St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 12, Number 42, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 16 April 1887 — Page 4

BI TELEGRAPH. THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE EAST. It transpires that the late John Kelly wrote a history of Mexico and furnished to the press clever biographical sketches of Tweed, Morrissey, and other politicians of New York... .The broken leg of a valuable brood mare, owned by Norman Barnard, of Avondale, Pa., was recently amputated and the animal is said to be doing well. This is the first operation of the kind performed in America. The heaviest crop for many years is predicted by peach-growers in New Jersey. . .. There were landed at Castle Garden Friday 4,273 immigrants—the greatest number on record for one day at this season of the year. A LARGE number of arrests have been made at Pittsburg and along the line of the Pan Handle Railroad of freight-train employes who have for two years been stealing from the cars, the property taken being valued at $500,000. The finest cigars, silks, hosiery, musical instruments, wines, liquors, in fact all kinds of portable merchandise had been purloined, sold to ‘ fences,” or pawned. The affair caused a great sensation at Pittsburg. It, is said that over 200 warrants have been issued. Miss Shafer, the possessor of a luxuriant head of hair, was seized at her home in Pittsburg by a peddler, who compelled her to inhale chloroform, and while she was unconscious cut off her tresses close to her head. THW WEST. Reports from the Northwest are to the effect that the sowing of wheat is progressing actively, he ground being generally in good condition, and that some people are predicting a crop of spring wheat 25 per cent, larger than that of last year. Part of this expected increase will depend on a greater acreage, and the rest is based on the possibility of better yield, that of last year having beer, poor in some sections owing to the drouth. The outlook in the winter-wheat areas cannot be said to be a good one, but the prospect is really bad only in the Southwest, where the absence of moisture is described to be very strongly marked in the appearance of vegetation. ... In a riot between Hungarians, Poles, and Swede.., at Penver, Col., one man was fatally shot and several badly wounded. Two houses were completely wrecked during the melee, the furniture and other utensils being broken and used as weapons. The police, armed with Winchesters, quelled the riot, and landed thirty of the combatants in jail. .. .An Atchison (Kan.) dispatch reports that a disastrous prairie fire was raging in Phillips and Norton Counties, in Kansas. It was reported that nine to twelve persons had perished, but the facts could not be definitely learned, owing to injury to telegraph wires. . . A special Indian agent is about to remove a band of 700 Jicarillas across New Mexico to their old reservation. The Inmans will use their ponies to transport their effects 400 miles. . . .Fred Kindle, employed in a tannery’ at Cincinnati, walked into the hopper of the bark-mill, and before the machinery could be stopped his legs to the knees were ground to pulp... In a wrestling match at Chicago, Lewis defeated Acton, winning three out of four falls. An Atchison (Kansas) telegram gives some further intelligence concerning the destruction of life and property by the great prairie fire that swept over the eastern portion of Norton and Graham Counties in Kansas: A few houses and every stable, with its stacks of hay and cribs of grain, were burned, leaving hundreds of farmers almost destitute. Thou sands of chickens and turkeys and hundreds of hogs, with occasional horses and numerous cattle, were burned. Almost every farmer lost from fifty to 509 bushels of corn, besides small grain. It is definitely known that from thirteen to sixteen lives were lost in the two counties. Four children perished in one family. At the same time another fire swept down the s mth fork of the Solomon to a point near Millbrook, sweeping everything in its path and burning six persons to death, father, moth Jr, and four children, and a largo number of cattle, horses, hogs, and poultry. John J McGrath & Co.’s great wallpaper establishment on Wabash avenue. Chicago, has been entirely destroyed by fire. The stock and fixtures are a total loss, and only the front of the building was saved in a badly damaged condition. The loss on stock and fixtures is about $500,000, while the loss on building is placed at SIOO,OOO. Till. SOI TH. The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky now has railway connection. .. .Four men were killed by a boiler explosion in Ritchie County, West Virginia..... Shade Scarbrough, who murdered Madison Caesar in July last, was banged in the jail yard at Clayton. Ala., on Friday. Both men were negroes. .. Patrick McCarthy was hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., for murdering and robbing Thomas and John Mahoney in the Cherokee Nation, Feb. 16, 1886. The evidence was purely circumstantial, there being no eye-witnesses to the crime, and McCarthy died protesting his innocence. H. H. Wilkinson, a keeper at the county farm near Nashville, Tenn., the lessee, four guards, and five trustees were poisoned by convicts who put arsenic in the drinking water, hoping in this way to make their escape. Two of the persons will die. The others are seriously ill. Gue of the ringleaders of the plot has made a confession. It is stated by the Atlanta Constitution that President Cleveland has promised to attend the Piedmont exposition in that city next October. .. .The St. Augustine Hotel, Edwards House, the old cathedral, Vedder s Museum, the court house, Welter's Hotel, and a number of smaller buildings at St. Augustine, Fla., were destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $‘250,000, with very small insurance. WASHINCITOiN. Eugene Semple, formerly of Illinois, has been appointed Governor of Washington Territory. .. .Owing to a want of money, the work of repairing in the navy yards will be suspended at an early day. . . .The President has appointed as Commissioners to investigate the affairs of the Pacific Railroads, under (he act passed by the last Congress: Robert E. Pattison, of Pennsylvania; E. Elery Anderson, of New York; and David T. Littler of Illinois. Mr. Pattison was born in Maryland, graduated from the Philadelphia High School in 1872, and was admitted to the bar the same year. In 1877 he was nominated by the Democrats for Comptroller of that city, and was elected, and re-elected in 1880. In 1882 he was nominated by the Democrats for Governor of Pennsylvania, and was elected by a large majority. He retired from that office last January, and resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia. Mr. Anderson was born in 1833, graduated at Harvard College in 1852, was admitted to the New York City bar in 1854, and has since been in active practice of his profession in that city. In politics he has always been a Democrat, and ho has been connected with many of the reform movements in that city. He was one of the leading men in the organization of the County Democracy, ami was for som time Chairman of its general committees. He has been specially connected with much important litigation involving the close examination of accounts and methods of railroad corporations. Mr. Littler is a Republican, a prominent member of the Illinois Legislature, and a lawyer by profession.

