FAMOUS DUELS.
A Newapaptr Article Thiit Led In Terrible
Bloodshed In Florida.
An old resident told a sojourner in
Florida the following storv of some
tamons and sanguinary dnels'tliat occur
red there years ago : "In the Seminole
war," said Mr. Zabran, evidently am
bling down a well worn groove of con
versation, " Governor Call, of this State,
commanded a crack regiment. One
morning he received a note announcing
that his wife was quite ill. He at once
repaired to her bedside. During his
absence a battle waa fought. Shortly
afterward an article appeared in the
Cfirontcle and Sentinel, of Augusta, in
sinuating that Governor Gall had pur
posely absented himself from the battle.
The paper containing this cruel article
reached the camp and wna at once the
subject of comment. Lieutenant Au
gustus 'Alston determined, in the ab
sence of his colonel, to protect his honor,
mounted a horse aud plunged through
the woods for Augusta. Beaching that
city he made his way to the Chronicle
office and demanded to know the author
of the offensive article. It turned out
that it was Governor Reed, of Florida,
for a long time a bitter political enemy
of Gull's. Lieutenant Alston at once
sent him a peremptory challenge. Gov
ernor need replied tnat lie would be
happy to accommodate Lieutenant Als
ton with satisfaction as soon as he had
concluded an affair with Lieutenant
Williuras, of Gall's staff, who had al
ready favored him with a note upon the
same subject. Alston thereupon had to
content his soul in patience until the af
fair with Williams was over. He did
not have to wait long. A meeting was
soon arranged between Reed and Wil
liams, the conditions of which were that
they were to fight with bowie knives,
until one or the other should bo cut
down. At the meeting the men came
upon the ground, stripped to their
shirts. They advanced until they met
each other. They then clasped 'their
left hands together in a firm and dead
game grasp, standing too to toe. The
keen and shining knives were then placed
in their right hands. At a signal they
dropped perpendicularly along their
legs. At the next word they were raised
into the air, and then the terrible fenc
ing began. It was a brief, strenuous
struggle. The long knives cut and
gashed and wheezed through the flesh of
the combatants and clashed and sparkled
against each other, now buried in vital
tissue, and now whipped out with a
dim, bluesh moisture veiling the blades,
nntil at length Lieutenant Williams
fell, hacked almost to pieces. Governor
Reed escaped without disabling injury.
" He then turned his attention to Lieu
tenant Alston. Being the challenged
party, he had the choice of weapons.
He selected a murderous weapon, now
happily obsolete, but then of common
use and known as a yagar. It was a
broad-mouthed, funnel-shaped, smooth
bore gun that carried a handful of shot
and was warranted to hit everything in
the neighborhood of its aim. The duel
was a most unfortunate one in its direct
and remote results. Captain Eenon was
Lieutentant Alston's second. The
principals were posted with their backs
to each other. As the word wheel '
was called it is claimed that Alston
slipped and stumbled. The command,
'Fire one two three !" followed al
most immediately, and before he could
recover his gun went off into the air.
Governor Reed took cool aim, fired
promptly at the word, and Lieutenant
Alston dropped dead. Thus two gallant
young fellows had already fallen in
defence of the honor of an absent com
rade. But the cruel feud was hardly
opened. Colonel Willis Alston, then
living in Louisiana, heard of his brother's
death aud became impressed with the
idea that he had not been fairly killed.
He claimed that Governor Reed should
have withheld his tire when he saw his
brother's gun spring aimless toward the
sky. Indeed, it is said that a sister of
Lieutenant Alston had the lead taken
from her brother's body and a new bul
let molded, which she sent to Colouel
Willis Alston and demanded that he
should come and avenge their brother's
death. Colonel Alston came as fast as
possible to this hotel. Governor Brown
met him as he rode up to the piazza and
at once divined his purpose. ' You have
come here to challenge Reed ?' he asked.
Colonel Alston assented. Governor
Brown then begged him to be very
deliberate and cool and quiet about it.
On the very night he got here he was
sitting near th fireplace yonder, with a
large cloak around him, and his hend
bowed upon his hand. He hail been
sitting there only a few moments
when some one brushed past him rather
roughly. Raising his head he discovered
that it was Governor Reed, the very man
he bad traveled so far to challenge to
deadly combat. In an instant he was
ablaze with excitement, and rising, ex
claimed : ' You have murdered my
brother, sir, and now do you presume
to insult me ? Draw and defend your
self, air.' As quick as thought Reed
drew a six-barrelled pistol and fired,
tearing away Alston's third finger, just
as the latter pcured a broadside into
him from a horseman's pistol, lodging a
ball in his sale. The fire was repeated,
each man receiving another bullet.
