Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — Page 4

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“Hornets.”

DatiStt Tras Fib There is an old woman on Catherine street who delighted to find a case that all the doctors have failed to cure and then go to work with herbs and toots and strange things and try to effect at least an improvement. A few days ago she got hold of a girl with a stiff neck, and she offered an old negro named Uncle Tom Kelly fifty , cents to go to the woods and bring her a hornet’s nest. This was to be steeped in vinegar and applied to the neck. The old man spent several days along the Holden road, and yeste refay morning he secured his prize and brought it home in a basket. When he reached the Central Market he had a few little purchases to make, and after getting some tea at a grocery lie placed his basket on a barrel near the stove and went out to look for a beef bone.

It was a dull day for trade. The grocer sat by the stove rubbing his bald head. His clerk stood at the desk balancing accounts, and three or four men lounged around talking about the new party that is about to be founded on the ruins of the Democracy. It was a serene hour. One hundred and fifty hornets had gone to roost in that nest for the winter. The Snlal atmosphere began to limber em up. One old veteran opened his eyes, rubbed his legs and said it was the shortest winter he had ever known in all his hornet days. A second shook off his lethargy and seconded the motion, and r in five minutes the whole nest was alive and its owners were ready to sail out and investigate. You don’t have to hit a hornet with the broad side of an ax to make him mad. He’s mad all over all the time, and he doeen’t care a picayune whether he tackles a humming bird or an elephant, The grocer was telling one of the men that he and General Grant were boys together, when he gave a sudden start of surprise.. This was followed by several other starts. Then he jumped over a barrel of sugar and yelled like a Pawnee. Some smiled, thinking he was after a tunny climax, but it was only a minute before a solemn old farmer jumped three feet high and came down to roll over a job lot of wash-boards. Then the clerk ducked his h**nd and rushed for the door. He didn’t get there. One of the other men who had been looking up and down to see whitt could be the matter, felt suddenly called upon to go home. He was going at the rate of fusty miles an hour, when he collided with the clerk and they rolled oil the floor. There was no use to tell the people in that store to move on. They couldn’t tarry, to save ’em. They all felt that the rent was too high, and they must vacate the premises. A yell over by the cheese-box was answered by a war-whoop from the show-case. A how l from the kerosene barrel near the hack door was unswered by wild gestures around the show window. The crowd went out together. Uncle Tom was just coming in with his beef lione. When a large body meets a smaller one the larger Inaly knocks it into the middle of next week. The old man laid around in the slush until everybody had stepped on him all they wanted to, and then he sat up and asked: “Hev'dev got de Hall all put out yit?” / . -j. Some of the hornets sailed out doors to fall liy the wayside, ami others waited uround on top of barrels and baskets aild jars to be slaughtered. It was half an hour before the last one was disposed of, and then Uncle Tom wulkeu in, picked up the nest and said: r “Mebbe dis will cure de stillness in dat, gal’9 neck jist de same, but I tell you I’ze got s banged an’ bumped an’ sot down oti till it will take a hull medical college all winter long to git me so I kin jump off a street kyar!”

A Tale of Love and Sacriflce.

“But, papa ” “Not another wonl; I’m a wild cat when my back’s up, and don’t yon forget it.” The speaker was a hard-visaged-man, dressed with an") elegance that ill-accorded with his evident want of culture. She Who addressed him as “papa” was a fair-haired girl of eighteen summers. Reared on the knee of luxury, she had never known what it was to have her slightest wish thwarted. Her father, a plumber, was, from the nature of his business, a man of iron will, but he was not devoid of pity or generosity, as many •a debtor whose house and lot he had taken in ' part payment for fixing the water pipes, letting the balance of the accout run along for two months, could testify. He had surrended Cecil, his only child, with all that'wealth could purchase, looking forward to the time when she would marry the eldest son of a Niftgra Falls hackmam, or some person of fortune commensurate with her own. But; she had allowed her heart to be ensnared by the wiles of Cupid, and that morning had asked her sire’s consent to her marriage with a poor but not proud young man whose agricultural operations on the board of trade had not been attended with success. It was this request that produced the answer given above. Again Cecil pladed with her parent not to crush the love that blossomed in htr heart. The old man’s went back to the happy clays when he had told her mother of his love, and how they commenced life with nothing but strong arms and willing hearts. Placing his Tan-like hand on Cecil’s shoulder, the old man looked at her tenderly and said: “Look ye, my lass. \ou say you love this man and cannot live without hini." Mebbenot. I have promised you a seal skin sacque this winter. ‘Let us test your love. If you become this man’s bride I shall not buy you the sacque. In my hand is a check for S3OO. In the wheat pit over on the board of trade Is your lover. Which do you choose? Without raising her head she reach, ed out convulsively for the check.

Stories of Tom Corwin.

