HUMAN LIFE.
After a while a knty brain
Will rost from ll ! cure and pais.
After while Earth's rash will ceasa,
And a weft i led heart 0nd sweet reluaie.
After a while Tanlshed fere .
An empty Beat a vacant plaoe.
After a while a name roTirot
A crumpled headstone-unknewn spot I
A Mississippi Gumblcr.
In tbe good old steamboat days, the
steamboats plying between New Orleans
and St. Louis, and New Orleans and
Cincinnati, never made a trip without
carrying one or more chevalier d"indutrie,
who turned any trick that came into his
way, from robbing a atateroom to wring
ing in a flat on a cold dock in a game of
draw poker. The men were invariably
well-dressed and gentlemanly, and were
rarely without a roll of 11500 or f 2000.
They generally travelled in pairs, as it
was frequently possible for one of the
fakirs to render his companion valuable
assistance, especially in a little game cf
draw, where the dealer would stock tbe
cards, slip the cut and deal in such a
manner as to give tbe man at his left a
full hand, but to furnish his partner
with a larger full. The victim, if smart,
would "tumble to the game and jump it"
after getting outrageously beaten once
or twice on almost invincible hands, but
the blacklegs would already have made
enough to pay them well for the trip.
One of the most noted of the profession
als wag Humphrey Davis, a small, dap-
Eer and rather good-looking man of per
aps 30 years of age, who traveled al -most
continually on the boats, but made
his home in New Orleans. He weighed
only 120 or 125 pounds, but his word was
never disputed by his reckless compan
ions, who knew that he would brook
contradiction or interference from no
one, and that his hand readily fell on
the hilt of a knife or the handle of a re
volver. Unlike many of the others, he
frequently traveled alone, and was al
ways ready to test his skill in a game of
poker with one or more strangers, but
the professionals who knew him only by
reputation hesitated at trying to beat
him by illegitimate means, well knowing
that, should the cheat be discovered, it
would involve the loss of their money if
not their lives.
On one occasion, when coming up from
New Orleans, Davis met a party who ex
pressed a desire to engage in a little pe
ker, and, as he manifested no reluctance,
they all adjourned to the cabin after
supper, and wheeling out a table, com
menced to play. Une ot the party was
a man standing six teet in his stockings,
and a perfect giant in muscle and
strength. He had heard of Davis, but
probably underestimated his shrewdness
or courage, and determined to win his
money by raising cold hands from his
lap and playing them. While he' wag
reserving material for an invincible
hand. Davis noticed it, but said nothing,
and the game went on. Finally, Davis
received a more than ordinarily good
hand, and bet fifty dollars on it. The
giant adroitly changed the hand given
him for tbe reserve on his knee, and
thinking that the manoeuvre had not
been observed, raised the original bet
one hundred dollars more. Davis saw
the one hundred raise, and in turn raised
one hundred dollars. The other, think
ing he had a sure thing, raised two nun
dred dollars more, and so it went until
f GOO or $700 were up, and Davis called.
The giant threw the stolen hand on the
table, and Davis quietly remarked, after
looking at it, "That's a good hand."
The other assented, and reached out to
draw the money in, when Davis said,
"Don't touch that just yet."
" Why not '" said Goliah, " I have the
best hand."
" I say don't touch it," repeated Davis,
whose eyes were beginning to gleam,
although he wag outwardly calm and
collected.
"Yes, I will touch it," said the other,
in a sneering way, as he swept the money
towards him with his arms. He hud
scarcely placed his arms on the table
when Davis reached over the table with
his left hand and caught him by the hair,
while with his right he drew a revolver
and fired point-blank at his body. Al
though shot through the chest the vital
ity of the man was so remarkable that
the weund appeared to affect him but
little, and rising to his feet he caught
Davis by the hair with his right hand,
and throwing his right arm about him,
forced his head back with the intention,
he afterwards said, of breaking his neck.
Davis comprehended his design in an
instant, and, quick as lightning, fired
two shots into the giant's right shoulder,
completely crippling his arm. He then
lent another ball through his left arm,
and as he fell back into his chair tired
the fifth shot, the bullet passing through
his antagonist s right arm near the el'
" bow, severing one of the tendons.
The wounded man's friends had, in the
meantime, crowded back out of the way,
and Davis swept his pistol, which still
contained one load, around the table
once or twice, and, still holding it in his
right hand, called attention to the cards
which the blackleg had dropped, and
coelly remarked, " I told you not to
touch that money, but you would do it."
