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by and. b. freeman.
OUR IDOL.
Close the door light -J,
Bridie the breath.
Our little earth angel
Is talking with death ;
OeDtly he woos her,
She wwhes to stay,
His arms are around her
He bears her away !
Music comes float!og
Down from the Dome —
Angels are chanting
The sweet welcome home ;
Come, stricken weeper,
O i e to the b**d
G--ze on the sleeper—
Our idol is dead.
Smooth out the ringlets.
Close the Blue eyes —
No wonder such beauty
Was claimed in the skies;
Cross the hands gently
O’re the white breast,
So like a wild spirit
Strayed fioir the rest,
Bear her out gently
This idol of ours
Let the grave slumbers
Bo mid the sweet flowers.
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FARMING IN INDIA*
A Frightful Talc of SuHcring-
Dying by Thousands.
The famine in India is stretching its
lean and bony arms over a wide extent
of the country. There has been an
entire failure of the crops in thiee dis
tricts of Bombay, and a partial failure
involves severe distress in Khandish,
Nassick, Abmednuggar, Poona, Satara
and Belgaum. Large lelief works are
sanctioned. About 287,000 people are
on the ?elief works in Bombay. In
Madras the scarcity effects twelve dis
tricts, and to these must be added a
number of native States The area
of the smitten country comprises about
54,000 square miles, and the popula
tion will reach 5,000,000 of men, wo
men and children. In Madras large
gangs of men are employed in making
roads, digging wells and constructing
tanks and 840,000 persons are being
supported by the government by the
distribution of rations daily. It is be'
lieved that the distress will increase un
til April, when it wili decrease, owing
to the maturing of the new crops. In
Bombay thenuuibci of destitute is thus
estimated : February, 450,000 ; March,
750,000 ; April, ' 1,000,000; May,
800,000; June, 50.000 ; July, 300,“
000; August, 100,000; September.
500,000. The government is pouring
in large quantities of grain, and the
cost to the State in the Madias Presi
dency alone will be over $20,000,000.
Taking the whole matter into consider
ation it is computed that iu less than a
mouth nearly six millions of people in
Bengal, Madras and the adjacent coun
try must trust to the government for
the common necessaries of life. The
calamity which now threatens a large
part of the British Indian E npire is
of such a character as to challenge the
attention of the whole civilized world.
In 1866 more than 175,000 people
died of hunger in India in a few
months. That was owing, in a great
measure, to want of transportation from
the seaboard to the districts where f a'd
was needed Ample supp'ie- wore pro
vided, bur could not be made available
in time to stop the catastrophe. Now,
however, means of transporting food
are excellent, as the railroad which con
nects Northern India with Madras
runs through, or uear margin of, the
districts to be supplied, and thus one
great danger is arrested. With funds
to purchase food and means to carry it
to the districts where the crops have
failed there cannot fail to be a most
gratifying amount of relief extended to
the famishing people of India
A Liar’s Victory.
The fact that Detroiters are long-suf,
fering and kind-hearted was again ex
emplified yesterday. One of the dozen
passengers oe a Woodward avenue car
suddenly remarked that it was an awful
snow storm, and that he never saw so
much snow on the ground befor \
“Pooh !” exclaimed a little whiffet of
a man in the corner, “this is no storm
at all! Why, in Omaha I have seen
forty-seven feet of snow on the ground
at once !”
“Burned the town, didn’t it?” quer
ied a man opposite.
“Of course it hurried the town, but
that was all right. We dug out the
snow and left a crust, as a sort or sky,
and in three days we had summer
weather down there Hoses bloomed,
peach trees blossomed, and the boys
went in swimming the same as in July !
don’t talk t® me about such storms as
this!”
“ W-what became of the crust ?” gasp
ed a man in the front end of the car.
“It’s hanging up there yet!” replied
the noble liar,“and the man who doubts
my word want’s to step off the car for
half a minute I” #
There that whole dozen sat as mute
as clams, not daring to even wink at
each other, or to enter a rrotest, while
the little man branched off anew and
began telling that he had seen hail
stones weighing six pounds each.
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Honor thy father and mother both in
words and deed, that a blessing may
come upon thee from them ; for the
blessing of the father establisheth the
houses children, but the curse of the
mother rooteth out foundations.
