while the band was playing, an infant's voice was heard crying, and all the miners w*re startled, and the swarthy men togan to think of their homos on the Eastern coast and of their wives and children far away, and their hearts were filled with homesickness as they heard the baba cry. But the musio went on, and the child cried louder and louder, and the brass band played louder and louder, trying to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarthy miner, the tears rolling down his face, go# np and shook his fist, and said: “Stop that noisy band, and give the baby a chance.” Oh, there was pathos in it as well aa good cheer in itl There is nothing to arouse, and melt, and subdue the soul like a child’s voice. But when it goes away from you, the high chair becomes a higher chair, and there is desolation all about you. In three-fourths of the homes of my congregation there is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it. There is no one to put to bed at night; no one to as): strange questions about God and Heaven. Oh, what is the use of that high chair? It is to call you higher. What a drawing upward it is to have children in Heaven. And then it is such a preventive against sin. If a father is going away into sin he leaves his living children with their mother; but if a father it going away into sin what is he going to do with his dea l children floating about him and hovering over his every wayward step? Oh, speak out, vacant high chair, and say ‘ “Father, come back from sin; mother, come back from worldlings. I am watching yon. I am waiting for you.” With respect to your child the words ol my text have l>een fulfilled: Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

My hearers, I have gathered up the voices of your departed friends, and tried to intone them into one invitation upward. I set in array all the vacant chairs in your homes, an 1 of your social circle,, and I hid them cry out“Time is short. Eternity is near.. Take my Saviour. Be at peace with my God,, Com? up where X am. We lived together on earth; come, let us live toge her in heaven.” We answer that invitation. We come,, Keep a seat for us, as Saul kept a seat for David; but that seat shall not be empty. When we are all through with this world, and we have shak u hands all around for; the last time, and all onr chairs in the home circle, and in the outside world], shall;be vacant, may we be worshiping: God in that place from which we shall go out nj>> more forever. I thank God there will le no vacant chairs in heaven. REUNITED AT LAST. f he Romance of Mrs. Itassett’s Marriage . to a Nevada Millionaire. (Portland (Me.! Cor. X. V. Sun.] A romance calcinated last week in the marriage of a Nevada millionaire and a lady j of the town of Foxcroft. Thirty^ two years ago Abram 0. Savage, then aj young man of marke 1 bu iness ability] met Miss Chadbern, one pf the most beautiful of th rural belles of Bingham, inj this State. An attachment sprang up be-! tween them which, in a few months, resulted in an engagement. The young man found the quiet little thriving town too smalt to satisfy, his ambition, and soon after his engagement to Miss Chadborn he left for the West, with the idea of making his fortune there and then returning for his bride. He settled in Neva-, da, and prospered from the s art. His business cares, however, seemed to make him forget the sweetheart he had left in Maine. His letters to her were few and far between and short. At length they ceased altogether. At first Miss Chadborn tried to excuse his apparent indifference on the ground that he must be very busy in his new field. Then she grew melancholy, and afterward resentful. In the meantime she formed tl^acquaintance of William Bassett, a likely young man of Foxcroft. They apparently fell in love with each other at sight. In a few weeks they were engaged, and within three months after their first meeting they . became man and wife. Both were industrious, and as time went on they accumulated considerable property. Then Bassett went to California to improve his fortune.; A short time after he left Bingham disagreeable rumors about bis conduct came to the ears of his wife. She was at first almost heart-broken over his actions, and a correspondence of a very unpleasant nature sprang up between them. She learned that Bassett caret no more for her, and at length a mutual agreement was made that they should separate. The property they had accumulated waSf divided equally between them, Mrs. Bassett, with her share of the money, 'opened a first-class boardinghouse in Foxcroft. which she has kent

