Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 September 1881 — Page 2

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SPOaPSMDYKE'8 PICTURE HANGINfi

"Well, my dew," said Mr ft poo pen--dyke with & nail in his mouth, and balancing himself waverfnglj on a dining

Jom chair "all you're got te do naw is get yonr picture r*sdy and I'll show how to hang tlx thing." 'It's awful sweet of you pet," laid Mrs. tgoopendyks, alternately rubbing the Bpme of a very hstic cfcremo aad suckna the thumb that aha had been haiatngring tor th« last twenty minutes. "It's /. JHefal sweet and thonghtiul of you, dear, offer your assihtaaee at auch a time, fe 11 do beliara I narer would hare got 0 nail driven in that atupid wall." "Ofcouise you woulda't, my dear!" latlgh Mr Spoopendyke. "Who aver v«wa woman that could drlre a nail*

Ten eonls't drive a filvanic carpet-taek intt a 'l'*r«n-p«unQ bladder ef putty. And Breaking of driring nails, I'd like to know if you are ever going to hand up ,*kat hammar or maat pounder ar wbat•rer you'ra bwen airing. Think I can drl-re nails with my elbow "It's the stare hook, lore, said Mrs: Spoopendyke meekly handing him a H*y6terioua looking implement, with a wooden handle at an« cad and tho under jaw of a shoemaker's plyevs at the otliar. "Oh, It's store book, is it?" And Mr. Bpoopendyka regarded* the weapon with a smislsf expression. "Now, if yeu'd handed me up a dog-iron, or a pair -of Steelyards, I'd have been right at home but a itore-hook I Really my dear I'd rather undertake to drive a nail with a aoythe-handla "Hut tk« wall's

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After-Dinner Speaking.

[George Augustus Sala, reputed to be the best after-dinner speaker in England, at the thirty-sixth annual festival in aid of the Royal General Theatrical fund, eaid:] DI have .-omewhero read that an illustrious statesman, who was likewise a most fluent rhetorician, once remarked that he coniidered an after-dinner speech to be one of the most arduous aud dilllcult flights of oratory imaginable, inasmuch as it was, as a general rule, about nothing at all. [A laugh.] Bowing, with due deference to this dictum, I may at the sau time be permitted to express my own humble opinion that the art ol SDeech-making, under all and any clrcunistancesT is a most painful and difficult one—to all those, at least, who have not been born orators, as Brutus was, and as the majority of Irishmen are [Laughter.] Speaking for myself, 1 can, in all scrinuscnss and sincerity, say that, whether the speech which I have had to deliver ha.- been perpetrated after dinner or before dinner, or, as has frequent!}' happened in the earlier stages ot one's career, without any prospect, within measurable distance of dinner at ali [laughter]. I have never begun my exordium without experiencing a sensation of nerrous terror I have never pursued my arcumont without undergoing mental and foodily anguish I have never concluded ay peroration—ah! blissiul word, it Bhould be as soothing to the speaker and his hearers as "that blessed word, Mespotamia"[laufhter]—I have nerer brought my observations to a closc without a

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Boft and lovely, dear,

it really drives them beautifully—it thoy would only stick," said Mrs Spoopendyke, reassuringly. "Only Btick!" said Mr. Spoopendyke, eontemptou«ly "now, I'll bet you never wet the mucilage on a single nail before you started. That's why thev didn't etiek for you—ouch! suiierin' Moses! are you going to stand serenely by and se^ aae pound ray knuckles into a shapeless pulp with the dodgasted measly marlinspike "Poor dear!" said Mrs. Spoopendyke, consolingly. "You act ao impatient— and at the first, trial, too. Maybe it struck something hard in the plaster. Try aucther place" that's the way I managed that." 1 "Oh yea,"' said Mr. Spoopendyke that's the way you managed it! and you have punched enough holes up here to play eribbage ja. Will youfiimme another nail? Don't you see I've knocked tkis sne flat and can't unpry it up again!" "Can't unpry it up again!" ejaculated Mrs. Bpoopendyke, in a gentle roice, Landing him another nail." Can't nnpry it ap again!' Well, if tha» ain'i grammar!" •Oh, ain't it?" said'Mr. ipoopendyke. with a most horrific smile. "Of course it ain\ you old female semiaery with clacked bell in your capola! Am going to schoal to you, or am I driring nails "Well, dear," aighed Mrs. Spoopendyke, "you're aurely not driring nails "No, youcan jast bet I'm not driring Hails, ami you can bet I ain't going to try to drive no more nails neither! and you can bet continued Mr. Spoopendyke, with