Postmaster General Vilas, and General Superintendent Nash, of the railway mail service, left Washington on the 12th inst. on a tour of inspection of the fast mail service betwe n New York, Chicago and St. Paul. It is probable that a depot will be established in Chicago for the distribution of postal cards and stamped envelopes. POLITICAL. The result of the Rhode Island election, held on Wednesday, April 6, is as follows: John W. Davis (Dem.) is elected Governor 'by '.173 majority. 'There is no election for ' Lieutenant Governor or Secretary of State. ! Ziba O. Slocum (Dem.) is elected Attorney . General by 2,518 majority, and J. G. Perry (Dem.) General Treasurer by 2,609 majority. The majority against the womansuffrage amendment is 15,123. The vote for Lieutenant Governor was: Honey (Dem.), 17,285; Darling (Rep.), 15,915; Kimber (Pro.), 1,858. The Senate stands: Republicans, 19; Democrats, 12, and there was no election in five cases. The House will comprise 27 Republicans and 33 Democrats, with twelve districts yet to be heard from The vote on the prohibition amendment in Michigan was very close. A Lansing dispatch says: “The exact figures on the prohibition amendment are still unknown. Published reports give the majority against it from 1,550 to about 6,000. From several counties the reports are conflicting, in some cases varying from 500 to GOO votes, and the official returns will be needed to settle which is correct. The prohibitionists do not yet concede their defeat.” Another dispatch from Lansing says: “The returns announcing the defeat of the prohibitory amendment are generally accepted as correct here, and measures to regulate the liquor traffic will ba brought forward in the Legislature. One of these measures is copied frdm the local option law of Georgia. Another is a copy of the Ontario Scott act. It is believed that no legislation will be accomplished except such as will perfect the existing tax law.” The high license bill was defeated in the New Jersey Assembly. The election in Rankin County, Mississippi, was carried by the Prohibitionists. Michigan Prohibitionists claim that their recent defeat at the polls was accomplished by fraud. A Detroit telegram says: The prohibitionists nro working vigorously to establish their claims of fraud at the polls. A now tack was taken this morning in tho matter of accumulating evidence of fraud. Tho following sign posted on the front of headquarters explains itself: “Wanted—The names and addresses of all ‘ yes ’ votars on the amendment.” It is proposed to take tlie names of all persons in Detroit who voted "yes" and compare tho number with tho official returns. It is believed that this method will reveal a large discrepancy. The Legislature of Rhode Island comprises fifty-six Democrats and forty-six Republicans. A Providence telegram says: The Democrats carried tho new elections for Senators and Representatives in Newport and East Greenwich Saturday, and the Republicans secured one member in Warwick. The Legislature now stands: Senate—Republicans, 19; Democrats, 15; no election, 2. House -Republicans, 28; Democrats, 41; no election. 3. On joint ballot—Republicans, 47; Democrats, 36; no election, 5, The Democrats have already one more than enough members to elect tho:r candidates for Lieutenant-Governor, Secret try of State, Sheriffs, State Auditor, District Judges, etc. The Anti-Prohibitionists of Texas will hold a State convention at Dallas on May 4, and John Hancock will state his views. Three months later the people will vote on the temperance amendment... .The Governor of New York vetoed the higb-licenso bill for New York and Brooklyn. The Pennsylvania House passed the Brooks high-license bill. (.EMIIAL. The business failures during the week number for the United States 198, for Canada 25; total 223, against 223 the previous week, and 215 the corresponding week of last year. ... Archbishop Corrigan has received authority from Rome to suspend pastors who were made irremovable by the Baltimore Counci l This is to strenthen the Archbishop in his conflict with Dr. McGlynn’s supporters. Mrs. James Brown Potter’s advent as an actress is said to have estranged her from Lvr husband's family, so that her failure is pleasing them more than success would. It is also said that Mr. Potter strongly opposed his wife’s going ou the stage, and then, in consequence of her persistence, the ties between them, if not quite ruptured, are very badly strained. There have been seventy arrests in connection with the Pan-Handle robberies. The officers of the road claim to be able to convict all but two of those under arrest. In the effects of one of the ringleaders were found dynamite cartridges, fuse, and caps. The trials of the thieves will be pushed as speedily as possible. It is believed that a large number of the men will plead guilty on one or two charges, and thus escape a trial ou an accumulation of charges. J. R. Dunlap, one of the conspirators, who was arrested at Dennison, Ohio, has made a confession, in which he said that the stealing had been going on for months. He said he could give the names of all the men implicated on the Pittsburgh Division of the Panhandle, but was afraid to do so, his language to the officers being: “I would give yon the names, officers; but, great God! they would kill me.” The fences, Dunlap said, were located in New Philadelphia, Dennison, Steubenville, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, and also in Columbus. Dunlap says the thieves were not organized, but it is still believed they were, and that each was bound by oaths and kept ; n the conspiracy by fear of foul play. A bill has be n intiodnced in the Pennsylvania Legislature making the robbery of a freight car or the entering of a car with intent to commit a felony punishable by a fine of $5(10 and fur) ears’ imprisonment. There is little doubt but that the present exposure will lead to others on other roads. Some of these are in the Pennsylvania Company’s system and some in tne Baltimore and Ohio- It is said the stealing on these other roads was not confined to box freights. Through aid of teamsters ami others large quantities of pig-iron and manufactured iron and steel have been stolen from the cars iu Pittsburgh and in several other cities not faraway. These caseswill be worked up soon. lOKEIGY, At the request, of tbe Ameer of Afghanistan, an English engineer has gone to consult with him regarding the construction of a railway from Cabul to Herat....The Canadian fishery cruiser Vigilant chased and fired at an American schooner, which, however, outsailed the cruiser and escaped. The affair occurred off Beaver Harbor, New Brunswick. A judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice in Germany Las been sent to the Ministry of the Interior defining the scope of the American treaty regarding naturalized citizens. It affirms that the acquisition of citizenship in the United States, with an unbroken residence there of five years, causes loss of citizenship in Germany. Such persons returning will be liable to expulsion from Germany until they recognize German rights. The Vatican will thoroughly investigate the Irish question. . .. A friendly treaty has been arranged between Ch na and galThe anti-coercion meeting in London on the l lth instant was the largest ever held in that city. Mrs. Gladstone, watching tho procession from a window in Piccadilly, received an ovation from the men in lino. A motion protesting against the coercion bill was offered i imultancously from fourteen platforms, and was enthusiastically carried. 'The greatest throng gaiherd at the platform from which

