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MALPRACTICE.
Frtn tin If. r. TribuM.
Actions at lav against medical men for
malpractice, especially when brought by heir
xecators, or administrators, are of doabtfal
validity. The patient and physician, as the
original parties to the contract, are in the
same implied position which buyer and seller
in market overt ooonpy; and there is no
reaRen mhy to their relation the rule of caveat
tmiitnr ahonlrl tint anntv. The, Rick man whan
a good or a bad one, and the doctor can coa
traot for the employment of no more skill
than he possesses. If he is to be held for
very error of judgment, why may he not be
held for treating disease homeopathioally
when, in the opinion of the court and jury,
he should have proceeded upon the system
commonly called allopathic. Thil would be
to put medical systems upon their trial; and
if we are to come to that, juries may be next
called upon to decide upon the comparative
merits of a dozen different "Bitters." Let
us look at a case which has reoently been de
cided, and most righteously determined, in
the District Court in Philadelphia.
Thaddeus Stevens, in 1801, while serving
in the army, received a wound in the thigh;
i mpntation was performed above the knee,
and the patient was fitted upon the stomp
with an artificial leg. After the operation an
aneurism formed below the joint of the thigh
bone, which was troublesome, and the opera
tion for it was performed by Dr. Gross,
assisted by several eminent surgeons. The
patient was taken home, was oonstantly at
tended, day and night, by one surgeon or
another, and was nursed by students from
the medical sohool. Secondary hemorrhage
set in, which was checked, but ultimately
the patient died, lnis action was brought
by his widow for the reoovery of damages,
although it was in evidence that Professor
Gross was extremely unwilling to perform
the operation, and only did so after a
good deal of importunity on the part
of the deceased. After the case for the plain
tiff had been put it, the facts appearing as
substantially stated above, Lynd J. would not
permit the case to go to the jury, but direoted
a nonsuit. Thejdefendants (Dr. Gross's son
was included in the action) were anxious to
put in their own evidence, and take a ver
dict, but the Oourt would not permit this,
being clearly of opinion that a case had not
been made out. A similar suit also comes
under our notice, occurring in New Hamp
shire. The action was brought for alleged
malpraotice in setting a limb. At the first
trial the jury gave the plaintiff $2500 dam
ages; upon a review smaller damages were
given, and the verdict set aside npon ex
ceptions; and the case was then pnt on trial
for the third time.
Premising that of all quacks in the world
we hold the medical quack in the greatest ab
horrenoe, we must be permitted to say that
. "malpractice" which is made the oooasion of
so many suits against the poor doctors is as
tmoertain and unsubstantial as possible. Siok
folk will die in spite of the most judioious
treatment, that end having been appointed
for all men; and it is not, and cannot in the
nature of things be, a part of the contract be
tween the sick and the physician that the
death of the former shall render the latter
liable to pay damages. If such were the law
no sensible doctor would ever write another
prescription. He would know that a con
siderable portion of his treatment must be in
the nature of an experiment; that with the
best intentions and knowledge carefully ac
quired he may be misled in his diagnosis; that
, in determining symptoms he may be misin
formed; that he can never be sure, while
nurses are negligent and old wives officious,
that his directions will be followed. Some
folly or prejudice or silly traditional notion,
some dosing of which he knows nothing, or
about which, if he inquires, he is told a dozen
lies, may frustrate all efforts and render inef
fectual his honest care and skill. The patient
dies, and the unhappy doctor is at onoe, in
too many cases, regarded as a bungler, an
' ignoramus, and a murderer. lie is arraigned
by the bereaved; he is tried by gossips and
. found guilty , by tea-table juries and all
because God saw fit to make His children
mortal. Very few people die without leaving
behind them a number of mourners who are
perfectly sure that this syrup or that ti no tore,
this sudorific or that tonic, or the other laxa
tive, if it bad been properly and promptly
and persistently exhibited, would have
averted the calamity. Of course, the physician
. is not always made a defendant whenever he
may lose a case; but he may be chattered and
goasipped and slandered and misrepresented
out of a neighborhood, and compelled to
abandon a practice acquired through years of
patient industry and painstaking. Some
clever young man will come to take his
place, and to be, nnless extremely fortunate,
subjected to the same melancholy fate.
We would not be understood to say that
there may not occasionally arise cases of
gross malpractice in which a doctor may de
serve to pay roundly for his negligenoe or for
his ignorance. A blunderer who puts a pa
tient half dead with phthisis into a steam
box, having previously filled him with lobelia
and red pepper, should be made to pay
damages if he has any money, or to go to j ail
if he has none. This ii a different case from
that of an educated and conscientious practi
tioner, who, having done his best to postpone
that ceremonial, is tittle-tattled almost to
his own death at the funeral of a patient wao
may have succumbed, after all, to some in
curable disease like old age or a confirmed
and neglected consumption. It should be
understood once for all that no medioal sohool
can impart to its neophytes the seoret of
working miracles. As the poet Eays, "Die we
may, and die ae miiHt," a faot of which every
human being i? finally' however relaotantlv.
convinced, but which the doctor knows from
the time when Le 1b summoned to the time
when he retreats from an ineffectual struggle
with diaeaae.
