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VOLUME VIII.
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j H. ARTHUR,
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CALHOUN, GA.
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u*4omers.
ff. W SKBLLT. S. R. FREEMAN.
SKELLY & FREEMAN,
\ttorneyw at Law,
CALHOUN, GEORGIA.
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made and promptly returned.
Best on t lie Road.
SUPPER & BREAKFAST HOUSE.
At Big Shanty, on the YV. & A Kail road,
By G. M. Lacy.
THE up evening train fiom Atlanta gets
supper here, an I the down morning
train from Chattanooga takes breakfast.
Table supplied with the very best the coun
try affords. I'lenty of attentive ser\ants.
Stop in and try us. G. M. LACY’.
FINE GOODS ! CHEAP GOODS I
MRS. T. B. WILLIAM,
HAS THE FINEST AND CHKArEST
Hats, Bonnets,
* Flowers, Flumes,
lies, Lace,
Ribbons, &c
TO BE FOUND IN ROME. Call at No. 27
broad Street, near the Railroad, and look
at her stock. No trouble to show goods.
Sl &tnping done to Older. oc6-ly.
T. M. EXjLIS’
LIVERY & SALK STABLE.
Good KodlcUe aucl Buggy Horses
anti Vehicles.
and mules for salt.
Stock fed and cared for.
t Chaises will be reasonable.
, H* p,y the cash for corn in he ear and
0 l 0" 'a *he bundle. feb3-tf.
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Colljoun Climes.
TUE PICKET.
BY TOM ASCAT.
Above the picket’s lonely beat
The stars shone out with quiet gleam ;
The rustling leaves beneath his feet,
The drowsy murmur of the stream,
That flowed beside the outpost tent,
To croon a lullaby did seem,
And in his tired se ises hlent
Like mingled fancies in a dream.
Far twinkled on the mountain height
The lights that marked the foeman’s camp,
And borne upon tbe winas of night
He faintly heard the sentries tramp.
And silence else save clear and low
The crickets chnp beneath the tr?es
That waYed their branches to and fro,
And whispered sot.ly to the breeze.
The soicmn stillness in the air,
The seeming peace, to dreamland mood ;
The ar ned picket pacing there
A mid the silent so.itude.
The mantling canopy of trees
That o’er hi n formed a sheltering dome
Asunder parts, beyond lie sees
A vision fair of love and home.
He seems to see his wife’s dear face,
His children kneel ng at her side
And lisping, with sweet infant grace,
Their prayers to God, that He will guide
The'r father safe mid wars alarms,
Though perils front him day by day,
To guard him by His powerful arms,
And guide and comfort him away.
*******
Lo! as the soldier dveameth there,
His bayonet in the starlight glow,
Cold gleaming iu the midnight air
Betrays him to a lurking foe.
A loud report—a blinding flash—
A sudden fall—a stifled moan—
Beside a lonely mountain ash
In death the picket sleeps alone.
HO W?
Perhaps I am a little too hasty, a lit*
tie too rea ly to light up at a minute’s
notice; but there are some words that
seem to uie to carry an especial grain of
gunpowder in them, and the oue above
is one of the sort.
To have a person, after you’ve been
through a long explanation, put his fin
gers to his mental ears, and query you
thus, or, worst still, “ H;iow ?” is
too exasperatirg for human nature to
bear.
Put that is what John Stringer did
to me, bendirg his bead a little nearer,
and sp akiug in an absent, aggravating
manner, that tantalized me beyond
words.
You see, John Stringer and I
were engaged ; we had been engaged a
long time, and perhaps bad got to be
a little too matter of course to each oth_
er.
We were sitting there over the fire,
after the old folks had gone to bed,and
I fell to telling him about Sophie M ills’
wedding—her white silk dress, her
bride-cake, and her bridesmaids frosted
at. over to match it, and I ended this
way :
“But it don’t make any difference,
Johu, to people that love each other;
all that’s o’ no mure account than last
year’s snow-drift. They could be
married in calico aud hono spuu jeans,
with their feet ou a ragged carpet
like this, aud love each other just as
well.
‘‘How ?” said John, absently. He
was watching the coals flicker up and
die out again, and picking up a stray
chip now and then to fl ug ou the em
bers —a fashion ue had when he was
thinking.
