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VEGETINE
■ i'nrif es the Blood, Renovates and In
vigorates the icho/e System,
Its Medical Properties are
ALTERATIVE, TONIC, SOLVENT AND
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Vol. 3.
Custer’s Chivalry.
1 lie fate Of Gen Custer lias brought,
vividly t*3 Blind a circumstance contuvt
ed with that weary and severe campaign,
which) commencing on the upper Rapi
dan m the spring of 1864, stretched out
in one long, sweeping battlefield around
through the jungles ot the Wilderness,
the slashes of Hanover, the pines of the
Peninsular and the Dinwiddle forests,
up to Amelia, Parmville and Appomat
to.v. When active movements common,
ced in May, 18G4, and Grant had com
menced his swing fo the left, Lee facing
him iii a parallel are, with Richmond as
the object ot uncovering to one, and ot
protecting to the other, the first few days
were signalized by some ot the closest
fights of the war. Grant’s cavalry had
been thoroughly reorganized, and under
Sheridan, with such lieutenants as Cus
ter, Torbert and Wilson, was a tonuida
ble body. The Confederate cavalry,
too, was in the flower of its strength and
confidence. Each feeling tor the
enemy’s lines in the dense forests of
Spotsylvania, aud frequently sadden en
counters were the result,’ In one of
these a regiment of Rosser’s command
became suddenly engaged with a portion
of that of Custer at very close quarters,
necessitating a charge through a narro a'
open space, up to the edge of the wood
in which Custer’s men were posted, aud
from which, being partly protected by a
fence, they delivered a destructive tire,
which, with their knowledge ot
the enemy’ssuperiorposition and strength
made tne Virginians falter. Rosser, as
was bis wont, dashed into the open field
to rally them. Of commanding and
striking figure, lie did not dream that
over that line of foes, directing and con
trolling their fire, flashed an eye like
Mars to command, but impressive as a
woman’s to the claims of friendship, and
which, even in the moment of bloody
strife, recognizing him as an old Inend
of West Point, was beaming upon him
in kindness and love. There was a
horseman that day m who wondered why
the enemy’s fire so suddenly ceased,
when Rosser, recognizing the us 'lessees*
of a further attack, withdrew his men
Rut the next day, as they kept moving
by the line of the ,swing,’ a farmer
lit hose bouse they passed handed a Con
federate trooper a note addressed to
General T. L. Ro.ser, which had been
left with him by a Federal officer. The
note was delivered as addressed, and
read somewhat thus:
Dear (The name used was the
old familiar nickname of West Point,
and not now remembered by this writer.)
You expose yourself too niuoh on the
field old fellow. I recognized you yes
terday, and with difficulty saved your
life by stopping my fire. Don't do so
again, but h\e to laugh over old times,
after the war, with you friend,
G. A. Custer.
P. S.— I whipped Fitz Lee on
Wednesday, and intend to give you a
good dressing the first chance I get iu a
fair fit Id.
As Kosser rode along at the head of
his column of bold riders in gray, his
dark face lighted with a pleasant smile
as he read the letter, and he broke into
a hearty laugh when he reached the
postscript, remarking that ‘Fanny,’ (the
nickname given Custer by his comrades
for his fair complexion and waving
blonde hair) always was a good fellow,
but a little too fond ot bragging. Yet
he came near making good his intention
a short time rfter, when ho made a gal
lant dash through Rosser's line at Tre
villian's station, and impressed the Con
federate boys with the belief that he was
the most spirited leader of their enemies.
—Alexandria ( Va.) Sentinel.
Tomato Beer.
A correspondent tells how to make to
mato beer, lie says : GaMier the fruit
once a week, stem, wash and mash it;
strain through a coarse linen bag, and to
every gallon of the juice add a pound of
good moist brown sugar. Let it stand
nine days, and then pour it off from the
pulp, Which will settle in the bottom of
the jar. Bottle it closely, and the long
er you keep it the belter it is. When
you want to use it, take a pitcher that
will hold hs much as you want to use—
for my family I use a gallon pitcher—fill
it nearly full of fresh sweetened water,
add some of the preparation already de
scribed, and a tew drops of the essence
of lemon, and you will find it equal to
the best lemonade, costing almost noth
ing. To every gal'on of sweetened wa
ter 1 add a half tumbler of beet.
