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VEGETINE
Purifies the Blood, Renovates
and Invigorates the Whole
System.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE 1
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BLOOD PURIFIBRyet placed before the public.
f ..THE BEST EVIDENCE. *
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Mb. II. R. Stevens Natick, Mass., Jan. 1,1874.
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P0IT1I. .
things that ought never to be.
There’s a great many things that have been
done in this world,
11 find it so hard to believe;
A great many born are quite good of their kind
While some seem but made to deceive.
If 3 our attention you’ll lend for a moment
or
so,
The theme of my song you will see,
ily object I’m sure will please one and all,
* Of things that ought not to be.
Our young ladies row wear a comical dress,
Blown up like a bladder behind ;
Madame Fashion ordains it should fit tight in
front,
Tt ith a balloon and clothes prop combined,
On the top of their heads a long steeple they
wear,
’Tis a mountain of black hair to see ;
Should it ever fall over they’d never get up
It .
3 a tiling that ought never to be.
I have known a poor girl trudging home from
her work,
As by some rich fop she would run,
Proclaim the attention of some passer- by
From this ape in the form of a man,
I’ve seen gallant sailors and soldiers also,
Who were wounded by land and by sea,
Turning round a hand orgrn, the picture of woe
It’s a thing that ought never to be.
When a poor man is arrested for stealing a loaf
His pale, starving family to save,
He'll go for a year, with hard, labor, I’m told,
While bis children may go to the grave.
But let a swell steal by millions, or else rob a
bank,
With the money he soon will be free;
They’ll imprison the poor man, whil<j the rich
live at ease ;
It’s a thing that ought never to be
Wfi at Constitutes Intemperance.—
The husband of Lydia A. MoGiniy took
out an insurance on bis life in April,
18H6, for five thousand dollars for her
benefit, in tbe United States Life Insur¬
ance Company. He declared that he was
fe np rate. Nine years afterward he died,
The company refused to pay, on the
ground that he was not temperate, aud
had made f-dse representation*. Tho
widaw r sued the company. The evidence
was conflicting. Judge Robinson charg¬
ed that tbe moderate use of wines or
liquors did not conslitute intemperance.
The jury gave the plaintiff a verdict for
$6,007 45, and the company appealed —
The Common Pleas general term has de¬
cided, Chief Justice Daly and Judge
Larremore both giving opinions, that
Judge Robinson’s charge was correct,
and that the evidence being conflicting,
the jury’s decision cannot be disturbed.
The judgment is affirmed.— I>lew York
Tribune, 4th.
A Doctor Astonished.— A small year¬
ling youngster out at Fort Wayne, in
Indiana, had the misfortune to suck a
kernel ot corn info his windpipe the otlix
er day. The doctor was sent for in haste
and announced that it would be necessa¬
ry to perform the operation of tracheot¬
omy to save the child’s life. The hoosier
mother, familiar with a practice of do
mestie surg< 1 y of a different sort, and
not pleased with having the child’s wind¬
pipe cut open, seized the sufferer by one
leg, and holding him up, head downward
administered sundry resounding spanks.
There was a sound not uulike the sound
of a popgun, and the kernel of corn was
ejected with great force. The child was
at once relieved and recovered of course
The doctor said he was perfectly famil¬
iar with phlebotomy in all its forms, but
he had never had any experience with
this kind since he was a boy, and even
then had never known it resorted to for
surgical purposes. It will enter into the
practice of eurgezy hereafter largely,
particularly in corn countries, although
it does not necessarily follow that those
who resort to it should be called corn
doctors.—| Troy Times.
SIGNIFICANT ADVICE.
There are signs of a vigorous republi
can revival of the southern trade. In
Georgia a party paper has been estab¬
lished at Atlanta, which is doing quiet
But effective service. In Alabama the
republican state committee has been le
organized, and an address has been is¬
sued calling a state couvention at Mont¬
gomery on July 4th. There are condi
tions in both these states which are en¬
couraging to the republicans. The recent
declaration of the Alabama democrats
tor a wdiite man’s government shows
that the bourbons have full conirol of
that organization, and when the bourbon
obtains sway in the parly there is sure
to be split sooner or later. In Georgia
the democratio majority is so enormous
it is full of dissensions, and at the mercy
of independent movements. By using
discretion, and combining with independ¬
ent candidates against the old negro
hating elements of the democracy, the
southern republicans may do valuable
service for their party in the fall elec¬
tions*— [N, Y. Tribune, Rad.