THE COMUUK1STS AT BAY.
from the -V. 1'. Times.
If it be true, as stated in a oable deapatoh
that the Communists are only 12.000 Btrnn
they are fighting as no Freucumen of this
generation have ever fought, The men hn
hold Paris with a tenacity so stubborn that
hostile entrenenmeois in me Hois da Boa.
logne do not dismay them, and the loss of a
point so vital as Fort d'Issy is only regarded
as a fresh incentive to resistance, have
earned for themselves a plaoe in the array
of forces that will shape the future of
France. Nobody who has watohed the pro-
cress oi tbe Versailles troops towards tne re
d action of Paris, need be reminded that the
republio and the Commune are not the only
two elements to be considered in the present
struggle. me capital might have been oo
cupied long ago, bad the soldiers who obey tbe
orders of M. Thiers been animated by any
genuine devotion to the Versailles Govern
ment. The great misfortune of Franoe- at
the present moment is that she has no leader,
and no principles fitted to command the en
thusiasm of a people demoralized by a long'
worship of sucoess, and trained to substitute
an exaggerated national vanity for the ideal
of true patriotism. What is popularly known
as the Quart d'heure de RaMait the long-
deferred settling-day has come with a ven
geance, and there is a sort of morbid consola
tion to be derived from the continuance of
the present troubles, inasmuch as they defer
the time when the nation must settle down
to the dreary work of paying out of hard
won earnings tbe heavy penalty of defeat.
One hundred millions of dollars are to be
Inid bv France to Germany thirty days
'aris.
It is far from unlikely that this newly an
nounced provision ' of the final treaty of
feace may help to retard the event on whioh
t depends. In the Versailles army there are
Bonapartists, Orleanists, and Legitimists, as
well as Republicans. If the leaders of these
sections of French polities have any avowed
policy at all, it is that of waiting upon events.
One of the contingencies reckoned upon is
that the moderate Republic to which M.
Thiers expresses himself devoted will prove
unable to cope with the Communist opposi
tion, and that the country will throw itself
into the arms of some of the rival factions.
The pacification of Paris, and the payment of
the first instalment of the indemnity to Ger
many, would entitle the existing Government,
on the one hand, to the confidence-of the
people, and on the other to the support of
the Cabinet of Berlin. Meanwhile, France
is uncertain on whom to depend, and- Ger
many is ready to sustain any government
that is strong enough to make itself obeyed,
and popular enough to be trusted with the
savings of the people.
The determined stand made by the Com
mune will, even after it has ceased, compel
some concessions to the men who have
proved so formidable. Were the fanatics of
tbe Parisian faubourgs of Anglo-Saxon, raoe,
they would probably emigrate the moment
they were fairly beaten. But with French
men, and more especially Parisians, the ties
of locality are too strong to be dissolved,
even by bitter disappointment and irreparable
disaster. Be .their numbers twelve thousand
or a hundred thousand, they will represent
henceforth, as Louis Napoleon used to say
he did, "a cause, a principle, and a defeat."
They will be perpetually on the watoh to
retrieve the one and to avenge the other.
The shame of the German occupation will
rankle less deeply than the memory of being
conquered by men of their own race and peo-
f)le. There will be memories of triumph, too,
ike tbe bayonet charge that reconquered
Vanvres, and the sanguinary struggle at the
Bridge of Neuilly. It will be difficult to
appease a faction like this, but still more
difficult to disregard it. France, if she is to
remain a republic at all, cannot, as she has
before attempted, retain an Imperial organi
zation. The great cities must, unquestion
ably, have a more potent voice than hereto
fore in the selection of their local offioers.
For good or evil, universal suffrage must be
allowed its full share in municipal as well as
national affairs. With towns that are Re
publican, and rural districts that are Impe
rialist or monarchical, the problem of French
cohesion is one of. the hardest of European
politics. On tbe mode in whioh it is worked
out depends, perhaps more than on any other
circumstance, the future of European
democracy.
GENERAL GRANT AND THE REPUB
LICANS GENERAL SHERMAN AND
THE DEMOCRACY.
From tht y. T. nrald.