We saw a mosquito work about ten
minutes yesterday trying to get his bill
through the skin of a man who owes us
two years subscription. How we laugh
cd at that demoralized little insect as,
with a look of disgnst, he folded up his
little bill, placed it in his pocket, aud
went tor another victim- t,
CONYERS. OA„ AUGUST H, 187(5.
Why Governor Samuel ,1. Tildcn
Will be Elceted President.
Becauso the merchant and Ranker
sees in him a practical man of business,
wiio does nothing at loose ends, and
whose financial views, full of wisdom
and inoder ition, tho results ot vast ex
perience, will lead nobody into the
bushes.
Because the granger and the fanner
beholds in him tho man with a clear
head and an iron nerve, who will clean
out the thieves, reduce the taxes, iestore
confidence to tho grain and produce mar
ke s, bring up the price ot lands and give
the producer a living chance to cab hi*
acres, as well as his soul his own.
Because tne irishman knows our ex
cellent ‘Uncle Sam' of old as one whose
kind and liberal hand has been streched
out over and over again to the men of
48; as one who, the companion of Addis
Emmett and the associate ot O'Conner,
was never known to go back on the spirit
of 98.
Because the German recognizes him
as the champion of civil and religious
freedom, the irien 1 of free schools, not a
meddler in their Sunday pastimes or li
cense laws, and the persistent enemy ot
all rings and cliques that have heretofore
misused them under tho guise ot friend
ship.
Because the colored man observes* in
him the person and Presideui who will
if elected, recognizes Ins rights un
der the emancipation proclamation, en
force all constitutional amendments in
his interest, guarantee him full rights be
tore the law, and see to it that his swid
lers, both in and out of the Freedmeu’s
bank and bureax, will have visited upon
them swift and deserved punishment,
that is accored in a penitentiary to t hteves
and plunderers, be they native or foreign
white or b'ack.
Then again, because a vast majority
of Americans, native and adopted, have
been easy victims, under false promises
of rings and cliques composed mainly of
dishonest Radical politicians, wilii here
and there a corrupt Democrat .injected,
to give apparent, respectability to their
illegal outrages and infamous swindles
of the people of all classes wjio con
stitute the masses. To all such ‘Un
clc Sam” will pay his respects; his hand
of justice will relieve the people, and
they can then once more enjoy the bless
ings of a free country, the liberty guarnn
teed tin m as American citizens, and that
this government sha'l be once again as
originally designed.—[ Washington
Capital.
Max Adler Runs for the Presided
<•>-.
I have pretty much made up my mind
now to run for the presidency. What
the country wants is a candidate
who cannot be injured by investigation
of his past history, so that the enemies
ot the party will he able to vake up
things that nobody ever beard of before.
If you know the most about a candidate,
to begin, every attempt to spring things
on him will be checkmated. Now, lam
going to enter the field with an open
record. lam going to own up in ad
vance to all the wickedness I have done,
and it any congressioal committee is
disposed to prowl around my biography,
in the hope of finding any dark and
deadly deed which I have secreted, why,
let it prowl.
In the first place, I admit that I did
tree a rheumatic grandfather of mine
in the winter of 1859. He was old and
inexpert in climbing trees. But with
i eartless brutality that is characteristic
of me, I van him out of the front door
in his night-shirt, at the point cf a-shot
gun, and caused him to howl up a maple
tree, where he remained all night, while
I emptied shot into his legs. I did this
because he snored. I will do it again if
I everfiiave another grandfather. I am
as inhuman now as I was in 1859. No
iheumat : o shall snoie at my house.
The last time I ran for the presidency*
there were some unpleasant talk about
my implication iu a transaction with tb?
widow Pollock's ducks. The matter
was hushed up; but I have no objection
to admitting the truth respecting it. I
haye always bad a favorite theory that
roast ducks were conducive to hysterical
symptoms, and as every instinct of my
nature prompted me to protect the wid
ow from the ravages of hysteria, I en
tered the coop in the garden, and regret
fully but firmly removed the ducks. The
fact that she began a prosecution against
nn is not a matter of consequence. It
is the fate of the philanthropist to be
misunderstood. But duty is rny guiding
*tar, and if it leads me to the ducks or
destruct on I shall follow it.