Lord Mayor Sullivan of Dublin and Messrs. Conybeare and William Redmond, members of Parliament, spoke. Lord Mayor Sullivan, in the course of a most effective speech, asked: “Is it the wish of the workmen of London that the honest, hard-working tenantry of Ireland should be forever crushed down?” A tremendous responsive “No!” resounded throughout the park. The mention of the Queen as about to celebrate her jubilee by signing away tho liberties of the people of Ireland, brought forth a torrent of hisses, and the mention of Mr. Chamberlain’s name aroused a tempest of groans and hisses, with cries of “Traitor.” Michael Davitt was one of the speakers. He said that on the day on which the crimes act should become a law they would either have to give up the struggle that had been waged for centuries and He down as slaves, or render the system impossible of duration. 'They would follow the manlier course. The classes had in tho past built a bridge of hate across the Irish sea; (he people would pull it down and erect a bridge of love between the toilers of Ireland and the honest workers of England. Russia is collecting large commissary and other stores on tho northern border of Afghanistan... .The tin-platers in Wales, after a strike of six months for an increase in wa,es, have returned to work at the old rates. ADDITIONAL NEWS. Since the interstate commerce act wont into effect tho number of personal applicants for appointments under tho administration at Washington has diminished very materially. There has been a marked falling off iu the number of callers from the various States and Territories. An officer in tho Interior Department said to a newspaper correspondent the other day: “The withdrawal of railway passes has pretty effectually stopped tho coming of delegates and of individuals to urge appointments and press claims. Before the interstate law went into effect there wasn't a day passed that wo did not have delegations and individuals here for one purpose or another. They would come from the Paitic coast and th ‘ far Northwest. But now, ■ nice free passes have been canceled, we don't have many such callers.” Germany has purchased for $250,000 a balloon-steering invention V servant discharged by Count Andrassy, of Hungary, administered arsenic to a large number of his horses, live of which died . . .Dr. Joseph Parker, pastor of City Temple, London, will visit America in June and probably deliver the Beecher eulogy The packet steamer Yi toria went ashore ou the rocks near Dieppe in a dense fog. Twenty of the passengers aud crew were drowned. ... Emigrants are coming to Ameriei m droves. A cable dispatch from (jueenstown says: “The arrivals here of emigrants on their way to the United States are at present enormous. The railways are running special trains to accommodate this class of travel. The number of emigrants now awaiting steamers to carry them to their destinations is already greater than can bo housed in the hotels ami lodginghouses, and many are camping in the streets. ” Greensburg is the most southerly point in Indiana where natural gas wells have been developed. Several great wells are flowing at Muncie, where real est ite to the amount of slchanged hands Wednesday. Tho people of Smith Bend have organized to bore for oil and gas. ... A Fort Gibson dispatch of the l Itli inst. says: “Mr. Blaine is gaining strength rapidly.” A COMPANY has been incorporated at Springfield. 