Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1870 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

Us (WTKI, A Mh Chamberlain delivered tire oration *t Lakeville, Dakota oounty, Minn , on the Fourth. To avoid anxiety in Sickness end health, he insured in the Washington Lite Inaur anee Company of Mew York. It ia said that trichinae have been discovered in the flesh of deer shot in their native wilds in Oregon. Eiohtikn young men have been fined $lO each lor habitually “ loafing ” on the street corner* of Boston. A tigwms was killed lr> the Madras presidency by quill of a porcupine pieretag ' her throat while eating the animal. “I won't pay for steak as tough as this,” said an angry boarder; “no law can compel me—it’s not legal tender.” Vice- President Colfax has been in* vited to deliver the annual address at the Vermont State Fair, at Burlington, September 18. Do you .want to see your wife’s smiles * Secure her from poverty by a policy in the Washington Lire, of New York. More than 24,000 persons, rendered houseless by the great fire in Constantinople, have been provided, for by the Turkish Government. A St. Louis paper describes s letter of Horace Greeley as looking “as if somebody had smashed a bottle of ink on it, and tried to wipe it off with a currycomb.” In the vestibule of a church in South Gardner, Mass., may be seen the following: " Notice ! Person* chewing tobacco will please spit in their hats.” The sister of Samuel Craft, a wealthy farmer of Glen Cove, N. Y., was recently attacked by an infuriated cow, and before she could be rescued was gored to death. • 7 A victim of unrequited affection concludes as follows: “ I sat me down nd thought profound; This mnim wise I drawn's easier far to like a girl Tuan make a girt like jou.” The petty tradesmen of London, to whom Dickens bad given orders, on the &u uoancement of his death displayed these autograph notes in their windows, with an eye to custom. In Pittsburgh, on the Fourth, a firecracker was thrown into the mouth of a boy aged ten years, and exploded there. The boy has entirely lost his voice, but is otherwise uninjured. gown workmen of a town in Hanover amused themselves by stripping a tipsy companion and fastening him in that condition to a tombstone. A few hoars later he was found there, dead. A Sunday School teacher, deploring the lack of attendance on his ministra lions, appealed to the few present: “What can I do,” said he, “to get the boys and girls here?” “I know,” said one of the urchins. “Whatis it?” “Give ’em all live cents apiece.” Thx Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Pennsylvania, visited Washington a few days ago, and was at the CapitoL He is nearly ninety years old, and was in Congress fifty /ears ago. Not one of his Congressional colleagues is alive. Detroit has 14,698 families, 718 stores, 381 groceries, 446 offices, 63 hotels, 190 boarding houses, 54 churches, 13 public halls, 108 public schools, 898 machine shops. 669 places where liquor is sold, &c. The number of families in 1860 was 8,963. In Los Angeles and San Diego counties, Cal., one may ride twenty-seven miles along the highway without quitting the land of Don Juan Foster. The landed possessions of that gentleman are set down at three hundred square miles. Mb. Cutckanickfucks Yakutskolitmilks Sak iatskylitmilks Ankachagamuks Kekutonekutzokorts keeps a hotel at Sitka, Alaska. He says that the Americans have the queerest names he ever heard of, and it is with the utmost difficulty he can pronounce them. A Baltimore policeman the other day arrested one of three brother-rowdies for insulting a lady. The brothers assailed the officer with clubs Jo rescue the prisoner, but the officer clung to his man, toek him to the watch-house, and in a few minutes died of his wounds A New Orleans man, with a bottle of mucilage in his pocket, enjoyed the. society of two lady lriends in a street, unconscious that the bottle was broken. When they desired to leave, all were stuck fast, and only persevering effort* and the sacrifice of silks and doeskin released them. Ah old hypochondriac in New York imagines every few days that he is going to die. He has made several wills, which are destroyed when he recovers from the “ attacks,” and he has said farewell to his family and given directions about his funeral more than twenty times. A gentleman whose nose had! becomedistinctly colored with the red whflg'he was wont to imbibe. eauL one day to his little, awrt at the tkble: “You must eat Bread, my boy; bread makes your cheeks red.” The little boy replied: “Father, What lota of bread you must have snuffed up 1” A correspondent writing from Ireland recounts a visit to an Irish school in the Black Valley. An address was made to the children, and at its conclusion they were asked what they expeeted to do when they became men and women, when, with one inspiration; the forty pupils responded, “ Go to America.” Dr. Laxessax, a French physician, recently lost his life in consequence, it is said, or his excessive exertion to resuscitate a young girl who was nearly drowned in the Seme. The Doctor breathed his own breath into her long#, but as she begun to rt cover, he fainted away and oouid not be restored to consciousness. A convivial dub in Norwalk, Conn., were recently invited to the house of their President to partake of lobster salad, which he prepared with his own hands. Some of the party detected that it possessed a peculiar flavor, and the next day the fact leaked out that, by a mistake, furniture polish, instead of olive oil, had been used in its preparation.

