Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1873 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

One woman has set out 3,000 forest trees in Greeley, Col. The Mammoth Cave is for sale; price, half a million. Tee poor children of Boston will have a series of picnics given them this summer. The meanest pickpocket in the world stole $424 from a blind soldier in Dayton, Ohio. An Indianapolis parent has been fined $5 for giving his minor son a glass of lager beer. Recorder Hackett, of New York, sentenced a man to State Prison for picking up and spending ten cents. Leer Quin, of Philadelphia, sold her new bonnet so that her lover might purchase a ball ticket That’s true love. A tooth in a Hampton (Conn.) school has been working on the alphabet eight years, and hasn't mastered it yet. . A thirty-pound salmon is worth but fifty cents in Portland, Oregon. In San Francisco it would sell for three dollars. A counterman at Dyersburg, Tenn., was noticed the other day gravely setting his watch by a painted sign in front of a jeweler’s. Hartford, Conn., is to ornament its park with an eight-foot marble figure of General Israel Putnam, the man who rode a perpendicular. The Holly Springs South says that at no time in the history of North Mississippi has the caterpillar been so numerous, at no time so destructive. ——— The Aldermen of Boston have refused to furnish Professor Wise $3,000 to make and start his balloon from the Common on its Atlantic voyage. The skeleton of a boa constrictor belonging to the Transatlantic Circus, which died at Davenport, lowa, is at the State University. Its length is twenty-three feet. _A party of American boarding-school firls started for Europe the other day, uner the charge of competent instructress-' es, for a fifteen months’ tour of observa tion. The babe born aboard the Polaris open- ‘ ed his eyes one hundred and sixty miles nearer the pole than ever babe did before. And still it is not a Pole but an Esquimaux. - ■ Florida proposes to supply the United States .with oranges in a few years. Over a million of sweet orange seedlings are under cultivation on the St. John’s River alone. NORTHWEBTERN lowa exchanges notice the presence of untold millions of grass hoppers in their localities, As j-et, however, little harm seems to have been done by them. A most remarkable cure of the desire for tobacco is that of an InnTf.napolis aldennan. He was thrown from his buggy some time ago, and since then lias loathed the weed. A well-posted fruit grower in Delaware estimates that the peach crop of the present season will aggregate about 3,570, 000 baskets, exceeding by 500,000 baskets that of last year. The Mayor of Nashville publishes a proclamation asking druggists to furnish all persons unable to purchase cholera medicines with the same, and to charge them to the city. Among the Kickapoo warriors slain during General Mackenzie’s recent raid into Mexico was one of gigantic size, measuring seven feet in height, and stout m proportion. The heaviest larceny that lias lately come to light is the carrying off of a small safe in Westcott, Ind. The thieves took it away in a wagon, that it might be opened at their leisure. _■ _ _ _ - An old lady passenger was so much impressed by the polite attention she received from a railroad conductor, in Connecticut, that she recently left him twenty-five hundred dollars by"her will. A schoolmaster of Bennington, Vs., was lately worsted in single combat by one of his pupils for presuming to interfere with the latter's courtship of a female class-mate during school hours. The town of Pomeroy, 0., is literally cracking to pieces. A “slip" of the earth destroyed a large flouring mill, the other day, and subsequent cracks threatened serious damage to other valuable property. An engineer has invented a machine which will cut off the general reporter from many an item. It is a hot-water pump with which to squirt hot water on deaf persons Who walk on the track. A wonderful mine has been discovered by Colonel J. W. McElrath, in the South Mountains, Ya., says the Hickory Press. It contains mica, silver, and assafoetida, with some indications of petroleum oil gas. The editor of the Fredericksburg (Va.) News was asked by a stranger, “if it was possible that that little town kept up four ‘ newspapers,” and the reply was, “No, it takes four newspapers to keep up the town,” The latest gold diggings are located well toward the North Pole in Lapland. Russians and Norwegians are digging out the precious metal “from beneath“ the frozen soil, and there is not an American in the territory. It is better to hesitate sometimes before being courteous to strangers. A jLa Crosse man promptly answered the questions of a stranger, and the man, diiing soon after, left him the care of eight* fatherless children and no money. A country maiden lately drove an.. oxteam into Indianapolis, hauling a load of wood. She said she cut the wood, and with the wood she bought a highly trimmed hat, and with the hat she’ll cut a country swell. Cambridge, Vt., is proud of a family which has moved thirty times in eleven years, has been in sixteen States, and moved seven times in one year. The longest time they stayed in any one place was eighteen months. The Chinese companies expend about SSO each for bringing Chinese laborers to California, and they are paid some S2OO in return. In other words, the companies make nearly $l5O on each laborer they import to California.

