Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1873 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

Music by a brass band is announced as a Sunday attraction in one of the churches at Newport. A N*W Haven genius has invented a street-hoeing machine with which one man can clean a mile of pavement a day. An old chap at Oil City, likely to dia, has burned up $16,000 so that there will be no quarreling over his will. An Alabama lawyer, defending a murderer, spoke nineteen consecutive hours, and the jury convicted his client in seven minutes. The Missouri River has made a cut-off at the Big Bend, four miles south of Onawa, lowa, thus transferring about 1,500 acres to Nebraska. Sunday-schools have been running in Indianapolis for fifty years, and yet;-says a local journal, eight’ out of ten of the male citizens wink when they callfor soda-water. ' ’ The most beautiful boy baby, under two years, receives five dollars premium, and the most beautiful girl baby, same age, receives five dollars at the Howard County (Iowa) Fair. A miser named Anthony Berger, who occupied the position of night watchman in a. bank, died at Burlington, lowa, recently, leaving property worth $150,000. A gentleman and wife recently arrived at Albany, N. Y., eh route for Saratoga, having driven the entire distance from Omaha. The time consumed was some six weeks. • A firm in Dubuque has just completed the manufacture of two iron steam yachts, one for use on Clear Lake and the other for Storm Lake. They are screw propellers modeled after the Clyde clippers. The locomotive of a Western express train collided with a hand-car, and smashed the headlight. The conductor was equal to the occasion. He just stuck his diamond breast-pin in the cow-catcher, and the train moved right along. Articles of incorporation of the American Central Telegraph Company have been filed in the office of the lowa Secretary of State. The capital stock is $1,000,000. The principal place of business is Davenport. The total absence of bootjacks, pomatum pots, and other household missiles in the remains of the Swiss lacustrine villages, leads Dr. Hartman, the distinguished ethnologist, (ft. the conclusion'th at the domestic cat was"unknown to pre-historic man. The priest of St. Patrick’s Church at Memphis, on a recent Sunday, riot only gave his congregation permission to eat meat on Friday, but recommended it as necessary to the health during the prevalence of cholera. A new swindle has been perpetrated in Wayne County, Mich. Under pretense of starting free libraries in every township, two sharpers would get the signatures of a well-to-do farmer on a blank sheet of, paper and afterward write a promissory' note on the other side, using any signature, the farmer’s name being the indorsement which enabled them to sell the note. A Philadelphia surgeon was called the other day to a house up-town to amputate the leg of a woman. He is a nearsighted man, and when he reached the house he got into the wrong room and calmly sawed off the limb of the servant girl, who was a German who had come over two days before, and who thought it was one of the customs of the country. A New York Central Railway conductor seized a nebbydressed young fellow who had dropped an insulting note in a lady’s lap on his train the other day, dragged him from his seat, and led him by the ear through the train to the smoking car, where hebaffe him remain. The passengers enjoyed the young reprobate’s discomfiture. A hound was chasing a fox, near Laurel Hill, North Carolina, a few days since, when the latter, being tightly pressed, took refuge *in a hollow log, entrance into which it effected, at a knot-hole. The dbg coming up, and finding that the fox had gotten into the log, thrust his head into the knothole after the fox, and got his head fast therein. Being unable to extricate himself, the dog died, and the fox, being cut off from the only avenue of escape from the log, likewise perished, both of them, evidently, having died of starvation. As THE eccentricities of genius arc ever interesting, we are pleased to mention an excellent gentleman of San Francisco, whose costume -owns two beautiful and peculiar features. These are a very gorgeous neck-tie several yards long, whose ends float behind him like the StarSpangled Banner, and. a lafge stick of brilliantly-xariegated candy, resembling an infant barber’s pole, arid projecting from his mouth. Wherever he goes he is accompanied by these charms, and a consequent triumphal procession of boys. A Strange Incident. —A Pennsylvania woman, who has for years been afflicted with catarrh, and has been treated by eminent physicians without obtaining relief, dreamed that a stranger came to her. house and gave her some medicines, saying that they would effectually cure her. Next day, on going to the door and looking out, she saw the identical man of her dreams approaching the house. He offered her a bottle of medicine to cure her catarrh. She took it, followed his directions, and is now—as bad as ever. The Titusville’s (Pa.) Herald says: “A younglady whose tpa struck ile’ a few years ago, and who has since been al boarding-school, recently returned and a party was given for her benefit. Upon the bottom of her invitation-cards she caused to be inscribed ‘R. S. V, P.,’ and one was sent to an illiterate rich fellow, who has also made his money by boring. He did not come, but sent a eard with the letters ‘D. 8. C.-C.’ Meeting him in the stfeet, she asked him what the letters meant. ‘Tell me first what yours meant?’ ‘Oh! mine was French for ‘Respond if you cannot except ’ ‘Well, mine was English for ‘Darned sorry I can’t cohie.’ ’> The thriftiness of Mrs. Weller, whose first husband’s garments so fortunately fitted theelder Samivel, is equaled if not surpassed by that of a widow of Portland, in the canny State of Maine. Perceiving that her adored departed’s silver toffinplate was lying about generally in the way, and desiring very much a pair of handsome new gold-bowed spectacles, she invited a passing peddler to a barter of the same. Leaving the room for an instant she was shocked on returning to find that lovely coffin-plate and the merchant alike gone. Her frantic grief was something too sacred to dwell upon. The police, however, recovered the silver treast ure, and her calmness, if not her happiness, is restored. -- A Black and White Boy-Combina-tion. —A remarkable boy was to be seen at the Nashville depot yesterday; in fact one of the greatest curiosities of the age. He is half white and half black, not in the mulatto and miacegnation sense, but the lower half of his body is whiter than white folks usually are, while the upper portion is black as midnight. His mother, a coal-black negress, was with him, and they left on the Nashville train at 7 o'clock last - evening. He is but three years okf and has already learned to make money out of his peculiarities. He made several nickels yesterday in a very few minutes. There is a round patch, about three inches in diameter, of perfectly beautiful hair on the top or bis head, which h surrounded by little kinky negro wool — Louiertille Ledger. ■PnCUUAKITT OF THE WATERS OF LaKB Tajiob.— We believe It is a well-establish-*