I candidly ack.owledge that I ran
away at the battle of Gettysburg. My
1 friends have tried to smooth over (1 is
fact by asserting that I merely got be
hind a tree, that I did it for the purpose
of imitating Washington, who went into
the woods at Valley Forge to say his
prayers. It is a miserable subterfuge.
I struck out in a strait line for the tropic
of Cancer, simply because I was scared.
I wanted my country to be saved, but 1
preferred to have somebody else save
her ; I entertain that preference yet. It
the bubble reputation can be obtained at
the cannons mouth, I am willing to go
there for it provided the cannon is emp
ty. If it is loaded, my immortal and in
flexible purpose is to get suddenly' over
the fenc" and go home. My invariable
practice in war lias been to bring out of
any given fight two-thirds more men
than I took in. This seems to me to be
Napoleonic in its grandeur.
My financial views nre of the most
decided character, but they are not like
ly to, pet haps, to increase my popularity
with the advocates of inflation or con
traction. Ido not insist upon tlie special
supremacy of rag money or hard money,
The great fundamental principle of my
lile is to take any kind that I can get.
The rumor ttiat I buried a dead aunt
under one ot my grape vines is founded
upon fart. The vine* needed fertilizing,
my aunt had to be buried, and 1 dedi
c ited her to this high purpose. Does
this unfit me for the presidency 1 The
constitution of our country does not say
to. No other citizen was considered
unworthy ot the oflice because lie enrich
ed his grape vines with hi* relations.
Why should I be selected as the first
victim of an absurd prejudice 1
I admit also that I am not a friend to
the poor man. I regard the noor man,
in his present condition, as so much
wasted raw material. Cut up and prop
eriy canned, he might be made useful to
fatten the natives of the Cannibal Is
lands, and to improve our export trade
with that country. I shall recommend
legislation on the subject in iny first
message. My campaign cry will be
‘Dessicato the poor workman ! Stuff him
into sausages.’
These are about alUthe worst parts' of
my record. On them I come before the
country. If my country don’t want me
I will go back again. Jut I recommend
myself ns a safe man—a man who starts
from tlie basis of total depravity, and
j urposis to be fiendish to the last.—[lb
lustrated Weekly. *
A in Parliament.
lls name is J. P. Smyth, lie comes
from Ireland, and he is a member of the
house of conimous There was a debate
on home rule, dull snd stupid, when this
Mr. Smyth stands up from a back seat
aud speaks nis little ‘peace.’ Before he
gets half way through the prime minis
ter lias turned to him with an attention
he rarely seems to bestow upon any
member. The whole house is silent and
astonished, and when the speaeker sits
down general and prolonged cheers
break forth, and Iho orator fidns himself
the lion ot the season. Did he then
speak as an Irishman iu favor of Eng
lish rule? Far from it, he denounced homo
rule, only because it did not go far
enough tor him, and demanded the absa
lute separation of Ireland from England.
Surely it must be ad mitted that an Eng
lish audience will give a man fair play
when even what would be deemed a half
disloyal sort of speech is received with
an applause which evidently startled liie
speaker, aud lifts him at once from
obscurity to lame. Tie Times declaie
that the speech recalls the ‘palmiest days
of Irish oratory.’ Everobody .says the
same thing. It is to be hoped that some
of the English members of the house
will now study the style of the Irish gen
man, aud then perhaps it may be posri
ble to understand what they say What
with affectations of the present day and
the drawling aid murmuring and chop
ping of r’s and iug’s (to say nothing of
the h’s) which go on the English lan
guage as spoken in England is fast be
coming umutollgible. The women are
worst —they try to out-vie each other in
affected pronunciation gs they do in pul
ling back their dresses. Let us hope
that Mr. Smyth will help to banish all
this disgusting humbug from the house
of commons. Of course there will bo
great curiosity to hear him again. He
lias beeu five years in the house, never
distinguished himself before. Ilis man
ner, I am I did uot have the
luck to hear his speeh-—was far from
good aud he was very nervous. Yet he
carried everything before him, It is the
old story—, a mau who has any message
to deliver to the world, and can deliver
it with earnestness and force, is sure to
demand a hearing from all.—Londou
Letter.
Grasshoppers Flunked.