111., with a capital of $1,000,()0(>, to build a railway from the Indiana State line to Kankako', Wilmington, Marseilles. Mendota, ami thence to some point on the Mississippi River. Drought in Wabash County, Indiana, is killing the wheat plant, and the meadows are reported brown and bate. In Central Illinois the absence of rain is alarming tho farmers. The stock wells ami streams are drying up. Ar an election in California on the adoption of three proposed amendments to the State Constitution, the result was adverse to all of the propositions .A committee of the Republican caucus of the Michigan Legislature has been appointed to report a high-license bill, ranging from $ iOO to $700.... The Pennsylvania Senate passed the joint resolution proposing a womansurt'mge constitutional ame.udment by a vote of 27 to IG. The ladies’ gallery was crowded during t ic vote, ami up m the announcement that the resolution had passed its occupants arose and waved their handkerchiefs. On tl.e Louisville race track Charles Taylor, a jockey, while ex rcising the bay colt Asphallus, struck him on the head with the bu tof his whip. Tho colt fell to his knees, breaking one of his legs, and also crushing the jockey, who is dangerously hurt Asphaltus was shot. The photographer’s lens is more discerning than the naked eye. A recent photograph of a figure painting by an American art st shows that a woman’s gown was first painted a hue and texture very different from that finally chosen, the underlying brushwork appearing plainly in the photograph, though not seen by the most attentive observer of the original picture. In like manner photography revealed the stars that to the hitman eyes are not dis!inguishable from nebulous matter. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Beeves S 5.00 @ 6.00 Hons 5.50 © 6.0 J Wheat—No. 1 White 92 @ .95$ No. 2 Red 91 © .91 $ Corn—No. 2 50 & .51 Oats—White 38 @ .42 Pork —New Meas 16.00 @16.51 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Primo Steers 5.25 © 5.50 Good Shipping 4.50 © 5.00 Common 3.75 © 4.5) Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.50 © 6.00 Elour—Red Wlut< r 42) @4.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 81 © .81$ Corn—No. 2 .38 m .38^6 Oats—No. 2 28 © .286. Butter —Choice Creamery 24 © .26 Fine Dairy 21 © .24 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar. .11$ ‘ .11 Full Cream, new 13.' 2 d .11 Eggs—Fresh 12 © .13 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 56 @ .60 Pork Mess 20.59 q 21.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 78 @ .79 tuns—No 3 37 izt .38 Oats—No 2 White 32 «i> .3216 Rye—No. 1 .59 & .61 Pork—Moss 15.25 («15.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No, 2 81 ® .82 Corn—Cash 38 © .39 Oats—No. 2 29 © .30 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.50 © 5.25 Hogs -1.00 © 5.25 Sheep • 4.25 © 5.50 Wheat—Michigan Red 82$ << .83 Corn—No. 2 41 @ .42 Oats—White 32$ © .33 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 795.80)/ Corn—Mixed 35 @ .36 Oats —Mixed 28 © .28$ Pork —Mess 11.75 @18.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 83 © .83$ Corn —No. 2 42 © .44 Oats—No. 2. 31 © .32 Pork —Moss 16.75 fa 17.25 Live Hogs 5.25 © 6.00 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Rard 90 © .90$ Corn—No. 2 Yellow 41$© .45 Cattle 4.50 j© 5.25 INDIANAPOLIS Beef Cattle 3.75 © 5.2.7 Vogs 5.2? © 6.00 Sheep 3.50 © 5.2* Wheat—No. 2Red. x.. .80 © .81 Corn—No. 2 36 @ .36$ Oats 27$ 9 .28 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 5.00 © 5.25 Fair 4.5 J @ 5.00 Common 4.00 © 4.2.5 Hogs 6.00 © 6.25 Sheep ~..., 5.00 & 5.50