A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune telling some stories of Tom Corwin, relates the following to illustrate his manner of handling a troublesome customer: He had only got well started in his speech at a certain place, when some one began to ply questions. For a time they were answered with care, notwithstanding the cries that were made of “Put him out!” etc. “No, don’t put him out!” said the orator, “I am glad to answei questions.” But they came thicket and faster, and there seemed to be no likelihood of cessation. Finally Corwin said, in his confldental tone: “Now, my dear old friend, I wish you wouldn’t ask any more questions present—for you see lamin a great urry. I have a good many people to talk to, and they want to hear what I have to say. But I know where you live; and, if you will keep still now, when the campaign is over I will remember you, and come up and stay all night with you, and we will sleep together and talk it all over.” „ The love which he cherished for his three daughters was so intense that it partook of the form of Jealousy when they began to be courted. At the marriage of his oldest daughter, Eva, Corwin manifested so much feeling that the occasion partook more of the aspect of a funeral than of a wedding. During the ceremony he shed tears, and if the supper, after a prolonged silence, he suddenly broke out: .'Now I want it distinctly understood this thing is never going to happen again In this house. There will never he another wedding here. I will get a nigger six feet tali, and give

him a «ok ten feet long, and poet him at the mint door, and Instruct him to knock any young man In the head who comes to see my daughters.” General Garfield relates that a little before Corwin's death, when he returned to Washington from a flying visit to Lebanon to attend the marriage of his youngest daughter, he referred to the marriage of Eva,and said that he shut himself up in his room for tnree or four days before it occurred, and could not be persuaded to take any part in the preparations, and only at the most earnest solicitation did he come down to witness the ceremony. He said: ”1 could not endure the thought of my daughter loving another man better than myself; and yet she married a noble fellow. And now the old feeling has returned. I tell you, I had a horrible time of It until the ceremony was over,” When Corwin’s only son, Dr. William H. Corwin, was attending college, his teachers complained that he sat up too late nights, and they were afraid he would injure himself with over-mental exertion. The statesman wrote on this occasion as follows: “My son: I am informed that you are injuring your health by study. Very few young men nowadays arc likely to be injured in this way, and all I have to say to you is that, should you kill yourself by study, It would give me great pleasure to attend your nineral. ,

Is the Climax of the Winter Passed?

The recent rain-storms which took the place of snow-storms and extended from the south to the lake region, taken with the low pressure and milder southerly winds in the northwest, seem to mark the past week as the turning point of the winter. It would be an interesting and important inquiry to determine the average date of maximum cold in these latitudes, that we might have an inkling of the future weather and guess at least when the reign of snow and slush will end. “In the southern part of the United States,’’ says an able investigator of climate,* “the greatest cold occurs soon after the winter solstice; in the latitude of PhiladelShia it occurs about the middle of anuary; at Toronto nearly a month later, and at Van Rensselaer Harbor (latitude 78 degrees 37 minutes north) in March.” This statement is probably very near the truth. During the seven winters from 1873 to 1880 the intensest cold atPhiladelphia fell in three seasons during Decemlier and In four it fell in January, but in none of these winters did the lowest temperature occur lat£r than January 16, the greatest thermal depression being 5 degrees below zero on January 10, 1875,. In New York the maximum winter cold during the last eight years occurred twice in December, three times in January and three times in February—the average date being between the 18th and 22nd.of January. We have, therefore, probably passed theclimax of this “winter of our discontent,” The probabilities, however, from these and other data are that we shall have some severe “cold waxes” in the first half of February, if not sooner. As the expensive force oj the sun’s now increasingly vertical rays is exerted over the North Pacific basin, driving its air eastward over the Rocky mountains, whence robbed of its vapor, it goes to swell the continental reservoir of dry, cold air in the northwest, we may ex. pect late visitations of the “blizzard.” But theJiope that the worst of this memorably severe winter lias pasted will gild the remainder with promises of spring, and make it more endurable especially to the poor and the invalided waiting the ordained hour when— Turely winter passes off, Far to the north, and calls his ruttian blasts.

How Grant Was Nominated.

Thurlow Weed says in a letter to the New York Tribune: “I propose to show how Gen.i_Grant became a Republican instead of a Democratic candidate for president. Before the presidential canva<Tor 1868 had opened, thoughtful men of both parties were casting about for suitable candidates. I learned that Dean Richmond, Peter Cagger and Cornelius Wendell, wiser Democratic leaders than those who succeeded them, were quietly preparing the way for General Grant’s nomination. It was generally understood that while Gen. Grant hail not been a prominent politician, he Jhad acted before the rebellion with the Democratic party. I called a meeting of an impromptu goneral committee, a committee that had quietly been doing good Republican work in this city for several years. Prominent among the members of that committee were John A. Kennedy, James Kelly, James Bowen, Thomas Murphy, etal. This was arranged Saturday. In the evening of that day Gen. Grant’s arrival at Long Brancli was announced. I immediately took a boat for that place, and after breakfast Sunday morning invited Gen. Grant to smoke his cigar in my room. I then greatly surprised the General by informing him that he would be nominated for President at a Republican meeting held in New York on the following Monday evening, and that the proceedings would be presented to nim by the chairman of the meeting, Mr. Thomas Murphy. I added that he need not personally trouble himself about the election; tnat he had done his work with a bayonet, and that the people would do their work with the ballot.”

