Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — Page 7

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

proper way to pronounce Taliaferro is Tolliver, and senator Bogy, of , f should be addressed as “ Mr. —The fund which has been collected as a testimonial to Capt. Webb, wtya swam across the English Channel, amohnis to ..abost **>,ooo. Mrs. Nellio Grant Sartoris’ infant son *LjMpd on the second anniversary of her marJttuge, aged ten months. The mother is °*2toFyet twenty-one years of age, and very yopng to know the anguish of such a loss. —A. large number of letters have been received by Mrs. A. T. Stewart, purporting to be communications from herliusband in the spirit world, and recommending to her favor, lor pecuniary aid, certain persons named. 'l —The Salt Lake correspondent of a San Prancisco paper says it is settled that after she new temple is dedicated at St. George, “Jjrigham Young, Jr., will be officially ‘proclaimed as the President of the Church _of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and • "feuccessor to Brigham I. The plan is then "lor the Saints to take up their line of march for New Mexico. —Our Centennial walker is beaten. Weston’s greatest walk is 109 miles ip twenty-four hours, while’- three amateur . Englishmen on the London track — \ Vaughan, Crossland and Hause—havp i made respectively 113, 116 and 120 milep "4nr i *life ’satm l tftnd. We throw vtp the sponge; hut Weston was one of our slowest walkers. — N. Y. Graphic. —A base-ball player named Miller, formerly catcher of the St. Louis club, died in Philadelphia, recently. In his last moments he was delirious, and fancied he was at his place in the ball-field, facing his old pitcher, Bradley. His last words were: “Two out, Brad —steady, now—he wants a high hall —steady, Brad —there, I knew it: that settles it.” —The wife ol Ole Bull sailed from New York, recently, to join her husband at his home in Norway. While Mr. Bull has been making his musical tour through Europe and Egypt, Mrs. Bull has been residing with her parents in this country, and spending her leisure time in translating a Norwegian novel, which will soon be published in Chicago. They expect to return to this country in the autumn. „• —Ex-Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, id said to he the hardest workingman of the large force employed in repairing the damage done at Baltic by the great flood of March last. He is the first man on the ground in the morning and the last to leave at night. The whole work there is under his supervision. He is frequently to be seen as late as ten o’clock at night Coming from up the river, where he has been laboring all day, with a large force of men, .driving logs down the stream. —Pour of Daniel Drew’s grandchildren .have petitioned the Probate Court to have him removed from his position as Trustee of their property. By the provisions of their father’s will they weie to receive half of their portions at the age of twentyone years and the balance at the age of thirty-one years. Mr. Drew' has been acting as Trustee, therefore, for a long time, and it is thought most of the property has been swallowed up In his speculations. His present condition of health is very precarious, and it is believed be cannot live through the summer. —Of the late Mr. Bloss’s curious manuscrjpt the Cincinnati Enquirer says: The peculiarity of his chirography, which was so often commented upon, was supposed to arige from some peculiar defect of the brain. Although he "knew well enough what the characters ought to he, he lacked the ability to transmit to the muscles and nerves of his hand the conception of his mind. He held the pen by the extreme end. His writing was simply a species of hieroglyphics, hut he made his characters always alike, aud one could, by close study, in time learn to decipher them. Many persons supposed that his had manuscript was caused by chorea scriptorum or Scrivener’s palsy, hut this was not the case. Hfc chirography was something wonderful in its illegibility, and there is scarcely a printingoffice in the country where there isn’t* sample of.“Biose” hung up somewhere to try-the compositors.