Five girls, neither of them over twenty years of age, have entered 330 acres of land in Kansas, and intend to make a dairy farm of it, All but two of the -girls are graduates of Eastern schools and two of them are proficient in agricultural' chemistry. > NeWBtJETPOET , Mass., produces a “smart woman who don’t like to he called old at nearly seventy years, who last Monday did the weekly washing for her family of five persons, cooked for them, and cleaned the paint and papered two rooms.” The miseries of a worthy paterfamilias whose family has been abroad for some yean while he has been working hard to earn the money to support them at home are thus touchingly set forth by an exchange. He met mem in Paris recently, and his children speaking French only, he was obliged to go to school to acuuire the language in order to converse with his offspring. Dobing a recent heavy thunder-storm, me lightning smock the ground near the residence of Mr. Ramsey, in Rockport, Ohio, and,tore up the ground for a conslderabla space, throwing the sand high in the air. The whole family in the house were prostrated by the shock, and so affected that they did not recover for several hours. About two hours after the stroke

a boy went to the pump in the yard to draw water, but ftnutd the iron handle so hot as to burn his hand. A SIO,OOO Cow.—lt has often been said that cows, especially milch cows, never sell for as much as they are really worth, but A. J. Alexander, Esq., of Woodburn, Wopdford County, sold on Thursday, 20th of May, a two-year-old heifer, known as “The Duchess* of Aidric XV.,” to go to England, for SIO,OOO, which may be regarded as a sum not very far below herreal value. She is said to be “a beautiful specimen of a beautiful race,” and it tip-' pears that the English breeders, having heretofore parted with all their finest-cat-tie, are now determined to have some of them back at any price.— Frankfort (Sy.) Yeoman. A Delicate Task Well Done.—Treasury experts have finished the work of restoring thfe securities of the Lambefton Savings Bank, Franklin, Pa., which were thrown into the fire by the insane cashier. Of $140,000 Government bonds, al! were identified. - Of the SGO,tIOO railroad and municipal bonds, all were restored. Of $150,000 notes and bills ■ receivable, all were restored or made good by the parties interested. The. only , loss of the bank has been two or three dollars in currency. When received at the Treasury the whole mass appeared to be ashes and charred remnants of paper.- The experts were Mrs. Davis,' Miss Patterson and Miss Schrimer. The time occupied was five weeks of clear days. The work was of such a delicate nature that it could not be prosecuted in cloudy weather.

Official Honesty.

The cheapest way of establishing a rep - utation as a reformer nowadays is to denounce with the utmost absence of- responsibility the corruption and profligacy of the body of men who are employed by the Federal Government in its vast and important transactions of every kind. From Maine to Texas and from Oregon to California, in custom-houses, post-offices, Internal Revenue bureaus, and in the Departments at Washington, there is a vast army taken from all classes of the people, engaged in all classes of employment, collecting the revenue, paying pensions, handling the mails, making the keeping the records, none of them overpaid, few with any brilliant prospects of promotion, a great many contributing not merely their routine service, but the best thought of their brains and the most valuable suggestions for the public good, as a part of their duty to their country. Among them there are and there must always be some dishonest ones; until the milleuium comes we may not hope to find all men beyond temptation; but do the feckless denouncers of the office-holders ever pause to ask themselves whether these office-holders are not possibly as honest as the same number of men of any other class in the country? We do not claim for them any superior honesty; we • do not ask that they be considered paragons, but we insist and we honestly believe that they fairly represent the average morality of the community. It is to be borne in mind that the character and methods of transacting public business necessarily give prominence to any irregularity or dishonesty. Each employe is only a part of a system, and his transactions and reeords pass through so many hands that it is merely a question of time how long he can conceal any flishonesty of which lie may have been guilty. As soon as his fault is known It is at once public property, and the telegraph sends the news from one end of the country to the other: It is known because there is no ,way of hushing it up, and even his superiors in office who might be disposed to hide it would only shift upon themselves both the moral responsibility and the pecuniary responsibility at the same time. The merchaqj or banker in private life, who has suffered by the depredations o.f a trusted clerk, is very often disinclined to give any publicity to the fact unless there is a prospect of recovering the amount lost, and every one who has had any experience of business knows how often this consideration prevents any exposure at a 11... _ Z', _I 1-.... - But even with this odds against the Government, does it not make a fairly favorable showing compared with private enterprise in the matter of honesty? During the foolish time when the tax on whisky offered a premium to dishonesty, -the corruption of the internal revenue was as bad as the corruption of the outside whisky ring: There were as many official thieves to take bribes, as there were thieves in private life to offer them. But that was an exceptional period, which lias gone, we hope, never to return; and we can point to the record of the Internal Revenue Department in the past five years, as we can to any other branch of the public service, and say that it is fairly honest. In this city of St. Louis, we can point to our Internal Revenue office, where one Collector has gathered in nearly $20,000,000, and the Government lias never lost a dollar; we can point to a Custom-house where the duties amount to some $2,000,000 a year, and every dollar of it is accounted for; or to a Post-office, managing the'mail business for the fourth largest city in the Union, without the loss of a dollar. Is St, Louis exceptionally honest? We are prqud to believe that in all departments of business honesty is the rule, and that the good name of our city is not undeserved. But if our officials fairly represent the high average of honesty here, is that not'strong presumption that the same tiling is the case elsewhere; and is not such a circumstance a tangible, and definite fact, ontweighing a legion of vague and windy diatribes about corruption and appeals for reform? It will at least do to think over, and as often as the attempt is made to throw on the Administration and on its whole force of servants the blame of one man’s dishonesty, we will ask the public to think of the thousands who honor their country by the faithful discharge of their duties.— St. Louis Globe.