JUNE 22,
GATOR.
u * rank Filler, colored, well known in
is community, u bile woikiug on the
^ai loa sene di>tance btlow here, last
eet\, .iscovertd a large alligator in a j
poud which had almost dried up, leaving
3 hole in the centre, however, about 20
feet ac-oss and 12 ot 15 feet deep, in the 1
, hit .
o om o w h was the alligator s den,
A crowd of railroad hands assembled
moun i e pord, and with loug pcles,
rop^s, &c., attempted to capture, his ’ga
urrs up, but without success. Finally [
f inker declared his determination of;
diving for him, and though dissuaded by
the others and informed of the danger of
such a proceeding, he quickly made his
arrangements and went down head torea
most into the alligator’s den. Sometime
elapsed before he ag gain made his appe ar«
anoe and ftais were felt that he had been
gobbled up, but eventually up he came,
swinging to the ’gaitor’s tail and calling
loudly tor help. The boys caught him
by the legs and he hung to the othet fel¬
low’s tail, and now they had inn. The
boys pulled, and the ’gator, who just be¬
gan to appreciate the situation, pulled
occasionally ibe ’gator would make »
dive and carry F uker with him, but he
never lost his grip, ‘tail hold is a good
hold when well hilt,’• and Fluker ‘hilt’ it.
1 hree men now had hold of each leg and
it required their combined Strength to
pull the twain out of the water, and as
they were dragged along through the
mud it was hard to tell which was man
which ’gator, An axe was now
procured and while Fluker still held his
deathlike grip on the tail, the others dit-s
patched the ’gator. Tho animal measwr
ed nine feet in length. The tail was cut
off, cooked and eaten by the boys, all
agreeing that ’twas fine; we suspect
they were out ot meat and that’s why
Fluker was so despeiate. The facts
above stated are true to the best of our
knowledge and belief.—[Quittmau (Ga)
Free Press,
Cure for Hydrophobia and Snake
Bites.—C orrespondence Chronicle and
Constitutionalist : Take grated horse
radish root, mixed with a little sweet oil
and vinegar, such as is sold in glass jars
by grcceie, and apply it to the wound,
and cause the suffer to eat of it ail that
his stomach will retain. There is satis¬
factory evidence that this remedy has
cured severe cases, and whoever may be
unfortunate as to be bitten by a venom
^us beast or serpent should try it at once
The press will do w'ell to circulate the
knowledge of this simple remedy.
Equal Chances.— lie w r a;i an entire
stranger to the gi'ls present, and the
boys were mean and would not introduce
him. He finally plucked up courage,
and stepping up to a young lady, request¬
ed the pleasure of her company for the
next dance, She looked at him in sur
prist 1 , and informed him she had not the
pleasure of his acquaintance. ‘Well,’re¬
marked Canzenovia, ‘you don’t take any
more chances than I do.’
To urge the people to go West seems
iust now to be very poor advice. The
Eureka, Nev., Republican says that there
are at least five hundred able-bodied men
there anxiously hunting employment and
finding none. They swarm at the fur¬
naces when the shafts are changed, ea¬
ger to get a chance to labor, and ready
to fill the place of any one who may be
absent,
Russia’s Humilation.— The present
position ot Russia fairly illustrates the
quality of her statesmanship. After a
Quixotic campaign, costing her $500,
000,000, she finds herself unable to hold
the fruits of her victory, compelled to
submit abjectly to the dictates of Eng¬
land, her exchequer bankrupt, her impe¬
rial bank verging on suspension, and ber
people in a state of widespread disaffec¬
tion. She undertook to settle compulso¬
ry the Eastern question, and ends by
sett ing nothing, but has to submit tbe
whole w’ork ol settlement to the Powers
whose antecedent joint arrangements she
assumes to set at naught, A more com¬
plete humiliation has rarely befallen a
nation. *•
Speaker Randall and other members
of tbe Pennsylvania delegation in the
House have received an anonymous dis¬
patch lrom Philadelphia saying: ‘There
are in this city over one hundred thous¬
and of us idle, starving working men
who desire work. If Congress fails to
give more liberally for public improve¬
ments here, there will be riots greater
than ever known. We must have bread.’
