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Purifies the Blood, Renovates
&nd Invigorates the
Whole System.
IT0 MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARC
Alterative, Tonic f Solvent,
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Vegetine RELIABLE EVIDENCE.
Vegetine
Yegetiae Mr. H. R. Stevens
Dear Sir ,—I will mo*t the cheerfully
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Yegetiite you have and
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troubled over thirty years with that
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would breath seem as rnougn 1 never Vegetine wmu
any more, and
has cured me; and I do feel to thank
Vegetine good God all a medicine the time as that Vegetine, there is and so
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Vegetine icines for coughs, and weak
feelings at the stomach, and advise
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Her declining health was a source
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A few bottles of Vegetine restored
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The following Riddle has been handed in
puolication. It is probably not new to
ot our readers, but may interest othei-s.
There was a thing in days of old
In whibh I make a wonder,
It had in it a living soul
That afi^r God did hunger.
It never sinned in all its life.
It was so well behaved.;
It never had one spark of
And how grace,
could it be saved P
Although this thing obeyed Goa, ‘
It wasn t a professor,
But it was given as a rod
To punish a transgre sshr.
A farmer in Cobb county has in
to systematic gone
chicken raising and experts
to net $1,500 a year by it.
An Iowa justice refused to fine a man
to? hissing . a ghl against her consent.
He thought she ought to have consent¬
ed.
The principal articles exported from
the United States to Europe are grain,
pork, lard, savings bank presidents, riiedt.,
butter, heiresses, weather predictions, and
horses.
Sally, said a fellow tj a girl who had
red hair, ‘keep away from me or you’ll
set me on fire,’ Don’t fear,’ she answer¬
ed, ‘you’re too green to burn.'
‘What to eat and how cook it,’ is the
naDie of a book recently published,
What to eat and where to get it,’ would
meet with a livelier sale among the la
boring classes jlist now.
‘Piety,’ remarked an Arkansas preach¬
er to his congregation the other day,
‘does not consist in noise. The Lord
can see you give to the needy just as ea
sily as he can hear you pray the roof
off,
Albahy Jotiroal : 'For consistency’s
sake piano makers oiistht w live in har
rnony.’ Well, who says they don't?
Even when fighting among themselves,
and one ot them smashes another s nose
or bungs np his eye, he is merely playing
Among the curiosities in the army
ihedieal museum at Washington, is the
withered and parched hand and arm of a
man who leit it on the battle field at
Gettysburg. A bfihHCffi ball earned it to
the top of a high tree, where the wind
and sun shriveled it to its present well
'armed condition;
A Crested business man is said to have
adopted and posted up the following as
his motlo'? To trust is to btlst—to btist
is bed. No trust, no bust, no hell,
A man who announced his first attack
of rheumatism learned in one half hour
that, the following would cure it : Iodide
of potassium, quinine, glfittbel* SfiltS; otis
ions, raw lemons, raw silk, oil silk, gin
and tansey, rock candy and whisky,
Turkish ba'hs, a potato carried in his
pocket, a horse chestnut carried in bis
pocket, an eel skin around bis leg, a suit
of red flannel, eMoviform liniment, hot
lemonad 0 , a trip South, a dry atmos¬
phere, equable temperature, sulphur
baths, mustard and hot water, camphor
liniment, and electricity.
Forest and stream describes the nov¬
el manner in which a two inch water
pipe that bad become clogged was clean¬
ed. A hole was punched through an
feel’s tail and a string was passed through.
The eel was th.m started through the
p : pe. An occasional jerk reminded the
eel to advance, which he did, going the
entiie length. A bunch ot rags was
ther tied to the string and the pipe wat,
cleansed;
A maiden in San Frfincieeo, California,
whose parents objected to her going out
riding with r certain young man, crawl¬
ed out of the window and got stuck on
the awnitlg; whereupon she screamed and
attracted the attention of an old man,
who brought a ladder out of an under
takef’s shop and rescued her. Then the
mother of the girl appeared in the door
wa y and asked the policeman, who was
restraining the hilarity of the crowd:
‘Sir, were you ever a mother? And the
office v ; after a few moffieiits of contem¬
plation; vVas forced to respond, ‘No mad_
aup, I neVer Wds.’ But the lotet had
his livery bill for nothing;
A ship on the broad boisterorts find
open ocean needeth no pilot, but it dare
not venture alone on the piscid bosom
of a little river lest it be wrecked by
some hidden rocks. Thus it i9 with life.
