Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1882 — A Bonanza Mine [ARTICLE]

A Bonanza Mine

of health is to be found in Dr. It. V. Pierce’* ‘Favorite Prescription,” to the merits of which ts a remedy for female weakness and kindred affections thousands testify. •—* ■ A Baltimore missionary issues a circular urging people to assist him in his work among the poor in that city. He says: A donation of $1 per week, or SSO per year, will supply a family of five persons. This is the way, he says, this is done: Three pounds salt meat, 21 cents; three pounds salt fish, 10 cents; one pound sugar, 8 cents; one-half pound coffee, 6 cents; two quarts hominy, 9 cents; one-half peck potatoes, 12 cents; six loaves bread,lß cents; lard. 6 cents; total, sl. '■ i m Many persons are bitterly opposed to “patent medicines.” and will rarely use them at all. There is no doubt that many are worthless, yet a remedy that has stood the test for years, like Dr. Sherman’s Prickly Ash Bitters, and its sale and popularity increasing every day, must have merit or it would have disappeared long since. Mrs. Ballard, of Lincoln county, Arkansas, after a disagreement with her husband Monday morning, took her children, aged seven and four years, and a four months old infant, and repaired to a pond near her home, where she broke the necks of the two oldest and threw their bodies into the pond knd then drowned herself and infant. The family were respectable. Delevan, Wis., Sep. 24, 1878. Gents —l have taken not quite one bottle of the Hop Bitters. I was a feeblo old man of 78 when I got it. To-day lam as active and feel as well as I did at 30. I see a graat many that need such a medicine. The resolution relative to the mental condition of Dr. Lamson, the convicted murderer of Percy John,which was passed at the meeting of Americans in London on Monday, has been forwarded to the secretary of state for the home department by Minister Lowell.