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JACKSON HERALD
ROBERT S. HOWARD, )
Editor and nblislier . $
VOLUME 11.
C _ W „ DUPRE,
G-a.,
IS HEADQUARTERS for good reliable goods, and the Leader in Low Prices. My stock of General Merchandise is the
largest 1 have ever carried, and the most extensive and best selected stock ever brought to Gainesville. My
THir-y Goods
Is full and replete in every line. The most elegant line of DRESS GOODS. SILKS, SA 1 IKS, PLAIDS, STRIPES and
BROCADES ever offered here. A superb line of FLANNELS, WA'IERPROUbS, LASIMExtES, JEANS, CLOTHS, Ac.
My stock of LADIES’ CLOAKS will equal that of every house in the city together. This line is complete in all grades.
Every lady can be suited here. My
Glove, Hosiery and Corset Departments
Are full of the best goods and lowest prices. In MILLINERY, II ATS, RIBBONS and TRIMMINGS, for ladies wear, 1 have
an elegant line, with MISS MARY DEADEN a superb Trimmer, at the head of this Department.
Clotlaing: I OXatjtLiri.gr l
In my Clothing Department may always be found everything pertaining to a first-class clothing store. This stock is unequal
oil in this section. “ KEEP’S” Shirts, Collars and Cuffs a specialty. No fancy prices. I have the largest stock of Boots and
Shoes, for Gents, Ladies and Children, ever offered to the trade in Northeast Georgia. Ziegler’s Shoes, and other noted brands
in full lines. My stock is complete in every department, and as to prices l will guarantee to sell anything in my stock as low
as similar goods can be bought in Atlanta or Athens, or any other market. All 1 ask is an opportunity to convince you.
Come to Gainesville. Come to see me. * C. W. DuPRE.
P. S.—l buy all kinds of Country Produce at highest market prices.
SPRING ! SPRING- ! SPRING!
WE ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR
Spring Stook.^
CONSISTING OF
Calicoes and Goods !
ALSO, A LARGE LOT OF
READY-MADE CLOTHING !
cows wvyia xss,
Tlie lOargfetixi. Store I
WHITEHEAD c MAXWELL.
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fJKNTLEMEN: 1 have used Dk. Uautbu’s Ikon lonic in my practice, and in an experience of
“ twenty-five years in medicine, have never found anything- to give the results that 11it. J labtek’s
Iron Tonic does. In many cases of Nervous Prostration, Female Diseases, Dyspepsia, and an im
poverished condition of the blood, this peerless remedy, lias In my hands, made some wonderful cures.
Cases that have baffled some of our most eminent Physicians, 'navo yielded to this great and incompar
able remedy. I prescribe it in preference to any iron preparation made. In fact, such a compound
M Du. llAKTEit'd Ikon Tonic is a necessity ia ir.v practice. Du. HODEIiT SA j.IUEES,
St. I.ouis, Mo.. Nov. 2Cth. ISPI. £lO4 Wash Avenue.
It gives color to the blood A
natural healthful tone to I
the digestive organs and f
nervous system., malting l
it applicable to Generali
Debility, Ix>ss of A ope- \
tite, Drostration of Vital J
Dowers and Impotence./
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WHOLESALE LIST
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S3 PHIL ADEL PHiAo
Notice to Contractors.
W ILL be let, to the lowest bidder, be
fore the Court House door, in Jef
ferson, Jackson county, da., on Satur
day, May the 20th, 1882, the contract for
building a bridge across Curry’s creek,
just above the ford near S. P. Orr’s, in
said county, under the following specifica
tions, to-wit: Said bridge to be built on
arches, to be let into the earth to water
level and set back at least 5 feet from the
water edge on each embankment; mud
sills 12 by 12, and 14 feet long ; uprights
to arches 10 by 12 inches, length to suit
height of arch, and morticed half through
cap sills and.pinned ; cap sills 10 by 12,
13 feet long; 5 sleepers 10 by 12, length
to suit distance between arches and give 2
feet lap over cap sills; arches to be framed
of such height as will leave bottom side
of cap sills about 2 inches above surface
of earth; 1 1 inch iron rods to extend from
mud sills up through the ends of each out
vie sleeper with taps ; flooring 2 b) r 10,
14 feet long, to be well spiked down with
20 penny spikes, 2 spikes in each plank on
outside sleepers and right and left in inter
mediate sleepers ; hand rails or banisters
to be securely put up with 3 by 4 scant
hug. All timbers to be good heart, and
if hewn, to be well and smoothly done.
bridge to be completed within sixty
days from the day of letting. Bond, with
two good surities, will be required imme
diately after the letting, conditioned for a
faithful complyance of the contract. The
work will be paid for when completed in
accordance with the specifications. Full
and complete specifications can be seen at
thisolHcc. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
April 19th, 1882.
