Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1871 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

Good Little Buoys—Cork*. Foktdme tkllmms— Bank clerk*. Im the height of prosperity prepare for adversity bylnsuriig in the Mutual Life of Chicago. Foresight is the right eye of Providence, and Providence dictates Life Insurance. Insure in the Washington. A. chambermaid advertises in the New York Times for a situation ** in a firstclassfiunilv,”and adds“ None hut flrslclaas families need apply." A man has succeeded in cheating a Niagara Falls cabman, and" there is talk of erecting a monument in admiration of Lis genius and courage. It is a singular circumstance that the word “unabridged ” is not in the latest illustrated edition of “Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary." Wanted— A cover for bare suspicion, a veil for the face of nature, buttons foi breaches of privilege, binding for volumes of smoke, cement for broken engagements. A singular case has comfc up in a London court A solicitor, one Mr. Leopold Lewis, was ejected from a theatre for requesting a mumbling actor to “speak up,” and now brings a suit against the management for damages. The Connecticut papers are telling of a Bunday School boy who, la-ing lieifig asked aho made the’beautiful hills about there, replied that he did not know, as his parents only moved into town the Friday before. The girls of a town in Oswego County, N. ¥., have formally declared that they will not accept the company of any young man who uses tobacco in any form, unless the night is very dark and the road muddy, I for the space of sixty days from date. James T. Fields says, in the Atlantic Monthly, that on the first night of Charles ■ Dickens' arrive! in Boston, in 1842, he took a run about town and pulled bell handles “with such vigor that one actually came off in his Land." In reference to the iti in that a writing desk of Beujsi..in Franklin was lull ly sold in Newport fiir ten rents, the Mercury says: “ This hoax has had its luh. The desk referred to has been in the Mercury office many yea: s, and was formerly used in Judge Joslin's school, and Beniamin Franklin never used it or saw it. We had no furtheft use for it, and it was sold at auction for all it was worth. It is now used for a ]>eanut stand.’ It is alleged that RullolF confessed to his counsel that he drowned his two associates in the crime, for which he was hanged, and that he also proposed to his counsel the murder of Burroughs, the surviving clerk, who was to be the chief witness against him, and even mentioned the name of a desperado in New York city who, he said, “ would do the job for a reasonable price.” A Boston surgeon has lately removed from a Lawrence man s neck a ragged piece of the blade of a dirk, which he lias carried thire cversince Thanksgiving eve, ,18G0. It was left there in a fight in which he became engaged in a saloon as that time, and as it projected inside the jaw bone, has been quite an annoyance to him. Four separate attempts to remove it heretofore have failed, and it has now bet tr taken out through the orifice, of the ear “Who dare a ..it tobacco juice on the floor of this car?*” savagely exclaimed a large and powerfully built passenger, as he rose from his seat and stalked down the aisle, frowning defiantly upon the other passengers. “ I dare ; ” said a burly looking fellow, as he deliberately squirted a quantity cf the noxious saliwt upon the floor of the aisle. “ All right, my friend,” said the fijst speaker, slapping the other in a friendly manner upon the shoulder, “ give us a chew of tobacco. " Damage to Cattle in Transit.—The London Food Journal says; “ A great part of the meat condemned by the inspectors of markets is condemned for no other reason than that the animal has got into a state of disease in the railway truck ; and living cattle condemned in the market are mostly, it may with confidence be affirmed, liable to condemnation from the same cause alone, whilst diseases thus originated not unfrequently spread where catlle sufleriug from them are pastured, and thus loss is incurred by farmers and by the country. ” The great telegraphic feat of direct communication between England and India, without any retransmission, has just been accomplished. For the first time, such communication was established by the transmission of a message from Kurrachee to London, which was really the first message from India to England instantaneously'. Subsequentlym comunication was opened to Bombay. London and Bombay interchanged signals perfectly, and a commercial message was sent ffom London to Bombay direct and answered instantaneously. The distance by the IndoEuropean line* is 6,000 miles, and this is the greatest telegraphic feat on record. Getting Even.—A farmer cut down a true which stood so near the boundary line of his farm that it was doubted whether it belonged to him or his neighbor. The neighbor, however, claimed the tree and prosecuted so. damages the man who cut it. The case was sent from court to court. Time was wasted, temper soured, and friendship lost; but the case was finally gained by the prosecution. The last we heard of the transaction was that the man who gained the cause went to the lawyer’s office to execute a deed of his whole farm; which he had been compelled to sell to pay Escosts! Then, houseless and homeless, he thrust his hands into his pockets and triumphantly exclaimed, “ I’ve beat him I” A Virginia lady' returned home rather late, one evening recently, after a short absence, and, hearing a noise in the room which she and her husband occupied, looked through the keyhole and saw the rotund figure of a woman upon whose shoulders her lord was adjusting a shawl. Enraged by jealousy she seized a shot gun and, forcing open the door, shot the obtruder in the back. Her husband screamed and she fainted, but when coming to her senses found that she had • desperately wounded a dummy which her husband, a dry goods merchant, had broughthome for repairs. The meanest man has got back to New Hampshire once more. He is a physician and is a ffian of wealth. Some time since he was called to visfithis mother professionally, an old lady of nearly four score years and ten, and he charged her the usual fees. To obtain the money she laboriously knitted socks, and when »he had earned the amount he took it. Finally, the old lady died, and she was buried by another gon, a man of limited means bat generous disposition, and eager to discharge his duty to-her. With him she had lived for fifteen years, and vhe bills presented to him for Tuneial expenses was one from his brother, the physician, for use of horse in conveying self and wife to grave, |3.” And the horse was his own at that I How to Make Love —A faint-hearted love dunce writes to a literary paper asking how he shall go to work to win the affections of a woman. He is advised as follows: “Attend B&psoul Don’t talk about ‘going to work’ to win the affections of a woman; it can’t be done in that way. The more you go to w'ork the more she won’t like you. Push her into a duck pond and pull her out by the hair. If you are afraid to do this, jump in yourself and let her pull you out. Lend her money, or borrow some from her. Make her believe that she has deeply wronged you, and then forgive her. Deeply wrong her and don’t