The Colusa (pal.) Sun gives an account of a couple of gentlemen of that burgh, who, while riding home one dark night, mistook a white call; tied by the roadside, for a highwayman, discharged their pistols at it without hiding it, and then galloped back to town, where they aroused the population with their harrowing story of the encounter. A. Wihsted, Ct, lady was some time , ago struck by lightning.and lay for hours unconscious, dead to *4 human appearances. She distinctly heard her friends declare she was “ unquestionably dead and she would have been buried alive had not her brother insisted (while the bystanders laughed him to scorn) upon hoping and working and waiting for n-s toration, which he at length accomplished. I'mm following dreadful case of aoch

dental (hooting is tha* told by ths Boston Port: A oarefttl Pennsylvanian waited till his wife went to the' barn for lien’s eggs, and then tried his new gan with a load of buckshot and the side of the barn as a target. The doctor picked the shot out of her and the husband wltl have to wall the slow process of divorce before he can marry the woman ol his choice. A lioiithino rod mao. In putting up one of hi* rod* between Indianapolis and Gtnclnnsti, connected It with a Western Union telegraph wire, “ In order,”’ he tfrtd, “to relieve the lightning ml If it should become excessively charged with electricity.” He succeeded ir. relieving the line of its dispatches, which ran into the ground, and cited a large and well selected amount of “cussing” at both ends of tne line. Thx famous expression of an Irish orator respecting a political rival that “he never opened bis mouth except to put hi* foot in It;” may apply to a horse owned by T. It. Simon ton, of Cynden, Maine. That gentleman found his horse last week in a condition resulting from such an experiment He had got his hind hoof in his mouth and could not getitout. Eventual y the hoof had to be pried out with a wagon stake pushed in behind it Prof. Piazzi Smtth, astronomer royal for Scotland, has made a long series of observations on the temperature of the earth with underground thermometers, and is thereby led to conclude that some relation exists between this temperature and the amount of snn spots, and that it takes place in a certain order, dcducible from the observations. Following this out as a conclusion, he is of opinion that next winter will be unusually severe throughout the British Islands. A little child of Mr. Moore, in Fond du Lac, Wis., recently had a most remarkable escape from a shocking death. Hhe was standing on the railroad track when a freight train came In. As soon as the engineer observed the child he whistled down brakes, but too late to stop tire train. When the cow-catcher struck the child it was thrown upon the small platform in front of the engine, escaping without a bruise, being carried some distance on the engine. The wife of a California farmer, being sick, her physician ordered some powder, largely composed of opium, and directed her husband to administer the weight of a quarter eagle at a dose. In the morning, when the doctor returned, the patient was dead, and evidently of poison. “Unhappy man,” said the doctor, “ where is the powder I gave you ?" “ I gave it to her. Here is the empty box.” "You forgot my prescription, then ?” “ No, doctor. I put the two dollars and a half in one scale, and the powder in the other.” “ Was it in gold T” “ No; I did not have gold, and made Up the amount in stiver.”’ “Mr son,” said an old lawyer, giving advice to his son, who was just entering upon the practice of his lather’s profusion, “ if you have a case where the law is clearly on your side, but justice seem 9 to be against you, urge upon the jurv the necessity of sustaining the law. If; on the other hand, you are in doubt about the law, but your client’s case is clearly founded upon justice, insist upon the necessity of doing justice even though the heavens should fall." “ But,’.’ asked the son, “bow shall I manage in a case where both law and justice are dead against me?” “In that case, my son," replied the old stager, “ talk round it” While the inspector on a train bound cast from Kansas City was testing the car wheels at Jefferson City, Missouri, he discovered a boy under one of the cars, who had concealed himself there all the way from Kansas City. He had formed a sort of Det of rope, in which he lay suspended like a spider in its web, between the axle ofone of the trucks and the floor of the car. The boy was routed out of his place, and quite a crowd gathered about him on the platform. He was disposed to be saucy, and stated that he had ridden in this way thousands of miles. As the train was moving slowly from Jefferson City the boy got in his old place again under the car while it was in motion. The conductor was notified and stopped the train. The boy was hauled out from his lurkingplace, and taking up a stone, was in the act of hurling it at the conductor, when the latter knocked him down.

An Adventure with a Burglar.

I went to Convent Garden Theatre one night last season. We were let out at twelve, and I set off to my lodgings. I knocked: there was no answer. I knocked again: a window was thrown up, and my landlady’s head appeared. “ Who ue you ? ” she screamed. “ Let’s in, please; it’s me !” I answered. “Then, Mr. Me,” if you don’t come home afore ten, you may stay out till mornin’. 1 never wait up for my lodgers —my door is closed at ten! ” and then the window closed with a bang. “No go! ’’ thinks I. “ I have no money. 111 go to a railway station, and wait in the waiting-room till morning;” which resolution I proceeded to carry out by walking quickly for the Bank. I turned Into Moorgate street, and was just thinking whether I should go to the London, Brighton and South Coast, or London Bridge station. I tenth ink. There was a confectjo»mf 1 s shop just in front of me. Obn,'that it were open ! I had three-pencco’ le'ft. Jußt at.‘ifiis moment a tall, broad-shoul-jleentd man came up to me, and viewed me from top to toe. I looked at him. He was dressed in daik clothes; a pea-jacket and a clap-trap cloth hat, with a peak lying level on the forehead, gave me a feeling of awe. The thought forced itself upon me that he was a garroter. He spoke first. “You’re Mr. Sam?” and he laid his finger on his nose. “ You’ve guessed it,” said I, thinking it best to agree with him, although my name was Tom. “Then come along!” and away we went “ Did Butler give ye e’er a pistol ?” he SOK6Q.