CnUjomr ©him
Burdock’s Music-Box.
Last Christmas Miss Burdock’s ad
mirer presented her with a handsome
little music.box, and the family ear has
been tickled ever since with half-a-doz
en of the latest popular agonies.
Tuesday night they had company.and
the music- box, after doing gloriously for
awhile, suddenly collapsed at the first
verse of the “Mulligan Guards,” leav..
ing the balance of that gallant com
mand in a sort of musical purgatory.
The next morning Miss Burdock
dressed her face with its company ex
pression, and coaxed her paternal to
take the box with him when ho went to
business and have it nut in order and
on hi- fi iui y r /..sootiog and' r protest,
wrapped it up neatly, placed it in his
overcoat pocket, and hustled him off.
He caught a Fulton Avenue car,nod
ded to a couple of business acquaintan
ces, secured a seat and was iu the act
of orening the morning paper, when
the music-box suddenly found its voice
again and proceeded to render the re
maining verses of the “Mulligan
Guards.
The passengers dropped their papers,
stared around at one and another, and
finally, tracing the music to Burdock,
focused their eyes upon him, nudged
each other and laughed.
"No music,gentlemen,’lowed in these
cars,” called out the conductor, sternly
coming in to collect a fare, just as the
box rang out clear and loud wi*h the
chorus.
There was a perfect shout of laugh
ter, iu which every body except Bur
dock and the conductor joined, as the
box suddenly changed its tune, and
cau.o out as strong as a circus band,with
“Meet Me in the Park Love.”
“Stop that music. I won’t have such
foolishness going on in this car,” yelled
the conductor, scrutinizing the passen
gers suspiciously from the rear plat*
form.
“D—n the infernal thing, I wish it
was at the bottom of the Red Sea !”
muttered Burdock, very red in the face
and uncomfortable
A minute later, as the music-box was
about plunging into a third song, the
conductor darted in, slapped Burdock
on the shoulder, an£ said excitedly :
‘•l’ve got you at last. Now you juT
stop it, that’s all !”
"Stop it yourself, if you want to,”
said Burdock, angrily.
The conductor frothed and fumed,
looked under the seat and behind Bur
dock, but could see nothing, yet all
the while the box was everlastingly
howling out “Eileen Alanna” as if its
heart would break. Bv the time the
car reached the ferry, Burdock was in
a cold perspiration, the irate conductor
had checked off seven passengers too
many, and was tearing his hair ou the
platform, and the box, after going
through its entire collection of tunes,
looked as quiet and innocent as a rub
ber baby.
It required Burdock to use up all his
spare stock of self-control to prevent
him from heaving it into the river, and
it was with a sigh of relief that he
handed it over to be fixed.
Saturday, on his way home, he stop,
ped at the place where he had left it,
and finding it rcpa’red, out it in the
pocket of his overcoat and started off
home, forgetting all about it on his ar
rival at the house.
Sunday all the fami'y turned out for
church, and Bum! k had ushered them
ull in, c osed the pew door, hung his
overcoat over it, took up a hymn book,
and was glancing around complaceutly,
when the forgotten musie box in his
overcoat pocket all at once struck up
“Lanigan’s Ball.”
The minister dropped the notices he
was looking over and looked blankly
around; the deacons sprang up like
Jack-in-the-Box, and glared in every
direction ; the congregation twisted
their heads, craned their necks, and
stared wonderingly at the choir, and
the choir pulled away the curtains tha*
hid them and stared idiotically back in
return. The Burdocks alone kept
tt'.eir eyes resolutely glued to the front,
while their faces assumed the fashion
able cardinal hue, and Burdock could
be heard muttering fragments of em
phatic language seldom heard inside of
a gospel shop.
After playing one verse, the melody
ceased, and tbe Burdocks’heart®, which
had been standing still, beat once
more ; tbe excitement died away, and
everything was quiet again. The min
ister arose, and vas in the act < f giv -
ing out the text, when a lady, who v as
late, sailed up the aisle, and. chancing
to brush against Burdock’s overcoat,
started the music box off into a perfect
fury of “Tommy, Sit Down by Your
Aunty.”
