Berrien Co. Record.A REPUBLICAN N EW SPAPER.

PUBLISHED EVERY TH URSDAY.----BY----

J O a , X G . H O L M E S .

T e r m s : —S l . S Q p e r Y e a r .PAYABLE: ET ADVASCB.

OFFICE—In. R ecord B uilding, Oak Street.

Badness Directory*SOCIETIES.

T 0 . 0 . F.—Buchanan Lodge No. 7B holds its X . tegular meeting, at Odd Fellows Hall, on each ruesday evening.

F Jb A . 31.—Snmmit Lodge No. 193 holds a reg- . ular meeting Monday evening on or before the rull moon In each month.

In Ss A. M .—Buchanan Lodge No. 63 holds a reg* ! . nlar meeting Friday evening on or before the roll moon In each month.

P OF H.—Buchanan Grange No. 40 meets on . the second, and fourth Saturday o f each month,

at 2 o’clock p. a .;e No. 866 holds its .onday evening.[ O. G. T.—Buchanan Lodi

. regular meeting on eachil

a A . R .-W m . Pcrrott Post N o. 22. Regular . meeting on the first and third Wednesday- evening o f each month, in Good Templars Hall.

Visiting comrades always welcome.

C. T. U. OF BUCHANAN holds its regular . meeting at the Presbyterian Church on each

Tuesday at 3 P . M.

ATTORNEYS.TTAN RIPER & WORTHINGTON, AvtOrn-,_ Y and Counselors at Law, and Solicitors in Chan* eery. Collections made and proceeds promptly- remitted. Office over Kinyon’s Store, Buchanan.

J. J. YAYtUPEB. A. A. WOETHIN6TOX.

DAVID E . HINMAN, Attorney and Counselor at Law, and Solicitor in Chancery. Collections

made and proceeds promptly remitted. Office in Rough's block, Bnchanan, Mich. ____________/GEORGE F. EDWARDS, Attorney and Coun- LT selloratLaw. Office, comer Main and Second Streets, Niles, Mich.

THORNTON HALL, Attorney and Connsellor at Law and Solicitor In Chancery, Buchanan,

Michigan.

PHYSICIANS.I, i e . ia u .1i, i t . ii., jruyerciait ami oargetm. L i . Office in E. S. Dodd & Son's drug store. Res­idence on Day’s Avenue, east side, Bnchanan, Mich.

DR. J. M. ROE, Physician and Snrceon. Propri­etor o f Roe's Throat Balsam. Office, in Roe's

slock, over Severson’s drug store, Rochaatm, Mich.

DR . ROSS W . PIERCE, Phvsici-ia£EiS35SCT.Office over Waite & Woods’ suae, Ss£&ai3a,

Mich.

DR .L .W .: calls T

store, Buchanan, 1

SLOCUM & SPREXG, Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Office corner o f Main and Third

streets, Buchanan, Mich.i r E S . E . F . ANDERSON,M .D., Physician and III. Surgeon. In addition to my general practice 1 make diseases of women and children a specialty. N o.18 Portage street, Bnchanan, Mich.

ires. M AARIA DUTTON, Midwife and Nurse. i lL A ll calls promptly attended. Front Street, B uchanan, Mich.

" d e n t is t s .

J M. WILSON, Dentist. Office, first door north . o f the Bank. Charges reasonable and satis­faction guaranteed.G. MAN S ri kLD, Operative Dentist. All work done at the lowest living prices and warranted

Rooms over Elnyon's store.J________to give satisfaction.

CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES.

WEAVER & CO., dealers In Clothing, Hate, Caps and Gents’ Furnishing Goods. Front

street, Bnchanan, 'Mich.rjTHB ARCADE ClOthlniothlngHonso, Bnchanan, Mich.

M. fiERHARD, Proprietor.

&EORGE W. NOBLE, genera! dealer In Boots,” Shoes, Men’s, Boys1 and Youths’ Clothing.

Central Bloch, Front St., Bnchanan.

WM. POWERS. All kinds o f work made to or­der, mid particular attention paid to repairing.

Also, ready-made Boots on hand and warranted.

INSURANCE*A . PALMER, Notary Public, Fire anti Life Insurance and. Real Estate Agent. Repre­

sents ten o f the oldest and best Companies in the United States. Office with D, E . Hinraan.

FARMERS’ MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE AS­SOCIATION o f Berrien County. Only farm

risks taken. W h .H aslext, SecV, Bnchanan.

AUCTIONEERS.VJ* H AM ILTON, Auctioneer; LV. business in my line pro; prices. Give m e & call. Adi

Will attend to-all . . at reasonable

Buchanan, Mich.

LE V I LOGAN, Auctioneer. All busines will receive prompt attention, at reasonable prices-

«*ost Office address, Buchanan.

DRUGGISTS

DR. E . S. DODD & SON, Practical Druggists.Fine perfumes and useful toilet articles. Pre­

scriptions a specialty.

W A. SEVERSON, Practical Druggist. Fine • Toilet Articles and Perfumes a specialty. Cor Front and Main streets. Bnchanan. Such.

D W ESTON, Practical Druggist, dealerinDrngs, * Medicines,Paints, Oils, ToiletArticlee, School Books, Stationery «fcc.» south side o f Frontetreet.

HOTELS.HOUSE,. Buchanan, hitch. A . B .

proprietor. First-class in ever respect.E FIELD HOUSE, Berrien Springs, Mich.Du n b a r

Sabin,

Di first-class

The proprietors will spare no pains to maintain st-class hotel at the county seat.

OtisREED HOUSE, Berrien Springs, Mich.Reed, Proprietor. Good Livery in connection

with the house.

GROCERIES, <&C.

BARMORS BROS., dealers ini Groceries, Crock­ery, Glassware and Bakery Goods. Day's B lock

Front street, Buchanan, Minh.

B C. NASH, dealer In Family Groceries and . Provisions, Stone and Wooden Ware. Comer o f Front & Oak streets, Buchanan, Mich.

S & W . W . SMITH, dealers in Staple and Fancy . Groceries, Provisions and Crockery. Central

block, foot o f Main 8t.. Buchanan- Mich.

H A R D W A R E .OUGH BROS., Wholesale and Retail dealers in Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Agricultural Irn-

Blinda, Lumber, Lath, Lime, llfrfc.Rplementa- Doors, Sash,! Paints, 011k Glass, Ac.

OUGH & PEARS, Proprietors o f Bncbaaai__ and Rural Mills. Custom and Merchant grind*ing o f all kinds. Bnchanan, Mich.B'lug

PHOTOGRAPHERS.

VOLUME X V II. BUCHANAN, BERRIEN COUNTY, M ICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 188B. NUMBER 27-

Business Directory*TTfARMERS .t MANUFACTURERS BANK, Bu- JQ channn,Mieh. A ll business entrusted to this Bank will receive prompt and' personal attention. Wm.Pears, Pres.; Geo. H.Richards, V ice Pres.; A . F . Ross, Cashier.

Mr s . f r a n c w h i t m a n , 1.................... ..

Agent for Victor___ Sewing Machines. Attachments.oilandneod-les furnished for all machines. In Bradley’ s Plio- tographrooms, Frontst.

BUCHANAN MARBLE w o r k s . Monuments and Headstones o f all desiens and kinds o f

Marble. J". S .B e is t l e .

W O. HAMILTON, Milk Dairy. DcliversMilk - i n all parts o f the corporation daily R esi­dence, head o f Front street.

CH A S . W . SM IT H has a lo t o f Carriages from the celebrated L ouis C ook m anufactory, for

sale t p . B n cltan an ,> iich .

W H . TALBO T, M achinist-Engines,Threshing . and Agricultural Machines repaired. Cider

m ill Screw s, Saw Arbors, A c., m ade to order. Shop o n Chicago street,.

JAMES CASE, Florist, keeps all kinds o f Flower and Vegetable' Plants for sale. Good plantsat

lowpriccs. OnemllenorthofBuchanan. j- r , T .atottL E V , Star "Foundry!' A full line o f J o . South Bend Chilled Plows, and repairs for Kalamazoo, Oliver and Three Rivers Plows. Also, Iron Beam Plows. Casting done to order. Com er oIFront and Portage streets, Bnchanan.

TjlRANK MERSON, proprietor ol Central Meat 1+ Market. Cash paid for all kinds <#f live stock

and produce. South side Front street.

TOHN WEISGEBBER,manufactnrerofLnmber. J Gnstom sawing done to order.Oal ' '

Mill on SonthOak street.

IIGAHAM & GO.,DEALERS IN

L U M B E R ,Lime and Salt,

Berrien Springs, Michigan.

Sell all Linds of

r .

W ill deliver all kinds of

Building; MeteriaXIn Bnchanan.

W rite them, phone.

or call at the Tele-33tl

iC A R P E N TE R ®

aXSSTUEO INUS.UTEH10U1C%

E x c e l s A l l O t h e r s------IN------

•SWEETNESS OF TO N EIn every reed.

D U R A B IL ITYIn every part.

P E R FE C TIO NIn every detail o f m anufacture.

alTLglit Years.For

WOOD & SAMSON, dealerain Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Stoves,|Tinware,Paints, Oils,Glass Agricnltnrallmplements, Ac. Frontst., north side

M U L C T S .I/"INGERY & MARBLE, proprietor* o f Indian l\ Reserve Mill- Cnstom grinding a specialty.

Satisfaction guaranteed. Portage street.

M CATHCART. Photographs, Ferreotypes, Oil . PaintingB, India. Ink Pastel, and Photo-Cray­ons. Main street, Bnchanan, Mich.

H E. SRADLET, Photographer. Constantly . adding all: the latest Improvements In the art. second door east o f Post-office.

BRICK MANUFACTURERS.

T T E N R V BLODGETT, manttfactureroIBullding n W allandPavementBrick.YardinM ansfleld’ s

ddition, Buchanan.

-A N D -

REAL ESTATE AGENT-

Attention P a id to Collection and Conveyancing.

DARBYS

PROPHYLACTICFLU ID .

A H o u s e h o ld A r t ic le fo r U n iversa l F a m ily U se.

F o r S ca r le t a n d T y p h o id F e v e r s , D ip h th e r ia , S ali­v a t io n , U lce ra te d S ore T h roa t , S m a ll F o r , m e a s les , a n d

a l l C on ta g iou s D ise a se s . Persons waiting on the- Sick should use it freely. Scarlet Fever has never been known to spread where the Fluid was used. Yellow Fever has bfeen cured with it a f t e r b la c k v o m it h a d ta k e n p la c e . The worst cases o f Diphtheria yield to it. F e v e re d a n d S ick P e r - j S3Vf P O X

son s refreshed and j B e d S ores p r e v e n t - P I T e d by bathing with Darbys Fluid.

I m p u r e A i r made harmless and purified.

For S ore T h r o a t ir >'C o n ta g io n destroyed. F o r F ro s te d F e e t ,

C h ilb la in s , F i l e r C h a fiogs, e t c .

R h e u m a tis m cured, i S o ft W h ite C o m p le x -

io n s secured b y its use. Strip F e v e r prevented. T o p u r ity the B re a th ,

C lea n se th e T e e th , it can’ t be surpassed.

C a ta rrh relieved and cured.

E ry s ip e la s cured. B u rn s relieved instantly. S cars prevented. D y se n te ry cu re d . W o u n d s healed rapidly. S cu rv y cured.An A n t id o te iorAnimai

or Vegetable Poisons, Stings, etc.1 used the Fluid during

our present affliction with Scarlet Fever with de­cided advantage. It is indispensable to the sick­room .— W m . F* Sand- ford, Eyrie, Ala.

m a llP o* /T E D

myfain- il* en with5 ■ mnH th*ant.. .Vis

’ s, was nota was about

again in three »nd no others

- J . W . Park- Philadelphia.

Diphtheria

Prevented.

The physicians here use Darbys Fluid very success fully in the treat­ment o f Diphtheria.A . STOtr.KNWERCK,

Greensboro, Ala.T e t te r dried up. C h o le ra prevented. U lce r s purified and

healed.I n ca s e s o f D e a th it

should be used about the corpse'— it wall prevent any unpleas­ant smelLThe e m in e n tF liy -

s ic ia n , J . M A R IO N SIM S, M D ., N e w Y o r k , s a p : “ I am convinced Frof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid is a valuable disinfectant/'

V a n d e rb ilt U n ivers ity , N a sh v ille , T e n n .I testify to the most excellent qualities o f Prof.

Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. A s a disinfectant and detergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac­quainted.—N . T . L upton, Prof. Chemistry.

D a rb y s F lu id is R e c o m m e n d e d b y Hon. Alexander H . Stephens, o f Georgia ;Rev. Chas. F. D eems, D .D ., Church o f the

Strangers, N . Y .;Jos. LeContb, Columbia, Profl, University, S.C. Rev. A . J . Battle, PrqC, Mercer University;Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M . E. Church.

IN D IS P E N S A B L E T O E V E R Y H O M E . Perfectly harmless. Used internally or

externally for Man or Beast.The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we

have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get o f your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors,

J. H . Z E I U X & C O .,Manufacturing Chemists, PH ILA D E LPH IA .

MICHIGAN CENTRA! RAILROAD.M AI3V L liV F .

T im e T a b le —J u n e 10, 1 8 8 3 .

. T H E R E M O V A L .

A ncrvousoU l gentleman, tired o f trade,B y which, [hough, i t seem s, lie a fortune liad

made,T ook a-ho«se ’tw ixt tw o sheds, on the skirts

o f U12 town,W hich he! m eant, at h is leasure, t o bu y and

pulldow n,This thought struck the m ind as ho viewed his

estate;But alas! when he entered he found it too -

late;F or in each dwelt a sm ith—a m ore hard­

w orking twoN ever hamm ered an anvil o r put on a shoe.A t s ix in the m orn ing their auvils at w ork,Aw oke our n ew ’Squire, w h o raged like a

Turk.“ These fe llow s,” he cried , “ such a clattering

keep,I n ever can get above eight hours sleep 1"H is afternoon’s nap, and his daughter’s new

songW ere battered and spoiled u -

A t last, both his spirits andliealth to im prove,He cried , “ I ’ll give each fifty guineas to m o v e !”“ Agreed,” said the p a ir ; “ that w ill m ake us

am ends.”“ Then com e hom e,” said the ’Squire, “ and ie.t

us part iriends.Yon shall eat, and we’ll drink on the joy fu l o c ­

casion,That each m ay liv e long in Ills habitation !”

Sc * » * #‘ *Now tell,” said the ’Squire, “ where y ou each

j mean to m ove.| I hope to som e place, w here the trade w ill 1m- j prove l”i “ W hy, sir,” replied one, with a grin on his j Phiz,j “ T om F orge m oves to m y shop, and I m ove to

h is !”, —X ew Tori' Obtei'Vdr.

F rom The Illustrated W orld.

AM HOMIEST ORGAN.“ The Carpenter Organs have won for themselves

a high reputation for durability mid fine musical qualities. An Organ may be fine in appearance, but unless it is built honestly in everv part it will prove unsatisfactory. Mr. Carpemer makes most emphatically an iioxest Organ, and this is, we think, the secret o f their popularity.” — latdA’s Companioiiy July 6,1832.

F o r sale b y

F. SCHRAY & CO.,W est Street, between S econ » ai)d Fourth, “SG Buchanan, Mich.

NEW MILLINERY.MRS. BADGLEY"

HAS OPENED .

Millinery, and Dress Making Roomsin. Cathcart‘3 bu ilding on M ain street,, where

she w ill k eep a ll o f the

Latest Styles in Millinery.DRESS-MAKING a n d f a n c y

STAMPING PONE TO ORDER.

Mail. Accom. NightEx.Chlcfico.................. 7 05 a.m. 4 00p.m. 10 20p.m.Kenslngrou............ 7 55 4 50 11 10Lake........................ S 35 5 50 11 52Michigan Citv........ 0 23 7 00 12 35New Buffalo.......... 9 47 7 25 1 00 a.m.Three Oaks............ 10 02 7 40Gftlien................... . 10 15 7 52 n 3*2D ayton................... 10 21 7 58Buchanan................ 10 30 8 07 1 49Niles........................ 10 >15 S 20 2 05Dowagiae............... 11 13 S 45Decatur................... 11 3S 9 09 2 57Lawton................... 11 55 n 27 3 ISKalamazoo.............. 12 32p.m. 10 00 p.m. 3 52Galeshurgh,........... 12 53Battle Creek.......... 1 23 4 37Marshall.................. 2 10 5 02Albiou..................... 2 33 5 25Jaefcson................... 3 25 7 25a.m. G 10

3 52 7 48 6 32Chelsea................... 4 18 8 10 6 54Dexter..................... 4 35 8 24 7 OSAun Arbor............ . 4 57 S 45 7 28Ypsilanti................ 5 15 U 03 7 43Wayne June.......... 5 40 9 28 S 05Detroit ................... t> 35 p.m. 10 20 a.m. 8 50 a.m.

Mail. Accom. Eve. Ex.

Detroit................ 7 20 a m. 6 15p.m S 20 p.m.Wayne .Tunc........... 8 15 7 00 9 0oYpsilanti............... S 42 7 °5 9 30Ann Arhor............ 9 05 7 42 9 50Dexter.................... 9 2S S 03 10 14Chelsea.................. 9 45 s IS 10 33Grass L ake............ 10 10 8 43 11 00

10 40 9 lOjp.m. 11 35Albion....................* 11 24 12 13 a.m.Marshall................. 12 10p.m. 12 40Battle Creek.......... 12 39 1 08Galesbnrsh............. 1 13 1 42Kalamazoo.............. 1 33 5 10 a.m. 2 05Lawton................... 2 12 5 45 2 41Decatur................... 2 27 G 00 2 *57Dowaqiac................ 2 -IS D 22 +3 21N iles ...................... 3 13 7 05 3 47Bnchanan.............. 3 27 7 19 4 02D arton ........ ......... 3 34 7 23 t i l lGalien......... ........... 3 41 7 34 +4 18Three Oaks............ 3 52 7 46 +4 32New Buffalo........... 407 8 00 4 55Slichigna City......... 4 33 8 28 5 23Lake........................ 5 15 9 14 6 11Kensington............ 6 10 10 05 7 00Chicago.......... . . . . 7 10 p.m 10 55 a.m. 7 50 a.m

tStop onlyon signal.O. W . R uggles, Gen. P . & T . Agt.

H- B. Ledtabd Gen’ l Manager.

ST. JOSEPH VALLEY R. R.

On and after Monday, July 1, 1883, trains will run ou the St. Joseph Valley K . R . as follows: Leave B uchanan .....7.25 a.m., 11.00 a.iu. 3.30 p.m

Berrien Spri ngs, 10.10 a.m., 2.10 p.m., 6.40 p.m’ . W it. R . Rough, President.

R . D .D ix , Secretary.

John C. Dick,J U S T I C E

: 3 » rU N D E R T A K E K .

A fu ll l in e or

C A S K E TS & C O FFIN SConstantly on h a n d , o r m ade to order.

Burial Robes a Sp ecia Ity A FIN E HEARSE

Furnished to a ll orderin g , on short n otice

J B . FULLER & CO., manufacturers o f con.- Crete, house, w ell and cistern brick. Hay’ s

Avenue. Buchanan.

TAILORS.

OHN FENDER, Fashionable Tailor. Work ez- *?8trec? ffisJateste^leB^ and warranted to fit.

W TRENBETH, Merchant Tailor. Thelatest . styles in Cloths, Cassimeres and Suitings always onhand. A ll work warranted. Bnchanan,

M ich .

MISCELLANEOUS.

J J . R O E , Fraetieal: Watchmaker. W atches, . C locks, Pianos, for sale cheap. Tremont building,Bnchanan,

ZIN C COLLAR PAD. CO., sole proprietors:and.manufacturers o f Curtis’ Patent Z in c Collar

Pad,Buchanan,' F orsa le by dealers everywhere

*VT J . SLATER, manufacturer o f W agons, Car- J3I tria ges , Bngries, Sleighs, &c. Repalrlngat- . en d ed to prom ptly- F rontstreet.