As they Average.

The average boy believes that he may be happy when he is a man and can do as he likes; the average man finds that lie cannot do as he likes, and sighs to think he was not aware of the fact wheh he was a boy. The average maiden imagines that most husbands are indifferent to their wives, and that a wife may keep a man a lover until he is old enough to die; the average wife finds it about all she can do to bear and train her children, cook, wash, sew, and keep her house in “half decent order,’’and twice a year visit her mother, who lives six miles away. The average teacher imagines that never yet was one so tired as he, nor had a harder lot, and endured it better. The average parent of the average scholar thinks that in some things the present teacher might be improved ou. The average spinster believes that nobody but herself knows just how to bring up children; while the aged grandmother realizes that most pooS)le have to bring up at least two beore they can know how to bring up one properly. The average man or woman who has never had the eare of children, wonders “how people can have their houses so cluttered up and budgets in every chair,” and they imagine that a person’s bump of order must be small indeed who can not successfully manage by moral suasion any five ordinary boys and girls. Those who love and have the care of children know that th y are not like grown people; but must have both play things and pets, and physical and mental exercibe, even though there may be a budget in every chair, and muddy footprints on the floor. So if come to pass that on an average each is happy in his own conceit, and would not change himself, his views, and his lot in life with any man.

An elegant picture of Mrs. President Hayes is soon to be placed in the White House. It is the donation of the friends of the temperance cause who thus honor the recipient for her devotion to their principles. The pieture and frame are to oost SB,OOO.

GOLD AND BOLTER.

Homo Ut«lt Stories #f AeeMeatal “Flad*” of the Pifckl Metals. Oh. Onuhi (M. > BtoiMlni. Tliat rich mines are often discovered by accident, history, both ancient and modern, verifies. Numerous instances of this kind have come under my own observation. This is said to be luek, but it matters not whether it is luck or science, so long as the “find” la a good one. In such cases it would seem that it is even better to be bora lucky than industrious. Only last spring a prospector, not twenty miles from here, after hunting many days for a quartz ledge, tired In the search and threw down his pick and shovel In disgust and took up his rifle and sauntered forth for game. Fortune fevored him; his luck came suddenly to him, as it were, He shot a deer, which, in its death-struggle, fell over the rocks and rolled down the mountain - side. When the hunter reached his game he found it lying on the outcrop of an immense galena ledge, which he soon after sold for a gooa round sum—figures not stated. In the early days of California, a poor prospector, sadly out of luck,was returning to his camp after night, when he was assailed by a vicious dog. Having no weapon with which to stand off his enemy, he felt around in the dark and laid hold of the first thing he could catch, which was a hefty rock. The dog had sloped, of course, and the man kept the stone in his hand until he was safe in his own cabin. In the morning he saw something bright on the missile of war, and on closer examination he found that the rock was full of gold. He returned and found the ledge from which the quartz-boulder had floated, sold it for a large amount of money, returned to the states, bought a farm, married, and raised a large family of children. About four years ago a poor but industrious prospector in this county had the misfortune (or good fortune) to lose his horse. It was an old bay horse, and, like his master, was a wandering prospector, only that he prospected for grass, while the owner prosjiected for quartz. This particular day tlie old bay wandered further than he ugas wont to do, probably because the bunch-grass was few and far between. At any rate, the prospector desired to move camp, but could not do so without the assistance of his bay companion. He mu9t needs find him. He was at last successful, and while returning with the truant he noticed the head of a mountain rani sticking in the rocks. Stopping to examine it, he saw rich-looking quartz scattered about, and, following it up, lie hit upon what is now the noted Ramshorn mine, —the longest and richest silver ledge that we know of. The distriet was named Bay Horse, as it should have been, and is the richest silver district in the Salmon River country. I knew a man once who followed mining and prospecting for a period of forty years. He had been all through California, Colorado, and Montana, and had prospected twenty-five years in before coming west. He was not much on digging deep holes, hut lie would go round hunting for shallow diggings so long as the hoys would “stake him.” He was getting worn out prospecting out of luek, and when, on the 24th day of July, 1864, he called on a tributary of Priekley Pear Creek, in Northern Montana, he said to his three companions, “Let’s sink a hole on tills bar; its the last chance; if we can’t And it here I don’t know where next to prospect.” The younger members of the party put the hole ty bedrock, the diggings were named Last Chance, and two years later the old man threw away his tools and went home to Georgia with a Joyful heart and SIOO,000 in clean gold dust, but not until after he had seen the City of Helena, the metropolis of Montano, spring up about him.