Also, at the same time ami place, in the
same manner and under the same plans
‘ l nd specifications as the above bridge, will
he let the contoact for building a bridge
across Beech creek, above the ford near
A. 11. Pendergrass" and just below an oak
flee on the Jefferson side of said creek,
bridge to be built in every particular
similar to the above bridge.
11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
April 19th, ISS2.
A. R. Robertson,
HEALER IN
monuments
—AND—
TOMBSTONES.
a '° e of specimens ready for lettering.
ME A.
(W a, A - R - ROBERTSON,
•“f,lBBl. Athens, Georgia.
HOP BITTERS 7
(A Medicine, not a Drink,)
CONTAINS
HOPS, BUCIIU, MANDRAKE,
DANDELION.
I And the Purest and Best Medical Quali
ties OF ALL OTHER BITTERS.
1 THEY CURE
I All Dlseasesof the Stomach, Bowels, Blood.
I Liver, Kidneys, and Urinary Organs, Ner
vousness, Sleeplessness and especially
Female Complaints.
SIOOO IN COLD.
I Will be paid for a case they will not cure on
I help, or for anything impure or Injurious
found in them.
BAsk your druggist for Hop Bitters and try
■them before you sleep. Take no Other.
ID. I. C. Is an absolute and Irresistible cure for
I Drunkeness, use of opium, tobacco and
i narcotics. ]
(■■Hi Send fob Circular. ■BHK
I All above sold by druggists. j
I Hep Bitters Mfg. Cos., Rochester, N. Y., A Toronto, Ont.
PARKER’S
GINGERTONIC
An Invigorating Msdicins that Never Intoxicates. j
This delicious compound of Ginger, Buchu and
many other of the best vegetable medicine*4cnown,
cures Female Complaints, Nervousness, Wakeful
ness, and all disorders of the bowels, stomach, liver,
kidneys, nerves and urinary organs.
100 DOXjLAitS-
Paid for anything injurious in Ginger Tonic, or for
a failure to help or cure. Try it or ask your sick
friend to try it ‘t' o*Day.
50c. and $1 sizes at druggists. Large saving
buying dollar size. Send for circular to Hiscox ie |
Cos., 163 William Street, N. Y.
a IS aisam
Satisfies the most fastidious as a perfect Hair Re
storer and Dressing. Sold by all dealers in drugs
at soc. and tpi.
, TttY FI.OKP.STON COLOGNE an exquisitely fragrant
perfume with exceptionally lasting properties. SS and "Ac. j
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Sjji ... i 1 from Nervous aud Physical Debit*
EL -l Premature Exhaustion and
their many gloomy consequences,
Vly - are quietly and radically cured.
The Remedy is put up in boxes. No. 1 (lasting a month), fS,
No 2 (enough to eflect a cure, unlesn in severe cases.! f5: No. S
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Direction* for l Mug areonspany each Box. Pamphlet descri
bing this disease and mode of cure sent sealed <m application.
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I j toaeUie of Iron, Peruvian
Ii Harli and Phosphorus in
jJ a palatable form. The
\orUfj preparation of iron
\ I that will not blacken the
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i \ ai,l, r iron preparations.
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1882.
AY uY\\s’vOte CuyWvyyywvv s,.
The coffin used at a Pleasant Ridge
(Ohio) funeral was painted red. white,
and blue, and draped with Union
flags.
To he “ thirsty” is not the right way
to say it now that technical terms are
fashionable. To “suffer from poly
dipsia” is the correct thing.
The trustees of Soutlibridge, Mass,
have limited the shows in town this
year to an average of one a week, “so
as to reduce the temptation to foolish
ly squander money.”
A blind old man is kept in the cel
lar of iiis wealth}’ son’s house in Cin
cinnati, fed on scraps from the se rv
ants’ table, clothed in rags, and couch
ed on straw. This is because his
daughter-in-law has a grudge against
him.
