Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1873 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

A ftsh recently caught in Red River, Texas, had a centipede inside. The guests at Mount Washington have anew-balling for one of their amusements. . WnxTA.it Butler, of Lenexa, Kan., raised 1,842 bushels of oats from twenty acres of land. A band of wolves has taken possession of the poorliousc at Oskaloosa, Kansas. A female Arc company is talked of at Lewisburg, Pa. The export trade of Boston has more than doubled in two years. A Massachusetts State constable frightened a woman to death. A man with one leg celebrated the Fourth of July by climbing to the top of Pike’s Peak. An Ohio woman fears to go overland to —California this summer, ' because she would have to go through Cholerado. A young gambler, aged fourteen, lately fleeced a member of the Texas Legislature of $ 1,200, at “a little game.” “Give us water or give us death,” cries the Denver Tribune. Most Western men would prefer the former alternative. A grain dealer at Davenport, lowa, got neatly swindled out of S6O in money and fifty grain sacks, by an “honest farmerlooking” fellow. A farmer in St. Clair Count}-, 111., lias just harvested from twelve acres'of ground 588J£ bushels of wheat, being but a fraction less than forty-five bushels per acre. The grasshoppers of lowa are addicted to bad habits. They chew tobacco, and are making a bad raid upon that crop as it grows. The new $lO National Bank bill is to be issued about the Ist of September. No issue of other denominations is Wo be made before Congress meets. A hotel-keeper in Sterling, Mass., got up a few nights ago to take some essence of peppermint, and swallowed corrosive sublimate instead. Southwestern sanitarians have settled it to their own satisfaction that “indigenous cholera” owes its origin solely to eating fruit containing the ‘‘germs of caterpillars.” An old couple living near Sparland, Til., were recently divorced. The husband has since married the hired girl and the ex-wife taken the hired girl’s placg. Two Kentucky youths were invited into the bushes to see a serpent. They didn’t see the snake, but saw a pair of pickpockets decamp with their money aud things. A piece of glass an inch long was taken from the head of a Rochester man, recently, in whose skull it had been imbedded for twenty years. He had complained occasionally of a“pane” in the head. A frontier correspondent who saw Capt. Jack after his capture, writes that, in his opinion, the Modoc Chief's appearance would have been vastly improved if he had been washed before lie was ironed. A Lawrence girl, about to sue a false admirer for a breach of promise, compromises the matter for. $6 and a new watch. Now she can get another lover, and let him run on tick till she wants more money. In a recent case of assault with intent to kill in Indiana, it was shown that the affray came about from a father insisting on remaining in the room with his daughter and her beau. The sympathetic jury acquitted the young man. The colored citizens of Summit County, Ohio, have presented a petition to the State Constitutional Convention to have the word “negro” prohibited by constitutional provision, front being used in public documents and school books. “Rebecca Jones, you arc singing through your nose again,” exclaimed a Wisconsin music teacher, and Rebecca was so mortified that she rah out and jumped into the river, but was rescued. E., Robbs & Co. have commenced suit against the city of Cincinnati to recover $130,000 for lumber destroyed by the great coal-oil fire in June, on the ground that the oil was stored in violation of a city ordinance, and that they repeatedly requested the city to enforce the law. At the Caledon ian Club games at Scranton, Pa., recently, the feature was a fat woman’s race for a new bonnet. It was an oily affair. The leanest contestant weighed ISO, and three others weighed respectively, 200, 242 and 251 pounds. Among the incidents of the cholera in the South is mentioned the fact that many mocking-birds and canaries sickened and died, while those which frequented the garden* instincTively -fled to-the woods, and did not return until the cholera took Its departure, From some of the letters which have recently appeared in American papers it would seem that European kings, princes, and statesmen are just now particularly desirous of pouring their secrets into the sympathetic ears of American newspaper correspondents. Dr. J. R. Brown, living near South Bend, Ind., killed a rattlesnake with a rake' a few da vs ago, and afterward in handling the rake, communicated some of the snake’s poison to an abrasion on one of his fingers. His whole system became imbued with the poison, which he neutralized with ‘‘spr, frumenti” in copious doses. A Westchester, Pa-., paper-states that a ‘‘Melanerpes Enthrocephalus” lias been observed in the park; and then, lest this portentous name should frighten, away all the women and children, explains that the monster in quest ion is only the red-headed wood-pecker. The Germans of Chattanooga have wholly escaped theclutches of indigenous cholera. They ascribe the fact to the use •f lager beer instead of whisky and brandy, and not a few say they owe safety to onions. Such is Ihe sober statement of the Memphis Appeal. A youthful couple of runaway*/ in Texas having obtained a license, repaired to a clergyman on Red river and desired him to perform the ceremony. He/ however, declined on account of their [youth, and for fear the law might hold bim responsible. Not to be outdone they stowed themselves on a cottonwood log and drifted far enough out into the stream to be considered out of the State, while the the water’s edge, and pronounced words of the ceremony which made them man and wife. A stranger who is visiting Danbury proposed to one of our citizens, Saturday, that he would get a barouche . if the’.citizen would furnish ladies, and take a drive out of town in the evening. The citizen agreed, and went home to getTeady. His wife noticed the particular toilet, and asked him what was up. He didn’t appear to know that anything was up, and she said no more. Shortly after he left, she went to his place of business and learned that he was to take a drive. The carriage was out in front of the hotel the party was to start from, and near it the curious woman found her husband’s partner in the scheme. She asked him if the carriage was going to R , and he, believing her to be one of the invited, replied in the affirmative and helped her in. She was no more than comfortably settled In the back seat, when her husband came down the hotel steps with the couple he had engaged, and reaching the carriage, proceeded to bow them in, when his smile was petrifie I into ghastliness by the vision of hu affectionate wife, pleasantly located on the back seat, and going through a

brief rehearsal with her fingers. One instant he gazed frantically at her, and then giving expression to his pent-up feelings with the simple exclamation, “By hokey!” he turned and fled. —Danbury News.