Now 1 had had the headache all day,
and I guess 1 was rather more tindery
than usual, though l t idu’t think so
then; but when John bent his great
broad shoulders over as if he hadn’t
heard a word 1 said, and, in lact, bad
something better to occupy his mind, I
fired up first and then the blaze
ded down iuto sulks,and when we pait*
ed that night John and I had our first
and last quarrel.
My heart (lid not misgive mo that
night, when 1 saw John's tall figure
going out of the door, it was the last
time he’d lift the latch for many a year;
but so it was.
You see, I held my head pretty high
in those days, and I wouldn’t show that
I was a bit cut up about it; so I paired
off with Mrs. Plummer’s Jesse, a likely
spruce young fellow enougg,but no more
to be compared with John thau a cock
le-shell is to a brigantine.
O,well,mother sighed, and tried right
hard to bring us together, but it wasn t
to be.
John was a po verful, muscular mau
and l used to see him go up the road
many a time when I was. out milking
and peeping out at him through the
chinks.
I thought his broad shoulders stoop
ed more than ever, and his figure was
growing, more stately-like. iSuch an
awkward fellow as John was !
I came near rushing out on him once
with my sun-bonnet, and with my
sleeves rolled up, and flinging my arms
around his neck ; but John liked to see
folks tidy, and l never did.
Jesse Plummer was the beau of the
village—dapper, neat as you please;
and all the girls thought L had come
to my senses when 1 ousted ’em ot Jess
And by-and-by it was Jesse that
came sparkiu’ o’ nights, and -at o win
ter ovenin’s over the embers.and he was
so soft.spoken and pleasant that even
mother forgot her vexation. (bhe
always set store by my John, mother
did )
Well in the spri g we were mariied,
and I had a string of pearls and a silk
bridal dress, and felt kind o’ lifted like
when the girls crowded ca}U q 4 *hd
CALHOUN. GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17.1877.
hoped I’d be happy.
I hoped so, too ; I wa9e’t sure of
ic.
Remembering the days that came af
ter, l can’t recall one hard word I ever
heard from Jess.
We wereu't near enough to each oth
er to quarrel; we just laid apart like too
odd volumes; there wasn’t any fire
’twixt us, nor anything Twixt us, either
love or laughing, whereas John and I
had always been bubbling over one wav
and another.
I worked hard, for my silk diess and
neck-lace were all l had of riches; ami
I cut up my govu one day to make a
cloak for the baby.
You see, 1 couldu’t give up my !
pride, and was just as high-spirited as
ever.
But our farm didn’t prosper, and
Mrs. Piummer came to live with ns, to
look after things, she said ; and she got
to pitying him every uow and then for
marrying a poor wife and—O ! well
what’s the use in talking ?—sometimes
I couldn’t help wishiug John Stringer’s
strong shoulders were at the wheel,when
I was working myself to death morning
and night lor nothing.
Then when the baby grew bigger, I
took to teaching ao A B C class, as I
used to before l was married : but what
little I knew had run wild since then
and 1 could not keep the boys straight,
somehow; and the girls didn’t care
about samplers ; for the sewi g-machines
had ridden right over everything.
Then Jesse fell ill of the fever, and,
with all the fretting and fuming and
nursing of his mother, a'd wth all 1117
watching day and night, somehow he
soon slipped off between us, and l found
myself a widow, with the illfared, wast
ed farm on my hands, and Mother
Plummer driveling and maundering
after Jesse in a way to break my
heart
But I kept my spirits np yet, and I
advertised half uiy place for sale at the
Court House ; for if I could sell it, we
should skin through somehow on an acre
or two, 1 thought.
. Well whnt do you suppose I saw
one sunny afternoon, as I was standing
in the kitchen? Who, to be
sure but John Stringer, large as life
a little gray, mayhap, and a little angu
lar, but keen and strong as ever.
iie’d a use for that bit o’ land, it
seemed, and his eye ou it along back.
“Always wanting what wan’*, his,”
Mother Plummer said.
She owed him a grudge for being
more beforehand than Jesse.