Only last August a prospector in the Lower Wood River country, met with an unexpected streak of luck that astonished him. While on his way across from Bellvue to Croy Canon, tlie pack on the horse he was leading became loose, and in order to adjust it lie dismounted. While rearranging it he saw something at his feet that resembled rich silver “float.” He traced it up to the ledge, which was only a short distance away, and found that lie had one of the best “prospects” in Wood River. He located the original and two extensions, and the best ore in tlie vein assays up into tho/thousands. Becently he sold oyft for a snug little fortune. On a mountain trail in (California there used to be a big bowlder which furnished a favorite resting place for tired footman. Thousands of men had sat on that stone and rested their weary limbs. In fact it was of so peculiar shape that it seemed to fit every one who tried it. With long usage it had worn as smooth as ivory, and was greasy with frequent contact with miners’ clothing. One day an old prospector squatted himself upon this favorite resting-stone, and while getting his wind he carelesly and unconsciously pecked away at the boulder with his pick. A piece of the rock flew off und revealed to him the surprising truth that he was sitting on a rich chunk of quartz. He at once proceeded up the hill and found the ledge, and it was full of gold and brought him much wealth. The man who first found gold in California was working in a mill-race at the time ut very small wages, and didn’t expect any pay until the mill got to sawing.

Thus I might go <m and give many more instances of rich -mines being discovered by accident, but it will not aid the prospector. He will soon learn that it takes a close observer and a persistent digger to make a good prospector. Tlie new beginner is not long in noticing that accidental mines are rare. Experience teaches ail of us that mines do not walk around over the country asking somebody to find them. Oil the contrary, they seem to hide themselves in the mountains, and appear scared at the approach of a man with the pick and shovel. We are told that once upon a time a young man left the home of his childhowl, bid farewell to his weeping mother, kissed away the tears of his little sweetheart, and went out into the wilds of the west to become a miner. The tradition goes that he at last struck a mining camp, and being inexperienced lie sighted a veteran foT advice as to the best place to dig. Seeing his visitor was a “tenderfoot,” dressed in store clothes, the old man, in the kindness of his big heart, answered i “Young man, go up on the hillside, in the shade of yonder green tree, and dig, and fortune will smile.” The youth did not “tumble” to the sarcasm of the man of experience, but went forth with joy to tiie shade of the green tree as directed, dug, and found a fortune in less than an hour. But this is a lie—every word of it. I have heard the same old stoiy told as having happened In the lead mines of Wisconsin, ip the gold mines of California, Montana, Colorado, the Black Hills, and Nevada, and now I am only waiting to have some fellow spin ft to me and locate the scene in Idaho, and forbearance will then and there cease.

Mother Shipton’s Prophecies

There has been a good deal of idle speculation of late concerning an alleged prediction or prophecy by one Mother Bhipton, to the effect that, the world would be destroyed in 1881. Had Mother Shipton made such a prophecy it probably would not have attracted much attention but for the fact that this wonderful personage is said to have made many other predictions concerning modern inventions, all of

wlijch hive been fulfilled. Now if, as alleged. Mother Shipton, living many generations ago, had foretold the invention of the steam engine, of gas street-lights, of balloons and several ether equally surprising matters, it certainly would have been justifiable to pay some attention to her other prophecy. But in all questions of this kind the mistake of the public consists in accepting the assertions which are put forward to • fortify the story, without investigation. The proper method of proceeding would have been to inquire first, whether a Mother Shipton bad lived as stated: second, whether she had prophesied as stated. Now, as a matter of fact, there dees appear to have been a Mother Shipton. She is said to have lived in England in the reign of King Henry VH., and all we know of her is from a pamphlet printed at London in the year 1641, entitled “The Prophesie of Mother Shipton in the Raigne of King Henry the Eighth. Fore telling the death of Cardinal! Wolsey, the Lord Percy and others, as also what should “happen in insuing times.” The prophecy given in the pamphlet is in no respect different from the prophecies attributed to many other old women. It is vague, indefinite, and like the oracles of old, capable of several interpretations. But it contains no reference whatever to 1881, nor indeed to any date, and if it bears any general purport it is that of a denunciation of woe to England. It ends in this way: “There shall be a man sitting upon St. James church hill weeping his fill ; and after that a ship come sailing up the Thames till it come against London, and the master of the snip shall weep, and the mariners shall ask him why he weepeth, being he hath made so good a voyage, and he shall say: “An, what a goodly city this was, none in the world comparable to it, and now there is scarce left any house that can let us have drink for our money.” The truth is the so-called prophecy of Mother Shipton, which has been printed so often, recently, is spurious, and was written but a few years ago, and subsequently to all the inventions of which it speaks. Those, therefore, who. have been agitating themselves on account of this alleged prophecy may put away their apprehensions, and the credulous may assure themselves that all instances of alleged fulfilled prophecies are capable of a like rational and national explanation.