President Grant and the Salary Bill.

The part borne by the President in, relation to thq so-called salary-grab appears to be the subject of persistent misrepresentation, in some cases by those whose personal knowledge of the facts contrauicts'their statements. From an authentic source it is learned that the question of increasing the Executive salary was one that came early and often before President Grant, in various shapes and through different channels, and that his treatment of it was simple and uniform. It was first presented to him in tangible form? during the session of Congress next succeeding liia inauguration by various Senators and Representatives visiting the Executive mansion on the. business of Congress or their constituents. The object of most of the inquiries addressed to him was understood to be whether lie had any personal feeling on the subject, either for or against an increase of salary for the President of the United" States. His invariable reply was, that .the subject was one on which t lie President could not, with propriety, have any opinion of his own as distinct from the popular branch of Congress, except in the improbable contingency that sucli an increase should be named as would he inconsistent -with the revenue of the government or with tlie comparative simplicity intended .by the founders of the Government to surround the person of their chief executive officer. _ . • „ The affixing of wliat was then so large a salary as $25,000 to the office of President, by the men in Congress who had previously been tiic virtual framers of the Constitution, satisfied President Grant that the intent was to measure the compensation by the amount of ceremonious dignity which Congress judged to be -necessary to the usefulness of the office, and that, for his part, while lie should be perfectly willing to serve out his term at the old rate, he could not consent to compromise what he considered a sound principle of non-interference, or to place in a false or embarrassing position those ot his successors who might-have to consider the same question, by opposing either before or after the fact, any measure for the reasonable increase of the Presidential salary. At no time during the pcndency of the question was the amount suggested as the new rate of compensation less than fifty or more than one hundred thousand dollars per annum. Though he did not regard the higher figure as-unreasonable, the President did on several occasions take an informal departure from his own stand-point, to the extent of expressing a preference for the lower-named sum. This, however, did no violence to his leading views, that the President in office should not be forward in the discussion of such a question, and should not so act as to subject any President coming after him to unfair comparisons, but leave him or her as free from embarrassing precedents as President Grant found himself, ft is quite possible that some of the Senators and Representatives who engaged themselves in informal discussions ot the subject at.tlie Executive mansion, without invitation, were actuated by interested motives, but none such were ever treated pith greater consideration in consequence of their course, and the President never, directly or indirectly, attempted to influence the action of any member of either house of Congress upon the quest ion. None of his visits to tlie Capitol during the latter days of the session were for the purpose of helping the passage of the salary bill, and his only attempts at legislation were directed toward such important public measures as the bills to carry into execution, tlie provisions of tlie Treaty of Washington, and effect a satisfactory pacification of Louisiana, in the latter of which he was unfortunately not successful. In reference to tlie back pay and increase of pay voted to themselves by the Houses of Congress, tlie President’s views are alleged to lie that if a veto had been possible without compromising important public interests contained in the same bill, tlie precedent established by sucli a course of procedure would have been a serious blow to the independence of Congress, and more deserving of the censure than a compulsory and passive assent to the principle of"“baek pay ” However commendable tlie President may have deemed Speaker Blaine’s action, no occasion was' offered him for following the in his own ease. The i'resident is represented as holding to the view that, as members of Congress are of necessity to be intrusted with the delicate subject of regulating their own compensation, tlie constituencies who pay tlie salaries ought to bear the fact in mind when nominations for Congress are in order.—lYmliinyton Cor. Bouton Advertiser.

The Pleasures of the Bionic.

This is tlie season of the year when picnics are most frequent. For real solid enjoyment we, for our part, must prefer * well conducted funeral to an ordinary picnic. You generally reach tlie grounds about 11 o’clock, and tlie exercises begin with climbing a hill, up which you are compelled to carry two heavy lunch-bas-kets. When you reacli the summit you are positively certain that the thermometer -ijnvst be nearly 650 in the shade. You throw yourself on the grass, and in a few moments a brigade of black ants begin to crawl down the back of your neck, while a phalanx of ticks charge up your trouser leg. And just as you jump up, your oldest boy, who has been out in tlie woods, where lie st irred up a yellow-jacket’s nest, comes in with his head and face swelled to the size of a water-bucket, conveying the information that your other boy, William Henry, is up a tree and can’t get down. After laboring to release William Henry tlie thermometer seems to have gone up 200 more degrees, and you think you will take a swim in the creek. While you are in the water, young Jones strolls out with Miss Smith, and unconscious of your presence they sit down.close to your clothes, and engage in conversation for three-quarters of an hour, while you- lie down in the shallow stream, afraid to budge and nearly killed with the hot snn. When they leave, you emerge and find That some wicked bOV from the neighboring village has run off with your shirt and socks. You fix up as well as you can. and when you get hack with tlie party they are eating dinner from a cloth laid on the ground. A spider is spinning a cobweb from the pickle-jar to tho littlecnd vis-the cold ham; straddlebugs are frolicking around over the pound-cake, caterpillars are ' exploring tlie bread-plate, grasshoppers are jumping into the butter where they stick fast, the bees are so thick around the sugar-bowl that you are afraid ' to go near it, and there are enough ants in the pie to walk completely on with it. You take a seat, however, determined to try to eat Something, hut you get up suddenly—all at once, as it were, forvou have set down on a brier. Then William Henry, who has quaffed an unreasonable quantity of lemonade, gets the colic, arid his mother goes fnto hysterics because she thinks he is poisoned -With pokebemes. You lay him under an umbrella, and proceed to climb a tree in order to fix a swing for the girls. After skinning your hands, tearing your trousers and ruining your coat, you get top, tie the rope and Undertake to come down on it, You do come down, with velocity, -and your fingers afe rubbed entirely raw. Just then

