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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTAKI.IKIIED IN 1854, I By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. | , VOL. 18. Ji .New Orleans, August 3, lsß3. TO THE PUBLIC. Tuvestig-ate for Yourselves! 1 Postmaster-General Gresham having pub lished a wilful and malicious falsehood in regard to the character of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, the following facts are given to the public, to prove his state ment, that we are engaged in a fraudulent business, to be false and untrue: Amount of prizes paid by The Louisiana State Lottery Company from January 1, 1879, to present date: Paid to Southern Express Cos., New Orleans,T. M. Wescoat, Manager.? 1,380,309 Paid to Louisiana National Bank, Jos. 11. Oglesby, President 403,900 Paid to Louisiana State National BaDk. S. H. Kennedy, President. 123,100 Paid to New Orleans National Bank, A. Baldwin, President 88,530 Paid to Union National Bank, S. Charlaron, Cashier 04,450 Paid to Citizens’ Bank, E. L. Car riere, President 57,000 Paid to Germania National Bank, Jules Cassard, President 30,000 Paid to Hibernia National Bank, Chas. Palfrey, Cashier 37,000 Paid to Canal Bank, Ed. Toby, Cashier 13,150 Paid to Mutual National Bank, Jos. Mitchell, Cashier 8,200 Total paid as above 52,253,650 Paid in sums of under 51,000 at the ' various offices of the Company the United (States 2,627,410 i ' Total paid by all 54,881,060 For the truth of the above facts we refer the public to the officers of the above-named corporations, and for our legality and stand ing to the Mayor and Officers of the City of New Orleans, to the State authorities of Louisiana, and also to the U. S. Officials of Louisiana. We claim to be legal, honest and correct in all our transactions, as much so as any business in the country. Our standing is conceded by all who will inves tigate, and our stock has for years been sold at our Board of Brokers, and owned by many of our best known and respected citi zens. M A. DAUPHIN, President. 4TGAPITAL PRIZE, %75,000. JL9 Tickets only 95* Shares In proportion LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY CO. “ We do hereby certify that we. supervise the iArangements for all Monthly and Semi-Annual Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Company, and in person manage and control the Drawings themselves , and that the same arc conducted with honesty , fairness , and in good € faith toward all parties, and zee authorize the mCompany to use this certificate , with fac simile, mkf our signatures attached , in its advertisementss ” Commissioners. Incorporated in 1868 for 25 years by the Legislature for Educational ana Charitable purposes—with a capital ot ?i,000,000 —to *, which a reserve fund of o \ 'r $530,000 has 4 'nee been added, .. ■p'y ah -overt. fl&O/r vote its | .ncliise was made a part of the present iooate Constitution adopted December 2d, JvA.D., 1879. S' The only Lottery ever voted on and endorsed B by the people of any State. ■ It never scales or postpones. f Its Grand Single IVninbcr Drawing, ■take place monthly. ■ A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO [WIN A FORTUNE. TENTH GRAND | DRAWING, CLASS It, AT NEW OR ■LEANS, TUESDAY, October , ISS3 Fieist Monthly Drawing. ■Capital Prize, $75,000. Hi 00,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each. W Fractions, in Fifths in proportion. ■ LIST OP PRIZES. ■ 1 CAPITAL PRIZE of $75,000 F 1 do do 23,000 B 1 do do 10,000 F 2 PRIZES OF $6,000 12,000 ■ 5 do 2,000 10,000 ■lO do 1,000 10,000 ■2O do 500 10,000 ■ 100 do 200 20,000 K 300 do 100 30,000 nsoo do 50 25,000 ■ TOO do 23 25,000 “ • APPROXIMATION PRIZES. " ' roximation Prizes of $750 6,750 . do do 500 4,500 da do 250 2,250 1967 ITiltes, tv.. -v2'65.500 Application for rates to clubs should he made only to the office of the Company in New Orleans. For information write clearly, giving full address. Make P. O. Money Orders paya ble and address Registered Letters to NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orlean., I.a. Ordinary Letters by Mail or Express to IV3. A. DAUPHIN, New Orleans;, or M. A. DAUPHIN, 4J07 Seventh Washington, 1>.1% septl2-4w { DR STRONG’S PILLS. The Old, Well Tried, Wonderful Health Renewing Remedies. STRONC’S SANATIVE PILLS for the Liver. A speedy cure lor