He then crumpled up the bills in his left
hand, crammed them into his pocket,
and, unmolested, retired to his state
room, where he reloaded his pistol and
packed his pertmanteau. At the next
landing he left the boat without inter
ference, and was quickly lost to sight as
he climbed up the landing and entered
the woods.
It was probably owing to two reasons
that the officers of the boat or passerv
gers made no attempt to detain him. In
tho first place, it was evident to all of
them that tbe sufferer had attempted to
swindle or rob him, and he (Davis) being
much the smaller and weaker man, tbey
felt a sympathy for him, not unmixed
with a species of admiration at his cool
ness and nerve. Secondly, many of them
knew him by sight or reputation, and did
not care to hazard their lives in an at
tempt to arrest him when they could
gain nothing by So doing. The wound
ed man was assisted to bed by his friends,
and a physician wag called to attend
him. Strange to say, he recovered, but
for weeks after arriving at bt. .Louis,
and becoming sufficiently convalescent
to walk the streets, carried both of his
arms in a sling.
Davis remained away from town some
time, but finally reappeared here, and
officer Patrick HcDonough, seeing and
recognizing him, arrested him, but in the
attempt was stabbed, and rather badly
wounded in the side. The man shot, for
some reason best known to himself, re
fused or failed to appear to prosecute
him, and that case wag dismissed on
nolle prosequi. How the case against hi in
for assault with intent to kill upon offi
cer MuDonough was disposed of, the
Democrat informant did not remember,
but Davis was probably released on bail
and jumped his Dona. Jlusour, pctno
crat.
The Loss of tho Missonrl.
For the" third time within two short
month! we are called npon to chrrn iole
the total loss at sea, and amid the most
fearful oircumstanoes, of an American
passenger steamer. In this case, as in
both the preceding cases, the first ac
counts which reach us of the disaster are
of a nature to mingle'indignation with
pity. In this case, as in both the preced
ing oases, we have small reason to hope
that future and more full details will
tend to mitigate either our indignation
or our pity. And how idle and how
fruitless must either emotion prove I Our
pitjkwill never bring back to life one
man, or woman, or helpless child from
those awful gulfs of flame and flood in
which first the Bienville, then the Amer
ica and now the Missouri have disap
peared. That any word whatever has reached
us of the loss of the haplees steamer, the
Missouri, that one soul has escaped alive
to bear intelligent witness of the dread
event and its causes, we owe an inhabit
ant of the British colony of iileuthora,in
the Bahamas. This passenger it was
who succcoded in launching, in reaching,
and in bringing safely into port tho only
boat which we have any reason to hope
will ever be heard from. A dozen others
whn of their own motion and by their
skill in swimming wcro able to get with
him into this boat were saved. All uie
rest of that miserable ship's company;
among them invalid women aud children
. . . - -v' . i
fleeing from the rigors oi a normem
wintfir. went down in the waves or were
stifled in the continuation which caught
her up like straw m tno uiast or. a lur-nace.
To tell ii a that the commanding euicer
of a vessel which perisbetl thus and thus
utterly was a brave man na a gooa on
cer, and that he did all that could be
done to save her, is to tell us as plainly
as language can put it that tie vessel
was unworthy ot her couiinanae.', "
that she had been sent to sea tro.ni a
country in which proper laws existed
looking to the security ot passengers, ana
in which a public opinion existed intel
ligent enough and strong enough to see
those laws entorced.
We do not dwell we repeat that we
have no heart to dwell upon the mere
heart-rendin
Fall From a Burning Balloon.
An extra of the DeKalb (til!) Newt
gives the following acooint of the death
of a man by falling from a balloon,
brief mention of which was male in our
telegrams: ' -v.w .
" Mr. Denniston, the aeronaut, who
advertised that Mr. L. Durham would
make an ascension at this place,' was in
flating his monster balloon, 1 City of New
York, and had nearly completed the in
flating process, when people on the north
part of the grounds .discovered smoke
escaping from the top of the balloon.
It was scarcely visible at first, but faster
and faster emitted the smoke, and the
alarm was given, but hardly had the de
fection in the air-ship become apparent,
before flames were issuing front the very
top of the balloon. Quickly the shout
went up, 'The balloon is on fire I' and as
those near by began to retreat, the hors
es were also driven here and there to es
cape all danger. The dry cambrio and
its covering began burning, first slowly,
then the flames spread, and upward and
onward went the fire, a premonition by
this thno overtakingthe spectators eve
ery one present feeling that some fearful
if not fatal calamity would result.