it begins to rain ftirionsly, and the whole narty stampedes to the depot for shelter. When the shower slackens you go hack to tlie ground to get tlie rope, and just as you get up in flic tree tlie owner of the place comes along with a gun and a dog, and threatens to blow your brains out and eat.you up, if you don’tieave immediately,. Then you come down again with celerity, and get over the fence as if you were in earnest. Going home in the train ait tlie passengers regard you, from your appearance, as an escaped convict, or a lunatic who has broken from his keepers; and when you reach your home you plunge into a shirt, cover your hands with courtplaster, and register a solemn vow never to go on another picnic. And we are with you; we never will either. —Max Adder.

The Ravages of the Cholera in Mount Vernon, Indiana.

To give you some idea of the min that has followed close upon the heels of tins “Demon of the Ganges,” I will cite a fcW of the nfore prominent families that it Has visited. In a family named Bell, two are left alive out of seven persons; in one named Ilovey, relations of General Ilovey, two died; in that of Slicldens, four deaths; in that of the Woodeys, proprietors of tlie foundry, tlie utmost havoc was made. One of tlie proprietors died with it; in Ids brother’s family, a wife and two children were buried, and so great was die excitement and fright that I am told the husband had to prepare the bodies for the tomb. In their father’s family all hut two were buried. These are individual cases. But I failed to find a single person who lias not had cholera symptoms more or less violent in their effects. Every house is -pervaded With odors of disinfectants; every person smells of asafeetida and camphor; cherub-looking children give out this nauseating smell from their garments. Certainly it would seem that everything possible has been done to stay tlie disease. Ilosin, pine tar, and coal were burned by orders of tlie Board of Health, so that one could feel tlie heat all over tile place, but in spite of all preventives and science, for ten days tlie plague carried of its victims. From my room at midnight, I could hear the noise of funerals. You cannot understand to-what-extremities the citizens and families have been driven. Medical ant was -Insufficient: —Tire-does, tors could not be at all places at all times, and many have died who might have been saved had it been possible to have treated them tlie instant the disease came upon them. Yet the physicians have all acted heroically, with a single exception, whose leaving witli his family has excited a storm of imlignatiom=Jlnt up till to-day. lie had worked hard.- For ten days the doctors had had scarcely any rest, and been-busy in going from house to house, for every dwelling almost had its cholera patients. Scarcely a business house was open to-day ; the streets were deserted, tlie banks closed, and tlie depot thronged with citizens fleeing for their lives from the city. I think at least 700 persons have left to day alone. People living in tlie lower land, or flats, and who have been unable to leave, have removed to store-rooms and warehouses, where they are living, Snd hoping 'to escapeTße itisease. New cases were reported to-day, hut the general belief is that the disease has reached its height; at least the symptoms of tlie new patients are reported as less violent and much milder than those of two days ago. One. singleJact remains .to. he cited, and that is, there is seemingly no reason for this infliction of the pestilence. The town has had the reputation of being as healthy as Evansville, and one of the most healthy in Southern Indiana. The adjoining tracts are not swampy, and tlie bluff on which a part of the city is built is the highest between Evansville and Cairo. Some attribute it to tlie use of well-water; but every house lias a cistern, from which tlie water for cooking, and: drinking is obtained,—and the water of. wells was probably used here less even than in other places. It is certain, however, that it came in spite of cleanliness and the application of scientific truths, and in its track death of the most hideous type has followed, ami a town deserted as though a hurricane had borne away its inhabitants. — Mount Venvoi {July 10) Cor. JZmnsville Journal.

Horrors in a Lunatic Asylum.

A most horrible and almost incredible -condition of affairs in tlie Vermont Insane Asylum is described iu the.report of tlie Legislative committeappointed to investigate the management of that institution. The committee’s first discovery was that tho asyluaywliidi. is r-iurtroLlcdijy.a pri---vate corporation,was greatly overcrowded, 485 patients being packed into a space intended to accommodate 300 at the most. This, however, is a trifling matter in comparison with other revelations. Seventyfive of these unfortunates were thrust awap in subterranean dungeons, dark, damp, foul and pervaded by unendurable stenches. Some were confined in apartments nine feet by four in size, w ith air and ventilation only through augerholes bored in the doors. Themctivc as well as the passive inflictions put upon these poor people proved equally inhuman. Among them was tlie punishment of the bath, in which the patient, securely bound, is placed in a bathing tub, and a continuous stream of mold water allowed to fall upon his head. This torture, it may be remarked in passing, was one of the most excruciating known in the dark ages, resulting "usually in insanity or death. To this asylum of horrors the committee also state that sane men have been consigned through fraud and bribery. The picture is as complete as Charles Reade could make it, but without the romance of tictioD. The reality is something for the Legislature' of Vermont to deal with promptly and severely; for it is too disgraceful for belief, except as attested by an official investigation such as has produced this astonishing report. —Boston Post. a [ „■

“Mamma is Dead”—A Sad Story.