cd fact that the bodicsof persons drowned in Lake Tahoe have never been recovered, the clear cold waters of the lake absolutely refusing to give up their dead. This circumstance, which at first thought appears strange, is .accounted for upon the hypothesis that the waters at the bottom of the lake are sb icy cold as actually to arrest decomposition and consequent expansion of a dead body, one of the conditions under which it would be expected to return to the surface. Whether the victims who repose at the bottom of the pellucid waters of this far-famed lake undergo petrifaction, or are transformed into mermen and mermaids, is a secret which will never be known until they come to the surface at the summons of Gabriel’s trump.— Gold Hill (Net.) News. Very Much in Earnest. —A few days since a farmer in Mad ison Township quar,. reled with his wile and left home. He returned in a short tithe and the. quarrel was resumed and continued to such an extent that he expressed a desire to be out of the world? H is wife intimateth-flraf-nolhing would please her better, and offered to do her part if the rifle were only loaded. He went into the house, got the rifle and ammunition, and loaded it in the presence of his wife, but was very careful, when she was not looking, to slip the ball down his sleeve. After the gun had been capped he handed it to her and went into the yard; she followed as far as the door, when she took deliberate aim and fired. The husband dropped in the grass, to all appearance dead; and lay there a short time before his wife came to him. It did not take her long to discover that he was “ playing possum,” and, grasping an axhandle, she attacked him so fiercely that but for the interference of some of the children she would have crushed his skull. It is needless to add that there will' be a divorce.— South Bend (Lid.) Tribune.

A Late Repentance.

We should be glad to think that the sensible and well-constructed resolutions of Mr. G. T. Beauregard and his associates represent the real designs of the Louisiana Democracy. We miss in them any strong sense of the flagrancy of past errors. Some expression of lasting regret for the cruel deeds qf their recent . associates might have been expected, some desire of atonement to the white and colored Republicans who have so long labored for freedom at the peril of their lives and fortunes, some contrition for those sad events that have covered the recent history of Louisiana with an imperishable stain. Yet possibly all this may come. We have never believed that a majority of the white farmers and merchants of the State shared willingly in" the acts of their more guilty leaders, or that, had tlicy possessed sufficient courage, they would not long ago have thrown off the rule of that desperate faction which was plotting the ruin of Louisiana. If they can.now boldly carry out the policy suggested in these resolutions; if they can give peflecTlreeU dom and peace to the community; if they guard as jealously the'privileges of every white and colored Republican as they would their own; if they insure'to the immigrant, the capitalist and the stranger that courteous welcome, irrespective of his political creed, which is the crowning trait of every Republican community—they will do much to repair the ravages of war and the still worse consequences of the eight years of terror and violence that have succeeded the rebellion. But we cannot bind ourselves to the fact that it is by deeds rather than words that this reform must gain the confidence of the nation, and that the doubts and fears that will still attend it can only be removed by the test of actual experience. It will require an earnestness and a selfdenial on the part of its supporters which we shall be the first to honor if they are faithfully rendered, time to prove- its reality, and such-rigorous justice upon every offender against the laws as will give perfect safety to life and property. The white colored Republicans of Louisiana have been the chief if not the only victims of the eight years of misrule, and it can scarcely be expected that they will at once accept the assurances of their persecutors, or lose their claim upon the protection of the national government until it is plain that it is no longer needed. They will watch with a just scrutiny the progress of reform, and if it succeed, Will repay with their gratitude and esteem the labors of every sincere friend of peace. As they belong chiefly to the working -classes, from them must come the future prosperity of Louisiana; and it is only when labor is duly honored, and honest industry preferred to barbarous sloth, that any State or nation can win confidence or credit. We confess we have a necessary distrust of the professions of the opposition leaders at the South, so often have they deceived the people by promises of amendment, and so steadily have they pursued their design o,f ruling by force or fraud; so cruel anti' barbarous has been their treatment of their laboring class, so destructive their policy to the higher interests of their section. Education, morality, peace and justice have disappeared wherever they have gained the control. We trust, therefore, that the Louisiana reformers, if they desire success, will keep themselves wholly free from any alliance with that faction which began the disorders and violence at the South; or which fostered them at the North; that time, the test of truth, will show that they entertain no political object but the restoration of freedom and equality; that they may be able to touch the hearts of their associates with remorse for their past cruelty, and awaken them to repentance. When they have done this their Republican fellowcitizens will not hesitate to award them a proper confidence.— Harper's Weekly.