It took a deal of looking after and
lawyering and surveving, aud the Lord
knows what, to settle it; and I used to
see John Stiinger’s stooping shoulders
and broad felt hat down just beyoi and the
rise in the meadow time and again
But he scarce ever came near the door
till one day —l can’t tell how it was—
when the settlements were to be made.l
just took the hahy up stairs and had a
good cry ; for that bit o’ land was Jes
se’s favorite piece, and Mother Plum
mer had been harrying all day about
it.
‘■The ways o’ Providence are so
strange !’’ said Mother Plummer laying
her specs down atop <’ the Bille, and
putting on tlat awful patient lit whieh
was wearing me to skin and bone
‘‘past finding out How if Jesse had
married Sophie Mills ihat was, and
) ou’d ”
But I did not wait to hear any
mere
I just caught up my baby and went
off to the • arret.
And while Is t in the cobwebbed
window, Drs Barret—Sophie Mills
that was—went riding by in thtir new
spring wagon, she and her half-dozen
children, round and losy as a barrel of
apples.
Sophie nodded and smiled to some
one coming up the road, and looking I
saw John Stringer walking, thoughtiul
like, right up to the gate, jut as he
used to come in courting days —fo.
Juhu never hud any foolish ways about
him.
I saw Sophie look back at hi mas she
and her childr n, with flattering rib< J
bons and gay ginghams, disappeared at
the turn of the road
Then I washed my face and
smoothed my huir and went down
The time of settlement had come I
knew.
“Mary Ann,’’said John gravely, “the
lawyer will be bear soon ; but L reckon
we can make it clear iu our own minds
without his help. And I’ve settled it
in fact, that there arc certain condL
tions on which I’ll taxe the land —it
you agree."
Then I flew iuto a passion.
“You’ve oeen long euuugh making
up your mind,” says I. “L don't throw
my land at anybody’s feet, and I haven’t
asked any favors of you, leastways,John
Stringer.”
“Softly, there, softly !” says John,
putting out his hand. “Don’t be in a
liurry, little woman.”
“John Stringer,” says I,all in a heat,
“you’re just the same man you was
years ago. when you thought L was al
ways firing up every lime you got ou u’
temper yourself.”
'•And weren’t you, little woman ?-—■
Don't women forks always like their
own w >y better than anything else?”
“You don't know anything about
woman,” I eried- “any ns ue than
you did thou V’H thaug l I want
ed silks and furbelows more thau
tbau—*’’
“Thau vou did me,” s-*il John, “and
right enough you was, too. if you could
have got me i always said so Mary
Atm.”
“ Aoy man with half an eye would
hive known better says I, hotly.
“How ?” said John.
His great hulking figure lifted itself
up, and he looked at me with those
frown sharp eyes that used to give me a
start in old times.
“How ?” he repeated, softly. “Do
you mean to say l was mistaken yeJrs
ago ?”
His big brown hand was all
of a tremble as he held it out to
me.
“Little woman, little woman,” says
he “let us have done with it all now,
and let it be as it never was.”
Presently Mother Plummer put her
head in the door.
“’Pears to m j that lawyer is rnakigg
a long spell of it,” says she.
you a’mjit tired o’ waitin’ for him,
Stringer ?”
“I gress we’ve settled it pretty mt#b
without the lawyer; aojd that is the
condition I had to Marjr Aan
—to take you aud the mfeadufv t|>geV|*.
cr !”
'And he did.
Fertility af Western |
The yield of the cereals is simjlj
enormous. The corn is twice as hrlh
as your head, in May, and the grass l#s
twice been cut by that time; 6ve|y
kuo ' n vegetable has long been in tpe
market then. The sweet and luscious
tigs are ripe, and pears and apples,.ap|h
cots, plums, and peaches are ready *to
gather; while, later in the year, banan
as, poiiKsgranates, and persimmons cotut
in, and the pecans drop big aud sweet
as one finds them nowhere else. There
are fields about San Autonio where $409
an acre have been realized out of sugar
cane, although that is an extremely ex- _
ceptiuual yield, the proceeds being part
ly due to the sale of cane in the streets,
it being a chcice morsel in its season.