Colonel Alston was then out of ammuni
tion, having only two horseman's pistols.
Throwing back his long cloak, however,
he drew his bowie and closed with his
antagonist. In a few strokes Governor
Reed was cut to the floor, and his op
ponent sank in a fainting fit It was in
that melee that the bullet hole was made
up there.
"The two men were taken to their
beds, and for several weeks were con
fined to their rooms. Colonel Alston
was first to recover. He was much em
bittered by the contest that had taken
place, and said that he intended to kill
Governor Reed on sight. A few days
afterward he met Governor Reed on the
street. He went home and loaded a
double-barreled shot gun, putting in
one of the barrels, it is said, the bullet
that his siBter had moulded with the
lead taken from his brother's dead body.
Seeking Reed again, he fired at him on
sight, tearing away his shoulder with
his first barrel aud riddling his heart
with the second. This rencontre created
the intensest excitement and led to some
legal proceeding against Colonel Alston,
which, however, did not result in any
tbirg. Colonel Alston shortly after this
went to Texas. He had been there hut
a short time when he heard that Dr.
John MoNeil Stewart, a man of promi
nence in Brazoria, bad commented dis
paragingly upon his affair with Gover
nor Reed. Meeting Dr. Stewart upon
the prairie a few days after this report
had come to his ears, he handed him a
letter containing the offensive language
and asked him if he was responsible for
it. Fending the discussion of the mat
ter at issue they fell upon each other
with great fury. It appears that Dr.
Stewart was armed with a pair of Colt's
pistols and Colonel Alston with a bowie
knife and shot gun. When found by
their friends, Colonel Alston was found
lying at the foot of a large tree, with
our bullet boles through his body!
Btewart was lying near by, with two
loads of buckshot in his heart, stark and
stiff. Colonel Alston was so badly
wounded that he could only be carried
in a blanket, swung hammockwise be
twoen two men. As he was being borne
into the town in this manner his friends
were met by a company of armed men,
who fired iOO shots into the blanket,
killing Colonel Alston instantly."
A Damp City.
" Ozias Midwinter " says in a letter
from the South to the Cincinnati Com
mercial, that the dampness of New Or
leans upon a wet day impresses one as
something phenomenal. You do not
know in the North what such daiupnt ss
is. It descends from the olouds nnd
arises from the soil simultaneously ; it
exudes from wood-work j it perspires
from stone. It is spectral, mysterious,
inexplicable. Strong walls aud atout
doors can not keep it from entering;
windows and doors can not exclude it.
Yon might as well try to lock out a
ghost. Bolts of steel and barriers of
stone are equally unavailing, and the
stone moulders, and the steel is smitten
with red leprosy. The chill sweat pour
ing down from the walls, soakeB into
plank floors, and the cunning of the
uauer-haneer is nseless here. Camels
become so thoroughly wet with the in
visible rain that they utter songhy
marshv sounds under the foot. Con-
seauentlv few houses are carpeted with'
in, and those good folks who insist upon
carpets soon learn the -.folly of putting
them down on more than one for two of
the upper rooms.' Matting'is the substi
tute even in the aristocratic houses dry
crisp, neat matting, faper-nangers and
carpet-layers would starve to death here,
If yon even lay a few sheets of writing
uaoer noon vour table at nichtfall voti
will find them qnite limp and rebellious
of ink in the morning. Articles of steel
must be carefully laid away in air tight
drawers. The garments hung upon the
wall, the coverings or beds, the well
stretched shirts in the bureau seem as if
they had been rained upon ; the stair
carpets become like wet turf ; and f
mouldy, muuty k smell prevades the at
mosphere.
Fire is the only remedy possible
against .this invasion of moisture and
mildew,aud fires are absolutely neces
sary in all bedrooms almost all through
the winter. During the daytime, in
winter months, doors and windows are
generally left open, except on exception'
ally cold or rainy days ; the fires are al
lowed to go out, and the winds are in'
vited to come in and keep things drv.
But when night falls, chill mists invade
the city, and exhalations of dampness
rise from the moist earth. This is the
case even in clear weather, and Louis
ianians would not think of sleeping
without a nre in tneir bedrooms to dry
tne air and banisn tne spectre of damp
ness. HJven in tne neat of the summer
the night-news are often heavy like
heavy rains.