‘Tie not in our opeu, exposed deeds that
we need the still voice of the silent mon
itor, bul in the small secret every-day
acts of life, that conoience warns us to
beware of tfa bidden shoals of what we
deem too common to be dangerous.
abolition Of national Bank notes:
House Committee On fjaiiking and
CurreH-y has matured a bill for the re¬
tirement of national bank notes, and for
the issue instead thereof of Trea*iiry
notes. The chances are thal this bill will
pass and become a law. It provides in
effect as follows :
‘That the Secretary of the Treasury
shall have prepared an issue of Treasury
notes equal to the whole amount of out«
standing national bank notes (about
$32.-5,00 >.030); these Treasury notes are
to conform generally to the greenbacks,
and shall be receivable for all taxes, etc.*
due to the United States, and be payable
for all claims against the ttnited States
as national blink notes fire flow receivable
and payable j and, in addition, be reeeiv
able foi customs duties to the am 3 ur,t of
one-third of each payment of duties.
The Treasury notes shall be exchangea¬
ble at par with le^al tender notes at the
Treasury. They stiall also he receivable
in exchange at par for 4 per cent, bounds
of the United SrateS. The notes Us soon
as prepared shall be Sent to the Several
Sub-Treasuries, wiih instructions to cease
to pay out upon any account whatever
any national bank not s, but to pay out
m plate of such bank notes these Treasu>
vy notes* and this to cohtme until the
whole of such notes of the national banks
shall be retired to be sent to the Treasu¬
ry every thirty days ; and whenever the
no'es of any batik 10 file amount of $5,
000 shah be received fit the "ftefiSury, the
t>ank is to he notified and bh ehtitied to
receive, on payment of an equal sum in
legaLtendev notes, bonds oi such batik
bn deposit with the Treasurer. Any
bank may withdraw all its bonds upon
payment to the Treasurer of legal tender
notes equal to its circulation. The Seere
lary of the Treasury is to use the legal'
[''"U " k " 0te T ’’ " 8 "" Tu't d ,he Trea3Ur >’ noles re
‘
change tor 4 percent, bonds,
'AT"’?? bo,lfl9 ' 01 ' ln ‘>>o ° u,s,andins firchdse ? of 6 gold P* r «»«• sil
or
T" h ?" h anli W
.
ury, receiving therefor the full market
y a |u e of such bonds in Treasury notes,
together with the accrued interest on
such bonds, National banks issuing
notes redeemable in gold shall make a
monthly deposit of gold equal to 5 per
cent, of their whole circulation until the
same is wholly redeemed. No circulat¬
ing notes are to be hereafter issued to any
bank;’
MoUk Official Ciiookf.dness.— A
Washington dispatch says it ifi under¬
stood that among the investigations
which are now to be prosecuted is the in
qtrry into the management of the Post
Office Department under the ifist admin
isti’fition, the jettiHg of rtifil dorttiaijts the in
the Territories; fetti; A member ot
Post Office Cortlrttit;efe say tha f the ins
vestigations finder the Ifist House of
Repi’eseiitatiVes scfircfely touched the cor
ruption which formerly prevailed in the
Post Office Department. It is said that
some ‘crookedness 1 lias already be«n
.
hronaht to light of a damaging charac*
ter, in which several prominent officials
are implicated.
iNtEltESTtNG TO PENSIONERS.—Mfemi
beta of Congress are daily receiving let¬
ters asking them to recommend suitable
Washington lawyers as pension agents to
persjns interested in the pension bill
just passed refitoiiilg pensiohs to the stir
vivors of the wav of 1812; Senator
Withers, of Virginia, atilhoiHeS the Cor¬
respondent of the Richmond Dispatch
to stale that all pensioners have to do is
to write to the Pension Bureau here for
blanks, which will be furnished as soon
as they can be prepared. Then, when
filled up, the part) has only to swear to
then before a Notary and forward them
direct to the Pension Bureau. If the
testimony furnished is inadequate; they
w jn be informed of the fact by the peri
s i on officers,
There are so many rascals who use res
Ugi.oh as a Cloak for their misdeeds that
you have to look at some religious peo¬
ple twice before you can be certain that
they fire \Vhat they profess to be. In
this respect we should be glad if the dis
Cipline of Lent could be extended
throughout the whole community; The
outside world is eitremely hungry f^r
truthfulness and sincerity somewhere,
and we do not see who ‘should be mate
ready to make prooi of these qualities
than Christians themselves; but Lent
could be observed with wholesome effect
quite beyond the immediate circle of re
ligionisL What we warn is not less in'*
dustry, or devotion to business, but some
recognition of the fact that man does not
live by bread alone—Boston Beretd.
TWO DOLLARS Per Annum.
A CURIOUS HISTORY.
The Stewart Palace (savs the New
York correspondent of the Utica Herald )
has thus far rather a strange history.