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—James Thompkins, of Bandersonville, Ga., died from- eating plums a few days ago. His sickness was peculiar. He would snap and bite at and try to spit on those who were attending him. —Mrs. Joseph Ryan, of Christiana, Tenn. t while eating a green apple ad'ew days ago, placed some strychnine upon it, thinking it was salt. Her life was saved •with difficulty. Always have strychnine handy in tlie pantry. -*Miss Ellen Starr, a young lady living in Knox County, Tenn., while walking in the yard a few days ago, stooped to pick up a Bower. As she touched It a copperhead shake, which was concealed in the gfltes, bit her* On the hand. She became deliritofw and suffered excruciating pain, antfiit'fost accoUhts was thought not likely to h P i rtffQfmp) jft. Frintz, clerk in the CincLuaati was to have married a young-Jhdjr in the West End on the evening of tJue 6th- The guests assembled and th&brjde was in readiness, but Frintz did temot make his appearance. A friend callHng at his room next morning found him ■upon the bed. Without saying a word . he (Frintz) drew a revolver and shot himself through the heart. The motive of the suicide is unknown. —That was a somewhat dramatic affair in the Court-House at Providence, R. 1., when Asa Fairbanks died on the witness stafid the other day. He was a poor man, and had become estranged from his daughters because a fortune of $300,000, a large part of which would naturally have fallen to him, was left to them. Jle fell pace, before the fatal stroke came, and, as he was reviving, one of the daughters kissed him, whereupon he pushed her aside, exclaiming; “ How dare you, with four $150.000. and_l haven’t got a cent! only want what’s dtie ine.” ~ —A little girl named Lizzie Kraatz met with a singular accident in Baltimore recently. She was standing on the sidewalk watching a woman cut grass inside a yard, and had hold of a rail of the iron fencing, about four feet high from the coping, in such a manner that the fine point of the rail was partially inserted between a ring on the little finger and the flesh. Her attention was attracted from behind, and in turning around fell from the coping, stripping the flesh from the finger, with the-benej-to; the- -first joint, andpuilmg out thb tendon or cord to the elbow. The finger and tendon were left hanging by the ringto the point of the iron.— —About a year ago a young gin! residing in the town of Villewood, Out, swallowed a penny. No unpleasant results were experienced until several months

—*Tpr. " -yr**’ • ago, when she was attacked at times with violent pains in her stomach. Physicians were called, but they were unable to afford her any relief, and for some time she has been falling rapidly, and it was recently thought she could survive hut a few days longer. For three weeks or more she hsd taken no nourishment that she could retain. Her mouth, she said, -tasted just like a penny, and the saliva from the stomach wasof a greenish color, and strongly impregnated with the smell of copper. About the only thing that she relished was a lemon. --One of the most remarkable murder cases on record is that reported recently from Easton, Pa., an entire family named Lares having been poisoned by placing arsenic in their' food. The father, the mother, and a boarder in the family, are dead, and at last accounts one of the six children was not expected to live. Tim other children are recovering. An older son, being suspected of the poisoning, was arrested, and baa confessed thediorrible and unnatural crime. He says he put the poison in the coffee-pot, his object being murder and robbery, and owns to having stolen his father’s and the boarder’s money after their death. One remarkable part of the matter is that the young man, whose name is Allen C. Laron, was the teacher of a public school in an adjoining town.

Curiosities of the New York Directory.

Gonlfling’jS New York City Directory, just issued, contains 264,746 names, Jjeing 11,115 more than that of l*«t year’s volume. Some very curious names may be found between its covers, as for instance, there are 53 Bahks and only 17 Bankers, 2 Tubbs with 1 Bottom. The different colors represented are Blue. Brown, Gray, Green, Black, White and Purple. Then there are 2 Doctors, 2 Quacks and 2 Ducks; Snow, Rain and Wind; Spring, Summer and Winter. The name of Smith occurs over 2,300 times, the Mc’s occupy 108 columns, about 80 names to a column. There are a Trout, 23 Salmons and 2 Suckers; 2 Schools and 1 Schoolhouse, with 1 Schoolmaster; Kings, Dukes, Princes and Lords in abundance, and 1 Kingdom; a Pie, 5 Hens and 1 Pigeon, 3 Sparrows, 2 Lions and a Mule, with 13 Riders and only 1 Horseman; 20 Barbers, with a single Shaver. George Washington’s name occurs 9 times, that of Thomas Jefferson once, John Q. Adams twice and Benjamin Franklin 3 times. There is 1 Gent and 1 Melady, and 45 Churches and 11 Deacons, with 5 Pastors. Of Pitchers there are 5 and of Bowles 12. East, West, North and South are to be found; Turks, High, Low, Rich and Poor; a Lovely, Dancer, Pin and Needle. Of the different nationalities there are*Dutch, English, French, Irish and Welsh, and Germany, who sells beer. There is also a Mormon and 17 Christians; 15 Storys, with 2 Morals. There are March, June, July and August; 3 Onions, 2 Segars, Albany and Boston; Copper, Iron and Brass; Butchers, Long and Short, Lambs, with 4 Heads; 37 Wise and 8 Nott. Cain, Abel and Adam are numerouslv represented. There are 6 Courts, 31 Judges and 1 Lawyer, with 42 Cases. Pincus Pincus is a barber, and Anson House keeps a hotel. There are 32 Baptist Churches, 5 Congregational, 3 Friends, 24 Jewish Synagogues, 21 Lutheran, 59 Methodist Episcopal, 42 Presbyterian, 5 Reformed Presbyterian; 7 United Presbyterian, 77 Protestant Episcopal, 20 Reformed Dutch, 51 Roman Catholic, 4 Unitarian, 5 Universalist and 19 miscellaneous. — N. Y. Tribune.