Liver Complaint, Regulating tiie Bowels, Purify ing the Blood, Cleansing from Malarial Taint. A perfect cure tor Sick lleiul ache, Constipation and Dyspepsia. STRONG’S PECTORAL PILLS insure healthy appetite, good digestion,reg ularity of the bowels. A sure remedy for Colds and Rheumatism. A precious boon to delicate females, soothing and bracing the nervous system, and giving vigor and health to every fibre of the body. Sold by Druggists. For Pamplets, etc-, address C. E. Hull & Cos., Box 650, New York City. Fashion catalogue For Fall and Winter 1883-84. SEibiTT To any one sending full name and address. Contains lithographed Fashion Plates and above 1,800 beautiful Wood Engravings, illustrating the very latest novelties in La dies’ and Children’s Suits and Cloaks, Un derwear; Infants’ Outfits, Hosiery, Gents’ ’.Furnishing Goods, Laces, Fancy Goods, Sil verware, Jewelry, Watches, Boots and Shoes, Hair Goods, etc., etc. Prices lower than •those of any other house, if. F. koch fOV, (HU Avc,. A aotli SI., New York. IVORCES—No publicity; residents of ry State. Desertion, Non-Support. Advice and applications for stamps. W. H. LEE, Att’y, 239 B’way, N. Y. Newspaper Advertising: Hureaii, 10 Spruce Street, New York. 1 liike an Evil Spirit. In olden times it was thought that evil spirits came m tnrouglPcraCKS and keyholes. The generally approved way to keep them outVasYonplug up the keyholes and stop the cracks with cotton. Notwithstandingjthese preventive measures, the evil things had their own way and often' as they pleased. So comes malaria now-a-uays. We try to keep it out of the keyhole and it comes in by the crack. We stop up the crack, and lo! it comes from aleak in the plumbing, or an opening from some neglected drain, or from some unsuspected source and unguarded direction We cannot always keep malaria out, but we can give it battle and drive its effects from our systems. If Brown’s Iron Bitters is taken in time, malaria has not a ghost of a chance. This is the great family medi cine. Your druggist sells it, and you ought to keep a bottle in the house. scptl9-lytopcol nrm lp cli c ew J WHALING j BIG BABMSi j -JOIIIsr B. SHAW, j Forsyth Street, ; AMERTCTTS, G-.A. i IK Shoes! Shoes! Shoes! THE LARGEST STOCK EVER EXHIBITED IN AMIGOS. OB 550 DIFFIERT STYLES. Including Ladies, Misses anil Children’s PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM HADE GOODS. ALL OF WHICH I AM OFFERING AT BARG-AIU PRICES I SPECIAL DRIVES IN NEWPORT and OXFORD TIES, OPERA, VICTORIA and JERSEY LILY SLIPPERS, AND ALL LOW CUT SUMMER WORK TO CLOSE. This Immense (]p Mus t be Reduced. The host value for the PRICE can always be obtained every day in the week (Sunday excepted) from G a. ni., to 8 p. in., at JOHN R. SHAW’S Forsyth Street, Arqericus, Ga., DOJV'T I *OU FORGET ITS How Many Miles Do You Drive? THo Odometer ■V57i.1l I*oll. This instrument is no larger than a watch. It tells the exact number of miles driven to the l-100th part ofa mile; counts up to 1,000 miles; water and dust tight; always in order; saves horses from being over-driven; is easily attached to the wheel of a Buggy, carriage,ls it Iky, Wagon, Hoad Carl, Sulky Plow, Reapur, jilower, or other vehicle. Invaluable to Liverymen, Pleas ure Drivers, Physicians, Farmers, Sur veyors, Draymen, Expressmen, Stage Owners, Ac. Price only 85.00 each, one third the price - of any other Odometer. When ordering give diameter of the wheel. Sent by mail on receipt of price, post-paid. Address lIIcDONNELL ODONtETEII CO., 3 North I.a Salic St., Chicago. B3T’Send for circular. ju!2s-w3m AYER’S Ague Cure IS WARRANTED to cure all cases of ma larial disease, such .’is Fever and Ague, Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Coni plaint. In case of failure, after due trial dealers are authorized, by our circular <>* July Ist, 1882, to refund the money. Dr. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. dye Harris. Ben Davis Takes pleasure in announcing to the citi zens of Americas, that lie has established a DYElNGestablisliment next to the Tele graph office, on Jackson st., whore he is pre pared to dye in the very best manner Ladies and Gents Clothing. Specimens of dyeing can be seen at my shop, Wo k warranted toplease. Respectfully septß-lm BEN DAVIS. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1883. TUTTS PI LLS TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, and MALARIA. From these sources arise three-fourths of the diseases of the human race. These symptoms indicate their existence: liO* ol Appetite, Bowels costive, Sick Head ache, fullness after eating, aversion to exertion of body or mind, Eructation of food, Irritability of temper, Low spirits, A feeling of having neglected some duty, Dizziness, Fluttering at the Heart, Dots before the eyes, highly col ored Urine, CONSTIPATION” and de mand the use of a remedy that acts directly on the Liver. As alaver medicine TUTT’S PILLS have no actual. Their action on the Kidneys and Skin is also prompt; removing all impurities through these three “ scav engers of the system,” producing appe tite, sound digestion, regular stools, a clear skin and a vigorous body. TUTT’S PILLS cause no nausea or griping nor interfere ■with daily work and are a perfect ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. HE FEELS LIKE A NEW MAN. “I have had Dyspepsia, with Constipa tion, two years, and havo tried ten different kinds of pills, and TUTT’S are tho first that hare done mo any good. They have cleaned me out nicely. My appetito is splendid, food digests readily, and I now have natural passages. I feel like a now man.” W. D. EDWARDS, Palmyra, O. Sold everywhere,age. Office, II Murr.y St.,N.Y. TUH’S HAIR DYE. Grat Hair or Whiskers changed In stantly to a Glossy Black by a singlo ap. plication of this Dyk. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of $ 1. Office, 44 Murray Street, New York. TUTT’S MAHUAI OF USEFUL RECEIPTS FREE. TO THE PUBLIC Owing to tiie short crop of cottou which liar, boon made this season, we have decided to; gin ut 30 cents per hundred, or $1,150 per bale, from September Ist. We will shortly havo running a JLathe Machine, and will furnish Lathes as cheap as anyone in this State or the seven States will. Wo most respectfully solicit vour patronage in our line. HAWKINS & JACKSON, at old stand of Burkhalter & Hooks, septt-tf YOYA'iYY. M.ANUEIt. Pollock, in his beautiful poem enti tled “The Course of Time,” has de picted this foul pest of society as fol lows: “ ’Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words; Slauder the foulest whelp of sin. The man In whom this spirit entered was undone. His tongue was set on lire of hell: his heart Was black as death; Ills legs were faint witli iiaste To propagate t!:- lie his soul had framed; His pillow was the peace of families Destroyed, the sight of innocence re proached, Broken friendships, and the strife of broth erhoods Vet did he spare his sleep, and hear the clock Number the midnight watches, on his bed Devising mischief more; and early rose And mado most hellish meals of good men’s names." AN INDIAN SCARE. The Lake Street House, Chicago, one of the earliest hotels of Chicago, of which tiie bibulous Mark Beaubien was mine host, stood near the river, on Lake streot, and was perhaps the most popular hostelry of its time in tiie city. It is not generally known that this house is still in existence, but such in reality is the case. It wi removed one block northwest < . its original site, where, in a much imp ov ed and remodeled state, it now stands, bearing no suggestion of antiquity in its outward appearance. Many inci dents are related of this hotel, and of the scenes and incidents which occur red there. Some of these are well worth repeating, but limited space for bids the mention of more than one gnest who stopped at the house and were given the host chamber sometimes had a strange and startling experience. A man would go to bed and sleep soundly until just before dawn when ho would be awakened by a cry of “In dians, Indians.” At the same time someone would rush into the room, snatch the bed-clothing from the bed, j and dart out again before the astonish ed guest could get his eyes fairly opened. With visions of infuriated savages, glancing tomahawks and (low ing blood, the terrified man would jump put of bed, hurry himself into his garments and bolt out of the room confident, that a terrible Indian mas sacre was in progress. But imagine bis overwhelming amazement and con fusion when, on rushing into the cui sine of the hotel, where breakfast was in course of preparation, he would be coolly informed that lie was alarming himself without cause—that there were no