/^ E O R G E CHURCHILL, Contracto rand B uild D T *rk and dealer in Lum ber, Lath and Shingles o n ts t re e l, Buchanan, M ich .

O fficein R ough ’s B lo ck , B u c h a n a n . M l c M e a n

S A L E S-------------------------------

A U C T I O N !A ll parties wishing the services o f a

first-class auctioneer would do well to call on '

FOR SALE.Lot 4, Block D, J. D. Boss’ addition

to the village of Buchanan, known as the Smith property, on South Portage Street, is offered for sale. This is a

MAUD AND MABEL.ELSIE LE IG H W HITTLESEY.

Jnicely located, and house room enough for two families.

Price Si,000 cash down, or §1.100 on time, §300 to be paid down, and balance in payments. Enquire of

J . W . R . LISTER,26m3 B u c h a n a n , M io h .

W e are the W estern A gents fo r tne noted PHILADELPHIA

CHARLEY EVANS. LAWN MOWERS.Satisfaction -guaranteed. Rates as

low as any other good salesman. Res- idence,Buehanan, Michigan.

F arm fo r S ale.I offer my farm of 160 acres, In

"Weesaw township, for sale or exchange for grist mill property.- The farm has

IOO Acres Cleared.A good house built in 1880-. A good hearing orchard, and other valuable improvements. Por terms and further particulars call a t . the premises on Section 22.

26t4* A . . P A U L , . '

An expert M achinist has charge o f ou r de­partm ent fo r the

REPAIRO f L aw n M ow ers o f A L L m akes. F o r any­thing fo r the Law n or Garden, send to Us.L T i r a r n . S i b l e Y * C o . ,

200 to 206 R am loln h St., C hicago.

not life, is sweeping by, before you die, somethin;

go and dare___________________ ^ . ng mighty andsublime to. leave behind to conquer time.1’ $66 a week Inyotir own town, $5 onffit ftee. No risk. Everything new. Capital not required. We trill furnish, you everything. Many are making fortunes. Ladies make as much as men, and hoys and girls make great pay. Reader; If you want oUsiuess at’ whichyoucan make greatpay allthetim e, write for particulars to H. H aulett & Co., Portland,Maine. 4yl

When in Chicago, at 181 East Monroe St., andhave a trial o f “ Hr- S YKES’ Snre* cure for Catarrh," free? or writefor hooks. ’

Remember, 1 8 1 . [24t8] Cut this ont.

They were twin-sisters, the one a blackeyed, sparkling brunette, the oth­er a blue-eyed, golden-haired blonde, alike in nothing save that they loved each other dearly, and were the best- tempered, brightest and most lovable young creatures that ever lived.

Said Mabel, who was some fifteen minutes Maud’s junior;

T really did not think that you cared for Allen Poster, else I would not have treated him so cruelly.”

“Why, do you care for him?” blush­ed Maud. I f you do, Mabel, you are welcome to him, I ’m sure; for if there is anything I do despise in this world, it is a man who doesn’t know his own mind.”

‘ Then he did impress you rather fa­vorably at first?”

“There was no ‘at first’ abont. it. Mr. Allen Poster, in my opinion, is a con­ceited idiot!”

And Maud gave her handsome head a very emphatic toss. Mabel affected a look o f intense amazement.

“ A conceited idiot, indeed! What would his fond mamma say if she were to hear you speak so disrespect­fully of her only son ?”

His mamma may say and think what slie pleases. He is a conceited idiot!”

Mabel played with her fan a mo­ment b< fore replying'

“Don’t you know | Maud, that he— that Mr. Poster proposed to me once, or as good as proposed?”

‘And to me also, you dear, silly, little goose.- He is always proposing, or good as proposing, to somebody. It was while I was visiting at Aunt Jane’s, last summer. Mr. Poster was there, spennding his vacation with Cousin Will, and we had a nice time until—”

“He proposed?”“H o; until you came.”“Oh! and before that you had not

thought him so stupid?”“Before that he had done nothing

to make me doubt his honor, or com •pel me to believe him about as stable in Iris affections as a weather-vane is constant to one point o f the compass,” replied Miss Maud, with great dignity.

“Honor! Yes; well, what then? Up to the time of my unfortunate arri- val,- you surely liked him,” returned- Mabel.

Hiking and loving are two very dif­ferent sentiments. Mr. "Poster could, if he tried, make himself quite agreea­ble; aval for rowing, lawn-tennis, cro­quet, picnics, and'dreary things o f that kind, he did very well.”

“Oh, yes, I know that!” innocently responded Mabel; “and he could flirt a little—just a little, you know, when there was -no better amusement to be had; and hehadreallyhaudsomeeyes,”

“ I ’m sure I can’t say as to his eyes being handsome or otherwise, for I never troubled myself to look at them; hut when you come, and I overheard Mm say to you in tlie summer-house, just where he had previously told me the very same thing, that’lie loved you, I—”

“ Oh, on; not that he loved me, but that lie could not for the life o f him tell which of the twin Elsimore sisters he loved the best. It was simply a choice between black eyes and blue, black curls or golden, brunette or blonde,” hastily corrected Mabel.

“Well, I don’t care; it was unmanly of him, and I ’ve had nothing to say to Mm since.”

“But he is coming with Cousin Will to spend the summer holidays with us, and we must be civil to him, at least, Maud.”

“Certainly; hut it does not follow that we must he his slaves.”

‘H o, of course; but he is worth a half-million, my proud sister, and though love be pleasant, money is om­nipotent.”

“To some it may be, hut not to me, for little no J care for his half-million.”

“And as little, do I ; hut, then, you must admit that Poster Hall is a fine old place.”

“Yes; and pity it is it has not a bet­ter master.” •

And, with this final and very severe remark, Maud majestically left the room.

August came in due time, and with it came Cousin Will and his dearest college friend,- the “conceited” Mr. A l­len Poster.

Alone in the conservatory, one morn­ing, with Maud, who looked no end of mischief from under her long, dark lashes, he took her hand in his, and, in a tone o f enchanting sweetness, whispered:

“Miss Elsimore—Maud, you must have seen, long ago, that I love you; that my whole heart is yours. I can­not live without you—I really can’t. Say that you return my love!” growing every moment more and. more fervent in Ms tender appeal. “Be mine, sweet Maud, -and my only thought, wish or purpose in life shall he to make you happy! Assure me, here and now, that I do not plead in vain, and that yon will be my own, own darling wife!”

“ Well, no, I think not, Mr, Poster,” ! coolly replied Maud. “In fact, I can’t make up my own mind as to whether I love you or Charley Ashton the best; and until I come to some definite con- clusion on that important point, it would be wrong to encourage youi; ad­dresses”

Mr. Poster looked blank. Was it possible that Miss Maud Elsimore had refused him? Incredible!

And yet,- horrible truth, she1 was gone, with a mocking smile on her lips, and a look expressive of anything but regret in. her scornful black eyes.

Most unfortunately for him, in Ms

present state o f mortified self-vanity, Mr. Foster naturally had a very excel­lent opinion of himself, and was not a man to grieve long or deeply over the non-success of his suit.

Maud was not so very handsome, after all, he thought, consolingly—not half so handsome as Mabel, nor any­thing like so amiable.

He knew now well enough which of the two sisters it was he loved the best. He had secretly felt himself to he partially committed to Maud, but since she declined to change her name for his, he would forthwith transfer liis’affections to Mabel.

Acting promptly on this brave de­cision, he managed one evening to lead the hy-no means reluctant Miss Mabel to a retired place within the safe se­clusion o f the heavily curtained bay- window, and there pour out his enrap^ - soul in. words of fondest "' ”

“Darling Mabel! hebegan, catching his breath hysterically, and a trifle un­certain o f his ground— “darling Ma­bel, can you not guess wliat it is that I would say ? I love you dearly, mad­ly, passionately! Por months I have thought and dreamed of no one else. To me the winds whisper Mabel, the birds sing Mabel, and the streams mur­mur joyously your name. Violets 1 e- minnd me of your eyes, roses your cheeks, and golden lilies of your hair. I adore you, Mabel, my own beloved, and here at your feet I offer heart, hand and fortune!”

And witli that he fell on his knees before her, and sighed quite impress­ively. But instead of being pleased and grateful, as he had supposed that it would be, Miss Mabel actually laughed in liis face—such a happy, irrepressible burst of real unrefreigned merriment, as brought Mm up from his knees “all standing,” and made him ■wish every individual woman on the face o f the earth fifty fathoms deep in the Red Sea.

“How ridiculously amusing you are this evening, Mr. Poster! Por good­ness sake, compose yourself! I would not, for the world, have people see you in such a comically-ahsurd position. Adore me! Y ou ! And how long is it, may I ask, since you have done so?”

“I —I —you are laughing at me, Miss Elsinore,” he stammered, quite pale with rage and abashment.

“And who could help laughing at you, pray ? You don’t love me, and I know it ; because, you see, if you did, you would never have been so long making up your mind as to whether it was Maud or my poor, humble self who was the one most adored.”

“Woman, you have blighted my hap­piness, destroyed my faith in your sex, wantonly trifled with my affections!” he tragically exclaimed. “You have made me a cynic, a—a—”

■Hot a donkey, for that you always were,” she kindly prompted. “Your volatile little heart is nat at all injur­ed, take my word for it, and will tilt again with Cupid before it is finally captured by some luckless fair one,” She laughed.

“Luckless fair one! I don’t under­stand you, Miss Elsinore,” he replied, very stiffly.

“Some divine fair one, then, if you object to the first qualification. Adieu, Mr. Poster; and when next you do a wooing go, be sure in your own mind, before you set out, that you love the object of your undying love much bet­ter than you do—yourself”

And Miss Mabel gracefully tripped away, to remark to lier sister, a few minutes later:. “ Half a million rejected, Maud—

gone, vanished—and the poor fellow offered it to me on his knees, too.”

Within a twelvemonth both Maud and Mabel were married, the one to Charlie Ashton, a rising young lawyer, and the other to Captain Harris, of the navy; and Alien Foster said, as be threw down the paper containing a no­tice o f their marriage:

“Arrant flirts, both of them! J made a lucky escape,'egad! Proud, saucy

John Sullivan’s Mother Righteously Indignant.

An anecdote which I heard the other day of the famous Sullivan family of Hew England may not he uninterest­ing here.

When that sturdy Irish, woman, to whom the Sullivan family may well look back with pride, was crossing .the Atlantic on her way to the new coun­try, and was asked, “Why do you come to America?” she answered, “To raise governors for them,” little dreaming that she would live to see one of her sons governor of Hew Hampshire, and another governor of Massachusetts, though I am sorry to say the third did not so much honor to his family, and was known as “Devil Jim.” The'story goes that soon a.ftAi- Jnivn S n n ; . .a l lrose to be Govt ihire liejAcs&red W OX t.0- Sbnumber oi - 5ts. Amember oi me laumy an tne time was* his mother, and fearing she would not be equal to the occasion, lie concluded it would be -best to arrange for her non-appearance at the dinner table.

Approaching the matter as gently as possible, he soon' succeeded in making the quick-witted old lady understand the drift of his diplomatic talk, and in convincing himself that he liqd mis­calculated the pride of the mother of the Sullivans.

Rising in all the majesty of her Irish wrath, “John Sullivan,’’ exclaimed the old lady, “ I have hoed potatoes in the field with the Governor of Hew Hamp­shire at my breast, the Governor of Massachusetts by my side, and the devil tugging at my skirts, hut never yet allowed ore of my sons to he ashamed of me. Order the chaise and send me home.”

Remonstrances "were of no avail, and home went John Sullivan’s mother in all the majesty of her righteous indig­nation.—Cor. Washington Star.

young minxes that"they, were, with do more heart than“ a‘ sponge, and no more appreciation of a really good- looking fellow’s m'errits than a hea­then Sandwich Islander! Pretty Mol- lie Gi ay is worth a hundred of them; but, hang it! now I remember, she is going to marry Will Elsinore!”

Sighing profoundly, Allen lit a cigar, tilted back in his chair, and fell to moralizing on the instability of the fe­male mind in general, and that of the Elsinore sisters in particular.

W hy He Wept.In justice to ourselves we desire to

state that the Cheyenne Sun has vili­fied us and placed us in a false position before the public. It has stated that while at Rock Creek station in the early part of the week we were taken for. a pea-nutter and otherwise ill- treated at .the railroad eating-corral and omelet emporium, and that in con­sequence of such treatment we shed great scalding tears as large as water­melons. This is not true. We did shed the tears as above set forth, but not because of ill-treatment on the part of the eating-house proprietor.

It was the presence c f death that broke our heart and opened the foun­tains of our great deep, so to speak. When we poured the glucose syrup on our pancakes the stiff and cold remains of a.large beetle and two cunning little Cockroaches fell out into our plate, and lay there hushed in an eternal repose.

Death to us is all-powerful. The king of terrors is to us the mighty sover­eign before whom we must all bow, from the mighty superior down to the meanest slave—from the railroad su­perintendent, riding in his special car, down to the humblest humorist—all alike must some day curl up and die.

This saddens us at all times, but more particularly when Death, with his remorseless lawn-mower, has gath­ered in the young and innocent. This wss the case where two little twin cockroaches, whose lives had been un­spotted, and whose years had been un­clouded by wrong and selfishness, were called upon to meet death together. In the stillness of the night, when oth­ers slept, these little affectionate twins crept into clucose syrup and died.

We hope no one will misrepresent this matter. W e did weep and are not ashamed to own it. We sat there and sobbed until the table-doth was wet for four feet and the venerable ham was floating around in tears. It was not for ourselves, however, that we wept, no unkindn.ess on the part o f an eating-house proprietor ever provoked such a tornado of woe. ‘We just weep when we see death and are brought in close contact with it. And We were not the only ones that shed, tears. Dickinson and Warren wept, strong men as they were. Even the butter; wept. Strong as it was, it could not;

. control its emotions.We don’t very often answer a news-’

paper attack, but when we are accused of weeping till people have to take off their boots and wring out their socks, we want the public to know what it is for.—Laramie Boomerang.

Household Hints.Smoke from burning brown sugar re­

lieves pain of flesh wounds.—Brass can be cleaned by using a solution of oxal­ic crystal in water.—Machine oil can he removed by rubbing it with brown soap in cold water, before the whole piece is washed.—Sorrel is cooling and forms the staple of that “soupe aux herbes” which a French lady will or­der for herself after a long journey.— Onions, if slowly stewed in weak broth and with a little Hepaul pepper, are an admirable article of diet for patients of studious and sedentary habits.— When buying tin covers for kettles be sure that they have rings of wire on the top, instead of flat handles soldered on, as the former are much more dura­ble.—It is stated that in families which roast their own coffee, diphtheria can­not get a foothold, as the puDgent aroma of the roasting coffee effectually destroys the germs of the disease.— Delicious oatmeal gruel may be made by stirring a cupful of oatmeal into a bowl of water, allowing it to stand for a few minutes until the coarsest par­ticles have fallen to the bottom, pour­ing off the water and. repeating the op­eration once or twice. The water should then be boiled, stirring it con­stantly until it is sufficiently cooked.— Chicago Herald.

Toiuato Pigs.The following is. the method of .pre­

serving tomatoes in Bermuda, and thereby manufacturing a sweet pre­serve something like figs: Take six pounds of sugar to one peck (or 16 pounds) of the fruit, scald and remove the skin of the fruit in the usual way, cook them, over a lire, their own juice being sufficient without the addition of water, until the sugar penetrates and they are clarified; they are then taken out, spread on dishes, flattened and dried in the sun. A small quanti­ty of the syrup should be occasionally sprinkled over them while drying, af­ter which pack them down in boxes, treating each layer with powdered sugar. The syrup is afterward con­centrated and bottled for use. They keep from year to year and retain their flavor surprisingly, which is nearly that of the best quality of fresh figs. The pear-shaped or single tomatoes an­swer the purpose best. Ordinary brown sugar may he used, a large portion of which is retained in the syrup.—Ger­mantown Telegraph.

Milkweed Pods.Perhaps some persons may not know

what very pretty additions may he made to dried grasses, hunches of ferns and autumn leaves, by the milkweed seeds. Pick them when the seeds are quite ripe, and the pods begin to dry. Open the pods and pick the seeds out with the downy substance adhering to them. Take the seeds off and pass the down through the lips (this is the only way I know of to get them a very lit­tle moist), holding fast the seed end. Have a fine wire and a piece of white thread tied to the end of it. * Lay the prepared down against the wire and wind the thread around it to keep it in place. Continue this until you have a sort of fez, or full blown flower. You must take each seed separately, and they must he placed very close togeth­er on the wire, and he wound tight with the thread. The downy substance will blow out very fluffy, and very White, and is really beautiful.— Conn try Gentleman.

Keen as a Razor.“Yes, there’s a heap o’ difference in.

boys,” replied the old man, as he tied up a hag of oats. “ There’s my son John, for instance. Everybody beats him in a boss trade, swindles him on a watch dicker, and leaves him out in the cold when he farms on sheers. He’s good-hearted, but there’s no biz- ness about him. I f I had to depend upon John I’d die in the poor house.” He wrestled the hag aside, seized an­other, and continued: “And there was my son Philip—keen as a razor—eyes wide open, and so sharp that no man in Hew Jersey dare offer him a pair of old hoots for a §300 boss, for fear of being cheated.” “Is he dead?” “Yes, lie’s gone; that was the sharpest trick of all. He found he’d got consump­tion, and what did he do hut hunt up ■wlMa insuYsmc* agent, take out a §5,-000 policy, give his note for the premi­um, and come home and fall off a load of hay and run a pitchfork clear through him, Some sons would have hung on and doctored around and wanted cur­rant jelly and chicken soup for eight­een months, hut that wasn’t Phil. Ho, sir! He didn’t even ask for anything hetter’n a §20 tombstone, and he said1 needn’t git that unless the marble- cutter would trade even up for a blind calf.”— Wall Street News.

The Parmer Kever Satisfied.On a "Wisconsin Central train the

other day I met an old friend o f the late Thaddeus Stevens. He told a lit­tle story related to him by- Stevens, thoroughly illustrative of the fact that the farmer is the most discontented person on earth, whether his crops he bountiful or not.

It was in an early day, and Mr. Ste­vens had been conducting an impor­tant suit for a wealthy old Pennsylva­nia farmer. During its progress he ■was the latter’s-guest. While strolling over the farm, Mr. Stevens observed that the farmer’s corn crop, which was just ripening, was remarkable beyond anything he had ever seen.

“My friend,” said Mr. Stevens to the farmer, “this is truly magnificent! There is nothing left to he desired in your corn yield this year.”

“W-e-1-1,” responded the farmer, guardedly, “it is purty fair; purty fair. But,” and this with a noticeable tinge of sadness, “ thar might be a few more eunnels—just a few more cunnels—at the end of the cob.”—Chicago Corres­pondence Louisville Courier-Journal.

JoMi Paul Logan’s Reward.Here is a queer “card” which John

Paul Logan, of St. Paul, Minn., prints in the Times of that city: “I will pay §1,000 reward to any mob who will lynch a white man for murdering a negro in the south or for outraging a negro woman in the south. The daily lynching of negroes in the soutliisiike the handle of a jug, all on one side, and, just to vary the monotony and see a refreshing change, I will send the above amount to any enterprising southern mob who will change the program for once and give one of their wMte murderers a piece of rope. I would suggest that the county sheriff where the mob operates should be elect­ed captain of the mob and authorized to draw on me for the §1,000, which will be paid spot cash at the First n a­tional bank of St. Paul immediately upon the receipt of credible informa­tion that the mob has changed the pro­gram. I am heartily disgusted with your nigger corpses. How let your ir­repressible great American mob bestir themselves and give us one white corpse for breakfast, and the very devils in hell will rise up and thank them.”