Mr. John W. Van Brocklin, of Twin Bridges, near Virginia City, Nev., was helping to build a" church at Sheridan, and was away from home with liis wagon and team from Monday morning till Saturday night, He had been several weeks so occupied. He was, therefore, absent from his wife" and two littie children, the eldest five years old, all week, except Saturday nights and Sundays. Mrs. Van Brocklin and the children enjoyed good health, and the husband and father had, no fear for the safety of the birds in tb» home nest. There seerc. near jaeiglr-. bors, too. On Saturday evening the two children used to toddle a good distance along the road by which their father came, to meet him and get a ride home in the wagon. On a late Saturday Mr. Van 'Brocklin was returning home as usual, and the two little fellows had gone quite a distance to meet him. lie stopped to take them in the wagon, and as he lifted them up, he asked, ‘‘How is mamma?” Two littlg voices replied, “O 1 , papa, mamma** dead.” He thought he did not hear correctly and asked again, “Your mamma?” 7 ' The little voices again chinied together. “Yes. papa, mamma’s dead in the bed.” Van Brocklin hurried his team home. He found his wife indeed in bed insensible, and fast sinking in death. She was there alone; no neighbors were near. Jfe called loudly for help—the neighbors were alarmed; a doctor was summoned? but before he arrived the poor woman had passed away. doctor said her attack was of a paralytic nature.

This is “Ihe children's story,gsthoredfrom them by odds and ends. On Thursday evening, Mrs. Van Brocklin called her children to her, tind told them she was sick, and to mu' and call the nearest neighbor. Then she fell down on tlie lied. Site never said anything more to them, and they at first supposed she was asleep. It was grpwing dark, and they were afraid to go for the neighbor. They slept in their clothes, and tried to waken their mother in the morning, hut she would not rouse. They ate what they could find cooked in the house, and drove up the cows morning and evening to be milked; but there was nobody to milk them, and at the usual time they turned them out into tlie pasture again. Tlie neighbors seeing ihe children at their usual daily tasks, supposed, of course, that all was right witli them at home, and it so happened that none of them called. Tiie oldest child began to be a little frightened, and suggested to tlie other, “What if mamma shouhl be dead? She must be dead, or slic’d waken up,” and so tlie little boyp came-to the conclusion that their mother had gone away from them, and wondered wliat papa would say when lie heard of it. Their curiosity on this point was excited, and, with hearts full of news, they started out to meet their father coming home in iiis wagon. They had been forty-eight hours with tlie shadow of death in the house, and were not old enough to realize what it meant.

Care of Hand Tools and Machinery.

• Every one who is competent to handle tools of any sort, or to manage machinery, should be taught to keep every working part in complete order. Beginners should be instructed that it is quite as important to understand how to keep tools and machinery from being damaged as it is to handle them with dexterity and mechanical efficiency. One of the first lessons that a beginner should be familiar with, is tlie fact that edge tools and many kinds of machinery may be damaged more by a little carelessness and neglect than by all the wear and tear incident to use for many weeks or even months. When a scale of rust is allowed to form on edge tools, more steel will often lie used up by grinding away tlie rusted surface, than would lie worn out during one or two years. The polished hearings Of machinery should al wuyxbe kep.t in th e niti.at.cymjdete order,. If one side of a bearing is allowed to rust only a trifle, the rusty surface will commence cutting the box, or the box will wear away tlie rusty side of the hearing so rapidly that it will be round on one side and more elliptical than round on tlie side that was allowed to rust. A great many intelligent persons do not understand the immense difference, there is between lubricating oils, lard and tallow. We have known persons who were accustomed to use machinery, to employ; linseed oil, in lieu of machine oil. The result was, every bearing soon became badly “gummed up” so that tlie machinery run -hard, the journals soon became so hot that no oil would operate as alubricator. One of the most important considerations in using machinery is to keep tlie bearings properly protected from the dust and grit that is liable to enter where the oil is - applied, which w ill- not only make the journals run hard, but cut the boxes, or the bearings, or both, thus doing immense damage in a short time. A great many joiners having never ’taken a lesson in the care of edge tools, always spread their tools around about them in extreme confusion. When working at tiie bench, saws, drawing-knife, planes, hammers, squares, rules, nails, screws and shavings frequently cover the bench from end to end, so that tiie saw-teeth are often battered against the hammer, the edge of tlie jointer is dulled badly by being placed on a nail, the cutting edge of tlie draw-ing-knife receives an unceremonious w-hnek, and thebrad-awl, screw-driver, or some small chisel gets covered up, so that more time is really expended in looking up some little tool than would he required To keep the hein-li dear of everything, and to have a place for each tool and keep it there. It is the predominating characteristic of not a few joiners, to have the floor literally covered from end to end and side to side, with lumber consisting of boards, plank, pieces, chips and shavings-. When at Ithaca, a friend accompanied us through one of tiie public buildings of the far-famed Cornell University; and the spacious room where the builders were at work, presented an impressive representation of- superlative confusion. Wagon loads of pieces Of boards, scanning, chips and shavings, saw-horses and finilii 'were scattered promiscuously over the-work-benches and tiie entire floor. The following remedy may he adopted with immense satisfaction. Let a board Trcrmiled mi over tire' bench, into wliicli let several pegs be driven for holding different tools. Near the rise, let tlie drawing knife bang on its own peg, and if it is used sixty times per hour; return it to its respective peg, instead of laying it on tiie bench. Let all tile saws hang where one: can reach any one conveniently. Then, if a saw is to be used only a few seconds at a time, and many times per hour, let it be returned to its peg, rather than laid down. By adopting tips practice, one will soon become so accustomed to have a place for every tool and to keep it there, that he will not know where to look for a too], if lie does not find it in its own proper place. About two feet from the front side of the work-bench, let two cleats, say half an inch thick, he secured on tlie top of the bench, on which let tlie planes be placed, when they are not in actual use. Then, provide a rack for chisels and hits, and let each one have an appropriate place, so that it will be easy to lay the hand on. any one even if blindfolded; Besides these tilings,' keep the lumber off tlie floor, especially from a generous area around about the bench ; aud provide a bench-brush, or small broom, and keep the bench clean and the shop well swept, at least once per day. Two minutes per day appropriated to clearing up and brushing up, will not fail to be spent in the most satisfactory manner.—American Builder. —Roll Cake.—Three eggs, one cup of sugar, one cup of flour; stir well into it one teaspoonful of cream tartar and half as much soda; bakp quick, and roll with jelly when hot; bake in square tins. Ask for l’russing’s Ciller Vinegar and take no other. Warranted to preserve Pickles.