density ing intensity, and a war dance flourish as he leaped to the floor, and van can just bet your high inuck-a-otuck, if you'll sei that measily old chroino of yours on the side-table I'll throw this dodgastod boomerang so far througn it that it won't get back for a century!" —Brooklyn Bagle.

positive exultation. There are

a good many ways of preparing yourself lor tho appearnce of a speech in public.v You may learn it by heart, and repeat it and over again in the solitude of your Study, the servants in the lower regions think that you are quarreling with your Wife or that you have gone mad [laugher 1 or you may recite it in Hempstead Heath, to the admiration of the distant

donkey-boys

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are not

and the somewhat suspici-

perplexity of the park-keepers, who

quite certain as to whether they

ought not to take you into custody for preaching in the open air [laughter or you may run down by an early train to Brighton, and "spout" your speech to the aad

sea

waves until it is time to return to

town, to rt'suiLf the suble liverx ot woe called eveni:i»r dress, and. to surrencl 'i younelf i» ilie adamantine chains and penal tires of a public dinner [Givat lauchter.] You are letter pertect in your speech at about the time when the soup is being served You are not quite so certain about vou being letter perfect at the period of the iced pudding making its anptarance and when ultimately the fatal voice of the toast master bids you rise, and, tremUlinc «"d perspiring ^ou begin your speech, vou find that you hare forgotten Jl about it.

[Laughter.]

Or "another

way" a as M. Glasse would say. You go write out your speech on

number

oi little pieces of paper, holding them partly folded, in the hollow of your

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hand and glancing at tho slipa in a crafty manner as you speak, tnd slily turning them orer. This is mot by any maans a bad system to adopt, unless indeed, as it will happen with melancholy frequency, you find slip fire followed by slip flfteen, and that by slip nine—when the result Is collapse. [Great laughter] Finally, there is the rough-and-ready way— the homeric way—of plunging at once

feather in it at the opposite extremity of the hall, and simply saying what com* into your head.

Prof. Bell claims that he has succeeded In inrenting a machine that will "locate •a bullet in the human body." He needn't think that's anything new. Almost every man in Denver totes such an instrument.—[Boston Post,

The mikado of Japan is to hare a new palace at Yeddo, which will cost $5,600,000. That is to say, the plans are drawn by an American architect who estimates the coat at $600,000.—[Boston Post.

Choice Extracts from Druggists. "We know the value of "malt, hops, calisaya and iron composing 'Malt Bitters'" "Our lady customers highly praise them." "Physicians prescribe them in this town." "Tho ijrgC9t bottle and best medicine." "Best blood purifier on our shelves "Our best people take 'Make Bitters." "Sure cure for chills and lirer diseases."

Bray of the Mexican Donkey.

The New Orleans Democrat recounts the many ood qualities of the Mexican burro that has Jitcly been introduced into that city as'a child's horse, who, it seems, can banquet on splinters and scraps, carry immense lo^ds, and is faithful, uncomplaining, docile and tireless but, "we regret to say," continues tho Democrat, "the burro brays. Amazing as is his strength, his stamina, his amiabily, his courage, these things are as nothing compaaed to his bray. That such a trcmendcAii and far-reaching sound should emanate from so small a source continues the eighth wonder of the world. When the little blue burro they are nearly all blue—concludes to Icelebrate his scanty period of relaxation by a good, healthy, whole-souled braywhen he humps his little back, and abuts his appealing little eyes, and lets his ears lio along his back, and then gathers himself into one ecstatic aote, it is enough to make one eary the sainted dead ana long for the cold and silent grare. The sleeper* for a mile around start up with the sweat of terror on their furrowed brows, children fall do vn In fits, the sick heliere they heard Qobrial's horn, and tho very atmosphere shudders like a human creature. Burros don't often bray, because they haven't much time for braying but they bray sometimes, and that is what keeps them so low in the seale of anima ted nature. Without his bray the burro would be little short of an angel. As ho is, however, he is an animal to be admired at a distance and in the abstract

Expert Penmanship.