A Theory Concerning the Whirlpool Where Wehh Lost His Life.

It seems to me a big hole in the bot­tom of the river, running off into sub­terranean channels. The volume of water in the river fills it up for a min­ute'or two/.and as the water rushes in­to the basin it makes these high waves. The hole in the bottom lets the water out, and it begins- to circle round and round till it comes to the pit, jus: as the water runs out of a wash basin. We built a log raft some twenty feet square, and shoved it out into the pool. When the water caught it, it began to circle round, and then it tipped up as it gave a dive, just as Webb raised Ms hand; and that was the last we ever saw of the logs. Why, that same win­ter the Hiagara River was frozen over below the Palls and the ice was piled up sixty or seventy feet high. I saw great bergs as big as a whole house go into the pool that spring when the riv­er broke up, and it swallowed them up as easily as it did our raft. What chance do you think Capt. Wehh would have there? He would be like a fly. I don’t think it likely Ms body will ever he seen again. 'W hen he raised liis hand he felt it sucking’ him in like an undertow, and he knew his time had come.—John P . Hatlwrn.

Ho Chance for a-Poor Man.A hoosier, who was jogging into

Indianapolis the other day, looked so down in the mouth that an acquain­tance halted Mm to ask Mm if any of the family was dead. “Ho,” was the rather regretful reply. “Anybody sick ? “Guess not. The old woman was licking the children when I came .away.” “Then, what’s the matter?” “ I’ve been busted by arailroad.” “How!” “Why, you know them five acres of mine out there? Well, I was calcula­ting to ask the company §5,000 for the right-of way across, and have enough •land left to pasture the cows and raise our taters, but they played sneak on me.” “ They did ?” “Yes.' Sent one of their agents, to me and bought up the whole patch for §25 an acre, and I ’ve got to vacate. That’s just the way with them monopolies, and nobody need tell me that a poor man has any chance in this country.”— Wall Street News.

In One Chapter.Boy—melon—shady spot— secluded

nook—yum! yum! all gone—hoy sighs —colic comes—boy howls— mother scares—father jaws—doctor comes—, colic goes—boy well—wants more— (notice o f funeral hereafter.)—Detroit Free Press.

The Right Side to a Parasol.. Before marriage: “Excuse me,George. Did my parasol hurt you ?”■ “Oh no, my-dear. It would he a pleasure if it did.”

After marriage: “Great heavens!There was never a woman under the sun that knew how to carry a parasol without scratching a fellow’s eyes out.”

“And there never was a man that knew enough to walk on the right side of a woman with a parasol.”

“There isn’t any right side to a wOr man’ with a parasol.”—H artford Post.

Had Hone on Hand.A vigorous old fellow in Maine who

had lately buried his fourth wife was accosted by an acquaintance, who, un­aware of his bereavement, asked:

“How is your wife, Cap’n Plowjog- ger!”

To which the Cap’n replied, with a perfectly grave face:

“Waal, to tell ye the trewth, I am kinder .out of wives just naow.”—Bos­ton Commercial Bulletin.

The Beauty of Neatness.A woman may he handsome,- or re­

markably attractive in various ways; but i f she is not personally neat, she cannot hope to Win admiration. Pine clothes will not conceal the slattern. A young woman with her hair always in disorder, and her clothes hanging about her as if suspended from a prop, is always repulsive. Slattern 'is writ­ten upon her person from the crown of, her head to the soles of her feet, and’ i f she wins a husband, he turns out, in all probability, either to be an idle fool or a drunken' ruffian, The bringing up of daughters to he able to work, talk and act like honest, sensible young wo­men, is'the special task of all mothers, and in the industrial ranks there is im­posed also the prime obligation of learning to respect household work for its pwn sakej and the'comfort and hap­piness it will bring in the future.

^Housework is drudgery; but-it must he done by somebody, and had better he well done than ill done.

His Ma’s Plan.“Wliat do you want, hoy?”“Ma sent me after a tourist’s guide,” “Sure your mother sent you ?”“Oh, yes, and she wants to know the

name of the best hotel at Hong Branch and the price per day.”

“Going to the seashore?” *“Ho. sir. W e’re going out to spend

two weeks in the country at my Uncle William’s, but nia wants to post up on Long Branch and he able to tell every­body what hotel we stopped,atandhow expensive it was.”—Detroit Free Press.

“In the light of the present day, when slavery no longer exists in the land; when speech.is absolutely free in and out of congress, it is liard to be­lieve that,- during the Presidency of Mr. Van Buren and under the speaker­ship of Mi-. Polk; the. House of Repre­sentatives voted that ‘every petition, memorial, resolution, proposition paper touching or relating in.any way, or to any extent whatever, -to slavery or to the abolition, thereof shall, on presentation, without auy further ac­tion thereon, be'laid'on the table with-

| out being debated, printed or referred.’ —Blaine’s Twenty Years o f Congress.

Scroll Sawing and all kinds Job Work.— WE MAKE----

Cupboards, W ardrohM , O f ilk Safas, Sinks, S creen D oors,

And anything in that line. W o will also continue the Model Making. W e -will take contracts to manufacture any small articles in wood.

Shop back of Steam Grist Hill.

VERSCHIEDENHEIT.A Hartford girl twelve years old, be­

ing asked how far she was advanced in school, replied that she was “in geog­raphy on the second floor.”

Counterfeit (photographed) ten-dol- lar silver certificates are being circu­lated to some extent in Southern Wis­consin and Horthem Illinois. •

The goat is in danger of losing his' main article of diet. A n e w industry is the collection of tin cans for melting into window weights.

A traveler in Mississippi writes that it looks now as if that State would ri­val some of the great Western States in the matter of corn production this Year.

Mrs. Garfield has given the horse that Gen. Garfield rode at the battle of Chickamauga to O. C. Moore, of Kent, Who 'assisted the general to mount it the first time he rbSeifei - ___

It is said that more beer is drunk’ per capita in Milwaukee than in any other city, and that the suicide rate there is double that of any other city.

It is now claimed that it was old age and not the denuding the trees of their gum which killed miles and miles of spruce trees in Maine.

Many English pennies plated with silver have lately.heen passed at night upon careless Bostonians for American half dollars. -

San Francisco physicians have dis­covered 107 cases of leprosy among the hoodlum class o f boys who smoke cigar­ettes made by Chinamen.

A Dakota paper claims that it costs : >11,000 for a man to get a moderate outfit for farming in Iowa, but all a woman needs to run a homestead in Dakota is an oil stove, three hens and a rooster.

A valuable alum well has been’dis­covered on the farm of an old colored man near Cartersville, Ga., and he has been offered a large sum for the tract; but refuses to part with it.

The Austin, Texas, newsdealers have agreed to discontinue the sale of the Hew York Police Gazette, as its circu­lation was detrimental to the morals of the hundreds of students at the lo­cal universities and schools.

The old method of working out the road tax has been abandoned in Ohio, and roads are now repaired under con­tract and paid for by tax received from the county and township treasuries. The results are said to be excellent.

Oscar Wilde told a Liverpool audi­ence that while off the Pacific coast of the United States he saw a seal bask­ing on arock on whose backwas paint­ed the announcement of' a manufac-*-- J turer of tooth powder.

Leadville clergymen are becoming very particular. One o f ’em got mad at a funeral where he was to officiate,, because the master of ceremonies noti­fied him to begin byremarking: “How, old hoss, it’s your play.”

A young lady in'a Philadelphia sem­inary was heard to say that the hot weather had made her “sweat.” One of the teachers, a lady of the old school, reproved her in these words: “My dear, hear in mind that horses sweat, men perspire, and young ladies get in a glow.”

The city of Denver, Col;, is so high up in the mountains—7,000 feet above the level o f the sea—that housekeepers . find difficulty in cooking meat and veg­etables by boiling. The atmosphere is so light that water boils at a tempera­ture too low to thoroughly cook some kinds o f food.

Miss Prances Wall, o f Jackson coun­ty, has been engaged as one of a party of American school teachers by the government of the Argentine Republic, South America. The contracts are for five years at salaries of from §1,200 to §2,000. The party have already sailed from Hew York.

A forger who had fled from Turin to Hew York was detected by Ms .habit of stuttering, to which he was. not sub- ; ect except when angry. Thinking him the man they were after, the detectives worried him until his angry passions began to rise, and then they had Mm.

How many know that a horse gets up before and a cow gets up beMnd, and the cow eats grass from her and the horse eats to him? How many - know that a surveyor’s mark upon a tree never gets any higher from the ground, or what tree bears fruit With­out bloom?

Mrs. Judge Morris was passing through a field near Vicksburg the other day. when a vicious cow assailed her, knocked her down and badly gor­ed her. Another cow about 200 feet away saw what was in progress, drove the vicious animal away, and stood guard as faithfully and intelligently as a dog would have done, until help arrived.

Sunday evening, Consider Guild, aged 70, died in Georgetown, Ottawa county. He was one of the first party o f settlers who started the city of Grand Rapids, Ms father building the first house of Grand Rapids and the first frame house within a radius o f 100 miles of Grand Rapids.

Prosperity annually ruins nearly as many people as strong drink. The sud­den coming into the unaccustomed use of money, admission to a style of liv* ing only dreamed o f before, the ac­quaintance of men and women who have known the fashionable world all their lives, upset their common sense, fire their vanity, and plunge them into the, dissipation in ’past life that leaves them financially bankrupt and physi­cally wrecked. It requires a level head to withstand the enticements of pros­perity.

•A second electric boat forty-six feet in length and capable of carrying fifty passengers has just been launched on the Thames. -The motive force lies concealed in seventy boxes, each o f one-horse power, stored Tinder the floor of the boat, and at the end there is a Siemens dynamo, the spindle o f which is continued so as to form the screw, without intermediate gearing. A speed of nine miles an hour can be main­tained for six or seven hours, When the secondary batteries have to be replen- ished. There is no noise, or heat, o r ' sinoke, or smell, or waste, and the-ma- chinery takes up so little room that practically the entire boat is available for passenger accommodations.

The .hoy stood on the hack-yard fence whence dll but him had, fled. The flames that lit his. father’s bain, shone j ust above the shed. One hunch of crackers in his hand, two o.tbers.in his hat; with piteous .accent,laud he cried, “ I never thought o f that,” .A , hunch o f crackers to the .tail, o f .one Small dog he tied ; the sparks .flew wide, and red, and hot ; they Kt upon the brat; they fired the crackers in. his hand, and lit those jn his hat. .Then came a burst of rattling’! sound—the boy, where was -he gonef Ask .the winds that far around atrewed.bits.of meat and bone, and scraps o f clothes, and balls and tops, and nailB; and hodks. and yarn, thafelick o f that flreadful hoy that horned his father’s barn/

Berrien Co, Record.. I . i- .-i ft. -,. ' ,t ?_ -. ' .

JO H N 'S. HOLMES. Editor.

THIJRSbAY.^AUGUST 9. 1SS3.

The money raised by saloon tax in Wayne county,'III., is devoted to build­ing, side-walks.

There was a §300,000 fire in San Francisco. Saturday. Thirty buildings were destroy ed.

A case o f genuine Asiatic cholera has been discovered in a Chicago tene­ment house.

Sullivan pounded Slade about fifteen minutes for $7,000, and Slade took §5,- 000 for letting him pound. Profitablebusiness.

Proctor Knott, was elected Governor o f Kentucky on Monday by the visual Democratic majority o f from 40,000 to 50,000.

“No useless offices,” “No railroad passes,” “Down with the mileage steal.” were the shibboleths by which the pres­ent administration was hoisted into power in this state. Was there sinceri­ty in these cries? This state has no more, use for the office o f State Land Commissioner than it has for a Keeper o f the State Cats: but a reformer was inducted into the office, and the son of another reformer put into a clerkship that even the cheekiest o f Republicans had not dared to fill: before. A bill to abolish the office was promptly vetoed by the Reform Governor. The railway pass reform was especially pleasing to the grangers. The governor thought the pass system was very wrong, hut he wrote for a little red book o f 1,000 mile tickets and got it, and several state senators and representatives o f reform proclivities did the same, or borrowed the passes of others, The “ mileage steal” was worked for all it was worth, and the first efforts to draw 10 cent mileage are made by a reform commissioner appointed by Gov. Be- gole, and a reform deputy, who, as a member o f the legislature, was the chief advocate of the bill that made the place he holds. It is sad to think of it, but we'ure afraid the greenback- democrat reform combination is com­posed of very much the same sort o f flesh and blood as the rest of them.:— Detroit, Evening News.

Wonder how the President would feel i f some o f the noble red men of the Yellowstone district should con­clude to raise bis scalp.

AlreadyJbg ik-Oi fr liquor law in Ohio hay put" $1,494,200 into the treasury, and has closed 1,019 saloons, in seven­ty o f tlie eighty-eight counties in the state.

Another man of poor judgment, namen Rhodes and calling himself Cap­tain,, proposes to try the Niagara rap­ids. He lias a new patent life-preserv­er that he proposes to test in this way. He will meet Webb.

The pardons of Gov. Regole are be­ginning to speak for themselves. One of the cracksmen for whom he let down "the prison bars lias been at his old trade again, and still another o f the- liberated con victs is receiving the at­tention o f tlie authorities. People who are familiar with the cases for whom the pardoning has been resorted to express surprise at the governor’s blind lack of discrimination in his se­lection of men. He is as free with tlie state’s pardoning power as he was with tlie charity funds of the burnt district committee. The Michigan public has no reason to feel proud of an executive who turns with his two pardons a month to the criminal class­es, immured in prison because they de­serve to be, and tells them to “Draw on me!”—K alam azoo Teiegrahp.

A. fine piece of copper ore weighing 2 pounds 10 ounces was found in a field five miles north, of Marshall the other day, in the Lake Surperior drift.

The diphtheria lias been doing some desperate work at Jonesville recently, and one family has lost four children within a week. Tlie disease is o f a peculiarly malignant type.

George Hartsell o f Pokagon climbed the golden stair, last Thursday, by means o f a rope around his neck. Par­tially insane. He leaves a wife and children.

Up at Point Edward,near Port Hur­on, the sportsmen have some difficulty in -distinguishing the water rail and snipe from the mosquitos, and net­work hammocks are used as mosquito bars.—Keening News.

Sunday morning, in Flint, Deputy Sheriff John “Stephens arrested a man for disturbing the Free Methodist camp-meeting, when he Was sen upon and beaten by a crowd and was severe­ly hurt, The prisoner escaped.

On Judge Ramsdell’s fruit farm, Grand Traverse bay, plums and pears will be half a crop. The peaches are magnificent and will be the largest crop he has ever had.

Capt. Beffel o f the wrecking schoon­er Experiment fround near Picture rock, Lake Superior, an iron door from tiff steamer Superior, which was sunk in 1S54 with S20.000 in specie. Cling-, ingto the door were a dozen silver pieces.

A t Victor, the family of Mrs. Anna Dilts ate what were supposed to be mushrooms and were poisoned. Her two boys soon died from tlie effects and her dauhgter of 15 did not live much longer. The grandmother was sick in bed and did not eat of them.

Reuben Robinson, aged 40 years, a wealthy and highly respected saw­mill man, four miles north of Sturgis, was killed Monday while unloading logs. A log completely crushed his head.

S. V . Fowler, o f the Manistee Stand­ard, lias sued Young & Swart, o f the Labor Advocate, of the same place, for libel, laying his damages at $10,000. The libel lies iu the fact that the de­fendants published Fowler as having swindled the poor.

The anti-liquor league o f Hillsdale have brought a prosecution against C. H. Tail Valor, a saloon keeper, for keeping his saloon open after 9 o’clock p. nr. on the night of the 3d of July. A fter two days’ fight the jury disa­greed, standing three to three.

An Adrian colored lad, one clay last week, got away with an lS-pound wa­termelon in a single attack, on a prom­ise that i f he succeeded he would he rewarded with ten bananas. He is alive and healthy, and felt no melon- choly results,

Myrtie Peck, the famous little Men- don rider, whose clashing equestrienne feats have excited the admiration of thousands in this State, was thrown from her horse at Erie, Pa., on the 2d, and seriously, if not fatally, injured.— Evening News.

A novel sight was witnessed near St. Johns the other day, it being an old lady, whose age reached away up among the nineties, driving a reaper to cut the grain, while her two sons and their wives were following binding, and two very small boys were carrying the sheaves together to he set up in shocks.—Evening News.

The Saginaw Courier says that the firm of McArthur Bros., of East Sagi­naw, purchased of an old farmer of Nortlifield 100 blaclcwalnut trees, all grown on 120 acres of ground, paying $50 for each tree, or $5,000 for the lot.' They will scale a total of 9,000 cubic feet, and are to be shipped to Europe via Quebec.

V . L . Smith, of Lansing, 1ms begun the publication of a paper entitled “The Veteran.” It is to be the organ of the grand army o f the republic and the union prisoners of war association o f this State. Mr. Smith is a gentle­man of good character and has plenty o f ability, and the boys should encour­age his venture.

SOME OF THE GREAT M ILLIO N AIRES.

Leander Richardson.Russel Sage, who has probably been

the best friend Gould ever had on the street, loyal and unswerving, and ready at all times to be of assistance to the fullest extent of his ability, is said to be worth at the present moment some $30,000,000. G. P. Huntingdon is quoted at $20,000,000, and D. O. Mills at the same figure. During the big Vanderbilt and Gould telegraph deal, Mills lost $750,000 in a few horns. A sadder man was probably never seen around Wall street. He had followed a point given him by Vanderbilt him­self, according to common report, and he regarded the action of the great millionare as a tremendous piece of treachery. Mills went to bed that night a very angry man. G. I. Seney, who was in the Nickel Plate deal • against Vanderbilt, is quoted at $3,000,- 000, and Henry Villard at $10,000,000. The latter has enjoyed a rather curious career. He was formerly a newspaper man, and gentlemen in this calling sel­dom pan out capitalists up to the Vil- lard standing. At one time, I believe, he was the Washington correspondent of The New York Herald, and even then he used to drive a four-in-hand, and cut ajjood deal of a swell for a man on such a salary as that which he drew. In Washington, he be­came acquainted with Carl Schurz, and was very deep iu the counsels*of that statesman. When the Northern Pacific affair was launched, Villard had a prominent place in the scheme, and he stuck to the affair when its - stock was barely worth the paper on which it was printed. Finally, however, through that system of dexterous management which sometimes accomplishes strange things in Washington, the government removed its claim to an immense grant of land, and Northern Pacificwentboom- ing up toward the sky at a rate which very shortly elevated Henry Villard to the financial standing I have quoted. He was at one time appointed receiver of the Kansas Pacific railroad, and out of that office he came with considerable wealth added to his then not extremely plethoric bank account. When he first went into Kansas Pacific, a good many of Villard’s friends didsome tall talking to the effect that he was going to throw Gould. They afterward went to the extent of declaring that he had accom­plished his purpose, but, like very many other gentlemen whose financial tenden­cies in regard to Gould are of the Graeco- Roman style, Mr. Villard come out of that operation at the opposite end of the horn from that at which he had in­tended to emerge. There is hot so much ambition to wipe Jay Gould off the street--now as there used to be. It has come to be very well understood that the thermometer drops pretty quickly.for any man that gives, out his desire t6 destroy the wiry little operator, who, whatever cite may bq said about Mm, is undoubtedly the financial genius - of the age. — . ~ *___

LITIGOUS MSS. GAINES. V________ v.A. PEN-PICTUKE OF THE PKESEVEKIX»

niTTLE ODD UXDT.“ A d a ” in S t. P au l P ioneer Press.