, “N°," said I, beginning to tremble. He said he wanted them himself.” “Just like him. He told me I’d find you standing in Moorgate street, between twelve and one, opposite the confectioner’s, with your right hand in your pocket.” “ I’m In for it 1” thinks I, “ but I must go through with it. But whatever will it come to at all at all ?” He led me through a labyrinth of Streets, walking rather last, till we emerged upon the City Road. Then he made straight for the Angel, and from thence took a tabfor Fleet street! What object he had in doing this, I cannot say. He did no! offer to explain; in fact, not a word passed between us till we got out at the top ol Ludgate Hill. From thence we went into a back street, and out of that into another, no matter which, and suddenly stopping opposite a shop, he exclaimed: “ There’s our crib!” “ Is it?” says I. Whereupon he produced from his pocket a rule. The shop was evidently {tailor's, as it had bars standing out, like the "tog® of a Jacob’s ladder, frqsn each stoe of tue door, to exhibit stock upon. My friend on the first of these, which waa three feet from the ground, and speedily measured the height of a large glass lanlight over the door, then, stepping down again, he measured the hreadilrof %fie door, »m! aa the f&nlight was square, itadi^nston^- me b 7 Way ° f ** Vin « ,U 0 ch'u2K2tiV half by two hifihrand

Then he crossed the road, anil I follow ed, he explaining that we must wait till the policeman p*s**.d. He hove In sight shout ten tnimites afterwards, while we wHlki d p**t ’film. Then we waited till he returned. TMs time we did not pan* him, but watched liuu from a corner at a distance. ” Twenty minutes and a half between poles' and coming," exclaimed my companion. “Anil a hand; heat; for lie come* tip the corner ihyre,"—pointing to one a Wwle beyond the sb<*o—“ and g-m* down th ; « street next ours.” The impri sion began to itcalovcrmc ihat I was committing, or helping to commit, a felony, and that it caught I might get into, trouhie. I thought of running for it; but the remark my companion made at that moinqnt, to Hie < fleet that it would ben short run if 1 deserted him (for he seemed to see 1 didn't like the Job), deterred me. 1 dared not explain that he lmd made u I felt sure that he must have mistaken me for some ally of hts own. “ I must go through with it," thinks I. “lie’ll leave me outside to watch, and I’ll hook it then I” So I went on. He crossed the street again the moment the policchnan was past interfering with us, and producing a piece of stout hlack cloth, he applied the rule thereto, I holding it agaiu*t the shutter while he set out “three and s half by two" thefeon. This done, he cut it within two inches of the measurement all round ; and then producing a ireacle-pot from his pocket, he smothi red one side of the cloth with treacle, and desiring me to hold it, he mounted the shop door, so to speak, again; and I gave him the cloth, which he immediately clapped on to the skylight, the treacle making it adhere firmly to the glass. Then, looking at his watch, he cried : “ By Gosh ! he'll he here this minute!” and away we walked. A glance behind ns, as we turned the next corner. Not yet in sight. We stopped and waited, but the policeman came not. My friend muttered an oath, adding, “I'll go. Come along; but keep your weather eye open!” And off we went. “ Perhaps he is watching us?” I suggested. But the idea was discarded as not in the nature of a policeman “like that one we saw.” We arrived at the shop. He mounted again, and drove a etring through a hole in the cloth. Then he ran a diamond round the edge of the glass. A gentle pat, and It gave way. Now I saw the use of the doth and the string. He could hold the glass by the string; and he slowly let it down into the shop, and, producing a long-shaped pad, he lfitd it along the bottom of the fanlight to cover the glass edge, and threw one leg into the opening, and got astride of it! “Follow me,” he muttered, and ducked his head under thedm>r-head. But before he could draw in the other leg, I mounted the ladder, and seizing it, gave him a pull that kept him from going in, at the same time yetting, “ Police t Thieves! Murder ! Police !” at the top of my voice. And, lo and behold! the policeman appeared at the corner at that moment. A horrible oath from within, a pistol bullet whistling past my head, and I ran for death and life. I did not stop until I found myself in Broad street. In the hekFdky’s papers I saw the account of the capture of a burglar by one policeman, who had watched two burglars from the corner, and saw one enter the house, and the other Jeap up the wall like a cat, grab at a disappearing leg, and yell “ Police !” and run. The one that was caught got seven years’ peaal servitude ; and the police are searching vigilantly, though as yet unsuccessfully, for the other, who it appears is a “ desperate character!'' They never caught him. — Qatsdl’i Magazine.

Absence of Mind.