The minister paused, and frowned
severely; the deacons shot up from
their seats as if they were sitting on
springs; the congregation tittered, and
Buidock felt sick all over him as he
made a savage kick at his coat, which
had the effect of changing the tune,
and it pealed forth now, “Ihe Night
Before Larry was Stretched,” with the
vatiations.
Burdock felt that every eye i n the
church was watching him as he made
another side kick at it ; a subdued
whirr followed, and he was congratula'
ting himself on having hopelessly ruin
ed it wheu it suddenly broke out louder
than a troupe of' minstrels, with the
inspiring strains of the “Mulligan
Guards.”
By the time it had played two verses
and was commencing the third, five
deacons bad arrived, at the pew door,
and were interviewing Burdock, while
the entire congregation were standing
up on their toes to have a look at him.
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1877.
Burdock tried to explain, but seven
new deacons came up and accused him
of sacrilege and desecration of the
church.
“Go to thunder, the whole caboodle
of you!” he exclaimed, climbing over
the back of the seat and making for
the door.
One of the deacons followed him
with his hat and oVUrcoac, the music
box playing, “When Johnny Comes
Marching Home,” right merrily, as the
grave-faced deacon carried it at arms
length down the middle aisle.
Burdock and his family are at tend*-
frig nnotW ehrfh now. an<l f 1 e’music
b x i-' Lurried tin ’or four tons of an
thracite coal, in the cellar.
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The Dig for the South.
Black or slate-colored pigs are freest
from skin diseases in hot climates. The
choice is practically between the Essex
and Berkshire for males with which to
improve the native stock of hardy
grubbers of the root-or-die variety.—
i hose who have tried the former have
been delighted at first, but after a few
years begin to recall with longing the
lean hams and thin but solid and fla
vorous bacon of the old race horse
breed. The trouble with the Essex
pigs for the south is that they are not
active enough. They are of the eat
and sleep, and sieep-and-wake-to-eat
kind, and their grades are, of course,
like them. The aide fat is superb, and
,-o is the leaf lard, and so far the breed
is all that could be desired; but the
hams and shoulders are too fat for
profit, and the ham is not marbled with
fat like the Berkshires. These (the
Berks) are much more enterprising,
more wide awake, less easily controlled,
but good foragers Their grades are a
wonderful improvement upon the orig
inal stock, may be made very fat, and
yet tbe proportion between fat aud lean
in the hams, shoulders and side pork or
bacon is such as to develop and pre
serve the excellencies of tbe meat The
hams are large ana rich, and juicy
with diffused fat. Berkshires are no
quite so easily fattened when penned
and systematically fed as the Essex
grade, but they will take much better
care of themselves in the woods, and
when penned tor fattening may be fin
ished off with half the feed the origi
nal “laud pikes” would require.
With many Northern and Western
breeders the Essex is a more profitable
pig than the Berkshire, because hisna
ture leads him to take little exercise, so
that all he eats goes to flesh and fat.—
Respiration, which, if rapid, reduces
fat greatly, is with him never accelera
ted by moving about, and, with plenty
of feed, the sole burden of life is to
digest it. This breed is pre-eminent
among the black breeds, and excelled
by none as fat producers. — American
Agriculturist
Fence Posts Top End Down.
A study nf vegetable physiology led
me to try several experiments, many
years ago, to throw light upon this
question. The sap of moisture goes
up in the sap-wood from the roots to
the leaves of the trees, I found if the
post is butt-end down, the pores are
open upward, and water can go up, and
thus keep the post moist between wind
and wm which must cause a rapid
decay. It appeared probably that the
cores were open only upward and not
downward i' the tree. To test this, I
cut a small maple sappling, (two inches
through,; in May, leaving the limbs all
on, and placed the butt-end in a pail of
brine. In thirty-six hours the leaves
were saturated with this brine, the
taste of the salt being strong.
At the same time I had cut another
maple sappling, and cut off the top
branch, leaving the rest of the limbs
on. After winding a cloth around the
butt-end, to prevent evaporation, 1
jlaced the top end in a pail . f brine,
and allowed it to remain several days,
but no brine had been absorbed at the
top end. It had not penetrated the
pores as far as the end was immersed
in tbe brine, for if the bark was
scraped, there was not the sliglrest
taste of salt to be found. This being
the case in the green tree, how much
more must the poics of the dry tree
be closed from the top end downward ?