ask to be forgiven. In short, contrive either to lay her under a lasting obligation 10 you, or lay yourself under a lasting obligation to her. It does not make the difference of a headlCH* pin which, so far as concerns the result” A young husband in Baltimore is in a nice picket from some cause he concluded his w ife did not love him as she should, and he determined to test that element. Therefore, he wrote a note telling her he was going to drown' himself in the “raging cans*]”—and that before she read the contents of that note his spirit Would be hovering over her, observing how she took his death. The would-be suicide intrusted the note to a small boy, but the boy mistook the direction and carried the note to a next door neighbor of his wife. Not liking to communicate the dreadful intelligence to the unlucky woman, the lady handed the note to an officer, with instructions, if possible, to prevent the rash act. The officer hurried off, and sure enough found the man on the bank of the canal. Rushing up, the officer seized the unlucky husband, and marched him off to the station house, notwithstanding Jiis protestations’ that it was all a joke, and thqt he did not intend to commit suici.de, etc. After the incarceration of the husband the note was handed to the wife with the inionnation that he had been saved. After upbraiding the officer for not letting the “darned fool drown himself,” the wife made a charge of lun»<y against him, and he barely escaped being placed in the asylum. . ,

Murder as a Passion.

Mn. William Beer is a dealer in unredeemed pledges at 58 Newington butts, London. He had a servant in his employ named Annes Norman, aged 15 years. On Good Friday Beer and his wife went out to spend the evening, leaving their three young children in the care of the servant. Ou returning home, they found one of the babies on the floor by its liedside undressed, and another dead between the bedstead and the wall. It had evidently died from suffocation. The theory of the parents was that the servant girl had killed it, and they introduced evidence at the coroner’s inquest to support their the ory, which they had gathered subsequent to the death of their child, from those in whose employ the servant girl had previously been. While at one place a friend of the mistn ss came there with her baby to make a visit, put the child on the bed, and soon after it was found dead. At the same place, three dogs, a cat, a parrot, anumber of gold-fish, aiid nearly a dozen fancy birds were found dead at different times without apparent cause. At another place she brought home a child she had been taking out on the street, in a state of insensibility, and said that it had fallen out of her arms. The infant recovered, but in a few weeks she brought it back from another airing dead. In another family a a boy of seven yc.irs awoke with a choking sensation, and afterward told his father the girl had placed her hand over his mouth, and then given him money not to say anything about it; and in the same family several domestic animals died suddenly. In another situation, a child in her care was found insensible in bed, and ■when it recovered evinced great terror at the sjght of the girl. Again, in her <ale<H. she locked a child up in a wardrobe, took it out and put it to bed, and soou after it was found dead.— Pall Mall (London) Gazette.

Education of the Blind.

A new feature in the education of the blind has been developed in Great Britain. Many could not be sent to schools that are for the purpose, poverty forbidding; and these schools being few, distance adds to the Inconvenience. The new thing is this—to teach the sightless along with the sighted in any school. Of course the raised type is used, but in the lessons and classifications no difference is made, nor is any extra trouble experienced by the teacher. Black letter books are also used by the friends of the blind to help them in study at home. In school they use their own* kind several half hours daily, and take their place along with the others in all oral exercises, such as spelling and questioning. The merit of devising the plan belongs to a Mr. Alexander Barnhill, Superintendent of the Glasgow Mission to the Out Door Blind; and the honor of introducing it belongs to a Mr. Thomas Kay, head master of the Greenock Charity School. This gentleman says thtp, whatever doubts he liad of the experiment previously, have, after a year’s trial, been com pletely dispelled, and that, “if teachers would only make the experiment, every blind child in the country might be educated in the common schools with very little additional expense.”

Protection on the Farm.

The winds are down upon us since the woods have been cleared away. This makes cold winters and windy summers; hence dry summers, and winters in which not only stock suffers, but vegetation also. The wheat crop is affected; the grass bad’ly; fruit trees the same. These things have been tested. Even a row of evergreens of a few years’ growth has been found to bls a protection; and this not one year, but every year, and more and more according to the amount jtrf growth. How comfortable we used to be when we were ensconced in the clearings, when the wood all around was a safeguard! Then the winter grain was green and was protected. Now it has to suffer from the full drift of the wind, and the spring tells what this means —the grain Jieaved, nothing green seen. What remains receives a check (from the late sev< rity) from which it will not Yuliy recover. Hence the wheat isnotso healthy and so plump as formerly. A hurt grain, like a hurt mau, will show it. How our seeding suffers where these winds drift, but secure by shelter, whether it be wood, hill, snow, or artificial treatment With trees! Even straw, covering a field, is a great help. Yearly this should be done in our wheat,-as is the case in some parts of the country. We should therefore consider locality when we project a crop. A hill or a wood •will favor winter wheat;'straw will do the thing even more successfully, if plentifully an<| closely applied. Besides, it forms manure, But we can plant rows of trees. Will they not be an ornament also ? They will warm the farm generally, and make it more comfortable—and shall we not call that anything ? Some would not —mere drudges. Let these suffer. It is cheap to plant trees; we can get them from the wood or nursery. Do something of this yearly for a lew years, and there will be something of the old comfort and benefit re-established and increasing each year. Another thing which is perhaps of the most importance of all—letting the aftermath remain. Hpwever large this may be, leave it as a protection, which it will be to a great extent It is almost the frost to penetrate a deep rieh mat of this growth and the roots that sustain it Of course the nutritive property of such a growth is also a great inducement, manure already spread, and better spread and better manure than can be otherwise applied, a reproduction of the plant And this manunal property itself helps warm the soil; its decomposition is slowly going on, evolving heat We need not be discouraged in view of the woods being cleared away. Our buildings we can encircle with trees in few seasons, including the barns, thus wanning the stables, and enabling the stock to be out during tbir day in winter. It is remarkable how rapidly trees will grow thus set out around