That $1,200 Check—Further Vindication of Mr. Colfax.

A very important statement will soon be published, showing that the proceeds ol the famous $1,200 check to “8, C. or bearer” were not received by Hon. Schuyler Colfax. The statement will be the testimony of a gentleman who saw Oakes Ames present that check in person at the office of the Serge'ant-at Arms and re<x*ive the money for it. This gentleman has long been absent in Europe, and.was not until recently aware of the importance of his testimony.— ‘■ Washington (June 30) Bis patch to ChiragaJriuriial.

How to Guard Against and Treat Cholera.

The Executive Committee of the American Public Health Association have -issued the following circular: ... »._Nzwy<iss,jj.une.ll6 To comljat and arrest the progress,, and prevent the epidemic prevalence of this scourge of sanitary negligence, it is necessary that the inhabitants of every city and town should promptly resort to the most effectual purification, and the best known means of disinfection, and that this sanitary cleansing and preparation should be at once and very thoroughly carried into effeeb-before any eases of cholera occur—and that in the presence of the disease these sanitary duties should be enforced in every household, and throughout tlie entire district. -Experience" has proved that the best way to prevent both pestilence and panic is to know prepare for the danger. It is the only way to deal successfully with cholera. The local conditions that chiefly promote the -outbreaks and propagation of cholera are (1) neglected privies; (2) filth-sodden grounds; (3) foul cellars and filthy or badly-drained surroundings of dwellings; (4) foul and obstructed house-drains; (5) decaying and. putrescent materials, whether animal or vegetable; (6) unventihited, damp and uncleansed dwellings and apartments,

These localizing causes of cholera should be prompt Iv aud very thoroughly removed before a case of the disease appears in the town or district; and if any sources of putrescence or of excessive moisture remain, these should be oontrolled by the proper cleansing, drying and disinfection. . Thorough scavenging and surface drainage, with the application, at the same time of quick-lime and coal-tar or crude carbolic acid; whitewashing with fresh quick-lime; the cleansing and thorough drying and ventilation of cellars, basements, chambers and closets; and daily care to cleanse, Hush, ventihltd and purify the sources of defilement about all inhabited premises, will afford almost complete protection if suitable care is taken of personal health. The security of personal Jjcaltb requires—pure drinking-water, fresh and substantial food, temperance, and the needed relit and bathing of the body. The principles relating to disinfection as, a means of destroying the propagating or jnfec_lious.causc of cholera—thc“choUracontagium” —are readily understood and may lie so explained to any family, that the household may insure its own immunity, against the introduction and spread of the disease. For popular use wc append a brief statement of these principles at the end of this circular; and we respectfully recommend that the statement, and the following schedule of rules and methods be given to the press, and to all principals - of schools, superintendents of places of publitp resort, "Hi ilrbtuUdepbtsr ferries, hotels, and public institutions; and to the masters- of ships and steamboats, and the conductors of passenger trains throughout this continent; believing, as we do, that by the timely and continued application of these measures, the prevalence of cholera may be prevented. But, let the fact be remembered, there can be no substitutes for thorough cleansing and fresh' air. Rules and methods of disinfection. For l'rivirs, Water-closets, Drains, and Sewers. — Eight or ten pounds of sulphate of iron (copperas) dissolved in five or six gallons of water, with half a pint of crude carbolic acid added to the solution and briskly stirred, makes the cheapest and best disinfecting fluid for common use. It can be procured in every town and by every family, and if the carbolic acid is not at hand, the solution of copperas may be used without it. To prevent privies and water-closets from becoming infected and offensive: Pour a pint of-thisstrong-selttlkHi-iuto -every watcr-eloset pan or privy-seat once or twice a day. To disinfect masses of filth, privy-vaults, sewers and drains, gradually pour in this solution until it reaches and disinfects all the foul material. For the chamber vessels used by the sick, and for the disinfection of ground upon which any excremental matter has been cast away, use the solution of copperas and cnfbolic acid; =and, for disinfecting extensive masses or surfaces of putrescent materials, and for drains, sewers and ditches, this disinfecting fluid may be used, or the “dead oil” (“heavy oil”) of -coal-tar, or coal-tar itself; coal-tar may beused as a paint upon the walls of cellars, stables and open drains. Other disinfectants, such as the solutions of segquiehloride of iron, or of chloride of ■ zinc, are effectual in privies and drains, and upon foul surfaces and offensive materials'. Quick-lime is useful- as an absorbent and dryer upon foul walls and in damp places; and whitewashing with it should be practised in common tenements, factories, basements, closets, and garrets. To disinfect the clothing defiled in any manner by excremental matters from the sick, throw all such articles immediately into boiling water and continue the boiling for half an hour; or place them in a solution, covered, made as follows: 1 pound of sulphate of zinc, 6or 8 gallons of w ater, to which add 2or i ounces of pure and strong carbolic acid. Tins is also an excellent disinfectant for bed-pans and chamber vessels; also for disinfecting floors and other defiled surfaces. Keep the soiled articles saturated until they can be boiled. If the acid is not.at haffd, us« the zinc water alone. Apartments, bedding or upholstery that have been used by the sick with cholera or diarrhoea, should be fumigated by the burning of several pounds of brimstone (sulphur) upon a defended iron pan, or I>y carbolic acid, chloride of lime, and sulphuric acid, with the place tightly closed for several hours under a physician’s directions. ' s '_ From being the most feared and destructive pestilence, cholera has become entirely submissive to sanitary measures of prevention, and can now be controlled and extinguished more quickly and completely than any other epidemic disease. Believing, therefore, that the people of the United States w ill wisely apply the suggestions w hich are given in this memorandum, the undersigned Committee presents them for the purpose of hastening and making sure the most extensive, thorough,, and speedy control of this destroyer.