ever since. Savage, in the meantime, has been piling up wealth uutil now his property is estimated at $1,000,000. A short time ago Mrs. Bassett went to Bingham, her old home, to visit triends. While there she met one of Savage’s most intimate friends, and she told him about every thing that had happened to her since her separation from Savage. This friend immediately wrote the whole story to the Nevada millionaire. As soon as Savage received this letter he arranged his business for a long absence, and told his clerks that he should be gone about eight weeks. He took the next train eastward, and in a few days was with the sweetheait of his boyhood days. Their meeting is said to have been an affectionate one. Although thirty-two years had passed since they had last seen each other, old memories seemed to be awakened and the old attachment sprang up between them. Mr. Savage made an offer of marriage and it was accepted. Mrs. Bassett at once began the work of clearing up her business affairs, and two weeks ago the boarding-house was sold. Last week she became the wife of Millionaire Savage, and the couple started tor . their home in Nevada. Unsolved Mystery of the Swamps. [Chicago Herald.] At various times for fifty years smoke has been seen issuing from the swamps of Florida and every conceivable theory projected to account for it. The swamp is impassable, but men have penetrated very near to where the smoke ought to be. There, however, they could see no sign of it. It is even claimed that some have gone directly through it without knowing it, and Judge White, an aged oitisen, is positive he was once within five or six miles of it, when it was perfectly plain. So th| weight of scientific opinion is that it is a vapor collected by peculiar conditions in the great swamp, invisible, of coarse, to one in it, but opaqne to those a few miles away. We all love mystery, and so the common voice runs that an opening in the swamp discharges a blue smoke from some underground source. A Curious Alack Snake. (Monroe (Ga.) News.) A few nights ago as Sank Griffin, the painter, was strolling along at apicnio gait in the country he saw on the ground a heap of something black, and a good deal of it; also a widespread mouth and two legs hanging out of it. When he recovered from his surprise he was ahleAdaisceni that it was a living mass coiled/up before him—a very large black snake/ .The snake had partly swallowed a half! grown rabbit. Mr. Griffin measured f found him over seven and length. It was a curious having about a loot and a white, > reptile and half feet in bltok snake, of ite tail

GOTHAM {SNOBBERY. Dm >Im IImi Drawn hy the Membem of the Mew Tork -Arlstoeraoj." IN. Y. Cor. San Franolsoo Argonont.] Snobbery la rampant now, and no Una ta drawn more finely than that which eeparates the world of fashion from trade and from “the city,” aa the business par* of the town and Its inhabitants are now called. Ad this Is quite recent, too. I am a native of Mew Tork and I remember very well when rich merchants, doctors, brokers, Wall street operators and even the heads of great retail shops found their vocations no bar to social recognition. Mot so now. Ayalnst them all the pro* testing hand is raised. The banker is recognised, bat not the broker. A tew years ago the jolly, free, lively, richlydressed and spendthrift broker was considered no end of a good fellow. Mow he is looked on as a vulgar and noisy man who conducts gambling operations for clients and drinks champagne over a bar. The doctor receives money from society. Hence he is as much society’s servant as the dry-goods merchant, and neither can be regarded as an equal. In a word, society in New York to-day is a power that makes its own laws and draws them more severely eve season. There are only two things about it that a New Torker finds to admiro—its respect for old residents of the town and its contempt for every other society. It snubbed an earl and blackballed a lord at one of its clubs last month without a momentts hesitancy. Its members form the only leisure class we have in America. They detest trade. I’m sure that I have made a great mistake in admitting that my Boston friends had a father who was an apothecary, and that they once took a boarder to oblige a . distant cousin.