Woman Versus Man. “There is a growing tendency nowadays for women to unsex themselves—that is, to crowd into occupations whi. h have up to late years been oc- < upied exclusively by man. I f women usurp occupations originally intended lor tlie other sox, what about the men who are thrown out? for it is very certain there is not room for both.” This is a fallacious popular idea. The question is misunderstood; women have not become manly, but men have become effeminate. In consequence of all their time-immemorial employments having been gradually taken from them, women in this nineteenth century are absolutely driven to seek some outlet for their energies, or necessities, in new lines of work. The change has been so silent aud unperceived that it is doubtful if it is generally known, ; and certainly was never planned purposely to in ure women; rather the reverse, it was intended that they should be benefited thereby. While from the alterations in our social system all household aud essential women’s trades are carried on by men, women have received as a substitute a few ill-paid clerkships, and precarious employments, such as art needlework or china painting, which are now offered to them as their true vocat on. National .Review. In Town anil Hamlet Tlie seeds of intermittent and bilious remittent fever germinate nnd bear evil fruit. No community lias altogether escaped it. In populous wards of large cities bad sewage causes it, and in their suburbs stagnant pools in sunken lots breed it. There is at once a remedy and a means of prevention. Its name is Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which is, without perudventure, tho most potent antidote iu existence to the malarial virus. Fortified with this incomparable, saving specific, miasmatic influences may bo encountered with absolute impunity. Disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, begotten by miasmatainted water, or any other cause, succumb to the beneficent corrective nained. and rheumatic, kidney nnd bladder troubles uro surely removable by its use when it is given a persistent trial. “ I’cceavi.” This laconic dispatch was sent by Napier when he had compelled the citv of Scinde to capitulate, and it is acknowledged as the most laconic of any of like nature. The little incident that, is connected with this measure is worthy of remark. It is as follows: When Napier was in India and ou his conquering tour iu that subjected country, he was ordered not to take the city of Scinde, and he, overruling the orders of his superiors, disobeyed them and took the e tv, and in sending word to Parliament of his action, wrote tlie above, and it, was quite a pu zle to the learned peers of England to ascertain the meaning of the all important message, which is this: “Napier in disobeying his instructions had sinned against his superiors, and in taking the city of Scinde he had Scinde.” Thus the meaning of this, the most laconic dispatch on record. I'olilbnl Tcinperanci' rurtivs. It would bi? the most remarkable thing in tlie hi-tory of tlie world if the little h»rmle>« Moxie Nerve food plant should snbat.tute the use of stimiila its. an I take tho wind out of thi' sails of t ie political temper.nice parties. 'J here h tno best of antlioi .ty tor tho statement that tlie drinker is Is'tt r satisfied with it, and the liquor dealer has to keep it or lose his custom It is a powerful factor that they can make just as milch money on it, and pty no he‘use Also, the woni"u an I clmrcm s ba k it to th • utmost. All the dealers say its sal ■is enormous 1h ■ fompany putimg it on lb ■ market offer the choniis's > ~nn i it they can find nnytumg in it more deleterious than common buler root and wintergreen. Wo thank God it can do so we 1 without harm. \ recent visitor to it Mexican silver mine relates that he was shown a mass of mercury, weighing two pounds, taken from the stomach of a horse that had worked in the ]>a‘io. lie savs: “In this primitive Mexican process, which seems to be well suited to the wants of the country, the ground ore, or silver mud, is mixed with salt, mercury, etc. The horses that, tread this mud for wei ks, m order to m x the chemica’s, attracted by the salt, lick up the mu 1, and take in the poisono s quieksib er. This, accumulating in the system, finally kills them. 1 was informed that the bones of these animals are ground up, in order to obtain the mercury in them.” A little fire is quickly trodden out Which, being snffeied, rivers ei.miot quench. ITocr.istination may rob you of Lme, but by increised diligence you ca i mak ■ up tne loss; 1 ut if if rob you of life the 1 >ss h trieinedia1> e. 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All Men Are Not Hail, Neither arc all prepared remedies unreliable, liiis is pruven by the results following the use of Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic for dyspepsia, riieumatiHin, scrolula, jaundice, torpid liver, and general weakness. Mensman’s Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force generating, and life sustaining properties; invaluable for mdi ’cstion, dyspep ia, nervous prostrat on, ami all forms of general debi iiy; also in all enfeebled conditions, whether the work of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork, on aeu disease, particularly if resultin',' from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard A Co., proprietors, Now York. Sold by druggists. Ira cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso's Cure for Consumption an I rest well.