There are two things in regard to the next
Presidency whioh are morally certain, and a
third which can hardly be doubted. The first
is that General Grant will be the Republican
candidate; the second is that the Republican
party will be united in his support, and the
tbiid is that unless tbe Democracy take a new
departure, they will, as in 18G0, 1861, and
1C8. be again defeated, vine necessities or
their position demand a new departure, both
in their platform and In their candidate; for.
though we look all the way back to General
Jackson, we can find no Democratio Presi
dential platform available for 1872, and in all
the list of regular hold-over Democratic poll.
tioians mentioned as among the probabilities
in tbe coming contest, there is not one of
them possessed of sufficient wind and bottom
for a four-mile heat over the national course
with General Grant. u .
While he was pushing his St. Domingo
annexation scheme, and with the apparent
resolution of pushing it at all hazards, there
was a hope, from the Republican defeat in
New Hampshire, that the party might beoome
bo demoralized and divided as to render the
renomination of General Grant somewhat
doubtful, and the prospect for the Democrats,
in any event, very enoouraging. . Bat the
President having put out of the way his St.
Domingo apple of disoord, the Connecticut
election upset the pleasing Democratio dela
eion that New Hampshire was the beginning
of a great political revolution, and convinced
tbe party that that election must be set down
to the ehapter of accidents. Indeed, the
alarming clamor and enthusiasm of the De
mocrats over New Hampshire, moiuding tne
unfortunate speech of Jeff Davis in Alabama,
expressing his hope of the ultimate triumph
of the "lost cause," had much to do with
their defeat in Connecticut. In the one State
the Republicans were caught napping over
Sumner and St. Domingo; in the other they
were thoroughly aroused by what they sup
posed to be the old war drums and the rappel
of the Rebellion.
But if the dropping of St. Domingo by
General Grant Bilenoed the mutineers of his
party and disarmed even Senator Sumner.
what shall we Bay of the grand idea of the
Joint High Commission and of the great
treaty from that enlightened body of peaoe
makers now before the Senate, in connection
with General Grant and the Presidential
succession? In the very announcement, from
those significant despatches between Qaeen
Victoria and General Grant, of the grand
idea of this High Commission for the adjust
ment of all tbe questions in controversy be
tween the two oountries, we believed that this
thing would be a great feather in the cap of
tbe administration, and so expressed our
belief at the time. The grand result in the
admirable treaty bef ore the Senate confirms
oor anticipations, and lifts up General Grant
to an enviable position among the great
practical statesmen of the enlightened age we
Uv m.
"Pesee hath her victories no less renowned than
sr."
And this victory of peaoe at Washington
we think, will be "no less renowned" than
any of tboa bloody triumphs of rort Donel
eon. SLilob, Vicksborg, Chattanooga, the
Wilderness, Petersburg, and thence up to
Appomattox Coutt House. Surely General
Grant, uot less ia thu thing than in hU
polity of economy and retrenchment, kar
vmd.Vated bis administration before the cone
try, aid his sagacity and capacity in the great
cause of international pence. And here we
may remark that his experience in the horrors
of war, m in the case of the Dnke of Welling
ton, has given the world one of the most de
voted champions-of peaee.
The question, then, as to tbe Republican
candidate for the Presidential succession, and
as to bis commanding claim and popularity
over all other candidates of his party, is set
tled in favor of General Grant. As he now
atandB before the country, the great peace
maker, bow small appear the wrath of Sumner,
the folly of Pen ton, the complaints of Carl
Scbnrz,' the dafection of Gratft Brown, the
hedging of Trumbull, and tbe doublings and
twistingR of Greeley concerning the distribu
tion of the spoils! With the record whioh
tion, and especially from the Joint High Com
mission, be can otand before the people upon
his m si its as a statesman, and will be hard to
beat as a candidate for another term. The
Democratio party will have to meet him again
in the fild; and tare these important ques
tions recur, Who is their man, and what is
their proper plan of operations?
uenerai bnerman is their man and tne
platform proposed in Memphis "Universal
amnesty and universal amity is their proper
platform. Tbe great difficulty of the Demo
cratic party, with ito Copperhead and South
ern Rebel affiliations, has been and is the
cloud of popular distrust which hangs over
it in reference to the fourteenth and fif
teenth amendments: and the secret of its
weakness ia 18G4 and in 1H08 was that oppo
sition to the war for the Union and its-fixed
results which cut off from it the great mass
of the supporters of Lincoln in the war.
Let tbe Democracy make General Sherman
tneir candidate, and all these barriers between
them and the Union party of tbe war will
be removed. They will at onoe divide the
honors of tbe war with the Republicans and
disarm them on that issue. All doubts, too,
as to the future policy of the Democrats in
reference to the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments will be at an end with General
Sherman's nomination, and all misgivings in
regard to the redemption of the national debt.