Large quantities of it are led to cattle
also, and fer them, -as another delicacy,
the prickly pear is raked into heaps,
and scorched of it.- thorns by fire. The
Spauish moss is iouud in iuimeuse
quantities on the \rees in certain pon
tious of country round San Autonio, as
well as all tbe uay to the coast. It is
an epiphyte, not a paiasite, drawing its
susteuance from the air and not tl*e
tree, to which it does no injury; and it
is already forming a good branch of
euuimerce, as, being well rotted arid
dried, it makes a valuable substitute f<jr
curled hair iu upholstery. Cotton, too*'
is almost equally prolific with every
thing else. In fact, there is nothing
which the rich earth does not seem ca
pable of producing, and producing at
its best. As you see it fleshly turned
up, clean, da- k and glistening as though
it held hid en sunbeams, it secuis, ac
cording to the oil saying, fairly good
enough to eat. It would excuse the
clay eaters themselves if it were on such
subs'anee that they ted, and one would
well wish that, having the traditional
peck of (Jut lo eat, it might be eaten
111 oan Autonio Oue do-s not wonder
to see tins s->d break into blossom the
day after it is cut
“ A footfall there
Suffices to upturn to the warm air
Half-get initiating spices ; mere decay
l : .i oduces richer life ; and day by day
Ne w pollen on the lily notal grows,
And sail more labyrinthine buds the rose.”
And ban Aiitouiu in this matter is
but the type of all Western Texas—a
luid of promise audof plenty; a land flow
ing in unlk and honey (if, .vitli the cat
tie roaming in multitudes, one Were riot
obliged to use eondeusek milk in one’s
coffee); a land where the vagrant Can
sleep m comfort under a tent in open
air all his lifetime, and may iive in lux
ury, scarcely lifting Ins hands to labor,
aud where the energetic and iutelligent
bind fortune hand aud foot, and compel
her to their service. Nearly forte hun
dred thousand people entered it in the
last year, and sought permanent homes ;
many mine, we understand contemplate
the same iu the coming year. And
then success is entirely in the measure
of their endeavor ; fur with eggs sell
ing from G Uj 8 ceuts a dozen, and with
beef sto 8 cents a pound, the cost ot
living is at its minimum. Rents are
the only eqp i m-ive item, and the cli
ma e makes a tent sufficient shelter till
a house can be built. Harper’s Maga
zine.
A Touching Incident of Gf.n.
Forrest's Funeral —The Memphis
Avalanche tells a touching incident
iu relation to the funeral of Gen. For
rest. j'
Before the cottege had yet farmed,
groups of ladies, one after au it her; flip
ped softly into the room where the tie n{
General lay, in the residence of the last
survivor of the Forrest brothers, Col.
Jesse Forrest Eachltdy stoppjd to
gaze for a last time on the face of the
dead, and despo&iiing her tribute of
snowy flowers, passed out.
One little bunch o*' flowrers.not beaua
tii’ully arranged, nor made up of rare
flowers, had a little history to tell. As
the train of Tuesday was passing Vheel
er station, near Court laud, Alaba ua, a
little girl scarcely thirteen years of age
came forward to the platform, holding
in her hand, these simple fljwers.—
Handing them to a passenger, she
said ;
“fake these to Memphis and place
them ou Gen. Forrest’s grave. They
are sent because General Joseph Wheel
er’s daughter him.”
“Sally,'* said a fellow to a girl who
had red hair, “keep away from mo, or
you’ll set me no fire.” “No danger
of that.” shouted tue girl ; youaro to„
green to burn.”
Nine Years Wilnout Sleep.
Mr. Thomas McElratb, an emigrant
from the norm of Ireland, settled in
Marlborough,"Ulster county, New York,
many years aga He is an upright,
honest and much respected citizen of
Chat being a member of Rev. B.
U. Niven’s oongregation. A rumor has
been in circulation for years to the ef
fect that this gentleman has worked at
his occupation of a farmer, apparently
happy, enjoying good health, yet had
not at any time in nine years been
blessed with a really refreshing sleep.