Scarcely had tho flames burst out, how
ever, before an aperture of 'two or three
feet was mad'i where the guy-rope
holding tho unwieldy thing crossed it
and the rope burned off and away to the
southward shot the balloon, carrying
with it in its course Mr. Michael Mo
Mann, a laborer assistant in the inflation.
Being near the basket as it started off
ho became entangled, aud hanging with
one foot inside the basket his hands
holding to the ropes ho thus ascended
for perhaps 100 feet, and regained a po
sition in the basket, which again hung
sideways, and in another minute he was
hanging te the ropes alone at a height
of probably not less than 300 feet. Now
his strength tgave way, his presence of
mind deserted him, and in another mo
ment the poor man is seen falling to the
earth, filling with horror and consterna
tion the 400 or 000 spectators on the
grounds. He descended to the earth
ueai'ly in a standing position from 300
feet in mid-air, until, when near terra
tbe
AOR1C ULTURAL.
Model Fabmiko iit Missotjm. From
an aooount in Coleman's Rural World of
the farm property and practices of L. A.
D. Crenthaw, of Greene county, Mo., we
glean a few -hints, which some of our
readers similarly '.situated may make
valuable to thfcnislves. The cultivated
land is , R00 sores in extent, and is in
closed with Bois d'Aro hedge and good
rail fence, with large, strong, well-hung
gates at all the openings. The crops on
this farm this year, as usual, consist of
corn, wheat, oat?, and timothy. Of these,
Mr. C. finds oats least profitable ; of
wheat grown on the farm this year, there
were about 4,000 bushels J corn, 10,000.
Nothwithstanding such huge piles of
corn and hay, Mr. C. has none to sell
fortunately, he never has oorn to sell.
He feeds his corn, hay, eto., on the farm
to his mules, horses, cattle, and hogs. Of
the latter there are large numbers. They
are fed all the time, summer and winter,
and killed while yet pigs, but of most
hog-ish weights several hundred pounds.
In this way he makes a bacon-ham that
excites admiration at tho table, and takes
the premiums at the fairs, as well as the
hijzhost price in market. By this con
stant feeding of so many hogs he realizes
75 cents por bushel for his corn at homo,
and quite as much or more when fed to
mules, besides a heavy barn-yard crop of
manure, which gives back to his fields
and meadows 10 per cent, of the land's
value. . Last winter 1,000 wagon-loads of
manure were hauled from the barn and
field lots to the farm. Here is a point in
Mr. C.'s exainple worth remembering and
worthy of imitation, and here is an
other : We were much interested in a
grove of black walnut, from six to ten
acres, planted 12x12 feet, and cultivated
two years. The nuts were planted fifteen
years ago ; the trees are now from 30 to
40 feet high, forming a most compact
and beautiful grove. This should sug
gest to all the propriety of planting
trees in the prairie lands.
Thirty YeaHs Expkhienck With
Cattle. Thirty years' experience in
feeding cattle teaches me, Bays a Tritmne
correspondent, that where they are kept
Arma. he fell backward, striking
-round with his back with such force as I in a yard and supplied with clear spring
horrors of this dreadful to produce a concussion beard some dis- water for some time they will lick up
. . . . I -rr it , v , I 1 .1 11 i i J. 1 !1
story. The imagination pictures them
all to readily, all to vividly. The out
bursting fury of the flames ; the bewil
dering, volleying, choking volumes of the
pitchy smoke j the howling of the gale J
. . tl At . , 1' i.1 .
the savage welter, tne aeaiemng luuuuct
of the waves ; the sickening sense of ut
ter helplessness ; the cruel clamor and
mad mob of the headless, undisciplined
crew, making hopelessness more hopeless
every moment to dwell on these things
is but a dreadful mockery in the ears of
men who have made all these things pos
sible by their own wilful folly, their own
wilful selfishness, their indifference to
law and to honesty, their lack of public
spirit. We feel them to-day with a
thrill and a shudder. To-morrow we go
our ways, this man to his business, that
man to his pleasure, and straightway
forget that such things were. A West
field explodes at our very wharves, mak
ing dark the bright summer Sabbath with
a sudden, indescribable horror ; a Metis
goes down beneath the waves of the
Sound, within sight almost of the daiv
cers and within sound of the music at the
travest haunts of opulence and ease ; a
Bienville and a Missouri sink hissing in
the waters which divide us from our pur
ple dream of the health-giving, lovely,
luxurious tropics. We are stirred lor a
moment to pity ; we glow lor a moment
with indignation. But the pulses of our
passion subside unfulfilled in purpose or
in deed, even as the waves that have
swallowed up our dead in the midnight
and the storm laugh away every trace of
them forever in tbe sunshine ot the blue,
unremembering morrow. Aew York
World.