He is sound npon all these questions, and we
know that he is not a man who can be molded
to their purposes by unscrupulous and mis
chief-making politicians. In snort,, the nomi-.
nation of General Sherman would of itself be
sew departure for the Democrats which
would break down all those distinctions on
the war which have been their weakness and
tbe strength of the Republicans
But it is particularly upon ice Ku-klux
question that General Sherman commend
himself to the Democratic- party. His late
speech at New Orleans on the Ko-klax has
given him a new olaim to the confidence and
bupport of the American people in any posi
tion in which he may appear before them.
In this speech he has defined his policy in the
South to be not that of coercion, but that of
conciliation not the policy of the bayonet,
but tbe policy of looal remedies of law for
local disorders such as those of the Ka-klux
Klans. He is opposed to thrusting in the
army where it is not wanted, and he believes,
and he, as the head general of the army.
ought to know, when he says that it i3 not
wanted in the suppression of the Ku-klux.
These ideas of General Sherman are the pre
vailing public sentiment, and it must be re
membered, at tbe stme time, that peace in
and with the South is not less to be desired
than peaoe with England on a mutually satis
factory basis.
Tbe Southern policy of conciliation and re
conciliation emanating from General Sherman
is better than the polioy of the bayonet adopted
by General Grant. "Universal amnesty" is
good, and "universal amity," we believe, will
follow it. The victorious party in a foreign
war can afford to be. generous, and the victo
rious paity in a domestic war ought to bo
generous. How else, looking to the South,,
can we heal tbe wounds still left open from
the war? General Sherman, then, is the
proper man for the Democratic party. Put
him in the field and in the front against Gene
ral Grant, and not only will the Union sup
porters of the war be divided between them,
but the courtesies of brother soldiers will
prevail in the campaign between the two par
ties. The violent hostilities between the two
parties and the two races will disappear in the
South, for, as many of the blaokswill be
drawn to Sherman and the Democrats, the
bitterness ot the whites against them will
change into a better feeling, and the present
danger of a war of races will be removed.
On tbe Ku-klux question General Sherman
will neutralize the popularity of General
Grant on the Joint High Commission; and on
the war and the issues of the war the two
parties, with Sherman opposed to Grant, will
stand substantially on the same footing be
fore the people. Thus, then, upon the great
financial questions of the day, the Demo
cracy, under the banner of Sherman, may,
North and South, secure the balance of power
in the eleotion. In short, if for the great
Presidential battle of 1872 General Grant is
the only man for the Republicans, General
Sherman, of all men, is tbe man for the
Democracy. Let them try him, and the
party will at once rise to its feet, "like a
giant refreshed with new wise," North and
South, East and West. Try him, for the
field is open for Sherman, and the coast is
clear.
PUMPING A PHILOSOPHER.
From tht It. F. World.
That was a reasonable old Jamaioa negro
who, being condemned to be "paddled" for
some off ense, and brought into the prison
chapel to bear a sermon before receiving his
quantum of lignumvitre, bitterly remonstrated
with his keeper, exclaiming: "No I no I me
floggee, but me no preaohee." We are sure
that any man who may have graoe given him
to read tbe dialogue between Rulloff, the
murderer, and the commissioners appointed to
visit him in his cell, will think with us that
the homicidal philologist has been worse dealt
with than the Jamaica chioken-thief. A more
dreary deluge of ineptitudes and platitudes
than this dialogue it would be hard to find
even in the sacred books of Confucius and
Mencins, or in the reoords of a New England
literary olub.
The commissioners examined the murderer
with the trivial persistency of a French crimi
nal judge hunting a prisoner to earth and
the excursive minuteness of a oountry parson
bent on putting a peripatetio 'medium
through Lis paces. They went through his
personal history without elioiting much of
moment, save the interesting fact that the poor
man's health bad suffered considerably from
a somewhat protraoted residence in Auburn
State Prison many years ago. He got into
that deleterious abode at the early ace of
twenty-five, inconsequence either of his mar
rice about tbat time or of some other slight
inaocuracy in his conduct, whioh he alludes
to most delicately as "a difficulty." In
the prison we grieve to learn that . he
was compelled to exchange the oon
atruction of a universal language for
the weaving of carpet-patterns, and the die
tillation of philological truth for the- boiling
of peas and perk. Still this oompartitivery
dismal portion of bfs career was not without
its valuable fruits. He discovered a certain
cure for dyspepsia which we gladly make
public After suffering intensely for some
time from this truly national scourge, wbile
officiating as cook in tbe prison, Mr. Ration?
was suddenly inspired one night with a mad'
desire to arise outof lwsbed and "ooek a
pig's cheek." He not only cooked a pig's
check, bnt ate up the wbol of it, after which
h felt perfectly happy, and thenceforth be
came completely en-De-Dtio. IucidentaJy, too,
be furnishes a lively illotrtration of one ef'
Shakespeare's maxims in physiology:-
Ilnie have men abonfme Win are fatV
Breek-beaded men and-such ae-sleep o' nights,
Yond' Casalus ban a lean and- hunyrv look.',
"Ever since the year 150," quoth Mr.