Power of the Plug Hat.

The plug hat Is virtually a sort of social guarantee for the preservation of peace and order. He who puts one on has given a hostage to the community for his good behavior. The wearer of a plug hat must move with a certain sedateness and propriety. He cannot run or jump, or romp or get into a fight, except at the peril of his head gear. All tne hidden influence of the beaver tend toward respectability. He who wears one is obliged to keep the rest of liis clothing in decent trim, that there may be no incongruity between head and body. He is apt to become thoughtful through the necessities of watching the sky whenever lie goes out. The chances are that lie will buy an umbrella, which is another guarantee for good behavior, and the care .of hat and umbrella—perpetual and exacting as it must ever be—adds to the sw. et seriousness of his character. Then the man who wears a plug hat naturally takes to the society of women, with all its elevating accessories. He cannot go hunting or fishing without abandoning his beloved hat, but in moderate enjoyments of female companionship, croquet, and lawn tennis he may sport his lieaver with impunity. In other words, the constant use of a plug hat makes a man composed in manner, quiet and gentlemanly in conduct, and the companion of the ladies. The inevitable result is prosperity, marriage, and church membership.

The European Storm.

The great storm which has just swept over Europe has been terribly destructive in its effects and wide in its range. England appears to have suffered extensively, and London has been but practically In a state of siege. A snowfall so heavy as to put a complete stop to traffic of all kinds is an almost unexampled occurrence in that part of the world, and coincidently with the snowfall came a flood in the Thames which has inflicted much damage. Between snow, river, and wind, the experience has been remarkable. It may be too soon for us to crow over our exemption from the bad weather which is just now playing havoc not only with European but Eastern American territory, for we must remember that this is the year of the great planetary conjunctions, and that physicists and. astronomers have agreed in expressing the cautious opinion that they would not be at all surprised if some telluric convulsions of a rather startling and disagreeable character should occur. For the present we jye safe, but the “Ides of March are come, not gone,” and we. had better reverse our rejoicings until tjie fateful period has been reached and passed.

A “Surprise” Partv Worthy the Name.

John Hannah, of Adelaide, near London, Ont., being about to leave for Petroles, a number of friends gave a surprise party at his home a night or two ago, by way of farewell. About sixty young ladies and gentlemen of the neighborhood gathered and a pleasant time was spent until about midnight. The belle of the evening was unfortunate enough, however, to have two admirers, whom she treated with equal politeness. After refreshments one of the young gentlemen was called on to sing a song. He responded, and while singing noticed his rival chatting merrily with the young lady in question. The singer stopped his song and, pale with passion, made one leap toward the pair and shattered a chair over the young man’s head. The latter fell senseless to the floor and a scene of the wildest excitement followed. Friends of both sides fought more like wild beasts than men, and in endeavoring to eject them from his house Mr. Hannah nad his leg broken. Broken furniture was strewn over all parts of the house.

The active army of France for the year 1881 will be 498,497 men. Out of this number 62,760 are in Algeria. Deducting an average of 39,000 men representing sick, absent on leave, etc., there remains a minimum of 469,870 men under arms. There are no horses in Greenland and Iceland.

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What They Can Do.

Tennyson can take a worthless sheet of paper and by writing a poem on it make it worth |i>,ooo. That’s genius. Mr. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on a similar sheet and make it worth $60,000,000. That’s capital. And the United States government can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an “eagle bird” and “Twenty Dollars.” That’s money. The mechanic can take the material worth fifty dollars and Snake it into a watch worth one hundred dollars. That’s skill. The merchant can take an article worth twenty-five cents and sell it to you for one dollar. That’s business. A lady can purchase a comfortable bonnet for ten dollars, but prefers to pay one hundred dollars for one because it is more stylish. That’s foolishness. The ditch-digger works ten hours a day and shovels out three or four tons of earth for one dollar. That’s labor. — Selected. We do not often speak of any pro* prietory medicine, but from what we nave read and heard of Allen’s Lung Balsam, we shall take the liberty of saying to those who are troubled with a Cold, Cough, or any Throat or Lung Affection, that from the testimony afforded, we have such confidence in this article, that were we afflicted in this way, we would make a trial of its virtues. Beware of the fatal consequences of neglecting this timely warning. Before it is too late, use Allen’s Lung Balsam, which will cure the disease. Every druggist in the land sells it. Vennor’s programme for 1881, gives us sharp frosts in June, and the warmest December ever known. The meteorological times seem to be out of joint, if Vennor be received as authority.

You Must Try It.

