Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1873 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

Nit P*otn*-A fisherman’s. Appropriate Slang for Burglars Give os arrest. Boston drinks <5,000 gallons of sodawater erery hot day. * Thiktt women are employed on tlie daily prese of New York. ==st _ =; L ; _ = The patent ice-machines used in the South clear 700 per cent, profit Wht is a talkative woman like the ocean? Because you can’t make her dry up. A patient in the Jacksonville, 111., Insane Asylum has recently fallen heir to ♦6,000. An oak recently cut on the Derby, R. 1., turnpike measured nine feet in diameter. For finding a $l5O pocket-book, a Rochester, N. Y., boot-black received twenty. five cents. The Registered Letter Department earned the Government $85,000 net profit the last year. A Borb— The man whopersists in talking about himself when you wish to talk about yourself. A TRACT of 50,000 acres in McDowell County, N. C., has been sold to an emigration company. The anchorage and unexposed parts of the Niagara Falls suspension bridge are as sound as when first put in. A quilt exhibited at the Central Illinois Fair, made by Miss Sarah Breckon, of Morgan County, contains 38,517 pieces. Two men at Minerville, Mo., have found, only eight feet below the surface, a lump of lead estimated to weigh 60,000 pounds. The question of the advantage of disposing of the dead by cremation is again revived, and finds numerous zealous advocates. ,

A Detroit (Mich.) boy makes on an average over $25 per week blacking boots and selling newspapers, and has now in bank $l,lOO. The cultivation of the silk-worm is now becoming so extensive in Mexico as to bid fair to have an important influence upon the silk trade. The hull of the British ship Confidence, the flag-ship in the battle of Lake Champlain, is being raised from the bottom of Plattsburg Bay. span of the great r'.otunda of the Exhibition gilding at Vienna is over 110 yards, or double Resize of the dome of St. Peter’s, at Rome. No actor has yet been able to counterfeit that expression of joy which a man shows when discovering a ten-cent sta mp in his paper of tobacco. - ■ 1 An historic character recently died at Lancaster, Nr H., in the person of Julia A. Miller, who was the great greatgreaV grandchild of King Philip. "• The great equatorial telescope now being constructed at Cambridge, Mass-, for the Naval Observatory, will be finished the latter part of this month. Ppotographs of the counterfeit SSOO bills have been made six times larger than the originals and distributed to the banks throughout the country. To give an idea of coal production, it may be stated that with 100,000,000 tons a girdle of (x»«l three feet wide and about seven feet high might be put round the earth. Sweden has hitherto mainly depended on England for coal, but henceforth she is likely to derive sufficient for her needs from her own mines, which arc in process of development, It used to be the boast of Oakes Ames that he could import iron and steel from England, make them into shovels, and then undersell British shovel makers in the Birmingham market. The most accurate estimates state that China possesses coal-fields to the extent of over 400,000 square miles, One province (Shansi) having no less than 31,000 square miles with veins from 12 to 30 feet in thickness.

A v eccentric old gentleman named Johnston has recently taken up his abodei in the woods near Lafayette, Ind. He has no shelter save the trees, no bedding save a coffee-sack and an old coat, and his larder is a hollow-tree. A Mon mon farmer has succeeded in playing a thorough confidence game on the potato bugs. He planted a grain of corn in each potato hill, and as the corn came up first, the bugs thought it was a corn-field and started tor other scenes. Joseph Gales Forster, the well known spiritualist, claims the Kirby reaper and mower to be the work of some inventive soul in spirit-land, who dictated through a medium the manner of its construction out of such materials as this poor sphere affords. The new blacksmith shop at the Rock Island (Ill.) Arsenal is one of the largest in the United States, if not in the world. It is built of stone and iron, has a frontage of 210 feet on the nratn avenue, with two wings, each 350 feet long and 00 feet wide. Much anxiety is felt in Sonoma Valley, Cal., from the discovery of a grape-louse on the roots of the vines, similar to the one that destroyed' the grape crop in France. A committee of wine-growers has been going around among the vineyards examining. A Boston preacher, in speaking of the danger of permitting the Bible to be crowded out by the newspaper, perpetrated the following pun: “ Men nowadays,” said he, “ arc like Zaccljeus—desirous of seeing Jesus, but they cannot because of the press.”