Cholera and Pain-Killer.

Pf.rrt Davis’ Pain-Killer. — This unparalleled preparation is receiving more testimonials of its wonderful efficacy in removing pains, than any other medicine ever Qffered to the public. And these testimonials come from persons of every degree of intelligence, and Ajve-ry rank-of life. Physieians.of. the ..first respectability, and perfectly conversant with the' nature of diseases and remedies, recommend this as one of the most effectual in their line of preparations for the euro, of Cholera, Cholera Morbus and kindred bowel troubles now so cornman among the people. We see by the Chicago papers that Procter ifc’G amble have reduced the priceof their longestablislied and popular brand, Mottled German Soap. Its,present price and superior quality makes ii the cheapest as well as the best soap for consumers. Many persons suffer with sick headache and nervous headache, usually induced by eostiveuess, indigestion, etc. Such persons will find relief if not cure, by keeping the bowels Open with small doses of Pill*. Have you inflammatory sore throat, stiff joints, or lameness from any cause whatever? Have you. rheumatic or other pains in any part of the body? If so, use fohiwt'i Anddrjne IJniint'nt, internally and externally. /

Medical Maniacs.— There we number* of medical men so wedded to the old formulas, that all changes' seem to them like innovations. These medical maniacs are, fortunately, incapable of much mischief in this practical age. While the Vinegar Bitters are curing Indigestion, Nervous Debility, Constipation, and couptless other diseases that defy the remedies of the pharmacopoeia, it is impossible to thrust down the throats of intelligent invalids “heroic” doses of mineral poison, or to persuade them to take adulterated alcohol, impregnated with cheap astringents, as a “healing balm” or a “balsamic preparation.” Vinegar Bitters, a pure botanical tonic, and alterative, guiltless of the curse of distilled or fermented liquor, is actually accomplishing what the mineral and alcoholic cure-mongers have so incessantly promised but have never yet performed. Under these circumstances it is no wonder that this medicine has taken precedence of all those burning fluids mis-callcd tonics. ■ 1.

Revolutions Never Go Backward.

The philosophical theory that the human system when weakened by disease, oppressive beat, excessive labor or any other cause, should he toiled and invigorated-Instead of being subjected to the action of depleting drugs, is gaining ground every day. 'The introduction of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters twenty years ago gave a powerful influence to this common sense idea. As the extraordinary efficacy of the Great Vegetable Restorative became known, multitudes of debilitated invalids turned with, loathing from the nauseous and strength-destroying potions with which it was then the fashion to drench the sick, to this renovating, appetizing, vitalizing preparation derived from the finest roots, herbs and barks placed by botanical research at the disposal of medical science. ReviQlut.ions.never go backward. From that timfe to the present the importance of assisting and reinforcing nature in her struggles with disease has been more and more widely and keenly appreciated by the sick and the suffering. In tens of thousands'of households Hostetler’s* Bitters arc looked upon as the one thing needful in cases of Dyspepsia, General Debility, Constipation. Nervous Weakness. Chills and Fever, Bilious Affections and ail conditions of the body and mind that betoken a lack of vital energy. When the quicksilver ranges high, and the solid flesh is resolving itself into a den under the fervid temperature, this agreeable tonic is the best possible safeguard against all the disorders generated by a sultry and unwholesome atmosphere. It prevents and relieves lassitude ann languor, and enables thesystem to endure with impunity an unusual amount of exertion. Of all invigorating and regulating medicines, it is the puresrand most wholesome. —