At the Omaha IS atiooal bank may be seen a $20 bill executed entirely with a pen by some expert penman and forger. It is rery skilltully done, and not one out of a hundred would detect it without the closest examination, and even then the chances are that the detection would be purely accidental. It is executed in all the various colored inks used on bank notes, and even the paper itself is made to look like bank note paper by little strokes of the pen. This bill is really a wonderful curiosity. It was paid to the bank by a government official through whose hands it passed without detection. It was received at the bank, but its true character was soon afterwards discovered.

The execution of the bill probably required two days' hard work, which would give the forger §10 a day for his iabor lie has probably set afloat many of these bills, as well us bills of larger denominations, and it is likely that the twenty dollar bill above mentioned has passed through hundreds of hands without detection

NERVOUS DEBILITY

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A certain rich man, possessed of great wealth, was wont to l)e proud of his possessions and to refer to them often, but withal, he was not a man of intellect. One day he had an old Irishman working for him and he went out to oversee the job He looked at Pat a minute, hard at work, and said. -.y"'| "Well, Pnt, it is good to be rich,"' afii't it?" "Yis, sur," said Pat, who had the wit of his nation. "1 am rich, very rich, Pat." *Y "Yis, sur."

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"I own lands, &nd houses, and bonds, and stocks, and railroads, and—and— and—" "Yis, sur," said Pat, shoveling away. "And what is it, Pat, that I haven't got?" "Not a dom bit of sinse, sur," remarked Pat, as he picked up his wheelbarrow and trundled it off full of dirt and the rich man went into the house and sat down behind the door.—Lampton, Bteubenville Herald.

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DAABATI9 AND PERSONAL.

Frank N. Icott is with the Minnie Palmer troup. j|| Anna Dickinson will play Claude Uslnotte in England, this season.

Lewis

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Aaron Burr's Conspiracy. Lotta expeets to opea her kicking season in Montreal, September 19th.

Leigh Lynch and wife (Anna T. Berger) are risiting friends at Jackson Mieh. J. H. Harerly is negotiating for a ten years' lease of Baldwin's Theater, San Franciseo.

The Neil Burgess' "Widow Bedotl" Oompany is to be begin a tour in Burlington, Vt, September 15th.

The renowned F. O. Baagt has teen servers! weeks at Mount Aivery,

fpeodlng oa thelua

of the Hudson river.

The Ifew York Sunday Courier desires to know if it is not about time for some actress t9 hare her jewelry stolon,

Josephine Cameron, a young Califor nia actress, has created quite a favorable mpressien in Philadelphia, as "Camille.

Marie Williams commanded fl90 a week last season, but it is |stated that she is playing for Daly this, at a much less figure.

Edwin Booth was in Philadelphia a few days since. He went down in company with his wife, who was in pursuit el medical advice.

Mrs. Flora E. Barry has been engaged for the parts formerly sustained by Miss Jeannie Winston, with Mahna's Comic Opera Compaay.

Rice's Evangeline Oompany has engaged for next season, Neliie Bouverie, of the Prince of Wales Theater, England also Madame Silvia, of London.

Jesse Fremont, a neice of General Fremont, Governor of Arizona, haa bsen engaged by Smith and Hawley, for their "Needles and Pins" Combination.

Mary Anderson pineth for the footlights, and will leave her beautiful Long Branch residence at an early day ana commence her fall season in Troy, If. T.

In coming over on the steamship Arizona, Messrs. Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough and Regnier, anisfrsd by Miss Gertrude Kellogg, gave scenes from "Macheth."

W. W. Tillotaon ip te manage Edwin Booth's tour for Henry B. Abhor. Horace Mcficker will represent Mr. Booth sad Marcua Mayer will be the advance agent.