signs of an Indiau outbreak or any disturbance of the peace what ever. To make the mystery more dense, nobody could tell him who the person was that had awakened him in such an outrageous manner. lie would question every one in the hotel,hut each and all of them would wear a look of hopelessness bewilderment, and either pronounce the whole affair a perplex ing puzzle, or insinuate that he had been dreaming. This same thing occurred at differ ent times, and with different guests, always with the same, result. The victims generally arrived at the con clusion that it was a practical joke, perpetrated by somebody in the hotel for his own individual amusement. One night a man stopped at the house who had heard about this trick, and was prepared to baffle the joker if any attempt should be made to deprive him of his morning nap. Sure enough, shortly before daylight, he was arous ed by a terrible commotion. His door was thrown open and somebody plun ged iuto the room, shouting in thrilling tones: “Indians, Indians; quick, for your lives! The Indians are upon us!” The bedclothes were whisked oft' the bed, and the mysterious intruder van ished. The inau coolly rose, picked up the bedclothes from the floor, put them back in their place, crawled into bed again, and was soon enjoying a com fortable nap. Some time later a hand shook him gently. He looked up into the anxious face of the landlord. “Say, mister, it’s 0 o’clock; you’ll have to get up.” j CTOHEIsr ~R. SHAW, : ; Forsyth Street, : AMERICUS, GA. j “Why, what’s the matter?” “Well, breakfast ought to have been ready an hour ago, and we can’t finish it till you get up.” “Do you take me for the cook?” “No, but I want that sheet you’re lying on. It’s the only one in the house that can be used for a tablecloth, and we want to set the table.” That was the explanation. The In dian scare was a ruse to get the sheet for the breakfast talJe.” Silver Greek, N. Y., Feb. 0, 1880. Gents—l have been very low, and have tried everything, to no advan tage. I heard your Hop Bitters recom mended by so many, I concluded to give them a trial. 1 did, and now aui around, and constantly improving, and am nearly as strong as ever. W. 11. Wellbr. “What’s the matter with Johnny?” “Sure, ma’am, the bye’s sick. He tumbled off wan of tliim wheels with out a carriage to it.” 13y taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla many a poor sufferer who submits to tho surgeon’s knife Licanse of malig nant sores and scrofulous swellings, might he saved, sound and whole. This will purge out the corruptions which pollute the blood, and by which such complaints are originated and fed. TRUTH. The following beautiful illustration of the power of truth, is from the pen of S. H. Hammond, formerly editor of the Albany State Register. He was an eye witness of the scene in one of the higher courts of New York. A girl uine years of age, was offered as a witness against a prisoner who was on trial for felony committed in her father’s house. Now, Emily 1 , said the counsel for the prisoner, who was offered as a witness, “I desire to know if you understand the nature of an oath?” “I don’t know what you mean,” was the simple answer. “There your honor, said the counsel addressing the court, “is anything fur ther necessary to demonstrate the val idity of my objection? This witness should be rejected. She does not com prehend the nature of an oath?” I “Let’s see,” said the Judge. “Come , here my daughter?” ; Assured by the kind tone and man j tier of the Judge, the child stepped to -1 ward him, and looked confidently up in his face, with a calm clear eye, and in a manner so artless and frank, that it went straight to the heart. I “Did you ever take an oath?” in- I quired the judge. The little girl step ' ped back with a look of horror and the red blood mantled in a blush all over her face as she answered: ■ “No sir.” She thought that he intended to in quire if she ever blasphemed. ! “I do not mean that,” said thejudgo ! who saw her mistake; “I mean were you ever a witness before?” “No, I was never in court before,” was the answer. Ho handed her the Bible, open and asked: “Do you know that book my daugh ter?” She looked at it and answered, “yes sir, it is the Bible.” “Do you ever read it?” lie asked. “Yes sir, every evening.” “Can you tell me what the Bible is?” inquired