our buildings. In a few years there will be protection; could we but persuade the people of the still force of this truth! We experience d it most happily ourselves that by getting our trees quite large from the woods, at such times when we would not have done much otherwise, for early spring or late fall is the time to do this ; ours was done early in the spring; our success was in the many roots and soil we left on, thus increasing the labor, but securing the work; not a tree failed. The scc.ct is, many roots, few limbs and moisture of the roots. This the soil brought with the roots will do best, though other richer ground may be added. And when once the buildings are protected, it will not be long before the farm at large will have the lienefit The frost is hurting us sorely these late years—more so than we are aware of. Those who have tested the matter know. Our fruit trees are tended vines, and the flowers that we trust to the winter, these are affected, nnd seriously, when the frost is severe and variable. This matter must be urged, as it is important. We have not hit upon all that serves as protection, but have only mentioned some of tlie means that ary known by practice to tic good.— Cor. Country Gentleman. From the New York Evening Express.

Our Reporter in Buffalo.

It has been my privilege, while sojourning in this place, and during a short respite from my labors, to pay a visit to the “ medicine man ”of the “ Queen City of the Lakes.” While the medical world teems with commoners in skill and commonplace remedies, the most of wlijch rise into notice, live a brief period, become obsolete, and are lost in obscurity or pule beneath greater brilliance, the truly worthy—those who, by dint of severe application and close investigation, are able to rise above mediocrity—impart to the world useful information, utilize the developments made, and place before the ’ afflicted specific" remedial agencies for the ills suffered, are blessings to be appreciated—objects worthy of honor. They are tlie beacon lights to guide the mariner over tlie tempestuous sea of life, the star of hope towards which tlie unfortunate turn their eyes for safety and deliverance. 1 would notexaggerate the merits of tliis medical gentleman, ortho agents of his Lands. From a small beginning, and of recent date, yet after long and patient toil and a conviction that the Eureka had been found, Dr. R. V. Pierce, the subject of this article, announced to tlie world his discoveries 'in medicine, and tlie positive influences they manifest in disease. Upon their specific properties rest their merits. Their virtues arc worthily extolled, and the tidings of their efficacy have gone from mouth to mouth, until his name is heard in every habitation and echoed from every hill, valley and plain, while his medicines are sought for and scattered over tlie whole continent. It is by directing intuitive facultiesa.nd'the whole mental and physical energies in a certain direction, that excellence is reached and a proficiency worthy of public confidence attained. In this science,, -as- in others, we find the few who lead the van of followers make all the investigations and ;discoi erics for the nest. I found Dr. Pierce in his consultation parlors, surrounded with patients, and amid piles of books, papers, manuscripts and letters, a large library, a cabinet of curious looking instruments, another of anatomical, pathological and other specimens, maps, pictures and diplomas, which he has received from different colleges and hospitals, upon the walls, with assistants passing here and there, that at once conveyed tlie idea Of an immense business of which he was the central figure, and it diverging in all directions. Although in rooms thus furnished and decorated with surroundings characteristic of talent and learning, also indicative of a life crowded with cares and duties, with an appreciation of valuable services by an afflicten public, I was most agreeably entertained, both by his conversational and business aptitudes and the exhibition that his establishment affords, which he very kindly placed at my disposal. As a further evidence of scholastic attainments, and an indomitable zeal in the investigation of tlie nature of chronic diseases and their successful treatment, his many monograph's contributed to medical journals and several late exhaustive treatise on special chronic diseases, which were written in the intervals between business cares, fully attest. We see patients at his rooms from all parts of the continent, afflicted with all kinds of chronic disease, who have come to avail themselves of his superior skill, and those associated with him, making a Council of Doctors who have devoted lives to this specialty. Besides this, an endless number make known their maladies by letter, all of which are very carefully considered by Dr. Pierce and his medical counselors, the necessary prescriptions, advice or medicines being promptly forwarded by mail or express, none being but every inquiry answered, every want supplied, and every attention paid necessary to establish health again. Aside from all this, there arc many from his own immediate community who seek his services, and, by the wonderful cures made, attest his great skill in treating chronic diseases. A beautiful illustration of the instincts and finer feelings of true manhood is here exemplified. While his specific medicines, with a knowledge of their application, arc being scattered broadcast over the land, and placed at prices within the reach of all, a lite devotee to the interests of others, and schooled amid suffering, cqnnot remain idle to enjoy the fruits of such labor, but, instead, he still lends an ear to the appeals of the sick, a tender sympathy to the distressed, and a cheerful heart and hand to all their necessities. No poverty, however abject, or adverse circumstances, however discouraging, need debar the afflicted from approaching him for his services. They are cheerfully rendered alike to all. It proves also that the mere manufacture and vehding of a medicine does not satiate the aspirations and impulses of a charitable and manly heart. In carrying out this enterprise the best medical talent is invoked. Every act coincides with system and discipline, and the most harmonious activity prevails in every department. Passing into the laboratory, we are most favorably impressed with its extreme neatness and order. Every mechanism necessary to facilitate the manufacture of his medicines is used, and these are arranged in perfect order. The crude roots and barks are ground, pulverized and mixed by steam-power, and, most important of all, the process of extracting their virtues is not by the stereotyped and imperfect methods of the past, but by an entirely new discovery of his own, whereby perfect and beautiful medicines are produced; containing all the medicinal qualities of the ingredients composing them, and which are palatable and without equal. So perfect are their compositions, the ingredients eo nicely proportioned and adjusted, so superior the mode of manufacture, that they are perfectly transparent and not subject to change in any climate or temperature. It is with such means, perfect in themselves, and their correct adaptation, that hisskill in disease is partly attributable, and the public are not slow to understand and appreciate the .fact, as evinced by the enormous demand for his medicines from all parts of the continent. We next pass into the bottling room, where an endless quantity of bottles are washed and filled by machinery, and with exact nicety. Then Into the labeling and wrapping room, where the work is done by girls; also folding printed matter, trimming labels, tying packages, and such other works as the business requires.