Horrible Torture and Murder of a Negro.

The following story seems, incredible. It is related, however, bv a trustworthy newspaper, the Austin (Texas) Journal: “Between the Ist and 10th of May, 1873, a party consisting of, say half a dozen, more or less, visited a camp of workmen on the railroad' (Texas Pacific) twenty miles north of Jefferson, in a state of intoxication, headed hy a Mr. Porter, an old citizen of Cass County. Mr. Porter, the leader, commenced an attack on a negro man, who, a bystanding white man said to Mr. Porter was a peaceable and unoffending man: The negro pushed Mr. Porter off. and kept out of -his- way. At this Mr, Porter took great offense, but not considering himself sufficiently strong, wept* back home, recruited his party, and returned in a day or so, and found the du ties of file negro as a laborer had caused him to change to a camp some miles distant on the railroad. Thither Mr. Porter and his increased force followed, finding the negro engaged at his labors Porter assumed to he Sheriff, and the others of the party subordinates, took the negro prisoner, bound him fast, opened his eyes and spit in them tobacco juice, confined him fast to one off the horses, started off at a fast gait, compelling him to keep up or drag ; ordered the negro to bow humbly to every white man they met on the road and on the streets of a town through which they passed en route. Proceeding on their way to a spot sufficiently Tetired for their diabolical purposes, they confined the man between two small trees, so placing him that he could

** •••/ ■ ’ - only move his head. Thus located, they deliberately proceeded to make a cross on his forehead by*inciSion with a knife, and then scalped their victim. After thus inflicting on him all the torture of which they were capable, they retired a few paces ahd finished their barbarous, work by shooting several loads Of ammunition into liis exposed and defenseless body. After thus cruelly accomplishing their work they threw the lifeless tiocfy into a stream • Of water convenient to ,the scene of action. Thus ended this bloody tragedy, .commitr ted in the open light of day, under a pretended cover of law, and in open defiance of the civil authorities. The perpetrators had not, at last accounts, been arrested. The above occurrences took place within thirty miles of the city of Jefferson, one of the largest cities of Texas, and a county settled some quarter of a century. It,is stated that the perpetrators were composed of old citizens of the county of Cass in which the transaction occurred.

“ Cording " the Bedstead.

It is a little singular why your wife’s mother will persist in sleeping on a cord bedstead. But she does. You don’t think so much of this until you are called upon to put it up, which event generally takes place in the evening. The bedstead has been cleaned in the afternoon, and having been soaked through with hot water is now ready for putting up, Your wife holds the lamp and takes charge of the conversation. The rope has been under water several times in .the course of the cleaning, and having swollen to a diameter greater than the holes in the rails has also got into a fit of coiling up into mysterious and very intricate forms. You at first wonder at this, but pretty soon wonder ceases to be a virtue, and you scold. The thread which has been wound around’the end of the rope to facilitate its introduction into the holes has come off, and you have to roll it up again. Then, after you have pulled through eight holes, your wife makes the discovery that you have started wrong. The way that rope comes out of those holes again makes your wife get closer to the door. ■ Then you try again, and get it tangled in your legs. ‘By this time you notice that this is the smallest bed-room in the house, and von call the attention of your wife to the fact by observing! “Why on earth don’t you open the door? Do you want to smother me?” Stfe opens the door and you start again, and she helps you with the lamp. First she puts it on the wrong side of the rail, then she moves it so the heat comes up from the chimney and scorches your nose. Just as you need it the most you lose sight of it entirely, ancLlurning around find her examining the wall to see how that Irfan has put on the whitewash. This excites you, and brings out the perspiration in greater profusion, and you declare you will kick the bedstead out of doors if slie doesn’t come around with.that light. Then she comes around. Finally the cord is laid all right, and you proceed io execute the \ery__ delicate job of tightening ft: The lower* ropes are first walked over. This is done by stepping on the first one and sinking it down, hanging to the head-board with the clutch of death. Then you step with the other foot on the next line, spring that down, lose your balance, grab for the headboard, miss it. and come down in a heap. This is repeated more or less times across the length of the bed, the only variety being the new places you bruise. The top cords are tightened in another way, and you now proceed to that. You first put one foot on each rail, which spreads you some, and as you do it the frightful thought strikes you that, if one of these feet should slip over, nothing on earth would prevent you from being split through to the chin. Then you pull up the first rope until vour eyes seem to be on tbe*point of rolling out of their sockets, and tire blood in your veins fairly groans, and on being convinced that you can’t pull it any further without, crippling yourself for life, you catch hold of the* next rope and draw that up, and grunt,. Then xou movc along to the next, and pull that tip, and grunt again. Just as you have got to the “middle and commence to think that you are about through, even if your joints will never again set as they did before, you some way or other miss the connection, and find that you have got to go back and do it all over. Here you pause for aT few minute^.of oracular refreshment, and then slowly and carefully work your way back. You don’t jump down and walk back, because you are afraid to spread out in that way again. You sort of waddle back, working the way inch by inch, and with consummate patience. A man thus stretched across a bedstead never becomes so excited as to lose his presence of mind. It would be instant death if he did. Then he goes over it again, waddling and pulling, groaning and grunting, while his wife moves around with the lamp, and tells him to take it easy, and not scratch the bedstead any more than he can help, and that she can’t tell which creaks the most, he or the bedstead. And after he gets through she has the audacity to ask him to bring in the feather beds. In the dead of night that man will steal up to that room and look at the bedstead and swear. —Banbury Neirs.