To make sure of the facts before pub
lishing, we sent a reporter to interview
Mr. McElrath, and make a verbatim
report. The reporter informed this
gentleman what his mission was, When
he replied as follows:
rI came to this country in the year
1832 from County Antrim, Ireland. I
was in excellent health, and continued
to remain so till nine years ago. I was
then attacked with dysentery, and was
lontined to my bed for over a month. —
Dr. Win. Gedney, of Milton, attended
me then and since. After I began to
get well I could not sleep till about 12
o’clock, and so on lor six months, till
the present time I have not closed my
eyes in sleen for nine years. I bear
ev,ery sound during the night, while my
family are in bed sound asleep I fre
quently ri-e and read lor hour3, but my
bead feels dizzy all the time; my back
aches, my e ,r es are sore; although peo
ple tell me I look well for one of my
years, I am really very wqak. and have
uot worked very much in the last two
or three years on my farm. Oh, yes,
I lie down during the day, but sleep
nary a wink. Yes, sir. lam positive I
have not slept in nine years; my own
family and otheis have watched me for
ma.,y weeks—yes. and for months—to
see if they could catch me -asleep; but
it’s of no use. I can’t sleep, and that’s
'•the end of it. I’ll give any man SSO
who will give, me just one n ght’s rest.
No, I can’t stay on my feet for over two
or three hours at a time. My memory
is good. Low much da l weigh? Well
‘l swould iudge about one hundred and
sixty pounds. I’ve tried everything
and nothing affords me relief.—
t wish I was dead.— Kingston Couri
er.
Newspapers vs. Books.
A few days ago a friend and subsu: ib
or of ours uutiiiod us to stop ins paper.
His reason was that he was taking
eral papers and that he had to cut off
some off them because they interbred
with his reading of his book. iSaid he
neglected book reading for newspaper
reading, this he though.- a Very ba 1
habit audit) order to resist the temptation
he must keep the newspapers out of his
house.
We appreciate books; we know their
value, but he who thinks that the news.*
papers ot the day are of less use to
humanity labors under a serious mis
tak
Hioks are a record ol the past —an
of the things that have
bean. They are iadespeusitde to the
stuleot, but the practical man who has
passed beyond his school days and en
tered upon the realities of ife, has to
tight iiis way against the adversities of
me world, can better lay aside his books
that his newspapers While as we said
books area record of the past, a news
paper is a mirror of the present. The
age and the hi u s in which v c ive
and in which we are most interested, is
reflected in it. There is no idea, no
thought no event of the present which
can possibly get into a b.-und volume in
after years which is not found
in the newspapers of to-day. A man
who desires to live in the present —de-
sires to keep apace with the world—-
to know what his neighbors are doing
must read the press of the country. Be
wailing ten or twenty year* ho may get
the opportunity of reading some things
of interest which are transpiring to-day
but ihere are many which will never be
bound between the lid- of a book
We do no' i.qlerrate booka —good ones
—but we. do say that when a practical
mau forsake newspaper reading, as of
lesser importance than iiis books, he
does not understand much uf the battle
before him.
In Iceluud,
Men and women, masters and ser- i
rants, all iuhub.t the same room, while i
eleaulino s is not much attended to;
but poor as they are, ano accustomed
to great privations, th y set an exam
tie of cheerful contentment. The beau
ty of the young girls is remarkable ;
their fair hair fails in long plaits, par
tially covered by a black cloth coif,
daintily worn on one side of the head,
and finished at the top with a tssel of
colored silk run through a stiver o>
steel buckle, which floats on the shoul
der. ItJ reminds the traveler at the .
Greek head-dress; but the Hue eyts 1
with their sweet, benevolent expression, I
soon ree iH to his mind their Duui>h or* 1
inin, '1 he dress is made of the cl >th
woven iu the country, and on festival
days the bodice is gaily adorne l with
silver braid and velvet, while the belt
a~d sleeves ate ornamented with silver
devices, beautifully chased at.d often <>f
jircat value. On wet and cold days the
shawl bao-lines a useful mantilla, com
pletely enveloping the head, and de
fending the wearer from the efleets of
| the frequent storms.- Clonnbers Jour*
nal
Every one ot the six men who were
drowned in the attempt to r escue the
crew of the Cleopatra caisson leaves a
widow- The men volunteered to per
form iUe hajardous dutj.
A Rabbit Hunt-in Nevada.