In the ;North you place open vessels
of water upon your heating stoves that
the warm air may be kepi moist. Here
all possible efforts are made to heat the
air so that it may hold in suspension as
little moisture as possible. For the citv
sits upon a marsh, and swamps lie about
her crescent boundary.
Carpets become an affliction here,
Save in the house of the wealthier,
wnere continual nres keep them dry.
they absorb tne nnliealthiuess of damp
ness in the wet season. They fill the
house with an odor ,of mustiness that
makes one think ' of bacteria and
vibriones, and divers other horrors of
the microscope. I say " houses of the
wealthier, because nere there are few
families who can anord to maintain
good fire fight all the year round with
the swamp dampness.
The National Fawn-Shops of Italy.
The consul at Florence sends to the
department of state, Washington, an
interesting sketch of the use and work'
ing of the goverment loan institutions
(Monte di Pieta) of Italy. First intro
duced by Bernardo Da Feltri, towards
the close of the fifteenth century, for the
relief of the indigent it at once achieved
success.
The first establishment started with a
capital of $2,891, which increased
through governmental and private bouu
ty to some 38,uuu m 1KJU. Profit in
excess of expenses were divided among
the pledgers, or distributed to the city
poor, t or lour centuries, through po
litical and social changes of Italy, the
institution has prospered and enlarged
its work of aiding the poor, but not en
richmg itself at their expense.
On the 1st of January, 1870, the op
erations of the Monte Di Pieta, of
Florence, were greatly enlarged by the
opening of a new edifice, especially and
completely adapted for tne reception,
storage and sale of pledges. It is in
charge of two stewards only, responsible
under heavy bonds, and appointed for
two years. Business is conducted in
two sections, each for a term of two
years, the first year for the receipt of
pledges, and the second for the liquida
tion of accounts and sale of unredeemed
pledges. Each section is in charge of its
steward, so that the receiver of the one
year becomes the lender the next, and
at the close of the second year his store'
rooms are entirely empty, and his bal
once sheet prepared for submission to
the government, with such accuracy that
the deficit for 1870 was but thirty-four
francs out of the total business of 9,800,
uuu francs.
The institution is of great utility to
all classes; even the higher social classes
resort to it without hesitancy for relief
from temporary embarrassment, but the
indigent are most especially benefited,
the low charges on their pledges not
being enough to defray even working
expenses, in marked contrast to the ex
orbitant profits of unscrupulous private
pawnbrokers.
The Length of a Minute.
Few persons realize how long a minute
is. The New York World relates this of
a witness who frequently used the ex
pression. "several minutes:" "Now.
Mr. Small," said the judge, "when you
think a minute is gone say now.r I
will say now when I wish yon to be
gin." Mr. Small nodded his entire com
prehension of the plan and looked confi
dent of his ability to guess well,
" Now," cried the judge, and in a dead
silence the court waited. The witness
fidgeted abont his chair, and, with a
great clock-face staring at him from the
wall, stood the suspense as long as he
was able, and then cried "Now."
"Just twelve seconds," said tiie judge,
amid a .chorus of laughter.
A Sweet Plant
Who was the member of the Agassiz
Club victimized with a Christmas pres
ent of a " Norway Sensitive Plant ?" a
little brown thing stuck in an old flower
pot leafless, but promising " sweet per
fume, if kept in a warm place and water
ed carefully," but which after weeks of
watching and waiting was found to be a
dead mouse buried head foremost with
its tail in the air. Lafayette (Ind.)
Courier,
AN ARCTIC M AIL,
Hew In Mali In Carried In Winter In One
Nlxth of the Wnlfrn Cnatlnent-The Lire
of the Hlrda-e IDrlvera Thousands af
Mile oa know-Shoe.
Down upon the ice of the Red river
of the North, below the walls of Fort
Uarry, writosa Winnipeg ( LSntisli Amer.
ca) correspondent of the New York Even
ing rout, there began a few days since
dog-sledge journey which supplies
mail matter to at least one-sixth of the
Western continent. There were no
swinging-conches, neighing horses, or
huge pile of leathern mail bags to be
seen : only the every day spectacle of a
few dogs, a few turned-np boards, and
half a dozen half breeds in their pictur
esque winter dress j none of the usual
belongings of the civilized mail service.