How to Turn Out.

The Duke of Wellington always slept on an iron camp-bedstead eighteen inches wide. “When a man wants to turn over,”—hesaid, “it ;.isu„#me ftrr hilu Tcr turn out.” The Emperor Nicholas did the same. Mr. Owen says: The principle is well enough; but I think the detail is wrong. Sleep itself is too important to be made uncomfortable. My old friend Rossiter fixed li;s alarum, so that, jit the foreordained moment, the bedclidthes were dragged from the bed and Rbssiter lay shivering. I have myself somewhere" the drawings and specifications for a patent (which I never applied for), which aranges a set off-cams and wheelwork under the bedstead, which at the moment appointed, lift the pillow end six feet, and deliver the sleeper on the now horizontal foot-board. He is not to sleep long after that. Rossiter found another eontrivance that worked better. The alarm-clock struck a match, which lighted the lamp which boiled the water for Rossiter’s shaving. If Rossiter staid in bed to long, the water boiled over upon his razor andjelean Shirt, and the prayerbook his mother gave' him, - and Coleridge’s autograph, and his open pocket, book, and all the other precious things he could put in a basin underneath when he went to bed; so he had to get up before that moment came. —Old and New. A Potato-bug Raid.— A singular pkenomenon -in the potato-bug line was witnessed at Chardon, on Thursday afternoon of last week. Shprtly after three o’clock a cloud of ■potato'‘bugs on the wing entered and passed through the town, coming from the east and ffylng directly west. At first they were taken for a swarm of bees, but some of them falling to the ground their character was sioon determined. The first swarm was soon followed by a second, third and fourth, and so on for the space of an hour and a half, much to the astonishment of all who beheld. They were estimated at tens of thousands, reminding those who witnessed of the Bible accounts of the locusts ,ip the days of Pharaoh. No one was able to solve the mystery of their coming or going, but all were glad that they did not pitch their tents on potato hills of Chardon. Per. haps they are returning to Colorado to renew their citizenship and take a new start toward the rising su n.—Painesrille (0.) Telegraph.

FIRM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Pieces of horseradish added to the vinegar on picklbs improves their flavor, and prevents mold. —A teaspoonful of spirits of ammonia added to the rinse water will make rusty black goods look as good as new. —Do not cook vegetables in iron pots, ui less they are enameled. Never cook tomatoes in an iron pot. It makes them bitter. • - ty —A writer in the London -Garden strongly recommends root pruning for over-luxurious trees which do not bear. He says: “In numerous cases I have seen an abundant crop of fine fruit produced by pears and plums the very season after this root pruning has been performed, upon trees from which nothing has been gathered for years previous,” This work must be done, of course, before the trees start in spring. —Tomato Pudding—Place pared and sliced tomatoes to the depth of an Inch or more, in a bright tin basin. Sprinkle sugar over them. Next- a layer of light bread in slices, well spread with butter. Then a deep layer of tomatoes and sugar again, and lastly a layer of bread. and butter on the lop. Flavor with lemon or nutmeg. Bake from one to two hours, according to the size of your dish. We find the past winter that can tied tomatoes are excellent served in this way. —Sowing Wfieat and Oats Together.— The Western Farmer says: The plan ol sowing some oats with spring wheat has been practiced to a considerable extent in some parts of Wisconsin, and probably more this spring than ever before. James Gillis, Cookeville, Wis„ informs us that in his vicinity but little wheat was sown alone, most farmers sowing from a fourth to a third of a bushel of oats per acre Tjadi the wheat. The attacks of the chinch bugs are thought to be prevented to a good degree, by this method. There is little difficulty in separating the wheat from the oats. —Pare «¥ a Canary Bird:—Hang the' cage where the drafts do not strike the bird. Give canary and rape seed, plenty of fresh-water, cuttle-fish bone, ana clean gravel on the bottom of the cage often. Also, give the bird fresh water to bathe in every day. After they have bathed, remove the dish, which should be shallow. The room should not be overheated. A little pepper occasionally regulates them. Do pot give them cake or sugar. When moulting, feed them on rape seed slightly moistened. Hard-boiled eggs and crackers grated are excellent. Bad seed will kill birds. Cabbage and Sweet apples are good for them, and now and then an egg. —A Cheap Disinfectant.—One pound of green copperas, eosting seven cents,., dissolved in one quart of water, and poured down a water-closet, will effectually concent rate and destroy the foulest smells. On board ships and steamboats, about hotels and other public places, there is nothing so nice to purify the air. Simple green copperas, dissolved under the bed in anything that will hold Water, will render a hospital or other place for the sick free from unpleasant smells. For butchers’ stalls, fish markets, slaughter-houses, sinks and wherever there, are offensive putrid gases, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in a few_ days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat or mouse dies about the house and sends forth an offensive gas, place some- dissolved copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is, and it will soon purify the atmosphere.