the judge. “It is the word of the great God,” she answered. “Well, place your hand upon this Bible and listen to what I say, and he repeated slowly and solemnly the oath usually.administered to witnesses. “Now, said the judge, you have sworn as a witness; will you tell me what will befall you if you do not tell the truth?” “I shall be shut up in the State prison?” answered the child. “Anything else?” asked the judge. “I shall never go to heaven,” she replied. “How do you know this?” asked the Judge again. The child took the bible, and, turn ing rapidly to the chapter containing the commandments, pointed to the in junction, “Tlion ahalt not hear false witness agaiut thy neighbor.” I learn ed that before I could read.” “Has any one talked to you about being a witness in court here against this man?” inquired the Judge. “Yes, sir,” she replied, “My mother heard they wanted me to be a witness, and last night she called me to her room and asked me to tell her the ten commandments, and when we kneeled down together, and she prayed that I might understand how wicked it was to bear false witness against thy neigh bor, and that God would help me, a little child to tell the truth as it was before him. And when I came up here with father, she kissed me, and told me to remember the ninth command ment, and that God would hear every word that I said. Do you believe this?” asked the Judge, while a tear glistened in his eye, and his lips quivered with emo tion. “Yes, sir,” said the child, with a voice and a manner that showed her conviction of its truth was perfect. “God bless you my child,” said the Judge; “you have a good mother. The witness is competent he chntinued. “Were 1 on trial for my life and in nocent of the charge against me I would pray God for such a witness as this. Let her he examined.” She told her story with the simplic ity of a child, as she was, but there was a directness about it that carried conviction of its truth to every heart. The counsel plied her with indefinite and ingenious questioning, but she varied from her first statement in noth ing. The truth as spoken by a little child was sublime. Falsehood and per jury had proceeded. The prisoner had entrenched himself in lies. Witnesses had falsified facts in his favor and villiany had manufactured for him a sham defence. But before her testi mony it was fcattered like chafif. The little child of whom the mother had prayed for strength to be given to sperk the truth as it was before God, broke the cunning devices of matured villiany like a potter’s vessel. The strength that her mother prayed for was given in sublime and terrible sim plicity—terrible, I mean to the prison er and his associates—with which she spoke like a revelation from God him self. No child can be healthy if worms abound in its stomach. Send for Shtiner’s Indian Vermituge, the r-liable remedy, The late Thomas Hood, driving in the country one day, observed a notice beside a fence, “Jieware the Dog.” There not being any signs of a dog. llood wrote on ihe hoard “Ware be the Dog?” WIT AND HUMOR. After all, the coachman and the ac tor have something in common—they are both pretty apt to succeed if ihey handle their lines well. “A fellow must sow his wild oats you know,” exclaimed John. “Yes, replied Annie, but one shouldn’t begin sowing so soon after cradling.” “Are you dead, Tim?” said an Irish father to his son, who bad fallen down a well. “Not dead, father, but spache less,” came up from the depth of the well. “Woman,” says Mr. Eastman, “is a problem.” So she is, and though a problem we can never hope to solve, it is one we shall never, never be willing to give up. In the temple of fame, it is said, there is a niche for every honest man; but the truth compvels us to add that in that same temple there are a great many niches to let. A little girl nine years old, having attended a soiree, being asked by her mother on returning home, how she en joyed herself, answered, “lam full of happiness; I couldn’t be any happier unless I oouldgrow. An old German buried his wife, and was telling a sympathizing neighbor of her death. Ilis friends enquired if the lamented “was resigned to her fate.” “Resigned!” exclaimed the hon est Teuton. “Mein Gott, she had to be.” Ignorance is sometimes very delight ful. “Wore you hurt near any one of the vertebrae?” asked a