IlnAJityV "I ttouiu neter fcloy myself with fat
enough.'' An ill sign, this;, and though the
commissioners declare-the Hermes of Sing
Sing now to possess what they are pleased to
call "a perspirable skin " we are-inclined re
membering his recent exploits- in- tbe matri
monial line to exclaim with C-asar, "Would
he were fatter!"
But the strong point with the commission
ers .as well as with their interlocutor, after
all, was their common interest in- the noble
subject cf philology. Inrespeotof this, the
main theme of their joint-debate, it is not
eery to decide whether th--innocence of the
inquisitors or the impudence-of the prisoner
be tbe more eminent. The commissioners
fell into a passion of admiration-when tbe
worthy professor calmly assured them that he
could read "all the European languages ex
cept the Sclavonioj" This xtreraely clear
and explicit assertion he followed up with
the observation that on the- whole he had
found "the Portuguese" the hardest of these
aforesaid "European languages" to master,
the mjsteries of Basque and Magyar, of
Erse and Welsh, being nothing, te him in
comparison with tbo sombre intricacies of
the dulcet torgue of Camoons. It is possible
that he may have got his notions-of Portu
guese from the English of- that famous
"phrase-book which Lisbon- has contributed
to the eternal delectation of mankind. This
would acoount, perhaps, for his got ting bis
notions of Eng isb, also, confused-to that de
gree that he considers an "arbitrary' sign to
be a sign made without cboioe- on tbe part of
the person making it. Tha prompt acquies
cence of the commissioners iu this luminous
notion must be attributed, we presume, to
the sympathetic union of their spirits with
his own. A heir docility indeed transcends
praise. vV hen they ventured timidly to ask
him whether in his worshipful opinion "the
Greek was an original language' they thank
fully swallowed, and we hope were much
benefited by, this really sublimit reply, whioh
we cannot refuse ourselves- the pleasure of
quoting.at lengtn.
"The phraseology of Homer," quoth Rul
loff, " worked up wonderfully, and is
greatly enriched from that of the early Greek
writers. The letter R was- not found in the
earlier-Greek. In writings of that time that
letter was not necessary; but when Bacchus
came out of India, and- Bacchanalian life,
with its orgies, revels, and carnivals, began,
it then became necessary, to desoribe the new
condition of life."
In other words, we suppose, when men got
drunk they found it necessary to spell drank
with an "r, even if- they were Greeks aud.
bad no such word in their language ! In the-
flowery field of language ono needs must dift
the wholesome roots-of etymology. Knllotf,
and the commissioners revelled in this part
of their work like Pevigord pigs in a truffle
forest. Tbe immortal derivation of pickled
cucumbers from King Jeremiau and the ad
mirable Dutch prolusions of Mr. Ker upon
English proverbs, would clearly be accepted
by these sages as the most natural sugges
tions possible of the human mind.
When the inquest bore upon themes still
more abstruse, and the commissioners un
dertook to justify the ways of God to Sulloff,
the mental muddle of the latter beoaaae, as it
was to be expected it should, a perfect Ser
bonias Jbog. The commissioners were shocked
to find that Rulloff'g faith in things unseen
had been shaken by bis study of "German
metaphysios," these said German authors of
bis ruin having been, as he kindly stated,
"Kant and Comte!" But although he "ac
cepted their philosophy" (the philosophy,
that is, of Kant and Comte) "aa conclusive,"
we donl see why the commissioners should
despair of him. For he was at pains to let
them know that bis idea ef "conclusive"
was "vague;" that be sometimes believed in
God and sometimes didn't;, and that "some
times he thought be was responsible, " while
"at other times he thought he waa irr&pori
sible." It is not easy to Bee waat positive gain to
the cause of justice has inured from all this.
Dr. Vanderpool, whose words on a point of
medical jurisprudence are worthy of all atten
tion, pronounces Rulloff to be "sane and
Bound in body and mind," or, in other words,
to be perfectly fit to be hanged. It is a pity
be bad sot contented himself with this dic
tum, and remembered in uttering it tbe ad
vice of Lord Thurlow to his young friend
going out to India. Rulloff's bad philology
and worse philosophy will make him so
popular with a mighty army of quidnuncs
that we shall hardly be surprised to find some
extemporized millionnaire in the rural dis
tricts leap up and offer to give a small for
tune for the founding of a university, on
condition that this miracle of erudition be
pardoned out to preside over it. '
LEOAL NOTIOE8.
US. MARSHAL'S OyjFICB, . D. OF 1'ENN-
bYLYANlA.
Philadelphia, Kay 8, 1971.