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THE MARKETS. Nsw York, Sept. 13,1886. CATTJ.E—Native Steers.3 3 90 ® 5 60 COTTON—Middling.... ® 944 FLOUR—Good to Choice. 3 30 ® 4 SO WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 8744® 8844 CORN—No. 2. 6014® 5044 OATS—Western Mixed. 31 ® 34 PORK—New Mess. 11 25 ® 11 75 ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling.. .... ® 844 BEEVES—Good to Choice.... 4 25 ® 4 50 Fair to Medium... 4 00 ® 4 15 HOOS—Common to Select.:.. 3 65 ® 5 10 SHEET—Fair to Choice.. 2 75 ® 3 75 FLOUR—Patents. 4 10 ® 4 35 _ Medium to Straight 2 50 ® 3 85 WHEAT—Xo. 2 Bed Winter... 7654® 7674 CORN—No. 2 Mixed.. 37 ® 3744 OATS—No. 2........ 2544® 2544 RYE—No. 2. 4944® 50 TOBACCO—Lugs. 1 75 ® 6 00 Leal—Medium... 4 75 ® 7 00 HAT—Choice Timothy.11 00 ® 11 50 BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 18 ® 20 EGGS—Fresh-. 11 ® 12 PORK—New Mtess.11 00 ® 111244 BACON—Clear Rib. 754® 744 LARD—Prime Steam. 6X® 644 WOOL—Fine to Choice, new.. 35 ® 38 CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping............ 3 40 « 5 35 HOGS—Good to Choice. 4 85 ffl 5 15 SHEEP—Good to Choice__ 3 25 ® 4 00 FLOUR—Winter. 4 00 a 4 50 Patents. 4 30 ® 4 60 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring...._ 76 ® 7644 CORN-No. 2. ® 40 OATS—No. 2 White. ® 2444 PORK—New Mess. 10 50 ® 10 55 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shippiug Steers... 3 94 a 4 60 HOGS—Sales at.. 4 10 ® 4 80 WHEAT—No. 2. 63 ® -6344 CORN—No. 2. 325,®- 3244 OATS-No. 2. 2444® 25 NEW ORLEANS. FLOUR—High Urades ........ 4 00 ® 475 CORN—White. 49 @ 60 OATS-Choice Western. ® 34 HAY—Choiee.15 >0 ® 16 00 PORK—New Mess.... a 11 oat: BACON—Clear Rib. .... a jv COT'lON—Middling... ® 844 LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 red.. .... ® 73 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. a 43 OATS—No. 2 -Mixed... a 28 PORK—Mess.. a 10 75 BACON—Clear Rib. a 744 COTTON—Middling. a * Water Runs Down Hill, and put as naturally lire, energy and strength are gained by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. The peculiar toning, purifying and vitalising qualities of this successful medicine are felt throughout the enure system, expelling disease, and giving quick 'healthy action to every organ. If you suffer from any disease of the blood, stomach disorder, or din. eulty with the liver and kidneys, try the peculiars medicine. Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Be sure to get Hood’s. Take no other. “I have taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla for dyspepsia and as a tonic alterative, with the most beneficial results. I have also usod It for rheumatism with the good effort. I regard it as one of the very best family medicines, and would not willingly be with* out It." A. B. Ct’RKT, Providence, R. I. " I have been using Hood’s Sarsaparilla for indigestion and liver trouble. It has greatly benefited *8 and I think It is fully as good a medicine as claimed.’’ R. S. CaiSKimo, chief engineer fire dept, Btonlngton. Ct. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Hold by all druggists, gR six for K. Prepared xRf by a L HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar

ELEOTRIC BASE-BALL. *ow an Audience In Detroit Viewed • G»e Ployed In Chicago. [Electrical Review.] Two years ago, nearly, three Yankeelike telegraph operators living in Nashville, Tenn., turned their enthusiasm for base-ball to good account Their names •re J. IT. Bust, E. W. Morgan and A. H. Btewart, and they conceived the idea of reproducing almost instantly a vivid view of the exact situations and plays in a game ofjbase-ball, played in Chattanooga, for instance, before an audience seated in • hall in Nashville. To do this they leased • wire from Nashville to Chattanooga, one end of which was on the ball field with an expert operator, who was accurately informed in base-ball playing, seated watching the game and immediately telegraphing each play as it progressed. «At the Nashville end of the wire were two other telegraphic and base-ball experts. As they received the record from their partner, one man reproduced it verbally to the audience, while the other man manipulated cards bearing the names of the players, around a painted view of the ball field placed in full view of the audience. During the recent game in Detroit, Morgan & Co., the name of the 'ingenious Arm, presented their unique entertainment before a crowd of six hundred persons in the Detroit Opera-house, who had come to watch the progress of the Detroit-Chicago match. On the stage was a huge landscape—it would have done well as a drop curtain—having a well-painted perspective of a base-ball diamond and outfield. At the points on the picture representing the positions of batsman, pitcher, catcher and baseaae&are'typeuings into which may be shoved cards bearing the names of players, and into which these names are placed as the telegraph operator seated at his instrument reads to the audience the progress of the game, even to the smallest details. Next to an actual view of a game of base-ball, and indeed very close to such a view in interest, is the witnessing of such a presentation of a game. The audience during the first four or five innings of the game was wrought up to a very high pitch of enthusiasm. For instance, when the operator read—with Dalrymple’s name appearing as batsman—“Foul fly to left,” the audience fairly held its breath, and when the next instant the operator called out, “and out to White,” there came a storm of applause, just such as is heard on a veritable ball field. And so it was all through the calling of strikes, balls, long hits and short ones, outs, errors and safes, the excitement was intense. Borne Stories of the Shark [London Telegraph.] A French naturalist asserts that the shark prefers white men to blaek, which we believe is pretty well known; but he goes on to pay us, as a people, a curious compliment by saying that of all persons sharks like Englishmen most. The same gentleman declares that a shark cut open at Marseilles was found to contain - a man clad in armor in its stomach, while inside of another shark there was found a whole horse! It is comforting to read that the shark is kind to its young, taking its infant into its stomach in case of danger. One would think such an act of yirtue entirely above a shark’s moral nature, and that if ever it did swallow its- offspring it would be rather to digest it than to preserve it.