Edited Two Papers, Both Dally.
An antiquated writer in the Memphis
Appeal has dug up out of his memory
the following rich story. a lie young
lawyer referred to is still flourishing in
Memphis :
" There was never greater local excite
ment than that which grew out of this
infernal navy-yard business. Half the
people were in favor of accepting the
property, and halt or more opposed to it.
the latter thinking that the Government
might be induced even yet to make -lib
eral appropriations and perfect the navy-
yard, and build ships and Bteamers here.
There were two newspapers published
here one a morning publication, edited
by a gentleman of no ordinary ability
named Bankhead, who was tragically
and mysteriously assassinated some six
years ago. There wag another, an alter
noon paper, called the JSlewn, (1 believe
that was its name), edited by a man
named Yancey. These editors opposed
one another on the navy-yard question,
and their discussion had begotten a good
deal of excitement, when both went away
for the summer, and each without tho
other's knowledge employed the same
man, this young lawyer, to conduct his
paper in bis absence. Ihe young limb
of the law naturally enough took to
both sides of the question. He made the
controversy between the two papers hot
ter and hotter on each successive day.
Crowds gathered each afternoon about
the Neici office, and somebody expected
that the two furious editors would shed
blood. The coming duel in Arkansas
was confidently anticipated, and the fe
rocity of the two paperg was marvelous.
Popular excitement was intense when
Bankhead came hurrying home from
Virginia and Yancey from Alabama,
each thinking the other was about to
murder his own substitute. Such was
the fervor of popular feeling and exas
peration that the story was necessarily
kept quiet. If the mischievous fraud
upon the public passion had been exposed
at the time, the deceiving editor would
have been hanged to a lamp-post,
tance away. He was utterly crushed,
the blood streaming from his mouth and
nostrils. McMann left a wife and sever
al children, who depended on his labors
for a support. The balloon alighted but
a few rods out of the fair grounds, and
was soon consumed.
U. S. History Condensed.
1 607. v lrginia first settled by the Eng
lish.
1614. New York first settled by the
Dutch.
1620. Massachusetts settled by tho Pu
ritans.
1623. New Hampshire settled by Pu
ritans.
1624. New Jersey settled by the Dutch.
1627. Delaware settled by Swedes and
Fins.
1635. Maryland settled by Irish Cath
olic.
1633. Connecticut settled by the Puri
tans.
1636. Khode Island settled by .Boarer
Williams.
1650. North Carolina settled by the
Encrhsh.
1670. South Carolina settled by the
Huguenots.
1682. Pennsylvania settled oy vvuiiam
Penn.
1733. Georgia settled by General Ogle
thorpe.
17lJl. Vermont admitted into tne
Union.
1792. Kentucky admitted into the
Union.
1796. Tennessee
Union.
Ohio admitted into the TJni'sn,
Louisiana admitted into the
and swallow small quantities of subsoil
earth when they can get at it. If
they have access to running water made
muddy by a freshet or snow thaw, thoy
will oiten drink it in prelerence to clear
water, and it will not injure them ; but
stagnant water, with decaying vegetable
matter in it, is always injurious to them,
and I think I have known them killed
by drinking it. I have drained all such
ponds on my premises, and think it
pays. 1 give what salt my cattle want,
which shows that it is not for salt they
lick up earth. In their natural condi
tion they have to drink turbid water
during freshets, and it is doubtful
whether they will continue a long time
healthy without getting to the bare
earth. The hog in hig natural condt
tion. living in forests, has to swallow a
portion of decayed wood or leaves with
bis food, and when domesticated and
fed on grain he seems to crave some rot
ten wood, iiveii. tne ngiisn geoiQEisi,
who visited the so-called salt licks of
Kentucky, says they are not salt to the
taste, but does not tell whether there
had been an analvtis to test the chenii
cal nature of the earth at that place. It
is said the wild gramimvora ot that
country eat so much of it that if it had
been salt it would have killed them, it
is likely there is lime in some of its
forms that the cattle get instead of chew
Secret Marriage. ,
Every now and then the pnblio is
startled by the exposure of some do
mestic or social villainy, based on a secret
marriage. Some confiding young lady
has been induced to marry her lover se
cretly, and to keep the marriage secret
for months, and perhaps for years. In a
recent case, a marriage had been kept
secret for nearly jeven years. Of course
a man who wishes to koep his marriage
a secret; is always actuated by selfish,
and usually base motives. He is acting
a part playing a game, and his con
fiding wife is pretty suro, in the end, to
find herself a viotim. o-f hig treachery
and baseness. A womim should never
consent to be married secretly. Her
marriage should be solemnized in the
light of publicity, an d not in the shadow
of concealment. St.e should distrust a
man who has any f.-eason for shrouding
in darkness, the act which in his estima
tion, at least should be the crowning
flory of his life. The man who always
as some plot a a hand, who naturally
takes to tricks and concealment, and is
never ready to have his actions brought
into the clear lig ht of day, is apt to be
so constitutionally base that he seldom,
even by accident, deviat into the path
of honor and vi rtue. No woman who
values her donvwtio happiness should
ever listen to tl te suggestions of such a
man in favor of a secret marriage.