A gentleman, addicted to scientific-in-quiry, has discovered that .thirty-three - » complete the cycle of the potato bug '”n; that 700 of the critters are the V- uct . of Dne - fem ? le ’ froD ? Which the family' S rows . ln the second generation to 245,000, m the third to *2,700,000. Two babies were shipped several hundred miles by express, in Oregon, recently, and arrived at their destination all right; but the express agent was almost worn out telegraphing ahead for milk, shingles for spanking purposes, and other necessaries. —— The Ann Arbor (Mich.) Courier talks of the champion sunflower. The stalk is nine and a half inches in circumference at the ground, and the lineal measurement of the stalk and stems is 151 feet. It has eighty-one fruit-bearing flowers, with more in prospect. P&OEKBSOR Wyman, during his examination of the mounds in Florida, found many human bones split up in the same manner as those of animals. From this he concludes that the aborigines were cannibals, and that the bones were broken to obtain the marrow after the flesh had been eaten. When Horace Greeley visited Yosemite he picked up in the trail a horseshoe, and hang it on the knot of an oak U-ee for whoever might choose to use it. No one took it, ana in time the knot grew over the horseshoe, and recently the portion of the tree containing it was cut oat and brought to San Francisco as a memento of Mr. Greeley’s economy. ”.. AN eld bridge is being torn down in Meriden, Conn., and Mr. Jared Lewis, of that place, states that when a boy he was told that the regicides of Charles I. were sheltered under the spot where the bridge has so long stood. They escaped from New Haven to Meriden in 1664, and were compelled to take refbge under the predecessor of the ancient structure now being demolished.

A fond lowa father writes to an exchange that he is annoyed by his son staying out at nights, and asks for a remedy for the evil. The exchange replies: “There are several remedies. The- boy’s spine can lie broken with an ax, or he can be nailed to the floor with a red-hot railroad spike driven through his abdomen ; but the most effective way is to compel him to wear patched clothing."^ The Secretary of the Navy has issued an order that will fill our foreign squadrons with dismay. A Lieutenant having returned from a year’s cruise in the Asiatic squadron heavily in debt, the Secretary lias seut him back with orders to stay until his debts are paid. That unfortunate young man will be compelled to broil and freeze in India and Japan until he can exhibit the receipts of his washerwoman, his tailor, and his tobacconist to the cruel Secretary, and thus' secure his release. As there are doubtless dozens of other officers on foreign stations who are likewise in debt, they will read of this incident in the light of a solemn warning, and at once borrow enough money from their luckier fellows to discharge their foreign debts before their ships are ordered home. The other day, as Mayor McFadin and T. M. Guggenheimer, of Logansport, Ind., were out hunting on the prairie, they came across a very large and very odd procession. The weather had been dry, and the ponds on the prairie had failed in water- The turtles and frogs, who had been living and thriving in the vicinity of the ponds had thus been cut off from their supplies. They stood it for a day or two, but finally became too “dry” for frog endurance and decided to migrate. When seen by the Mayor and Mr. Guggenheimer, they were marching in solemn procession across the prairie to a pond three miles distant. The procession was three-quarters of a mile in length and onequarter in width. The turtles were in the lead, the frogs bringing up the rear. The Mayor vouches for the truth of the story. This occurred about six miles northeast of Kentland, Newton County. According to an eye-witness, the frogs seemed afraid of the turtles and remained behind. They traveled at the rate of one mile iu three hours, and reached their “spa" about sundown.

The Baltimore American describes one of the most mysterious works of art, now exhibiting in Paris, that has ever been ..witnessed-there. It is a diorama of the siege ol' Paris, and all Paris is running wild to view it. There is some species of optical illusion in connection with it that no one seems able to understand. Although a painting, it so closely resembles nature that on suddenly entering the hall the spectator is bewildered,and invariably complains of dizziness as liis eye scans the intervening scenes and the distant horizon, presented to view. The building in which the diorama is submitted is circular, and about 300 feet in diameter,with a glass dome. On entering it the visitor passes along a rather dark passage to what seems the centre of the building, and then finds himself on a circular plattdrm on the top of a veritable hill of earth, strewn with cannon-ball and shell, the object of the artist being to place him in the fort of Issy, surrounded on every side by the incidents of the siege, with the city of Paris an' l its monuments, domes, and steeples, in the distance. By close examination it co.uld be discovered that the nearer earthworks of the picture, and even some of the cajmon, for a distance of thirty or sixty feet from the edge of the platform, is veritable earth and undoubted cannon, and real willow gabions and sandbags, but the exact spot where the substantial ended and the canvas began was not so easily detected. The whole seems to be a piece of legerdemain in art that has never been attempted before.