Thence into the packing room, where the goods are securely put up for shipment to all parts of the land.. I was Informed that many times, with these superior facilities for. preparing medicines, the demand for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Renfedy, of which Dr. Pierce is the sole proprietor and manufacturer, and also for the Doctor's Golden Medical Discovery, has been greatly in excess of the supply, and that orders to tlie amount of several thousand dollars would remain in waiting to be filled. This proves a ready and growing sale, based upon the merits o£ the medicine. The above details I have gathered from my own carful personal observations, conversation with jA’tients under the Doctor’s treatment, employes of the establishment, nnd citizens of the community in which he resides. I bld the Doctor adieu, after having spent a considerable time most agreeably in his establishment, with the conviction of the truth of Pope's couplet: “ Honor and Fame from no condition rise. Act well your part—there all the honor lies.” Free AdvehtisTnc?.—From family to family, from city to city, from State to State, the fame of Dr. walker's Vegetable Vinegar Bitters as a specific for all derangements of the stomach, Tiowcis and liver, is’ continually extending. Every invalid who tries thegreat. restorative, every individual v. ho has ever witnessed its effect, becqmes its spontaneous advertiser. Its voluntary missionaries are innumerable, and public enthusiasm in its favor spreads faster than a prairie fire. George Stinson <k Co.—We take pleasure, in giving prominence to Messrs. Stinson A Co.’s advertisement, which will be found in our general rending matter columns, for the reason that we are sure our readers will be benefited by the' inducements extended by them to those who are in need of permanent, profitable work Iq, their own localities. We are well acquainted with the business conducted by Messrs. Stinsyn A Co., and advise those of our readers who are out of employment, or who have spare time which they wish to improve to advantage, to cor,respond with them at once.— American Newspbatr Jtcyorter. ♦ ♦. Mr friend, stop that terrible cough, and thus avoid a consumptive’s grave, by using Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. For curingall throat, bronchial and lung diseases it has never been equaled. Sold by druggists. _ 569 It is often remarked by strangers visiting our State, that we show a larger proportion of good horses than any other State in tlie Union. This, we tell them, is owing to two principal reasons; in the first place, webreed from the very bestr stock ; and tn the second place, our people use Sheridan's Cavalry Condition J'oteders, which in our judgment arc of incalculable advantage. Prussing’s White Wine Vinegar is a most inperb article for table nse. Warranted pure. — Send fl.oo to Ivipon, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 138 & 140 Grand street, New York, and re-’ ceive by return mail Webster’s Pocket Dictionary, the most useful, compact and comprehend ve Pocket Companion extant. Contains over 18,000 words. Young Pilot.— The June number of this handsome monthly contains Its usual atlractilve full page Illustration, and is freighted with pleasing and Instructive matter for “young people In their teens." Among the most noteworthy articles are Win. Everett’s continuation of “My Uncle’s Watch;" deo. A. Earnest's “ Romeo and Juliet;” “Row Those Boys Spent May Day,” and many others. For 50 cents, before July 1, seven nnmbers of the Pilot will he sent up to January 1, 11872. Fkankun II Tinker, publisher, 6 and 7 Farwell Hall, Chicago, ill-. •

You Haven’t Tried Them.