Doctor Josiah Campbell, who lived for many years on the Western Reserve, in Ohio, was a skillful physician, but withal one of the most eccentric and ab-sent-minded persons in the world, except Margaret, his wife, and she was fully his equal. One summer morning the Doctor was caught out in a tremendous shower, which drenched him to the skin. It soon cleared £off, however, and Doctor Josh rode into his own yard, where he took the dripping saddle from his horse and let him go adritt into the pasture. The saddle he placed on a stout log of wood which was elevated some four feet from the ground on two posts, where the doctor had begun to build a platform to dry his peaches on. After having got his saddle fixed so it would dry, he took the bridle, and, putting the bits over the eDd of the log, he stretched out the reins, and hitching them to the horn of the saddle, went in 10 change his wet clothes and get breakfast. Josiah, Jr., and Margaret, Jr., were away from home on a visit, and so the two seniors sat down to the morning meal. When they were about half through, Jim Atwood, a farmer who lived about eight miles distant, came in, telling the doctor he wished he would go over to his house, as he reckoned he migLt be wanted over There, and then went off *o the village iff) a hurry, -aft ' cloctor finished his meal, he - -Took his saddle-bags and out he went into the yard, where he deliberately mounted his saddle and set out in imagination for Jim Atwood’s. For a long time he rode on in silence, with his eyes intently fixed on Buchan’s - ractice, which lay open before him. At length he began to fee) the effects of the fierce rays of a mid-day'sun, and on looking up from his book he discovered a house close by him, upon which he sung out lustily for a drink of water. Aunt Margaret, who had been for the last two hours .very busy in the garden, soon made her appearance with a pitcher of milk, and after the thirsty stranger had taken a long draught, they entered into an animated conversation, the Doctor launching out into rapturous praises of the scenery about the place, the neatness of the buildings, the fine orchard of pewh and apple trees ; and the lady, who had caught a glimpse of the saddle-bags, ruudoa great many inquiries about the health of the neighborhood, etc. The Doctor finally took his leave of the lady, assuring her that he would call on his return and have some further conversation with her, as she reminded him so much of his wife, who, he wassure,would he very happy to make her acquaintance. The lady turned to enter the house, and the Doctor had just gathered up the reins, when Jim Atwood dashed up to the gate with hB-liorse all in & lathes of foam. “What on earth are Vou doing, Doctor?” yelled Jim; get off that log and come along.” The Doctor was greatly astonished at first,, but after a few minutes it got through his hair that he had been all the morning riding a beech-log in his own dooryard.

Terrific Combat with a Georgia Mastiff.

Mr. E. Docolass, Esq., of this city, was recently the owner of a mastiff, which he had rai-ed, and Which was about two years and a hell oid, and, no doubt, tfr; largest dog in the country. On Monday evening* Mr Douglass was at-empting to drive some chickens into his carnen, hut the Hog occupied the gate would not let them pasa him Mr D. ordered h.n» away, but the mastiff would not nitty until lus owner bad thrown sever®. rocks sr b in, when he took retain*', under the kitchen. In. a moment more Mr. D, saw his dog with lean steps and

glaring eyes advancing slowly towards him lor flvht. Our friend, seeing tbat ke could not stop the dog by words or gi fttires, at once prepared to defend bimwif. as flight was impossible. A* soon as the dog w*s near him he arose on ids hind lent and attempted to seize Sir. D.'by the throat. Then ensued a combat between the man and the dog of about ten minutes’ dura tion,and which for fierceness k arcely has a parallel in such encounters. Mr. D. first threw out his left arm, which the dog bit considerably near the wrist, and with his right hind caught the infuriated brute by the throat, and as soon as his left hand w*s n-h ased from the grip of the dog, he seized Ids under Jaw with It. Knowing from tiv< ry circumstance that the combat would he a lengthy one, as soon as the first excitement hail subsided, Mr. D. ordered his family to close every door of his d wetting hut one, toward which he gradually but slowly drew the dog. Before reaching the stops the dog had tor a short tune partially disengaged himself and bit Mr. D. severely on the left thigh. By this time our friend became calm and collected, and promptly re-seized the dog by the under Jaw and throat, and then began again to draw the brute toward the open door. Finally he had reached the door-steps, which were about five feet high, and began to walk up them backward, and when at the top, he, by summoning all his strength, and by one violent effort, threw the dog to the ground on his back. Before the animal could recover his feet and ascend the steps, Mr. D. had entered the house and closed the open door. The mastiff showed every disposition to renew the battle, and made frantic attempts to enter the windows. At last, finding ingress impossible, he took his position and watched the door closely for Mr. D., and manifested by his action that he would attack him again if he entered the yard. In the meantime the Rev. Mr. Hall, a neighbor, came to Mr. D’s rescue (the dog showing no disposition to molest any one but Mr. Douglass), and with his gun shot the dog twice and killed him, greatly to the relief and safety of our townsman, who was closely besieged in his own house. We may state, in conclusion, that Mr. Douglass owes his safety to his great strength, being a man of two hundred pounds weight, and of proportionate muscular power. Our friend was entirely unarmed ; and although duriDg the combat his servants brought him his gun, the encounter was so terrific that he was unable to use firearms. —Newman ( Oa.) Herald.

In Behalf of the Birds.