The Issues.

Governor Carpenter, of lowa, opened the political campaign in that State, at Cedar Rapids, on the 17tli. His speech was mainly devoted to local affairs, but tire following upon the issues between the two parties will prove interesting reading to Republican readers: When the Republican party came into power, on the 4th of March, 1861, tie avowed object was to limit slavery to the territory which it then occupied. It had made other pledges to the people, such as promising the passage of a homestead law, and to aid in the construction of a Pacific railway; but the vital question was the issne of slavery extension. We were told by the Democratic party that slavery could not he limited by Congressional interference, aud it such attempt was made it would result iu a dissolved Uuion. A majority of the people, however, could not be driven from their political convictions by menaces, and therefore went forward ip their determination to substitute an anti-slavery policy for the pro-slavery policy which haci before giveu direction to the administration of the government. The Southern States met this resolution with rebellion and war. When war came it required no discussion nor extraordinary stimulant with the great mass of the Republican party to bring them sternly to'resolve that whatever might betide, the union of the States should be preserved. A large majority of the Democratic party, however, opposed every policy of coercion, aud, either through sympathy with the rebellion or from a lack of faith in the intelligence, tenacity, bravery, aud patriotism of the American people, boldly proclaimed their belief that the rebellion could not, ought not. and would not he conquered by arms. They appealed to the past, declaring it to be the teaching of all history that .8,000,000 of people, firmly united and striking for a common causehad never been overthrown by an army of invasion and occupation. But the Republican party, having more confidence in the people accepted the issue aud took up the gage of battle. During the struggle which ensued, it was constantly accused by the opposition with mismanagement and corrupt purposes. Was it proposed to iuvade the insurgent Stales and bring them to feel, by earnest war, the consequences of rebellion, we were told that would never do; that we must stand on the outside of these Stales, squeeze them gently, and at the same time bold out to them olive branches, or, iu ot her words, “stoop to conquer.” Was it proposed that our army should live upon the enemy's sub,stance, it was declared that such a policy would he inhuman treatment of our brethren. Was it proposed to make negro slaves contraband of war, and use fhem to cook aud to carry knapsacks for the soldbfrs, we were denounced as violators of the Constitution. Was it. proposed to abolish slavery in State's where rebellion existed, we were met.ivith a yell of rage and vituperation, at the bare suggestion of t.his common sense proposition. Was it proposed to make colored men soldiers, the army was advised to resist sm y introduction of the coiiired element intd tbs soldiery of the country; while from almost ery Democratic mouth there were prophecies o“ dire calamities, defeats and humiliations. Was If proposed to issue greenbacks, to sell bonds, and fiuatly to establish a system of National banks to promote the financial operations of the Government, all this was ridiculed aud opposed by the Democracy. Finally, when the war closed in the suppression of the rebellion, and the capture of the rebel armies, this same reactionary element Opposed every step looking to the reconstruction ot ibe relici Suites. Was it proposed-to disfran--ebise the leaders of the rebellion, they were declared the only element in the South fitted to rebuild the States they had so lately fought to de- - gtrojf. Was it proposed to enfranchise the black loyalist. this reactionary party could find no words strong enough fit measure such an outrrge upon constitutional government. Was it proposed to put down Ku-Kluxism, it was declared to be an infraction ot the constitutional rights of the States. Was it proposed to meet the National debt in accordance with onr contract, it was declared this was a burden which the people would never consent to bear. But the Republican party met all this opposition, and witb- ; out blu*ter or vindictiveness pursued the path of duty. As new events presented new issues for adjustment, "it moved forward fearlessly and honestly to their determination and settlement. It has secured to the country peace, good order, and reasonable prosperity. It has established a system of currency’ which is equally safe and current everywhere throughout the country, and wnich. with some additional features, giving It more of the expansivenese of a free banking system, will beihe safest and best in the world. It has inaugurated a new method of dealing with complex questions of international dispute, and Bas not only obtained for the sufferers by the Alabama sls,iOO,uOOin money, but also maintained an honorable peace, besides giving to the worid, in the Gene vast filtration, a model and a principle by which other nations may be guided in the future. It has succeeded in making treaty regulations with diher nations whereby the right of expatriation was acknowledged, so that the naturalized foreigner may return to his former home without danger or fear of impressment mto the ariuies of his native, country. In short, will yon tell rile of a single desirable thing in law or politics, coming up as an issue in the last fourteen years, which was likely to promote our honor, prosperity, or happiness as a people, that has pot been carried mto effect and made a part of our Republican history! This was acknowledged, one year ago, by all the opposition elements of the country, when they nn-