Victim of debility, who is responsible for your feebleness? Not yourself, you will say, for you’ve done all you could to cure it. That's a mistake ou your part. You haven’t tried Hostetter’s Bitters. Gloomy dyspeptic, with an uneasy stomach and a world-weary face, of course you don’t think yourself responsible for your own torments. But you are. It is easy to see frerp your condition that you haven’t tried Hostetter’s Bitters. Bilious sufferer, it is not your fault, you think, that your synjptpms grow worse day by day. Blue pill doesn’t do you any good. Very likely. But you can be brought round for all that. Why haven’t yon tried Hostetter’s Bitters? Friend, on whom fever and ague alternately blows hot and cold, and whose brain seems to be bursting with the effects of some powerful drug, do you assume the responsibility? O, no! You’ve taken pills of quinine, and all the regulation medicines. What could you do more? One thing more—the very thing that would have exempted you from all the pangs that now rack you. You have never tried Hostetter’s Bitters. Nervous invalid, what have you to say? You plead that you have taken all the nervines of the pharmacopeia. If they have done you no good, it is not your fault. You are not responsible. Wrong, all wrong. You have, in reality, nobody to blame but yourself. Why haven’t yon tried Hostetter’s Bitters? For all the above-named complaints, the Bitters arc absolute specifics.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, June 2. 1871. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to Prime.sll.7s © sl2 50 HOGS—Live 5.00 @ 5.12 Dressed 575 •© 6.75 SHEEP—Live 4.25 @ b.OO COTTON—Middling I7H@ 171. FLOUR—Extra 6.10 © 6.80 WHEAT—New Spring 1.48 © 1 111 RYE—Western 1.00 © 1.05 CORN—Western Mixed 70 © .72 OATS—Western 62 © .65 PORK—Mesa 15.50 © 15.75 LARD t WOOL—Extra 53 © .55 •Piffled 48 © .52 CHICAGO. BEEVES-Cholce $5.50 O IS 75 Good 5.25 © 5.40 Fair Grades 5.00 © 5.25 Medinin.. 3.5) © 4.75 STOCK CATTLE—Common ... 3.25 © 4.50 Inferior.... 2.50 © 3.<0 HOGS—Live 3.25 © 4.00 SHEEP—Live—Good to Ciiolce 4.00 @ 4. to BUTTER—Choice 16 © .18 EGGS—Fresh 11 © .12 FLOUR—White Winter Extra.. 8.75 © 8.50 Spring Extra 5.50 © 0.75 GRAIN— Corn—No. 2 5!H® .52 Barley—No. 2 G 5 © .67 Oats—No. 2 48 © .48% Rye—No. 2 82 © .82% Wheat—Spring, No. 1 1.27 @ 1.27% No.» 1.25%© 1.26 LARD 9«© . PORK—Mess 14.25 © 14 37 WOOL—Fleece =2 © .44 Unwashed 20 © .83 Tub 40 © ,W CINCINNATI. FLOUR— Family $6.75 © $7.00 WHEAT—Red 1.48 © 1.48% CORN 53 @ .54 OATS 52 @ .55 RYE—No. 1 1.03 @ 1.05 BARLEY 100 © 1.12 LARD PORK—Mess 15 37 @ 18.50 BEEF CATTLE S.tO © 6.00 HOGS—Live 4.0 Q © 4.25 ST. LOUIS. BEEF CATTLE— Choice t 5.25 © <5.75 Good to Prime.. 4.00 @ 500 HOGS—Live 8.31 © 4. CO FLOUR—XX 6.40 © 6.50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red 156 @ 1.58 CORN-Mixed, in hulk 48 © .49 OATS—Mixed, in bulk 50 @ .51 RYE .81 @ .84 BARLEY 85 © 1.10 PORK— Mess 15.75 © 16.00 LARD 9-4© .10# MILWAUKEE. FLOUR-Spring Extra $5.60 © $5.75 WHEAT—Spring, No. 1 1.28 © 1.28# No. 1 1.20 © 1.20% CORN—No. 2 ; 51 © .52 OATS—No. 2 47%© .48 RYE—No. 1 80 © .81 . BARLEY—No. 2 88 © .SO CLEVELAND. FLOUR-XX Spring © S6.M WHEAT—No. 1 Red Winter.... 1.46 © 1.47 CORN .58 © .59 OATS-NO. 1 .5# O .56 ■' i . ... DETROIT. WHEAT—No. 1 White $1.43 © sl.4f CORN 57 © ,tr% OATS-Mlxed U> © .H

Wi call attention to the advertisement of Owena, Lane, Dyer ,t Co., of the Ecllpee Machine Works, Hamilton, nhlo, and Ht. Louse, Mo. No flrm In the couat/J baa done more to Improve the machinery called for In the West, and none are more extensively engaged In Its manufacture. Their steam tbreoher, California Chief, take< the lead and Alls the bill In this Hue. xPzhsons afflicted with any of the dlaeßhcs arising from a disordered liver, stomach, nervous de* blllty, dyspepsia or liver complaint, should try Perry Davis’ Pain Killer. It seldom falls to effect a cure In a very short time. Those troubled with ague or chills will And It a sovereign remedy. Johnson's Anodyne Liniment will give more relief in cases of Chronic Rheumatism, no matter how severe, than any other article known to medical men.