Joe Emmet and his beiored wife, Mrs. Joe Emmet, hare become happily MSUciled, and Fritz aays if he em leotas at another glass of strong drink fee is willing to be expatriated.

Adelaide Cherio has broty^ht salt tor $8,500 against Brooks A DiekSM for breach of contract, in dismisrtag her from "The World" eombinatioa for incompetence, after signing contract fto the seaaon.

Mr. Willie Edouin, wife «d children are at Pidgeon Core. Misa L. Bolton, of Boston, is at the Core, and is an intimate friend of Mrs Willie Edouin (Alice Atherton). Miss Belton possesses the fliftof a fine eontralto roice.

Blanche Seymour, late with Nce'a company, and Helena Coe, a member of the Academy of Music, of Buffalo, If. Y., last season, will trarel with Smith A Hawley's Fifth Avenue compaay, Ifew York, in "Needles and Pins."

John H. Russell has been specially engaged by John R. Rogers to look after the interests of "My Sweetheart" in Philadelphia, where it will ho brought out September 5th. Mr. Russell will return in time to take out the Hoey-Har-die Combination.

Philadelphia Sunday Times: A new play is being written, in which the hero is found lost and flying in a desert, chained to the bare back of a bicycle. His deliverer proves to be a princess, who marries him, and makes him captain of abase ball nine.

At Booth's Theatre, New York, srrea preparations are in progress for the pro duction of "Michael Strogoff." It will employ three hundred people in its presentation, and will be produced in a magnificent manner, with entirely new scenevy, wardrobe and accessories. "Michael Strogoft*" (Iviralfy's version) is to be brought out at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, under the management of Goodwin, Zimmerman and Nixon. It has bten ascertained the stages of both the Walnut and Opera House, in that city, were much too small to properly produce the play.

A Fortunate Tailor. Mr. P. S. Kearney, a tailor in the house of Warner & Searles, ot Vicksburg, Miss, has been the fortunate winner of half the capital prize in The Louisiana State Lottery, $15,000. The lucky number was 78,112. Mr. Kearney came from Memphis about six months ago. He is aa excellent workman,andischariatable and good natured in the extreme. His employers speak of him in unbounded terms of praise and compliment, and are as much rejoiced at his streak ot good fortune an the lucky man himself.—[Vicfoburg,

Mist., Herald, July

No human atrency cau so speedily eleanse the clear the complexion an skin, n-sioie ihe hair and cure every species of itching, scaly and scrofulous humors of the skin, scalp and blood as the Cuticura Remedies.

At a smoking concert: Herr Professor "You haf a bleasing foice-, my young rrent put you ton'tbrofuceit in a lechidimate var." Our tenor—"Perhaps if I did.it would no longer blease." Herr Professor—', Acli! vat of dat Bleasure is not etfereyding. You should alvays bioduce your fcrce in a lechidimate vay, vadder it kifs bleasure or not."—London Punch,

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THE TBEREHATJTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

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A second-class Virginian—"Cap'n, I hain't got no money and I want to go to Washington," said a seedy-looking Virginian to the Captain of a ferry-boat at Alexandria the other day. "You probably belong to one ol the first families of Virginia," said the Captain, after looking his would-be passenger over. "No, suh," was the prompt response, "I belong to one of the second families of Virginia." "Jump right aboard," said tho Captain, "I never carried auy of that kind before." —Raleigh News.

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day Mies Loftagwell's landau ap before the door of Smith & Rbythe, grocers, and the haughty dame gathered up her rich drees and carefully picked her way through the store Uf the tittle office, without deigning to notice the attentive clerk behind the countcr. "Does Mrs. Augustus Grant trade here?" she asked abruptly of Mr. Smithe, who started up from his longlegged stool not a little surprised at the appearance of such a lady in his dingy office. "No, ma'sm, but Miss Grant has a bill here."

Yes!" interrogatively. A quarterly account she is a teacher, you see, and we—"

Yes, yes, I know. How much is it?" Mr. Smythe consulted his ledger, and named the sum. Miss Lefiingwell laid a roll of bills down on the desk, and counted out one-half the amount due him.