dertook to wipe ont the past by a formal indonemeut of all the principles which, prior to that time, they had opposed, ridiculed and denounced. I read from tne Cincinnati and Baltimore platforms: “We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it Is the duty of the Government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out eqnal and exact Justice to all, of whatever .jnativiIty. race, color, or persuasion, religious or polltl-' cal.” “We pledge ourselves to maintain the union of these States, emancipation, and enfranchisement, and to oppose any reopening of the questions settled by the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution.” Again: “The public credit must be sacredly maintained, and. we denounce repudiation In every form and guise.” Here is a full acceptance, so far as words are equal to it, of all the past policies of the Republican party, every item of which had. up to that time, been opposed and condemned. This indorsement of the record of the Republican parly, for the twelve years of its administration, of course, implied that up to that time it had uniformly been right upon all these vital and fundamental issues, white the Democratic party had uniformly been wrong. Tills would have been well enough if they had dropped it there by advising the scattered remnants of the Democratic party to.vote the Republican ticket. Bat the bold insolence of which this party is capablo, and which for coolness rises into the region of sublimity, is seen in the sequel, when the gentlemen, instead of making this recommendation, say, in effect, that notwithstanding the comparative merits of these two parties as sbowm ln their past history, still the Republican party is not wise and honest enough to administer the government in the future, and it should therefore be turned over to them and the dissatisfied Republicans who had reinforced them.

A Voice from the Tombs.

The political fragments that are just now flying around so loosely are (leveloping .a heal by attrition which has the same effect on the political fossils that the sun’s rays have on a benumbed caterpillar. There is a general waking up of political Ilip Van Winkles all over the country. The last piece of torpidity that has shown signs of lif% is the Hon. George W. Julian, of Indiana. A half-hundred years ago Julian was considered a great man. He formed a very pretty tail to a Presidential kite once, and received a good -many cheers and a few Votes. He never fairly recovered from this stupendous honor, and has been running on the capital thus accumulated ever since. His constituents were often disgusted and disposed to retire him from Congress; but when such a thing was mentioned Mr. Julian looked so horrified, and dwelt at such length upon his record and his services that the people drew a long breath, looked patient and miserable, and permitted him to have his way. Many shrewd plan® were adopted for relief, but none succeeded. It was suggested to him that the climate of Indiana was unsuited to .him, and that a land had been discovered in the West that flowed with milk and honey, where he would be much happier. Mr. Julian couldn’t see the matter in that light. Then they held up to the President the advantages of having such a gigantic intellect in his Cabinet, but the latter only puffed his cigar and was silent. In the meantime . the associate of .John P. Hale was each year growing more disagreeable. He made himself particularly obnoxious to every young man of ability whom lie thought might develop into a rival, and was said to have dark thoughts of turning Herod, and murdering all the male children in the district, in order to keep the pathway open to himself alone. Finally his conduct became unbearable and the people threw him overboard and took up a new man. The rage of Mr. Julian knew no bounds. He “fell to curs-" ing like a very drab.” lie determined to have his revenge. Up to this time the Republican party had been good enough for him. He had defended it with ardor, and asked no fitter epitapli than one which described him as a Republican first, last, and always. But now lie thought only of revenge. At one fell blow 7 lie would shiver the party to atoms. Ignoring all past friendships, he took the fatal step and joined the Liberals. He announced the fact in a loud voice, that, according to the Democratic journals of Indiana, “rang from one end of the State to the other;” and he looked around to behold the fragments and the consternation of the people. He saw neither. On the contrary, no one appeared to know that anything unusual had happened, and the election resulted as before. Mr. Julian was doubly outraged. He thought the very stones would rise in mutiny, and not even a pebble was disturbed. He retired, no tone knew whither, until Saturday last, when he suddenly appeared at Rockville, Ind., dressed in rural garb, and delivered a speech against Grant on the St. Domingo business. One W'ould think this subject pretty well settled and understood by this time; but Mr. Julian again awoke the smoldering fires and let loose the hot breath of denunciation upon it. It is reported that the venerable ex-member has joined the new-party movement, and will soon confess himself a Granger, also, 1 and of that peculiar pattern known as the Nasby style. He lias probably been studying agriculture during the long months that he has been lost to public view, and is now ready for business. It will be a touching sight to see Farmer Julian, of Indiana, and Farmer Nasby, of “Illinoy,” working together in the same glorious cause. Tims do extremes mee,t, and the old-fashioned elements coalesce. Who shall say that, with the antiquated William Allen to lead the Democracy of Ohio, amd the venerable George AV. J ulian to lead the “What-yon-may-call-’ems,” in. Indiana, the country is not safe V Now let us hear from Donnelly.-- GhicagolnterOcean.