I met Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, other day, and wondered, as X looked nt the pitiful—yet grotesquely pitiful-— old figure, what good it would do jter now could she really come into posses­sion of the millions q£ dollars which, are hers in name only, through, a long sought, but yot meaningless verdict. Poor old lady? Sliolias boon fighting for her rights so many years {hat X doubt not she will die when, all is won and no more battles remain to beionght. In tlie natural order of things slio will probably die before many years any­how, being nearly eighty, though she has apparently vitality and determina­tion enough to keep her alive until she is‘100. I believo it is the correct thing to compare this eccentric woman to Miss Flite in Bleak House—correspondents' having made the comparison until it is hackneyed—yet there is a marked difference between tho patient hopeful­ness of the waiter in. Jarndyco & Jam- dyce and tho dogged determination o£' Mrs. Gaines, She only waited and watched, the other has worked and fought. This incessant warfare has left its indelible traces on the lineaments of Mrs. Gaines, who always wears an eager, expectant look on her wrinkled face that is almost more painful to the beholder than an expression of utter hopelessness would be. She has a shrill, discordant, mirthless laugh that makes one. shiver, because it is notun- V '-' +lif; laugh, of a lunatic. She also has a certain am -ox- vtmvtcj. somehow sits ill upon her, and a stranger' is apt to puzzle himself with the query: “Is she a young old woman or an old young woman?” Her eyes are still blue, and her complexion fair and soft, in spite of the net-work of wrinkles which covers it. No one knows whether she has any hair of her own or not, for many years ago she put on a yellow, frizzled wig, and, judging from appear­ances, she has never taken it off. At least, no one ever sees her without it, nor does any one live who can swear to having seen this queer old Indy with­out her bonnet. She receives visitors in her bonnet, and goes bonneted to the dinner fable, the other boarders having a theory among themselves that the wig and bonnet are inseparably fastened to­gether; and that she cannot remove the one without the other. The first thing Mrs. Gaines looks for in the morning paper is the column wherein cosmetics and complexion washes are usually ad­vertised. If she finds anything new in that line offered for sale, she generally buys a bottle and discusses its merits or demerits before the other boarders with perfect frankness. She has tried so many “ beautifiers” on her dear old face, that it is a wonder her skin is as good as it is. She always carries a parasol, no matter what the weather may he, and I saw her one mid-winter day shielding her beloved complexion from the not over-warm rays of the sun, while tiny icicles were forming about ber eyes and nose. Tbe fact is, Mrs. Gaines was a noted beauty in ber day, and she has not forgotten it. Look in Mrs. Ellet’s book on The Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation, and you will find a picure of Mrs. Gaines as she looked when young. A trifle haughty and scornful, perhaps, is that pictured beauty, put it is real beauty, neverthe­less. _

THE FRENCH FIRE-EATER.Speaking of Henri Rochefort, a

writer from France says: “An odd face is his—long, thin, cranky; no heard except a light mustache and goatee; an eye lake the headlight of a locomotive, the white shining all around, a high brow and turbulent grayish hair, tumbling in cataracts over his eyes, ears and rising in a geyser on top.”

RUTHLESS THIEVES.Chinese thieves are capable of cut­

ting a man’s finger off in a orowd in or­der to steal a ring. They do this with those broad knives which, have sheaths simulating fans. .— * • • ■

PHACTS AND PHYSIC.The South Haven Messenger says

there is a splendid prospect of an abun-, dant crop of peaches this year in the Michigan peach belt.

Dudes who now chew the heads of their canes are advised by a medical editor to have the same of soft rubber instead of silver. It makes less wear and tear on the gums and helps the teeth to come through just as well.

I can recommend Ely’s Cream Balm to relieve all persons suffering from rose eokl and hay fever. I have been a great sufferer from these complaints and have used it. T have recommend­ed it to many of my friends for ca­tarrh, and in ail cases where they have used the Balm freely they have been cuied. T. K e n n e y , Dry Goods Mer­chant, Ithaca, N. Y .

Professor, to a young lady student: “Your Marie is very low, and you have only just passed.” Young lady: “ Oh, I am so glad.” Professor, surprised: “ 'Why so?” Young lady: “ I do so love a tight squeeze.”

Messrs. Partridge & Frain, Langs- burg, say: “Brown’s Iron Bitters gives remarkable satisfaction, doing all it is recommended to do.”

Cotton picking has commenced in Florida.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla is designed for those who need a medicine to purify the blood, build them up, increase the appetite, and rejuvenate their whole system. No other preparation so well meets this want. It touches the ex­act spot. Its record of forty years is one of constant triumph over disease.

T h ose T err ib le ITea<lachcs.I used “Favorite Remedy” for those

severe sick-headaches I spoke about, and it has entirely cured me. You, may use my name, if you choose, among those who so freely testify to. the value o f your medicine. I owe the restoration of my wonted good health to “Kennedy’s Favorite Reme­dy.” Sarah J. W oodruff, Newburgh, N. Y . The above is one of many let­ters of the kind received by Dr. David Kennedy, of Rondout, N. Y .

The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bour­bon, Ind., says: “Both myself and wife owe our lives to Shiloh’s Consumption Cure.” Sold by D. Weston. -

Are you made miserably by indiges­tion, constipation, dizziness, loss o f ap­petite, yellow skin ? Shiloh’s Yitalizer is a-positive cure. Price 10 cts., 50 cts. and Si. Sold by D. Weston.

Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy—a positive cure for catarrh, diphtheria and canker mouth. Sold by D. Weston.

“Hackmetack” alasting and fragrant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by D. "Weston. • a

Shiloh’s Cure will immediately re­lieve croup, -whooping cough and bron­chitis. Sold by D. Weston.

For. dyspepsia- and liver complaint, you have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shiloh’s Yitalizer. It never fails to cure. Sold by D. Weston.

A Nasal Injector free with each bot­tle of Shiloh’s Catarrh Remedy, Price 50 cents. Sold by D. "Weston.

Why will you cough, when Shiloh’s Cure will give immediate relief. Price, 10 cts.,-50 cts. and $1. Sold by D. Wes­ton. -- T lie T ru e Test.—3

I f a man is hungry within an hour more or less after a meat lie i's a dys­peptic, it shows his stomach is not able to dispose of what lie has eaten, but to eat again, and thus impose more work, is absurdity. Take Dr. Jones’ Red Clover Tonic which cures dyspepsia, and all stomach, • liver, kidney and bladder troubles.. It is a perfect tonic, appetizer, blood-purifier, a sure cure or ague and malaria di seases. Price Q cents, o f W . A.-Severson,- .'

The New Hampshire Legislature succeeded, last Thursday, in electing Austin T. Pike, United States Senator, for six years from the fourth of last March, on the42d joint ballot.

The estimate of lives lost by the earthquake in Italy is now placed at over S,000. A number have been exT humed alive, after having been buried in the ruins a number of days.

The killing of the informer Carey gives the Queen’s country more troub­le.- It proves the inability of the country to protect her traitors in her terrorism policy, and will have the effect to intimidate others who might become informers.

The remonitization o f silver and compulsory coinage act is proving a perfect bonanza to silver miners. There is a great amount o f sense in piling up the silver dollars in the treasury and bufttreasuries with no call for any of it.

President Arthur is receiving consid­erable of a boom for a re-election. He receives high praise for the straight forward administration of government, from all parties The worst thing the opposition have been able to say against him is that he went to Florida fishing, and didn’t catch an alligator.

’ Folk, the Tennessee defaulter, asks for a new trial. He complains of the ignorance o f the jury. W e thought there must be something wrong with the jury that will find a man guilty who has stolen so large an amount as Polk did. It is an act unheard of be­fore.

The Republicans of Ohio are making calculations on having about twenty thousand majority at the coming elec­tion. The working o f the Scott liquor law has been as much in their favor as was the decision against them last fall. Besides this, the campaign of the Dem­ocratic candidate for Governor has been well marked with mistakes of a ludicrous nature.

' A sample o f the great reform to he inaugurated by the Demogreenocratic combination so lustily promised in this State, is exhibited in the appointment o f John Devlin, a Democratic repre­sentative in the Legislature from De­troit, to the office of Deputy Labor Commissioner, by McGrath tbe Demo­cratic Commissioner. See. IS of Art. IV . o f the State Constitution reads as follows:

“No person elected a member of the Legislature shall receive any civil ap­pointment within this State, or to the Senate o f the United States, from the Governor,, the Governor and Senate, from the Legislature, orany other State authority, during the term for which he is elected. A ll such appointments and all, votes given for any person so elected for any such office or appoint­ment, shall be void. No member o f the Legislature shall be interested, di­rectly or indirectly, in any contract with the State, or any county thereof, authorized by any law passed during the time for which he is elected, nor for one year thereafter.”

. The explanation o f this appointment in opposition to the plain terms o f the Constitution, lies in the fact that Mr. Devlin, while in the Legislature at its last session was the champion of the hill-creating the office to which he was appointed, with a salary one-half larger

„ than .that received by the Governor. Mr. Devlin is a man of ability and good character, and there is no objec­tion to his holding the office and re­ceiving the emoluments excepting that the Constitution of the State says ex­pressly that he cannot.

Unlawful and Cowardly.The Detroit Free Free is badly exer­

cised over Attorney General Van Ri- -per’s opinion declaring Governor Be- gole’s attempt to remove Dr. J. C. Will-

-son unlawful. The Free Press virtu­ally acknowledges that the one-man power which Governor Begole attempt-

red 'to exercise, is wrong, but then in ithe eyes of the leading Democratic or­gan it is according to the “constitoo- shun.” This is not the first time that journal has planted itself up.on the

. “constitooshun” to holster up ontra- • ’geous acts o f political favorites. The ‘Attorney General has made it clear that the constitution and laws do not contemplate the removal of any public official at the will of the Governor. I f

-Governor Begole has; power to remove --Dr*"Willson withqut examination or . hearing; he certainly has the right to

. -remove every elective and appointive officer in. tlie state. The long and Short of it all is; The attempted re­moval o f Dr. "Willson was not only un­lawful, but -uowardly, and there is no set o f ' men who are better aware of that fact than the editors o f the Free

- Press,--Jansi»g. Republican.

Let No District Be Lost;On "Wednesday of last week Gover­

nor Begole added another batch of pardoned criminals to the brigade of state prison birds he lias turned loose since last January. This time he extended the executive clemency to a burglar, a robber and a man who as­saulted another with intent to kill. The Messenger has not boen informed that the governor returned the burglar his “kit o f tools,” but we suppose his excellency is too humane a man to ask one o f his friends to face the cold charity o f the world without the means of obtaining a subsistence. By the way, i f our criminal-pardoning gover­nor is real industrious this year, and he can keep his army of liberated cut­throats well in hand, at the proper time he can telegraph:

Let no doubtful district be lost for want o f votes; draw on me.

Chief Servant Begole.He must be a hardened, ungrateful

criminal indeed who would refuse to vote in the interest of the man who gave him an undeserved pardon.— South Haven Messenger.

Tlie Capitol.Our national capitoi lias no superior,

travelers say, in the world for beauty o f position and architectural grandeur. Seated on a hill ou the banks of the Potomac, surrounded by a rolling coun­try of picturesque scenery, it lias the combinations o f nature’s art added to the best of man’s skill to make it beau­tiful. Capitol hill is 90 feet high, and the capitoi itself, measuring to the top of the Indian girl who poses as a figure of justice on its dome and rises 2S7 feet above this, Las an elevation above the surrounding country of 377 feet. Every one knows how the outside of the capitoi looks, but few appreciate its dimensions. It covers 3 acres o f ground, and is 751 feet long and 324 feet wide. It is built of marble and sandstone, but the sandstone which was first used has been painted white, and the whole looks like an immense marble pile. The iron dome is o f the same glittering white—it is also paint­ed. This building lias already cost $13,000,000. The furniture, and other things in the interior will run this esti­mate into several hundred thousand more. In general, the expenditures have been well made, but not always so. Greenough’s statue of Washington, which stands in front o f the capitoi, is a parody on art and also a parody on the man it is intended to represent. Still it ought to be good. It cost, all told, about $43,000. It represents the father of liia country sitting as naked as Adam on a Roman chair, holding one hand in the air and a sword in the other. Allen G- Thurman, in looking at it one cold day, said: “See poor na­ked George Washington. He is cold to-day, and be is pointing with that up­lifted hand toward his clothes, which you know are in the patent office, and mutely asking for them.”

The Social Looseness.I f fathers and motherof every town,

village and city in the country would but: stop and notice the actions of a large number of young girls on the streets they would be astonished to ob­serve how much o f this so-called “catching on” business is going on. It is a practice that has caused more sor­row in the home circle, has ruined more girls, made more dishonorable graves—and the Lord only knows bow many suicides, through remorse, caused by a sober thought after what had transpired. it has brought: It is an evil that cannot be reached directly by law, and can only be wiped out by the Watchfulness of parents and guard­ians. Parents, look after your girls, instruct them in the ways of the world ; give them to know the dangers of mis­guided youth; arm them with wisdom; correct their judgment on social mat­ters and see to it that they are not led estray in an unguardedmoment.—leg - onier Leader.

STATE ITEMS.Ten dollars fine is levied for starting

dog fights at Capac.A Cadillac quack has a sure cure for

“colery an phantom.”The Allegan county pioneers will

picnic at Plainwell on the 15th.Sojourner Truth is seriously ill at

her home in Battle Creek.Adrian millers paid $1.16 for old

wheat at Dover recently.Canandaigua is so well off that it

does not support a saloon. It used to have four.

A n attempt is being made to have Gen. Hancock open the State Fair, at Detroit.

A Sturgeon bay fisherman tells an awful story o f haying seen an enor­mous sea serpent in the bay.

A Ebinger, a merchant of Roscom­mon, was accidentally shot a few days ago and seriously injured.

The Hillsdale and Lenawee county farmers’ picnic association meets at Devil’s Lake on the 22d.

Prof. C. TV. Stone, of Battle Creek, who was killed in the Carlyon disaster, was a cousin to President Arthur.

A party o f berry pickers in Otsego county found a cute little bear cub and concluded they would take it home for a pet, when tlie old hear suddenly ap­peared on the scene and they dropped the cub and left without ceremony.

Key West has eighty-one fcjar fac­tories, employing 5,000 hand: tag the year ending June 80l tured 75,000,000 cigars.

tad dur- anufae-

Hearer to Hature.—3jNature lias made her iawhvith us,

which we must obey or suffefthe pen­alty. This penalty is oftenui.ng or throat trouble, which leads qi to' con­sumption. Every man beliwes con­sumption incurable. People ifive been educated to this belief which j proven incorrect by Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure, which is nature’s great hilpmate, and it cures consumption and ql throat and lung dise;ises speedily :jid per­manently. Trial bottle free, <f W. A. Severson.

B u clian an P rices Cujrent.Corrected every Wednesday by Bhueoke A

RrdiiAHDs. These llgtires represent tic prices paid by dealers, unless otherwise speeded.Wheat, per bushel trad)........................... : 05@1 00Wheat, per bushel (new)..........................; 0(I1®1 03Flour, patenc, pci-barrel, selling.............. o 80Flpilr,red,perharrel,selling.................... li 00Clover Seed, per bushel............................ 9 00Timothy Seed, porhnshel........................ 8 00Corn.perhnshel........................................ 40Oats, perhuslicl................ 30Bran, per ton, selling............................... H 00Fork, live, per hundred............................. 0 00Pork, dressed, per hundred...................... 0 BOPork, mess, per pound,...................... asCorn Meal, bolted, per hundred, selling.. 1 50Plaster, per barrel, selling........................ a 50

-llay, tame, per ton................................... 8 00Hay, marsh, per ton.................................. 5 0Q@8 ooSalt, flue, per barrel, selling..................... l soSalt, coarse, per barrel, selling............... l goBeans, per bushel....................................... 1 (15@1 75Wood, 18 Inch, per cord.............................1 50@1 75Wood, 4 l'eet, per cord............................... 3 50@4 00Butter, per ponud...................................... 12)4Eggs, per dozen............................. 121,;Lardjpcrpounn....................................... 12Tallow, per pound...................................... 7J*Honey,perponna.................. .’................... l i

.....- '; J°®Brick, perthousand, selling........ ............ vOUHides, green, per ponnd............................ 5@7Hides, (try, per pound................. *............ 11P e lts ........................................................... 15®52Mackerel, Ho 1, per pound,Belting......... 10White Pisli,perponud,selling................ 10Potatoes, new............................................. 05(^40W ool, washed..................................... 20®35Wool, unwashed.................................... 18®24

Woodstock College,W O O D S T O C K , O N T A R I O .

Nineteen Professors and Teachers. Endow­m ent. Total expenses from SflSO to $22i> p or annum. In every respect a ltrst-clsiss school. Careful oversight.

I . COLLEGIATE COURSE.XT. LADIES' COLLEGE.

H I . COMMERCIAL COLLEGE.IV . PREPARATORY, O It BOY’S SCHOOL.

F or catalogue containing fu ll inform ation addressRev. N. WOLVERTOX, It. A., Principal.TkIVORCBS.—N o publicity ; residents o f any JJ State. Desertion, Non-Snpport. Advice and applications fo r stamp. W . H . LE E, A tt'y, 339 Broadway, N. Y.

TO A D V E R T IS E R S .—Low est rates tot ad­vertising in 9 7 “ g o o d newspapers sent

free. Address GEO. P. ROWELL & CO., 10 Spruce St., N. Y. 27m

M c e o f Letting Drain Contract.PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that on

the 25th day o f August, 18S3,nt n ine o 'c lo ck in the torelioon , at the house o f J. H . Hess, in th e tow nship o f Buchanan, in tho coun ty o f B en ien , I w ill he ptesent tor the purpose ot letting contraols tor the construction o f p or­tions thirteen and fourteen o f the south branch or M adron's lak e drain, the sam e running across the north part o f the northeast quar­ter o f section 21 in said township, to the low ­est responsible bidder, reserving n r igh t to re ject all bids. P lans w ill be given at the tim e oi letting contracts.

Dated this 4th day o f August. 1SS3.L. IV. SPAOLDING.D rain Com m issioner lo r the township o f Bu­

chanan. 27t3

" B E A T T Y ’ S ORGANS, 27 stops,10 setsreeds — nnly <90. P janos §125 up. Rare

Holidoy inducement.] ready. Write or call onBEAT- Y.WasHiBgcon, M.J 41y

Sostli Bend, Ind.Tliis hospital is trailer the auspices o f the Sisters

o f the Holy Cross. It is situated on Howell Heights in the midst o f healthful and pleasant sur­roundings. The building is commodious and sub­stantial, roomy, airy, clean and pleasant. The most skilful and successful physicians and surgeons are employed, and the host o f nurses furnished. Special attenlion given to the treatment of surgical

-diseases and those poculiarto women and children. Terms reasonable. Address

SISTER DIRECTRESS,Soutii Bend, Ix d .

business now before the’ public. §4: b I You can make more money faster U L S ? I at work for us than at anything else. Capital not needed. We will start you. $12 a clay and. upwards made at home by the industrious. Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Mow is the time. You can work in spare time only or give your whole time to the bus* iness. You can live at home and do the work, ^ o other business will pay you nearly as well. Ho one can fail to make enormous pay by engaging at once. Costly outfit and terms free. Money made fast, easily and honorably. Address Thue & Co., Augusta Maine 39yl

Notice oi Commissioners.First publication, July 5,1883.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, Comity o f Berrien—ss Probate Court tor said County. .

Estate ofDomandigo Spenncttu, deceased.The undersigned having been appointed by the

Judge of Probate ot said County, Commissioners on Claims in tbe matter o f said estate, and six months from the 29th day of June, A, D. 1883, hav­ing been allowed by said Judge o f Probate lo all persons holding claims agamst said estate, in which to present their claims to us for exam­ination and adjustment: Notice is hereby given, that we will meet on the 5th day of September, A. D. 1SS3, and on tbe 2!)tli day of December, A. D. 1S83, at 10 o’ clock A . M. o f each day, at the office o f Thornton Hall.*1 in the Village o f Buchanan, ill said countv-, to receive and examine such claims.

Dated Jiine 29, A . D. 1883.THORNTON HALL, )JOHN C. DICK, (-Commissioners. ALFRED RICHARDS, S

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Star Foundry,Buchanan, Mich.,

I keep in stock and am agent for:

The D eering Improved Bind­er, ($200.)