According to the Boulder (Col.) News
Mr. James Gould, living near that point
has added a nugget of knowledge to our
grsshopper lore. He says that plowing
the land before tho eggs hutch destroys
them utterly. This being tho ease, the
fanner only has to guard against those
that hatch outside. This ho can eftbot
tnlly do. Mr. Gould lias put in 120
acres of grain, and has kept the hoppcis
oft, depending mainly on dripping coal
oil in the ditches, lie has used sixteen
gallons and destroyed millions. Almost
:ts soon as they are hatched tho myriads
outside instinctively move lor the fields
ol young wheat, plunging in to cross the
ditch and die at the touch of the kero
sene. The ditch is fixed to make eddies,
and a scum ofllie oil floats on the surface.
Mr. Gould says that with what the tunn
els now know about fighting tho hoppers
there is ..o more danger from those that
hatch in tho spring. .About those that
come on the wing, late in the season, he
says the remedy is to sow early, and
then the crops will be out of danger be
fore they come. A year ago it seemed aw
if the locust scourge •might destroy Col
orado farming, making the ciop so un
certain that none would take the risks.
Now it is certaiiilyjknown how to avert
all this danger. It is a w;ndcful tri
umph of the thought of man. He Ins
done what it seemed impossible eotild
ever be done, and henceforth the wheat
harvest will be gathered in all the Col
otado valleys, yeai utter year, in spite of
the locust, thank heaven, and thank hu
man invention too.
The above paper says also that at a re
cent horse show men from the various
sections of the county all told the same
story ot unwearying diligence and tri
umpb over the hoppers, and represent
that the crops never looked more proui
ising at the season.
Banjo lieu.
a TERRrar.K fau from a suspension
BRIDGE.
From the St. Paul Pioneer aud Tribune, July 9.
Yesterday morning the following brief
paragraph appeared in these columns :
Banjo Ben announces that he will walk
the ‘tiller rope ot the suspension bridge
at 3 o’clock this afternoon.’ Ben further
intimates that he would like to see a
crowd present, so that the hat may be
profitably passed at the close of the per
formance. True to his promise, ‘Banjo
Ben,’ as he has been familiarly known at
St. Paul and Minneapolis, walked down
to the, new suspension bridge towers 11
little before three o’clock, and with a
foolhardiness born of insanity or strong
drink, and with the agility of a cat,
clambered up to the working cable
stretched over the east aud west piers
ot the uncompleted structure. The ‘ca
ble’ is a branch of wire not more than
one inch through, over 100 feet above
the ground, and stretching like a thread
between the river banks. Had Ben‘s
past career been of such a nature as to
create a presumption that he was in
earnest concerning his rope-walking
venture, or had any estimate been placed
on the value of his life, it is probable
that the authorities would have prevent
ed 1110 ‘exhibition.’ But Ben was queer,
and many thoughtlessly gathered at the
suspension bridge at three ’o’clock, the
majority believing, after looking up to
the thread swinging at its dizzy height
that Ben would back out. But the ven
turesome or insane Ben, wearing a pair
of dirty white cotton gloves and old
rubber shoes, clambered up to the cable
and promptly began crawling down the
slender wire, hand over hand, aud with
nis rubbered feet crossing it. The
crowd began to suspect that a sickening
sight’was near them, lmtjthey continued
to gaze at the dark object overhead.
Ben crawled down the slope for a dis
tance perhaps ol fifty feet, when it be
came evident that the cable was hurting
his feet. As if to rest them, he swun"
his feet from the wire, and sustained the
weight of his body with his bauds alone
tor several minutes, and then began to
struggle as if trying to raise himself up
to the wire again. But his strength or
courage had deserted him, and, after a
few more ineffectual efforts to regain his
position on the oabl?, his hands lost their
cunning, and the crowd suddenly had its
surfeit of tragic horror. Ben's bold was
broken, the cable gave a peroeiptible
bound upward, and a human body shot
down to the earth ijjtfi (ha speed ot a
rocket- alighting with a sickening ‘4hud’
op, the sloping bank of the river, about
twenty feet from, the water, In the
frightful descent the body had partially
turned so that it fell sideways on the
hard ground, and spectators rushed to
the assistance of the mortally wounded J
street musician aud amateur rope-walker J
THE REGISTER.
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ISTo. 4 .