This Is to give notice, that oa the second day of
March, A. V. 1871, a warrant in bankruptcy waa
Isiued against the eatale or MIL-LEU 11. GIL
CHRIST, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadel
phia and State of Pennsylvania, who hat been
adjudged a bankrupt on bin own petition; that the
paiibent ef any debts and delivery of any property
belonging to auch bankrupt to him, or for his use,
and the transfer of any property by htm, are for
bidden by law ; tbat a meeting of the creditors of
the tald bankrupt to prove their dabts, and to chooae
one or more assignee of his estate, will be held at a
t'ourt of Bankruptcy, to be uolaen at No. 610 WAL
NUT Street, lu the city of Philadelphia, before
EDWIN T. CBASK, Esq., KegUter, oa the sixth
day of 3 UNE, A. D. 1811, at U o'clock A. M.
E. M. GKHOUHY,
6 8 iu3t U. S. Marchal, as Meaiaager.
IN THK ORPHANS' COURT FOR TDK CXTX"
AND COL'NTV OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of SARAH ANN THOM 18, deceased.
The Auditor appointed by the Court ti audit, set
tle, end adjust the account of WILLIAM O. VLANI
GEN, Administrator d. b. u. of HAKAU ANN
TLOMAe, deceased, being of all the aauela of said
estate which come luto hi hands, consisting of pro
ceeds of sale of certain real estate Bold under pro
ceedings in partition by order or said Court, ant to
rerxrt distribution o' the balance In tbe hand of
the accountant, will meet tbe partita Interested for
the purpose of hi appoiotment on TUKSDAY, the
ldth eay of Mar, lsil, at o'clock P.M., at the Ornce
or JOUN P.O NE1LU No. 134 S. MXTH Btret, In
he city of Philadelphia, t 10 1J8
I7BTAT OF FRANCIS SMITH, DKCBASKD.
J Lettere testamentary upoe the above eitate
having been granted to the undersigned, all peraoua
Indented to tue aaid eatate are reqaeli to make
paviuebt, and those havlnir elalme to prwurnt tkem.
alibout delay, to UAlUtY PKALK, Kiecutor,
touei No.J2 WALNUT Street,
MEDIOA-k,
mm
mmm
Thle wonderful .medicine cures all Diseases and
PMp, Including
RHJBUMATIBM. NF.tmAT.OTA,
ST. VlTl'S' DANCE,
CHILLS AND-nrVKR,
by electrifying an1 strengthening the witlrn Wer
votie bjetem, restoring- tne lnnHlil pernpinttlon,
and at once giving new life and vigor to the whole
frnme. UNK T APOONPUi. WILL (MTHB THB
NewYoi-b, March l, lSTO.
Having seen 65 wonderful curat Ito effect of
watts' Nervous Awihots In cases or approaching
Paralyse, severe Neuralgia, Debility, and other
nnrvons dlRensM, Itnimr heartily recomnend'ltenae
as a most valuable menioine. onrstnilv, ,
K M. MAU.OKY, M? D.,
No. 4SI Fourth avwniw,
44wsmtf 8p Corner Thlrty-aeconiltreeti.
WATOHE8 JEWELRY, ETO.
ICrivlllKJil lu 1 8C-4.
WATCHES.
EV3QGOINO
CTEM-WIND3K3,
REY-WINBBRS,
QUARTER SECONDS,
MINUTE REPEATERS,
ETO. ETO. ETO.
C. & A. PEQUIGNOT,
K&. 608 CU33NUT STREMT.
4 23 am PHILADgLiPHIA.
COLD MEDM REGULATORS.
O. W..Ufi8BL.L.,
ITov 22 NORTil SIXTH 8TRE3T,
BegB-ts caU the attention of the trade and cueiomen
to ttnnezed letter
TIUAK814?I0N.
"I take pleasure toannonnce that I hara given tr
Mr. i. W. HUS8ELL, of Philadelphia, tha oxoluetve
eale of all goods or- toy manufacture. He wlii be
able to sell them at tha very lowent prices.
"UUSTAV BKCKEK,
"Firs; Manufacturer of Regulators,
"Freiburg, Oermany.
Ofc,.
fct-TJRICE Of JC3 iOW BNOOGU TO -SATISFY
AT ALL "
"BE SUHB KNICKERBOCKER IS- ON TBS
WAWON."
SCNICK-KUBOtKEIl ICE COllP&XY.
THAW. K. C AH ILL, President.
X. P. KKnSHOW, v lce-Presldeat.
A. HUNT, Treasurer.
B H. UuKNKl.L, Secretary.
T. A. UKNDKY, Superltuendenl.
Principal Office,
No.. 435 WALNUT Mtreet, Philadelphia.
Branea Offices anl Depot,
North Pennsylvania Rnllroad aud Master s'reot.