„ IT IS A PUREtY VESETABIE PREPAHAHOM tt SENNA-MANDRAKE-BUCHU BITTERS [AND OTHER E0.UAUY EFFICIENT RE1I1 FOIES It has stood tho Test of Tears, in Curing all Diseases of the BLOOD, LIVES, 8TOAACH, KIDNEYS,BOWELS, &c. It Purifies the Blood, Invigorates and Cleanses the Bystent. CURES ULOISOSESI LIVER SIDNEYS STOMACH AND bowels! ALLDRUGGISTS Uilll»i3|l'T<*iiyj^ DTSFEPSI A, CONSTIPATION, JAUNDICE, 8ICKHEADACHE, BILIOUS COMPLAINTS, Ac disappear at one* under its beneficial influence. It is purely a Medicine as its cathartic properties forbids its use as a beverage. It ii pleasant to the taste, and as easily taken by children as adults. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO Sole Proprietors, StXouis and Kansas Cot OERmanrImeOY I" _ „ R * Cures Rheumatism. Neuralgia, !■ OI U ft I ft Hackadus Headache, Toothache, lUl ram ■ ••■■■at DRCGOISTS AND DBALSBfl. IMS CUAKUa A. TOGlLKft CO.. BALXUQULMB*

COCKLE’S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY For Liver, Bile, Indigestion, etc. - Free from Mercury* contains only Pure Vegetable Ingredients. *- llltY&R BROS. * CO., St, Louis, Mo. iLY’s Pata'OdU CREAM IIIUIB™V ybms* For cold in the head Fly's Cream Balm works like magic. It cared me of catarrh and restored the sense of smell—E. H. Sherwood, Banker, Elizabeth, E. J. A particle la applied into each nostril and laagreeah louse. Price 30 cts. Ay mail or at druggists. Send for Circular. ELY BROTHERS, Druggists, Owego, N. Y. Piao’a Remedy tor Catarrh la the teat, Eaaieet to Use, and Clieapeet. CATARRH Also tor Cold In the Head, Bay Verar.Ac. 30 ceuta. NEEDLES, 8HUTTLES, REPAIRS, Par all Sewing Machlao SraaDAKD Hoods Osar. | U»L BlklockM' r'a'c©., j WLocurtM^auLouiMU |

This medicine, combining Iron with pom vegetable tonics, quickly and completely Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Weakness, Impure Blood, Malaria, Chilli and Fevers, and Neuralgia. It is an unfailing remedy for Diseases of thft Kidney and Liver. It is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to Women, and all who lead sedentary lives. Itdoesnot injure the teeth, cause headache,or produce const ipat ion—offtcr Iron medicines do. It enriches and purities the blood* stimulates the appetite, aids the assimilation of food, relieves Heartburn and Belching, and strengthens the muscles and nerves. For Intermittent Fevers, Lassitude* Lack of Energy, etc., it has no fqual. IF* The genuine has above trade mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take no other. Bad* only by BROWN CUBICAL CO. BALTIBORX. Ik