The great value of birds—such, as the starling, the sparrows, the crows, the jays, etfc.—that feed upon the most destructive kind ot insects, has been, until very recently, unappreciated. Most of them have been treated as outlaws, and in repayment for their signal services have been neglected or persecuted, until the unchecked and enormous increase of the most noxious insects, throughout the continent of Europe, has become a subject of well -founded alarm calling for the intervention of government, both for their immediate destruction and for the protection of those birds that feed upon them. From these facts two prominent conclusions have been pretty surely reached: first, that birds are indispensable to European agriculture; and second, that those birds most generally protected and known as the “ useful binds” are as a general thing of very little service in arresting the increase of those insects the ravages of which are the most to be dreaded, These lessons are as significant to us of America as to the agri -ulturists of Europe. When will our intelligent farmers awaken both to their danger and the only remedy ? An agricultural journal, the Bund, published in Berne, with much ability and force demonstrates that the enormous losses befalling European agriculture can only be arrested when man himself shall not only cease to disturb the great equipoise of nature, and no longer in mere wantonness, prejudice, superstition, or on other equally worthless grounds, persecute and destroy the natural exterminators of insects, but instead shall extend to them the greatest possible protection, even to the nourishing and caring for them in the wintry season. While this same journal finds much to rejoice at in cantonal laws for the protection of useful birds, and yet more in the general spirit in which they are observed, it urges greater attention to instruction upon these subjects in schools, and dwells with much pertinence upon the radical incompleteness of the laws. The following is as well adapted to our own meridian as to that of Switzerland : “ For example, when we see the sparrow (which has been acclimated at such great expense in America), the crow, the raven, and others of our most useful birds still outlawed in individual cantons; when we see the hunting of our singing birds still allowed at certain seasons in others, and that protection is only given to the smaller birds, omitting the far more useful owls, buzzards, and jackdaws, we can but admit the incompleteness of our enactments, and are forced to an earnest wish that in all those cantons where this half legislation exists, a cfiange may socm hsunadc-ftat. shall place them more in conformity with the present standpoint of science."

These exhortations are pregnant with meaning and with warning to us, for we stand even more than the writer’s countrymen in need of intelligent legislation, and far more in need of careful investigation, the diffusion of light, and the dissemination of truth. These words of the Bund would surely demonstrate that the farmer’s best friends are the very birds he now most frequently persecutes. They stand between his crops and their destroyers. They are his standing army, his police force. Their admirable powers of flight, their yet more wonderful gifts of vision, and their instinctive enmity to his foes, most marvelously adapt them to do duty in a field where man himself is powerless.—Atlantic Monthly.

A Three-Acre Farm.

Ten years ago, an Irishman—who, for short, we will call St. Nick—bought three acres of land, for which he paid, with a one story new house thereon, four hundred and fifty dollars—counting the tenement three hundred and seventy-five, and the land the balance. Hiring a pasture, he purchased a cow, and with serene faith began to work in his new-bought soiL It was worn out: a poor pasture: it would not summer a two-years-old steer, and the rent would have been considered exorbitant if over four dollars a year. He has since added two acres of rocky bush pasture, but with better soil than his purchase, and in addition to the crops raised on both, he annually hires sls worth of pasturing, and buys $25 worth of hay. „ Last year, with his first purchase and one acre of his last under cultivation, he raised (actual measure), of potatoes, one hundred and ten bushels; of corn, eightyfive bushels of ears; of beans, three bushels and three pecks; of cabbages, seven hundred heads; besides twentyone bushels of oats, and a little oyer one ton and a half of clover-hay. He fattened two hogs, one of which sold for 14J£ cento a pound, and weighed three hundred and four pounds; the other, salted fol- himself, weighed three hundred and one noun da His dairy, now increased to two cows, brought him a little overs 90 in Cush ior the butter told, and $21.43 for 111 • two c-il vt s His dozen hens (average) bonght nearly all the store supplies for a family of three,

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besides paying for their food. And, in addition to all this, he raised a calf, which a neighbor gave him, that enters upon its second summer, worth at least $lB. All this from the labor of a man quite advanced in years, and physically incapable of doing much more than half a man’s work. He bought the house and land mostly on credit; has his debts now nearly paid; has doubled the value of both his purchases, and when his labor is over, will leave his wife and daughter quite a little estate worked out of this sterile, rootbound and rock-bound soil in ten years. He commences this year with a light heart, at least fifty loads of manure, two cows and the calf, two wintered pigs, twenty hens, and the promise of raising more on his five acres tnan half the poor farmers in the country will raise on fifty. —Hearth and Home.

Injuries to the Horse’s Foot.

The foot is often severely injured from punctured wounds, produced by picking up a nail whilst traveling, or from treading upon some other sharp substance. The sole is penetrated, and the sensitive parts injured. The part most liable to puncture is the frog, and the line of union between the bars and the frog. A short time since we had an opportunity of seeing a case of puncture, where a nail entered close to the side of the frog and passed through the teDdon, and grazed the edge of the coffin bone. The inflammatory action, following such a serious wound, caused death the fifth day after the accident. The danger to be apprehended will greatly depend on the situation of the puncture. If near the coffin joint, acute inflammation of that important structure is very likely to supervene, and in some cases the joint is punctured, allowing the stynovia to escape. Horses are also fifej quently injured in shoeing, from the nails hrough accident or carelessness being driven too far up and injuring the sensitive lamin®; or even when the nail does not actually touch the sensitive part, it may come in close contact with it, and when the horse puts his feet forcibly on the ground, the highly vascular parts are bruised, and inflammation is set up, which soon terminates in suppuration. In the treatment of these injuries the offending agent must be removed, and in most cases the sole should be thinned; and when matter has formed, a free opening must be given through the sole. The foot may be placed in a bucket of hot water several times a day, when the pain is great, and immediately afterwards aply a poultice. In cases where the constitutional fever is great, a good dose of purgative medicine should be given. When the pain is removed, the horse may be shod, and great benefit may be derived from the use of a stout leather sole, with a stuffling of tar and tow. —Canada Farmer. Evert Saturday.— The Mystery of Edwin Drood is continued in the number for July 18, with illustration. Much otber choice reading matter is given. There are four excellent full-page illustrations—The Rag-Picker; A the Ascot Race; A Gypsy Encampment, and a picture of Kangaroo Hunting—and a large doublepage engraving of Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet in Connell. Published by Fiei.ds, Osgood & Co., 124 Tremont street, Boston, at SS.CO per annum ; 10 cents for single number.