H H H H HH H H HH H 1840 TO 1871 FOR THIRTY-ONE YEARS PERRY DAVIS' PAIN-KILLER Has been tested In every variety of climate, and by almost every nation known to Americans. It is the almost constant companion and inestimable friend of the missionary and the traveler, on wannd land, and no one should travel on our LAKES OK RIVERS WITHOUT It. PAIN-KILLER was the first and it the Only Permanent Pain-Reliever. Since the PAIN-KILLER was first introduced, and met with such unsurpassed Mile, many Liniment. Panacea and other remedies have* been offered to the public, but not one of thapi has ever attained the truly enviable standing of til® PAIN-KILLER. Why is this so? It Is because DAVIS’ PAIN-KILLER Is what It claims to be—a Reliever of Pain. Its Merit* are <Jn»iirpa«Mcd. If you are suffering from INTERNAL PAIN, Twenty or Thirty Drops in a Little Water will almost instantly cure you. There R nothing to equal it. In a few moments it cures Colic, Cramps, Spasms, Heart-burn, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Flux, Wind in the Bowels, Bour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. In sections of the country where FEVER AND AGUE Prevails, there is no remedy held In greater esteem. Every , housekeeper should keep it at Land, to apply it on the first attack of any Pain. It will give satisfactory relief, and eave hours <-t sullcring. Do not trifle with yourselves by testing untried remedies. Be '•tire you call for and get the” genuine PAIN-KILLER, as many worthless nostrums are attempted to be Bold on the great reputation of this valuable medicine. nr Htcouipauy-each bolUe. __ Price 25 cfs., 50 cts. and $1 per Bottle. J. N. HARRIS dt CO., Cincinnati, Ohio, Moprletore for the Southern and Western States. GF* For sale by all Medicine Dealers. HODGE? WHITNEY, COOK & CO., 312 Broadway, New York, Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in BOOTS AND SHOES The trade are invited to call and examine our stock when in New York. Orders by mall will receive prompt attention, and prices, as low as can be found in the Eastern market. Our Stock is especially adapted, to the Western and Southwestern Trade. THE BEN FRANKLIN LIGHTNING ROD COMPANY, bKHk Office, No. 144 La Salle St., Chicago, Hl. M. C. HALE, President, Sole owners of Patents for the Continuous Copper Strip Lightning Hods. The Best and only Scientific Lightning Conductor known; is also the most durable and economical, and in fact superseding all other kinds. We challenge its equal! County Rights for sale or lease on advantageous terms. Success guarantee cl. and the rods warranted for years; All material furnished. — Send for pamphlets, witli scientific testimonials, references, tec. Correspondence and investigation invited. Reliable agents wanted in every County and State. Beware of persons erecting these rods without our authority. FEED GRINDERS. One-third saved by grinding grain for stock. All kinds of live stock improve one-third taster, and are healthier and in all respects better, If fed on ground food. The celebrated CHALLENGE MILLS, which have taken the highest premiums at every Fair where exhibited, grind from 20 to 50-buaheis per hour of any kind of grain, in any condition. Prices from S6O to SIOO. Send for Circulars to to the CHALLENGE MILL COMPANY, Batavia, Illinois. w i jst E> _ rvn u ij s . The celebrated eelf-goveminc: Wind Mills, which can not nc blows down, will pinup, and grind, and do 25 n-r cent, more work, of any kind, than any other Wind Mill mada, and is the only pbkfkct, smj-fIoVBBKBD Wind Mill known. ’ , . . bend lor Circulars and full Information to the CHALLENGE MILL COMPANY, Batavia, Illinois. ■'WT AWTEO-AGEBTS, <B3O J>er taTto ■ ■ sell thecelebratedHOM&SHL’TTi.E SEWING ■fl MACHINE. Has the unOer-ffed. makes the 11 ■ “lock stitch ” (alike or. both sides,) and la full, ■IB licenced. The best and cheapestlamlly Sewfl: I In? Machine in the market. Address JOHNfI ■ SON, CLARK * CO.. Boston. Maas., Pitts- ■ ■ hnraU. Pa.. Chicago. HL. or St. Lonli. Mo.

DR SPILLER S j SPECIFIC IB AN Instant Cure for Fever & A® Chill Fever, DUMB AGUE, Neuralgia and all Malaria Fevers. Dr. Spiller & Co., SOLN PBOPBIKTOK3, Cleveland, O. Sold by’ all Druggists.

FRAGRANT SAPOLIENE Cleans Kid Gloves and all kinds of Cloths and clothing; removes Paint, Grease, Tar, &c., 'ntl'inllv, without the least inlnrv to the finest fabric. Sold by Drncrerist and Fancy dealers. FRAGRANT, SAPOLIENE COSS Barclay St, New York, 46 LaSalle SL, Chicago II 111 EG AR. how made in 10 hoars, without drugs. VIN Part s ™ a™ 10 eenta. F. Saob. Cromwell. Conn. Write J. Bentley, Wayne, 111.; A. G. Bower, SStK st. Charles, IIL; T. R. Janes, Batavia, 111., Bjggja* and J. Ki one, *O9 West Lake street, Chicago, SsKZ” If you have Cancer. They have remained cured for years, HMffiSSSSS S2BB in 16 DAYS! Do yon want a situation as salesman at or near home, to make 85 to SSO a day selling our new 7-strand While Wire Clothes Lines to last.forever. Sample free. Address Hudson /Heer Wire Works, NEW YORK or CHIC AGO, HL O AI.ERMEK WANTED to sell Groceries at S wholesale jnr salary and expenses. BROWN & FAY, P O. Box 598, Chicago, 111. 8 O’Cloclc FARMERS, MECHANICS <& WORKERS Can make 850 to SISO per month, with THE YEAR OF BITTLES, And our Mana, Pictures and Cbromoa. ' a-onfraEfr’s Ewasa Bcqk xsx> iUr Horas. Chicago.

SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENT. (f Tfi (MA BED RAV Ien ’ W° men t B°y> and Girls who 3)3 IU OIU itn UAI. engage in our new business make from five to ten dollars per day in their own localities. You can engage in this business during your spare time, or devote your whole time to it, .as you may ple&se or as may be convenient. We send full particulars and instructions free by mail. Those who see this nQtice, who are in need of permanent, profitable work, should address, at once, CEORCE STINSON & CO., rortland, IVTaixie. P. S.—We guarantee those who take hold in earnest Two Hundred Dollars per month as long as they work for us. Seo Complimentary Editorial Notice in another column, headed George Stinson Co.