There Mr. Smythe," she said, you will oblige me by crediting this to Miss Grant, and making out anew bill, minus items, for the remainder. Consequently she will think her bill is small, but not know that I have paid one-half of it. Does she keep any account?"

No, indeed—leaves it all to me. Could cheat that girl, ma'am, she is so Innocent and unsuspecting."

I hope you don't try it," returned Miss Leffingwell, tartly. '•Blessyou, no! I've daughteramySell. .'I Ti

This transaction is to be kept a profound secret, Mr. Smythe," laying a bill on the desk again, which the good man promptly returned, not caring to take a bribe.

Miss Leffingwell was rich, and her little peculiarities were well worth humoring. The butcher and the coal dealer that Lizzie patronized were likewise honored with a visit from the richest woman in townalso Mrs. Grant's land*

ford, and Lizzie was much surprised, a few days later, to receive a courteous little note from him saying that rents were low now, and she might consider the next quarter's rent paid, as the sum paid for the previous quarter was as much as his conscience would allow him to take for both.

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AC^T BARBARA'S WILL.

Aunt Barbara LeffingweQ had departed from this earthly ball to all intents and purposee. Her body repoeed in the quiet churchyard, and her spirit might yet hover around her former home but rihe was dead, and some one was heir to her property. That was a fact that none eonld gainsay, if any desired to do so, whieh was, to say tho least, doubtfuL Poor Aunt Barbara! Not one of the twelve heirs-at-law shed a tear for her tat except plain little Liuie Grant.

Liaie was the poorest of them all poor and proud, her aunt called her, but honest, brave and true. The daughter of Miss Leffingwell's youngest sister, who had married a poor artist much against Ihe wishes of her parents, and starred in attie over her husband's studio till death ended his career. Liasio support•4 her mother comfortably until aha also died, and waa laid beside her husband. Vfca yaor child often wondered Jhow it eaald bo that poor papa's bills wore so krp,aad kia mauia so utterly inadequate poarUb for his family when she, only OB MMaat ia a gsamasar school, got dhag as vary oaaily." •aa Grant had refawd tho help from Via Loflagwoll, which was freely profited after eke became a widow. "I wo aid mtkor die," she add, than ttfto that aa a charity which rightfully halasp to Me, Barbara," for her father had disinherited her, ao great waa his dia-

Why, mother, dear, I'm a famous business woman," she cried, enthusiastically I've paid all our bills and hare fifty dollars left. Only think, you shall have new flannels and a nice shawl this winter."

Lizzie laughed and cried alternately with delight, for she had been secretly anxious about making both ends of the year meet.

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difficult for her to assist her, and the girl's life was bleak and lonely. No pleasure in tho present, no prospect in the future. None of hot oouaina, the Van Wirta and Btaritta, gay people moving in the best society, noticed her, and thoy looked Upon her ss an intruder at Aer a ant's funeraL

will was read by the lawyer. She gave all of her large property to Guy Van Wirt, and Augustus Starltt, tho oldest sons of her two prosperous sisters. The ree^ Including Lies* w*po eat of without a It was a little queer, for tkaooiast young soon had by no «f«ni boon favorites with bar. Ska dodied that her house should remain as It was for six months, during which time any one of her heirs-at-law. who waa willing should, in person, open the house once every month, and carefully sweep, dust, and air every toom.

Van Wirta were in naste to return to Newport, from whence they had been summoned, and hardly gave her request a thought The Staritts were aristocratically shocked at the idea, and it fell to shabby Liane Grant to do it, i/r let her aunt's last request go unheeded.

Mr. Wheatley, the brisk, shrewd lawyer, showed real pleasure when she modestly offered to perform the service.

Tou will never be sorry, child," he •aid, kindly as he gave her the keys. I knew your father. He would have made his mark in the world had he but lived."