The boat brigades of the summer carry
a mail in addition to their freight ; but
in the long winters, when the waters are
locked hp in ice and the Plains covered
with snow, leaving scarcely a landmark
discernible by which the day s course
may be steered, other appliances take the
place of plank bottoms ana sturdy oars
men. Every year about the 10th December,
when the. landscape is clothed in its
winter raiment of white, and the rivers
ana lakes are covered with thick ice,
there starts from Fort Garry, bound
north, thin accumulation of mail matter,
known as the Great Nothern Packet
Through its agency communication is
had with every post in the territory,
The appliances for the carriage of this
important packet are suow-shoes and
sledges. The latter, generally four in
number, are drawn by dogs, of which
there are four to each sledge, and ia
whose trappings considerable taste and
ornament are displayed. But thongu
gaudy in appearance and decorated with
clinking and shining bits of metal, rib
bons, file. . tliev are. nevertheless, nentlv-
fitting, simple in design, and perfectly
adopted to the purpose for which
thev are intended. Little bells.
ringing clearly, attached to each harness
cheer the spirits of men and animals
through the long runs of the day. Their
drivers, one to each sledge, lightly clad
for running alongside their trains, are
shod with snow-shoes. Each alternate
sledge is loaded with white fish as pro
visions for the dogs upon the joarney
every animal receiving a single fish at
the termination of the day's travel and
pemmican and tea for the drivers.
There is bound upon each of the re
maining sledges a pair of stoutly con
structed boxes, measuring about three
feet in length by eighteen inches in
width and fourteen inches in depth.
These wooden mail bags, when properly
packed, contain an astonishing amount
of printed and written matter. These
receptacles being secured upon the
sledges, the party sets forth upon its
long journey, the dogs running at a reg
ular trot from morning till night, aud
the drivers accompanying them on foot,
at the rate of about forty miles per day.
The route taken is generally that follow
ed by the boat brigades in the summer,
shortened whenever practicable by cross
ing points of hind jutting out into the
lakes, and striking out overland from
bend to bend of the rivers. But the ice
forms the general roadway, and the
whole length of Lake Winnipeg is tra
versed to Norway House at its northern
extremity. This post constitutes what
may be called a general distributing
office the entire packet beiug over
hauled and repacked, so as to separate
matter going north and west from that
going eastward toword Hudson s Bay.
Before the institution of mails connect
ing points inthe United States with Fort
Garry, all excess in the amount of mail
matter transmitted through the winter
packets was so jealously guarded against
the carriage of newspapers, as creating
additional weight, and not of vital im
portance to the service, was prohibited,
with the single exception of an annual
file of the Montreal Gazette, forwarded
to the headquarters of each department
for general perusal. The fifty-two
copies of that periodical circulated over
the vast country from post to post until,
worn out by much service and obscured
by much patching and pasting in order
to hold them together until yet another
reader might obtain a perusal, they
finished their course in a lonely station,
in latitude sixty-seven degrees thirty
minutes north, where, I am credibly
Informed, certain ancient fragments cf
them are yet to be seen. At this date,
however, newspapers, once so rare and
highly prized, form the bulk of the con
tents of the company's inward-bound
packet. In fact, many of the officers
are regular subscribers to daily journals
which reach them from six months to a
year after date of publication; so that,
with the exception of the events of the
year just passed, the dwellers under the
shadow of the pole are as well iuformed
as we as to the doings of the great world.
The contents of the outward and inward-bound
mails of this sparsely settled
territory present striking differences
in appearanee, which add to the many
peculiarities of a peculiar service. The
difference lies in the presence in the in
ward mail of newspapers, periodicals
end other printed matter, bearing a gen
eially soiled, postmarked and frayed as
pect, contrasting strongly with the pure
white envelopes which constitute the
sole contents of the outward-bound mail.
Occasionally, too, there appears a
strangely gotten up parcel of the inner
bark of the birch tree doing duty as
writing paper. Again, a particularly
white and thin parchment will bear news
from some isolated friend, who wishes
to make his letters memorable in more
ways than one. These latter styles of
correspondence are, however, but some
of the many ways of passing the time in
the interior country, wheri a great part
of the year is passed in idleness.