Chicago has had a box-nailing con
test. T’he feat was to make thirty
boxes, each two feet lung, a foot wide,
and a foot high, and fastened by
twenty-seven nails, the boards being
previously sawed. The winner's time
was exactly half an hour.
The London Builder attributes the
marvellous durability of mortar in
Italy to the fact that the lime remains
in a pit covered with water for two
years before it is used, whereas in
England lime is slaked and used the
same day. Most building specifica
tions ever require newly slaked lime.
Some Californians are preaching
and practicing anew form of vegeta
rianism. They eat the vegetables
raw, believing that cookery is contrary
to nature. Rum ford, a leader in the
movement, lias lived for months on
broken wheat, pears, melons, grapes,
apples, and tomatoes, all uncooked,
and he declares that he is very happy
on that diet.
The Captain of a vessel bound from
the Mauritius to Tasmania last No
vember, attributes her riding out a
terrific storm entirely to oil. Satura
ted swabs, with weights attached to
keep them in position, were east over
every two hours, and mountainous
waves meeting the oil glided off leav
ing merely a heavy swell. The calm
ing effect of oil is thoroughly estab
lished.
The purchaser of an old house at
Edgar's Ferry, Ky., saw that the floor
in one spot was nailed down far more
securely than anywhere else. Curi
osity led hi in to remove the boards.
Underneath was a small mound of
ea’ th. from which he dug out the bones
of three human beings. It is believed
that a dead and-gone occupant of the
house was a murderer of travelers.
The bride of a Green Bay (Wis.)
wedding was astounded by receiving
from a friend a pair of trousers, wit h
the message : “Loaned for the part
you are to play.” The bridegroom
construed the garment as an insult,
and the guests unanimously agreed
that some decisive form of resentment
ought to be shown. While the excite
ment was high the friend arrived in
equal purturbation.and explained that
the trousers should should have gone
to a fellow for wear in an amateur en
tertainment, while a piece of silver
ware should have come to the wedding,
lie had hastily whipped the blunder
ing messenger, and would submit him
self to any punishment that the bride
might inilict. She made him wait for
a kiss until everybody else had been
served.
An amusing incident connected with
the Grand National Steeplechase at
Liverpool is going the rounds of sport
ing circles. At one of the fences
there was a fumble and a .scrimmage,
half a dozen horses coming to grief.
In the hurry and confusion, Adams,
the jockey, who started from the post
upon Liberator, hastily remounted and
dashed home. \Y hiie weighing-in he
remarked to Mr. Gr* gory, the weigher,
that the old horse had not jumped as
he used. Gregory asked what old
horse lie meant, and he made answer
that it was Liberator, of course;
whereupon he was informed that the
horse he had ridden in on was not
Liberator, but Ignit on. While the
amazed Adams was admitting that lie
had mixed his horses, home came Lib
erator. ridden by the jockey who had
started on Ignition. The occurrence
resembled those mistakes so frequent
ly made in exchanges of hats or um
brellas, with this difference, that the
owner of the beat article didn’t lose
by the swap.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
WvsueVuYYwv
A Congressman’s Early Life.
BY JOEL SLOPER.
[From The Oriental Casket.]
There is a member of the present
Congress, representing a district in
California, whose early life was spiced
with more dangerous experiences than
fall to the lot of most mortals.
He began life by being born in Ar
kansas ; and lie possessed for a father
one of those ideal squatters of that
early day, whom Colonel Faulkner,
in his “ Arkansaw Traveler,” has
impressed upon the mind of the coun
try.
Of course, when this con
gressman was born, he and his moth
er had to have the dry corner of the
cabin ; while the old man hunted coons,
played the fiddle, and slept under the
leaks.
Ilowerer, if water was scarce in his
corner, milk was plenty ; and he thrived
and soon got big enough to crawl over
on the old man’s side of tiie house,
and knock blazes out of the fiddle
with the fire shovel.
For this.he got thrashed—and the
fight became general—resulting in
the fatbergetting licked by the aroused,
female of that palatial residence in
the ten-acre clearing of the Common
wealth of Arkansas.
This naturally made the proud-spir
ited pioneer sulky ; and hanging up the
demoralized fiddle, he took down his
old rifle and strode away into the deep
forest for a “ b’ar,” or a “calcrmount,”
or something that lie could manage—
taking with him seven of the dogs,
and leaving a large, fierce one to guard
the cabin and help the wife tackle any
prowling enemy that might happen
along.