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Never Allow either Diarrhoea, Dysentery, or any Ilowel Affection to have its own way, or serious consequences may result; with Dr. Jayne’s Carminative Balsam at hand, these affections may be promptly, safely and efficaciously treated. Eighteen years have established the fact that no cdsa of Ague, or Chills and FcVer, can withstand Shallenberger’B Pills, if taken as directed.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, July 30, 1873. BEEF CATTLE $ 9.00 @512.50 UOGS—Dressed 6.25 @ 7.50 SHEEP—Live 4.25 @ 6:25 COTTON—Middling 20&@ .21 FLOUR—Good to choice 6.25 @ 7.10 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicag0........ 1.43 @ 1.44 -CORN—Western. Mixed.. .... .51 @ .57 OATS—Western, New 41 @ A\y t RYE—Western 78 @ .79 PORK—New Mess,,., 17.10 % 17.25 LARD ' .08>/ 2 @ .08? a WOOL—Domestic Fleece 48 @ .52 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice $ 5.40 @$ 5,65 " G00d.... . 5.00 @ 5.25 Medium 4.60 @ 4:90 Butchers’ 5t0ck...... 3.25 @ 4.25 Stock Cattle, 3.00 @ 4.25 HOGS --Life 4.35 © 4.75 SHEEP—Good to Choice 4.25 @ 5.00 BUTTER—Choice 10 © .21 EGGS—Fresh 12 © .13% FLOUR—White Wider Extra.... 0.75 @ 9.00 Spring Extra 4.50 @ 6.30 GRAlN—Wheat—Spring. No. 2... 1.22 @ 1.22% Corn—No. 2.. 35 0 .36% Gala—No. 2 26%© .27% Rye—No. 2; .56 © .57 : r Barley—No, 2, New... .77 © .79 BOinC-Mcss 15.371a© 15.50 LARD 08%© .06% WOOL-Tub-wai-hmi ...,.n.i..< © -.48 Fleece, -wa5hed...;..... —.3B'©- -;42 = unwashed .23 © .28 Pulled .35 © .38 CINCINNATI. FLOUR—Family, New 16.40 @ $7.00 WHEAT-Red, New 1.25 © 1.30 C0RN............ .43 © .45 OATS 33 © .43 RYE.: a 70 © .72 POKE—Mess 16.00 @ 16.10 LARD 08%@ .08% ST. LOUIS. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to Extra.. .$ 4.00 ©$ 5.75 HOGS—Live 4.10 @ 4.60 F’LOUR—FaII XX 5.75 © 6.50 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Fall 1.42 © 1.45 CORN—No. 2 Mixed 39 © .40 OATS—No. 2 29 © .30 RYE—No. 2 63 © .64 PORK—Mess 16.50 © 16.75 LARD .08%© .0854 MILWAUKEE. FLOUR-Spring XX $5.90 ©56.75 WHEAT—Spring, No. 1 1.25%© 125*4 “ . No. 2 1.18%© 1.18% CORN—No. 2 34%© .34% OATS—No. 2. 2H%@ .27 RYE—No, 1 56 @ .57 BARLEY-No. 2 .79 © .80 CLEVELAND. WHEAT—No. 2 Red $ 1.24 @$ 1.25 ViORNV.. .48 © —.l9 — OATS—No. 3.... 37*4© .38 DETROIT. Vl’nEAT—No. 1....;,.. $ 1.68 ©$ 1.69 Amber. ■ 1.57 @ 1.-58 CORN—No. 1... 46 © .47 OATS 37 © ,38 TOLEDO. WHEAT—Amber Mich .$ 1.56 © $1.57 Amber 11l 1.54 © 1.55 CORN—Mixed 43%© .43% OATS—No. 2 .32 © .32% BUFFALO. BEEF CATTLE $ 4.50 © $6.62% HOGS—Live 5.00 © 5.12% SHEEP—Live 3.50 © 4.75

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS H please say you saw the advertisement In this paper. JENNINGS SEMINARY. Au J7«” For. both sexes. Fine stone buildings and beautiful grounds. Ten departments ; superior advantages in ail. A full corps of professors. Commercial College attached. Fall term opens August 25th. Send for catalogue. Address Rev. C. E. MAXDEVILLE, A, M. f Principal. jpflgpr com in'mu? mu -riSL. - Ready for n»a. JR,] ' - - 1140 atM frinuiul a) ■ pr hour, 15 iS. Bf. -- R Edward Harrison, Havan. Conn a 4 n »nn P cr aay- Afrents wanted everyI M tfl TV / 11 where. Particulars free. A. u. vP IU lU 4ft-v BLAIR & to., St. Louis, Mo. (tic (fin A per day! Agents wanted! All classes of ij)u LO working people.of aither sex, young or old, make more money at work for ua In their spare momenta or all the time than at anything else. Particulars free. Address G. Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. 07 nn EACH WEEK—AGENTS WANTED, rj I Business legitimate. Particulars free. J. WORTH. St. I-ouiS. Mo. Box 2481. THEA-NECTAR withtl^bfriia'lLWai* ranred to suit all tastes. For sale ever>~vchere. And for sale whole sale only by the Great Atlantic <fe P^dficTwi Co., 191 Fulton st,and 5506. Send for T hea-NeCtar circular DR. WHITTIER, Lonp»**t Ciatuiutioa or paaipbiet be**. C*ll or write.