The Eureka Mower.. The Crown Mower.The Hopkins Mower.The Cooper Engine, traction

and common.The Cooper Vibrator.The Stevens'Engine.

' TheStevens Separator, apron machine.

The Advance Separator, (Vi-

The Victor Double u i o v b i Huller.

Kemp’s Manure Spreader.Three kinds of Horse Rakes.One Minneapolis Binder,

($175.)The Lansing Spring-tooth

Wheel Harrow. “Tlie Monitor Grain Drill. .

Plows, Double and Single Shovel Plows, Harrows, Scrapers, and a greater variety of Plow Bep&irs and Shovel Plow Blades than anybody else in this State.

B. T . MORLEY.

AYER’S PILLS.A large proportion o f the diseases which

cause human suffering'result from derange­ment o f the stomach, bowels, and liver. A yer ’s Cath artic Pil ls act directly upon these Organs, and are especially designed to cure the diseases caused by their derange­ment, including C onstipation , In d iges­tion , Dyspepsia,* H eadache, Dysentery, and a host o f other ailments,, for all of which-, they are a safe, sure, prompt, and pleasant remedy. The extensive use o f these P ills by eminent physicians in regular prac­tice, shows unmistakably the estimation in which they are held by the medical profes­sion.

These P ills are compounded o f vegetable substances only, and are absolutely free from calomel or auy other injurious ingredient.

A Sufferer fr o m H eadache w r ite s : “ A y e r ’s P ills are invaluable to me, and

are my constant companion. X liave been a severe sufferer from Headache, and your P ills are the ouly thing I could look to for relief. One dose will quickly move my bowels and free my head from pain. They are the most effective and the easiest physic I have ever found. It is a pleasure to me to speak in their praise, and I always do so when occasion offers.

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' A specia l treatm ent fo r years.. H e Is n o t a boastful, ignorant pretender, b u t a n educated, physician, seeking to d o g ood , b y d evoting Ills talent and energies t o tb e treatm ent o f a class

- o f m aladles-thatbave been w itb h im a lo n g and patient study. T o b e ab le t o trea t snccesstol- ly chronic diseases It requires that a physician should b o a sound, thorough sch olar in the art o f science and m edicine generally. H e should give b is entire tim e to then: study, b e thorough In h is Investigations and have a lo n g and varied ex p erien ce . U r. B rew er c la im s t o w ork n o wonders or to do any m ore than an y w e ll educated p h y sic ian can d o w h o d evotes M s Whole tim e to the study an d treatm ent o f chron ic diseases exclu sively an d has h a d h is m an y years o f experience. F or years D r. Brew er has v isited the places h e n ow Visits, a n d has obtained hisTeputfttion 'by bein g honest in his dealings, cand id in h is op in ion s and reasonable in M s charges. Those w h o are afflicted are invited t o eaU, investigate and d ecid e f o r them selves. I t Win cost nothing to d o so. Address a ll letters to F . B . BREW FR, At- D ., L o c k B o x 350, CHICAGO. ILIj. . . . . . . . ... . ■ 1 .

Dr. F. B. BEE W EE w ill be a tN iles :B on d H ou se , on Saturday, tho 4th o f A ugust. A tU a p orte , M yeis Hou?e,- Saturday, the 2a o f June, and Saturday, the.21st o f Ju ly.

Berrien Go. Record.THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 ,1SS8.

B itetcila t the Po3t-0£Bco>atBuchan«n,M3c'h.)aB Second-Class Matter.

SUBSCRIBERS’ RECEIPTS.We wish all oarsntmcrifcors to Be particularto

notice the date against their names upon thelrpa- pers, and see that the accountls right. Wttalways give receipts Tor payments made o n Subscription and this slip should correspond with the laat date on your receipt,and denote the ttm eto which the snbscriberhas paid. I f there Is any mistake we w ishtohenotlnedatonce. Neverwaitm orethan two wcek8forthe date to hechangedanerpayment sm ade.

CLOTHING,

H A TS AND CAPS.We have taken more than nsnal pains in the sc.

cctlon o f onr stock for Spring trade in these de­partments. Onr assortment in quality, style and price Is superior to any offered in the county. For" an explanation call in. No trouble to show goods and quote prices.

Special Bargains.G E O . W . N O B L E .

Camp Meeting doses to-day.

It is reported that frost was seen in th is place Monday mornirg.

T hese cool nights are not the test for the development o f the corn crop.

Y ou can get tickets for the excursion to Michigan City o f Scott & Brown­field.

Mits. A . L. Y ynn, of Niles township, died August 1, o f consumption, aged 35 years.

The question of an iron bridge across the river at Niles is to be voted on Saturday.

The Ohio Paper Company expects to have its mill in operation in Niles by about September 1.

Charley Treat is now “ at home” in his fine new house on the corner of Oak and Fourth streets.

The posters, two-sheet, announcing the Soldiers and Sailors’ Reunion at St. Joseph, are out.

The bridge contractors have prom­ised to be here next Monday to com­mence work upon our bridge.

There will be an ice cream social at Dayton ball, Dayton, on Saturday even­ing, to which everybody is invited.

Cider.—Mr. Stephen Baker, at Bak- ertown is now making cider and will pay the highest price for cider apples.

Mr . D. Gitchel is about to erect a new store building COxSO, at the corner of Third and Main streets, Niles.

I f you want to have some fun with Lou. Boyle just give him a live mouse. He will squeal louder than any woman in the countv.

Y hex you go up front street, on the south side, you may now walk on a new brick walk at the front o f the Devin property.

The premiums o f the Northern Ber rien county and Michigan Lake Shore agricultural society for tire Benton Harbor fair aggregates $4,200.

L ost, between the post-office and Geo. IV. Fox’s residence, a five dollar hill. The finder will please leave it at the post-office. Ed . Bartmess.

The Record is. informed that Prof. J. A. Jones, of this place, who lias Been teaching in Yalkerton, Ind., the past two years, has secured the school at Galien.

The teachers in Berrien Springs schools for the ensuing year are Prof. J. J. Bronson, the Misses Lillie Howe, Estelle Steiner, Rose L. Mears and Minnie Perkins.

The noon train on the Narrow Gauge railroadhas been abandoned on account o f needed repairs to the road requiring the services of the locom otive and road cars.

Spencer & Barnes are running their factory eleven hours per day, and Mr. Barnes informs the R ecord that sixty days steady run, without any more orders, would not make them even

Excursions down the St. Joseph river in skiffs are quite popular this summer. Hardly a week passes but one Or more such parties go down the river. Fun? That is what they all call it.

L ost.—A fine lace handerchief was lost on Sunday morning, between the residence of Geo. Howard on Lake street and the Christian church. The finder will please leave the same at Mr. Howard’s.

The G. A . R. Post of Kalamazoo has appointed a committee to arrange for a special train to go to the reunion at St, Joseph, on the 22d, 23d and 24th, either by way of Grand Junction or Niles.

Mr . Scharfenberg, a German citi­zen, was run over by the cars, at the depot in Niles, Tuesday night, and kill­ed. He was walking upon the track on his way home, and the “ pusher” en­gine backed over him.

A new’ Battle Creek grocery firm de­liver their goods by bicycle express. I f they did as much business as the Buchanan grocers it would worry their bicycle some to do the delivering.

The woman wrho comes down town with one of those new fangled Mother Hubbard night dresses on makes of herself the laughing stock o f the street. They look as i f an application o f pat­ent liver pad would be good for them.

A l a r g e number of Buchananites went to camp meeting Sunday, and re­port the gathering not so large as is usual. The charge of twenty-five cents admission kept away alarge number of those who go for curiosity’s sake.

Two youths started for camp meet­ing at about eight o’clock Saturday evening and brought up in Daily, when they first learned where they were. Take a map with you when you go out o f town next time, hoys. ■

Every school teacher in Berrien county should make it a point to at­tend the teachers' institute, to he held in Benton Harbor, commencing Mon­day, August 13, and closing the Friday afternoon,following. There will be no tuition or enrollment fee.

L ist of letters remaining uncalled for in the post-office at Buchanan for the week ending Aug. 9 ,1SS3: Mary Marsh, Dr. Francis Pillchody, Chester T.Upham, John Feelty. Cards—Mr. A. Brnnnell, 2, John Gagle.

L . P. A l e x a n d e r , P. M.

A n opinion from . Attorney General Yan Riper pronounces the St. Joseph school board an illegal body, hence all its acts are invalid, two trustees hav­ing been, elected when the law provides for only one.—Post & Tribune.

Mr . 0 . H. CnASE, editor o f the Elk­hart Daily Review gave the Record a pleasant call this morning. He started from Elkhart Tuesday morning for a boat ride down the St. Joseph river to the lake, a ride o f about 100 miles, camping by the way.

T he story by the Niles Democrat, of the Jersey cow that gave thirty pounds of milk per day, sounds pretty well un­til you hear from John M. Rouch, who has a cow’ that gives 43 pounds per day. She is half Durham, and is run­ning to grass and with no extra care.

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Next week the Record will con­tain a serial story in forty-two chap­ters, that will be o f great interest to residents of the village o f Buchanan. Don’t fail to read it.

The examination of Madison Dal- rymple, wrho was brought from Dakota last w’eek uy Deputy Sheriff Palmer, for adultery, took place in Niles on Monday, when be was bound over in the sum of 8500, and failing to secure the bondsmen be went to board at the Hotel de Clarke* at Berrien Springs, for a whiles

Th e Knights Templar are now in camp at St. Joseph. Those attending from here are Sir Knights N . Hamil­ton, C. S. Black, S. P. High, C. C. High, S. A . “Wood, J. M. Rouch and Steve Scott. Aaron Miller, R. McCumber and H. C. French have gone to help them have a good time.

Three new fonts o f type went into the Record job Toom cases last Fri­day, at an expense o f $87. The Rec­ord is hound to keep up with the styles, and'to keep its job department the most complete o f any in this part of the State? Hence these frequent ad­ditions of new type.

Edwin P ugh, a St. Joseph lad aged nine years, was drowned while bath­ing in the St. Joseph river at Grand Marr,a short; distance above St. Jo­seph, last Friday.

Some fine bills announcing the fire­men’s tournament at Niles, are out. It is very feebly announced on the same hill that the fair will he held at the same time.

Died.—I n Carroll City, Iowa, July 28,1883, Mr. Bruce M. Quint, o f chol­era morbus, aged 46 years and 21 days. Mr. Quint was formerly a resident o f this county.

We have a lot of old type, excellent for babbit metal, that we will sell for fifteen cents per pound. I t cost fifty- eight cents. W e make a great reduc­tion for quick sales and cash payments

W e regret to learn that Mr. A . C. Day, one of our oldest and highly res­pected citizens, was stricken with par­alysis on Saturday morning. A t latest advices he was improving.

T he Benton Harbor papers complain "because the village authorities pur­chased a street sprinkler at an expense o f over S300 and then do not use it. What unreasonable fellows.

The citizens; o f Paw Paw have been; having something, o f a contest to re­tain the Oak park Seminary that is located there, but came out ahead and the seminary will remain at Paw Paw Am ong the teachers and lecturers is Prof. *J. .F. Jordan, late o f Buchanan schools, who occupies the position of’

. principal.

South Bead*

As They Come and Go.Subscribers are requested (o keep

this column filled by reporting the names of comers and goers.

Mrs. Ella Rea starts this morning for her new homfe, Mentone, Ind.

Miss Zella Fox, of Sturgis, Is here for a visit with relatives.

Mrs. Fuller, of Boston, is visiting with Dr. Berrick and family.

M r.Alleh Sparks is visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H . Roe returned last evening from their trip to Nebraska.

Mrs. S. M. Bernard is enjoying a visit by her two sisters from Peru, Ind,

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Croxon, of Chica­go, are visiting relatives in Buchanan.

Mr. W . Trenbeth returned yesterday morning from his ramble o f three weeks.

Frank Johnson, son of Sheriff Zacli, o f South Bend, is visiting friends in Buchanan.

Miss Nellie Frame, of is visiting in this place, the guest of Miss McMullen.

Miss M. Healy, from Loda, 111., is a brief visit with her friends, Mr. aid Mrs. P. N. Weaver. f

Miss Priscilla Rynearson is visithg with her brother. Geo. Rynearson, i£ar Paw Paw. |

Manny Matchett .returned Frday from Battle Creek, where he liasjieen employed on the new street railway.

Mr. Carson Gyer returned thisjnorn- m g from Valparaiso, Ind, wlere he has been attending school. ,

Geo. Montgomery returned Tuesday from Beloit, W is, where he bis been at work the past three months/

Miss Jessie Carnahan, of Summit, 111, well known in this pbce,isthe guest of her cousin, Mrs. Fm ic Whit­man,

Mr. .J. V . Phillips, of Nek Buffalo, was iu town Monday, as attorney in a case before Esquire Dick, He gave the R ecord office a call.

Mrs. De Bunker has beei ruralizing in the “bend of the river”;the last two weeks, and returns fully convinced that that is a good place to live.

Miss Cook, daughter o f the editor of the Milford, Mass, Journal, who has been visiting with her aunt, Mrs. C. S. Black, the past month, returned, Tues­day, to her home.

Mr . Geo. H. R ough’s youngest son, in unhitching the horse from the car­riage, Sunday evening, left one of the breeching straps snapped. Thinking he had the horse free, the boy started the horse, which became frightened at the dropping o f the thills and ran away, breaking the carriage top badly and slightly injuring the hoy. Mr. Rough estimates the damage at about $ 100.

The Michigan Central Company will sell tickets to the reunion at St. Joseph for $1.25 the round trip from this place, good for four days, from August 22, Besides this the Company will run special excursion trains on Thursday from Battle Creek on the mainline and from Centreville or Three Rivers on the air line, and one over the South Haven division, from Kalamazoo. Specially low rates will he charged on these trains. We expect to be able to announce the excursion ratesjrom this place next week.

The"estimated cost, by the chief en­gineer. of the improvement of tbeNew Buffalo harbor, is $150,500, for which only $5,000 was appropriated in 1SS2, no part o f which has been used. The engineer adds: “The appropriation of 1SS2 can be o f but little use, for it is insufficient to produce any material benefit to the harbor or its commerce. It is safe to say an equal appropriation annually would never complete the work.” This probably means that the government will not do* anythiug for this harbor.

THE&mnty Commissioners of St. Joseplpo , Ind, have called a special electil of Portage township tax pay­ers fer September ID, for the purpose of vcing on the question of raising a b o p -o f fifty cents to the $100 val- uati/i o f the township for the exten­sion^ the Vandalia railroad to South Ben. the bonus to he paid in two equal anijial installments. There is little dopt but that the question will pass byt large majority, and as the other townships through whicli the road is tepass have already acceded to the re­tirements of the road, the vote of Brtage will practically decide whether fe road is to be built to South Bend

not.

The Michigan Street M. E. Church of South Bend give an excursion to Michigan City each year, usually go­ing by way o f Laporte. Last year over 1,500 persons went. This year the Southern railroad wanted too high a price for their train, and the church has made arrangements with theMich- igan Central to run a train by way of Nile3 and this place. The train will leavo South Bend to-morrow, Friday, morning at eight o’clock. Passengers W’ill be taken at Niles and Buchanan. Fare from each place $1 for the round trip,' children under twelve CO cents. The party will have a ride on the lake, a visit to the prison, and have a good time generally.

one, which should be kindly pointecl out by the Inspector. I ‘ am confident that we have'a better class of teachers in our schools, and consequently better schools than for many years. Teach­ers are taking more pains to qualify themselves for their w’ork than before.* More educational journals are read, more institutes and normal schools at­tended, and a more general prepara­tion than there has been before for years.

There are seventy-two school-houses reported in good condition, and ten un­fit for use. Ninety-six schools report­ed as having a uniformity of text books, and these generally the Harper’s series. Ninety Schools are furnished with a dictionary, and only forty-five with other apparatus, i. e. maps, globe, &c. It is one great lack of our school-hous­es that they have not sufficient appara­tus. A teacher should not be compell­ed to work without tools any more than any other workman.

The total amount of per diem com­pensation, reported by Inspectors for their services, is $243.25; that of the Examiners, $192.

In conclusion, let me express the hope and belief that the succeeding year will he fruitful of still greater and better results than the preceding one has been.”

Burglars.—Burglars entered D. S. Brownfield’s house Tuesday night and stole his watch and chain from his vest, which he had left hanging on the bed post, and his pocket hook contain­ing $2. This was taken from under his pillow, which would indicate that Dennis sleeps pretty soundly. The burglars cut the wire screen from the pantry window of Levi Redden’s house and set what, dishes they could reach out’ on the ground, and drank the milk Levi had for coffee, hut nothing else is missing.

There! That is what we catch for being an editor. Mr. Wm. Burrus stopped)us on Front street Friday af­ternoon, and would listen to notliiDg hut that we take a card of fine honey he had just brought to town. Of course we hated to do so, hut could not stand a quarrel with Mr. Burrus. He is the largest.

Y e find the following in an exchange: The Niles Firemen’s Tournament

Association will hold a meeting at that city September 26 to 28. The exercises o f the first day include a reception and grand street parade. There are 12 sets o f prizes, aggregating $2,230, including a sweepstakes, open to the world, of $900 in two prizes o f $700 and $200. Reduced rates will be given on all rail­roads. Mills H. Landon, of Niles, is secretary.

Mr . W ill Reese, of Pipestone, came very near, losing: his' buildings and crops Tuesday by the carelessness of allowing his children to have access to the match box. His grain and straw stacks are so located as to nearly sur­round his barn, and Tuesday morningthe children built a bonfire in the straw

\under a shed adjoining the barn. Gur reported found the whole family out with pails fighting fire for dear life.

Charred . — Henry L. Pitcher, of Benton Harbor, was on the train that was wrecked at Carlyon, N. Y., a few days ago, and escaped unhurt. He was once run ovel by a steam fire engine and terribly mangled, was one o f the passengers on the ill-fated steamer Hippocampus that carried many to watery graves, and was once in a Chi­cago elevator when it fell five or six stories. So says the Palladium!

M a r t y n e , the humorist, elocution­ist, mimic and. character artist, assist­ed by Maud Martyne, a fine soprano singer,, Emily F . Evans, elocutionist, dialect and character reader, &c., and Master Eddie Evans, the champion In­fant drummer, will give an entertain­ment in Rough's Opera House, Satur­day evening o f this week, which, we have no doubt, will please all who may attend. Admission 25 cents; children 15 cents. •

Th e following item which is going the rounds o f the State press origina­ted in one o f the Niles papers:

“High water will prevent the new bridge over the St. Joe at Bertrand- from being ready Aug. 15, the contract­ed time. The material is on hand.. The new bridge at Buchanan is to be' done Sept. 15. These take the place of those swept out early in the season.”

It is true the prospects for our bridge are not the most flattering, but we think the Niles paper has this a little mixed. The dates should be transposed.

Sh e r i f f Cl a r k e has a crankin jail. H e is a young looking man, ugly as the old nick; paces up and down his cell like a-caged hyena and refuses to eat. He tore a strip from his blanket one day last week and proposed to hang himself, hut when he learned that the- jailor would not interfere hut would rather enjoy the sport, he changed Ms mind on the hanging business.

Our neighbor over in Indiana, South Bend, seems to he infested with a set of dead heats who have plenty of money but won’t pay their debts. The Tri­bune of last Saturday contains two ad­vertisements for bids for accounts due for house rent against this class, one being against B. Frank Shively, editor o f the Independent Era, a greenback paper, who owes $12, and the other is Joe C. Pretzel, a dealer in walnut logs and lumber, who owes $79. I f the house owners o f'th at city should all. follow- the example o f these two, the

’ Tribune will have to enlarge to accom­modate the advertisers.