The lot was purchased by Townsend, the
Sarsaparilla niaris who made a fortune out
of that nostrum and bdilt \Vhat was then
(1854) the finest bouse in the city. Such
was its beauty that it was exhibited be¬
fore the family took possession at twenty
five cents admtssidn, for the benefit of a
charity. Townsend afterwards failed,
and Stewart bought the property at
Sheriff s sale. He pulled down the bouse
and planned the present palace. This
was done before the war, when prices
were low, and the inflation so increased
the cost of labor and material that the
bohtract became a heavy loss. Stewart
held the don tractor to this ifi'ter. Aud
the unfortunate riian suffered to almost fi
Kiinous degree. It is seldom that a buil¬
ding constructed diider such circumstan¬
ces avails much to the owiier. St-wart
wds eleven years preparing a palatial
home for his old age, but he died soon
Uftei* tdkihg possession. The grandest,
palace In Amentia is rtow occupied by a
childless old woroart ftHd hef Servants.
The gorgeous parlors, the picture gai
lery, and all the luxurious interior fire
now a silent waste. The lofty ceilings
render ihe staircase a labor, and the mis¬
tress, being lame from a tall, is unable to
meet such a difficulty, A person in such
a condition must be contented with the
limits of a bedroom, and lienee the largest
pan of the paiaoe is useless. Such is the
condition of an establishment which cost
a round million and on which the taxes
alone are $7,000 a year.
&ULF STREAM.
There is a liver in the obean. tn the
severest droughts it never fails, and in
the mightiest floods it never overflows.
Its hanks and bottoms are of cold water,
while its current is of warm. The Gulf
of Mexico is i^| fountain) and its mouth
s in the Aictic Seas. It is the Gulf stream.
There is in the world no other so mages
tic a flow of water, Its current is swift,
its Volume more thfih fi ihbttsfind UrxfeS
greater. Its waters, as far aS the Caro*
lina coasts, are of Indigo blue. These
are so distinctly marked that the common
sea water can be traced with the bye;
Ofte i one-half of a Vessel may be per>
ceived floating in the Gulf Stream water,
while the other ha f is in the common
water of the sea, so sharp is the line and
the want of affinity between these waters,
and such, too, the reluctance, so to speak,
on >he part cf the Gulf Stream to mingle
with the common waters of the sea. In
addition to this, there is another peculiar
fact; The fishermen on the coasts of
Norwfiy fife supplied with wood from the
tropics by the GUli Stream. Th»nk of
the Arctic fisheriiiatt burning upon tlibit*
hearths thb pfilHis bf Mayti; the iflfihog
ony of Honduras, and the precious woods
of the Amazon and the Orinoco.
Counterfeits in Circulation, —Pe¬
terson’s Counterfeit Detector bids the
community beware of counterfeit notes
printed from plates of three banks—two
in New York and one in FennSylVfinia —
With tho name changed to Some other
bank • also to cotirltpi-feit ten dollfii’ tiotes
altered from Richmond Nationfil Rank,
Ind:, to Richmond, Ya., by pasting “Yir
sfinifi” oVer “ Ibdiaha.” Among the
counterfeits latest put into circulation is
one on a bank in Indiana, seven on banks
in New York, one on a New Jeisy bank,
one < ti fi CottntfV bank itl Pennsylvania;
Neitt conies fin advice id fefiise SVe dol¬
lar iioteS of eight national banks in Illi -
nois, one in Indiana and three in Massa¬
chusetts, on the ground that nearly
the entire amount of the genuine
notes of these bfinks has been withdrawn
frotn circulation, and no additional issues
will he rfifidfi. Lastly thefe is a list of
counterfeits of notes which may be balled
merely imaginary, “for the reason they
purport to be on banks that have not and
never had any existence.’ There are
thirteen of these imaginative notes, pure
perting to have been issued by non-ex¬
isting banks in the States of New York,
New Jersy, Rhode Island; Illinois and
Dekoto Territory.
-- -Sfc -
A story is told ot an editor tVfao
went to heaven, and waS denied ad¬
mittance lest he should meet some delin¬
quent subscriber, abd bad feeling would
be engendered in that peaceful clime.
Having to go to some place; the editor
nest appeared in tho regions of darkntSS;
but was positively retused adtiiiftfinbe, as
the place Was filll Of delinquent subsoil -
bets; Weakly the editor turned back
towards the celestial city, and was met
by the watchman of the portals with «
smile, who said : “I was mistaken ; yo B
can enter, there are no delmqueEt sub
icribers in heaven.”
NO. IS.
A NEW COTTON PICKER.