Do not despair, even if you hava ■ offered for yean from weak kidneys and torpid bowels. The oelebrated Kidney-Wort has cured hundreds of cases of from Are to thirty years standing. It is nature’s great remedy. Jay Gould’s latest project is to girdle the world with oceanic cables, for which grand purpose a company has already been formed in New York, with Gen. Eckert as its President. One of the wise men who knows everything declares that in a few. years every physician in the country will prescribe Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup to liis patients. We believe It. The project for the. Inter-oceanic Nicaragua canal and the active work in building railroads in Mexico to connect with our own system, shows that American enterpriso is “boilingover.” Nerve power, or the property of allaying nervousuess, promoting sleep, preventing hysteria and strengthening the mental and physical forces, Is possessed by Malt Bitters to a greater extent than any medicine over before compounded. The Rochester clergy have concluded to officiate at weddings for nothing less than $5 a couple. The Norristown Herald asks if they won’t make a liberal reduction to a club of six or upward.

Mothers

need not fear croup if they are sup plied with 25 cents’ worth, of James’ Cough Pills. A dose given to a child ut night will stop the cough and break up the cold. Try them. Ten millions of oattle are annually slaughtered in this country to supply the home demand for meat, which is valued at $400,000,000. v Peoria National Democrat. The most eminent physicians of the day highly recommend St. Jacobs Oil as a cure for iheumatism. It can be purchased at any drug house, and the price is insignificant when you take into consideration the wonderful cures it will produce. An lowa clergyman regulates his marriage fees by weight, the rate being four cents a pound for the groom and two for the bride.

New York Produce Market.

Flour firm: superfine state and western, 3 50@4 06; common to good extra 4 30@4 60; good to choice 4 60® 6 75; white wheat extra 5 00@6 00: extra Ohio 4 40@6 76; fit. Louis 4 40® 6 75; Minnesota patents 6 50@8 25. Wheat In fair demand; ungraded spring, 108; No 2 spring, 113; ungraded red, 1 14® 1 20; No 8 do, 1 16%; No 2 do, 1 17%@1 17% store; 118%@ 118% afloat; No 1 red, 1 24@1 24%: mixed winter, 1 16%@1 17; ungraded white, 115; No 2 do, 1 14%@1 15. Corn quiet; ungraded, 54@56: No 8, 54%; steamer, 54%@55; No 2, 66%@ 55%. Oats weak; mixed western 42@ 43%; white western, 48(§47. Eggs scarce and nominal at 50@52. Pork buouyant; old mess, 18 75@14 00; February and March, 14 75®15 00. Cut meats firmer: longelear middles, 7 70; short do, 8 00. Lard, demand active and prices have advanced; prime steam, 9 82%@9 86%. Butter in good demand: firm for prime at 12%@12 27. Cheese In fair demand. Petroleum firm at 10@18%.

Cincinnati.

Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat scarce and firm : No 2 red, 1 04. Com in fair demand; No 2 mixed, 41. Oats firmer; No 2 mixed 86. Rye easier: No 2, 97. Barley scarce and firm; No 2 fall 96@1 00. Pork firmer at 14 00. Lard strong at 9 35@9 40. Bulk meats stronger at 4 87%@7 87%; Bacon quiet and Ann; clear rib, 8 00; clear, 8 25. Whisky quiet at 106. Butter firm and in fair demand; choice western reserve, 22®22; choice central Ohio, 19@21. jHogs active, and Arm; common, 4 25@4 86; light, 4 90@6 25 !?85 king ’ 6 2005 60 ! butchers, 5 60@

Chicago.

Flour steady and unchanged. Wheat fairly active and a shade higher; No 2 red winter 97@98; No 2 Chicago spring, 99%; No 8 do, 82% @B7. Corn active,firm and higher, 87. Oats firmer at 80% @30%. Rye firmer at 88%@89. Barley easier at 1 03® 1 03%. Pork strong and higher, 13 87%@14 00 cash; 13 80@13 85 January; 13 87@13 87% February; 14 00 bid March. Lard stronger and higher; 940 cash; 940 bid February; 9 50@9 52% March. Bulk meats shoulders, 4 66;’clear rib, 7 25; elearsides, 7 46. Whisky steady and un-changed, at 1 09.

Baltimore.

Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat steady; No. 2 western winter red spot and January, 116%®116%; February, 117@1 17%: March, 118% @ 118%; April, 119%@119%; May, 1 19%@120. Corn; western, easier and quiet; western mixed, spot and January, 68%@58% ; February, 53%@

&Ki steamer, 50%. Oats dull and steady; western white, 43@44; do mixed, 42<§48. Rye quiet at 101 @1 06. Hay unchanged. Provisions firm but without change. Butter quiet and unchanged.

Toledo.

