Franklin Daily Herald, Volume 6, Number 57, Franklin, Johnson County, 28 August 1885 — Page 2

Franklin Daily Herald

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 188V IMPORTED L1QUOKS! Much of the cognise brandy offered for Sale, is manufactured in this country, and in fact, but a nmall portion of the iiquor sold as such, was over imported. The essence) ot coguiac, which is a compound of ethers, chief amoog which are the aeetie and butyric others, also the acetated oxide of amyl, and other ingredients too numerous to mention. An ounce of the oil costs $4.50, and one drachm is sufficient to make cogniac out of a barrel of proof spirits. The product is 'aged," that is, brought to the ripeness which the genuine wonld reach in five years, by a judicious use of strychnine. Rum and the various liquors which are sold as imported goods, are Roldom genuine, and are manufactured much in the samo way, by the use of different essences. Talking about the weather, here is an item of interest in connection with that subject: Hixty-nine years ago was the ''year without a summer.'' Frost occured every month in the year 1616. Ice lormed half an inch thick in May; snow fell to the -

depth of three inches in the in- "ve anJ ,en6M1 01 wme 011 8ev' teriorof'New York and Massa- cral occasious. She is now rechiAetts, in June; ice formed of .covering her health, but her

the thickness of common window glass, in New York, on the 5th of July; Indian corn wag frozen so that the greatest part was cut down and dried for fodder in August, and the farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1845 for seed in the spring of 1817. Dr. McOosh, of Princeton, being asked if it was not truo that a large number of persons were unable to obtain employment because their education and sensibilities were above the wants ot Ihe society in which they lived, replied that he did not know of any ease where education had hurt unybody. If a man was in good health, and industrious, a good education would qualify him for a dozon different things, where an ignorant man could only do one. Education properly ushI would enable a person to rMM in any sphere of luhor, Lou Neflord, of Clinton county, was bound over at Shelbyville, clmrgod with robbing the money drawer of Andrew Raymond, a fruit dealer, of a considerable amount of monoy, while the back ol the clerk won turned. The mother of a Fort Wayne infa nl weighs 538 pounds.

The following little paraphrase on a familiar "pome" neatly

points a valuable moral that never was more applicable than when trade is dull; "There was a man in our town, and he was wonderous wise, for when he marked his prices down, he hen did advertise. And when he saw his trade increase, with all his might and main, he marked still lower every price and advertised again. And when he advertised again his rivals stamped and swore, to see folks rush with might and main, to patronize that store. And while they sat in deep solitude, and saw him custom bring, that man behind the counter stood and raked the shekels in, and when he saw his fortune rising, he took a goodly lot of "tin" and kept on advertising. Jivery day a genuine sum he'd geek, and demonstrate full plain, the more one pays for printer's ink, the greater is his gain There is a young lady in Crawfordsville who is strangely " afflicted. She has been sick in bed for three years, with what has been supposed as consumption, and ha8 been not expected to t: i ii power oi speecn is gone, it is thought that her ailment is caused by a pin which she accidentally swallowed yetirs ago. Tho number of persons who travel by railway in ull parts of m i tho world, is estimated at six and ono-half millions daily, which soms a groat number, but it is likely to bo bolow, rathor than above the actual number. There are now 13,494 newspnpors published in the United Status, or one paper for ouch 3,716 inhabitants. It is fortunato that some persons subscribe for more t It tin ono paper. A committee from the Execu. tivo Board of the Knijih's of Labor called on Jay Gould and

other Wabash rulers in New York i branch Xavier Cathedral at yesterday, to consult about the! Vincennes strtled his congrogalabor troubles on that road. Thoi'io po broaching against night

magnates, as usual, asked for f u thcr time to think in, Tho con sun of North Dakota, which is just completed, gives the population of that section of tho Stalo at 1 HO ,000. Tho report for Houth Dakota is not in, but it Is estimated that it will not ho '' ",m w,wu. Tho compulsory oducalion law is a failure in New York, according to Commissioner Peek, ol tho titato Labor Bereau.

In the United State there are 20,000 organized printers, G0,000

organized coal-miners, 70,000 organized iron and steel workers, and 1,000,000 organized Knights of Labor, while other organizations swell the number to 2,000,000 It is rumored that the late Mrs. Tom Thumb is not happy with her Italian husband. He bosses" her too much, while Tom used to submit to henpec.';ing without a murmur. Joseph E. I3owen, the oldest ! Master Mason in the country, having been mstal.ed sixty-eight years ago, died in Philadelphia, Sunday, aged ninety-four years. Il is reported that a Cincinnati girl has jilted her lover because in his correspondence wit h her he used a typewriter. The white fish of the great lakes are threatened with extermination by Ihe use of trap nets, which destroy great numbers of fish before they are fully grown. The Grant County fair has double the entries of any former season, and the attendance is large. Nellie Burk's Koman racing combination is one of the attractions. Two boys of Farmer Love, in Harrison county, were bit by a mad dog. A horse bitten by the same dog died of hydrophobia, nd it is feared that wilt bo the fate of the two boy . A six-year-old son of William Senfesty, of Marion, while at tempting to get aboard of a loaded wagon, was thrown under tho wheels and badly crippled, but not thought to bo f'atul. Louis Block, aged thirty yours, died of what wus pronounced sporadic cholera at his homo, near North Milan, Wednesday morning, after an illnoss of only ten hours. The case has excited comment and alarm. Uev. Tat her Peylhien, of Kt. promt nauing of woman on the streets. Shopping expeditions, ho thought, should be made in tho daytime. Tho population of Dakota is 415,000, of which South Dakota claims 203,000. Mr. E. Corn-run shipped ull his horses Iioji Saratoga to Chicago last night. Tho coal miners of Missouri are holding a convention ut Scil-alia.

Massachusetts produced 100,000000 pairs of shoes in 1884. Stone cutters are on a striko in Philadelphia, and fifty are advertised for at $3 50 per day. The statistician of the Detroit Free Press is authority for the statement that only one man in every ninety-severi4 is perfectly sound in mind and body. The citizens of Battle Ground and John Munn, who wants to start a saloon there, are having a vigorous fight over it. Abraham Mendenhall, a man of family, of Peru, was arrested near Marion while eloping 'with a married lady and both were returned to their homes.

Miss Mollie ttoullt, daughter of well to-do people of Econamy tried to commit suicide by taking a spoonful of paris green, on account of a love affair. One hundred and fifty members ot the Ninth Indiana Infantray attended the second annual reunion ot that regiment at Logansport yesterday. Watermelons aro sellintr two for live cents in the Washington market. White county was visited by a slight frost Tuesday night. FCH CUE ! Hmmm ami !! war Utilla. Tli bait iu Amorloa. All from raud. All ixgUtered and iowihmI Slrs in ttootpdlirrva furniMbed. Term tiniij. Addrens. UtUAX liltON.. Brookild turn. ft. Vtm luL STEWART'S HEALING POWDER Cures all open sores on mi caust cuts. coreouts tenoe, etc. It Is the est,. cheapest, most satisfactory i no grease or smell to attraotmesj Harness or Drug stores. STEWART HEALING POWDER CO. 8t.Loul and NewYork. Koep your stock In good condition by using Stewart's Stock Remedy All Sorts of hurts and many sorts of ails of man and beast need a cooling lotion. Mustang Liniment.

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