lawyer of a witness who wanted damages. “No,” was the answer, “I was hurt right on the race course, close to the Judges’ stand.” “Man and wife are one, are they,” said she. Yes; what of it?” said he, suspiciously. “Why, in that case,” said she, “I came home awfully tipsy last night and feel terribly ashamed of myself this morning.” lie never said a word. The g§flP“j£flF“of the Yanko girl of the . are small, tapering, and beauti fully shaped. Her ii as beautiful as the '**, and she is without her ||; her frown is a f, and her figure excites ! ! ! of surprise and a hankering to - A - her. A Philadelphia boy was taken to a symphony concert recently, and on re turning said he guessed those fiddlcis must like their teacher, although he was always threatening to rap them over the knuckles with nis black ruler he did not hit them once. A railway engineer saying that the usual life of a locomotive was only thirty years, a passenger remarked that such a tough looking thing ought to live longer than that. “Well re sponded the engineer, “perhaps it would if it didn’t smoke so much!” A Sunday School teacher once ask ed: “What bird is large enough to carry off a man?” A little girl suggest ed a lark. And then she explained: “Mamma said papa wouldn’t be home until Monday, because he had gone off on a lark. It is Raid that a waxwork figure of Franklin, on exhibition in France, is labelled: “Franklin, inventor of elec tricity. * * * This savant, after having made seven voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands, and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever discov ered.” A girl at a boarding-school wrote to her father, who was an eminent lawyer, asking if she “hadn’t a right to object to a great horrid dog’s always taking the whole of the sidewalk.” The old lawyer wrote back. “You arc right in objecting to the principle that the dog is entitled to the whole sidewalk, but practically , if he wants it you had bet ter let him have it.” A charming instance of ladies’ boar ding school superficial education occur ed recently. A gentleman introducing a friond, born in Athens, to a lady, mentioned the stranger’s nationality. After a time the lady, who had natu rally heard a good deal of tho Greeks of late, inquired; “Are you really a Greek?” “Certainly 1 am,” he re plied. “Ah yes, but are you a modern Greek?” she asked. When Fenelon was almoner to Louis XIV., his majesty was astonished to find one Sunday, instead of a numerous congregation, only himself and the priest. “What is tho reason of this?” asked the king. “I caused it to be giv en out, sire,’ replied Fenelon,‘that your majesty did not attend chapel to-day, that you might know who came to wor ship God, and who to flatter the king.” I>i<l Slie Die. “No! “She lingered and suffered along, pining away all the years.” “Tho doctors doing her no good; “And at last was cured by these Hop Bit ters the papers say so mueli about.” “Indeed’ Indeed!" “How thankful we should be for that medicine.” A Daughter’s Misery. “Eleven years our daughter suffered on a bed of misery. “From a complication of Kidney, liver rheumatic trouble and Nervous debility, “Under the care of the best physicians, “Who gave liar disease various names. “And now she is restored to us in good health hy as simple a remedy as Hop Bit ters, that we had shunned for years before using it.”THE Barents. Father is Getting; Well. “My daughters say; “How much better father is since he used Hop Bitters.” “He is getting well after ills long suffor ing from a disease declared incurable.” “And we are so glad that he used your Bitters.’’—A Lahvo* Utica N. Y. | FOUB DOLLARS PER ANNUM. NO. 104. AYER’S Sarsaparilla cures Kheumati&ni, Neuralgia, Rheuma tic Gout, General Debility, Catarrh, and all disorders caused by a thin and impover ished, or corrupted, condition of tlie blood; expelling the blood-poisons from tbo system, enriching and renewing the blood, and re storing its vitalizing power. During a long period of unparalleled use fulness, Avuuys YPAUiLLA has proven its * fob: to the cure of all dis eases i ' Rf p< i blood and weakened vitality, r;. f \< concentrated ex tract of Sarsaparilla and other blood purifying; roots, combined with lodide of Potassium and Iron, and is the safest, most reliable, and most economical blood* puvilior and blood-food that can be