Build up the System.

Strength evaporates fast at this eeason. This is especially the case with all who live by the sweat of their brow. From every pore of the sieve-like skin a moisture exudes which contains the elements of vitality. Thereby the blood is impoverished, the nerves relaxed, the muscles weakened, the digestion impaired, the bowels disturbed, and the animal spirits depressed. The constant drain that produces these effects cannot be arrested, becanse it is due to the heat of the atmosphere; hut the loss of the life-sustaißiog elements can be supby .cxtgfk.invigorating— Nii'VwtUt'-P-q the time to resort to Hoeteiter's stomach Bitters, the most powerful and healthful of ail vegetable tonics. Long experience has proved that nothing else will efficiently sustain and regulate the system, when wilting down nnder the double pressure of excessive heat, and constant physical or mental abor. All persons who have been tempted to try the local “tonics’* (so-called) which have been started by sordid speculators In almost every town and village, with a view of “turning a penny” by the credulity of the unwary, know this to their cost. It is a wise maxim that says “ hold fast to that which is good ” Of the forty millions of people in the United States, probably one-fifth have tested the restorative properties of Hostetler’s Bitters and know it to be a specific for dyspepsia, biliousness, nervous weakness, general debility, constipation, fever and ague, and want of appetite; that any of these should be persuaded to experiment with the worthless nostrums, recommended by unscrupulous and ignorant empirics seems almost incredible.

Durno’s Catarrh Snuff Stiengthens Weak Eyes—lmproves the Hearing, Relieves Headache, Promotes Expectoration, Cures Catarrh in Its worst forms, and sweotons the Breath. It contains no Tobacco, is mild, and promotes a pleasant sensation and beneficial results to all who appreciate “ A Clear Head.” Sold everywhere by Druggists. Kidder A Wethereix, Agents, 104 Wllllam-st.. New York. Batchetor’s Hair Dye. This splendid hair dye Is the best In the world, the only true and perfect Dye; harmless, reliable, Instantaneous; no disappointment; no ridiculous tints; remedies the til eflbcts of bad eyes ; Invigorates and leaves the hair soft and beautiful black or brown. Bold by all Druggists and Perfumers, and properly applied at the wig Factory, 18 Bond street. New York. IE numbers there is safety. It was upon this principle that the formula of Judsos’s Mountain Hebe Pills was prepared. Dr. Jndson, intending to spend a fortune in advertising his pills, submitted fils recipe to the revision or the most Intelligent and learned physicians or the age, and the result Is a simple but most efficacious medicine —the JtJDaoE’a Mountain Herb Fills. They purify the blood, remove all obstructions, cleanse the skin of all pigmies and blotches, and are perfectly sure and safe in their operation. The Judsoe’s Mount air Herb Pills cure Biliousness, Female irregularities. Headache and many or the diseases arising from impure blood and a deranged digestion. Use the Judooe’s Mountain Herb Pills, and when yon have proved their virtue recommend them to your friends. They are both angar-coatod and plain. For gale everywhere. Dm. Bcott, the proprietor and editor of the Lebanon, 0.. 3/ar, a prominent physician, says : Ttrru Danis' fain Killer , the old and well known remedy, which has acquired a world wide renown for the cure of sodden colds, coughs, etc., weak stomach, general debility, nursing sore month, cankered mouth or throat, liver complaint, dyspepsia or indigestion, cramp and pain in the stomach, bowel complaint, painters' colic, Asiatic cholera, diarrhea and dysentery, has lost none of Its good name by repeated trials; bat continues to ' occupy a prominent position in every family medicine chest.

Wife* and Mother*. Only woman knows whit women rnuurr; and if there be any way or assuaging the distress of body and mind which so many thousands experience, day after day and weok after week, with a fortitude which puts t« shame the lioastful courage of man, who wtll deny that so great a blessing to the sex should be found In every household ? Millions of men have been benefited by Its use, but among the feeble and sickly of the opposite gender, who, perhaps, need it most. Its virtues are not so widely known. This foremost remedy of the age—this specific for every species of debility, general or local, constitutional or casual. Is Plantation Bittxrs. One right of woman, at least, will be conceded—the right of strengthening herself to sustain the ills of which the laws of nature have made her the unfortunate heiress. The acknowledged healthfulness, unrivaled flavor, delicacy, groat convenience and extraordinary cheapness of Bn * Mou Farine, will always keen it In the foremost place among articles Intended for a tabledessert.