“Throw Physic to tho Dogs” When it is tin old-fashioned blue mass, blue pill sort, and insist o i uh ng Dr. Pierce s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets.” a modern medical luxury, being Bimiil, Biigar-ooiitovl grnuules, containing the iijnvo principle! of certain roots and herbs, and which w 11 he found 11 oo itam in much ent lartie power an any of the old -fashioned, larger pd w, witnoill the lat - ter’s violent, drastic off eta. Tho pullets operate thoroughly but linrmlessly, ostabLshiiig a permanently healthy action of tho stomach and bowels, and as an a iti bilious remedy are micq Hilled. । “People needn’t sneer at me because I am itu old maid,” said Miss Gihh rsleeve, snappishly, “f may be an old maid, but if I I am I'm one from choice.” “Yes,” said i Mr. ( nssignole, sympathetically, “so I vo always unde stood. Choice was quite ! unanimous, wasn't it?” I * * * * Piles, fistula, rupture, and stricture radically cur <l. Book of particular! 10 , cents in stamps. World's Dispensary Medical i Association, Buffalo, N. Y. How to tell a gentleman -go right up to him and speak out. BrVwvvjwvw wr»•**•’**•**’ ’*'*7 COMPOUND EXTRACT yT S/Wfer |i .At tli s Meamj ut 1 trly every one iiuedw a good medicine t » purity, vitilize, anil enrich the blood, and Hood’s S .rsaparil.a is he best tor this purpoae. It is peculiar in that it strengthens and builds up the system and creates an appetite, while it eradicates’disease. Be sure t > get Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Do not take any oth> r. Hood’s bars parilia sold by druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared by C. 1. Hood& Co . Lowell, Masa. 100 Doses One Dollar Catarrh Fhayfever®! \ 0 USA I HAY-FEVER ELY'S CREAM BALM Is not a liyuid, snutT or powder. Applied into nostrils is yuii'kly absorbed. It cleanses the head. Allays hitlammation. Heals Hq' sores. Restores the senses of taste and smell cent^ at llriigyists: by mail, reyistrred, tiOcenit. ELY BROTHERS. Druggists. Owego. N. Y. ■ a a TRIMONIAL print.-.! tree, MM hi ■■ CLIMAX, SIH rs ChiCQKO. This, innnnnolh impel. by mail. 10c. Mafi Morphine llnbil Cured in I<> io 2u dny»- Ao pay till cured, lie Ur. J. bu-pheu., Lebanon, Ohio. Mi kV IJ V ') IDE 1 VBT In (.ocebic slocks I’.llil and ni'v town lota 5..,-nritv morant. ■ I. VLn - > t. . 11 E. KIRK A Co . Milwanke. WL. rii|XM>..ll. I.VXD rxi HXXGI Xadnilhn b 1,-no. H- :■ V. X laylor, Prost.; W I' Ovv nbv, Snpt 11. niea. fat ms. timber, and mineral lands for sal. 'ii easv b rm- m everv part of Tenneaste. Catalogm- on app i alum. MENTION THIS PAPER warn., to .tuini.u.