A cotton picker which promises id
work a revolution irf the hafvefitifcg of
cotton, and it is said wili do the work of
one hundred laborers in the field, haS
just been invented and patented by *
North Carolina h!an. The niachtne is
about the size and weight of a two-horse
wagon, and is upon three wheels, the
centt-e one running between twd fowS
and the o!hei ; two outside of them. The
two driving wheels, fiotfl which is work-#
ed the machinery, is high efiodgh to car*
fy everything afeoVe the Gotloti: The
front Wheel is about half the height, and
works on a pivot joint, to which are at*
tached the horses, which walk between
the rows. The picking machine consists
ot two hundred finger shaped hards od
India rubber workirig Up and dowd
through the stalks as the ffiaciiirie ads
vanceS.
These cards will not tdke fecfld of dnf
thing but the lint of the open«cottdn;
and takes that whether it is on the groiinit
of on the top of the stalk; Leaves;
twigs aud hulls will not stick to them;
but the cotton touched in ever so siiialt
d degree xnStaritly adheres, and will not
let go until brushed off at the top by tbd
brasher* whence it is taken da an aproti
Oi bands find deposited in a receptacld
in the leaf id a light Straight; form, en*
lirely free from dirt. The machine is
t educed to its‘lowest simplicity, has ad¬
parts, is very durable aud easily
managed. The diiver by leaning back
in his seat, can stop ths picking iff brdef
to drive to the place to unload. This U
done without throwing the driving wheel
out ot gefif. ra» harvester 5g estimate?!
to pick but the cotton at the rate of one
dollar per bale* find in etrefy vtmy a com¬
plete machine* as has been proved
r
practical use.
MASONRY’S TWELVE APOSTLES.
Mr. Wait T. Huntington resigned hifi
position in the New York Post Office;
last week, says the N. Y. Sun, in ofdef
that he might spend the rest of his days
in peaceful retirement. Mr. Huntington
firoo Ka*"m An A
in May, 1821. The chaftef of Eagle
Lodge; No. 60, in whibh Mr. Huntingtoii
was initiated; bears the signature of De
Witt Clinton, Grand Master, and its
shrivelled and blackened parchment
gives eVidenbe cif the i’fige that animated
the anti-Masouio multitude during thd
excitement that followed the abductiori
of Morgan. While other Masons shrank
from the fury of the mob, and sneaked
to t! e lodge through lanes and by-ways;
Mr. Huntington went boldly in at thti
front door; indifferent alike to sneers and
execrations, He stood b} the lodge afi
long as enough members remained to do
the work, and when it became becfc&sary;
at length to close it, he rescued the char¬
ter fiom the destruction that overtook
the i’efcords;
Among others who remained faithftll
in these dark days for Mafionty; were
twelve members of Fdelity Lodge, Nb;
51, of Trumansburg, known in the Ma¬
sonic annals as the Twelve Apostles,—
Their names were Elias J. Ayers, Uriel
Turner, ,T. W. Hart, H. Taylor, Janies
McClellan; Milo Yah Dusen, Philemon
If, Thompson, Nicoli iiulsey, Nathaniel
Ayers; Lyman Strobfidge, Daniel E. Mc¬
Clellan; and John Cregue, These twelve
pledged themselves that; whatever should
happen, they would maintain the Organ
iza ion ol the lodge, meet at stated timcS;
elect officers and pay their dues. They
kept their pledge. In 1847, learning
that it was intended to revive Eagle
Lodge of ithiefi; the ttvelVe proposed to
Mr. Huntingtoii that Fidelity, No. 51*
be transferred from Ti’Uraansburg to
Ithaca. This was done, and Mr. Htmt
ington was elected the first Msstef of
the lodge in Ithaca. The lodge is now
one of the most prosperous in the State
and has refused to accept any dues iroftt
Mb Hiintmgtoti; on the ground of his
services add devotion to Mafionty. Mr.
Huntington is also ah honorary member
of Eagle Chapter, No. 58, of Ithaca,
having been initiated in the Chapter in
1822.
The gold balance in the treasury avail*
able for specie resumption teii months
hence, is but $65,000,000; Bet (keen now
and January 1st. the mints will probably
coin 30,000,000 in silver; Assuming that
the gold balfibce can remain undisturbed,
and that every siltrei* dollar can be retain¬
ed until then, the government rviJJ have
lefi> than $100,000;0d0 with which to
redeem $350,000,000 in greenbacks,—
Forced specie resumption on tbe date
fixed is, therefore, impossible and the
resumption act is a dead letter. But
Specie resumption in a natural way—the
obliteration of the gold and preni um through
biiver remonet zition a favorably bai
ance of trade—-is January not only possible, but
probable before next;