The Most Popular Medicine Extant. 1840 Thirty - fears ] 1870 Bine, the Introduction of PERKY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER. Thirty years It has been before the puhlib, and In that time has become known In all parts of the world, and been used by people of all nations It remains, to-aay, that same good and efficient remedy. Its wonderful power In relieving tr»e most severe pains has never been equaled, and it has earned Its world-wide popularity by its intrinsic merit. No curative agent has had so wide-spread sale or given such universal satisfaction. Directions accompany each bottle. J. K. HARRIS Sc CO., Bole Proprietors, Cincinnati, Ohio. 8«ld by .11 Drintiu, SOMETHING NEW! Will all those Afflicted with Cough or Consumption Read the following and leant the value of AXiXiXlIf’S LUNG BALSAM. DR. LLOYD, of Ohio, Surgeon In the army during the war, from exposure, contracted consumption. He says: “I have no hesitancy in stating that It was by the use of your LUNG BALSAM that I am now alive and enjoying health.” UK. FLETCHER, of Missouri, says: “ recommend yonr BALSAM In preference to any other medicine for Coughs, and it gives satisfaction. ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM Is the remedy to cure all Lung and Throat difficulties. It should be thoroughly tested before using auy other Balsam. It will cure when all others fall. Directions accompany each bottle. J. N. HARRIS & CO., Bole Pronrle'ors, Cincinnati, Ohio. K*' - SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. PROMPT, HONORABLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD Agents wanted in every city, town and village for the largest and most successful DOLLAR HOUSE in the country—THE ONLY ONE indorsed by the leading papers and Express Companies ol the United Statet. Oar goods give universal satlsfacton. our Premiums to Agents cannot bb bxoblled, ana our checks are free. Having two Houses—Bos-ton and Chicago—our facilities are unequalled, and our business exceeds in amount ali other houses in ibis trade combined. <OT Bend for Circular* ana Free Club to 8. C. THOMPSON & CO., 73 Latoe-st., Chicago, or 136 Federal-st., Boston. P. B—Country dealers having Dollar Stores or departments will find It to their advantage to exa nlne our stock before purchasing elsewhere. Special bargalnsln Hosiery, Towels, Handkerchiefs, etc. CAUTION TO WATCH BUYERS. f Unscrupulous parties are Belling worthless SwlM Watelies Dcaring trademarks very nearly similar to tbe trademarks of genulae Waltham Watches. This Is not only a fraud on the purchaser, but a great Injury to tbe reputation of the genuine watch. To avoid Imposition, buyers should Insist on getting Genuine Waltham Watches and take no other. Thai i the only sate rule, since some sellers frequently atdeavor to sell other watches In preference on which larger profits are mode. The trademarks of the various styles ore: AMERICAN WATCH Co Waltham, Mass. AMN. WATCH Co Waltham, Mass. AMERICAN WATCH Co.,Crescont-ft. Wall ham, Maas. APPLETON, TRACY A Co Waltham, Maas. JEAjAHAM WATCH Co Waitham. Mass. p. s. HAiitfigTW.—, KIJWM. ELLERY -Wa thsm. Mass. HOME WATCH Co Ml^ Examine the spelling of these names carefully beior* buying; Any variation even of a single letter Indicates a counterfeit. For sale by all leading Jewelers. ROBBINS & APPLETON, General Agents, 18!i# Broadway, N.Y. STATIONARY AND MILL MACHINERY. Preminm OIItCMLAB SAW MILLS, with Wrought Iron Mead Blocks. Wood-Working ICaohlnery, Sboffing Hangers and Pulley*. Catalogues furnished on application. . -4.ANE A BODLEY, John & Water Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio* F)R A CIRCULAR of great Interest to everybody address D. B. QALLANDKA, Toledo, Ohio. FRENCH ARTIFICIAL IYES! The Largest Stock In the United State* t No surgical operation required before Insertion. Wo pain or Inconvenience In wearing. Th y match the natural Eyes in shape, size, color, express.on and movement, A collection sent, by express, when di sired, to ■elect flrom. Price, #ls Each. Satisfaction guaranteed. GALE * BLUOKI, Drag r Isis, ; 202 Randolph ttt., Chicago, 111.

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IF THE BUTBNTIFIC BODIES OF ALL Cl VP - IZKD COUNTKIBB HAVE UNITfeD IN l‘KAI.«I«0 HOFF'S MALT RETRACT, AND H AVK HK.-Ti iWED UPON ITS ORIGINATOR MANV MF.D L AND DI PLOMAB ; Thee we feel certain that the I 'mwbing ttreuse. It«. Ith confidence ; the weakst.d u.v.md take It as the best tonic, and as a constant drink, an th ,t people sheeted with 10-s of Appetite, Dysta-nsln, la, blllty. Coughs, Colds, etc., try it, and find dm -am to nefltby using It as thousands hare pr claimed. It It, Indeed, a health giving aid health an taming drink and remedy. BOLD BT 'ilL DRUGGISTS ANfl tl ROGERS. TAEKANT <fc CO., gTS Greenwich Ml., W. Y. Bole Assets Ton United Stairs, etc.

A GREAT MEDICAL DISCOVEHY Dr. WALKER’S CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BITTERS

Hundrsds of Thousands Bear testimony to their Wonder- 1 iul Curative Effects. WHAT ARE THEY? \ r *—* TnEY ARE NOT A VILE FANCY DRINK,

FOR FEIIALE COMPLAINTS, whether In young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanh.od or at the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters have no equal. fW~ Band for a circular.