Changing Your Flannel.

’With the first warm days of spring comes an irresistible inclination to doff your flannel. You long to break from your winter chrysalis condition and take a fresh start with the buds and flowers. But previous experience has taughU you to be patient, and you wait a few days longer. Then it blows up colder than it Jias been any time during the winter, and _yott congratulate yourself on being so prudent,’and wait for winter number two to pass over. Presently it gets warm again, and each day increases in calorie over its predecessor. You can’t forget that you have a woolen undershirt and drawers on, nor that the latter are imbued with a strange propensity to slip off, and you keep hitching at them about the waist as you go along. You wonder why you didn’t take them off sdveral mornings ago, and resolve that you will not let another day slip by without doing so. Next morning, as soon as your eye# open, .you fall to thinking about your underclothes, and remember that you were thinking of the same subject the day before. You raise up in bed and take a thermal observation. The air seems pretty cool yet, and you conclude to postpone tlie change for another day. But by ten pjclock it is hotter than ever, and you make use of a familiar epithet when speaking of your matitutinal lunacy. Next morning you jump out of your bed like one possessed, and snatch off your flannel in a twinkle. When yqji go down to Breakfast you feel a justrjjtrceptible chill in your nether extremities. You go to the door, and look put uneasily. There is a piece of stubbornAooking cloud rolled up around the east, through which only a few stray sunbeams are sifted. But you tell Moflie that youthink it will clear up presently. You go down to the store and the boys are surprised at the energy with which you bustle around among the goods. You ar6 merely testing the old doctrine relative to the caloric effect of exercise. About nine o’clock a few’ sporadic drops begin to fall, just enough to keep the air moist and cool. You go to the door, make • a casual remark about the changeableness of the climate, and sneeze deeply; Finally you have the boy kindle a fire, and sit wjfh your knees near the stove. You entertain disparaging ideas of the sanity of a man who Would take off hiS flannel’on such a morning, and set yourself to wondering whether you will get sick. Then you sneeze twice, poke the lire, and get a little closer to it. You relieve yourself half audibly of an expression j’ou have been running over mentally, for some time, and sneeze again six times in succession. The boys rally you and .you-take up your. haE snappishly’, and goout. By the time you make frequent dives with’ your left hand into the vicinity of your coat-tails, you suddenly notice that your handkerchief needs changing. When you go to dinner you tell Mollie that you have the headache and sneeze in-" opportunely while carving the beef. She suggests that probably you have caught cold from taking off your underclothes, and advises you to put them on again. You. don’t take- the atlvicc very kindly, and snuffle down to the store’ again. About three o’clock you conclude that you are not very well, and go home. , Mollie brings you’a pillow and you lie down on the sofa. You don’t .much mind being siek, but to hear Mollie ask in a plaintive tone every—flve minutes, “Don’t you think, dear, it offyour underclothes,” cuts you to the heart. , In the evening Mollie tries-to seduce you into taking “something” before going to bed, but you’re not going to be

made a baby of, and declare that you will be all right in the morning. But in the morning you notice that Mollie is already up when you get awake, aud you feel hot, and there is a bad taste in your mouth. You drop into a half-conscious dose, and by and by you feel somebody’s hand on. your wrist. You open your eyes lazily and see that old Dr. Pillgriper .is.bending over you with a look that seems to say: ■“Ah, old fellow, I’ve got you at last,” Then you shut your eyes again. Three or four weeks after you pick up an old copy of the Stoketown Review and glancing over the personal column are surprised at seeing your name in connection with some such expressions as “quite low,” “serious apprehensions,” and the like, and indignantly ask Mollie what it means. When you get able to walk down, street the boys seem very glad to see you and burst into a laugh when you lift your hat. You put it back very quickly and begin making inquiries about where you can get a wig. Then you remark with a sly twinkle in your eye, that next spring you won’t take off your flannel till the first, of September.— Gtncinnati Saturday Night.

Corus in Horses.