How lizzie's heart throbbed at these words! It was an arduous undertaking for her, but she performed her labor of love faithfully, arranging the rooms as carefully and neatly as if her aunt had been present Everything had been elegant, and the dim rooms seemed gloomy and ghostr like, bat Lizcie was not nervoua.

she was dusting her aunt's library for the last time she noticed a folded paper among the pile of books on a large study table. It was evidently put in its position carefully, being held in place by a bronae paper weight. 6he examined it, and, with a thrill of surprise, she opened it It was tho last will and testament of Barbara Leffingwell, spinster, giving Lizae Grant all her property, real and personal, without reserve. The date was one month later than that of the on6 read after the funeral, and Mr. Wheatley was appointed executor. Lizzie flew rather than walked to that gentleman's office.

I knew it she desired to teach thoee young men a lesson. It will do them good, perhaps. Had you not found the last will, I should have produced it at the expiration of six months, the original one, of which you found only a copy," said he, after warmly congratulating her. She rightly thought you, of all the heirs, would heed her request. She was a good woman, but peculiar—very."

The chagrin of the other heirs may be imagined, and they vainly tried to break the will.

So Lizzie Grant became the richest woman in town," and last summer was one of the season belles at Newport.

Men and women differ about her somewhat, the former calling her handsome after leaving her electric presence the latter calling her plain, sallow, stupid, abstracted and peculiar.

All of which is true but Lizzie Grant's mind had taken a wider range of thought and speculation than their's in her days of loneliness and poverty, and she was more companionable to the sterner sex than to the light-hearted and lightheaded, perhaps, critics. She has inherited many of her aunt's eccentric ways of doing good," and the poor often bless an unknown friend."

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homes that have been wrecked upon the jaggea reefs of appetite, and whose sad wrecks will be passed unheeded by those who should give them the most thought,]

Lost to the world—yes, and to heaven tooLost e'en to shame, to all but mem'ry's sting A vagabond who knows no home, no friend: Heedless of what another day may bring Careless of this life, fearless of the next -1A prayerless wretch upon destruction's brink One, only one, amid the millions who Would barter honor for the curse of drink.

A mother? No, she died before I knew ^$§£1 The saving rapture of a mother's kiss. Maybe had heaven spared her, I might not now Be the thing 1 am, and lead a life like this. Once, once, my soul seemed filled With noble purposes and hope. Afar Above the dark and desolating clouds Of life, 1 caught the glimmer of hope's star.'

A newer life, a brighter destiny, seemed,, Born of the shadows of the past and I /Jl Had learned to be a "man 'mong men," ana noTd But as a dream the wrecks of days gone by— Till, in a mad and fatal hour, lured on By thespel! that lurks within a woman's smiles. The fierce, insatiate, maddening thirst returned. Claiming again the victim of its wiles. fl

With every exertion, the beet of men can do but a moderate amount of good, but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.—^Washington Irving.

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far Mranteen year» not able to walk axoaat on hands and knees for one year net able to help blmeelt for eight yearn tried huor dreds of renediet doctars pronounced his caae hopeless permanently cured by the Cutloura Remedies.

PSORIASIS.

E. E. Carpenter,Esq..Henderson, IT. y. eured of paorlasls #r leprosy oft w« nty yeani standing ay the Cuticura Resolvent Internally and Gntlcara and Cntlcurn Soap externally. The most wonderful ense on reoord. Our* certified to before a justice ot peace and prominent citizens. All aftllcted with itching and scaly (Uncases ah mi Id

to ua for this testimonial in full.

SKIN DISEASE.

semf

F. H. Drake, Eoq. Detroit, Mich., euflered beyond all description fiom a skin disease which appeared on his hands head t»ntf fare and nearly destroyed his eyes. The moat careful doctoring failed te help him, ami after all had failed he used the Cuticura Resolvent internally, Cuticura and Cuticum Soap externally, and was cured and hits ru mained perfectly well to this day.

SCROFULA.

Hon. Wm. Taylor, Boston, says: "After three months* use or the Cuticura Uemedlwj and 12 years of a» constant sutiering from humor of the face, neck and scalp as waa ever endured, 1 can say that I am cured, and pronounce my case the most remarkable on record. 1 have been so elated with my suceewthatl have stopped men on the street who were afflccted and told them to get the Cuticura Remedies and they would pure them.

SKIN HUW0RP.