Cutting Stalks.

“The old-fashioned way” of harvesting coni was to cut the stalks as soon as the corn was glazed, leaving the butts to stand until the corn was ripe and ready to harvest. Some farmers still adhere to this practice, but the majority have abandoned it for what seems to us the far preferable way of cutting up the entire growth of corn as soon as the kernels are well glazed. The saving by this method is both in labor and fodder. It-4s ranch easier to cut up the -stalks when t hew tire green and soft than after they are dry anil hard, aud a man can probably cut and shock the whole growth as easily as he can cut the tops one by one and carry them together and- out of the field to be cured. If the entire stalks are cut upas soon as the corn is glazed, nearly all of the leaves will remain unhurt by the frost, and .the stalks, instead of ripening into woody fibres which no beast will eat,-will-cure and remain sweet and edible. When corn’’is once shocked the farmer may gather and husk it at his leisure; the stalks are all cured when he takes them to his barn and will neither mould nor rot. Standing corn wastes badly after the husks begin to loosen about the ears, is broken down and eaten by squirrels and birds. When the tops are cut, the butts which remain standing till late in the fall are nearly, worthless for fodder. For these reasons we advise our farmer friends to cut and shock their corn. We know it is claimed by some that the corn ripens better when exposed to the sun and is heavier than when ripened in shocks, but this is very doubtful, and even if it be admitted that we get one or two per cent. less.corn than we should to set the ears stand, this is hardly worthy of consideration in view of the far greater loss we sustain on the foddfer. As to the shiftiest? policy of letting the corn stand tops and all until husking un&e, it-is one which no farmer who isn’t ambitious to end his days in the poorhouse can afford. In tins State the fodder-to lie obtained from the corn field is nearly as important as the “ shelled corn,” and any courite which does not save both is foolish and disastrous, —New Hampshire Farmer. - "

Feeding Fowls.

Where there is a family,-there are many auxilaries, such as bread crumbs, groats that) have been used for gruel, etc. But it must be borne in mind that these are in the place of other food, and not in addition to it. When this can be had, other food should be diminished. Tam not an advocate for cooked vegetables, except potatoes. Boiled cabbage is worse than nothing It must be borne in mind that corn, whole or cracked, is the staple food, and the others are helps. Always have the bones thrown to them after dinner; they enjoy picking them and perform the operation perfectly. Raw meat makes fowls quarrelsome,.and gives them a propensity to pick each other—especially in moulting time, if the accustomed meat be withheld. Many have purchased birds, above all Cochin, Chinas, on account of their great weight, which, being the result of meat feeding, has proved a real disease, incapacitating them for breeding. Where proper food is provided, all is not accomplished; it must be properly given. ' No plan is so extravagant or so injurious as to throw down heaps once or twice a day. They should have it scattered as far and wide as possible, that the birds may be longer and more healthily employed in finding it, and should not accomplish in a few minutes that which should occupy them for hours. For this reason every sort of feeder or hopper is bad. It is the nature of fowls to take a grain- at a time, and to pick grass and dirt, with it, which assist digestion; but if, contrary to this, they are enabled to eat corn by mouthfuls, their crops are soon overfilled, and they seek relief in excessive draughts of water. Nothing is more injurious than this; and the inactivity that attends the discomfort caused by it, lays the foundation of many disorders. While speaking of food it may be observed, that when, from traveling or other cause, a fowl lias fasted a long time—say thirty or forty-eightjhours—it should not he allowed any hard food. For the first three hours it should have only a small portion, say a teacupful of sopped bread, very wet, so much so as to serve for food and drink. If the bird appears to suffer much from the journey, instead of bread and water give bread and ale.— Cor. Michigan, Farmer. James Richardson, who has resided in Adrian, Mich., thirty-one years, mustered up sufficient courage to take his first ride in the’“plaguey keers” a few days since.