The annual meeting of the chairmen Of the several township hoards of School Inspectors was held in Berrien Springs Tuesday. The only business before the meeting was the election of a member of the County Board of Ex­aminers for a three years term, to suc­ceed H. O. Crosby. Theballot resulted in the unanimous choice of Mr. Cros­by. The meeting then adjourned, and was followed by a joint meeting of the Board o f Examiners and Inspectors, which was made the occasion c f a free discussion of a number of subjects per­taining to schools, including sugges­tions to both Inspectors and Examin­ers. Before adjournment Mr. Crosby read the following report of his work for the year, as Secretary of the Board of Examiners, and statistics gathered by him:

“In making this report I have to rely largely upon the reports of chairmen of the several townships which have been sent in. 1 have tried in every way I could to get reports from all the townships, but have failed in my en­deavor. The townships o f New Buffa­lo, Lake and Royalton did not report at ail, while reports from Berrien, Bainbridge, Galien and Niles were so meager as to be o f little value. Some of these men excused themselves from visiting the schools and reporting as they ought, on the ground that it would cause the township so much expense, while others simply neglected it. It is of the utmost importance, as the law now stands, that every Inspector should do his whole duty regardless of cost. Every school should be visited at least twice each term, and full, complete and unbiased record of its condition, progress, &c., made on the blanks fur­nished for that purpose.

There are in this count}’ at present 140 school districts exclusive of the city of Niles. 139 of these employ but one teacher at a.time, while ten em­ploy two or more, and are termed grad­ed schools. Only about one-half of them, however, have a thoroughly grad­ed course of study. To supply these schools about201 teachers are required. There are in the county 254 legally ■qualified teachers, hence the great cry which some of the school officers raised last winter, that the Exalniners were cutting off the supply of teachers, was without foundation iu fact. The trouble was, they wished to hire cheap teach­ers, and they were hard to find. Y e hope and trust that the day of cheap teachers—cheap in more senses than one—is past.

During the year the Board of Exam­iners have held eight public examina­tions, two regular, of two days each, and six special, of one day each, In dif­ferent parts of the county. There have been present at these examinations something oVer 400 applicants. Of this number 206 have received third grade, nine second grade, and five first grade certificates. About 45 special grade certificates have been granted, all hut twelve of which were replaced by high­er grades at the public examinations, The Board have thought it best in some cases to give special certificates to young and inexperienced teachers, thus giving them liberty to teach only in a certain district for one term only, in order to give them a trial to see how they will do.

The Board have gradually raised the standard of qualification necessary to receive a certificate, and expect at each examination that an applicant shall do better than at a preceding one.- The average per cent, required- at present is 95 for first grade, 85 for second grade, and 75 (not to fall below 50 in any one branch) for third grade. The examin­ations have been mainly written, it be­ing found impossible to examine a large class, orally to any great extent. Great care has been taken by the Ex­aminers to treat all applicants alike, and to examine and mark all papers correctly, fairly and impartially. Well aware are we that mere ability to an­swer questions does not constitute a good teacher, and in judging of an ap plicant’s qualifications many other things should be, and are. taken into consideration, chiefly his reputation and record in the school-room. Here again we see the necessity of the In­spectors doing their duty and reporting fairly to the Examiners o f the teach­er’s work in the school-room.

No teacher's certificate has been re­newed, revoked, or" suspended. The secretary has not been called upon to visit any schools and settle existing’ difficulties as provided by law. Very, few schools in the county have had any trouble during the past year, and in those few instances, where trouble did arise, it was more the fault of par­ents than of teachers, so far as I was able to judge.

Most of the schools are reported as doing good work and being conducted

-well, the exceptions being mainly where young and inexperienced teachers were employed. The secretary spent about two weeks in making voluntary visits among the schools-of the county,, going into about twenty different, schools, and with three or four exceptions found the teachers doing well. There are sqme faults to be seen in almost every

Locals.*

E K O ai B E R lt lE N C E N T R E .The first annual meetiug of the Ber­

rien Centre Elevator Association was held last Monday evening, August 6, and resulted in the election of the fol­lowing officers for the ensuing year: President, D. H. Roher; Secretary, II. S. Robinson; Treasurer, Jacob Brenner; Chairman o f Board of Trustees, Tlios. Mars. The elevator is rapidly nearing completion.

A number of new dwellings will be commenced in a few days in our village.

Harvest- is all nicely secured. IVheat that lias so far been threshed yields from 30 to 50 per cent, better than was expected or. hoped for. Corn looks very much better than at the same period last year. Oats is an extra fine crop.

Camp meeting seems to he unusually interesting and promising of good re­sults, under the eamest'labors of Elder Harrison, the “hoy preacher” of Indi­ana. Many converts have so far been gained.

Elder J. (heaver made his parting address to the congregation at Maple Grove on last Lord’s day. W e regard him as a very earnest, true, and fear­less minister o f God’s Word, and hope he may return to fill his accustomed place among us.

It is sincerely hoped that the teach­ers of our township will all attend the County Institute, as excellent instruct­ors have been secured, and the work given will he of unusual merit and value to all.

Miss Ella Bugbee, of Goodland, Ind., is here to spend a few weeks among old time friends. Much will she enjoy the visit among former patrons and pupils.

Mr. Sweezy and wife are here from Crawford county, Ohio, visiting with neighbors Crall, Hess and McCollougli, his brothers-in-law. ;

Prof. W. E. Peck qnd M. A. Peck are as liappv as young .fathers can well he. The Professor’s w ife presented him with a very nice little daughter, on July2dr and her sister, M. A. Peck’s wife, gate him a son, on the 31st ult. Capt. J. E. Peck, the grandfather of these little people, is sojourning in the land of the Dakotas.

Mr. Jarvis, of Benton Harbor, has located in our village, and will receive orders for supplying customers with good hand-made boots and shoes, and do all sorts of mending promptly.

I f the person who picked up a new. black cashmere shawl, accidentally dropped near the gate at the residence of Edwin Bernhart, on the evening of July 26, will return the same to Mrs. B., or leave it where it may he secured, no further questions will be asked.

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“Nerve Food” for smokers, at j WESTON'S/

New goods this week, atTAYLOR’S.

Ladies’ Goat and Kid Walking Shoes for one dollar, at

J .K . WOODS’.I ’ll have Fresh Oysters, direct from

Baltimore, next Wednesday evening.^ JOHN MORRIS.

Walking Shoe's for one dollar, at J .K . WOODS’.

We keep in stock a full liDe Of Cellu­loid Goods. WE AYER & CO.

Try our Tea in Pails. It is guaran­teed. ROUGH & HELMICK?

Scrap Books, School Books, Peps, Ink, Fine Stationery, &e., at "Y

WESTON’S.Nun’s Veiling reduced from $1. to

75c, at TAYLOR’S. @A new 50 cent plug. Try it. ^

ROUGH & HELMICK.Closing out Summer Goods at No­

b l e ’s . Call soon.Keep off cabbage worms by using

Persian Insect Powder, cheap at ' WESTON’S.

Parasols and Pans, half price, at c f TAYLOR’S.

Try Weston’s Corn Cure, 15’cents, at Weston’s D rug Store. 6

Call on L. T. E astman, at the Yan Riper place, corner Day’s Avenue and Chicago street, for the Bissell Plow and all kinds of P umps.

Morris has 20 different brands of Plug Tobacco.

Try that 40 cent Fine Gut Tobacco, at MOERISU^

That 50 cent Plug, nb Morris’, is the boss. (s

30 different brands of Cigars, at "'I MORRIS’ . '

Ginghams! Ginghams! The best as­sortment will be found at ^

Common Council Proceedings.A u adjourned meeting of the Com­

mon Council of the Village of Bucnan- an was held at the Council room, in Engine House No. 1, on Friday even­ing, Aug. 3, 1883.

Present— Wm. Osborn, President; B. D. Harper, Recorder; Trustees Bar- more, Mead, Mowrey, Weisgerber and Willard.

The ordinances reported by the special committee appointed were taken up and the reading continued from No. 28 to the end.

The Council then proceeded to the adoption of the ordinances, when each, from No. 1 to No." 7, was adopted upon separate-motions, as reported by the committee.

On motion; ordinance No. 8 was amended by striking out the words 'one hundred dollars” in Section 1,

aud inserting the words “ the amount be fixed by the Common Council,” and striking out the words “one hundred dollars” in Section 2, when the Ordi­nance as amended was adopted.- . Ordinances No. 9 to No. 14 were then

adopted as reported by the committee upon separate motions for each.

Ordinance No. 15 was, on motion, amended by striking out -the word “six” and inserting in place thereof the word “ twelve,” when the ordinance as amended was adopted.

Upon separate motions for each, Or­dinances No. 16 to 21 inclusive were adopted as reported by the committee.

Upon motion of Mr. Mowrey, sup­ported by Mr.* Barinore, the further consideration of the Ordinances was postponed to Friday evening, August 10,1883, and the Common. Council ad­journed to that time.

B. D. H arper. Recorder,

REDDEN & BOYLE’S, Fans at cost, at TAYLOR’S. ^ New Ruching.new Collars for ladies,

at • . HIGHS’. ^J. K. Woods has his new fall stock

o f Boots in for men and boys. Call and see them before buying.

Messrs. Treat & Redden have gone into the wheat buying business, and will pay the highest market price at all times. They will receive wheat at both Buchanan and Dayton stations?. Bargains in Lawns now, at Highs’.

New stock of Blank Books, Tablets, Paper, Envelopes, Ink, Mucilage, etc., just received, at KENYON’S, -w

One of the most desirable building lots in town, centrally located, can be bought at this office.

Parasols at cost. [ROUGH & HELMICK.

You can find the best Lisle Glove at 25 cents in the city, at HIGH’S, h

Go to Ktnyon’s for Scrap Books. ' Ladies, call and see our new Corset,

the best made, at TAYLOR’S,mNeckwear and Linen Handkerchiefs

in endless varieties, atREDDEN & BOYLE’S ?

NEW SHOP.—George Munson has again started into bmsiness for him­self, having rented the Blacksmith shop, south of Batchelor’s livery. Horse Shoeing and Tire Setting a specialty.

Parasols at half price at HIGHS’. ( Bargains now in Lawns and Swiss,

at HIGHS’, VILadies, now is your time to buy Par­

asols. We are closing them out. v') REDDEN & BOYLE.

Take your Watches, Clocks and Jew­elry to K inyon ’s for repairs. All work done in a workmanlike manner ancl_ warranted.

Go to Marquissee for fine boots and shoes, custom made, and all kinds of repairing.

A $5.00 Parasol for $2.50 can he found at H ighs’ this week. J

More Ribbon sold at H ighs’ than ever,'on account'of very large stock." U

A fine line of Table Linen that is new, at HIGHS’.

Trenbeth has a fine new line of summer vestings.

A nice line of Imported Cigars just received, at • MORRIS’.21)

Morris has one of the finest Dining Rooms in Berrien county. Go and get a square meal.

Partners, call on R ough Bros’ for all kinds of AGRICULTURAL IM­PLEMENTS. 1

A ll kinds of Canned aud Dried Fruit, at BARMORE & RICHARDS’.

Buy your ALABASTINE at 4 ROUGH BROS’ Hardware?

You must go and see H ighs’ stock, of W ool Fringes. They are beautiful.'

New Spring Goods in ladies, .gents’ and youths’ Shoes and Boots being re­ceived at the M ajor H ouse R oot and Shoe Store.

Headquarters for Paints, Oils, &&, ROUGH BROS’ Hardware>

- Ladies will find the largest line of Kid, Pebble Goat shoes in the market, call in and see them, at

3t SCOTT &'BROWNFIELD.

The Chicago Times,

N. Y. Illustrated Graphic,

Texas Siftings',

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D odd’s D rug Store.

F or Sale .—A Table; Bureau, Milk- Safe, large Trunk, and a lot of Wire Goods, at reduced rates, at

. N. S. WELCH'S.Go to K inyon’s for Solid Silver,

Spoons,’ MUSIC TEACHING.

Miss A l i c e R o e tenders her services as teacher of the Piano and Organ. Terms, $10 per term, of twenty (hour) lessons. Miss Roe returns to our city after a thorough four years’ course at the Hershey Music School in Chicago, hearing the highest testimonials from Profs. Eddy, Suramy, and others.

Two lots on West street, opposite Elias Eaton’s property, can be bought ac this office. W ill accept one or two good horses on payment. 1 Lo£s are 4x20 rods. Will sell one or both'.

W e s t o n ’ s C o n d i t i o n P o w d e r s , l i b . for 25 cents. Try them.

Two as finely located lots with well built brand new houses for sale. Call at this office.

You will find everything in the Gro­cery, Crockery and Glassware line afc'J

BARMORE & RICHARD’S.F or S a l e .—A- House and Lot in'

Galien. Call at this office, or on Tim. Smith, in Galien.

Merino Sliaws all colors, at 82.50, found at HIGHS’/ o

A finely located property on Front street, with a good house and barn, for sale at this office.

T re n to ! tto Tailor,At his new place o f “business on Main street,

has received a fine stock o f

SUMMER GOODS,-IN -

Piece Goods & Suitings

Snitahle'for Gentlemen’s wear, at

PRICES THAT DEFI COMPETITION.

C A L L A N D S E E H I M .

[St- Jo Traveler-Herald.) 'Soliciting committees for the sever­

al townships in Berrien county have been Selected and blanks forwarded this week, to them, for use among the people who will be asked to contribute articles of food, etc., for the soldiers who will attend the reunion in St. Jo­seph on August 22, 23 and 24. Give as liberally as possible.

IBrrrieu Springs Era.)I f you want to see the 69 pound

chunk of almost pure copper found on a low, wet part of theDoughtery farm, call at Kephart’s drug store. It is flatand about 1% inches thick-----J. H.Mathews will move his saw mill away from this place, - Location not yet de­cided.

Seventeen heathen Chinese, were, it is said, actually smuggled upon Ameri can soil in violation of law, and the authorities are urged to hunt the cul­prits down. But during the last, four months over 1,700 Mormon converts have £ome and been welcomed by the government authorities. They come as professed and open violators of the laws of God and man, and yet we take them by the hand and lead them across the continent to their harem in Utah, while-we hunt’.down the heathen Chi­nese and kick him beyond our lines; Inter-Ocean, 1 ,

Do n<pt forget that Geo. W. -Noble is the leader of low prices in Boots, Shoes and Clothing,. See Charley BEFORE YOU BUT.

Extra copies of the Record,, may be had at the News Depot of

f t H. II. Kinyon .Ex tr a copies o f the Record may

always be found at the news depot in the post office room. t f

The attention of the Ladles is called to

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The article which has caused the revo­lution in fruit canning in the east.

It Never Fails.It saves half the work and half .the. sugar, and. is endorsed by thu best Chemists and by all 'who have iTsed it. Call at the ‘

Corner Drug Storeand learn all about it, and buy a pack­age and try it. Sold only by

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Co rn er Dr u g Store .

SCHOOL BOOKS, ' STATIONERY, INKS,

J) W ALL PAPER, &c. "Weston's Pioneer Drug Store. ■

White fish and mackerel by the kit or half barrel, at

BARMORE & RICHARDS’.Go to Morris’ and see his Electric

light. He is bound to 'lead in every­thing. ) >

Finest line of men’s fine shoes in market, call in and see them, at

3t SCOTT & BROWNFIELD.This is to certify that we have used

the water and fire proof roof paint, put on by Kingery & Hathaway, and that it gives entire satisfaction. It is worth double its cost as a preservative of the shingles. We take pleasure in recom­mending for either old or new roofs.

John G. H olmes, Geo. H. Rough, Abram Brogeus, E. A . Beckwith. Gotlip Hagley , John L. Sunday. Erastus Kelsey, Jacob L aker.Y e can always give you a bargain in

Black Cashmere. fREDDEN & BOYLE.

Door and window screens made to order - on short notice at Buchanan Model Yorks.

A ll parties knowing themselves in­debted to Barmobe Bros, must call and settle, by cash or note, at once. A ll accounts not settled at once, will be sued. BARMORE BROS.

Ladies, you can find Muslin Under­wear, at H ighs’, as well made as you can make yourselves. / S '

Yhite •Muslin Shirts very cheap, at ' HIGHS’/ I I

Bargain in Hosiery, at HIGHS’A Ladies, you will find best stock there.

A good house and lot, with a fine se­lection of fruits, situated ou Oak street, can he bought at this office for $500, If taken at once. The house is in. good condition, and built on a good stone foundation,

M orris has 1.0 different brands of Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco, /'"?_ -

F or Sale.—A corner lot in Rynear- son’s Addition, cheap.. Gall at this office.

Seth E , Straw has over 2,000 sam-. pies o f Yallpaper, consisting of Brown Buff and "White Blanks, Erench Flats, Satins, Mica, Bronze, Embossed and Solid Gilt, and' Borders to match; also a full line of Decorations for ceiling- work, and willriot be undersold. 16m3

F or Sale .—A nice “'little property on Day’s avenue for $600. A bargain.. Enquire at this office.

Mrs. B. H. Spencer has the agency for the celebrated Madame Griswold patent Skirt Supporting Corsets and Skirt 'Supporters. Ladies in ' need of anything in this line are requested to call and see her. Residence on Day’s avenue, opposite Spencer and Barnes’ fumitnrefactory.

F or" Sale . — 148 acres,* .within mile of the Michigan Central depot,. 110 acres under cultivation, good new

■buildings, one y>f the most thrifty ap­ple orchards in the" county, about .150 trees, and-other fruits,’ good wheat land, and an.excellent stock farm. .Call at this office. JOHN G» HOLMES,

Fbacts and Physic.Mining has ceased to he the leading

industry o f California. Her surplus yield o f wheat amounts to $40,000,000 this year, and her other grains, fruit dairy products) and meat to $50,000,000 more.

H u ek len ’8 A rn ica Salve.The best salve in the world for cuts,

bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands,chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi­tively cures piles, or no pay required, It is guaranteed to {give perfect satis­faction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Daniel Yeston.. 28yl

A man named Gasbill recently a ? plied to the Arkansas! Legislature to change his name because his girl al­ways objected to his figure whenever' he’d metre. She said he was too high, and turned him off.

- 1—A L ife Saving P resent.Mr. M. E. Allison, Hutchinson, Kan.,

Saved his life by a simple trial bottle of Dr. King’s New Discov­ery, for consumption, which caused him to procure a large bottle, that completely cured him, when doctors, change of climate and everything else had failed, asthma, bronchitis, hoarse­ness, severe coughs, and all throat and lung diseases, it is guarranteed to cure. Trial bottle free, at D. Yeston’s Drug Store. Large size $1,00.

Mother Hubbard dresses do not suit the fastidious taste of the cow-boy. A

" couple of girls who appeared in them on the streets o f Fort Collins, CoL, nar­rowly escaped being mobbed.

X—A S ta rtlin g D is c o v e ry ,Physicians are often startled by re­

markable discoveries. The fact that Dr. King’s New Discovery for consump­tion and all throat and lung diseases is daily curing patients that they have. given up to die, is startling them to’ realize their sense of duty and exam­ine ^nto the merits of this wonderful discovery; resulting in hundreds of our best pliysieiaus using it in their practice. Trial bottles free at D. Y es- ton’s Drug Store. Regular size $1.00.

: Young George Vanderbilt, the fourth son of the rieh.’man, is said to have the honest ambition to become a newspa-” per reporter.O p in ion o f D r . M ott, la te G overn m en t

Chem ist, on A llco c k 's P o ro u s Plaster*My investigation of Allcock’s Por-

ous Plaster shows it to contain valua­ble and essential ingredients not found in any other plaster. These ingredients are so perfectly porportioned that the Allcock’s Porous Plaster will not cause blisters or excessive irritation, a n d ! " find it superior to and more efficient than any other plaster.