We suspect the sender of the anonymous
dispatch is more anxious for an insrease
ot the army than for public improve*
menls.—[Savannah News.
TWO DOLLARS Per Annum
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun has re*
ceived Irom Albany N. Y., a piece of
tanned negro skin, and comments on this
fresh evidence of the love of their North*
ern friends for the man and brotheir, in
t hi s w j se ; ‘Yesterday we received by
mail a piece of tanned negrd skin from a
jirenlleman in Albany, N. Y., who once
ived here and matTS his departure in
1858, His name we will not give. He
states that it is an evidence ot the love
which, in theory, the Northern people
pro f ess to have for the colored race. A
negro convict died. The medical stu
dents skinned the body, and tanned bis
hide for the purpose of making boots.—
This piece of skin is ctM’tainly a great
curiosity and we will preserve it. The
same can be seen in our office. This
trophy (?) of the scientists is of the thick
ness of fine calf skin and quite porous.—
The Radicals can bowl over this inhu
man acts*of their students. The party
sending vouches for the truth ot the
statement. Nothing so abhorrent lias
ever occurred in the South, and we want
to see if the Radicals will raise their
hands in pious horror at the atrocious
deed of their young men.’
Validity of the Court,— A Wash¬
ington dispatch says ; “A noted New
York politician, who is popularly believ¬
ed to sustain close relations to Mr. Til
den, arrived here yesterday. He is rep¬
resented to have said in conversation
that he did not consider that the Forty
fourth Congress bad any power tp dele
gate to the electoral commission the set¬
tlement of the Presidential election. That
the electoral votes had never yet b^en
properly counted, and he hoped the in
ve.stigation now in progess would result
in developing such a sentiment as would
ootnpell this Congress to count the votes.
tSueli expressions as these have caused
much comment to-day, but only because
the conclusion is jumped at, and most
probably without foundation, that they
lopi'ooont tbo viowa of Mr. T’iMor,. HU.I
importance is also attached to them than
would otherwise be the case from anoth¬
er circumstance in connection with the
movements ot the gentleman alluded to.
I^e entertained at dinner since his airiv
al several prominent Democratic mem¬
bers of both Houses, where the situation
was disoussad.’’
A Two-faced Baby.—T he Cincinnat
ti Gazette prints a, letter from Glyun
wood, Ohio, dited May 25, which says :
“Our usual quiet village and surrounding
community were all excitement tosday
over one of the greatest of curiosities—a
double babe. We called at the office of
Dt\ Noble to find out the truth of it, and
he told the following: Last night he
was called to see the wife of Mr. Green
Bailey, a farmer living near here, who
gave birth to one of tbe greatest curiosi¬
ties I have heard of. The child is a
common s zed one, well-formed in its
lower limbs and body up to its shouK
ders. It had two sets of arms, well form¬
ed, except that one pair was buck of tbe
oilier, and worked backward. It bad
but one head, but tbe head bad two fa¬
ces on it, one on each side ; both faces
were well formed in all the organs. It
breathes from both sides, which the doc¬
tor says indicates the existence of two
pairs of lungs. Mr. Bailey is quite jubi¬
lant over it, says it will be a fortune to
him. Both mother and child are doing
well.”
Bill Shute was a member of the bloody
10th regiment. While the boys crowded
around the old flag at a recent reunion,
Bill, with an irrepressible humor, called
out; “Boys, I am no speaker, but there
is a blamed sight more of you here than
I ever saw in a fight.” This brought
down the house.
Some conscienceless scoundrels per¬
suaded a lady over 70 years old, who
was traveling alon6 from Chicago to
San Fiancisco, to exchange her money,
$1)0 in greenbacks for counterfeit coin,
and sne arrived at Omaha, penniless and
almost heart-broken.
The owner of a house in Hartford, a
widower, lived in the upper story and
rented the lower part to a clergyman. A
servant girl employed in the clergyman’s
family was young and pretty. Her mis¬
tress observed that she and tbe widower
were devoting a great deal of attention
to each other, and, deeming the matter
scandalous, said to her : “Pack up your
things and quit.’’ The girl obeyed ; but
on tbe following day she returned in a
carriage, announced that she Lad been
married to-tbe landlord, and said to her
former mi^r.ess ; pack up your things
and.quit/..