Wheat quiet; amber Michigan, 104&; No. 2 red Wabash spot, 1 04% ; No. 3 red Wabash, 100. Corn dull and higher; mixed, 41Jk; do, old, 42; No. 2, spot, 40*. Gits doll and nominal. Cloverseed, prime memmoth, 6 65; No. 2 do, 4 60: choice mammoth, 5 40; medium, 5 20; No. 2, 460. Drowod hogs, 6 00®« 12«. ClosedWheat quiet but Ann; No. 1 white Michigan, 1 01*; amber Michigan, 106; No. 2 red, spot, 1 Oty* asked.

New York Dry Goods.

Business continues fair with package houses. Cotton goods quiet .and steady. Prints in fair request; American and Oriental fancy prints opened at 6% cents. Dress- goods in fair demand. Woolen goods remain qniet but steady. Foreign goods quiet. A bill has been introduced in the Ohio legislature for the erection of a separate asylum for the epileptic insane of the state. m

Muscatine Journal. Two Days’ Work.

Two days’ moderate application oi the means in question enabled Mr. Otto Eichhorn, 1,418 North Ninth street, St. Louis, Mo., to thus write us: I had b«*en a sufferer for the past six weeks with severe pains in the shoulder and spine, so that I was unable to do any work. Advised by a friend, I used St. Jacobs Oil. With the second application relief was had and a cure eneeted in two days. The farmers in Germany are complaining that the importation of American products is seriously affecting their interests.

A Single Stone

from a running brook slew the giant Goliath, and millions of noble men since that time have died from a single stone in the bladder, which Warner’s Safe Kidney and Cure would have dissolved and carried away. It is stated in a Rome dispatch that Garibaldi will not preside over the projected meeting In favor of universal suffrage. • ——— No preparation ever discovered except Canbolinx, a deodorised extract of petroleum, will really produce new hair on bald beads. It will be a hapyy day whan the great army of bald heads folly understand this. During the last six months of the year 1880, 131,000 more immigrants arrived in this country than during the corresponding six months of 1879.

Trouble Ahead.

Wbtn the appetite tails, and aleep grows r eat leas and unrefreehing, there la trouble ahead. The dlgaetive organs whan healthy crave food, the nervosa ajratem when rigor one and tranquil gives its poeeeeeor no uneaaineee et night. A tonic, to be affective should not be e mere appetiser, nor ere the here as to be strengthened end soothed by the unaided action of n sedative or a narcotic. What ie required ia a medicine which invigorates the stomach, and promotes am imitation of food by the system, as well as other parts of the physical organism, are strengthened. These ere the effects of Hostetler’s Stomach Bitten, a medicine whose reputation la founded firmly In public con fide nee, and which physicians commend for its tonic, anti-bUioos and other properties. It ie need wlih the best results in fever and ague, rheumatism, kidney and uterine weakness and other maladies. According to the census of the Washington Post only seventy-two names have been mentioned in connection with General Oarfleldfe Cabinet. Write to Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, 283 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mr-as., for names of ladies that have been restored to perfect health by the use ci her Vegetable Compound. It is a positive cure for the most stubborn cases of female weakness. The managers of the Cincinnati Exposition have commenced systematic work on the exhibition to be held next autumn. They have blown in early.

TO PRINTERS.

Having recently put in an entire new dress, we now offer for sale some 1,600 pounds body type (Brevier) and 75 fonts lob type. A large percentage of this material has been but little used, and It will pay printers wanting to stock up to send for specimen sheet and price lists. Address Gazette Publishing Co., 25 W. Main St., Fort Wayne, lnd. _ Lillie had the toojthache and cried. Her mother tried to pacify her. “I am ashamed of you; I wouldn't be such a baby before everybody.” Oh, yes, it’s all very well for you.” “Why?’ ’‘Because, If your teeth ache, you can take them out!”

Mrs. Gen. Sherman,

Wife of the general of the United States army, says of Durang’s Rheumatic Bemedy: "I have frequently purchased it for friends suffering with rheumatism, and in every instance it worked like magic. The fact is it will cure when evenrthing else falls. Sold by every reliable druggist. A Philadelphia M. D., has started a boom against baby wagons; and all the mothers and nUrses in the land will boom him the first thing he knows.

Two Organs.

Regulate first the stomach, second the liver; especially the first, so as to perform their functions perfectly and you will remove at least nineteentwentieths of all the Ills that mankind is heir to, In this or any other climate. Hop Bitters is the only thing that will give perfectly healthy natural action to these two organs.— Maine Fanner.

The Mercantile Bank, London, have resolved to wind up. Liabilities £340,000. Assets in vessels, water works and other enterprises in the Argetine Republic. Beetorer toa mar King John,'.of Abyssinia, has decided to send an Important mission to Egypt to return thanks for the favorable reception of his envoys by the Khedive. iWw sa* Ages Tmte. Th# »i« ’•HsMsruil —»SSlk<i<a» A.-Mm Key. EdwardJPurcell, the brotherof the venerable Archbishop, died Thurs- j day night, the 20th ult., at the Ursu-1 line Convent, in Brown county, O.