The runners in charge of the mail
packets are generally half-breeds, whose
capacity for rapid traveling has been
tested. They are not unimportant men
either in their own eyes or in the eyes
of other people. But, with the excep
tion of physical endurance of a steady
trot for days at a time, thtir necessary
qualifications are not many. In travel,
ing they skirt the shores of the water
oouises, selecting camping-plaoes for the
night in some sheltered thicket, or un
der the lee of some projecting bank, to
escape the fieroe winds which sweep
over the level prairies. The snow is
scraped away from a space sufficiently
large to admit of a huge fire and the
spreading down of blankets by means
of a snow-shoe used as a shovel. Dry
wood is collected in large quantities, the
pemmican and tea served, the sledges
turned up to ward off the blasts, aud tho
runners, wrapped in a few blankets, re
tire for the night. The warmth of fire
and blankets is augmented by the vital
heat of the dogs, occupying the bed
with their masters. A regular episode
of the uight, however, consists m the
oldest dog of the train howling a dismal
soprano solo, in which the remainder
join in varying chorus, until stopped by
the whip-stocks of the drivers. Before
daybreak they are awake, and with a
further consumption of pemmican and
tea the day's travel begins.
They pass through strange scenes
tipon their journeys withered woods,
through whioh the winds howl and
shriek shrilly, and endless level ex
panses of snow, the glare of whose un-
trained wnitencss blinds tne traveler.
The solitude of the vast region is un
broken, save when the dog sledge with
its peal of silver bells in winter, or the
swiftly-passing boat brigade, resonant
with the songs of the summer voyageurs,
intrudes with its momentary variation
on the shriek of the all-penetrating
wind, tho ripple of the stream, the roar
of the thunder-toned waterfall, or the
howl of the wild beasts of the forests
the undisturbed possession of the In
dian hunter and his prey. From the
morning when the packet left the office
at Fort Garry to the evening when the
solitary dog-train last of many drags
the same packet, now reduced to a tiny
bundle, into the enclosnre of La Pierre's
House, more than one hundred nights
have been passed in the great northern
forests ; more than three thousand miles
have been traversed ; a score of different
aog trains nave hauled the packet,
Bending off branch dog-packets to the
right and left. It was mid-winter when
it started : it arrives iust as the sun
shine of nv'd-May is beginning to carry a
faint whisper of coming spring to the
vaiieys ot the Upper Yucon.
VICTOR EMMANUEL.
Sketch of the l.lfe and Relirn of the Dead
Kin ot Ilaly-IIla Knrcenar.
ittorio Emmanuele Maria Alberto
Eugenio Ferdinando Tonimaso, better
known as Victor Emmanuel II.. king of
Italy, was born in .Turin. March 14,
1820, and was the oldest son of Carlo
Alberto, of Sardinia aud 'Theresa,
daughter of the Grand Duke Ferdinand,
of Tuscany. He received his early edu
cation from the Jesuits. In 1842, being
then Duke of Savoy, he married the
Archduchess Adelaide, of Austria, and
six years later took the field with his
father in the war against his wife's kin
dred. At the battle of Goito he was
wounded, and at Novara won great ad
miration by his gallantry. The latter
battle resulted disastrously to the
Italians ; and Charles Albert, believing
that his son's matrimonial alliance
would be of service in treating with the
conquering general, abdicated the
throne. Victor Emmanuel surrounded
himself at the beginning of his reign
with able ministers, including Cavonr
and D'Azeglio, who gave him aid in his
diplomatic negotiations with other
sovereigns and in quelling the spirit of
insurrection that had begun to show
itself at home. He began his reign
under the most unfavorable auspices.
He had to overcome the consequences
of a disastrous war with Austria, to sub
due faction, and to preserve tho const i-
tntion, to aunul which, it was said,
Austria attempted to bribe him with the
offer of Parma, by which his troops
became the comrades of the allied
armies in the Crimea. The same year
he paid a visit to the British court, and
received an enthusiastic reception from
the English people. His daughter,
the Princess Clothi'.de, was given in
marriage to Prince Napoleon, cousin of
the late Emperor of the French. In
1859, after a series of sanguinary battles
with Austria, in which the Austrians
were defeated by the allied French and
Sardinian troops, Austrian power was
driven from Lombardy, which stato
was annexed to the Sardinian crown.
He concluded with England a treaty of
commerce, and obtained a treaty of
peace from Austria upon comparatively
easy terms.
In 1855 his monarchy acquired addi
tional consideration through the conven
tion signed with England nnd France,
and other important states of the
Italian peninsula voted for their annex
ation to the ret of Italy which acknowl
edged the rule of the Sardinian monarch.
After the annexation of these provinces
to his crown, Victor Emmanuel assumed
the title of King of Italy. In 18GG,
after the " Seven weeks' war," Venice was
added to the Italian dominions, and in
1870 the Papal States were incorpor
ated in his dominions, thus bringing
about that unification of Italy, for
which the Italians had long struggled
for, and which we see to-day. In 1871
Victor Emmanuel moved his capital
from Florence to Rome, and took up
his residence in the Inomial palace.