used. Inflammatory Rheumatism Cured. “Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has cured me of the Inflammatory HUeumatisin, with which I bavo suffered lor many Years. T . . _ w.H. Moore.” Durham, la., March 2, 1882. “ Bight years ago I had an attack of Rheumatism so severe that I could not move from the bed, or dress, without help. I tried several remedies without much if any relief, until 1 took Aveh’s Sarsapa rilla, by the use of two bottles of which I was completely cured. I have not been troubled with the Hheumatism since. Have sold large quantities of your Sarsaparilla, and it stiil retain* its wonderful popularity. The many notable cures it has effected in this vicinity con vince me that it is the best blood medicine ever offered to the public. K. F. Harris.” lhver St., Jiuc.kland, Mass., May 13,1882. “East March I was so weak from gener al debility,that 1 could not walk without help. Following the advice of a friend, I commenced taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and before 1 had used three bottles I felt as well as I ever did in iny life. I have been at work now for ttfo months, and think your Sarsaparilla tlio greatest blood medicine in the world. James Maynard.” 520 West 42d St., Now York, July 19, 1882. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla cures Scrofula and all Scrofulous Complaints, Erysip elas, Eczema, Ringworm, Blotches, Sores, Boils, Tumors, and Eruptions of the Skin. It clears the blood of all impuri ties, aids digestion, stimulates tho action of the bowels, and thus restores vitality and strengthens tho Avhole system. PREPARED BY Dr.J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mas*. Sold by all Druggists; price sl, six bottles, $5. THE NEW PATENT DUST-PROOF STEM WISHING OPI FACE CASE, iIANTJFACTUKED BY THE American Watch Cos., WAL7HA&I, MASS. This case is formed in one solid piece with out jointer seam, opening in front only, thus avoiding the usual Cap, and securing greater strength and durability. These watches are all open face. The bezel, into which an extra strong crystal is fitted with an especially prepared water proof cement, is attached to the case by screwing it thereon, and thus forms an air tight junction with the body of the case, which is proof against dust and moisture. To railroad mon, travelers, miners, lum bermen and others who are almost constant ly exposed and who have to make frequent reference to the watch, these qualities are of the utmost importance. The Following- Letters tell tlicir own Story. “Valdosta, Georgia, July 20,1882. “1 sold one of your Patent Dust-Proof Oases about toil months ago, and the other day it came back to me with the request to make it wind easier. On examination I found that the stem was rusty, and I Inquir ed into the cause of it. The gentlemen stated to me that lie was starting some saw logs that had lodged in tlio bend of the river, when ids chain caught in a bush and threw his watcli into about twelve feet of water, and lie was about two hours finding it. When lie got it out it was running and he thought all right. In about three months lie found that the stem was hard to turn and sent it to me. I can say that the watcli is all that the company claims for it and recommend it to all railroad and mill men. B. W. BENTLY." “Clinton, lowa, April 29,1881. “I wisli you would send me a spring for the Win. Ellery 'Watch. * * * By the way tliia is a watch I sold in your Screw Bezel Case to a farmer last fall. The first of Jan uary lie lost the watch in the woods, and found it this week in about one foot of water. It had lain three months and over in snow and water, with but slight injury to the watch—-only a hair spring. “C. S. RAYMOND.” The above were very severe tests, and de monstrate beyond a doubt, that for any rea sonable length of time during which a watch might he under water it would receive no injury whatever. We make these cases in botli gold and sil ver, aild as a Perfectly Dust-Proof Stem Winding VVanil Case, Challenge l>i. World to Produce its Equal. Forsale by al! first-class J ewelers. augio-3m ON MORTGAGE. APPLY TO W. J. DIBBLE, Heal JEstate Agent. Office Up Stairs, over Peoples' National Bank. septs,3m REMOVAL, Messrs. HINTON & MATTHEWS have removed their Law Office. They can now be found over the Warehouse of Council A Williford. septs-M