It was a wise precaution, without
which Fiat particular Congressional
District in California, mentioned
above, would to-day be represented
by another man.
That afternoon, about three o'clock,
the future statesman crawled out at
the cabin door, into the bright sun
shine, and laughed and crowed, while
his mother was working indoors and
the clog lay asleep by the ash hopper.
A panther, which had approached
the clearing, saw the child ; and creep
ing nearer and nearer, it suddenly
pounced upon the baby, and seizing
it by the shoulder, turned to fiy.
Of course the youngster supposed
it was some more of that phi fiddle
business, and he squalled lustily,
startling both his mother and the dosr.
True to Arkansas principles, that
dog buckled in on the panther, quick
er than a flash, and closed on its throat,
lie has fought this kind of animal be
fore, and he knewjust where to take
hold.
Dropping the child, which was not
hurt, the patlier made a fierce fight
with the dog, and was just on the
point of gaining the master)’, when
the woman rushed out with a gun, and,
being rather used to such business,
stuck the muzzle behind that panther’s
shoulder, pulled the trigger, and the
powder did the rest.
That Arkansas family had a dead
panther on their hands, but a live ba
by, when the grateful father returned
with a lot of coons and other game,
and joy and peace again reigned.
But killing off panthers and other
game that way, soon made life too
tame in that locality ; and our Con
gressman's parents, with all their dosrs,
moved up on the Missouri river, near
where Kansas City now stands.
This new location afforded another
luxury—catfish —which may account
for the afort s lid Congressman being a
little fishy in politics.
Aside from this, l,fe did not so
much differ from the obi home.
They lived by that huge, treacher
ous river, and the old man kept a dug
out of the largest size.
It was well he had the boat—for
one night they woke up and thought
they could feel the cabin shake, and
the water splashing against it; and
two minutes afterward the father had
waded out waist deep in water where
the boat was chained to a tree. Mas*
tily returning to the cabin door, he
placed his wife and four-year-old boy
in it, and vigorously paddled for high
land through the timber.
In ten minutes more the log cabin
had plunged into the whirling muddy
wafers, that were sweeping everything
before them.
It was the same old story of the
treachery of that river. Suddenly
rising, it had cut its way through,
back of the cabin, and, underminding
the soil, had swept the clearing away,
with hundreds of acres of heavy tim
ber. A narrow escape for the gentle
man from California.
Homeless, and only three dogs for
a fresh start in life, our restless pio
neer struck out for the Far West, and
eventually drove down in the moun
tain regions, near the boa Iwatcrs o r
the Arkansas river.
It was beautiful summer when he
stopped and built his cabin; it was
beautiful white winter when he turned
his back on it, with his little five-year
old boy in his arms, and wintered in
a rat e.
This was the saddest episode of his
rugged life. The father had gone
hunting up on the mountain side,
where he could look down and see his
little cabin nicely sheltered in a nook
under the cliff Silently the snow be
gan to fall, hard and fine as sand, aud
so fast and thick that it shut out
every view, and forced the hunter to
take refuge in a cave, which he had
previously found and prepared for
emergencies.
Here the continual fall of snow
forced him to remain for two days, in
dread suspense as to the fate of his wife
and child.
On the third day ho found the storm
abated, but saw to his horror that the
snow had been blown from the moun
tain, and bad drifted in the valley, un
til no vestige of Iris cabin could be
seen above its white surface.
As the mountain sides were almost
bare of snow, lie hastily decended and
began the search for his little home.
At last he saw an opening in the
snow, which was the chimney top of
the cabin. Tlirogli it he quickly de
scended, and saw a sight that froze
liis heai t. The "poor heroine of that
lone cottage, the wife and mother, had
stripped the bed and herself of cloth
ing to save the life of her child ; and
there lay the little fellow, all bundled
up in a ball of clothing, asleep ; while
on the bed lay the mother—asleep,
too—the sleep that knows no waking.
The father dug a grave beneath tlie
dirt floor of the cabin, buried his wife,
and, taking Lite boy, went back to the
cave, where there was plenty of fuel
and food, and remained uniil spring.
When the weather once more grew
warm, he wandered away, with the
restless spirit of the pioneer.
Then the gold fever struck him, and
he rushed to California; and then the
camp fever struck him, and he passed
in his checks—leaving an orphan who
has fought his way through to Con
gress.