The Ward (Nevada) Reflex reports a
rabbit hunt in Steptoe Valley as fol
lows: “In accordance with the pro
gramme the contest betwern the two
teams named came off on Saturday last
A pleasant day greeted the Nimrods,
and Sam Mosier had everything in or
der for the boys. A splendid supper
was spread for the gamesters, and after
a fine rest, an early start for the field
was affected. Such banging and bangs
ing never wag heard in Steptoe
Valley before. The boys were all on
it, and it was evident that a good re
cord was to be made. The slaughter
of rab its was fearful, and it required
four wagons to follow the two teams in
the field to keep the game. According
to agreement the teams were to meet
at Mosier’s for lunch at ten o’clock
which they did, and the count of game
commenced. To the utter surprise of
everybody, score of each team
was 609. Who ever saw such a
pile of rabbits ? 13v actual measure*
rnent there was a cord of dead rabbits
The teams had mistaken the sport of
the day aud had not sufficient ammu-
nition to continue the slaughter of
the forenoon, and agreed to quit. All
hands joined in the agreement, and
cheer after cheer went up from
both sides as the announcement was
made that it was a diaw. We were in
the field and have seen some good
shooting before, but take it altogether
we have never seen better shooting
done in any field, and the parties
comprising the two teams deserve a
great deal of credit for their jer*
severance and the honorable manner
in which they conducted the match.
A Bonanza ot Wcaltn in South
Carolina.
The most reuiavkuble Instance of a
geological discovery, revolutionizing a
di-tiict and enriching a State, has oc
curred ic the development of what is
known as the Aahley Iliver, (S. C.) de
posits of what seems to be the remains
of cartilaginous fi?h, especially of the
shark family, though they also contain
numerous bones and teeth of cetaceans,
or whale-like animals, many of which
were larger, or as large, as the
whales found in the seas of the present
time.
From the number of their bones and
teeth exhumed or washed out by the
wav s of the ocean, they 1-ayc existed
in large “shoals,” and together with the
enormous sharks ot that age, animals
rivaling the whale in size, must have
constituted a vast marine army of rav
enous flesh-eaters and capacious scav
engers of the Eocene Oee: n. Large
ships and steamers are daily seeking
cargoes from the Ashley, Stone, Wando,
Ashepoo aud other rivers, and the State
of South Carolina is now reaping a great
hat vest.
Over &6 000,000 have already been
invested by Northern capitalist in mint
ing and manufacturing the rocks into
ricn fertilizers, and many persons who,
in 1867, were unbelievers have now
their thousands invested in it. This is
a simple and true history of the discov
ery and develpment of the phosphate
rocks of South Carolina. The exports
fir the >a -1 var amount to two hun
dred thous u and t^ns. —Philapetphia Jn~
purer.
“We have to pay for everything,"
is the man said v h n the m isquito, al
ter a serenade, sent his bill iutu him.
A musquito is a very free and easy
sort of creature. He visits you at all
hours of the night and generally makes
himself to hum.
A Wi.-consin clergyman has been
found guilty by a church council of
“not always handbag the tru:h with
sufficient carefuliness to meet the de
mand of veracity."
A St L 'uia ai tesian well has reached
iad ;pth of thii iy°eight hundred feet.
She is bonnet to have water if she has
to go to China for it.
Renovation, not Prostration.
Did any enfeebled human being ever
bi conic strong under the operation of
dowerful cathartics or sa'i ant if It h
sometimes necessary to regulate the
bowels, but that cannot be djne by ac
tive purgation, which exhausts the vatil
forces and serves no goud yur-po-e
whatever. The only true way to pro
mote, he.lth aud vigor, which are essetr
tial to reg'larity of the organic func
tions, is to invigorate, discipline and
puiify the system at the same time
The extraordinary efficacy of 11 -tetter s
Hitters in eases of debility or irregulari
ty of i he organ of digestion, a*-i:nuli
lion, secretion and discharge, is univer
sally admitted. Appetite, go id diges
tion. a regular hah;t >1 body, active cir
oulati oi of the blood, and purity of all
the animal fluids are induced by til’s
supeb tonic and corrective. It has n •
equals, moreover, as a preventive of
chills and fever, types of malarial dis
ease. To emigrants and t adders, if i
pu ticularly serviceable a.-* a it;d eiu i!
safeguard oct(> ly.
Rheumatism Qunk 1 / Cured.