Homeopathic veterinary manI AL, by <L <'. Sr line.er. «»•«., 32:‘ pj». Price 12.00. ( < onteins a fiill and succinct account » t the Hometreitment of Horses, Cattle, Swine and Doga. Sent, jiostage palu. on receipt of pri* e. A-’dress Publishers, BOERICKE A TAFKL,IP» Grand sroet.. New York. Hair Rostorod Baldnoks Prevented, By uxinj; Dr. Gn-cnlrar, n inedy. Send 25 cents ami urt the recipe by return mall. Every one chn make their own toilet In quantity and of superior quality. Address Im. LEWIS GREENLL.' I Button. Mm TH £ A-N ECT AR ih a i>vrk BLACK TEA t- with the G. tn Te t Flavor. War pukk chin pit i .ranted to suit all tastes. i(ds X ever i/u heir. Ar.<t fur falc wholesale only Iry the («ren t All nn,lc l*H<‘ifi<’ Ten Cq.» N CIMU-ell St., New \ Oil.. I’. O. BOX 3[f/ 5506. bead tor Tbeu-Neciar (j lie ular. MERCHANT’S GARGLING OIL IS GOOD FOR Burns and ChiUdainx % IbmuirrhoidH or Piles, Spnihis ai>d /Irnixcs, < X'pph s. Chapped Hands, Caked Iwcuats, Flesh Wounds, Fistula, 'Manye, Fr<nd Bites, Spavins, Stceehcy, Ej-.lcrnal Poisons, fi -ralches, or Greaee. Sand Craekx, Strinyhalt, Wiudyalle, Gallsyf All Kinds, Foundered Feel ' 5 XUfaxt. RlngboM, ('racked Heel's, Poll EfU, Foot Pot tn. Sheep, Bites nf Animals <f- rnsects. Roup in Poultry, Toothache, Ac., Ac.. Lame Back, Ac., <Cc. Lftrgc Size,sl.oo; Medium, 50c.; Small, 25c. 0 r The Gargling Oil lias been In use as a Liniment for ■ thirty-eight yrara. All we ask is n J'alr trial, bur h be sure and follow directions. Aid; your ncareMt druggist or dealer In patent 0 medicine, tor one of onr Almanacs and Vade- n Mecums, and re nt what the people say about the a The Gargling Oil Is tor Rale by all respectable dealers throughout the L'niled States and other m Cbun/rtos. kl\xvtestimonials from 1833 to the present, and B are unxoli'-ihd. I'm* the Garyting Oil, and D ll your H neighbors what good 11 has done. We deal fair and liberal with all, and defy contradiction. H'riic for an Almanac or Cook Book. Manufactured at Lockport , N. Y., BY MERCHANT’S GARGIJXG OIL COMPANY, JOHN HODGE, Sec’y. .ZSjj~-S|Health and Strength. Throat and Lungs. For ten years Dr. Crook’s Win. of Tar hik been tested and proved in thousands of cases, capable of curing all Disoisoa cl tba Threat ani Lucjs, performing wonderful cures,. Will you let prejuudice prevent vou from being cured also ? DS. CBOOS'S WINE OF TAB is rieh iu the medicinal qualities of Tar, combined with vegetable ingredients of undoubted value. It rapidly rostoroi IXhaujted strength, cleanses the Stomach, relaxes the Liver and puts them to work, causes the food to digest, and makes pure blood. If you are afflicted in any way, we know the life-giving tonic prcportleaof Dr. Crook’s Wine of Tar, are what you need. It cures all Conghs and Colds, and its many wonderful cures of Asthma and Bronchitis, have caused marly to cull it aspecitic forthesecomplaints. Throat ailments require but a few doses. All sutfering from Constunntion or any Disease of the Lungs should remember that Dr. Crook’s Wine of Tar has cured many cases pronounced incurable. The wook and Debilitated should remember it renovates and invigorates the system, and is health-giving and appetite-restoring. It also cures Lirsr and Kidney Complaints, and by its healthy action on the Stomach, removes Dyspepsia. Try one bottle. Take only Dr. Crook’s WineofTar. Sold < >uggis.e, A Fcr Scrofula,; Scrofulous Tumors, Scrofulous a Dissasss of the Eyes, or Scrofula in any form, Bhoumatism, Diseases of the Liver, Disi eases of the Skin, Eruptions, Pimples, Boils, Tettor, Scald Hoad, Ulcers, and old Soros, or any JSS?SS§|II disease depending on a depraved con'SSm®HA dition of the blood, take Dr. Crook’s Ccmpound Syrup of Poke Boot. It is combined A'Xr/f wllh l * ie b est tonic preparations of iron /sx known, and io the best Alterative and PSJ Blood Purifier made. Cleanse your tlcod, t.//•- Try one Bottle. Sold by Druggists. v Prepared only by \je< OUVZB CBOOK SCO., Dayton, 0. 82.00 23l laXINTS! ” For an,ADVERTISEMENT in 270 NEWSPAPERS. This List comprises A large Proportion of the Best Western Country Papers, Superior in Character, Circulation and Influence to those of any other list. WHERE CUTS ARE USED, ONLY THREE REQUIRED FOR THE WHOLE LIST. For lists, estimates and further particulars, mldreis A. N. KELI.OGG-, •" 110 and 112 Madison street, Chicago. owuOtb & col Manufacturers of the Iclijse Saw Mills, Combining THIiEJE l‘-iTEXTED Improvements Essential to Circular Mills. WITH ALL SIZES OF Rearing and JJladiinern, With the celebrated STEAK THRESHER, ‘'California W" For Description. Prices, <tc., address them at HAMILTON, Ohio, or ST. LOUIS, Ma tycorrespondents will please state .n what paper uiey. saw this advertisement. # THE CELEBRATED / /HALFORD/ / Table Sauce, / /for useinfamiiaes/ All A 1 Grocer, have It. f , A pale Parer, Corer and Slicer. Price 82. 11 Deca all at once. Warranted satisfactory. D. H. WHITTEMORE, Worcester,,Mms. 11 A IfE AIAMCV wl,h onr ENGRAVINGS. lIIhIVC rnUREI Prontß2oo percent. Sample sent postpaid for 25 cents. Circulars fl ee. Address R, Sanborn <fe Co.. 115 Madlson st., Chicago. REDUCTION OF PRICES To conform to REDUCTION OF DUTIES. Great Saving to Consumers by getting up Clubs. |W Send fbr our New Price List and a Club form win secompany It containing full directions, making a large saving to consumers and remunerative to club orgaulxers. THE GBEAT AMERICAN TEA CO.. P. 0. Box 54A3. 31 and 33 Vesey St., New York I