Vinegar that Will Keep Pickles.

Prussing’s White Wine Vinegar. Warranted pure and to preserve pickles. Ask your grocer for it, and take no other. At the Vienna World’s J’air, the Grand Medal of Progress, which was the recognition, of highest excellence in Pumps, Hydraulic Hams and Garden ICnginCs from alt Nations was awarded to W. <V B. Douglas, Middletown, Conn., the oldest and best established manufacturers of these goods in the world.

Cholera and Pain-Killer.

Perry Davis’ Pain-Killer.— I This unparalleled preparation is receiving more testimonials of its wonderful efficacy iu removing pains, than any other medicine ever offered to the public. And these testimonials - come from persons of every degree of intelligence, and every rauk of life. Physicians of the first respectability, and perfectly conversant with the nature of diseases and remedies, recommend this as one of the most effectual in the line of preparations for the cure of Cholera, Cholera Morbus and kindred bowel troubles now so common among the people. Can it be True?— Within the last few months a considerable number of persons have called upon Dr. Walker, the proprietor of the popular medicine known as Vinegar Bitters, and assured him that, in their belief, his preparation is an infallible antidote for rum and tobacco. The minute details which have been furnished him forbid him to doubt the accuracy of the statements. This new claim of a great remedy to the confidence of the public will give a vast and well-deserved impulse to its popularity. - Heretofore the Bitters have been recognized as a pure vegetable tonic and corrective, devoid of alcohol, and thoroughly adapted to the cure of stomach and bow T el complaints, nervous disorders, bilious affections, muscular diseases, and, indeed, a majority <W the ailments within the reach of medicine; but if it will also cure the craving for liquor and tobacco, philosophers, statesmen and theologians ought to unite their voices in its praise. Can the good new's be true ? It is easy to test the question. _ 9 We see by the Chicago papers that Procter t& Gamble have reduced the price of their long-established and popular brand, Mottled German Soap. Its present price and superior quality makes it the cheapest as well as the best soap for consumers. We advise those desiring to become Agents for really Valuable Books to address postal card to T. Elhvood Zell, Philadelphia, for Circular. We would not recommend the frequent or constant use of any medicine. It is important to take even a good article judiciously. Parnans' Purgative Pills arc safe, prompt and reliable as a laxative or cathartic. Base ball is undoubtedly good exercise and capital amusement, but it often occasions bunged eyes, broken skins and blistered hands. We can tell you that in all such cases, if Johnson's Anodyne Liniment is resorted to, it will reduce the swelling aijcl stop the pain. The Best Thing for Harness is the celebrated Frank Miller’s HaruSss Oil.