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similar complaint, are relieved bj f noo a lKSTlKt
Bluer, or money refunded. ., .... ,
' dAtrrroif.--In ourehanrcable climate, eonirhe, eolds,
and dissases of the throat, lung, and cheat will always
prevail. Crnel consumption will claim tie victim.
These disease. If attended te in time, can be arrepted
and enrcd. The remedy ii Dr. WUtar'e Baliamof WUi
Vherry.
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Bat NOW, If you hare a Oontrh, Cold, or any Irritation
whatever f the orrana ef respiration, npe Hali's
Hon it or HoetHOnnn aud Tin. It la e vegetable bal
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Pike's Toothache I) root cure Toothache in one Daln-
Bold by all Druggists at D cenu.
ute,
England ajjd America. The Pall
Mall Gazette, i'a commenting on the, case
of a man who, had been literally " wor
ried to death,," in London, expresses the
belief that t.here is probably no place in
the world chere downright brutality is
so unchecl.'ed. Jn seme of the lawless
towns of America, the Pall Mall Oatetti
says, there may be more bloodshed, but
the knowledge of the fact that a six
shooter or a b3wio-knife is ready for pro
duction at moment's notice, prevents
much of r,ha' ruffianism which disgraces
London, and which frequently causes far
more misery and free fights than in the
drinking vBaloons of America. The case in
questior i was that of a hawker ot cheap
goods, ' who hung himself in consequence
of beir ig so tormented and made a butt
Seasonable Suggestions,
The heavy mlstt and cold night dewi which charao
terite the prciont reaion are very trying to delicate
oriranliatleae, and In lew-lying and swampy localities
they produce an enormous crop of intermittent fevers
of various types and degreee of intensity. At this vary
time there are probably half a million of people in the
United States suffering from periodical fevers by mias
matic roars and exhalations. What makes the pro va
lence f thie evil the more deplorable is the fact that
It tnlirht In'all cases be easily prevented. Malaria and
damp preduoe little or no effect upon the system pre-
rortifled by a course of Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters.
Every fall aad spring hundreds ef letters are received
from persons residing in fever and ague districts, who
stata that while their neighbors are Incapacitated for
labor by that debilitating disease, they have been hap
pily exempted from attack by the regular ue of the
great vegetable antidote to miasma. AS a chlologoplc
or speclfllo for intermittent aad remittent fevore the
Bitters may be Justly accounted infallible. They eradi
cate the eomplaints In their most obstinate forms ; but
the wiser course le to forestall attack by taking the
preparation a a preventive. The amount of produc
tive labor withdrawn from active service during soveral
months In the year by malarious maladies is Immense,
and the pecuniary losses to Individuals, families, and
the nation from this cause is incalculable. Bear in
mind that bv toning and regulating the syptcm with
Hostotter's Bitters before the ealninltycono-, I may
always be escaped J and let it also bo rrmombored that
Indigestion, genorul debility, biliousness, constipation(
nervous complaints, and indeed almost all disturbances
and degrangementa of the physical system are contral
ahle by this genial restorative.
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Carriase horses in London are now al
most always "jobbed" that is, hired
for the season, or sometimes for the year,
This applies to some of the finest pairs
in .London, for wbose hire a large sum is
paid. The . convenience of the plan is
that it saves trouble, and if a horse fills
dead it can be instantly replaced with
out coBt to the hirer. The carriage hor
ses in London have shown a decided iib
rirovement since the fall of the second
empire. Louis Napoleon's agents and
Parisian Grandees were previously con
tinually buying up the finest. A pair of
fine coach horses cost irom $i,uuu to f
000. Those of the late Lord Joley, wbo
ing bones, limestone, or oyster shells, as
they oiten do.