An Extraordinary Suicide.

James A. Moore, aged about thirty five, living on a farm near the Farmers’ Institute, about fifteen miles south of this city, committed suicide at the Lahr House in his city last night. He leaves a wife and hree children. No cause is known for he deed. The manner in which it was accomplished is perhaps unparalleled in horrid ingenuity. He came to the Lahr House Saturday, said he was perfecting an invention, and would probably stay a week, but would visit bis home Monday, and prepaid his bill till that time. He called at the machine-shop of Harding & Sons, had a large new broad-ax and two bars Pf three inch wide by fine inch thick iron, sixteen inches long, which he had riveted to the head of the ax. On either side, fastened to these bars in the shape of a handle to an ax, he had ,tt system of wooden bars eight feet long, the extreme end of which was fastened to a cross-piece, secured to the floor by hinges. The ax was raised and held to its nearly perpendicular position'by a double cord fastened to the wall. Between the cords stood a candle, arranged so that when the candle burned down to the cords it would burn them off, and the ax fall. Where the ax would strike he placed a small box, open on one side, in which when found was his head with some cotton, which had been chloroformed. His chin was held up from his neck by a stick run across the box, through holes on either side, holding his head firmly in position. He was strapped tightly to the floor with two straps, one around his legs, another about his arms and breast The straps Were both screwed to the floor, rendering 4 itnpossible to move. It is supposed that he , set his ax, lit the candle ana strapped himself to the floor, put his head in the box with the chloroformed cotton, and was probably insensible when the ax fell. The ax and fixings would weigh about fifty pounds, and would fall a distance of from ten to fifteen feet. His head was completely severed from his body, and the ax buried in the boards beneath —Lafayette, Ltd., (June ll) Dispatch to Chicago Tribune.

Across the Ocean In a Dory.

Mr. Alfred Johnsen will start from this harbor to-morrow or next day for a trip to Liverpool, England, in a center-board dory. The doiy has been built expressly for this trip by Messrs. Higgins <fc Gifford, of this city, and has attracted the attention of hundreds of persons who have visited their premises the present week. It is built of pine and extra timbered with oak, is sixteen feet in length on the hot-, -tom and twenty on top, five and half feet in width and two and a half in .depth. She is decked over, with the exception of standing room and a hatchway, has three water-tight compartments, and the water *and provisions for a cruise of ninety days will be carried in quarter-barrels and tin cans. Sheds provided with a piast and majnsail, two jibs and square-sail. His accommodations for sleeping are in the hatchway, and the dory is provided with drag to be uied in a gale. Mr. Johnsen is one of our fishermen, and is perfectly confident that he will make the trip In safety, and will occasionally, when not having spoken any vessel, throw over a bottle securely sealed, giving his experience and whereabouts.— Gloucester (Mass.) Dispatch , June 5. The man who volunteers to pay bor rowea money acts as a surprise party

HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

—My Gingerbread. cup of water, a cup or molasses, aix Tablespoonfuls of melted butter, one and a half cups of flour, a teaspoon ful of soda, two of cream of tartar, two of ginger; bake very qpickly.—- Cor. Moore's Hural. —Welsh Rarebit—One-quarter pound of rich cheese, cut in smalt bite; put in a frying-pan, heated aud buttered, with a cup of milk; when the cheese is all dissolved add one well-beaten egg, one-haif saltepoonfill dry mustard, heaping teaspoonful of flour, a little huttoir, have four-or five more slices of toast ready; stir the mixture all up together and pour immediately over the hot toast; servo Instantly, as it Is not good when cold. —Dried apples are beginning to appear on the tables, and are not generally welcomed, I think, but if my Friends of the cooking department will base instead of stewing them, I think they will like them better. Bake in a brown earthen pot. not ÜBed for anything else, as the grease would spoil apples. Cover with cold water, and if the fire scorches at all, put a cover on the dish and bake four or five hours; a longer time improves them. Put in the sugar or molasses the last half hour, and mash well with a spoon, and they taste like boiled cider apple-sauce. Use no upper crust qn the pie, but put across. I prefer quartered apples to sliced ones, as the last have lesfl juice.— Mousehold. • ' “ ' i