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|What the Doctors Say* fiorty amtUa hay dally pfuattes said with unbounded aaeeaas.’’ OR. njTOHfiE, of La»tugtoa, Missouri, eaye: !*t recommend your Balaam In prwfereaoe to aay other madtetee fer ooogha and oolda. *• DB. A. O. JOHNSON, of M, Vernon. file, write* of w<mdorfu» ewes of odnourrio* in his plaoe by tne oas of Allan's Long Balsam." Dn. J. B. TURNER, Bloaotavilie, Ala., a practicing * a an expectorant It has no equal. U oontalna no opium In any form. J. ». HARRIS A CO., Prop’s, CINCINNATI, O. FOB SALE BT ALL DBU6OISTS.

TUTT& pills mmmSmSm SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Lou. of Appetite, Bowels costive ***" the Head, with a dull aouaation tn i..* net part, Pam under the shoulder blade, fall* oeea after eating, with a diunclmattom to exertion o* :«ody or m ud, Irritability of temper, Low spirits, with a fool in* of having neglected some duty. Weariness, Dtxrtriass, Fluttering at the Heart, Dots befog, the eyes. Yellow Skin, Headache generally over \he right eye, ResUeaaooeee, with fiti Ail dreams, highly colored Urine, and CONSTIPATIOMj TUTT’S PILLS are especially adapted to anrh raeea, a slna gledeae effects aut b a change as feettag as toasfentahtbenoffcrrr. i ■OLD EVKRYWHRRR. PRIOR K CENTS •wife, 3ft Murray street, New Yedu . pn*HOP BITTERS. (A Medicine, net n Drink,) ooxranrs HOPS, BITCHC, MAiIDKAUi DANDELION, j ajo> rtm Pusan asp Ban Uxmoaj. qw.vs— or all oruxa Dima. THEY OUPLE All Lusesues of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood, liver. Kidneys, and Urinary Organa, TTh rnnaaam. Beapkwsr.evs and aapeciall; Female Ootnpialsts. SIOOO IN GOLD. WIH t» paid for a eaee they win not eurecr help, «• for anything Impure or Injurious fonad ta then. Ask your druggist for Uop Btkn sad toy then before you sleep. Take no other. Hor couoh Cues ia the sweeunt, mfOU and beat. Ask Children. The Hor Pan for Stomach, Uvur and Kkhwykape rtor to all other*. Cures by absorption. Aak draught. D. LC. Is an abeetat* and IriuririMt euro for drmfoaaneae, n»e of opium, tohaaco and aa~rtt» Bend for circular. HRHHI AbcwoUbydrNglfftovH^BiUma^oln^SjrT POND’S eJjRAGT Inj}ammati»n,ControUallHemorrhagri * cute and Chronic. Venous and Mucous. INVALUABLE FOR » Colds aid Cowls, jJana Ay. ul - lasal ail Ikmi <&/>. mum. Aocmalatiois oi tin Lam Etu ikttreat. tT CUMiiii. RHEUM ATI SN AND NBPBALOIA. For sensitive and severe cases of CATARRH use our CATARRH CURB, (75c.) In aH cases use our NASAL SYRINGE, (asc.) Any of our preparations will be scat in lots at fa worth, on receipt of price. |

Fuo. C. Ewing, Dearer, Col.—“ Astonished at its wonderful effect.** Arthur W. Crossley, Washington, D.C.— 1 “ Preeminently the best.” Saml. K. James,Schenectady, N. Y.—“A haSjr necessity in mv famih." R. H. T rested. New York.—“ Here dented great benefit from its use.” Cohxu, ts. y. Graphic. —“ Simply kraiDr. C. N. Thayke, Falmouth, Mass—“ One cA the best remedies in my daily practice.” How. Jwo. C. Spkwcer, late Secretary of War aad Secretary of the Treasury, wrote as far back as J&4B. —“ It is a remedy perfectly invaluable.” : CACTION.—POND’S EXTRACT Is sold . only in bottles with the name blown in the rises . W It h unsafe to use other articles with our directions. Insist on having POND’S EXTRACT. Refuse all imitations ants substitutes. BT Our New Pamphlet, with Histoet 6* otm Prbpaeatiohs, sewt FREE. 14 Went 14 th street. New Terrh. Sold by all Druggists. no TRUSS Sam Wa. als easy, tsraM. aad chup. Beat fey awtL OmsSt *** Eggleston Truss Co., rhfitigßjHr Bern MMiwm tfiTWhner ouyt arm. MASON name? HAMLIN Spill Organs, feggl HTS!H Encyclopedias TIQUETTES BUSINESS gaW-WK-asa jtkmss Slants wanted. Sand for eirewlar contain lac a fail t”£f 81 MBW Ma s.