Mrs.fl. E. Whipple, Decatur,'Mich., writes that her face, head and some parts of her body were almost raw. Head covcred with eealM and soree Buffered fearfully and tried everything. Permanently cured by Cuticura Remedies. .t

CUTICURA.

Remedies rlate. Price

are of

for sale by Cuticnra,

5:oily,

all DrtwMedlcinal

small fcoxes, bO cents large boxes, |1 Cuticura Resolvent, the new iilood Purifier •i per bottle. Cuticura Boap, (the queen ol medicinal toilet soaps), 25 ceuta. Cutlcnss Medicinal Shaving Hoap, 15c. PrinelpfW depot,

WEEKS & POTTER, Boston, Mam. avail mailed free on receipt of prioe.

counr megaton

One

Collin a oltair

Electric Plaster, costing

nrrmn1R cents, is far mi per lor ^••BSnOto every other electrical appliance before the public. Theyinstantly plaint, kidney ana arinary difficulties, and may be worn over the pit of the stomach, over the kidneys or any affected part. Price25cents. Hold everywhere

relieve dyspepsia, liver complaint^ malaria fever and ague and

wan

WKKKH A POTTER, Boston, MM*.

A S E N ID O O N IT O WIN A FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND DISTRIBUTION, CLASS 1, AT NEW ORLEANS,TUESDAY,

136th

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Lost to the world, to pity and to hope— A shameless being, tottering on the brink 'Twixt Hell and Heaven—lost, forever, lost— The same old story in the curse of dri&k. -n "J —(.Owen M. W., Peoria, III.

SEPT. 13, 189»

Monthly Drawing.

Its Orand Siiifirle JVlimber

Louisiana State Lottery Company-

Incorporated in 1808 for 25 years br the Legislature for Educational and Charitable purposes—with a capital of $1,000,000—to which a reserve fund of over $420,uOO hiia since been added.

By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made a part of tho present State Constitution adopted December 2d, A. D., 1S79.

Draw!1'

ing* will take place monthly. It never xmle.i or postpones. V.V Look at the following Disirlbui ion:

CAPITAL rillZK, $H(J,000.

1^00,000 TICKKTS AT TWO DOIXAHS EACH HALF--TICKETS. ONE DOJ.LAR. TilST OF PHIZES. 1 Capital Prize $30,000 1 Capital Prize 10,00» 1 Capital Prize 5,000 2 Prizes of $2,500 5,000 5 Prizes of 1,000 5,000 20 Prize* of 500....". 10,000 00 Prizes of 100 10,000 ff 200 Prizes of 60 10,€00 500 Prizes of 20 10,000 1000 Prises of 10. 10,000

APPROXIMATION PRIZES.

9 Approximation Prizes of $300 2,700

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For further information, write clearly, giving full address. Send orders by express or Roistered Letter, or Money Order by mall, aadrea&ed only to

J-

l^tOt)

200.. 100.. 900

1867 Prizes, amounting to..*. $110,400 Kesponsible correspondiug agents wanted at all points, to whom liberal compensation ,t will be paid.

fl.X.DAIPHIW, W New Orleans. La.,

or M. A. DACPlflN,at No. 8 IS Broadway, New *ork. AU our Orand Extraordinary Drawings art under the supervision and mavu/mnrnl of *y GENERALS G. T. BEAUREOAKb and JUBAL A. EARLY. 1 0CJ', &§4 im# j**

*otice to the Public/

The'Public are hereby

cautioned a-

aintt tcsdinp any menry or Orto Ml WES A: CO., 83 KawauSt., |»,{ New York City,

l»»»tly

WAMTED

tile fill

•ft si *s i.*

at authorizea by the ft'

Louisiana State Lottery Company to seUUvtick• ets. They are flooding the country with Began

Circulars

Purporting lobe oj The Louisiana

State lottery Company, and are

fraudu-

representing themselves as Us Agents.

They haue uo uuthority from this Company to sett its tickets, and are not its agents /or any purpose. M. A. DAUPHIN,

Pres. Louisiana State Lottery Co.

New Orlea»i», La., July4.18*1.

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Corner Second and Main. Farmer's trade aspecialiy solicited. Highest price paid for woo land farmers' produce

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