The king's first wife dying in 1855 he
afterwards contracted a' morgauatio
marriage with Rosa Vercellana, whom
he made Countess of Miraflore.
Tho reign of Victor Emmanuel was
very eventful. He possessed a stubborn,
iron will, and was noted for his personal
bravery. He was regarded as a man of
small mental capacity, however. He
had strong friends and equally strong
enemies. He leaves two sons and two
daughters. His eldest son, Umberto,
Prince of Piedmont, is his successor.
He was born in 1844, and is consequent
ly thirty-three years of age. lie was
a major-general in the Italian army, and
is regarded as a man of independent
mind. It is thought, by persons who
know his purposes best, that any modi
fication of his father's policy he may
make will be in the anti-clerical interest.
He was married April 22, 1868, to
his cousin, Princess Margarita, of
Genoa.
Prince Amadeus, Victor Emmanuel's
second son, was King of Spain from
December, 1870, till February, 1873,
and is now living in retirement in Italy.
Pia, the second daughter, is the present
yueen of Portugal.
Victor Emmanuel's fatal illness as
sumed a form at first which caused no
especial alarm, as he had often suffered
similar attacks and rallied speedily,
llis extreme corpulency made mm a
victim of many disorders which men of
lesser habit escape. It was necessary
to bleed him freely at times, and his
fondness foe hunting and other open
air sports were encouraged by his
physicians as a necessity of his peculiar
constitution. .
I)lnea.e I.mwi Anaer.
Like an ill wind, aud c&xnot be mastered too
early. What is a trifling attack of sickness
to-day, may, if unattended to, become a seri
ous case in a week. Hmall ailments tuould
be nipped in the bud before they blossom into
full blown maladies. If this advice were at
tended to, many a heavy bill for medical at
tendance might be avoided. When the liver
is disordered, the stomach foul, Ihe bowels
obstructed, or the nerves disturbed, resort
should at once be bad to that supreme remedy,
Eostetter'a Stomach Bitters, a few dose of
which will restore healthy action and put the
system in perfect order. It is a wise precau
tion to keep this iQoomparable'preventive in
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wo uuum iiuue iv i.uov.1 witu umivaiiet.
promptitude, disorders which breed others far
more dangerous, and in their latest dovelop-
luouu in lueiuseives oiien xaiai.
Caution. We caution onr readers to beware
of diphtheria, pneumonia influenza, bronchitis.
congestion of the lungs, coughs and colds at
this season of the year. Get a bottle of John
sou's Anodyne liniment and keep it ready for
Instant use. It may save your life. It has
avea mousanaa.
The constantly increasing sale of Burnett's
Cologne, confirms the opinion of the. best
Judges, that it is equal, if not superior, to any
domestic or foreign. It also received the hlgu-
esi awara at the Centennial Exhibition,
.... .MI"rablo Being
is one that is fihoas. Get from your druggist
a package of ftuhk's Irish Tea. Pries Mot
Honor In III Own- Land.
Rays Comelv in his recently lasted wrrk, Toe
Hietory of Sew York State, ' The dy has
passed when the benefuctnrs of humanity were
allowed lo live in ign minions povertytheir
sacrifice, their labors, onreoompensed. To
day, the beD.ef.ct ts of the prcple the men
who devote th-ir lives and energies to the
Interests of bomaniiy thoe ara the m n
whom tha world delights to honor, and whom
itrewardswith princely fortunes. As an anient
worker for the welfare of his fellow men, Dr.
B, V. P erce h-a won their warmest sympathy
and e teem.- While seeking to be their servant
only, he has become a prince among them. Yet
the immense fortur.e lavished upon aim by
a generous people he hoards not, but invests in
the erection and establishment of institutions
directly oontribntive to the publ'O good, the
people thus realizing. In their liberal patron
age, a new meaning of that beautif"! Oriental
custom of oantirg bread upon the waters.
Noted in both public and private life for his
unswerving integri y and all those sterling
virtues that ennoble manhood, Dr. P erce ranks
high among the few men, whose names the
Empire State is jastly prond to inscribe npon
her roll of honor. Ambitions, yet movd bj
an mbition strictly amenable to the most dis
criminating and well-balacoed Judgment, his
future career promise to le one of unparallel
ed activity and usefulness, ably snppleraent ng
the work he has alraady accomplished, by a life
at once noble in effort, enviable in its grand
results." While Dr. Pierce's genius and energy
have won for him so enviable a position un the
records of a cation, having been elected
Senator by an overwhelming majority, his
Jnstly celebrated household remedies have
?;in d for him a yf t more desirable place in
he hearts of a ereatfnl people. His Go don
Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription
have brought health and happiness to ten
thousand households.