‘•f)n i'm’- Rb-u natt> u Remedy. the
' .rreat H 1 Kit NL .\i KDIOI E w'li poei.
tivelv cere an? case of rhto m f ism on
n- f*i •of the earth Price Sri a bot
le, six bottlea, $5. Gold by all whole
nle anl Retail Druggist. Don’t fail to
end fr circular to Helpenstine& Hen
ley, D. Washington. D. C.
no?3-6m.
NUMBER 18*
“VEGETINE.”
Says a Boston physician, “has uo equa 1 a
a Wood purifier. Hearing of its many won
derful cures after all • other remedies hail
failed, 1 visited the Laboratory, and con
vinced myself of its genuine merit. It is
prepared from barks, root* and herbs,
each of which is highly effective, and they
are compounded in such a manner as to
produce astonishing results.”
Vegetine
Is the great Blood Purifier.
Vegetine
Will cure the worst case of Scrofula,
Vegetine
Is recommended by physicians and apethe
cariis.
Vegetine
Hao effected some marvellou* cures in case*
of Cancer.
Vegetine *
Cures tine worst cases of Canker.
Vegetine
Iff eets with wonderful success in Mercurial
diseases.
Vegetine
Win eradicate Salt Rheum from tie system.
Vegetine
Removes Pimples and Rumors from the face.
Vegetine
Cures Constipation and regulates the bowels
Vegetine
Is a valuable mn edy for Headache.
Vegetine
Will cure Dyspepsia.
Vegetine
Restores the entire system to a healthy con
dition.,
Vegetine
Removes the cause of Dizziness.
Vegetine
Relieves Faintness at the stomach.
Vegetine
Cures Pains in the Back.
Vegetine
Effectually cures Kidney Complaint.
Vegetine
Is eff jt tire in its cure of Fe aale >\\ aknesar
Vegetine
Is the great ren edy for General Debility.
Vegetine
Is acknowledged by all classes ef people to
bo the b st. and most reliable blood pu
rifier in the world.
VEGETINE
Prepared by
11. R. STEVENS r ßo*ton> Mass.
VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
novIO’Iy.
ESTABLISHED 1805.
GILMORE & COi,
Attorneys at Law,
Successors to Chlpman* Hosmer & Cc*,
629 F. ST., WASHINGTON, >. O.
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es of war chums before the I ht ie +
part merits.
Arrears of Pay and Bou * f.
Officer*. sol V.m. and s%UtHN at kl l*t#
war- or their heirs, aiv in many • <e *i *
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however slightly, can obtain a ]r>*i*iit,
many now receiving pensions are tali'l*4
to an inrrease." 5...) stamp and itfur**r
tion will be furnished frte. %.
United Statas CeneralLand Office
Contested land cases, private land el:i e,
mining pre-emption and homestead car *,
prosecuted before the General Land
aud Department of the Intorioy
Old Bounty Land Warrant*.
The last report of the Cmnuftuionei f
the General Land Office shows 2,807, ->•
of Loamy Land Warrants outstanding
The-o were is<n and v.nder uut pf 1866 an!
prior rtofa. "0 pay oaah f,>r them. Benl
by rogisterrq le ter. Where assignment*
•ue ituporUH.l we g ye instructions to per
fect tiiem.
Lach department of aur business is een
d noted in u .-ej rtte bureau, under the
charge <>t * 11 .layers and clerks.
Hy reason i error t iraud many attor
ney a or 1 suspended ti n practice before
the Pension and otner < :riees each year.—
I'brmmls whose attorneys have been thus
sus end' and will be gnm itously furnished
with full information and proper papers on
application to u®.
.As ivc char *e no fe. s unless successful,
stmi>s for re urn p >- > ge sho Id be sent
us.
1 iheral arrangement* made with atter*
no s in alt branch *s of business
Ad Ire-* GILMORE & CO.,
P 0. Hex 14, ll 'aihiHyton, D . 6
W ashi vi; rev. D. C.. Yore.iiber 21. 1876.**
j f tak.- pleasure in expressing my entire
[ confidence in the r< .i/n*Htlnli / aud fidelity
of the Law, ’hitent and Cjllcctiou House ef
Gilmore & Go,, of this city.
GEORGE 11.11. WHITE.
{Cashier of (lie National Metropolitan Ilanty