Thirty Years’ Experience of an Old None.- ——- Mbs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup is the prescription of ope of the best Female Physicians and Nurses in the United States, and has been used for thirty years wltb-never-falling safety and success by millions of mothers and children, from tbe feeble infant of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rest, health, and comfort to mother and child. We believe it to be the Best and Surest Remedy in the World in all cases of DYSENTERY and DIARRHCEA IN CHILDREN, whether It arises from Tsething or from any other canse. Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. unless the facsimile of OURTIS & PERRINS is on the outside wrapper. Sold by all Medicine Dealers. Children Often Look Pale and Sick From no other canse than having worms ln the stomach. BROWN'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly white, and free from dll coloring or other injurious Ingredients usually used in worm preparations. CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors* No. 215 Fnlton street. New York. Sold by Dmiggists and Chemists, and Dealers in Medicine*, a. Twenty-five Cents a Box. ; The Hour -hold Panacea and Family Liniment Is the best remedy ln the world for the following complaints, viz.: Cramps ln the Limbs and Stomach, Pain in the Stomach, Bowels or Side. Rheumatism ln all Its forms, Billons Colic, Neuralgia, Cholera, Dysentery, Colds, Flesh Wounds, Burns, Sore Throat, Spinal Complaints, Sprains and Bruises, Chills and Fever. For Internal and External use. Its operation Is not only to relieve the patient, butentirely remove the cause of the complaint. It penetrates and pervades the whole system, restoring healthy action to all its parts, and quickening the -Meqff- ———— —— The Household Panacea Is Purely Vegetable and All-Healing. Prepared by CURTIS & BROWN, No. 215 Fnlton street, New York. For sale by all Druggists. i Gentlemen going to Chicago should not Fail to visit Kahn’s Anatomical Museum from New York, at 145 Clark street. A marvel of Science and Art.

■•••■ V-;:: >- Half It Ib a ead thing to pai>B through life only half alive. Yet there arc thousands whose habitual condition is one of languor and debility. They complain of no specific disease: they suffer no positive pain; but they have no relish for anything which affords mental or sensuous pleasure to their more robust and energetic fellow-beings. In nine cases out of ten this state of lassitude and torpor arises from a morbid stomach. Indigestion destroys the energy of both mind and body. hen the waste of nature is not supplied by a due and regular assimilation of the food, every organ is starved, every function interrupted. Now, what does common sense suggest under these circumstances of depression? Tne system needs rousing and strengthening; not merely for an hour or two, to sink afterwards into a more pitiable condition than ever (as it assuredly would do if an ordinary alcoholic stimulant were resorted to), but radioally and permanently. How is this desirable object to be accomplished? The answer to this question, founded on the unvarying experience of a quarter of a century, is easily fiven. Infuse new vigor into the digestive organs y a course of Hostettor’s Stomach Bitters. Do not waste time in administering temporary remedies, but wake the system up by recuperating the fountain-head of physical strength and energy, the great.organ upon which all the other organs depend for their nurture and support. By the time that a dozen doses of the great vegetable tonic and invigorant have been taken, the feeble frame of the dyspeptic will begin to feel its bcnlgil influence. Appetite will be created, and with appetite the capacity to digest what it craves. Persevere until the cure is complete—until healthful blood, lit to l>e the material of flesh and muscle, bone and nerve, and brain, flows through the channels of circulation, instead of the watery pabulum with which tHey have heretofore been imperfectly nourished. Arthur’s Home Magazine. This illustrated magazine, which claims to 'be the 11 Great Household Magazine of America,” sends forth its October issue richly laden with gems of literature and art. Among the articles deserving of special mention are: “In the Harvest Field*” illustrated; “The Argus Pheasant,” illustrated; “My First Literary Venture,” by Rosella Itice; “In a Thundercloud.” illustrated, by Professor Jolm Wise; Home Life and Character,” by Pipsy Potts, and a score of others. The various departments are unusually full and entertaining, and all the illustrations are marked by a high degree of excellence. Terms $2.60 per year, with a reduction to clubs. Published by T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. * The Phrenological Journal.—The October number of this sterling magazine contains several notable and interesting articles, among which may be noted: “Miles Grant, editor of the World’s Crisis,” with portrait; “Is Spiritualism in the Bible!;” “Richard Newton, D. I).,” Willi portrait; “The Fail Factory;” “Helen Earles’Trial;” “ How to use Phrenology,” illustrated; “ Genesis of Geology,” etc., etc. In the departments of Current Items, Poetry and Miscellany it is very ’full and interesting. The Phrenological is one of the oldest and best of the monthlies. Published'by 8. R. Wells, 389 Broadway, New York. Terms, $3 a year. * The Children’s Houft..always excites a lively interest in the children as soon as it appears. It is emphatically a journal for the little folks. The October number is an excellent one. It is nicely illustrated, attractively gotten tip, and contains not only interesting reading matter, but, what is better, pure and elevated reading matter, just such as parents who seek the good of their children would like to place before them. Terms, $1.25 per year, and a beautiful steel engraving. Address T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. » Jaundice, Skin Diseases, and affections of the Bladder and Kidneys, tire removed by Dr. Jayne’s Sanative Pills. They produce healthy secretions of the stomach, liver, "and other organs of the body, and are beneficial whenever an alterative or purgative medicine is required.