Women dispute about other matters, but all
agree on the merits of Dooley's Yeast Powder
as par excellence the best of all. Grocers
throughout the country keep it, and find it
gives supreme satisfaction. By using it the
housewife is sure of delicious bread, runk,
rolls, biscuit, buckwheat cakes and all the deli
cacies made from flour.
CHEW
The Celebrated
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Wood Tag Plug
Tobacco.
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' As Ounce or Prkvention, Etc." Sheri
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prevont all ordinary diseases common to horses,
cattle, sheep hogB and fowls, besides con
stantly improving them in appearance and in
value.
The Greatest Discovery of the Ase is Dr
Tobiu' celebrated Venetian Liniment ! 30 rears before
the public, and warranted to enre; Diarrhea, Dye entery,
Oolio, and epaamfl. taken Internalljr ; and Croup. Obronio
Rheumatiam, Sore Throats, Gate, Brniiel, Oil Sores
and Paina in the Limb., Back and Cheat, externally
It has never failed. No family will ever be without it
after onoe airlnu it a fair trial. Prtoe 40 ornts. Dr.
TOBIAS' VENETIAN HORSE LINIMENT, in Pint
Bottlei, at One Dollar, is warranted superior to any
other, or NO PAY, for the oure of Oolie, Cute, Bruises,
Old Soma, eto. Sold by all DrucgiaU. Depot-lO Park
Place. New York.
Forty years of anccess ia sufficient evidence of
the value ot Bohenck'i Pulmonic Syrup aa a oure for
Consumption Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat.
It contains no opium ; ia pleasant to the taste.
For aale by all Druffsiata.
The markets,
aaw iobz.
Beef Cattle Native G9V W
Texas and uneroae. ut ( uv
MUohOows .0 00 (0.70 30
Boss Live.
OtHW
01
IB
meseea
Bheep.
Lambs,
C5
08
06V ia,
udhod miauling. ..,..
11H
Floor Western Good to tmoloe. .
s eo
Oi, t CO
State Good to (Jholoe
Buckwheat, per cwt
as
s
1 40
, 1 81
(g, 9 21
t. 2 60
b I 41
1 81
Wheat Red Weatern
No. a Milwaukee.
Rye State
Barley State. ..,
74
75
7
cam yuan
C8
70
f5
88
6
46
Bucawnoat
Oats Mixed Woatrn
Oorn Mixed Weatern
37 (s
a Kfoi
66 r
flay, per owt..,
Btra-x. per owt,
40 &
11 C4
none w's 02 uetu ....vo-e
18
Pork Mess ..It 10 tall 60
Lard City Mearq 0fXC 08!
I-ian -Mackerel, No. 1, new 18 00 !l 00
" ko. J, new 10 w (j i uu
Dry Cod, per owt 6 6' (a. 6 75
Berrlui;, Scaled, per box ... . 17 tA 13
Patrolenm Ornde ..OW&OtX Refined.
wool oaiiroruia rieece. .
30 (7 25
80 c 84
44 (,, 49
41 C 44
80 ijt, 87
20 (i, 21
20 (0
12 (a) 16
12 & 13
10 vi 11
09 10
22 ( 23
(80 (g 8 00
1 83 1 42
i 4 65
31 ,4 81
78 Ci CO
82 (S 83
80 81
Texas " ..
Australian " ..
Dnt or State,
Westerr -Choice ....
Weateru (iood U Prima,.
State Skimmed
Weatern'
Etfga State and Pennsylvania.
BUFFALO.
Oorn Mixed.
Oats
Bye...
Barley
Barley Malt .
PHILADELPHIA.
-Extra,... .
Beef Oattl
Sheep
07X
Co 64
C8
U6X
0SH
nogs ureas ea
Floor Pennsylvania Extra,
Wheat-Bed Western.......
Rye
08
T 12
1 62
66
60
60
Ot T 26
Ca 1 63
of. (7
Oorn Yellow.
61
61
94
Mixed.
v.h mum , ....
Petroleum Ornde OgifOuW
C2
Befined,
82 (3
21 IS
81 (9
11
n ooi uoiorauo.
at
81
4)
Texas
California,
BOSTON.