There is a wide spread fallacy that corns usually depend upon some peculiar form of foot, and that with such feet they are, like Coughs and colds, almost unavoidable, even with tlip.best management. The truth Is, that corns are always caused by an ill-fitting shoe. So long as a level shoe rests evenly upon the proper bearing surface of the foot, no corn can occur, but wbenthesiirface pT -either footor shoe is irregular, then the iirost prominent point of contact is pressed upon unevenly and bruised. A corn is a bruise and nothing more, save that usage has confined the term to bruises of one part of the foot—the angle of sole between the wall and bar. This part of the foot is most liable to injury by uneven pressure, because it is in relation to the termination of the shoe. If the end of the shoe does not reach tlie extremity of the heel, it forms a point upon which the yielding horti is pressed- at every step. Short shoes then are most objectionable, and we find, a frequent cause of-corns. - They are often purposely employed on hunters, and on horses with capped elbows, seldom really necessary, hut if so, should be very carefully fitted. By way of avoiding corns it is the common practice of many farriers to “ease the heel of the shoe,” that is, to so fit-it .that the last inch of the shoe takes no bearing on the foot. A space is thus left between the shoe and foot in which one might place a penny piece. This is one of the greatest evils of shoeing, for not only is an inch of the best bearing surface of the foot unused, but increased pressure is thrown upon the spot where shoe and foot are in contact. Instead of preventing corns, it is a common cause, and why it should be so will be understood when we say that the seat of the corn is about an inch in front of the extremity of the foot, in fact, just at the spot upon which this “eased heel” throws most weight. Corns may be due to an uneven surface of foot, not of shoe, as when the wall at the heels is lower than the bar, in which case a level shoe is almost certain to act as an exciting cause. Lameness from corn usually shows itself about a week after the horse 4s-shod, depending, of course, upon the degree-of-pressurc existing. In some cases, however, a corn is the cause of lameness after a shoe has been on for a month or more. This may be due to tlie shoe having shifted ori the foot, or to the growth of horn carrying the shoe forwards and within th’e wall. The inside heels of the fore feet are most commonly affected, because the shoes for them are always fitted closer on the inside than the out, and hind feet are hardly ever affected, because the shoes for them are always fitted long and wide. Let us repeat, a corn is simply a bruise, similar in every way to a bruise of our nails. There is' injury to the Sensitive parts, followed by discoloration of horn. When a horse is lame, if on removing the shoe and gently trying the foot all round with the pincers, tenderness is shown at the heel, we suspect a bruise or corn. The farrier would at once cut away the horn at the part until he saw it discolored, and then would say he “had found a corn.” Imagining this discolored horn to be the offending substance, he would proceed to remove it, layer after layer, until he reached the sensitive and now bleeding tissues. We need hardly.point out the absurdity of this practice. Tlie stained horn is simply a sign of injury to the sensitive foot, and the removal—of this horn, while it does no good to the bruise, leaves the foot miserably weak for weeks or perhaps months. What would be thought of a surgeon, who, because his patient had a discolored nail, the result of a bruise, proposed to remove the stained horn and lay bare the sensitive tissues? No medical man would do such a thing, and no patient would permit it. Yet veterinary surgeons and farriers follow this practice on the horse’s foot, and horse owners assent to it. The result is, that corns assume a fictitious importance, and the heel, robbed of its horn, is liable to fresh injury for a long time. We may be told that the horn is remov ed so as to release any matter formed as the result of inflammation. It is certainly a plausible excuse,’ but not a true one. A professional man should be able to diagnose the presence of matter without injurious explorations, and matter is never present unless a horse is worked for two or three days after the appearance. In about eighty per cent, of the cases in Which a farrier professes to have let out matter, he has simply let out a straw-col-ored effusion which would have been naturally reabsorbed in a day or two after the cause of injury—the shoe—had been removed. The remaining percentage of corn easessliow matter because from negligence or ignorance the shoe has been allowed to remain on the foot, continuing the injury, and thus set up active inflammation. The rational treatment of Corn is to remove the shoe, and foment the- foot with warm water—in other words, to remove the cause of injury, and help nature to reabsorb any effusion. If matter forms, it must be thrown off. Nature does this through an opening at the top of the wall, between hair and hoof; man endeavors'to do it by an opening through the sole. Now, we believe in nature’s plan, and experience show us that it is the best, if not the quickest, course for the horse’s foot. Warm fomentations facilitate this course, and therefore the treatment we liave suggested is applicable to all stages. This treatment docs not injure the hoof, and a cessation of pain, and consequent lameness, can be -followed-by the Immediate a pplieati<m-of a properly fitted shoe. On the other hand when the bars are destroyed and the sole cut away, the wall is left without any support. It is too weak to properly sustain weight; if it rests upon the shoe it is pressedeither inwards or outwards, and the recently injured parts are again hurt. Thus, and thus only, it is that the existence of corns can be said to predispose a horse to their A corn is only a temporary accident, like a bruised finger; the one is just as likely to recur as the other. If a horse remains Jame-over a fortnight, there is something more than a corn—either a badly fitted the injury inflicted by the farrier's knife—to account for it. ’ Verily, the ordinary cure for corns is worse than the disease. Horses are, we know, frequently lame or tender for months after having had acorn. Let such animals be properly shod, no cutting out of the heel allowed, and we guarantee a speedy cure. Remember that