A CHOLERA REMEDY lUauib, you will find It In that Favorite Home Remedy, phruy DAVIS* Pain-Killer ! CHOLERA IN INDIA. What a Missionary says : * “I regret to sav that the cholera has prevailed here of late to a fearful extent. For the last three weeks, from ten to fifty or sixty fatal cases each day have been reported. I should add that the Pain-Killer sent recently from the Mission House has been used with considerable success during,till* epidemic. If taken in season, it Is generally effectual in checking the disease. liav. CHARLES HARDING, Sholapore, India.” Itg Merits are Unsurpassed. If you are suffering from INTERNAL PAIN, Twmty to Thirty Drops in a lAtUe. Water will almost Instantly euro you. There is nothing equal to it. Ina few momenta it cures Colic, Cramps, Spasms. Heartburn, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, I* lux/W-ind in the Bow els. Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. It ciircs Cholera, w hen all other Remedies Fail. It gives Instant Relief from Aching Teeth. In sections of the country where Povor and iLguo Prevails, there is no remedy held in greater esteem. ITT For Fever and Ague— Take three teaspoonfuls of the PAtN.KiLLBRIn about half a pintos hot water, well sweetened with molasses, as the attack is coming on, bathing freely the chest, back and bowels with the medicine at the same time. Repeat the dose In twenty minutes if the first dose docs no stop ttie chill. Should it produce a vomiting (and It probably will if the stomach is very foul), take a little Pain-Killkb in cold water sweetened with sugar, after Caen spasm. Perseverance In the above treatment has cured many severe and obstinate cases of this disease. WHEN USED EXTERNA LL Y, ASA LINIMENT, nothing gives quicker ease in Bums . Cuts, Bruises, Sprains , Stings from Insects , and Scalds. It removes the fire, and the wound heals like ordinary sores. Those.sufferlng wfch RHEUM A TISM , GOUTor NEURALGIA, if notu positive cure, they find the Bain • Killer gives them relief when no other remedy will. Every Housekeeper should keep it at hand, and apply it on the first attack of any Pain. It wIH give satisfactory relief, and save hours of suffering. Do not trifle with yourselves bytesting untried remedies. Be sure you call for*the PAINKILLER. C'iT'Directions accompany each bottle. Price, 25 cents, 60 cents, and SI.OO per Bottle. J. N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, O. Proprietors for the Southern and Western States. tyForsale by all Medicine Dealers. jrajPflsT m >VIIiSON|SEWIN^M^EHINEj| GGNSuIII^'ION And Its Cure. WILLSON’S Carbolated Cod Liver Oi Is a scientific combination of two well-known mod. cines. lts theory is first to arrest the -deray build uni lie system. Physicians find the doctrlne correct. The> really startling cures performed by Willson’s Oil are proof. , _ Tfr in II n Carbolic Acid positively arrests Drew/. It is the most powerful antiseptic In the known world. Entering into the circulation, it at onro grapples with .corruption, and decay ceases. It purifies the sources °^Co<l C /.ir>‘r Oil is Nature's best assistant in resisting Consumption. Pill up in large wwlgr-sh a peel Iml lies, hearing ll»c ini entor’s *ig»»Hl iir«v a nil m sold byllic best l)niggist«. Ire pared by J. H.WIULiSOIV, 83 John St., New York. Western Agt a: uiciIAUDSON a CO., Sr. Loins. Inn Fin LOW^RESERVGIE Are Suited to all Climates, AND FAMOUS FOR BEING BEST TO USE! CHEAPEST TO BUY!! EASIEST TO SELL!!! BETTER COOKIMG, POINO IT Quicker andCh.npcr V Than any Stove of tba cr.i, , -m__ FAMOUS FQlt GIVING Satisfaction Everywkro, Especially Adapted TO TUB Tun if mn iom. ' SOLID .BIT EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 612 and 614 N. Main Street, ST. LOUIS, MO. \ Has all the Medicinalprop-BKjfl erties of Crab Orchard KSI - > Springs of Ky. Has no equal |"J pjfcßlin Nausea, Headache, Dys- M Costiveness, Bilious f HfiujDreeases and ills incident to Vfn ) niff*] hot weather. Best laxative l wj j 'xa lyru 1 * w^rld * 80111 by 411 MJJ IOIiIIMERS WANTED, To lotroyt 1.455,000 acres Railroad Lands In the Middle Region of Western lowa. Average credit price, $6 per acre. Title clear. Climate and soil the bestir the world. Pure running streams Xo fever and ngue These lands are traversed by the Chicago & North western and 111. Central lowa Hues, over which lant Exploring Tickets are sold from Chicago. Dubuque Clinton, A-c., receivable for lands purchased. Ffelt agents will attend parties through from Chicago, ant show the lands to purchasers For R R tickets oi handrbook and guide giving maps, descriptions, lo cations, prices, terms, and all Information, call on or address, JOHN B. CALHOUN, Land Commissioner lowwß. R. IstndCo. Omcir-sw Randolph Street, Chicago, 111.. __ or Cedarßaplds, Aiwa. lOTPKfIIAjj GlW.—The only Gin distilled in America by the Holland proves*. Medicinally and Chemically pure. Equal to the Imported, at less than naif the price. , H. H. SHUPELDT A CO., Chicago. f FKA.-TEA AGENTS wanted ill town and country. J.. to sell TEA. or get uj, < lub orders, for the largest Tea Company In America Importers' prices and iniucemenu to agents. Send for circular. 1 Address, _ ROBERT 7YELLS, * 43 VeseS street. New York.