Beef Cattle C (S. 08
Sheep WXi l7fc
Hogs na i 9V
noor Wisconsin ana uinnesota.. I II a 7 76
Oorn Mixed , 66 (A 60
Oata 43 id. (IV
Wool Ohio and Pennsylvania XX. 68 oi. f
uauiornia rail 46 f 61
WAIBBTOWa. atASS.
Beef Cattle Poor to Oboloa 6 60 ,a a so
Bheep 7 00 Of, 1 76
Lenibs .. 7 (10 m, np
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CATARRH. Voiul'" Extract Is nearly a Spe
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CIIAFPEI) tfAMIS AMI FACE.-Pond'a
Fjrtrni't Hlimud be in every family this
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RHEUMATISM. During severe and changeable
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IRON IN THE BLOOD
Is Nature's Own Vitalizerl
THE PERUVIAN SYRUP
THE PERUVIAN STRUP
A protected solution of the Protoxide of Iron, is so c
bined as to have the character of an aliment, aa easily
digested and assimilated with the blood aa the simplest
food. It increases the quantity of Nat are's own Vitalis
ing Agent Iron in the Blood, and cure a thousand ilia,
imply by Toning up. Invigorating and Vitalising the
system. The enriched and vitalized blood permeates
very part of the body, repairing damages and waste,
searching out morbid secretions and leaving nothing for
diseaseto feed npon.
For a Spring Medicine
It has no equal, Stimulating without reaction, it effect
are fzbhanent, differing in this respect from all
Alcoholic Toniee.
PERUVIAN STRUP
PERUVIAN SIRUP
CURES
Dyspepsia, Debility, Liver Complaint,
Dropsy, Chronic Diarrhea, Boils,
Nervous Affections, Chills and
Pevers, Humors, Loss of
Constitutional Vigor,
Female Complaints,
Etc.
From a Well-Known Writer:
From Mrs. Marr Francis, wall known as " Margaret
Blount."
Briohthank, Woodstock, Vt, Oct. t, 1K.
8ETB W. Fowls A KrtKn,
Gcntlemrn Two lours exo I beaan to lake the PERU
VIAN hVHIJP. I tu in a languid. halLaliva state,
through inaipient dlsDensia, a.nd defective circulation
of theTilood. Three bottltxof the PERUVIAN 81 HUP
Chanced thlt to arlowinv. houndin hearth. I have a
fine appetite, sleep soundly and can walk fire miles
Nn. wuuuui. resnnjc, or ousy mraeii ouioi aoora all
day long without fatigue.
A lady oouaiurwhu resides with me, took the Byrap
dunnc her recovery from eerioua illness of some
weeks, nhe has been an invalid for years. Five bottles
of the Syrup have so built up her sysUm that she now
eata quite heartily, sleeps well and can walk three miles
(in fine weather) without fatigue. I ooneider the medi
cine so valuable to peraona of sedentary pureuite, or to
those who sutler from languor or low spirit a, that 1 relate
thia periMmal experience of ita etlecta to yon, leaving
I.. ,uv wua. uw run ' m. ui my leiwr.
a' oure. very ruDMOtluilv.
MARY FRAN 018.
PERUVIAN STRUT
PERUVIAN STRUP
From Chas. H. Colgate. Esq.,
Of the firm of Colgate A Co., Manufacturers of Flavor-
WSJ MMWU, a 1 SUOaWOBS Dire, OOStCBa.
Somebvili.1i, Mate., Deo. f ,1871
Uuaii. Beth W. Fowls A Kns : ' '
&ntfm Laaat Bprin my little daughter, aged five,
became very much emaciated with loss of appetite, ana
great prostrationof strength, so much so that we wtue
obliged to take her out of school. This continued
through the sumu.tr, and oaused as much anxiety.
Atter trying various remedies without deriving any
benefit our family plusioian reoommended the use
of PERUVIAN BY It U P. After uoing it one week
we saw marked improvement in the child's con
dition, and la a month she was rapidly gaining health
and strensth, her appetite being excellent. At this
date she is perfectly well, with round, plump cheeks
and healthy color, and is again attending school regu
larly. 1 oonsider her rt-stortttion to health entirely due
to the PERUVIAN BY it UP, end leal that 1 oaniiot too
frig h iw reowiumonii it aa a tonie.
Very gratefully yours. '
CHAJi, Ua COLGATE. 1
PERUVIAN STRUP ,
PERUVIAN STRUP
laprepareaby BETH W. FOWXE cfc HONS,
Boatew, a4 said by stealers caaarmliy.
a l aaa ax.
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