I have tried many similar experiments,
iDd think the question settled that if a
post is placed top end down, no moist
ure can ascend from the bottom of the
hole up the [Ost to rot it; but when
the butt end is down, the moisture can
ascend the pores very rapidly if green,
and slowly if dry. Seasoned posts are
found to last much longer, because the
pores are more or less filled within the
seasoned wood. I should also infer
that placing the top end down would
make more difference in a green than
in a dry post. In pursuance of the
fact that the pores of green timber
have been olten saturated with differ
ent solutions to preserve it, by immers
ing the butt-end. freshly cut. in the so
lution to be absorbed, it will also he
noted that burning or charring the
posts only closes the pores and prevents
the absorption of water. — E. W. Sin
Country Gentleman.
A daring Brooklyn man who ven
tured to kiss a Boston girl thus tereely
depicts the resulting phenomena : “She
rose in sections —rigid, awful, sublime
—towered Medusa like —fixed hei stony
stare a moment on nothingness, then
telesc oped, collapsed, sc< ot id, and I saw
her ne more.”
He Clot Religion.
Simon Stringer was a bluff old far
mer. He prided himself upon beiog a
plain matter-of-fact man, about whom
there was no foolishness or s.nti*
meat.
On more than one occasion he had
mortified his wife and daughters by
hustling them out of religious meetings
when they had began to show signs of
emotion .
He said he didn’t believe in “i
--raketlous conversi ms,” and that peo
ple who cried aud veiled over getting
religion ‘‘wasp t gettin’. it by* durn and
sight.”
He believed that the genuine article
was soothing and calming, aud not ex
ci'ing in its influence.
Once the Campbelites had a pro*
tracted meeting iu his neighborhood,
and as it was carried on without any
sudden outbursts of feeling, Simon
took kindly to it and attended regu
larly.
One Sunday morning he told his wife
to lay out two suits of clothes.
“Why, Simon,” exclaimed she in her |
shrill tones, “whatever do you want
with two suits of clothes V 1
"That’s my business —uot yours,” he
replied gruffly “You lay out my black
suit for me to put on, and wrap my
brown one up in a bundle, aud don’t
ask any foolish questions.”
His wife wundenugly but silently
complied aud Simon douoed one suit,
aud, with the other under his arm,
mounted tiis Horse aud rude away, fol
lowed by the anxious eyes of the big
and little Striugers, who marveled great
ly, and said uue to another, “Muat’s !
dad goin’ to do with his t’other
clothes.”
Simon didn’t return till supper time.
He took his place at the supper table,
which was the usual siguai for the
faun y to begin an on slaught upon the
victuals, but on this occasion lus voice
airested every arm in its desceut, and
lor the second time that day astonished
the Striugers.
Glancing around the startled circle,
he th ’S delivered himself :
“L want it understood that the head
of this household has to-day been bap
tized. Re is a follower of the meek
and lowly Jesus, and the fiist crittei at
this table that dips into auything afore
a blessin’ is asked’il git suatched
baldheaded. Drop yer eyes, ye heathy
en.”
The blessing was asked, and tha* meal
was eaten in silence.
After the chores were done, the
Stringers were stringiug off to bed,
when°the stern voice of the old man
again arrested them and filled th ir
minds with grave forebodings as -o
what was coming next. He addressed
them as follows ;
“Come in this room, every devil of
you, and flop down on your Knees. It
is my duty as a devout Chris\ian, to
have family worship, and I’ll have it,
too, and have respectful attention or
I’ll bust some domestic tie- asunder
This mansion must resound with
praises to the Most High, or it will re
sou and with somebody gettio’ a h—ll
of a thrashin’ —I mean bein’ severely
chastised. The first one who snickers
or makes any onseemly noise I’ll git
up and throw a cheer througn him, or
her, as the case may be. Lcl u-
I pray ”
The prayer was prayed, and n ver
was there a more attentive audience.
This sort of thing continued about
two weeks, and the Stringei family
was kept in a state of extreme mis
ery.