A youpg woman of Woolwich, Me.,
aged 23, married a man 83 on payment
ot $1,000, which was the price he offer¬
ed and she was sold for.
NO. 26.
John Sherman is now very anxious to
secure a conti act for publishing all the
dictionaries of tfie country. He wants
to-exputige the word “investigation.’ •
The House has agreed to the Senate
amendment fixing the size of the arrav at
twenty-five thousand men, but has in¬
sisted upon the clause in the bill prohib*
iting the army’s.being used for civil pur¬
poses.
Now that the telephone makes it pos¬
sible for ‘Sounds to be canned the same
as beef, milk lobsters, fruit, etc., mis>
sionary sermons can be bo tied and sent
to the South Sea Islands, ready for the
table, instead of the missionary bimStelf.
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It is a curious coincidence that Friday
commemorates the nomination of Ilaycs.
the passage of the electoral bill, thecom
plwtl °" of the coart ot the House, and
now tbe proposition to investigate.
A dying client scat for his lawyer?, of
course to draw the will, they supposed.
Judge of their surprise when bis request
was that one should stand on each side
of him so he could die like Jesus Christ.
Galveston is perhaps the only city in
the land that can guard herself against
ti amps. She is located on an Island, and
all she has to do is to station a police#
man at the end of the bridge.
Success in I.fe is very apt .to make ns
forget the time when wo weren't much.
It is just so with a frog on a jump he
can’t ;
remember when he was a tadpole—
but other folks can.
Silent patient, continuous labor does
more than noisy talk or vain boasting.
Silent labor accomplishes and makes vis¬
ible something that is enduring; while
idle talk, like the babbling of a shallow
brook, evinces more noise than strength.
Ignoianoe and indifference are boon
companions. Anomalous as it may seem,
the man who knn«, h ut little is seldom
anxious to add to his stock or Knowledge,
while the ind.vidual who is wellrinform
ed is never satisfied except when adding
to his store of information.
About seven hundred coal miners from
near Ch-irleston, West Virginia, took pos¬
session of a steamer and went to Blacks*
burg, and forced the miners theie to stop
work. They threatened to kill and
drowm every one opposing them. After
this outrage they boarded a train on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Road, and return¬
ed, making the train stop when and
where they pleased, and refusing to pay
any fare.
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Worthy of Imitation __Mr. S, W. J.
Harris, of our county, some two or three
miles from town is now shipping new
Irish potatoes to Chicago. He shipped
yesterday fifty barrels and will ship as
many more every few days for some time
to come. He has fifteen acres planted,
and the crop is very fine, and he has or*
ders to send them on as fast as they can
be gathered, We do not think it an
over estimate to say that he will make at
least one hundred bushels to the acre,
and predict that it will pay him hand¬
somely. We shall say more about the
experiment.— Fort Valley Mirror ;
The Griffin News has this interesting
item ; “Near Liberty Hall is living an
ofd fourteenth amendment, with his wife,
who have contributed very lavishly to
the population of that section. They
have been blessed with thirty-seven chil¬
dren, who are all alive and '‘living with
the old man,’ trying to make h : s last
days comfortable. It may be mentioned
in connection with this numerous prog¬
eny that the ‘roses’ came one by one. It
has been stated from time to time
by different authorities that the Degro in
the South ia degenerating. We commit
this case to their thoughtful considera¬
tion.
A gentleman one evening was seated
near a lovely woman, when the company
around him were proposing conundrums
to each other. Turning to his compan¬
ion he said : ‘Why is a lady unlike a mir**
ror ?’ She “gave it up.’’ “Because,’ said
the rude fellow, “a mirror reflects with¬
out speaking,’ but a l?dy speaks without
reflecting.’ “And why are you nnliks a
mirror V asked the lady. He could not
tell. “Because a mirror is smooth and
polished, and you are rough and unpol-*
ished."
An a^ed colored man recently carried
$1,000 in gold and silver to the Farmers’
Bank of Delaware, at Wilmington, Del.,
it being tbe sum of his hoarding since
he was a young man. He said he had
kept it in * an old chimney, and some cf
ibe silver beiDg black affd smoked cor¬
his story.