Salt For Hens.

Who first made the declaration that salt will kill a hen? That was tlie doctrine before I was born. My father warned his eldest—your humble servant—as far back as I can remember, and then all the other little Abbots, to exercise the greatest care and dilligence to prevent salt being scattered in the yard where Chanticleer and his flock might eat it and die—for concerning salt, the command to him and. his was, “ thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that tliou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.” And thus the world has believed and thought. Many a time when I have accidentally spilled salt on the ground where the hens were running, I have hurried to cover it over so that the fowls might not eat of it, and so live on. It is wonderful liow we cling to heresies. Now lam fully persuaded that salt may be given to fowls with beneficial results sometimes ; indeed I have seen it with my own eyes, and know it; therefore he who first told the world that salt must not be given to the inhabitants of the poultry yard because it would kill them told a big lie, and every one since that original utterer of that variation from truth who has repeated that statement has lied also—under a mistake. Where the fowl’s eyes close up, and the base of the bill gets sore, and the white, slimy, false mcmbrane'forms in the throat, a friend of mine, a sort of lien fancier, takes a teaspoon of salt, puts some in the eye or eyes, and the rest down the throat, and the hen usually gets' well. This is the croup, and salt seems to be the best remedy for It known. A dose of salt is good for a sick lien, our notions to the contrary notwithstanding.—L. S. A., In Ohio Farmer.

Draining Quicksands.

The subject of draining quicksands has recently been discussed in the columns of -the New York Tribune. The directions generally given by the correspondents of that paper have-related to the manner of making a sound, artificial bottom on which to lay the draining tiles. Our own experience in the matter has been considerable, and we have never found this necessary. These sands are quick only because they are wet, and if the "water can be withdrawn from them they will form the best floor that it is possible to secure in such land. For laying tiles, the only thing necessary is to deepen the drain very slowly. As soon as the depth of the water is reached, let the drain be opened for that depth its whole length; then, commencing at the lower end, deepen by a single scoopful at a time, in this way drawing off the water slowly, and without at any point going so deep as to have a pressure of water from tile soil at the side. Opened in thi§ way, little by little, there will be no difficulty in securing a good foundation, and in laying a drain m the most slippery quicksands.— American Agriculturist. Jdst Taken his Bitters, —We heard a seedy-looking individual with an alarmingly red nose remark to a brother soaker that he had “just had liis bitters, but lie did not mind taking another nip.’’ His remark suggested a train of reflection. How was it,-we asked ourselves, that the word “bitters” had grown to be a synonym for gin, whisky, rum, and other alcoholic stimulants, to which it was applied indiscriminately. Bitters, we reasoned, suggested the idea of a healthful tonic, not of a poisonous stimulant; something invigorating to the system, not an alcoholic irritant, full of fusel oil, producing present intoxication and ultimate insanity, idiocy, or premature death. Moreover, our" idea of bitters was totally irreconcilable with “gin cocktails,” “rum punches,” and “ brandy smashes,” which, we are informed, are sweetened with gugayaud rendered doubly injurious with essences colored by means of mineral poison. This was bitter-sweet with a vengeance-. We mentioned tiffs problem to a friend. He solved it by exclaiming: “Why, don’t you know that moist of these bitters advertised as remedies are only drams in disguise? Topers know it, if you do not. I most make one exception, however,” he added, “and that’s Dr. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters; there isn’t a particle of alcohol or fermented liquor in it, and it is the best vegetable tonic and Alterative in America,”

“ Pain-Killer.”

There can he no necessity, at this late day, for the press to speak In commendatory terms of this remarkable medicine, in order to prqtppte its sale; fhr it is a medicine that is known and appreciated the wide world through. Whenever we speak of the Pain-Killer, as in the present instance, we do so in behalf of the afflicted as well as in the interest of its proprietors. For various diseases, such as rheumatism, cholera, cholera-morbus, burns,'sprains, biiiises! and so •on to the end >of the catalogue, its proprietors claim that there is no remedy before the people equal to Davis’ Vegetable “PainKiller,” and we know that thousands upon thousands entertain the same belief. Certainly, we cannot refer, to the history of any medicine of the kind which has a wilier reputation than that -of the Pain-' Killer. It was introduced in 1840, and from that lime to this its sale, both at home and abroad, lias constantly and rapidly increased, and -the- high reputation it has achieved shows that it has been the means of relieving a vast amount of human suffering. We hope the present proprietors of Davis’ Vegetable “PainKiller’’ will long live to enjoy the prosperity which they have so fairly won. Ask for Prussing’s Cider Vinegar, and take no other. Warranted to preserve Pickles. Consumption.—For the cure of this distressing disease there has been no medicine yet discovered that can show more evidence of real merit than Allen’s bung Balsam. This unequaled expectorant for curing consumption, and all diseases leading to it, such as affections of the throat, lungs, and all diseases of the pulmonary organs, is introduced to tiic suffering public after its merits for the cure of such diseases have been fully tested by the medical faculty. The Balsam is, consequently, recommended by physicians who have become acquainted -with its great success. We see. by the Chicago papers that Procter & Gamble have reduced the price of their iong-estabttshvd‘andpopnlar brand, Mottled German Soap. Its present price and superior quality makes it the cheapest as well as the best soap for consumers. Try Dooley’s Yeast Pmvder, you wilt soon find it not only the best, but also the cheapest, Baking Powder. Put up full, net weight?