—Mrs. Rustic’s (strawberry Short-Cake. —One large teaspoonful of sweet milk, one heaping tablespoonftil of butter, one heaping tablespoonful of baking powder worked throughly through, flour enough to roll as for biscuits. Mix quickly, roll to an inch in thickness and bake in a quick oven. Two hours before wanted for use wash and drain through a colander three pints of small-sized strawberries, put them in a dish and sprinkle sufficient sugar over them to sweeten. When the short-cake is done divide in the middle, butter the bottom layer,spread on half of the prepared strawberries and juice, invert the top, butter and spread on the remainder of the berries. Eat while warm, with sweetened cream, or whip cream. —My treatment of roses is this: I procure vessels large enough to allow the roots all the growth required, with opening enough for the drainage of water; plenty of good rich soil, which should be renewed every six months; do not allow the soil to become too dry, or do not water too profusely. After supper, if tea is left, when it becomes cold I often pour enough on to saturate the roots, which is very beneficial; also notice that there are no worms at the root, or rose lice on the stem, as both are very injurious. The above is my treatment of roses, and I am satisfied no one can possess finer or more thrifty looking ones than I have. — Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.

—The following compound, recommended by a French chemist several years since, may be worth trying on potatoes for destroying the potato beetle. Take twQ and a half pounds of block soap, two and a half pounds of flour of sulphur* two pounds of mushrooms, of the species generally found in low, moist grounds, and thirty quarts of water. Divide the water into two equal parts; put one-half into a cask with the soap and mnshrooms, after they have been bruised; boil the other half of the water in a kettle, with the sulphur in a bag and kept down to the bottom of the water with a weight. The sulphur must be stirred about, in order to better saturate the water. The water thus' boiled must be thrown into an ordinary sized cask until it has acquired a high degree of foul odor,, and the cask then closed up tightly. This solution may be sprinkled over infested trees, or plants of any kind, and it is said to be certain death to all kinds of insects. —Rural New Yorker. —The currant has two enemies which in some seasons and localities, if not interfered with, are very destructive. The more formidable one is known as the currant worm. It is about an inch long, bright yellow, and dotted with small black spots. There worms are very voracious and will strip the bushes of foliage before one is aware of their presence, if not on the watch for them. The remedy is a thorough dusting of white hellebore upen the leaves when they are wet with dew; or better still, put two ounces of white hellebore into a pail, and pour upon the powder a quart of boiling water. Af 1 tei it has stood a few moments fill up the pail with cold water and apply it to the bushes with a syringe. The liquid kills every worm it touches. Applications should be continued while any of the pests remain, and if attacked in time they can soon be destroyed. The other enemy is aTvorm called the currant borer, and its presence is known by the wood shriveling, or the foliage turning yellow. Cut off the infested branches close to the ground and burn them. If currants are grown in bush form, which is the better way, they can seldom destroy a plant, but wheu the plants are pruned into miniature trees with a single stem, the borer is often fatal to them. — Rev. E. P. Roe.

The Office of Growing Leaves.

“ • * Every leaf is supplied with mouths (termed stomata) upon their under surface;that these mouths perform an important function is beautifully illustrated by the effects of mildew. Mildew usually attacks the under surface of the leaves, the functions of the stomata are arrested, the fruit if any, fails to color and usually shrivels anu dies, and if the disease is extensive the vine will be seriously and permanently injured, if not destroyed. In the earlier period of the growing season the stems and leaves acts as a continuous drain upon the conserved resources of the plant and the nutritive elements contained in the soil; but as soon as the leaves attain a certain state of development their stomata absorb from the atmosphere certain nutritive principles as well as elaborate important elements. If the extremity of a branch is removed and its laterals continuously nipped the efforts of the vine are uirgpted to the early development of the remaining leaves and to the rapid extension of branches not subjected to the stoppings and nipping process. Upon the stopped branches the remaining leaves attain un unusual development and have their functional power increased. This increased functional activity fa well illustrated in an ordinary vinery where vines are subjected to close summer pruning or in a tomato plant tbat has been subjected to the pinching process, the leaves becoming larger and thicker. Dr. Lindley remarked that "’‘he who would remove from a plant in full bearing a portion Of its leaves, with the view of hastening the maturity of its fruit, would, be actiagwHh about aa much reason as one who should take out part of the lungs and bowels of an animal by way of improving its digestion. Cavoleau correctly remarks; “It fa wfah reason that the leaves are called serial roots, for they inhale from the atmosphere much more nourishment than the roots do from the soil; they do not only fulfill In vegetables