Oyster Shells. Oyster shells, whi -n
burned, produce a lime exactly simil ar
to that from a majority of the pure lin le
jtones. Any animal matter they n lay
contain, of course, is destroyed by the
heat, and the simple caustic lime, wi ;h a
very small proportion ot phospnat e ot
lime, remains. They may be burnei 1 by
putting them in conical heaps, with coal
or wood for fuel spreading ever the
heaps damp leaves, straw, or sods, and
covering closely with a few inchi is of
earth. The heap should be fired and
burned slowly, air being given as n eoded
by moans of vent-holes at the botfom to
sustain slow combustion. If the. heap
falls in at any place, as it burn s down,
more shells should be added until the
hole is filled up, damp leaves thrown on,
and covered again with earth. Three
days are sufficient to burn a heap of 500
to 1 ,000 bushels. When they are burned,
the lime should be spread immediately,
or while in a caustic state, on plowed
land, and harrowed in, or on grass land,
and a harrow drawn over it to insure an
even distribution.
Get Eeady for Winter. Gather
up all the odds and ends, make all neces
sary repairs, finish painting and glaz
ing, clean out the furnace and stove
pipes, sweep the cobwebs out of the cel
lars, sweep the floors, clean up the fields,
cut away the brusn Irom tne fences,
burv surnlus rjotatoes. turniDS and beets.
bank up the celery, and got ready for
winter.
n lost important revelation from that
1 and of wonders California has recent
1 y burst -upon the world, astonishing the
s cientifif ;, and accomplishing such cures
of disedsesof the stomach and bowel?,
'oilious complaints, malarious fevers, ner
vous a' lections, and all diseases proceed,
ing fr oui a vitiated condition
bleod , as have never before been
neese i in either hemisphere.
B fore Walker's California
oar Bitters all the herbalized poisons
are rapidly going down. They cannot
res iat the overpowering evidence broueht
fo rward every day of the immense supe-
l r lority ot tins medicine, without a draw-
V'back. Not a drop of any variety of dis-
If in need of an Elevator of anr deserltition. we can
fumUb one. and guarantee autisfactiou. We make tLem
to be driTon from shattmr by a special engine, or by
water in cities wnere there are water works, jror ae-
seriptiTe ciiculars, aHdre."
eAna u. UAtss or. ij uincinnau, u.
liHE best 1611102 book in the market is
1 Tne Struggles of
? Petroleum YsNasby
Vine-
it is illustrated by THUJxiABJA8T, tne great
t of American artists, andcontains an Introduction
ij Hon. (juaries Bumner. a ecu is wanted ror tins
nd otherpopulnr books. Adores I. N. Kicuafdson
f Co., lioaton, Mass., and bt. JLouifl, Alo.
IVo Person can tnke those Bitten accord"
fog to directions, and remain lung unwell, provided
their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other
means, and the vital organs wasted beyond (lis point
of repair.
Ulyapepaln or Indlgention Headache, Pain
fo the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dis- '
tines, Sour Eructation of the Stomach, Bad Taste
in the Mouth, Bilieus Attacks, Palpttation of tha
Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions
of the Knrineys, and a hundred other painful symptoms,
nre the offsprings of Dyspepsia. In these complaint!
it has no equaland one bottle will prove a tetter guar
antee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement.
For Fetnnlo CompltUnta, in young or old,
married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the
turn of life, these Tonic Hitters display so decided an
influence tnat a marked improvement is soon -perceptible.
For Inflammatory and Chronic Rhen
mat I am and Gout, Bilious, Remittent and Inter -mittent
Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Hitters have no equal. t Such Dis
eases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally
produced by derangement of the Digestive (frgans.
They nre n ttentle lMirffattve as well as
a Tonir, possessing also the peculiar merit of actinf 1
as a powerful agent ia relieving Congestion or Inani
mation of the Liver aud Visceral Organs, aud in Bilious
Diseases. M .
For Skin Dlaensc, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt
Rhenm, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Car
buncles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Ery
sipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolnrations of the Skin, Humors
and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature,
are literally dug ap and carried out of the system in a
short time by tne use of these Bitters.
r.rfffiil Thnnmindi nroclaim VmaoAW Bit
thus the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained
the sinking system.
J WALKER, Proper. R. II. McDONAtD & CO.,
Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Erancisco and New York.