DR. JOHN BULL'S Smith’s Tonic Symp FOR THE CURE OF FEVER and ACUE Or CHILLS and FEVER, END ALL MALARIAL DISEASES. The proprietor of this celebrated mediehM justly claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever ofibred to the public for the BATE; CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure of Ague and Fever, or Chills and Fever, whether of short or long standing. He refers to Una entire Western and Southern country to bear him testimony to the truth of the assertion that in no case whatever will it fail to cure if the directions are strictly followed and carried out In a great many cases a single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole families have been cured by a single bottle, with a perfect restoration of the general health. It is, however, prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its use is continued in smaller doses for a week or two after the disease has been checked, more especially in difficult and long-standing cases. Usually this medicine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in good order. Should the patient however, require a cathartic medicine, after haying taken three orfour doses of the Tonic, a single dose of KENTS>EOETABLE FAMILY PILLS will be sufficient. USE no other pill. PrieefSl-OO per Bottle; Six Bottles for S5. DR. JOHN BULL’S SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP. BULL’S SARSAPARILLA, BULL’S WORM DESTROYER. The Popular Remedies of the Day. Principal Office. 831 Sain St., LOHST1LLE, IT. An Undoubted Blessing. About thirty years ago a prominent physician by the name of Dr. William Hall discovered a remedy for diseases of the throat, chest and lungs which toon gained a wide reputation in this country. The name of the medicine is Dk. Wm. Hall’s Balsam Ior the LUNGS, and may be safely relied on as a speedy and positive cure for coughs, colds, consumption, pneumonia, etc. * Th« Latest Paris and Naw York FASHIONS ARE PUBLISHED Of L’ARTuMODE. Dress Makers and Ladies desiring tbe LATEST STYLES should subscribe for J DK MQDEa Each number contains 5 Col- ■ ore l Plates and is full ot' Illustrations of the Latest Paris Styles. Published monthly. Per year, SL50; Six months. $3-00. Single numbers may be ordered of Newsdealers or send 33 cents in two-cent stamps for latest number to W. «1. MOfUUE, Publisher, No. 3 East 19th street. New Torfe. Patterns of new designs on exhibit ion. ASK FOB THE W. L. DOUCLAS Best material, perfect fit, equals any $5 or $6 shoe, every pair warranted. Take none unless stamped “ W.L. Douglas’$3.00 Shoe. Warranted.” Congress, Button and Lace. Boys ask for the W. L. Douglas* $2.00 Shoe. Same styles ns the $3.00 Shoe. If you cannot get these shoes from dealers, send address on postal card to W. L. Douglas, Brockton, Mass.

jyis the finest toned and most durable In the world. Warranted to stand In your nearest dealer for them, mailed fret e. Ask catalogue* LYON 4. Chicago, III THE BEST IN UT Write for prices. FARMERS. ATTEf. TlOJt i If there ti no dealer in your town selling these wagons, write to Factory for wholesale Prices La Belle Wagon Works, Fond du Lac, Wis.

JONES PAYSthe FREIGHT 5 Ton Wain Scale*, ,— nSr r - Be»ring«, I t Box nr ImrEnleite. Forfrooprioo Mention thlo paper and odd res uli paper and addreaa JON IS OF OINOHAMTSN, BINGHAMTON. N. T.

No Nope to Gut Off Horses’ Mooes. Celebrated “E('UP8E» HALT-/ EH and BRIDLE Combined, can not be slipped by any horse. Sample Halter to any part of free, on receipt of HI. 8_ . Saddlery, Hardware and Harness. __ Specl__ Trade. EB^Send for Price-List.’ J.C* Ligiituousk, Rochester,N.Y.