" I don’t want that Stuff,”
fa what n lady of Boston said to her
husband when he brought home some
medicine to cure her of sick headache
and neuralgia which had made her
miserable for fourteen years. At the
first attack thereafter, ii was adminis
tered to her with such good results,
that she continued its praise, that she
induced twenty-two of the best fami
lies in her circle to adopt it as their
regular family medicine. That“ stuff’
is Hop Bitters.”— Standard.
[The Atlanta Constitution.]
Grandfather Bill.
When folks that spring from a
numerous family become numerous
themselves and the first children marry
ofFbefore the last are born, the children
and grandchildren and uncles and
nephews and cousins get .all mixed up
toget her so that a man can't tell tothcr
from which, hardly. About this time
of year they begin to congregate at
my house and take charge of the
premises—for a boy soon learns that
grandparents wasent made to wallop
grandchildren but was created espe
cially to take their part and pet cm
and wait on cm and when these little
chap come from the town where they
live in a half acre lot where they cant
throw a rock more than ten feet with
out b:caking somebody's window or
falling on a green-house, and can't
squeal nor squall for fear of waking
up somebody’s baby, they feel like
they have just got out of the peniten
tiary, and so they begin right straight
to make up far lost time. They have
mixed up with mine now and put their
devilment together, and it keeps roe
a trotting to keep the gates shut and
the drawbars put up, and hunt up the
digging hoe that they carried off to
dig bait, and go alter the pan that they
salted the colts in, and knit on more
fish hooks for cm, and ever and anon
they get clear off, and after Mrs, Arp
has called em in alto and contralto
and any other “to” about 13 times
and they don't answer, I know what’s
coming and so I just start after em
without any instructions. But
I VE COT EM TRAINED
a little now. They have to come at the
blowing of the horn, whether they hear
it or not. or go without dinner or
supper, for the little rascals have got
to playing off and making out they
don't hear when they do. Linton says
he can’t hear at all when the fish arc
biting. They are breaking the colts
now about half the time, and the poor
brutes have just surrendered and let
'em do as they please for they found
it was no use in trying to out do a
parse) of boys that was bent on a pur
pose. We used to larrup our first
children right smart, and they throw
it up to us yet, for the last ones get
nothing but promises, but I reckon
that was right, for if the first ones are
made to behave and do right their
example is enough for the younger
ones or at lca-fc it ought to ho. Then
again it must not be forgotten that the
oldest ones had the best time and the
choice and pick of everything, and
they get the young one off some times
and give cm a licking and then hire
em not to tell when they get home,
and the younger ones have to wear the
second hand clothes and wait for the
second table when company comes, so
I reckon the average is about right
after all. I wasent the oldest boy
myself, and I know how it is. When
there is only one or two the parents
strain a point to set em up ami adorn
em and take em to all the shows, and
if they stump a toe they sent for a
doctor; but after while when H or 1C
come along children get sorter monoto
nous and parents let ’em rip along
and grow up of their own accord, and
the more children the less the doctors
bills, and fine clothes aint as necessary
as tbey*used to be, for the fact is it
takes all sorts of economy and con
trivance to raise ’em at all in hard
times or soft times either. Occasionally
I see my old coats and pants spread
out on the floor and ripped up and the
little patterns laid on the pieces to see
il they will no. and the first thing any
body knows Mis. Arp has a little chap
all rigged out in a suit as good as new.
It gives a man
A PATRIARCHAL FEELING
Fo see these grandchildren increas
ing around him. Old Father Noble
limps about the streets of Rome and
passes liis own posterity every day
and don't know cm, and when a little
chap salutes him with “ howdy grand
pa,” or “ howdy great-grandpa,” he
has to stop and look and say, “ whose
child a r e you, sonny,” for he had
twelve of his own, and they have
married and multiplied amazingly,
even down to the fourth generation.
It is astonishing how fast they do
multiply if they get an early start, for
a man told me he knew of an old lady
in .South Carolina who was lOi years
old and was said to have over a thou
sand descendants. There’s nothing
improbable or impossible about that
for she was married at fifteen r nd had
ten girl children before she was thirty
and they all married early and multi
plied and replenished and there were
sixty grandchildren when the old lady
was fifty years old, and lots of great
grandchildren. If folks generally had
posterity after that fashion, I wonder
how long it would take the world to
fill up and run over, and something
serious and peculiar become of us all.