I)r. Elliott was summoned, mid found
Ben breathing when he came, but pro
nounced the injury mortal, and in a tew
moment* Banjo Ben had breathe'! Ids
last, some of those near him averring
that in his unconscious slate lie faintly
murmured the words he had often spoken
in his life, ’Guilty, jour Honor.* Tim
writer knows no other name for this dead
man. He was not vicious, but an over
powering habit had mastered him com -
pletely and 1m Ims for ten years led a va
grant life, alternating in quick succession
Iroin police stations to that liberty which
enabled him to win whisky by tlnimpiog
that banjo which has given him a name
and a principal accoinp'ishinenl. 11c
has been a vexing problem to the au
thorities ot tho dual cities, but that his
been Radiy solved by the catastrophe of
yesterday afternoon. In tho morniugbo
had entered complaint against two other
colored men of stealing a ‘mouf organ/
but Ben lias withdrawn] it in a higher
Court, and the dead body will be decent
ly, but economically interred at the pub
lic expense.
Collecting a Debt.
Mr. Spiggs, a fat man, ot Summer
street, owed Mr. Shrimp, the grocer and
provision dealer, a bill which the latter
gentleman was anxious ]to collect, but
which, tor some trivial reason, the fat
man had declared lie would settle when
he got ready and not a minute before.
This saucy independence oil the part ot
Spriggs irritated the grocer’s nature to
such an extent that, finally, ho m.i lc the
hold statement to hi- bookkeeper that if
lie didn’t mortify Spiggs into paying that
bill within thirty days lie would sell out
to hiiu for litty cents on a dollar.
The next alternoon Spiggs was pass
ing tho store on the opposite side of the
street when Shrimp ran to the door and
yelled:
‘Come in here and pay that bill of
yours, ami don't go sneaking down the
street with yjtir head hung down like a
sheep!’
•Spiggs took no notice of this demand,
which seemed onlyAp heighten the cred
itor's indignation.
The following day ho saw Spiggs
down town in company with a friend,
when lie approached him and said:
‘You're a pretty man to be wearing a
heaver hat, and here you are owing 1110
for the victuals you and your family
stuffed yourselves with the Thanksgiv
ing !’
lieturniuing home 110 encountered one
of Spigg's daughters on her way with an
associate to take a music lesson, when 110
said;
‘I should think, young lady, that you
would lather go without knowing how
to play and sing till your father gels so
that he can pay for what you eat.'
A day or two later he saw, through
the window, one of Spigy's sons getting
measured at the tailor's for a suit of
clothes, when ho opened the door and
said:
‘Don‘t you trust him a day for those
clothes. Ilis lather has owed me SB6 41)
for sirloin steak aud such things for over
six mouths, and 1 can‘t get a dollar of
it.'
Soon after he saw Mrs. Spiggs and her
daughter chatting with some ladies in
the street-car station, when lie entered
and said :
‘This woman's husband owes me for
the soap that was used in washing that
collar she‘s got on her neck, and I want
my pay for it.’
About a week later he saw Spiggs
riding out with a clergyman, when, after
beckoning him to stop, he said :
‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself}
Here you are passing yourself off to this
minister ol the Gospel as au honest mdiif
when you are OtViuj me for the starch
used in doing up your shirt bosom ’
The next evening Shrimp ca’ledattUo
house of Spiggs to see if he was ready
to settle his bill, hut Spiggs was away.
Mrs. Spiggs was at home, however, en
tertaining some of her lady friends at the
tea-table. Shrimps pushed hrs way into'
the dining Doom and said.'
‘Ladies, the family whose hosintrflft/
you are now enjoyiug owes me for tin)
flour that those hot biscuits there, on the
centre of the table, are made from, aud
I should like to get my mouey for it
most oonfouudedly well.’
Passing out of the gate he met Jijp,
Spiggs oldest daughter fn company with,
a young man whom he suspected was_
her affianced, when he sajd:
‘That girl's cheek wouldn't look so.
plump and lal it it hadn't been for me.
I have beeu letting her have all the fresh,
’doughnuts aud balogna sausage she wan
ted tor the past six months, aud the bill,
hasn't been paid yet’
The young man looked as though he
felt a little ashamed to be found iu such
company, aud was commencing to move
dowp tffe'Afreet, when the young lady
gave wild shriek autf fell senseless Ur
ilje sidewalk. He came back and assist
ed her in the house, aud that night
Spiggs came in p ud the bill in full, with
a liberal interest thereto. Danbury
Scc3.