A REMARKABLE PROGRESS.

[Front the Hartford Daily Times.'] We have already alluded to the prosperous condition of the Phoenix life Insurance Company, located in this city, of which Bdson Fessenden Is the President and .lames F: Burns Secretary. A more careful Investigation of its last annual statement, just published, warrants us In submitting to the readers ofthe Times some further remarks upon Its rapid progress to popular favor atul its remarkably prosperous condition at the present time. Let us compare its condition ten yenraago with what it is at the present time. In the years IW2 and 1863 it issued 1,111 policies ; its Income was $125,612 ; dividends, $1,241; losses hy death, $58,000; assets, $431,938. Here was the business of two years. in 1812 It Issued 10,521 policies; Its income was $3,413,152.15; dividends, $943,441.11 ; losses by death, $831,146#; net assets, $8.209,835.07. This increase of business and assets in the short period of ten years is worthy of special notice. An income in 1872 of near $3,500,000 against $125,672 in 1862 and 1863; it is near thirty to one. Over.ten thousand lpt dred In two years, only ten years ago. Its net assets amount td over eight millions now; then less than half a million—more than sixteen to one. This wonderful Increase is not the result of a single jump. It comes of regular yearly advances; showing the solidity and permanency of this signal prosperity. For instance, the net assets of the company at the opening of the year 1872 amounted to $7,510^4*1.05; at the commencement of 1873 they were $8,207,325.07—an increase during the year 1872 of $698,611.02. The Phoenix has now 33,020 policies in force, covering $71,910,267. Valued by the New York standard these policies are worth $6,776,117, and other liabilities carry its obligations up to $7,009,493.57. Deducting this from its net assets and the company has a surplus of $1,199,831.50. The officers lay these facts before the public with the assurance that they cannot be equaled in comparative strength by the statement of any company in New England, if, Indeed, by any in .the country, though a few others have a larger aggregate of assets. No company in this city equaled it last year in the number of policies issued. Only one came within 2,000 of it, and the others were from ssoo to 9,000 below it. In this sterling condition of its finances, in Its great 4tnd increasing prosperii>van4 in the firm hold it has upon public confidence, the Phccnix may, with a due degree of pride and satisfaction, publish the details M>f its business and its solid condition.

Godey’s Lady’s Book.—The Julynuniher begins the forty-fourth year of this magazine, and it Is an excellent number, both in literature and illustrations. “On the Stile” is a beautiful steelplate, well designed and elegantly finished. “Bridal Wreaths,” printed in blue, an extra embellishment, that will be of service to our lady friends in arranging this necessary adornment- “ Gathering Wild Flowers” is another pretty plate. And there is also a beautiful colored fashion-plate, an extension sheet of fashions of the latest stylo, and a work department of various designs. Marion Ilarland’s story of “Carrying Weight” is continued. Several short stories are also given, and many valuable hints will be found in the several household departments. The publisher still announces a handsome chromo for each subscriber for 1873, whether a single subscriber for $3.00, or a club of six for $14.00. Published by L. A. Godey, Philadelphia, Pa. * Malakta, or bad air, is the cause of every form of Fever and AgUe. Shallenberger's Pills are an antidote to this poison, and cure instantly.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, June 18, 1873. BEEP CATTLE $ll.OO @513.00 HOGS--Live.i.... 5.50. @ 5.62*4 SHEEP—Live 5.00 @16:25 COTTON—Middling 20*,® .21 FLOUR—Good to choffce 6.35 @ 7.40 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago 1.45 @ 1.48 CORN —Western Mixed .. .55 @ .5614 OATS—Western, New.... 40 @ .43 RYE—Western .86 @ .88 PORK—New Me55...,.r.7....■ ■ ■ 16.75 ® 17.00 LARD.... .7.. .0834® .08» WOOL—Domestic Fleece 48 @ .5014 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice $ 5.75 @$ 6.25 G00d..; 5.25 @ 5.5214 Medium 4.50 @ 5.00 Butchers’Stock. 3.50 @ 4.60 Cows and Heifers.... 3.00 @ 4.35 HOGS—Live 4.50 @ 4.6814 SHEEP—Good to Choice 4.00 @ 5.(K) BUTTER—Choice 18 @ .20 EGGS—Fresh 12 @ .13 FLOUR—White Winter Extra.... 8.00 @ 10.00 Spring Extra... .... 6.00 @ 6.75 GRAlN—Wheat-Spring. No. 2... 1.20 @ 1.2014 Com—N6. 2.1.. ........ .3214® .3254 Oats—No. 2 2514® .26 Rye-No. 2 60 @ .6014 Barley—No. 2, New... .58 @ .60 PORK—Mess 15.65 @15.70 LARD 0814® -OSli WOOL —Tub-washed 48 @ ,50 Fleece, washed 35 @ .42 “■ unwashed .25 @ .28 Failed 34 @ .39 CINCINNATI. FLOUR—Family, New $6.75 @ $7.25 WHEAT—Red 1.38 @ 1.40 CORN .40 @ .41 OATS... 33 @ .35 RYE. „... .65 @ .66 PORK—Mess 16.37‘4@ 16.50 LARD... 08 @ .0844 ST. LOUIS. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to Extra..s 5.00 @$ 6.00 HOGS—Live 4.25 @ 4.75 -FLOUR—FaII XX 5.00 @ 6.75 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Fall 1.58 @ 1.60 CORN—Nor 2 Mixed .38 @ .39*4 OATS—No. 2 30.® .31 RYE -No. 2 @ .56-. PORK—Mesa.. 16.75® 17.4)0 LARD..,,. 07 @ .07K MILWAUKEE. FLOUR—Spring XX..., $ 6.75 @$ 7.00 WHEAT—Spring, No. 1 1.29 @ 1.30 “ N 0.2...., 1.23 @ 1.83*4 CORN—No. 2 33 @ .34 OATS—No. 2 .31 @ .31*4 RYE—No:2 .62 @ .68 8ARLEX—N0.2....... .63 @ .65 CLEVELAND. WHEAT—No. 8 Red. $ 1.38 @51.40 CORN - 45 @ .46 OATS—NOr-4-™—.,... 4ft @ .36 DETROIT. WHEAT-No. 1... sl.lO @51.70*4 Amber 1.49 @ 1.50 CORN—No. 1 .40 @ .41 OATS ...i. ..... *33 @ .84 TOLEDO. * WHEAT—Amber Mich... ......$ 1.50 @51.51 No. 2Red... 1.47 @ 1.48 CORN—Mixed ........ 40 @ .42 OATS—No. 2 .31 @ .88 PITTSBURGH. BEEF CATTLE .7.. ..,.$4.25 @ 6.50 HOPS—Uvg.... 4.50 @ 5.00 BfflSBP-Uve.. 1 4.15 @ 3.60