The younger members had been sev
eral times severely whipped for conduct
unbecoming the children of a true be
-and the older ones received such
pyramids for failing to fall into the
new order of things and to comport
themselves with due dignity.
Then one morning Simon came in.
with a battered milk-pail, and the knees
of his pants torn.
Dropping into a chair at the table,
he plunged his fork into the nearest
dish.
’J he children looked up from the
backs of their plates questiooingiy, and
their mother squeaked :
“Why Simon !”
“Shut up and cat he growled, and
then in a few moments added :
“This blessin’ and prayer busines- is j
suspended for a while I d'm t fore f
mv obligations an’ duties as a Chris
tian, an’ I’ll resoom ’em after ve cm- |
quered that dol-ding-d heit’ r The
’tarnal critter parsoouis too mu-' on
my Christian forbearance Darn a
hypocrite. I won’t pray when uiy - >u!
ain’t into it, it’s too great a strain. Fur
the time bein’ I’ve descended from
grace; pass the tamattusses.”
A sigh of relief went round the cir
cle and if the red heifer had known
how she had risen in the estimation of
a majority of the Stringers, her
fractious soul would have leaped with
joy.
Thflfc was several years ago, and now
the red heifer is a cow, and the worst
one in the neighborhood.
The S f ringers say as they punch
and plague her, “S longs it we keep
Old lied wild dad won’t git any more
o’ that awful relijun.”— Boys of New
York.
M •
Mrs. Partinger said : After dissolv
ing the matter over in her mind, she
had come to the delusion to seek out
some quiet country retreat, in order to
pervade the expsessive h at ot the sea-
Bon, and hereifter lead a more disentary
i life.
A PROPOSED WONDERFUL.
FEAT,
A Cannon Weighing One Thouv
sand Pounds to Be Fired While
Held in a Man’s Hand,
Among tbe million and a half of in
habitants of this city and its vicinity
Mr. Richard A. Peunell is known to be
possessed of more muscular strength
than any other individual. In someone
feature, such, perhaps, as the lifting of
a dead weight, the gentleman referred
to may not be superior to Captain Cur*
tisjO.t i bioagou, but on ihe whole he.
stand-* ai the head of powerful men.—
To lilt with one baud a dumb-bell
weighing 180 pounds, and then by pure
muscular exertion to push that enor
mous plaything above his head,is a pliys
ical feat to him by no means uucome
mon. Indeed, Mr Penneli has, on one
occasion at least lifted a dumb-bell
weighing no less than two hundred aud
on- pounds. Mr. Penneif now propose
es to perform a feat which, if success
fully accomplished, will create for him
a reputation in all parts of the civilized
world. He announces Lis intention, at
an athletic entertainment to be given
shortly in this city, to raise and hold in
his hands, free from bis body, a cannon
weighing 1.000 pounds, and loaded with
a blank cartridge, which will then be
fired while thus supported. One is re*
minded of the story told of an army of
ficer who conceived the idea of firing
off cannon from the backs of mules,
whose excellence as carriers had long
been recognized. Tbe first experiment
however, convinced the commanding of
ficer that the plan was not altogether
an ecotii mical one. When the cannon
was fired the mule disappeared, and the
unanimous opinion was that there was
uot sufficient mule to resist the recoil.—
Among the latest experiments in the
firing of cannon, the most important
has been that of the application of hy
draulics, especially as a power of resist
ance to the recoil of the gun. The most
powerful steel springs, and tbe strongest
cables, iron or hempen, were found nec
essary resistant force, and the new dis
covery was hailed with unbounded sat
isfaction. It is true that the recoil of
a guu weighing l,ouo pounds is not so
great as that of one weighing 70,000
pounds or more; but the principal of res
coil is tlie same in both, and the neces.
sary resistance must comparatively be
"as great in one as in the other. Who.
evo r has fired a fowling-piece will have
a to idea of the sudden recoil
caused by the explosion of gunpowder.
It has been said that strong men have
been knocked over backward by tbe
"kick” or recoil caused by the filing of
a shot-gun. If such is
the effect created by so small a weapon,
how much greater must be the recoil of
a large cannon. Mr. Pennell seems c n
fident, however, and after a lew exper.
iments now making, will soon be able to
anuouuee the exact time when ho will
give his exhibition of a feat as novel as
it is wenderlul. —New lark Tunes.