Made of Poor Hum, Wlilskey, Proof Spli-i a and Refuse Liquor* doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the tasto, called “ Tonics," " Appel.zers,” “ Restorers," Ac., that lend the tippler o.\ to drunkenness and ruin,but are a true Medicine, ir ado from the Native Roots and Herbs of California,!roe from all Alcoholic Stimulants. They urc tho GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A I.IK i GIVING PRINCIPLE aperfect Renovator Pad Invigorator of the System, carrying off all poison-•« matter aud restoring tho blood to a healthy condlt’ -. No. person can take these Bitters according to di -» tlon and remain long unwell. SIOO will bo given for an Incurable case, provided the bones are not destroyed by mineral -poison, or other means, and the vita! organs wasted beyom. -ho point of repair. For Inflammatory nnd Chronic Ithcumatl*m and Gout, Dyspepsia or IniUgeatle-i, Billous.Reinlttent nnd Intermit tent Fevers Disease* or the Blood, Liver, Kidneys an ' Bladder, these Bitters have been most succeful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiat _ ’ Blood .which Is generally produced by derangem, -t of the Digestive Organ*. DYHPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Bead ache. Pain In the Shoulders, Cougha, Jbghtncas of t Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation ot the Lungs,Pain In t> j regions of tho Kidneys, and a hundred other paln’ul aymptoma, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. They Invigorate the stomach, and stimulate tbe ton pld liver and bowela, which render them of unequalleefficacy In eleanslngthe blood of all Impurities, ami Imparting new life and vigor to tho whole system. FOR SKIN DIBEASEB, Eruptions,Tetter, gelt Rhuem,Blotches, Spots, PI ill pies, Pustules, Boils,Carbuncles, Ring-Worms, Scnld Hoad, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Bkin, Humor* and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or natureare literally dug up and carried out of tbe system In a short time by the use of theso Bitters. One bottle In such cases will convlnco the most Incredulous of their curative effect. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever ygarbnd ”s impuritlesburstlng through the skin lnPimples,E-op-tions or sores ; cleanse It when you And 14 obstructed, and sluggish In the veins; cleanse it when it is f ml, and your feelings will tellyou when. Kelp the Wood pure and the health of the system will follow. FIN, TAPE and other WORMS, lurking In the • system of so many thousands, aro effectually destroy- . ed and removed. For full directions, read carctV » th* circular around each bottle, printed In four languages—English, German, French and Spanish. J. If AJ.KEIt, Proprletar. R. H. MCDONALD A CO., Druggists and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, Cal, and 82 and 84 Commerce Street, New York. JF/SOLD BT Ali DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. f /FEVER- A.\ »> A4BUU. DANSIGER’B VEGETABLE FEVER POWDERS. A sate remedy. Effectually cures all cases within twen-ty-four houra. It per box. Address the proprietor, J. L, D A NBIGER, 77 Liberty Street, New York. HOW TO CET PATENTS IS' FULLY EXPLAINED In a Pamphlet of MS pages mat issued by MUNN A 00., 87 Park Row, New York. BENT FREE. MUNN & CO., Editor* Sclentlflo American, the best mechanloal paper In the world, (-A3 Ynana Exw«bi*ho»). PATENTS.-liave taken More Patent. and examined More invention*, than any other agency. Send sketch and description for^o^lnlon. N. fear of a Relapse. Thousand* who suffer from Ctronlc constipation, dare'not take tne ordinary purgatives, bemuse the short relic ft hey afford is followed by still more terrible constriction and a general aggravation of the disease. For these the mild laxative, corrective, and tonic operation of Tarrant b Rffbkvtcsoknt Sxltzxx Apxbibht 1b literally the one thing nredfoL Almost imperceptibly. Bad without any griping pain. It restores ’he natural perlitalie action of the bowels, while It tanes their membranous lining, and thus prevents a return of the wht n the laxative action ts the agreeable and ebulllegt draught has subsided. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. __ ASK FOR THE “ ORIENT ” FLAVORING EXTRACTS—Warr.Ltea tho Purest and B-st in use. L. J. HITZ A CO., 841 State--;.. Chicago. Black as the Raven’s Wing la Kidder's Raven lndellbl* Ink. It flows freely, nevor blots, and never Bade*. Used 0* Ink, with a steel or a quill pea. Remember “ Raven Inic ‘ K ?DDKR C Manufacturers, N. Y.

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Ir TOU want the purest, beat and cheapest rpo CONSUMPTIVES.—Yon can get a sere enre A for Coil ha and Colds, ».d nil lung complaints free. It hit cured thousands. Brad ft rlt to _ DANIEL ACRE, P. O. Box am. New \crit. Ildar Vlnogar. celebrated far rnUwOllVo S Its purity, strongt b, and palsts. bleness. Wsri anted to preserve pickles. First premium awarded at th U. 8. Fair, the nil note Bta'e Fair, and Chicago City Fair. I sigest works of the kind In the U nltea States established lk4*. CHAB. G. KPRl T BnlhO,lW' and Ml Bta’Mt., Chicago, vour ffroce- lor I'rusal mr> Vinegar Weed Family Favorite as now mjrerted and manufactured by the Weed S.M« Co., of* 1 u tU)r'l, Is. the be*t and inoat r< 11ubm FAMILY SEWING MACHINE Fur all K Intis ot fathl'y work In use. wH' twl in every county' A literal ®*ftJhbt to the trade. Bend Tor p ice list and terms to •* AB, IP! Lake-t., Chicago, Agent tor tha NnrtiiwMo Mate where you see this .dvertisesaent. W A _

They are a Gentle Pargaxlye as crell ae a Tonic, possessing also, the peculiar merit of acting as 01-ow;ro l -ow;r , u' agrnclr. rcilevlu" Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver, and all tbe Visceral Organs.