Biclge Avenue and Willow street. i
willow Street Wharf, Delaware avenue. !
Twenty-second and Hamilton streets.
Ninth Street and Washington avenue.
Pine Street Wharf. SchuylkllL
No. 4S83 Main Street, Oermantown.
No. 91 North Second street, Camden, K. J., and
Cape May, New Jersey.
1671. Prlo a ror Families, OSce9, e4o. 1971,
8 pounds daily, 50 cents per week,
18 " eo "
16 " 80 "
20 " " 95 "
Half. bushl or forty pouacia, 20 cants each de
livery. 4 88 set
LOOKING CLASSES, ETO.
NSW ROGERS- CROUP,
'RIP VAN WINKLX" I
NEW CHROMOS.
All Chromes sold at 85 per cent, below regular rates
All of Prang's, Hoovers, aa4 aU others. i
Send for catalogue. i
ALL NEW STYLES, ; ,
At the lowest prices All of oar own manufacture.
JAMES 8 CARLO & 80FIS.
No. 81ft CHKSNTJT STREET.
OROOERIE8.ETO.
JONDON BROWN STOUT AND
SCOTCH ALE,
In gas and stone, by the cask or Oosea.
ALBERT O. ROEEUT3,
Sealer In Fine Groceries, .
- Corner ELEVENTH and VINE Bta.
EDWARD PONTI & CO.,
IMPORTERS OF FOREIGN PRODUCE,
Wines, Oils, Fruits, Cigars,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
. no. 004 WALNUT Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Edward roNn. t8 8Iii jambs w. batiks.
OLOTHS. OA88IMERE8, ETO.
Q L O T H H O U 8 B,
J A M B 6
HUDBR,
no. 11 Nortb SECOND Street,
Sign of the Golden Lamb,
Art w receiving a large and splendid aasortmen
of new styles of
FANCY OASSIMERE3
And standard makes of DOESKINS, CLOTH3 an
COATINGS, (ISSmwi
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
JOOYEIt'S HEW CIIUOMOS.
The Changed Gross," alze 82x29, the nnest ever
offered to the public
"Mary and EL John," size 82x33, a most sublime
chromo,
"The Beautiful Snow," size 16x22, a very Impres
sive plctnre,
The Holy Family," size 8!x2S, a real gem. .
"Delhi, Del. Co., N. Y" alae 82x83, a beautlf ul an
ton) a scene.
Published and sold, wholesale and retail, by
J. HOOVER, No. 804 MARKET Street,
I lPamw8m Philadelphia, aeoondjloon
FUKNITUHb.
josir-H a Cammsm (late Moore A Campion),
WILLIAM SMITH, MWUAjU H. CAMflOM.
SMITH & GWIOH,
Manufacturers of ' '
FINE FURNITTJHE, UPUOLSTERINC1S, AND IN
VBBIOK HOUSE DECORATIONS,
No. M bOUTtt THIRD bireet.
Manufactory, fto. 810 and 81T Li. V ANT b'reet,
FauadeipblA. Sit
won 8m.
Q F O IX SALE.
- An Elegant RcsManco,
WITH STABLE
AT CHE8MUT UH.L. ;
DetWjtft locattos, a few minutes' wtHt from depot
D. Tr- PRATT,
BS-van Nx 103 Snath FOUHTU Street.
F
A. ; JLt ; K .
s
PRMC LAKE.
An elegant conntjy seat arUbesnuc Ul'.l, rhlladei.
phla, ten. minutes walk from depot, and Ave hundrod
yards from Falrmoeot Parfc; lawn of nearly nine
acres, adorned wlth ehelce shrubbery, evergreen,
rrnlt and- shade trees, A most healthy looatlon,
views ror 40 miles over a rich country, modern
pointed stone house, gas, water, etc., coach, toe, ant
spring houaes, never falling spring of purest watar,
(laxi for- boatimu), all stocked with mountain
trout, carp, etc;, beautiful eaacade, with succession
of rapids through the meadow.
Apply to J. R. PRICE, on jhej)rcmlses. 4 83
FOR SALE VALUABLE FARMS 6ITTJ-1
ate In Montgomery county, PennHylvan!a,i
on the Bethlehem pike,, eighteen miles north of
Philadelphia, near the North PennHylvanla Railroad,
containing 263 Bores. The Improvements are large,
consisting of stone mansion, with bath, water-closet,
range, etc. Two tenant houaes, two large barns,
stabling for I(X horses and cattle, and all other ne
cessary ontbuHdlngs, Thefarm is under good Tence
and well watered,' The avenues leading to the man
sion are ornamented by two rows of large shade
trees. There are large shade trees around the man
sion, and a variety of fruit trees. About 30 acres of
timber and about 30 acres of meadow, the balance
all arable land.- It is well adapted to grain, breed
ing, and for grazing purposes ; while Its situation,
fine eld trecb, fruits, and modern Improvements,
commend It aa a gentleman's country scat. If de
sired, can be divided lnttwo farms. There are two
sets of rarm . buildings, Apply to R. J. DOBBINS,
Ledger Building, or P. K. S31IERR, on the pre
mises 8 3 weai6t
FOR SALE,
HAND) &OM E RESIDF.NOS,
WEST PHILADELPHIA.