Above all earthly gifts a good moth
er stands pre-eminent; she is worth her
weight in gold—more than an army of
acquaintances. Those who have play*
eel round the same door step, basked in
the same mother’s smiles,in whose veins
the same blood flows, are b ’und by a
sacred tie th .t c*an never be broken.—
Distances may separate, quarrels may
occur, but those who have a capacity to
love anything must have at times a bub*
bling up of food recollection, and a
yearning after the joys of bygone days.
Every woman has a mission on earth.—
There is “something to do” for every
one—a household to put in order, a
child to attend to, some class of unfort
unates, degraded of homeless humanity
to befriend. That soul is poor indeed
that leaves this world without having
exerted an influence that will be felt for
gooi after she has passed away.
The following paragraph from p.
speech of Aaron Burr when Vice-Pres
ident, said to have been one of the
most effective pieces of oratory ever
pronounced under the roof of the Cap
itol, may not be inappropriate to the
present crisis :
‘•This house is a sanctuary; a citadel
of law, of order, and of liberty, a id it
is here —it is here, in this exalted ref
use —here, if anywhere, will resistance
h<: mad< to the storms of political fren
zy and t he silent arts of corruption ;
and if the Constitution be destined
ever to perish bv the sac-religious
hands of the demagogue or the usur
per, which Cod avert, its expiring
agonies will be witnessed upon the
floor ”
Did he behold, in a long vista. Grant
in the White House and Morton in the
Senate?—A r Y. Sun.
Rules of Ball for 1877.
Our American game of base“bill is rev
oiutiomzed agon, the national league
having resumed the lively for the dead
hall. This is to be made by an author
ized firm—a “soft-job ’ for somebody—
and to come io a sealed box, to be bro
ken by the umpire on the field. Other
important changes in the rules are :
The home club in all cases goes first to
the bat. A flayer not going to the bat
within a minute after beiug called by
the umpire is declared out, as also when
he runs to the first base inside the foul
line. When a runner is struck by a hit
ball he is out. The object of this 1 ist
would seem to be to allow every advan
tage to the “out,” and if is further de
creed that, the runner must go round
and back of fielder who obstructs his
i path to capture a bali.”
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Manhood! How Lost,How Restored
* ust published, anew edition
nf Dr. CULVKRWELL’S OEL-
Vn. ;k:Jr EBKATED ESSAY on the Rad
ical Cure (without medicine) of Spermato -
rhoea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary
Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and
Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Mar
riage, etc. ; also. Consumption, Epilepsy
ard Fits, induced by self-indulgence or
sexual extravagance, &c.
jg£os“Trice, in a sealed envelope, or.ly Six
cents*
The celebrated author, in this admirable
Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty
years’ successful practice, that the alarm
ing consequences of self-abuse may be rad
ically cured without the dangerous use of
i.rtern .1 medicine or the application ot the
knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at once
simple, certain, and effectual, by means of
which every sufferer, no matter what his
condition may be, may cure himself cheap
ly, privately, and Radically.
Lecture should be in the hands
of every youth and every man in the land.
Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to
any address, ] ost-paid, on receipt of six cents
or twr postage stamps.
Addifess the publishers,
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VOL. VI! —NO 25.
ESTABLISHED 1860.
GILMORE CO.,
Attorneys at Law,
Successors to Chipman, Hosmer & Cos.,
629.F. ST.,‘WASHINGTON, D. 0.
American, and Foreign Patents.
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iuing pre-emption and homestead cafes',
prosecuted before the General Land Office
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fOld Bounty Land Warrants.
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Address GILMORE & CO.,
P 0. Box 44, Washington, 1). C.
astiington, D. C., November 24, 1876.
I take pleasure in expressing my entire
confidence in the responsibility and fidelity
of the Law, Patent and Collection House of
Gilmore & Go., of this city.
GEORGE H. B. WHITE,
(Cashier of the National Metropolitan Ban 1 ,.)
dec9-tf.
Hygienic Institute l
f IF YOU would enjoy the
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Scrofula. Dyspepsia, Bror
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