Sommer Hunger*. The summer sunshine that clothes the earth with luxuriant vegetation, evaporates a vast amount of crude, unwholesome, moisture from Its surface, Which, mingling with the air in the form of* mephitic gases, produces a variety of febrile and other diseases. The body being debilitated by the warmth of the season, and the pores being wide open, gaping as it were for the seeds pf sickness, any infectious principle that may exist "In' - the atmosphere is readily received into the system, when it bears baneful fruit in the shape of malarious fever, biliousness, diarrhea, dysentery, eolte, sick ness at the stomach, headache, or nervous prostration. In order to prevent these visitations, put the system in a condition to resist all morbid influences. Brace the inner man with Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters, the purest invigorant and the most invincible antagonist of all causes of disease, "whether present in the air we breathe, the water we drink, or connected with oar manna of life or the nature of oitr pursuits, that" science has yet given to the world. The experience of twenty.-flve years has taught an observant people that this unexceptionable and agreeable ionic aud 4 alterative possesses preventive and remedial virtues that are shared by no other medicine of the present age. It has taught them aiao that while It is infinitely more efliefent than any of the poisonous alkaloids prescribed its tonic-, it is absolutely and entirely harmless. For Blotches, Pimples, Tetter, Salt. Rheum, and all skin Diseases, Jayne s Alterative is a sure remedy. It purifies the blood, and removes all obstructions in the pores of the skin. WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS, please say you saw the Advertisement in this paper. PM! PAIN!! PAIN!!!! WHERE IS TRY RELIEVER? Readers, you will find it In that Favorite Home Remedy, PERRY DAVIS’ Pain-KilleirS It 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 ~theMissionary and traveler, on sea- and 1 ami, and no one should travel on our lakes or rivers without it. Its Merits arc Unsurpiisscil. If you are suffering from INTEIIN ty to Thirty Drop* in a Little Water will almost instantly cure you. There is nothing equal to it. In a few moments it cures Colic, Cramps, Spasms,- Heartburn, Diai-rhcca, Dysentery, Flux, wind in the Bowels, Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, it Cores Gliolerftj when All Otlier lierncdies It gives Instant Relief from Aching Teeth, In sections of the country where FEVER AJND AGUE prevails, there is no remedy held In greater esteem. XBSTFor Fever and Ague— Take three leaspoonfuls of the Pain-Killer In about half a pint of hot water, veil sweetened with molasses, as the attack. Is coming >n, bathing f reely the chest, back and bowels,with the nedicine at the same time. Repeat the dose in twenv minutes, if the first dose does not ston the chill, -hould it produce a vomiting (and it probably will if * he stomach is-very foul), take a little Pain-Killer n cold WT+er. sweetened with sugar, after each <pasm. Pe» Jeveranee in the above, treatment has cured many severe aiul ohstlnrte cases of this disease. WHEN USED EXTEhNALLY, ASA LINIMENT , nothing gives quicker ease in Barn*, Cut*, Bruise*, Sprains,Fit tugs v rom Insect* and Scalds. It removes •.he fire, ami the wound heals like ordinary sores. Those suffering with BHE UMA TISM, GOUT or NEU?>47:/?L4. if not a positive curd, they find the Pain* Killer gives them relief when no other remedy will. Every House-Keeper should keep it at hand, and apply it on the first attack of any Pain. It will give satisfactory relief, and save iours of suffering. Do not trifle -with yourselves by testing untried rem* edies. Be sure you call for the rAIN-hILLEft. accompany each bottle. Price 25 cents, 50 cents and SI.OO per Bottle. J. N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, O. Proprietors for the Southern and Western States. larFor sale by all Medicine Dealers. Trade Mark. tiee Corn number tiMeari, and know from experience that it is a good reoiodw N. It. Morriftou, M.IK, North-feast. Civi l4k>.t Md.: Our Druggists here have a good demaud for MISIILER’S HERB BITTERS. I have used it ia mv practice With good results, and do not hesitate to recommend It as a valuable romedy, particularly in affections of tho kidneys. J. T. Baker, M. 