Ho. 8243, CUEBN1!T Street (Marble Terrace),
TLTKEE-STOItY, WITH MANSARD ROOFf AND
TH BSa -STORY DOUBLE BACK
BUILDINGS.
Sixteen rooms, all modern conveniences, gas, bath,
hot and cold water.
Lot 13 feet front aad 120 feet 8 lnoies deep, to a
back street.
Immediate possession. Terms to suit purchaser.
M. D. LIVEN3STTER,
13 No. 129 South FOURTH Street.
COUNTRY AND CITY PROPFTIESea
FOR SALE, RENT, and EXCHAN&K In ZSi
great number and varieties by
J. MAX, GREEN.
ce:m
No. 809 CHESMUT Street.
TO RENT.
FOR RENT,
STORE, No. 339 MARKET Street.
APPLY ON PREMIS33.
483 tf
J. h. ELLISON A SONS.
TO LBT, FOR ONE OR MORE YEARS
i Country Mansion House, wide piazza on three
; aioea, large lawn, variety of large abade trees, vege
; table garden, fruit trees, etc. ; ten minutes' drive to
station. B. 8. II AND 7,
i 5 ia st : . COMMERCE and FltfTH streets.
TO RENT, FURNISHED DESIRABLE
Summer Residence. Townahlo Line, near
cliool Lane. Oermantown.
JUSTICE BATEMAN A CO.,
Sltf No. lsg South FRONT Street.
m"A DESIRABLE RESIDENCE TO LET ON
Wayne street, Oermantown, within five
minutes' walk of Wayne Station; 9 roims, hot anfc
cold water and bath, inquire at Bakery, No. 4M1
MAIN Street. ' 6ftt
WHISKY, WINE, ETa
"TTr INKS, Lift VOKS, BNGLISH AND
.- SCOTCH ALES, ETC.
The subscriber begs to call the attention or
dealers, connoisseurs, and consumers generally to
his splendid stock of foreign goods now on hand, of
his own importation, as well, also, to hia extensive
assortment of Domeatio Wines, Ales, ete., among
which may be enumerated:
coo casta of Clarets, high and low grades, care
fully selected from best foreign stock.
100 casks el feherry Wine, xtra quality of naeet
grade.
loo cases of Sherry Wine, extra quality of lineal
grade.
26 casks of Sherry Wine, best quality of medium
grade,
i barrels Scuppernoog Wine of best quality.
C casts Catawba Wine "
10 barrela " " medium grade.
Together with a full supply of Brandies, Whiskies,
Scotch and English Ales, Brown Stout, etc., etc.,
which he Is prepared to furotnk to the trade aud cos
sum ers generally la quantities tbat may be re
quired, and on tbe moat liberal terms.
P. J. JORDAN.
B5tf No. 220 PEAR Street,
Below Third and Walnut and above Dock atreet.
CAR BTA IRS & McCALL,
So. 126 Walnut and 21 Granite Sti,,
IMPORTERS OF
Brasdiei, Wlcei, Gin, 01iv Oil, Etc.,
Etc., I
83
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
PURE RYE WHISKIES
IN BOND AND TAX PAID.
PROPO8AL8.
7RAN liFORD
ARSENAL.
Offic i A. C. 8.. )
Philadelphia, Pa., May 18, 1471.
SEALED PROPOSALS in duplicate will be
received at this ottlce until 18 M., June 15, 1871, for
furnishing tbe fresh beer required bv the Sub
sistence Department, U. S. A., at this station daring
tlx months, commencing July 1, 111. Information
as to conditions, quality of beef, payments, etc.,
can be obtained by application to
WILLIAM PRINCE,
B15 6t First Lieut. Ord., A.C. S.
OOAL.
It.
P. OWEN A CO..
COAL DEALERS,
FILBERT STREET WHARF.
- ' SCHUYLKILL. 10iyt
SNOWDON A RAUU COAL DEPOT, OOKNE8
DILLWYN and WILLOW Streets. Lehtgh and
Schuylkill COAL, prepared exprawiy for family ue
at the lowest cash price. . Ill
JDttBHILL SCHOOL
MKRCUANTVIUJB, N. J..
Four Miles from Phidelph'A.
The session commenced MONDAY, AprU
ISTl.
' For circulari apply to
Bo?. T. W. CATTSU.
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