WHEN WHITING TO ADVERTISERS, please say you saw the advertisement In Lliin paper. 30*3—R X. AGREATMEDICAL DISCOVERY MILLIONS Bear Testimony to their Wonderful Curative Effects. DH. WALKER’S CALIFORNIA fry itOREKM A JldlNiVßHlffldiA.W They are not a vile FANCY DRINK. Made of Poor Rum, Whlnkey, Proof Spirit! and Refuge Llquora doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste, called ••Tonice,” ••Appetizers,” “Restorere,” &c., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness end ruin, but are a true Medicine, made from the Native Roots and Herbs of California, fre® from nil Alcoholic Stimulants. They are the GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIFE GIVING PRINCIPLE, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the System, carrying off all poisonous matter and restoring the blood to a healthy condition. No person can take these Bitter® according to directions and remain long unwell, provided thMY bones are notdestroyed by mineral poison or othOFttcans. and the vital organs wasted beyond, the fcolat of repair. • • - u They area Gentle Purgative as wdll ns a Tonic, possessing also, the peculiar merit ting as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or inflainmation of the Liver, and all theY’lsccral Organs. FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS, whether in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood or at the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters have no equal. For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhenmn. tism and Gout, Dyspepsia or ludigc«li<”i» Bilious, Remittent aud Intermittent Fevers, Discuses of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys, nnd Bladder, these Bitters have been most successful. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangement of. the Digestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Hoad ache, Pain in (he Shoulders, Coughs, 'J ightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stoma' •. Bad taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, PiUnlti: a of tho Heart, Inflammation of the. .Lungs,Pain in tno regions of the Kidneys, and a hundreu other painful symptoms, arc the offsprings of Dyspepsia. They invigorate the Stomach and stimulate the torpid liver and bowels, which render them of unequalled eflicacy in cleansing the blood of nil Impurities, and Imparting new life and vigor io the whole system. FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions,Tott«r, Salt Rheum, Blotches Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-Worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried opt-jof the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. One bottle In such cases will convince-the most incredulous of their curative effect. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever you find its impurities bursting through the skin in Pimples, KruptLoiiaor Sores,cleanse it when you find it obstructed and ftuggish in the veins; cleanse it when it is foul, and your feelings will tell you when. Keep the blood pure and the health Of the system w,ill follow. PIN, TA PE, and other WORMS, lurking In the system of so many thousands, are effectually destroyed and removed. For full directions, read enrefuny the circular around each bottle, printed in four languages—English, German, French and Spanish. J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD & CO., Druggists and Gen. Agents, Ban Francisco, Cal., aud 32 and Si Commerce Street, New York. fjrsOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS, STE ASTENGINES roiFt SuSlize. ONE RUDDICK STEAM ENGINE, bnrsc-power. Price with Governor, SIS(t Perfectly ne>e and ontrranteh. Will lie sold for Four Hundred dullars, cash. Also, one SECOND-HAND HORIZONTAL ENGINE, (Made by E. J. Good <jc Co., Chicago,) S-hai-so-powrr. In excellent order and wan anted. Price, wiUi Jiutson’.s Governor, $400? Cost new, [SGGS. Address Imptodiately, A. N. KELLOGG, 1 1 and 1 1 Madison street, Chicago, 111.

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Of ft? Tar Higher Class than any oilier proprietary medicine of the day stands Tarrant's Effervescent Seltzer Aperient, And for this reason: ’fiiHin exact counterpart of one of the most valuable natural ’medicines In the world. tVe refer to the great Seltzer Spring of Germany, to which ttioiisanils of 1 he(lvsneptlejlicbilious, the rheumatic, and the victims of venal diseases resort annually, and return to their homes convalescent or cured. 'Dio Apericntis one of the first aqd by lar the most snecessfiil of all the efforts made to reprodncc. in a portable form, the popular mineral walers of Europe. Nee that you purchase only the genuine nt tiele. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

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TWO MILLION ACRES lOWA AND NEBRASKA LANDS FOR SALE BY THE I Bnrliniton & Mo. River 1!. R. Co., On Ten Years’ Credit at 6 per ct. No part of the principal due for two yonrs, and thence I only one-ninth year v till pdtd Iff fifll. Product a will par for land and improvements much within the limit ot this generous credit. Better terms are hot ofierad, never were, and probably never will bc v CIRCUI/AR9 givipg full particulars are supplied gwatis; and any wishipg to induce others to emigrate v Illi them, or to form a colour, are invited to ask for all they want to-distribute. Apply to GEO. S. HARRIS, Land Commissioner, Far lowa Lands, at BURLINGTON, lOWA, and 'For Neiwaska Lands, at LINCOLN, NEB. AGENTS WANTED KOK THE History of the WAR IN EUROPE It contains over 100 tine engravings of Battle. Scenes and Incidents in the War, and is the only AUTHENTIC and OFFICIAL history of that great conflict. Published In English and German. PAIITIAN Inferior histories are being circulated. uAU I lUII See that the book vou buy contains 100 tine engravings and maps. Send for circulars and see our terms, and a full description of the work. Address, NATIONAL PUBLISHING CO., Chicago, nati, Ohio, or St.’Louis. Mo. FREE CURE OF DRUNKFNEBSI A radical cure effected nn rational principles, based on peibomd experiments made by the mpat eminent medical men of the ace. Come one, come all, and get rid of that baneful infirmity. Cure performed without tbe knowledge of the p'tient. Address, confidentially, DR.F.VOLLMAN, 62 Sherman street, Chicago, lIL AGENTS! READ THIS! TUB WILL PAY AGENTS A SALARY W of 830 per week and expense. or allow a larn to POTATO way Injurious. m .