H e n r y A . Mott, Jr., Ph. D., F . C. 'S., Prof, of Chemistry, N. Y . Medical College, etc. No. 61 Broadway, New York, May 23,1883. 27 w4

Congressman Calkins, o f Indiana, is traveling in California,

D a y F ev er.From Col. J.Maidhof, o f New York:

“I have suffered severely for the last ten years from hay fever in early and mid-summer and in the fall. I desire in the interest of my fellow* sufferers to testify in faver of Ely’s Cream Balm* My short use of it demonstrated its efficacy. J, Maidhof, 401 Broadway.

Northern philanthropists have given more than $25,000,000 to the South for educational uses since the war.

Mr. J. G. South worth, Ludington, Mich., says: “ I have used Brown's Iron Bitters as a blood purifier, and it has done me good.

A n old lady in Georgia having lost all her patience, has sued a neighbor for $8 for coffee borrowed, a capful at a time.

Ladies I Ayer’s Hair Vigor is a su­perior and economical dressing. It has become an indispensable article for the toilet.

The secret message sent to the oper­ators to quit work, the other day, sim­ply read: “ ---------------------

N o G rease fo r H im .“Yhen Greece her knees—Greece

her knees—Greece her knees,” stam­mered an embarrased school boy, for­getting the next line of his recitation. “There is no occasionto grease anybody’s knees,” shouted his teacher. “ Go and study your piece.” Neither is there occasion to grease your hair. Parker's Hair Balsam is all the dressing you want. Restore the original gloss and color to gray and faded hair. Does not soil the linen; not a dye: good for the scalp; prevents fallingout.

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Of the residents of the city of Brook­lyn, N .Y ., 177,694 are foreign horn, constituting 31JJ per cent of the en­tire population.

To 'Keep the Slood. -PureIs the principal end of inventions and discoveries in medicine. To this ob­ject probably no one has contributed more signally than Dr. David Kenne­dy, of Rondout, N. Y .,' in the produc­tion of a medicine which has become famous under the title of the “Favorite Remedy,” it removes all impurities of the blood, tegulates the disordered liv­er and kidneys, cures constipation, dis- pepsia, and all diseases and weaknesses peculiar to females. Sold by your druggist. $1.00 a bottle.'

An Indiana man was lately divorced from his wife and has just married her mother.

On Thirty Days Trial.The Voltaic Belt Co.,Marshall, Mich,,

will send Dr. Dye’s Celebrated Eleetro- Voltaie Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility. Lost .itality and Manhood, and complete restoration of health and. manly vigor. Address as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred, as thirty days’ trial is allowed. 50yl

Yilliam Sheridan was arrested last Sunday in New Haven, Conn., for the 13th time.

T h e B est B lu in c .Ladies, use Law’s Bluing for color­

ing your carpet rags; try it for bleach­ing; also for ink. It is the best be­cause it is the cheapest, and always gives satisfaction. One package sells for 15 cents and makes a quart of liq­uid bluing. Ask your grocer for it ; also can be had in all other towns in the county. Manufactured by

H all B rothers, Marcellus. Mich.Elko, Nev.. has a Chinese bloated

monopolist. Hop .Sing has purchased the water works.

E lies a n d B u gs.Flies, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats,

mice, gophers, chipmunks, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.” 15c.

Denver newsboys furnish 200 fish worms for 25 cents.

Decline of Man.Nervous Yeakness, Dyspepsia, Im­

potent Sexual Debility} cured by ‘Yells’ Health Renewer.” $1.

Tuttle eggs are sold at Tampa, Fla., for ten cents per dozen.

’Wells* “Rough on Corns.**Ask* for Y ells ’ “Rough on Comn.”

15c. Quick, complete, permanent cure. Corns, warts, bunions.

There are 23,000 acres o f watermel­ons in Burke county. Georgia.

Griggs’ Glycerine Salve.The best on earth can truly he said

of Griggs’ Glycerine Salve, which is.;a sure cureforcuts, bruises, scalds burns, wounds, and all other sores. Y il l pos­itively cure piles, tetter,, and all skin eruptions. Satisfaction .guaranteed or money refunded. Only 25 cents. For sale by Y . A . Severson, 21yl,

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.Since 1869 Louisiana has spent $10 ,- . 350,000 for levees and $4,805,000 for schools.

A first-class farm of 90 acres, -within sixty rods of a Michigan Central depot in this county, fair buildings and or -chard, for sale at a bargain..

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m s WIFE OUT o f town:[F lorida Tim es-UnionJ

O f dll' the insidious, invidious,

Contrived b y the d ev il f o r pulling m en dow n, Thete's nothing m ore delusive, Seductive, abusive,

Than the snare t o a m an -with a w ife out o f tow n.

H e feels such a delightfulness, Stay-out-all-night-fulness, ShaU-I-get-tightMulness,

I own it with.pain!A bachelor rakishness,AVhat-ivill-you-take?-ishness,Kert-dayVneadache-ishness,

H one can expla in! •H is w ife m a y be beautiful,Tender and dutiful—■

*Thi n ot that h er absence should cause him •delight;

H ut the cursed opportunity,Baleful im m unity,

Scatters b is scruples as d a y scatters night.H e feels whisky-and-water-ful, -Rapine-and-slaughter-fui,Nothing-he-ought-to-ful,

T o b is toes’ ends;So bachelor-rally-spme,Quite corps-de-ballet-somo, 3Jake-stories-taily-some,

With, wicked, friends.M A K E A K IC K .

[Louisville Courier-Journal.]Ne’er submit to an y w rong!

M ake a k ick !Though y ou r Voice becom e a gon g ; Though the strife be sore and lo n g ; Though i t leaVe y o n weak and sick,

H ake a k ick !

B igh t is m ight f o r honest m en !Make a kick!

N ever m ind the where o r w hen ; T hough the odds b e one to ten,Show yourself a p lucky chick !

H ake a k ick !

Though it g ive the lawyers wealth, Slake a k ick !

P ov erty o ft takes on health!F igh t the w rong, b y force, b y stealth 1 A lw ays t o your m otto stickl

H ake & k ick !

GO JD, KIND, F A T MAN-1 " 1

HE MADE EVERYBODY FEED SO COMFORT­ABLE, AMD WAS SUCH A DEAR, GOODSOUL.

Chicago Herald.Every seat in the car was occupied,

yet no seat held more than one person. The Herald reporter took a rear place, where he could interest himself in studying his fellow passengers, No person in the car seemed to know an­other. The train was not to leave for fifteen minutes. Must this heavy silence prevail: for all that tune—all that fifteen minutes, which, under such conditions, must seem like as many hours ? "Would nobody cough just a little“ ahem,” to clear file throat and break the monoto­nous silence that was sitting on every­body like a load o f superstition on the back of fear?

Ten minutes gone and not a word, not a. sound, not even a scuffling of feet. "Was everybody afraid to move? It seemed so. Never was more genuine solitude the guest of an assembly. It was a depressing fame. It was a silent time. "Where was the crying^baby that usually starts out on a night train? "Why didn’t the brakeman pass through and - rub his greasy lantern against somebody’s best coat shoulder ? Two monotonous rows of human heads, each with a tongue, and not a single word to interrupt the awful, oppressive silence.

The door is opened—blessed relief— and the spell is broken, A round, jolly- looking face comes in. It smiles at ev­erybody and has a pleasant word for ev­erybody who smiles back at it. The fat man is good natnred. All fat men are. There are not half a dozen fat men in all the penitentiaries of the "United States. This face had a halo around it —it couldn’t be seen, but one could feel it, a ruddy warmth that lit up the car. Down the aisle it came, and everybody whom it passed became one more of a congenial company. Silence had been routed, everybody got acquainted with everybody else. Everybody recognized his debt of gratitude to the fat face, and the stranger who pushed it into that gloomy car. Everybody liked that man, AYhy? Nobody knew', but he was so hearty and so much at ease and so good- natured, and withal so pure and honor­able in every advertisement. And then the conductor came in and whispered something in his ear, and the much-liked man left the car.

“ Conductor, who was that jolly, fat, good-natured man that awakened us all and made us all get acquainted with one another, and created a general hubbub of good feeling, as he drove the almost intolerable silence out of the car ?”

“ That! "Why that is the most suc­cessful confidence man in Chicago.”

“ Oh!” _________________GOSSIP ABOUT BENNETT.

Chicago News New York Letter.Norman Xi. Mnnro, the publisher,

has been having a rather unpleasant siege for the past few months - and has “ gone for” James Gordon Bennett in order to get square. The cause of the trouble is that a number of personals, signed “ Sadie,” have been printed in The Herald, directed to Mr. Mnnro, and conveying the impression that there was an undue intimacy between him and the supposed fair unknown. The outcome of all this is that Mr. Munro has been unmercifuHy guyed by all bis acquaintances, and bis wife, taking a more serious view of the matter , has indulged him in what is technically known as “ the grand shake.” This Mnnro is the brother of the one who has made such a barrel of money with, the Seaside Library. He owns one of the weekly story papers published in New York, and is Ms brother’s strong­est oppositionist. "Within the past few years he has made a great lot of money, and this system of publishing personals, calculated to break "him up, is probably the work of some blackmailer. "What makes the thing look rocky for Mr. Bennett is the fact that the last para­graph came out after Mnnro had warned. The Herald not to do so any more, and had been promised a discon­tinuance of the practice. He wants Bennett to give up $50,000 for the damage done him. But nobody knows who the deuce Sadie is.

Bennett must have “split” with his Secretary, young Chamberlain, for the latter has just started a daily news­paper in Paris, and Albert Ives has gone over to help Mm run it. Cham­berlain traveled everywhere with Ben­nett and: got a salary of $10,000 a year and all his expenses. It was his custom to boss Bennett a good deal more than Bennett bossed him. He is a very bright, dashing writer, however, and was of great value to his employer. He had a pretty fat position, fOr sometimes lie wouldn’t see his employer for a month at a time. Ives: is the young man who had charge of The Herald’s London office for a long time,* and left when Bennett undertook in Ms characteristic way to order him to Hong Kong, San Francisco, Bio Janeiro and the north pole, simultaneously. He sent in a hot letter of resignation, and Bennett acknowledged, it as “your impudent letter.” Thereupon Ives responded that he was glad to hear upon such ex­cellent authority that he was impudent, because he was told he only lackeda big stock of that article to make Mm fit for a leading place in The Herald staff. "When Bennett got that letter he filled Ives’ place. These two young men, ought to' get out a rattling good paper in Paris, because they "are. very Bright journalists and know the ropes from stem to stern. Ives married Miss Florence Carpenter several years ago. She in a daughter Of Frank B. Carpen­ter, the artist, and a most charming girl. _______________

H A R P E R S F E R R Y I N S VJXS. ‘♦Gath" in Cincinnati Enquirer.

One of the buildings that has survived all the ravages o f time and battle is the old engine-house of John Brown, which now bears- the; inscription, “ John Brown?s Fort.” Jn 1869, b y . order of the . government, the day before the tenth anniversary o f John -Brown’s death, all-the government property was put up at .auction and sold for $206,000, though the sale did not stand. In 1870 "a great flood, -visited the place and. sev­eral1 lives were Tost and-many houses .destroyed. Senator Sprague was said to be--in the,-purchase of the armory property. Nothing ha^ been done to

utilize the fine water power here, and the inhabitants have learned to their cost that when a great government has given them its benefits for nearly seventy years, and they and their friends expel it, nothing less than Prov­idence by special interposition can sup­ply as good a patron. Harper’s ferry is a howling ruin subsisting chiefly on the memory of John Brown.

TEE LIM E-KILN CLUB. Detroit Free Press.

“I understand,” began the president, as the meeting opened in due form, “ dat quite a number of de members of dis club am gwine to "be mar’ied doorin’ de summer. Dat’s all right, an’ I wish ’em much joy, an’ shall be glad to witness de obsequies of each an’ ebery one. But, I wont to say a few words in gin- eral. In de fust place, am you gwine to mar’y fur love or fur a sort o’ bizness partnership? I f you answer fur love, let me warn you to be sartin dat you doan’ mistake de senti­ment. Many a young man thought his heart torn by love hasplunged into mat­rimony to diskiver dat he simply had an admiration fur a $30 set of false teeth on’ a high instep. If yon answer fur a sort o’ bizness partnersMp, let me warn you not to expect too much. You won’t love de woman, an’ she won’t trust you. It will be a sort o’ boss trade in which both parties will be cheated and both eontiner to be mad about it. You. kin git along arter a fashion, an’ people who see hev on your arm at a circus won’t know how yon fight at home.

“ If yon mus’ marry, let common sense have a sliowin de transaekshun. Doan’ go off yer feet becase yon meet a gal who kin sing like a robin, smile like a rose an’ jump off a street kyar widout boder- in’ de driver to stop. *A wife will have much to do besides singin’ an’ cultivat­in’ dimples. I f you am gwine to marry, ax yerselves how fur $10 per week will go when; divided up fur clothes an’ per- visliuns an’ house rent an’ fewel an’ in- eidentials. Befo’ you fall in love wid a gal who looks too sweet fur anythin’ in a red plushsacque, kinder figger onkow many sick duds your income would afford her. Befo’ you am all broke up ober a gal who plays de pianner, talks French, paints landscapes an’ reads poetry, jist sit down an’ figger who am to cook yer meat an’ taters, patch yer cloze, dam yer socks an’ help ye make $12 huy $15 worth of things. Befo’ ye let a pa’r of flashin’ eyes an’ a eunnin’ dimple captivate ye, look aroun’ a little an’ seeif de owner has got a temper like a wildcat. Marriage am a lottery simply bekase people take each odder unsight an’ unseen. Let me npw prog­nosticate to bizness.

“ Did I understan’ de eha’r to say prognosticate to bizness ?” inquired the Bev. Penstock as he carefully rose up.

“Yon did, sah!”“Yes—ahem—yes. De cha’r did’nt

mean purceed, did he?”“No sah!” .“Ahem! Jist so 11 presume the cha’r

am awar’ dat prognosticate doan’ mean purceed!”

“Bradder Penstock!” sharply an­swered. the president, “ dis cha’r am aware of de fack dat prognosticate doan’ mean purceed, permit, perambulate nor persimmons. "When I fin’ myself un­able to handle any word in the English language X shall call in de fiah depart­ment. Sot down, sah—sot down an’ let de meetin’ nrocmosticatA l”

CUBING INVALIDS WITH DOSES OF SYMPATHY.

Lilian W hiting.The latest Boston notion is the Meta­

physical college. Naturally, you will think of this as a modified school of Concord philosophy, or an attempt to penetrate and classify the mysterious mecli-nism of mental forces ; but it is notliing of the kind. It is the latest modem improvement on the usual medical college. Its province is the body, not the mind, or, rather, to dem­onstrate the entire domination of the mental over the physical powers. It is a medical college without medicine, to prove that no medical college has a rea­son for its being. The faculty of resi­dent physicians who compose this col­lege heal by what they term the meta­physical process. The patient goes to them, if able, or they to him, and sit near him, just at Ms back, so that he will not see the physician. They sit at a little distance, not toucMng the pa­tient nor speaking to him. The sitting lasts some fifteen minutes, once each day for seven consecutive days, then three days are skipped, when the visits are resumed. They do not claim that any faith is necessary. The college was fonhded here by the Drs. Ahn, two brothers, who came from Germany. Their theory is that all disease, all ill­ness, is an expression of wrong mental states, and that by bringing these under metaphysical control, applying purely metaphysical treatment, a cure Is ef­fected.

It Is not the faith cure, not magnetism, not spiritualism, though I fancy it has certain elements akin to all these. Now is there any practical result? yon will ask. Authentic and wholly reliable people tell me there is. The first result of tiie sittings is to make the patient very ill for two or three days, in pain and distress all over; then, it is said, there is a sensation of the most wonder­ful freedom, as if the body were of air, and of an exhilaration and buoyancy that surpasses that of childhood, and I am told that acute diseases are cured— exorcised as it were. Dr. Ahn claims what, I think, many of the most thought­ful scientists admit, that there is a force in space undiscovered, practically un­known, wMcli we touch vaguely, frag- mentarily at times, but know’not how to grasp or control. Their conception is not precisely that of the odic force, but similar. The power, if understood, would be that wMch works so-called miracles, but wMcli is really under tbe control of spiritual laws. To acquire a knowledge of these Is to find the key of life. The theory is in opposition to all positivism, and presupposes Recep­tivity as the first condition of benefit.TEE W AY THE PEOPLE’S MONEY

GOES.The Paper "World.

About $2,000,000 worth of printing is annually done in the government printing office. The documents' are printed under a joint resolution of both houses of congress, and each member is credited with a proportionate share. As the dose of the season approaches the members go to the document zooms and find out how their account stands. If any books are still to their credit they order them sent home to their rooms in "Washington, or authorize some other disposition to be made of them. Yery frequently members make exchanges, and often the exchanges are in the shape of cash from dealers. It is frequently the case, again, that a member can pay off some obligation by a load of valuable public documents. It is alleged that once a sitting mem­ber, who held a contested seat, saw by the vote in progress on his case that in a few more minutes he would be un­seated, and wise in time, he rushed to the document room while the yeas, and nays were bring called, drew all Ms books, franked and directed them to a friend’s house, and saw them safely off before the vote was announced.

A member’s share of public docu­ments is by no means an insignificant perquisite. He gets, roughly speaking, one four-hundreth part o f the publica­tions, or $5,000 worth, an amount equal in value to his salary. The collection ■would not sell for that sum, of course, ’and yet the cash value of a complete Bet of public documents for a year*-

"would be considerable. While much rubbish is printed, some of the books are valuable, and much desired by cer­tain classes of constituents. The great­est demand is. for agricultural reports. An edition o f 300,000 copies is ordered of thiB volume; but even this enormous number is insufficient to supply all, and, in consequence, members from rural districts Often exchange or buy large quantities from city members or the

• book stores. So large and steadyis the sale of these reports, that they have a regular price. They are; rated at ten cents ajtiece, and at .this jm ee §Mne

CountrymembersYmy them byllie"hun­dred dollars’ worth. One member bought 3,000 copies last year at Ms own expense for distribution among his con­stituents, in addition to Ms own supply and all he could get from fellow mem­bers. It is said that some members sup­ply constituents with all public docu­ments, even though they have to pur­chase tiie books, and that members sometimes spend hundreds of dollars in this way. They may have the means, and rather than risk giving offence they quietly buy the document, frank it and send it off.

S O IF TO P R E V E N T SMOKE.Sfc. Louis Republican.

The whole problem, says tbe Cincin­nati inspector, lies in tbe bands of the stoker or fireman, and this person is a much more important functionary in onr civilization than we imagine.

It is he that makes all the smoke; it is he that can prevent it. He makes it by firing in the very clumsiest manner possible—smothering the fire with a heap of fresh coals thrown on so as to convert it into a bank of.half extin­guished fire which can do nothing but smoke. He can prevent it by firing in­telligently and scientifically, adding coals in 'small quantities, evenly dis­tributed, so as to bring tbe heat to bear on each separate coal.______

P H O T O G R A P H S ,New York Sun.

The right that has been claimed and fully exercised of late years by photo­graphic artists, of retaining specimens of their work and retailing them to anychance customer for a dollar a head, is likely to bring themselves and some of their hest customers into a rather un­pleasant predicament. A large dry- goods and millinery firm has, it is said, bought up some of the handsomest pictures which are displayed in the rooms of a well-known photographer, and i>roposes to reproduce them in a cheap lithographic form for the decora­tion of paper boxes, such as bandboxes, bonbonnieries, etc.; so that lovers, hus­bands, and fathers will have the pleasure of seeing the pretty faces that they know so well looking at them from the cover of the box which contains their choicest cigarettes,or perhaps decorating the paper lining of tlieir portmanteaus Hid trunks.

HAROLD AND ETHLYN,Chicago Tribune.

“ I t can never b e .”Ethlyn McNulty’s voice was husky

with pie as she spoke these words, and in the luminous depths of the soft brown eyes that had witched so many men and made tlieir lives a wreck—men who otherwise wonld have been good, honorable citizens, a credit alike to themselves and to the tailors who trusted them—there was a wistful, pleading, if-yon-knew-how-tight-my- shoes-were-yon-wonld-go-on-a-street-car look that Harold Neversink, man of the world though he was, had never seen there before.