A power of folks have lived and died,
but life is a gaining on death all the
time, and it's curious to contemplate
how thick the peiq.de will he a thou
sand years hence, and where they will
all get food and clothing. Some big
thing is bound to happen after while
if not sooner.
TIIE CROPS.
Crops are not doing much good in
this region. The early planting of
corn and cotton looks puny and chilled,
and alread) I hear of various insects
and vermin foraging'around. Last
spring the flies dident cotne about until
June, but they are very numerous and
disagreeable now and can light oftener
on a man’s head where the hair is
parted in the middle than I ever knew
em, especially when lie wants to take
a little evening nap on the parlor sofa.
Snakes arc slipping and sliding around.
The minks have been stealing our
chickens, and so we set the children
to find their dens, an 1 they found it in
a hole in the sill of the stable and got
four young ones out and the old ones
dodged all about, but the dogs couldn’t
catch ’em, and they never stayed any
where long enough to get a shot at
'em, and so we got a steeltrap and set
it, but vve liavent caught ’em as yet,
and I think they have moved their
quartets. The mocking birds and
humming birds have come, but I
haven’t heard a whippoorwill as yet,
and that's a sign, they say. that more
cold weather is still ahead. Never
theless, we arc all hopeful and will
have spring lamb and green peas for
dinner to morrow. Bill Arp.
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE.
It will be apparent to any one who will
examine a Solid Goj i> Watch, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engraving
and polishing, a large proportion of the
precious metal used is needed only to
stiffen and hold the engraved portions in
place, and supply the necessary solidity
and strength. The surplus gold is actu
ally needless so far as utility and beau
ty are concerned. In JAMES LOSS’
PATENT GOLD WATCII CASES, this
WASTE of precious metal is overcome, and
the SAME SOLIDITY AND STRENGTH pro
duced at from one-third to one-half of the
usual cost of solid cases. This process is
of the most simple nature, as follows : a
plate of nickle composition metal especi
ally adapted to the purpose, has two plates
of SOLID GOLD soldered one on each side.
The three are then passed between polish
ed steel rollers, and the result is a strip o,
heavy plated composition, from which the
cases, backs, centres, bezels, Ac., are cut
and shaped by suitable dies and formers.
The gold in these cases is sufficiently thick
to admit of all kinds of chasing, engraving
and enamelling ; the engraved cases have
been carried until worn perfectly smooth
by time and use without removing the
gold.
THIS TS THE ONLY CASE MADE
WITH TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD
AND WARRANTED BY SPECIAL
CERTIFIC ATE.
For sale by all Jewelers. Ask for Il
lustrated Catalogue, and to see warrant.
The Narrowest Narrow-Guage.
One of the most curious railroads
in the world is a ten-inch guage road
running from North Billerica, Massa
clmsetts, to Bedford. It was first hoot
ed at by the people, but was completed,
making a length of about* eight and
one-half miles. There are eleven
bridges, i'iie rails weigh twenty-five
pounds to the yard. One grade is one
hundred and twenty five feet. The
cars and engines are constructed so
as to be very near the ground, giving
them greater safety. The cars have
an aisle, with one seat on each side,
in the same manner as ordinary cars
have two seats. The cars weigh but
four and a half tons, ordinary cars
weighing, on an average, eighteen
tons. Trains run at the rate of
twenty mile3 an hour with perfect
safety. The engine is placed behind
the tender, giving it greater adhesion
to the track. They weigh eight tons,
and draw two passenger and two
freight ears. The cost of the road is
about $1,500 per mile.
Wo wen are Everywhere Using
and recommending Parker’s Ginger
Tonic, because they have learned übm
experience that it speedily overcomes
despondency, indigestion,, pain or
weakness in the back and kidneys,
and otiier troubles peculiar to the sex.
—Home Journal. See adv.
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( SI.OO for Six Months.
Mark Twain as a Calechiser.
“Butthere was another little inci
dent which I call to mind. Old Bill
Nye of Nevada—everybody knows
who he was—appointed Sam Clemons
and I school committeemen for our
district. Well, we had a few Piute
youngones and one or two white ones,
enough to make a neucleus, as Sam
said, so wc hired a female teacher.
She was considerable on inorals, and
l suspect Sam had intimated that this
branch of their training should not be
neglected. It was a barren soil to sow
seed on, but the teacher was as cute as
they make 'cm and she was bound to
please and perhaps astonish the com
mitteemen. So she goes to work and
stands them up like a lot of stioks and
practices moral instruction upon them.