fin I HlEB<NBWLAWS;0«eer«» pay from v-UL'Jtcno - I commissions; Deserter* roller* Pensions and increase; experience 30 yearst '“ee. Write for circulars ana laws. success or no fee. - —,- w A. W. MoCORMICK & SON, Cincinnati. Ohkx WANTED A WOMAN crif ^energy for ^business in_her locality. Salary *60. References. £. J. Johnson, Manager, 1A Barclay S OPIUM HABIT ssnaa timlt New, Infallible remedy. Not a particle pain ortelf-deniaL Pay when cured. Handsome book DR C. J. WEATHERBY. Kansas City, Mo. EDUCATIONAL. ||Q|g£ STUDY. Book-keeping, Business _Forms, Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short* SSf* &S.1?! ABIIIII Morphine Habit Cured la 1* |BJ||||M to «Oday«. No pay till cured. Ill lUIH Br.J. Stephen a, Lebanon,Ohio HAIR Wigs, Banes and Waves tent C. O. D. any* where. w hole-sale and retail prlce-llst/rei B. C. Strehl A Co^ 173 Wabash-av.,Chlcagow $5 TOWA HAT. Semple*worthSI.SO FREE. Lines not under the liorse sfeet. Writ, nuwstut utm wua uuu>KBcu.,usiij,aisk. Moaree Plltiles. positive onr« for fl|||| I O never fails. A>r.C.C.Moore,N.Y.CitjVllHsL5 A. N. K., B. 1100 WHIN WRITING TO ADTBBTMBM !>»«■■ ssj 7<m MW Iks sdvertisessent k Usis paper. Advertisers like to know wkeaand erkare tkalr advertise in eats a*.

WOODS & CANATSEY, (Successors to Fleming & McCarty) PROPRIETORS OP Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. First-Class Busstes and Safe Horses for the public at reasonable prices. Horses boardjd by the day or week. Give this firm your patrouare, and you will receive fair treatsnent. The well-known boa tier. At- Eaton, will be fount always on hand.

5 Men’s Furnishing Goods, Shirts, Mars, Ms, Hosier;, Umar, Etc. QUALITY, STYLE AND SIZES TO SUIT ALL Prices Guaranteed the Lowest. Wedding Outfits and Shirts to Order J . ' ! •' * MY LEADING SPECIALTY. J - ADAIR, 131 Main Street, Comer Second, Evansville. J. W. ADAMS, M. D. McCRILLUS ADAMS. ADAMS cfe SON,„ Can now be found In their elegant new Business House on the corner of Eighth and Mala Streets, and have one of the handsomest stores in the State. Their Stock of Drugs is New and Complete, And they guarantee satisfaction to all their customers. They Inyite special attention to their splendid assortment of new and elegant styles in Wall Paper, Window Shades, And their Superior Brands of PAINTS. THE BEST BRANDS OP CIGARS AND TOBACCO. i CALL AND SEE TJS. ADAMS & SON, - - Petersburg, Ind. 1 NEW FURNITURE STORE! This Arm has opened a large etock of New Furniture, all the lateet styles In Our goods are ali new—no old etock to select from. Our place of business Is at KiOk e d Stand, where we can be found selling as cheap as any house in the country. We ape n a full stock of DTSTDEKTAKERS’ supplies AND SEE TJS. - Petersburg, Ind, E- R. KING, EUGENE HACK. ANTON SIMON. -Proprietors of— THE EAGLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer the Market Affords AND SOICIT ORDERS FROM ALL DEALERS BOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Bale at A.11 Saloons. i ISAAC T. WHITE. FRED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. cfc WHITE, , : j ;. . ..... 1.' ? • . d "Wholesale Druggists AND DKALEKS IN Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass AND STJRGrlCAIj INSTRUMENTS, No. 105 Main Street, Evansville, Ind.

1884. THE OSBORI* BROTHER^ VaY« removed to thair elegant New Uutldingon Main street, where they have.a large an* BOOTS AND SHORES, for Hen, Women end Children. Wo keep R. L. storens* and Emmerson'e brand* . of Fine Shoes. > f\ ) Petersburg, 6 t Indiana. C. -A.. BURGER & BliO., FASHIONABLE MERCHANT TAILORS, Petersburg, Indiana, I Hare BecM Their Lane Slock of Lale Styles si Pi« Gsois, Consisting of the very best Suitings and Broadslothr* Perfect Fits and Styles Guaranteed. Prices as lotf as Elsewhere, ho^e X3 I JESL ES a w x- « » Petersburg, Indiana, / CHARLES SCHAEFER, /Proprietor. Located la the Center of the Business Fart of Town. fKKMS reasonable. _A*ikkI Bar InTOnnectlon with the Uotei. CluJlc't Li^uora, I*MjW