They were standing in a little dell, these two—a spot around which clus­tered the hallowed memories of a happy, peaceful past, when the days drifted by in a languid fashion, no trouble or grief coming to mar the perfect harmony of a placid and beautiful existence. But all was changed, and as Ethlyn stood be­side tbe man she loved so well tbe mem­ory o f what had been came to her with cruel, crashing force, and up from the misty portals of a future that seemed utterly dark and cheerless there arose only the black wraiths of desolation and despair. It was a soft, sensuous, Clucago June evening, and as Harold adjusted Ms ear-muffs and took EtMyn’s band in Ms he felt that without the love of this woman, without her .presence to cheer and her counsel to aid and guide Mm, Ms life would be as blank, and dreary, and desolate as a- St. Louis pap&L\ The very thought was madden­ing, and as it burned into his soul with cruel force he looked, out sadly over his no-chance-to - get-out - unless - you-jump- over collar, and Ethlyn saw that the lip wMch held his don’t-tell-papa mustache was quivering with pain. And then, as the crickets all about them were sing­ing, and the murmurous breathing of a staccato cow was borne away to tbe westward on the singing breezes of the night, she put her arms around his neck, and as he stood ’there, a willing prisoner in the dimpled chains of love, spoke to him as she had never spoken before.

“You know I love you, Harold,” she said—“love you with a deatidess passion that time can never assuage, and as the years go wearily by with leaden feet your image will ever be bright in my heart, your love for me a shrine at which. I shall ever worship. I know that yon are good and pure and do not smoke cigarettes. I know that your love would sMeld and protect me for­ever and ever, and that in that love I should find the peace and contentment that every girl standing on the threshold of woman solongsfor—that indefinable, mysterious, I-dorit-know-whether-it-is- a-new-hat*or-caramels-tkat-I-want feel­ing that- tMows about the cold, flat facts of life the glamor-of a mystic dream­land that we feel, but cannot see. But such happiness may not be. I love you too well, Harold, to ever knowingly cause yon one instant of pain, and there­fore I say to you, standing here with the stars that deck the heavens looking down upon me, with the voice of nature saying in every budding flower and trembling leaf and horse-liniment almanac that summer has come again—I say it solemnly, tearfully, and for the last time, that I cannot be your wife”— and weeping in a mad, passionate way, as if all the chewing-gum in the world was gone, she threw herself in a reck­less, blind-staggers fashion on the grass at his feet and moaned pitifully.

In an instant Harold had jumped over her feet and was kneeling beside her. “ "Why can you not-marry me?” he asked, “ what is the obstacle of which you speak so mysteriously?”

“Do not ask me,” she said, “Do not seek to make yourself miserable, per­haps for life.”

“But I demand an answer,” he says.Baising herself slowly, and sitting

thereon one foot, EthlynMcNulty looks up at him. Tlie moonlight stealing through the branches of the linden trees above them is not whiter than the face of the girl upon which it falls so gently, and in her eyes there is a look of haunting fear that is pitiful in its sad intensity.

“ Yon shave yourself?” she says, look­ing at him steadily.

‘Yes,” he answers. “But certainly that can have nothing to do------”

“Wait,” says the girl. “It wonld he a sore trial to you were any one else to use your razor?”

“It would," is the reply.“It is as I thought,” continues

Ethlyn—“No" (speaking gently to her­self), “I could not resist the temptation, no woman could.”

“What do yon mean?” he asks. ‘X demand an answer.”

“I mean,” she replies, in a cold, me­chanical way, “ that I have a hereditary•corn.” _________________

A L O G IC A L M AN.“ Gentlemen,” said an Arkansas tem--

perance lecturer, “I appear before you to-day for the purpose of urging sobri­ety. Man was created sober, which proves that it is his duly to remain in that condition.” “ Hold on!” exclaimed an old fellow arising and addressing the speaker. “Yon say that man was cre­ated sober, and that it Ms duty to re­main in that condition?” “ Yes, sir.” “ Well yon ought to embrace -the entire platform. Man was created naked, and according to your belief be should have remained so.” “My hearers,” said the lecturer, ‘X am convinced that I have not throughly canvassed the subject. You will please amuse yourselves while 1 go oat and take a drink with this philo­sophical gentleman.” .

OLD O A K E N P IA N O S .Louisville Courier-JonmaL

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and M A LA R IA .From, these sources arise three-fourths o f

the diseases o f tb e human, race. These sym ptom s indicate their existence : B oss os A p p etite , B o w e ls c o s t iv e , S ic k H ead* ach e , fu l ln e s s a fte r eatin g ', a v e rs io n t o e z e v t io n o f b o d y o r m in d , E r u c ta tio n o f f o o d , I r r i t a b i l i t y o f te m p e r , l o w sp irits , A f e e l in g o f h a v in g n e g le c te d som e d u ty , D iz z in e s s ,F lu t te r in g a t th e H ea rt , D o ts b e fo re t h e * ' ' * ’ ------’

r F l u t t e r i n g a > e y e s ,h ig h l y PATIOUT, am

„ l y c o l ­ore d CJrine, C OIYSTIPATION ^ and de­m and the use o f a rem edy that acts directly on the Liver. A saL iverm ecU cin oT U T T ’S P IL L S have h o equal. Their aotion on the Kidneys and Skin is also prom pt ; rem oving all im purities through these three ** scav­en gers o€ tire s y s t e m ,p r o d u o in g appe­tite, sound digestion, regular stools, a clear sk in andavigorousbody . T C T T ’S P IL L S cause n o nausea o r griping n or interfere with daily w ork and are a perfect

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A favorite proscription o f one o? iu most noted and successful specialists lu the TT.: (now retired) for the euro of Xcruoita D eb ility , h o s t X a n n o o tt , IF e a /u im ftmlPcca?/. Sent in plain sealed envelope/V ee. Druggists can fill it.' Address DR. WARD A CO . Louisiana. BSa.

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Adding fresli goods to our already large and complete stock. "We daily turn out tbe choicest and greatest amount and variety o f Bakery goods of any concern in the county.

We pay the highest market price for all produce.

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BROW N’S

SALICYLINE,An Infallible Cure for

IN A lii . IT S FOR M S.

O f Seven Tears’ Standing—Cured.

Ejaiika, ISt. X ., Dec. 1, 1882.I cannot apeaktoo highly o f Salicyline. I t cured

me o f Rheumatism o f seven years’ stanfirng. I used five bottles, and have not had an attack in eleven months. In sed lt on the recommendation o f Rev. Mr. Hard. PaBtor o f HeddingM. E. Church.

MISS. O. M. JOHNSON'.J?or sale by

D R . E. S. DODD & SON, -Pharmacists and Druggists,

Sole Agents for Brown’s Salicyline,- 13m8 B uciiaiiak, M ich .

O jp n a week in your own town. Terms and SB © D O outfit free; " ~ - '

W lv a t Happened to

MR. JOSEPH BEACH.S to n e In th e^ K 'rtney E x p e l le d a f t e r TJs-

i u g D r . b ttv id K e n n e d y ’ s ’ ‘ F a v o r ­i t e R e m e d y ” A b o u t t w o W e e k s .

One o f the m ost rem arkable cases that has ever been brought to the notice o f the public is that o f Dr. J . S. Beach o f Stone Bridge, Ul­ster Co., N. Y . Mr. Beach had suffered since October 18,1874, from tliepresence o f Calculus o r Stone ill the right K idney. No less than seven physicians were em ployed at different tim es, to whom Mr. Beach paid hundreds o f dollars fo r m edical treatment, with on ly tem ­p ora ry re lie f from his agony.

B y the urgent solicitations o f his friends he was induced to try Dr. David Kennedy’s “ Fa­vorite R em edy’’—experienced a m arked im ­provem ent from the first day h e began to use the m ed icin e ; on the 15th o f Septem ber he voided a stone as large as could he passed through tbe natural channel.

M r. Beach concludes a lo n g letter t o Dr. K ennedy b y saying: “ It w ill always aflord m e pleasure to recom m end the ‘F avorite R em edy’ to those who m ay h e suffering from difficulties o f IheK idneys and Bladder, o r a n y disorders arising from an im pure state o f the b lo o d ." The “Favorite Rem edy” sold b y all druggists. The D octor’s on ly address is Ron- dont, N ew York.

In the Pilot House.“ Yes, s ir ; this k ind obliges a m an to keep

sober as a judges Of an m en in the w orld, steam boat p ilo ts and railroad engineers should le t liquor alone. F or on their clear­ness o f sight and coolness o f head depends the safety o f life and property .”

Keeping his hand on the wheel as he said this, Air. A . B rockm an, of29J^ Silver street, Chicago, added: “ O f course, som e o f ’ em drink; hut the sober ones have tb e best posi­tions aud the hest p ay . Yes, the w ork and exposure som etim es tells oil us ; bu t for m y part, I find Parf.kr’ s Toxic to b e a ll the invig- o ra u t ln e e d . I ’ ve got a bottle aboard here n ow ; never go on a trip without it. W hen I haven’ t any appetite, or am any w ay out o f sorts, it sets m e up in no tim e. I f drinking inen w ou ld use the Tonic it w ou ld h e lp ’em to break off. (No, that isn ’t a light hou se; it's a star, low down near the water). As I was saying, tbe Tonic, is new life bottled u p . Von see the flag-staff? W ell, with a bottle o f Par­ker ’ s Tonic in tbe lockev I can keep m alaria as far from m e as that all the Lime. M y w ife has used i t fo r three years fo r sum m er com ­plaints and colic, and as an invigorant, w hen she’ s tired out from overw ork. She says the ton ic is a dasy. G ood-bye! D on 't break your neck going below .”

This preparation, which has been known as P arker ’ s Ginbeb T oxic, wjll hcreaiter he ad ­vertised and sold sim ply under the nam e o f Parker ’s Tonic. A s unprineipaled dealers are constantly deceiving their custom ers by substituting inferior articles under the nam e o f ginger, and as g inger is-really an unim por­tant ingrediant, we drop the m isleading word.

27itreis to change. 7l0ta.ver -in l he prrpar alien it- 3.’/ , and all bottles rem aining in tiie hands o f dealers, wrapped under the nam e o f Parker ’s Ginger Tonio, contain the genuine m edicine ifthe fao-sitnile signiture o f Hiscox & Co. i a t bottom o f the outside wrapper.

PRESENT POWER.T o .W o r r o iv n L o n g W a y o f f W h e n H e lp

is W a n t e d I 'o .D a y .Comfort is never in a hurry. Pain an d dis­

tress are it h ot haste. I t is to the “ friend iu need” —the friend w ho does som ething now— that the old adage pays the com plim ent o f b e in g “ a friend indeed.” That they do n o t keep the sufferer in suspense is the salient ex­cellence ot BENSON’S CAPClNE POROUS PLASTERS. The plasters o f other days— whether porous o r otherwise-said—“ W aitun- til tom orrow . W e can prom ise nothing on the spur o f the m om ent. But pain unre­lieved . lik e h ope deferred, m aketb the heart sick. B enson 's plasters a ct on application. They uerm eat. soothe, warm and heal, con­taining, ns they do. chem ical agen t, o f the highest efficiency. T h eir m otto is now, and the genuine have the CAPClNE cut in the m iddle o f each plaster. P rice 25 cents. Sea- bnry & Johnson, Chemists, New York.

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Biscuit and Cake arencver"hitter whenuiingit- 2t stim ulates the stom ach o f dyspeptic persons.

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CATARRH, THROAT DISEASES, BRONCHITIS and ASTHMA

CAM BE C U B E D ,A lso diseases o f the E Y S - E A R and

H EA RT, atthe

Detroit Throat and Lung Institute,M. H ILTO N W IL L IA M S , M. D „ M. C., P . S. O.,

P roprietor.Orer 40 ,000 Coses Treated in the East

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d g n C) ft week made at homo by the industnon6. © ( & Best business uow before the public: Cap­ital uot needed. W e will start you. Men, women, hoys and girls wanted everywhere to work for ns. ISTow is the time. You can work in spare time, or give your whole rime to the business* ITo other business will pay you nearly ns well. jSTo one can fail to make enormous pay, by engaging at once. Costly outfit and terms free. Money made fast, easily and honorably. Address True & Co., Au­gusta, Maine. 4yl

Ludinutox, Mich., Sept, 22,1880.Stekbteb 4

Dear Sir—I have thoroughly tried your'‘Worm Destroyer,'” aud think it the best remedy for Worms known. I have tried numberless other remedies for our three-year-old. daughter with no benefit* She was failing so fast her condition became alarms ing. Having noticed your advertisement, I imme­diately purchased a bottle o f your “ Worm Destroy­er.” A lew do?e6 improved her health, and a few more restored her to her naturally healthy condi­tion. All symptoms o f spasms have completely disappeared. I should feci unsaic without the medicine in the house. I have no objections to your using my name for reference, as I am glad to inlorm frightened mothers o f so good a remedy.

Yours respectfully,"M rs. C. P. LUDWIG.

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IRE LAST BATTLE OF THE LATE WAR BE- TWEEN THE STATES.

Albuquerque Journal.A very interesting "bit of personal and

general history, especially to the resi­dents of NewMexico and the Bio Grande valley, is the fact that Colonel David Branson, now a resident of this place, is the man who fought the last battle and gave tho last order to cease firing, at tiie close of the war of the rebellion,and did it at the mouth of New Mexico’s great river, the Bio Grande. The • battle was fought on May 12 and 13, 1865. Colonel Branson was sent out from the general camp on Brazos island with a mixed command of about 300 men from the Second Texas cavalry, dismounted, First Missouri colored, and the Thirty-fourth Indiana, to capture a herd of cattle for the use of the troops, "While out he was at­tached by a force of about six hundred Texas cavalry with artillery, under Gen. Slaughter and Gen. Ford. During the fight awar ship arrived ’off the harbor with the news of the surrender of Kirby Smith, the last of the Confederate forces in the field, and consequently the end of the war. Gen. Barrett, the com­mander of the garrison, ordered Col. Branson to cease fighting and return, which being impossible on account of the pressure of a superior force and the well-known enmity on their part to­ward the colored troops and southern white Union troops, the engagement was continued, though the Unionists retired, fighting toward tiie island. Gen. Barrett came to the rescue on the 13th with a small re-inforcement and the fight back to the island occupied aH that day. Rear sunset, as Gen. Bar­rett was crossing the ferry with the main body, the attack was renewed upon the rear guard, in command of Capt. Coffin. *Col. Branson had just gone back to the guard and the enemy were repulsed; the last battle of the war was over.

Then it was that Col. Branson, who had been informed of the good tidings brought by the war-ship in the offing, and fully comprehending its importance and the” historical significance of that day’s work with himself as a modest though conspicuous figure in the closing scene of the great tragedy, gave the order to “ cease firing,” with probably deeper feeling than he ever before gave a m ilita r y order, and. gratefully sheathed the sword that had for five years been the symbol of command through the bloodiest war of the ages, never again, he hopes, to draw it in deadly conflict with his fellow-man. Turning to Capt. Coffin he senten- tiously, and with an animation he can never feel again, remarked, “ that winds up the war;” when the captain replied with equal emphasis, “yes, and I thank God we are alive.” The inrpressive scene closed as the sun was sinking be­hind the sand-hills on the western bank of the Bio Grande and the Gulf of Mexico, and was witnessed by inter­ested crowds of men perehedin tbe rig­ging of eighty men-of-war and other shipping anchored in the offing and flying the flags of nearly every nation on earth. _________________“ TORPEDOING” AN OIL WELL. E . V . Sm alley in The Century.

"When a well fails it is usually “ tor­pedoed” to start the flow afresh. A long tin tube, containing six or eight quarts of uitro-glycerine, is lowered into the hole and exploded by dropping a weight upon it. The tremendous force of the powerful explosive tears the sand rock apart and loosens the imprisoned oil and gas. Nothing is heard on the surface save a sharp report like a pistol Shot, but the ground heaves percepti­bly, and pretty soon the oil comes spurt­ing out in a jet that breaks in spray above the lofty derrick. The “ torpedo man” is one of the interesting person­ages of the oil region who is seen with most satisfaction from a distance. He travels about in a light vehicle with his tubes and his nitro-glycerine can, trav­ersing the rough roads at a jolly round trot, taking the chances of an accidental explosion, and whistling or singing as he goes. Sometimes the chances are against him, and a blow of a wheel against a stone sets free the terrible

. force imprisoned in the white fluid in his can. There is no occasion for a funeral after such an accident, for there is nothing to bury. Man, horse, and “buggy” are annihilated in a flash, and an ugly hole in the ground and a cloud of smoke are all that is left to show what has happened. The torpedo company buys a new horse and hires a new man, and there is no more difficulty about one transaction than the other.- The business of “ torpedoing” wells is in tbe hands of a single company, .which has'made a large amount of money from a patent covering the pro­cess of using the explosives under a fluid. Most oil producers regard the patent as invalid, because nature sup­plies the fluid in the well into which the nitro-glycerine tube is lowered; but the courts have sustained the patent. Sometimes weU-owners “ tor­pedo” their wells stealthily by niglit to avoid paying the high, price charged by the company. This operation is called “moonlighting,” and many lawsuits have grown out of it.______

DUDUS AMERICANUS.N ew Y o rk Letter.

X have recently encountered a fine specimen of the dudus Americanos- He came direct from Boston, with, a visiting card lightly poised between his thumb and forefinger, and in this motion, “neat, trimly dressed,” as Hot­spur gives him, did he sail in unto my acquaintance. One of his complimen­tary remarks, delivered in broken Eng­lish, was: “ Thart’s a veway fine can­vas.” “Yes,” I replied, “ there’s no donbt of that; its Windsor & Newton’s best linen canvas. I ’ll turn it face to the waE i f you’d like to see the texture.” “Yeway good,” he rejoinpd, in a lazy sort of way, “bnt I meant the picture. You know we call a picture a canvas now. “Yass, yass.” He had every murder that had ever been committed on his mother tongue at his finger’s ends. Un­der this crust of absurd affectation he * tumedonttobe.aman of intelligence, and with glimmerings of good sound sense. I shall never forget how he sat down on the affirmative yes, and what immense service he got out of it by dif­ferent intonations, which severally affirmed,doubted, dissented and inquired but always “yass yass.” It is a. shame that a man of education should play such pranks. In tiie march of an idiotic fashion, pure English will event­ually go about the street a ragged vagrant. ____________ .

THE BARKEEPERS’ POWER. Petroleum V . Nasby.

After-it wuz finely agreed that I shood cum back on the old footin, and wuz to be decently pervided for, Bas- com kicked and went back onto the hul arangement. In the most brootal maner he told me, nite afore last, that his liker cost money, and he’d be dam ,ef he’d set it out on sieh prospecks nv payment ez I bed held out to him. He demandid cash on delivery, and in­sisted on hevin the ten cents per drink paid in advance to prevent mistakes.

It is curus wat a power these bar­keepers hev over us! Ef I shood go go into a clothin’ store, and the clothin’ man shood insistmpon pay1 in advance I shood lof him to shorn. I shood re­mark that the weather wuz warm, -and that clothin’ wuz only a luxury anyhow, that Adam and Eve, when a state xly inosens, didn’t need clothin, and why should.I? Money being the.root nv all evil, and I hevin none of the root, and bein’ consekently, in a state nv inosens, why shood I want clothin’ ennff to go to any truble about it ?

We kin manage to laf-at the' clothin’ men, the butcher s and bakers, but when it comes to liker, that Is a seriousmater, and not to be lafed at. Whatever else' we may lack, that -and terbacke? we must'hev,

And so Iwnzcompeledtoconipermise with Bascom, ez hoomiligtin ez ’ it wuz. He'knos his vantage gronnd—he "knbs the msashiability of a diseased -Stumicki