She always arranged them in exactly
the same order, and like colts, the
youngsters soon learned to know
which was their particular stall or
standing post. ,
“ For boy No. 1 she always had one
question, “Who made you?” Of
course, there was but one answer, and
that was, God. This was the alpha
and omega of that boy’s moral re
quirements, solo speak.
“Well,boy No. 2 wasn’t any bright
er, and so had his question and an
swer drilled into him. “ Who was the
strongest man?” was the question and
Sampson \fas the answer. Boy No.
3 was the son of a Piute squaw and
a white man. lie was dull, and
his ideas were terribly diflficut to cul
tivate. So I suppose for that reason
the schoolmarm assigned him to say
that Job was the most patient man.
Sam came down one day to see how
tilings were progressing at school.
“The teacher stood her three par
ticular pupils up in a row on the side
of the log cabin, and intimating that
the committeemen could pull out
slowly on the catechism and moral
instruction, was invited to steam
ahead. Boy No. 1, in the meantime,
had complained of faitness, a sudden
feeling no doubt inspired by Sam’s
awful presence, and the teacher ex
cused him with the recommendation
that he go out in the adjoining ten
acre lot and lie down in the grass till
ho recovered. To boy No. 2 Sam
now addressed himself with the lead
ing question, ‘Sonny, who made you?’
‘Samson, sir,’ was the lad’s reply.
The teacher blushed, and even Sain
was taken aback. 'Well, ray boy, can
you tell me who made you V said Sam
to boy No. 3. ‘Yes, sir, Job.’ ‘Why,
there must be some mistake here,’
ejaculated Sam. in an undertone.
Then back to No. 2 he went with,
‘Are3 r ou sure, my little man, that Sam
uel made you ?’ ‘Oh, yes, sir, because
he was a very strong man.' Then to
boy No. 3 he put the question, ‘Are
you quite certain Job made }'ou!”
‘Oh, yes,’ pined the Piute cherup, ‘be
cause Job was a patient man.' ‘Why,
you young rarcal don’t you know God
made you ?’ ‘No, sir,’ replied the
young Piute, greatly alarmed, ‘the
boy God made is out in the ten aero
lot kicking up his heels and havin’ a
bully time.”’ —From an Interview
with a Western Miner.
Free Once More.
Richmond Va., Jan. 31, 1881.
11. 11. Warner & Cos.: Sirs —For
five years I suffered from kidney affec
tions. Your Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure freed me from pain, restored ray
flesh and thoroughly cured me.
F. IL McCue.
Alleged Small Pox Cures.
At the time of the small pox scare
in 1872, when Boston was so sorely
afflicted, a recipe for a remedy was
twice published in the Hartford Times,
and someone in Boston obtained a
copy accompanied by a letter from the
editor, who stated that there were peo
ple in Hartford who could vouch for
its efficiency. Ix was said that a per
son who tried it in Ohio in a case of
confluent small pox, where the doctor
had little hope, found that it saved
the patient's life. Ollier cases were
then tried and every one was success
ful. The remedy was said to be
equally sure in scarlet fever, and to
prevent or cure the small pox, even
though the pitting were filling. Tlio
recipe was as follows :
“ Sulphate of zinc, one grain; of
foxglove (digitalis), one grain ; half a
teaspoonful of sugar. When thorough
ly mixed add four aunces of water.
Take a teaspoonful every hour. Either
disease will disappear in twelve hours.
For a child smaller doses, according
to age.”
Of this recipe a physician said:
“When Jenucr discovered cow pox in
England, the world of science hurled
an avalanche of fame upon his head ;
when the most scientific school of
medicine in the world—that of Paris
—published this panacea for small
pox it passed unheeded. It is as un
failing as fate and conquers in every
instance. It is harmless when taken
by well persons. It is remarkable
that this remedy should not be more
widely known, ifit is whatit isclaimed.
It might be well for some of our phy
sicians to try it and make a publio
statement of the result.”
Dr. J. W. Gibbon, of Ark., writes :
“ For many years my wife was a suffer
er from a terrible female complaint
that baffled the skill of all physicians
around me. She used Dr. Dromgoole's
English Female Bitters, they cured her
sound and well, and I do not hesitate
to say, they saved her life.”
NUMBER 13.