a corn is only a bruise of a horn-coVered part. Treat it as you would your own finger under similar circumstances, and, very little trouble will be entailed. — Land and Water. ——- —An English letter says': hundred young women lately presented themselves for competitive examination for eleven vacancies among the clerkships of the London (England). Post-offices, and 1,000 of these unfortunates were actually examined ” ■ ■ ■ • ■' - Ask foir* 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 cah show more evidence of real merit than Allen’s Lung 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 the 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. A Fhvsician-who Hbalhd Himself.—lf a railroad director were lashed to every locomotive, there would be fewer railroad accidents, and if doctors had to take their own physic before administering it to their patients, fewer people would be poisoned. Dr. Joseph Walker, of California, took this course when he first compounded the famous Vinegar Bitters whiefir now rank as an inestimable household remedy in all parts of the United States. He healed himself with this specific before he offered it to the world. He introduce cd it with a simple statement of the manner in which he had discovered its vegetable ingredients anibeen .xured^whiJe-wandering’, sick and poor, among the California tribes. He stated what the preparation had done for himself, and a few sufferers from dyspepsia, biliousness, rheumatism, lung diseases, and many other prevalent disorders, believed him, tried the new restorative, and were more than satisfied with the results. In this way the sale of the Vinegar Bitters began, and we mention the fact as an evidence that in this age of inteHigenee' and inquiry, nothing that is really valuable to mankind can prove a pecuniary failure —even though it lack the help of capital, and have to fight its way against powerful opposing interests. Within two or three months after its introduction, the article became self-supporting, and it now yields a magnificent annual revenue. We see by the.,Chicago papers that Procter & Gamble have reduced the price of their longestablished and popular brand, Mottled German Soap. Its present price and superior quid-" ity makes k the cheapest as well as the best soap for consumers. If a horse has a good constitution, and has once been a good horse, no matter how old or how much run down lie may be, he can* Tie greatly improved, and in many respects made as good as new, by a liberal use of Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders. A gentleman afflicted with the chronic rheumatism says, “No description of my case can convey the vast amount of benefit I have received from tli* use of Johnson's Amodt/ne Liniment. I believe it is the best article in the world for rheumatism.”

The Career of a Great Remedy. Twenty summers have elapsed since it was briefly announced that a new vegetable toiiic and alterative, bearing the name of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, had been added to the list of Prevent ive and Restorative medicines. The modest advertisemeut which invited attention to the preparation, stated that it had been used with great success, in private practice, aa a cure for dyspepsia, bilious complaints,' constipation and intermittent fever. It was soon discovered that the article possessed extraordinary properties. The people, of every class, tested its merits as a tonic, stimulant, corrective and restorative, and found that its effects more than fulfilled their hopes and expectations. From that time to the present its course has been upward and onward, and it stands to-day at the head of all medicines of its class, American or imported, in the magnitude of its sales and its reputation as a safe, agreeable and potent invigorant and restorative. For languor and debility, lack of appetite and gastric disturbances, so common during the summer months, it is absolutely infallible, indigestion, bilious disorders.constipation, nervousness, periodical fevers, and all the ordinary com. plaint.- generated by a vitiated and humid atiitoephere, vanish under its renovating and regulating influence. This is its record, avouched by volumes of intelligent testimony, extending over a period of a fifth-of a century. and eonqirvliehding the names of thousands of well-known citizens- belonging to every class and calling. In Europe it is thought a great thing to obtain the patronage of royalty for a “patent medicine,” but Hostetter’s Bitters has been spontaneously approved by millions of independent sovereigns, and its patent consists in their indorsement. When the Liver is Out of Order Use Dr Jayne’s Sanative Pills, and you will bring buck this organ to a healthy condition, and get rid of many distressing symptoms. Ifvov have Chills, periodic TieadaeiieTdf any bail feeling caused by malaria, Shalleuberger’s Pills w ill remove the trouble at once. They are an Antidotk.

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NEW YORK, July 1, 1873. BEEF CATTLESII.OO @512.50 HOGS—Live 4.50 @ 5.50 SHEEP—Live 5.00 @ b. 37% COTTON—Middling2o%@ .21 FLOUR—Good to choice 6.25 @ 7.00 WHEAT-No. 2 Chicago 1.46 @ 1.48 CORN—Western Mixed 49 @ .52 OATS—Western, New4s%@ .46% RYE—Western,B4 @ .85 PORK—New Mess 16.00 @ 16.25 LARI)OB%@ .08% WOOL—Domestic Fleece."4B @ .50 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choices6.oo @56.35 Good 5.25 @ 5.62% Medium 3.50 @ 4.75 Butchers’ Stock 3.25 @ 4.25 Cows aud Heifers.... 3.75 @ 4.12% HOGS—Live 4.20 @ 4.30 SHEEP—Good to Choice, 3.05 @ 4.00 BUTTER—ChoiceIB @ .21 EGGS—Freshl2 © .13 FLt)Uß—White Winter Extra.... 8.00 @ 10.00 Spring Extra 5.50 @ 6.50 GRAIN—WheaG-Spring. No. 2;.. 1.20 @ 1.21 Corn-No. 232%@ ,32%-e Oats—No. 229 @ .29% Rye-No. 2.60%@ .61 Barley—No. 2, New... .50 ® .51% PORK—Mess 14.00 @ 14.25 LARD.O7%@ .08 WOOL—Tub-washed4B @ .50 Fleece, washed 33 @ .42 “ unwashed2s @ .30 Failed .38 @ .42 . CINCINNATI. —i -L FLOUR—Family, New $6.50 @ $6.85 WHEAT—Red 1.29 @ 1.30 CORN 42 @ .43 0AT57."30 @ .40 RYE 66 @ .68 PORK—Mess 15.50 @ 15.75 LARDOB @ .08% ST. LOUIS. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to Extra. .$ 5.10 @55.60 HOGS—Live 4.90 @ 4.20 FLOUR—FaII XX 5.00 @ 6;50 . WHEAT-No. 3 Red Fall.w 1.27 @ 1.30 CORN—No. 2 Mixed -.34 @ .36% OATS—No. 2 .27 @ .28 RYE—No. 250 @ .55 PORK—Mees 15.50 @ 15:75 LARDO7 @ .07% MILWAUKEE. FLOUR—Spring XX$ 6.75 @$ 7.00 WHEAT—Spring, No. 1 1.27 @ 1.28% “ N0.2.w 1.21 @ 1.21% CORN—No. 2 .33 @ .33% OATS- No. 229 @ .29% RYE—No. 262 @ .62% 8ARLEY—N0.2...55 @ .60 CLEVELAND. WHEAT-No. 2 Reds 1.39 @$ 1.40 CORN -41— OATS—No. 1.-. 39 @ <.40 DETROIT. WHEAT—No. 151.76 @51.76% Amber 1.51 @ 1.52% CORN-No. 141 @ .41% 0AT5......35 @ .37 TOLEDO. WHEAT—Amber Mich.... ..... .$ 1.49 @ $1.49% No. 2Red. 1.47 @ 1.48 - CORN—Mixed4o @ .40% OATS—No. 236 @ .36% - ... BUFFALO.. BEEF CATTLE $ 5,00 ©. 5,8)„ . Hoag-roi <... •• ... 5.i0 © 5.25 SHEKP—Uve ...0i.0.-....>... 4.00 © 4.60