CP SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS
N Y N U-No 40
IIiou Art Sick
LEND MEJHINE EAR.
I Mtsblv was 111 nigh
nnto death. An aching
head : a fntnt and dis
tn eased "all none" feel
ing at the pit of the
nomacD ; aipirrss aner
eating ; pain in the back.
wit 11 a lame pme ; a oaa
taste in the month : a
Irv.hackinircouKli, with
terrible depressed ner
von system.all of which
maae nty poor, leemo
oul iong even for death
to come and rolirve me
ot'm vsutferings. I tried
all ports of remed'es
without ben cut. lint
relief came at last, and '
I feet that the hand of a
kind Providence notnt-
ud me to the remedy
I As It ha proved fo good
forme, I recommend t
to suuertng friend, in
hopes that it will cure them as it did me. If thee buy .
a bottle and it does not cure, thoe can have thy money
again ; an ii thou art poor, I will give thee a bottle
, wituout monev. m
I have known it to cure many cases or uvsvevsia
after other remedies had failed. 1 have witnessed its
rondeilul cur.itivo power in uravct ana tyianey dis
eases. Litwr Complaint (tne forerunner oi uonaump-
, tion) rarely, it ever, fulls to yield to us tiitraiivc
I powers. For Nervou Debility and broken down con
st! ntions it works wonders, a it makes the pule and
sunken check blooming and hoal'hv. Mmv
LsYIHAM IHtunn.
40 Warren (street. New lork.
AflPVTS WANTED whora I bavo none. Send for
circular, and ieirn tho names of t hoje who have beer
beuetitted bv its use. Sunt by mail to places where I
have no aeont.
THE NEW SCALE V
CSoctsl If
LtsRAVEU.I
msm
Sea Sickness. Mr. Bessemer' orig
inal plan for preventing sea sickness by
building veitsela with saloons which are
to be Luhe: in such a manner as to keep
them level and steady, with the aid of
bydrauuo apparatus, even when the ves-
died two years ago, were long noted as gei itself is tostiing wildly in a sUrm, is
the finest in London. That nobleman t0 fce put , 8n actual test. Mr. Reed,
sold his ancestral estates for $4,500,000 formerly naval architect to the British
to the Dresent Earl Of Dudley, and, COn- ArlmiraHv" in nnr .nt.t,iinn th nkni nf ft
oentrating all his forces on his London C0Upie of vessels, intended for the Entr-
. l " a Al . .1 A.a-l.. . . ... . ..a.
esiaDiisnmeut, auuiuveu mo iuuu vm- i il8n ijnannel, which are to De provided
tilled or fermented liquor enters into 1
its composition. It is a gentle aperient,
a tonic, derived from entirely new vege
table sources, an unrivaled stomachic,
admirable in all pulmonary diseases : I
and, in fact, coming as near to a univer
sal remedy as botanical discovery and
8cientiho skill can nope to attain. Dr.
Walker considers it a cure tor all diseases
not organic, and really the great variety
oi diseases in which it is successful seems
to warrant the opinion. Com.
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various forms alse as a preventive
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well, Hazard & Co., of New York, and
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and as a tonic for patients recovering
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If yoo kekl dull, despondent, drowr, de
bilitated, have frequent headache, mouth tastes
badly, poor appetite, and tongue coated, you
are Biifferinfr, from torpid liver or " Bilious
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An Kxclianeo truly snys that " Moohe'b Run ai. U
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iti UI.-VMI.'. k'JMH.Y KKWlli MACIll.
This
What the Pio Died Of. There was
a miser who was considered impregnable
to charitable associations until a Hiber
nian genius "came Paddy over him
Teddy went to his office one morning,
and told a piteous story about losing his
pig, the only one he had. " Shure," says
Teddv. " Misthress (naming a very
excellent lady, whose eood opinion old
Hard Fist was anxious to retain), "towld
me to come to ye, for ye wor very rich,
and rev a power of money to the poor,
Uod blees you I l only want to
tinction ef bavins the best dinners and
best appointed equipage and servants in
the town.
Oddly enough, as is the custom for
people who have grand equipages to
make their bravest show at eight o'clock
in the evening, when they go out to din
ner, and when there is no one in we
streets. The coachman and footman are
then in their finest liveries, the former
sitting imbedded in his hammercloth on
the box of the state coach. When my
lord and my lady are in, the two Jeameses
jump up on their perch behind, each
with a long, gut-mounted cane in mi
hand. When they have deposited their
load they pull up the shutters of the
carriage, and, mounting the box, one on
each side of tbe coachman, thus return
at a slow rate to the stables. This is a
very old custom, which has been handed
with saloons ninety feet long by thirty
ieeet broad and twenty feet high, con
structed in accordance with Mr. Bes
semer' plan. Above the saloon will be
promenade deck seventy feet in length
of equal stability, and Mr. Bessemer says
that in the roughest weather the saloon
and deck will not be subjected to a great
er amount of motion than is felt in an
ordinary railway carriage.