7kri j - . • h ■ 1 ‘ , , , , (...Ijk „ , Tho following words, in praise of Dr. Dif.rce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for those delicate diseases and weakncsses peculiar to women, must boos interest to every sufferer from such maladies. They are lair samples of the spontaneous expresstons with which thousands g-ivo utterance to their sense of gratitude lor the inestimable boon of health which has been restored to them by the use of this world-famed medicine.

John E. Segar, of Millenhectt, T>u, writes: I ® i “My wife had been suffering for two or three sP VW I years with female weakness, and had paid ! 1 I out one hundred dollars to physicians withI I KHOWN AWAY I o,lt reHef - She took Dr. Pierce s Favorite H * I Prescription and it did her more good than u — m.axia.i। .medicine given to her by the physicians during the three years they had been practicing upon her.” Mrs. George Herger, of HYstfirid, .V. I’., I Tur PffCITCOT wriles: " I wns a great sufferer from leucor--9 InL untAlLo! rhea, bearing-down pains, and pain continI r.nru.u uafiy across my back. Three bottles of your I lAHTHLY uDON ‘ Favorite Prescription’ restored me to perhealth. I treated with Dr. . for nine months, without receiving anv benefit. Ine Favorite Prescription’ is the greatest earthly boon to us poor suffering women.”

TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE. C i a M on ^? e ’ r family physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one from dvspepsin, another from heart disease, thin u-»v ii.v. \'’ r or kidney disease, another from nervous exhaustion or prostration, another with pain here or there, and in for Wl ich ? ,k -n° thomsel’ and their easy-going and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases won b iLXt T1 b 1 U ® r illß . nn<l P°l . assuming them to be such, when, in realitv, thev are all only si/mptoms caused by some n-d?e t eet^ l>h.vsician, ignorant ot the cause of suffering, encourages his practice until large bills are made. Tho sulfp r .‘“ s like Dr v ' probably worse by' reason of the delay-, wrong treatment and consequent complications. A proper medicine, ds trying svmito^ LK'’'? have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispelling ass those aistrcsstng symptoms, and instituting comfort instead of prolonged misery.

niiunimaiin Morgan, of Ao. 71 Lerington St., |>3 t HYSICIAMS Boston, Mass., says: "Five years ago 1 C-iirr, I was a dreadful sufferer from uterine troubles. I AiLEu. Having exhausted the skill of three phyUaa mi I,,„ — J sicians. I was completely discouraged, and so tv x weak I could with difficulty’ cross the room alone. I began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and । 4 local treatment recommended in his ‘Common Sense Medical Adviser. I commenced to improve at once. In three months 1 was perfectly cured, and have hud no trouble since. I i Vr< iM , r ko nl ^ family paper, briefly mentioning how mv health had been restored, and offering to send the full particular's to any one wntmg me for them, an,i enclosing a stamped-tn-t!'. ^.71 r . ll ave received over four hundred letters, imi S ; n V la ’'? 1 d T b ’’? '“f th* treatment used, and have earnestly advised them to ‘do likewise.’ From a great many I have received second letters of thanks, stating that they Prescription,’ had sent thi *L ’U r ' < l'ii r i d for the Medical Adviser,' and had applied the mueh^bet'er a/raady 1 ’’plainly laid down therein, and were

THE OUTGBOWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE.