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PAIN! PAIN!! PAIN!!! WHERE IS THY RELIEVER? J Readers, you will find it in that Favorite Borne Remedy, PERRY DAV IS’ Paiixx-XXLUIeirZ 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 the missionary and traveler, on sea and land, and no one should travel on our lakes or rivers without It. =,it» Merits are Unsurpassed. If you are suffering from INTERNAL PAIN, Twenty to Thirty Drops in n Lillie Baler will almost Initantly cure you. There is nothing equal to it. In a few moments it cures -I Colic, damns, Spasms, Heartburn. Dlarrhtra, Dysentery, Flux, wind In the Bowels, Sour Stom- 1 < ach, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. it Cures Cholera, when All Other Remedies Fail. It gives Instant Relief frdm Aching Teeth. In sections of the country where FEVER AND AGUE prevails, there is no remedy held in greater esteem. ryf-for Erteraiiil Ague—Take three leaspoonfuls of the r.yiN-Kini.Eii In about hull a pint ol hot water, veil sweetened with molasses, as the attack Is coming >u bathing freely the chest, back ami bow els,with the nediclne at the same time. Repeat the dose in tweev minutes, if Hie llrst dose does not stop the chill, -liould it produce a vomiting (and it probably will if he stomach is very foul), take a little Pain-Klllbb n,cold w-'er. sweetened with sugar,, after each inasin Pc. • everance in the above treatment has cured jianv severe and flhstlnr te cases of this disease. . EXTERNALLY. ASA LI AIM ENT. nothing giver quicker ease in Hurns, Cuts, Bruises, iprains. Stings rom Insects Mill Scalds. It removes he Are, and the wound heals like ordinary sores, those Buffering with RHEUM A TISH, GOUfor NEUXALGIA. if not a positive cure, they tlnd the Dita--latler gives them relief .when no other remedy will. Every Hovse-Keefer should keep it at hand, and apply It on*'ie first attack of any Fain. It will give satlslacton relief,and saw lours of suffering. Do not tritle With yoiirselves by teßtinguiitried remedies. Be sure you call for the PAIA-hiLLBn. lirDlreetions accompany cacti bottle. Price 25 cents, 50 cents and SI.OO per Bottle. J. N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, O. Proprietors for the Southern and Western Statea. Ltf-For sale by all Medicine Dealers. •—Prepared by a Regular Physician.— t. s •a ft. § ** § 3. i I-- _ I JV-uthtrwd hff Phi/NichiHK and Druggists, ramis LOW BESERVOIR ®)AKW 'Ww to Soiled Io all Climates, AND FAMOUS FOR BEING - BEST to USE I CHEAPEST TO BUT!! EASIEST TO SELL! 11 • Famous for doing more and BETTER COOKING, DOING IT Quicker ©nd Cheaper < , Than any Stove of tixo cost* (• <nn r famous fob giving . Satisfaction Everywhere, AND BKINO Especially Adapted [ r TO THE wis or Hmomu. SOLD SY EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING • 612 and 614 N. Main Street, ST.LOUIS, MO.