PBEKLEHS—CLOTHES WRINGER. Malaria, or bad air, is the-cause of every form of Fever and Ague. Sliallcnbergcr’s Tills are an antidote to this poison, and cure instantly.

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A CHOLERA REMEDY Rxadkk, you wit find it in that Favorite Home Remedy, X>EIIIR.Y DAVnr Pain-Killer! CHOLERA IN INDIA. Wff at A Missionary bays : »*j regret to say that ttie 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 this epidemic. If taken in season, it is generally effectual in checking the disease. Uzv. CIIAKLES HARDING, Sholapore, India.” It* Merits are Unsurpassed. If you are suffering from IN TERNAI PAIN, Ticenty to Thirty Drops in a Little Water will almost instantly cure you. There is nothing equal to it. In a few moments it cures 4 Colic, Cramns, Spasms, Heartburn, Diarrhcea, Dyeentery, I lux/W'lnd in the Bowels, Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache. It cures Cliolera. when nU other Remedies Fail. It gives Instant Relief from Aching Teeth. * In sections of the country where Pevor and Agno Prevails, there is no remedy held in greater esteem. fW“For Fever ana Ague— Take three teaspoonfuls of the PaiX-F tller in about half a pint of 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 Ui twenty minutes if the first dose does not stop the chill. Should it produce a vomiting (and it probably will if the stomach la very foul), take a little Pain-Kii,lkr in cold water sweetened with sugar, after each spasm. Perseverance in the above treatment has cured many severe and obstinate case 9 of this disease. , WHEN USED EXTERNALLY, ASA LFNIMENT , nothing gives quicker ease In Burns, Cuts, Bruise v Sprain *, Stings from Insec , and Scalds. It removes the fire,-and-the wound heals like ordinary sores. Those suffering with RHEUM A TISM , GOUTmT NEURALGIA, if not a positive cure, they find the BainKiller gives them relief when no other remedy will. Every H'Tsekekpkr should keep it at hand, find apply it on the first attack of any Pain. It will give s«4 lsfacto» y relief, and Bave hours of suffering. Do not trifle with yourselves by testing untried remedies. li sure you call for the FAIN-KILLER. VSTBU ectionß accompany each bottle. Price, ::6 cents, 60 cents, and SI.OO per Bottle, J. FI. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, 0., Prop ietors for the Southern and Western States. KJBT I or sale by all Medicine Dealers. ilfllw” i va Dr. .T. Walker’s California Vinegar slitters are a purely Vegetable preparation, made chiefly from the uat.ivt; herbs found on the lower ranges of the Sierra Nevada mountain;: 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 success of Vinegar Ritters?” Our answer is, that they rernovo the cause of disease, apd the patient recovers his health. r I ney are the great blood purifier amia life-giving principle, a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. Never before in the history of the worM has a medicine beeu compounded possessing the remarkable qualities of Vinegar Bitters in healing the sick of every disease man is heir to. Thoy 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, aud Anti-Bilious. R. H. JIcDONALD & CO., Druggists ami Gen. Agts., Ran Francisco, Cnlifomin, and cor. of Washington and Charlton Sts.. N. Y. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers* Commercial and Telegraphic Department, HILLSDALE COLLEGE, Hillsdale. Michigan. THE MOST COMPLETE FACILITIES, superior advantages, and pleasant apartments of any Commercial and Telegraphic School in the country. Every appointment of a first-class Commercial College. The largest apparatus aud best Telegraphic connections in the United States. Telegraphic students drilled on a circuit three hundred miles long. College thirty, and this Department seven, years* standing. Diplomas to graduates. Tuition and Board lower than at any other Commercial School. Visit this institution, or in some way give us opportunity to prove these statements before selecting a school. For Catalogue, addueßs ALEXANDER C. RIDEOUT, Prin.

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