1 he treatment of many thousands of cases of those chronic weaknesses and distressing ailments peculiar to females, at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., has afforded a vast experience in nicely adapting and thoroughly testing remedies for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies £>r. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is tho outgrowth, or result, of this great and valuable experience. Thousands of testimonials, received from patients and from physicians xvho have tested it in tho more aggravated and obstinate cases which had baffled their skill, prove it to be the most wonderful remedy ever devised for the relief and cure of suffering women. It is not recommended as a “cure-all,” but as a most perfect Specific for woman’s peculiar ailments. As a powerful, invigorating' tonic, it imparts strength to the whole system nnd to the uterus, or womb and its appendages, in particular. For overworked ‘worn-out,” “run-down.” debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, Seamstresses “shop-girls,” housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription is tho" greatest earthly boon, being unequalled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. It promotes dige Jon and assimilation of food,

j < dress. WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, No. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N.

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I T ■ . Mrs. SormA F. Boswell, White Cottagf.O., I RRFW AWAY Writes: "I took eleven bottles of your ‘Lsi.iiiLn MHul vorite Prescription’ and one bottle of your rtfC ‘Pellets.’ I am doing my work, and have been n ~uu for some time. I have had to employ help for SUPPORTER about sixteen years before I commenced'takuurrun 1 Ln. j U g your medicine. I have had to wear a supporter most of the time; this I have Laia aside, and feel as well as I ever did.” i_ t£i„„„„ Mrs. May Gleason, of Xunica, Ottawa Co. f lT WORKS Alwh-. writes: "Your ‘Favorite Prescription ... has worked wonders in my case. , WnMIFR^ Again she writes: "Having taken several ootiiunui.no. ties of the ‘Favorite Prescription’ I have re* । uanmni g n j ne( i lU y health wonderfully, to the astonisnI ment of myself and friends. 1 can now be oh my fogt all daEi attending to the duties of my household.

A Marvelous Cure.— Mrs. G. F. SfRAGt% JEALOUS Crystal, Mich., writes: "1 was troubled wnn _ female weakness, lencorrhea and falling of womb for seven years, so I had to keep mv tea uuu.Jno. for a good part of th time. I doctored With an ’™. rll 111 army of different physicians, and spent large surns of money, but received no lasting benefit. At last my h u ® D “?j persuaded me to try’ your medicines, which I was loath to ao, because I was prejudiced against them, and the doctors aai* they would do me no good. 1 finally told my husband that “ he would get me some of your medicines, I would try tneiu against the advice ot my physician. He got me six bottles ot -w Favorite Prescription/ also six bottles of the ‘Discovery, Ter ten dollars. I took three bottles of ‘Discovery’ and four oi ‘ Favorite Prescription,’ and I have been a sound woman for tou years. 1 then gave the balance of the medicine to my’ sister, wi was troubled in the same way’, and she cured herself in a$ ri . time. I have not had to take any medicine now for aiuo" four years.”

cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indigestion, bloating and eructations of gas. As a soothing and strengthening nervine," Favorite Prescription” is unequalled and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other distressing, nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the womb. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. I>r. Pierce’S Favorite Prescription is a legitimate medicine, carefully compounded by’ an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. It is purely vegetable in its composition and perfectly’ harmless in its effects in any condition of the system. “Favorite Prescription” Is a positi e cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of lencorrhea, or "whites,” excessive flowing at monthly periods, paintul menstruation, unnatural suppressions, pro lapsus or falling of the womb, weak back, "female weakness,” anteversion, retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chronic. congestion, inflammation and ulceration ot the womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness in ovaries, accompanied with “ internal heat.”

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In pregnancy, “Favorite Prescription is a "mother’s cordial,” relieving weakness of stomach and other distress)) *. symptoms common to that condition. . its use is kept up in the hitter months gestation, it so prepares the sy stem lor o livery as to greatly lessen, and many ui“ almost entirely do away with the sulleui Os that try ing ordeal. , x.v-n “Favorite Prescription,” when taken in connection with tlie use of Dr. I'erct Golden Medical Discovery, and s. 1 ™ 1 ”, five doses of Dr. Pierce’s Purgative I cii (Tattle Liver Pills), cures Liver, Kidney ana Bladder diseases. Their combined use a removes blood taints, and abolishes eu cerous and scrofulous humors from u* system. „ , .. „ _ n j T “Favorite Prescription” is theow medicine for women sold, by drugg) ’ under a positive guarantee, from v manufacturers, that it. will ration in every- case, or money will w . funded. This guarantee has been on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully d tied out for many years. for (100 dxiscs) SI.OO, or six bottles SS>OO. . n r . Send ten cents in stanips L” .^j Pierce’s large, illustrated Treatise i pages) on Diseases of Women.