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MINERAL SPRING WATER, OF MILWAUKEE-, WIS., Cures Dropsy, Diabetes, Bright’s Disease, Stone in the Bladder, and all Diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs. Physicians recommend it. We refer to Dr. E. B-WolcoT, of Milwaukee, Surgeon-General Stale of Wisconsin, and all other first-class physicians. For certificates, circulars or water, address SILOAM MINERAL SPRING CO., MILWAUKEE, WIS. Write fnr a Price Lftt to J. H. .JOHNSTON, 79 Smithfield St., Pittsburgh, P.'u*’"®' Bn ■•vh-Loadfng Shot Guns, $lO to S3OO. Double Shwt GU)is.sßtoslso. Single Guns, $3 to S2O. Rifles, $8 to $75; ih volvers, $6 to $25. Pistols $1 to SB. Gnn Material, Fishi: gTackle, &r. Large to dealer* or club*. TirinvCuiis.Revolvers,etc..bought or traded for. Goods Sent by express C. 0.1). to be examined before paid for. Vfe 3 ■ ■ a B MORPHINE HABIT speedily K H O I S H cured by Dr. Beck’s only Ur 10 m for treatment until cured. Cull on or address DR; J. C. BECK, Cincinnati, O. dSfIJ nnA REWARD a|S * J h h any case of Blind. I ■ H 3 * m Bleeding, Itching or ViceXk r J r j i B rated Pilcs-that De Bing’s n 0 A I ■ If i i B -I ,,LE Kkmedy fails to Cam ■ 1 w 1I h cure. It is prepared ex hy jf n B H II B prrssiy to cure the Plica, W kJ VMr W and nothing else. Sold by ■ f all Druggists. Price SI.OO djR +/N (bon perday! Agents wanted! All classes of ip J L 0 ipziU working people, of either sex, young or Old, make more money at work f»»r us in their spare moments or all the time than at anything else. Particulars free. Address G. Stinson & Co.. Portland, Maine. r PEA.— TEA AGENTS wanted in town and country Jl to sell TEA, or get up club orders for the largest Tea Company in America; importers’ prices and inducements to agents. Send for circular. Address, ROBERT WELLS, 43 Vesey Street, New York.

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SI /Wwl 1 n/ v eure w \ Dr. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of tlw.Sierra Nevada mountains of California, tile medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom without the use of-Alcohol. The questionis almost daily asked. ‘‘ What is the cause of. the unparalleled success of Vinegar Bit- * tersf” Our answer is, that they remove the cause of disease, and the patient recovers his health. They are the great blood purifier ana a life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the world has a medicine been eompaunded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in heaMng the sick of every disease niau 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 Diseases. The properties of Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative, and Anti-Bilious. • Rv H. McDonald <s co.. Druggists and Gem-Agts., San Franciseo, California, und cor. of Washington and Churlton Sts.. N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers. wßi a? IbMto.W kSf THE BEST IN VM£ WQFLUD fes * nKo srAr?**«K: CONSUMPTION 21.a3.c1. Xtiss Cure. WILI>SOTV’S Carbolated Cod Liver Oil Fk r KCicutlflTi coTiiblnntTon of two well-lcnowh "mecTT clim’h. Its throw is first to arrest the decav. Ilien build up the system. Physiclßiis find the doctrine correct. The really startling cures performed by Willson's Oil are proof. Carbolic Acid pordtitely arrests Decay. It is the most powerful antißeptic In the known world. Entering Into tin 1 circulation, it at once grapples with corruption, and decay ceases. It purifies the sources us disease. C<nl Liver Oil is Nature's best assistant iu resisting Consumption. Put up in large wedge-shaped bottles, Searing the inventor’s signature, and is «>l<l by the best Druggists* Prepared by J. lI.WILLSOV, 83 John St., New York. ,v vq . rFrv A CT ’ S . < HVKLBt’T * EDSALI . Chicago. rygSTERX AGT B. | RI CH AItDSON CO., ST* LOUIS. yt siAYjl gfej&ijll & W/ V&nL Has all the Medicinal propkx JL ertiea of Crab Orchard Fwrfl F® Springs of Ky. Wm no equal l< fell mWffTlin Nausea, Headache, DysI .plSSl pepsia. Costivencss, Bilious la hIK* Wo meases and ills incident hot weather. Best laxative ©v in the world. Sold by all B & El Druggists. jff. J I The Best is the Cheapest. PROCTER & GAMBLE’S! i ■ "MOTTLED CEBU AX SOAP. This Soap has been sold for more than 18 years. H It is economy to buy it. as it is sold at t he price of n ordinary soaps, and does more service, being B harder, will not waste, yet washes easy. You can H buy it of your nearest grocer. This soap is jacked Honestly. Can you M afford to pay for what you do not receive ! N ~.n ORDER FROM | Chicago and Milwaukee Wholesale Grocers. J. M. BRADSTREET & SON’S Improved Mercantile Agency. Established 1849. The July volume Issued by tis contains the fullest record of business houses In the country,and is indisfensable to all houses extending credit. Terms and full particularscan be obtained by addrmsing us at Pobtland Blo<3k, Chicago. J. M. BRADSTREET & BON. J. M. KEESE, Superintendent. “AMERICAN SAWS.” BEST IN THE WORLD. MOVABLE-TOOTHED CIRCULARS, PERFORATED CROSS CUTS. Send for Pamphlet to AMERICAN SAW (0.. NEW YORK. fl MALE or FEMALE, Vs Unatnu lb Reapecteble employinent,at home, day or evening; no capital requm. ad; full instructions and valuable package of goods sent free by ’nail. Ad di o-s, \nth six cerrt stamp, M. IMPERIAL. GlN.— The only Gin distilled in America by the Holland process. Medicinally and Chetnica-liy pure. Equal to the Imported, at less than half the price. H. H. SHUFELDT A CO., Chicago. Itifi a. P er da Y’ Agents wanted every AIII tn n /II where - Particulars free. A. H. 4> I U IU LU BLAIR & CO. fit. Lonls* Mo

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