all the functions of lungs in animals, they are also the stomach of the plant, and the aliments which are elaborated in them are decomposed and recomposed like those in the stomach and intestines in animals. Brought to this state of perfection, these alimentary juices descend toward the roots and'in their passage they deposit all the materials necessary to form wood, hark, oil, resins, mucilage and all the other vegetable principles. In short, it is. this descending sap which furnishes to the fruit its juice, perfume, and all that makes it vsiuable. These effects cannot be produced if the leaves ate suppressed; and the plant will bo weakened In proportion to the extent to which they are removed.”— Cor. N. T. Herald.

Judging Wool.

Mast farmers have been annoyed, when selling their wool to find that the scute and practiced eye of the wool-buyer has detected the fact that their sheep have been allowed to run down in condition at some time during the growth of the fleece. They are half inclined to think that the buyer is merely trying to depreciate the quality of the wool, so as to run down the !»rice. As a matter of fact, however, there s no defect which renders wool so useless for certain classes of manufacture as unevenness or break of continuity, in the thickness of the fiber—and there is no defect more common, and' nothing that, year by year, touches the sheep-grower more severely in that tender part of his anatomy, the pocket. However good the wool in other respects, the keen eye of the buyer singles out the defective wool, and down goes the price of it. And it is not mere fancy that regulates the price, for the uneven wool will break at the weak places during the first process of manufacture.

Some persons suppose that this unevenness of fleece is hereditary in certain ani mals—and perhaps unevenness may be made hereditary by generations of illusage and neglect. But as the wool of an entire flock Is found to be uneven one year, and not so in another, it shows that management has more to do with it than heredity. If sheep are allowed to. get into low condition, are neglected, underfed or not sheltered properly, the pores of the skin will contract and the wool that issues will be of very fine fiber. As soon as the animal recovers a vigorous condition the pores again open, and a longer and stronger fiber grows out. The wool is thus weaker in one place than in places on esch side of it, and breaks at the weak place on the slightest strain. Nothing induces unevenness more easily or surely than want of water. It is a common notion that sheep can do without water, or very little. If supplied with roots daily they will not want much water, but it is weft, and humane, too, that water should always be in their reach. Not only is it important that the fiber should be even, but the fleece throughout should be eveu as regards length, softness, density and fineness. A practiced wool-buyer gives the following description oT the-way an expert examines a fleece: Always assuming that the wool to be inspected is really a fine wool, we first examine the shoulder at the part where the finest and best wool is usually found. This we take as to the standard, and compare it with, in turn, the wool from the ribs, the thigh, the rump and the hinder parts; and the nearer the wool from these various portions of the animal approaches the standard, the better. First, we scrutinize the fineness; and if the result be satisfactory, we pronounce the fleece, in respect to fineness, very “even.” Next we inquire into the length of the staple; and if we find that the wool on thej ribs, thigh and back, approximates rea-; sonably in length to thacof our standard,, we again declare the sheep, as regards. length of staple, true and even. We next desire to satisfy ourselves of the density of the fleece; and we do this by closing the hand upon a portion of the rump and of the loin wool, the fleece at these points being usually the thinnest, and faulty; and If this again give satisfaction, we signify the fact by designating the wool “even” as respects density. Now to summarize these separate examinations; Tt you find the fleece of nearly equal fineness from the shoulder to the thigh; of nearly equaljength.at the shoulder, rib, thigh and back; and of eqnal density at thq shoulder and across the loins—you may conclude that you hare a nearly perfect sheep. —Toronto Globe.

Extraordinary Pedestrianism.