l)r. J. Walker’s California Vinegar Bitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiofly from the native herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevadamountains of California, the medicinal properties of which are extracted therefrom”without the use of Alcohol. The question is almost daily asked, “What is the cause of the unparalleled sueeess of Vinegaui I!itters?” Our answer is, that they 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” the world fins a luctlicincr been compounded posseting tho reiimrkablo qualities of VinroakVlitters 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 Diseases. The properties of I)m Walker’s Vinegar Bitters are Aperient, Diaphoretic, Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic, Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorific, Alterative, and Anti-Bilious. n. 11. ItlclJO V AT.TV ■* Cl).. Drup:grists hlulGeu. Airts.. Sun Francisco, (.'aliforniii, und cor. of Wiishinurton and (‘huidlon Sts.. X. V. Sold by all and I) alcrs. " CINCINNATI THE LEADING INDUSTRIAL FAIR OF AMERICA! The Fourth Exhibition will be open from September 3 to October 4, 1373. Round trip tickets at reduced rates, will be issued by railroads generally. j ALL STOVE DEALERS Wanting to select their Fall Stock from the finest assortment of * COOKING AND HEATING STOVES In the market, should send for Price List and Catalogueto WM. RESOR & CO., Cincinnati, 0., Manufacturers of the celebrated FASHION AND MONITOR. Trade Mark. tice for r number of year*, and know from e.xperieuoo that, it is a iimhc.lv. N. 11. Morrison, M. IK, North Hast. Cecil t’o., Md.: Our Druggists here have a good demaiid for MISHLER’B lIExtB BITTERS. I have used it in rii v practice w HIT good retu.Ul, and do not hesitate to recommeud It as a valuable remedy, particularly in affeotionsof the kidneys. -J. T* Baker, Yl. 8,, Lancaster, Pa.: During the nast ten years J.have had frequout oi>t»ortunities of witnessing the cflixii of MISHLEE’S HERB BITTEBB. I have knn*n it td prove successful in many cases whcre A 1 lopathic, Houiiuopathio and Hydropathic treatment had failed. I consider it the most efficacious remedy yet discovered for Diseases arisiug from a Disordered Stomach, Liver, Ktduovsor Rowels. THE LATE HON. THADDEUS STEVENS, Pronounced MISHLER’S lIERB BITTERS “the most wonderful combination of Medicinal Herbs he ever saw." He suffered for many years from an orgunic an'eetion of the kidneys, and hundreds of his friends at Washington and Lancaster know that he attributed the prolongation of his life to this Great Diuretie. Nothing else relieved him. SOLD ONLY IN BOTTLES, BEARING AR0»( TRADE MARK. agents OCXSAKT’S STORY? Or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries. By F. B. Goodrich (son of “ Peter Parley”) and F. Howland. Remarkably voyages, ehin wrecks, adventures, explorations, piracies, mutinies* naval combats, and the history of all kinds of naval progress. ThexomaDCG of ‘‘Old Ocean-” and 1,-tHIO thiugs of interestrftnd value. Over 200 illustrations autliowpriced. Send for circular and extra terms; or. it you wish to begin at once, send $1.25 for elegant outfit. Valley Publishing Co., Chicago, 111. Commercial and Telegraphic Department, HILLSDALE COLLEGE, Hillsdale, Michigan. TIIK MOST COMPLETE FACILITIES, superior advantages, and pleasant apartments of any Commercial anclTelegraphic School in the country. Every appointment of a first-class Commercial College. The largest apparatus and best Telegraphic connections in the United States, Telegraphic stuirents drilled on a circuit three hundred miles long. College thirty, and thitfDepartment 6even, years standing. Diplomas to graduates. Tuition and Board lower than at auy other Commercial School. Visit this institution, or in some way give us opportunity to prove these statements before selecting a school. For Catalogue, address ALEXANDER C. RIDEOUT, Prim DEI HIT Pill I CAE Provides: Ist, AthorDELUIH wULLEIfIC ough four-years’ Collegiate course of study, according to the standard of Kew England colleges. 2d, A preliminary classical and English course. 3d, An elementary scientific course. Expenses moderate. Fall tern! opens Sept. 3d. Winter term, J an. 7. For information, address A. 1.. CHAPIN, Pres’t, Beloit, Wl«. Write for a Price List to J. 11. .IOIIVSTON, Smithfleld St., Pittsburgh, liFeech-Lonrting Shot Otm*. $-10 to Double Shot (1 uns,sß l oso. SingleCluns. s3t o S2O. L 1 fi es,s3l o i. Revolvers, $6 to $25. Pistols, $1 to SB. Gun Material, Fishing Tackle, Ac. Dirge discounts to dealers or clubs. ArmvGuns,Revolvers.etc. .botight or traded fnr.Goodu sent by express C.0.R.t0 he examined before paid for. J. M. BRADSTREET & SON’S Improved Mcreanlile Agency. Established 1849. The July vo’nmc issued by us contains the fullest record of bus .ness houses in the country and is indispensable to all houses extending credit. ’’Terms and full particulars can be obtained by addressing us at Portland Block, Chicago. . „ BRADSTREET* SON. J. M. REESI:, buperiuteudeut. All Liodt of Public Building*, Hotels, and Privato ES Reaidpnre* fumifhed at comj*«Uui>n price*. With A at n'j *•> Spring Ho ler lh-'p Future as much, as iitlle, or any |>or- | ( tion of the wiodi w ihadcd at pleasure Light or veati- a V lalion from the ton with privacy, and without injury to ™1 nl tha shade by wind when , the *a*h ia open. They are W yjj simple, neat, and durable. Send for illmtrated clmilsr [M and prices Model* and term* *ent to the Trade. A II AnEilT wauted in this ami every other Mil MUCH | county hr . ' vass for **A Trip Around the World; or, in Search of the Castaway.” Agents are reporting immense and easy sales. Corn spondence iirowntly attended Address C. S. Rtf Knows, 150 Clark 8t», Chicago, 111. Si REWARD * SB I?, ' r of Blind, B H Bleeding. Itching or l iceB H latcd i’Hes that Dk Btn«*s i; E Pmk Rkmkdv fails to |j u turc. It is prepared ex--I r 0 pfessTy to Cure the Piles, ■| A m M and mdliing else. Sold l*y f ull Druggists. Price SI.OO, Wesleyan University** Thla Inaniution presents advantages nh6UfpUied, on Terms un u s uaTTy fnudefate. "Atf r » r«“ ™— Rev,.tQSKP-H CIT,MMINGS;-Mt<idiftoWn, Cnnn. WOXKINQGLASS.^S™^*"’: We em ployraen tATbon e, day or ev ui ng; no ca pit.ii i• qn tred; full instructions .* nd valnabh jM.-kige of goods sent frt aby mail. A ddres with sis ccct rrturu stama ■ M. YOUNG vt CO. t 16 Ootliaodt-sU, New York. U A. K., R. - r 41 5-K X ~ DR. WHITTIER, BT * WWo TRiET Longest engafed•-•‘end most sucw-ful phySlclin*of tfri foniuluiion or pawpfelet free. 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