1)., l.ancaster, Pa.: During the'past ten years I have had frequent opportunities of witnessing the effeot of MISHLEB’S HERB BITTEHS. I have known it to prove successful itt many cases where Allopathic, Homoeopathic and Hydropathic treatment had fulled. I-consider it the.most efficacious remedy yet discovered for Diseases arisiug from a Disordered Stomach, Liver, J£.idneys or-Bowels. THE LATE HON. THADDEUS STEVENS, Pronounced MISHLER’S HERB BITTERB “ the most wonderful combination of Medicinal Herbs he ever saw." He suffered for many years from an organic affection of the kidueys, and hundreds of his friends at Washington .'nrd Lancaster know that ho attributed the prolongationrof his life to this Great Diuretic. Nothing else relieved him. SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES. BEARING ABOVE TRADE MARK. -Write for a Price List to ,T. H. .ioievSTON, GREATWESTE^^^^^f^^, 179 Smlthfield St., Pittsburgh, Pa Breech-Loading Shot Guns, $40.t0 S3UO. Double Shot Guns,sß to $l5O. Single Guns, $3 to S2O. Rifles, $8 tO s7s* Itevolyers, $6 to $25. Pistols, $1 to SB. Gun Material,. Fishing Tackle, &e. Large disedim t* to dealers or club*. 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jflg m Ihl VUiffllllliYtt Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, the medicinal properties «f which are extracted therefrom without the use of Alcohol. Tho question is almost daily asked, “ What is the cause of tho unparalleled success of Vinegar Bitters?” Our answer is, that thoy remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier and a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of tho world has a medicine been t compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing tho sick of every disease man is heir to, They are a gentle Purgative as well as a! Tonic, relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious j) The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegarßitters are Aperient, Biaphoretio, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretio, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative, and Anti-Bilious., n. ii. Mciiomn & co., Druggists and Gra. Agts., San Francisco, California, and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. Tnrß C' C E WE V^RLI?I GONsiimON And. Its Otjli*©. Carbolated Cod Liver Oil Is aschmtlflc combination of two well-known medicines. its theory Is first to arrest the decav. then buthl un the system. Physicians find the doctrine correct. The really startling cures performed by IVlll-" son’s Oil are proof. Carbolic Acid positively arrests Decay. It is tho most powerful antiseptic In the known world. Entering into the circulation, it at once grapples with corruption, and decay ceases. It purifies the sourcos of disease. * Cod Lirer Oil is Nature's best assistant in resisting Consumption. Put np in large Wfdgo-shnprd bottles, . bearing the in\ r entor’s signature, ami is iold by the best Druggist s. Prepared by J. H.WILIiSOIV, 83 John St., New York. (Vestkbx Act’s: j lucH^jroOS'&^'.^STvLotnsl Waters’ Concerto Parlor Organs are the most hcantlfUl in class makers, including at oxti cmely low prices for cash, or part caeli, and balance m small monthly payments. New 7Octave flrst-class I*l ANOS, all modern imlOUBLE.REED ORGANS, #100( 4STOI*. #110) 8-HTOI\ #liis, upwards. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES MAILED lor one ‘‘tarn},. A large discount to Ministers, Churches, Sunday Schools, Temperance Societies, Lodges etc. AGENTS WANTED. W Xnt Has all the Medicinal prop- M ertios of Crab Orchard |aj| Iff Bprinks ofKy. Has no equal lEJ Is tunp Mil Nausea. Headache, Dya- M 1 2 e ?*, !; i. !/ S5 l dpePsia. Costiveness, Bilioua |l, IU -eAca. .y Vi.Saanen andlilo Incident to nil la Jiovi'ASl mWSf hot weather. Heat larative |>af i* 111 t ’ lo wor hy ail MJV THEA-NECTAR is a rur.E with tlm TVar ranved to suit all tasteß. For 3ala everywhere. And for sale whole sale only hy the Gfent Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 191 Fulton st , and 2& 4 Church-st, N. Y. P. O. Box FOURTH OF JULY! ICX 0 « U wa , nt FLAGS, BANNERS, Streamers, I r Chinese Lanterns, Ac , &c. t semi to ’Pioneer Fa'c- ■ ■ tory and Depot (established 1837). 48. Market at., Chicago. G, F Foster. Son & MoFabrkn. When "sending for goods or prices say where yoo saw this.

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