Yesterday afternoon we were visited by Mr. George W. Dietz, of New Albany, Indiana, who had resided in that State sixty-nine years, and is itt the seventyninth year'of his age. He left New Albany, Indiana, on the Ist day of May, and walked the entire distance of 800 miles to this city, resting five Sundays and stopping two days—one at Cincinnati and one at Zanesville. He reached Philadelphia atone o’clock yesterday afternoon. He is in excellent health. Although browned by the sfon, he ik ' bright add cheerful. One,-fpair of shoes lasted him the whole way, and 650 miles was on a hard turnpike. He was not interfered with by rain, having fine weather during all his journey. He seems to be in good circumstances, having paid his way at all the hotels where he stopped, except in two or three cases, where the landlords would receive no money. Wherever he stayed over people Hocked to welcome him. The best walk was thirty-one miles in one day, and his shortest ten miles. He kept an accurate account of each day’s walk, from which it appears that he walked 800 miles, from New Albany to Philadelphia, in 298 hours. The average is a little over two and one-third miles an hour. He left the Green Tree yesterday morning at seven, and reached Philadelphia at twelve, nineteen miles in five hours. A more agreeable, intelligent and worthy man we have never met. Mr. Dietz comes highly recommended, with letters from Gov. Hendricks and the Mayor of New Albany. —Philadelphia Tress, June 8.

The Biggest Bear Story.

The Reno (Nev.) Gazette repeats it thus: “ I’ve fought ’em standin’ and runnin’, but the toughest citizen 1 eve*, ‘lit onto was a black ’un. He was sidin' in the chapparel e&tin’ manzanila berries, when my dog smelt him and went home. I sm aked up and begun aggravatin’ him by shootin’at bis ears and feet. I then took around him, and with three shots ent off his tail. Old Blacky heerd me shootin’, and turnin’ reund see his tail layin’ there. He picked ic tip and looked at the trade-mark, and I see in a minute that war was cornin’. I lit out for a tree, with on]y two cartridges left and him a cornin’. Well, to make a long story short, I shot twice, hilin’ him both times, and he begun to git hot, so he took up the tree after me, and I knocked him down three times before my gun broke. He started on the fourth trip, and I didn’t know

what to do till I thought of my Deringer, which shot a four-ounce ball. I drew her out; tied a string to the trigger, and as old Blacky came up with bis mouth wide open I dropped her in. He hadn’t time to spit her out, and so he swallowed and 1 pulled the string. Off went the guu.and so help me, I never see anything of bear or pistol since." r i * mi ♦ * ii' Dr. Schbhck’s Pmjfojrrc Syrup, Bra W bsd Towiq Mandhakr ThM* medicine* have undoubtedly performed more core* ol Consumption than any otner remedy known t* the American public. They are compounded of vegetable ingredients and contain nothin* which can beinjurion* to the hnman constitution. Other remedies advertised as cares foe Consumption probably contain oplam, which Is • somewhat dangerous drug In all cssas, and. If taken freely by consnmpUve patients. It mast do great injury; for ItM tendency Is to confine the morbid matter in the system, which, of conree',' must make a core impossible. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup Is warranted not to contain a 1 particle of opium. It la composed of powerful hut harmless herbs, which act on the lnqgs, liver, stomach and blood, and thus correct all morbid secretions and expel all the diseased matter from die body. These are the' only means by which Consumption can be cared, and, as Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrnp, Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills are the only medicines which operate hi this way. It la obvlons they or* the only genuine cure for Pulmonary Consumption. Bach bottle of thls ; invaluable medicine Is ' accompanied by fall directions. DC. Schenck Is professionally at his principal office, corner Sixth and Arch streets, Phlladelphis, every Mondr.y, where all letters for advice must he addressed.

Dr. Wilhoft’s AwTi-PamoDio or Fevek akd Ague Tonic I— -Wilhoft’s Tonic has established itself as the real infallible Chill, cure. It is universally admitted to be the only reliable and harmless Chill medicine now in use. Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of certificates of the very best people from all parts of the country. It cures malarious diseases of every type, from the shaking agues of the lakes and valleys to the raging fevers of the torrid zone. Try ;t! It has never been known to fail. (£, R. Finlay <fc Co., Proprietors, New Orleans. For sale ry all Druggists. Shallenbekgbr’s Ague Pills do not sicken, the stomach, or act on the bowels. One dose stops the chills, and vigorous health follows. Nothing in them to injure an infant. Holton & Hildreth, 225 and 227 State street, Chicago, sell Furniture lower than any house ia the West. Their goods are firstclass. For pickling or table use Pressing's White Wine Vinegar is unrivaled. Try it.

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