The Providential Boat. The boat
which was saved from the ill fated
steamer Missouri was one recently pur
chased by the company, intended tor use
on board the Morro Castle. When the
United States Inspector of Hulls inspect
ed the Missouri, he found five life boats
aboard, and took exception to these as
insufficient, refusing to pass the vessel
until another large boat should be pro
vided. At that time the boat already
aUuded to lay on the wharf, and was
tanen aboard the Missouri, one was not
hung on davits, but was lashed to the
Clap-Trap and Cant. Invalid reader. If
you are. unwise enouiiu to put yourself outride
of any of the mock tonics eaamnteed to con
tain " no diHusivo stimulant," you will inevi
tably come to grlvf. Ask your physician if
any liquid preparation, destitute ot etimulat
uiK properties, is wortuy ot tne rnuio oi a
tou.le. He will tell you no. 8hun all such nau
se'jus catchpennies. Plantation Bitters, the
most wholesome invigorant in the world, owes
i 'jo rapidity witn wmcn it relieves tue disorder
ed stomach and the shattered nerves to tbe
diffusive agent which conveys Its medicinal
Ingredients to the seat of the complaint. That
agent is the spirit ot tbe sugar caut, the most
nutrlclous and agreeable of all the varieties of
alcohol. The mediciual ingredients of the
Bitters, valuable as tbey are, would be compur
atively useless without this distributive basis.
I hey would lermenl and sour, beware, as
you hope for health, of the horrible compounds
oi refuse drugs in a state of fermentation which
humbugs are endeavoring to foist upon the
puuuc as medicines. vom.
Tne seosoB for coughs and colds Is rapldlv
approaching, and every one should be prepared
to cnecat the nrst symptoms, as a cough con
tracted between now and Christinas frequently
lasts all winter. There is no better remedy
than Johnton'i Anodyne Liniment. For all
diseases of the throat and lungs it should be
used internally and externally. Com.
Lung fever, common cold, catarrhal fever,
and nasal discharge of a brownish color in
horses, may be checked at once by liberal nse
of Sheridan'i Cavalry Condition Powder:
vom.
" . "F""" " the mo.-t AhU, t'.;il,,l, h:ie..,nllu Printr.l. Wi'Mu ir. tl
uOlden Medical lil.l.m.l llemttlu HM.omcl Paixr. a wlmlr, which
ruiu'jiftai iisiu.ii imony ru t'cople." it la ivatlonn! in
Character and Ohu'Cta. nnd umtpton tn hoth Town
aim uouuiry. sixteen quarto ruges, woeaiy.
$7.SO 3rjOIX 2. SOI
raise
enough to buy me another little shlip of down by generations of Jeameses.
a mir" The miser couian t resist tne
influence of Mrs. , so he gave Teddy The San Juan Poundabt Case. A
A faw dava afterward ha met BDecial despatch from Berlin says the
TT7.11 rpJj t,aiA vA u AlA ru I f Vivck Araita f wVi-ktn AVin "Rm rornr Wil
li im, Mil lOUUI, UC, UtU JWfcss I , AAA V. V v.uua ( tw " - . , . . s , a
hniindarv aeon Dy rones, and thus, wnen me nre
a fine one it is." " Then take better care case, in their report to His Majesty, roc- broke out, it was comparatively easy to
jt a;a nfih. Vior What Lmmanrlsrlaa a Mmnrnmiu nf tha dis- launch her. It was this boat which
did the pig you lost die ef ?" " Die of," pute the middle channel as the boundary
said Teddy, raising Lis eyebrows j "shure line between British and American ter
he didn't die he was fat enough and 1 ritory. The reports of the experts have
killed him I 1 pot yet been pupushed.
proved the salvation of the twelve human
beings. Had the vessel gone to sea as
was at first intended, none would have
I lived, to tell the tad story of her less.
All who Day S'i.M will receive tho nriiAi. for 1S7S.
(or fur a year f rum this date or Got. 1. '72. aa nrotor
reu, i ana n pnst-inuri copy or tho .Ntprr stcci-i'uttt
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