The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-09-24

s. extensive sale Of vegetable medicines is
e Iaa hy facts disclosed in suit at law IN which
po.r;son the maker of the celebrated avegetaoie
iife pills, was Of the parties II appeared 10
he that the propretors had been so successful
TngIand as to be able to establish the mBrtish
u uae of Health at an expense OF SOU oUO from
bc5 agents were sent into all the principal cities
" Europe and America. The demand Tor these Pliis
became so great in this country that lhe sale
De- 90 so56OOO in a single year. 1t appeared, fur-
eu ,ore that this "British College OF Health, with
the h;oh sounding title had neither charter, profess
rs nor students, but consisted OF immense pullo
s U in the suburbs of London, with appropriate ap,
a us for the manufacture OF "hygene piiis, ana
Pc INC nropretor was neither surgeon, physician,
1n@' liam IF science but an arch quackl
ho, :;sterial man. with black hat and large sill
= enactacles, has been perambulating our streets
va va Emo davs with book and pencil, soliciting ana
for the free blacks who have escaped to Canaua. IL
,Id seem from this that these escaped slaves are
abe TO support themselves in a country that oifefs
~ much inducement to free labor as any country IN
ba world--a sorry comment upon the labors OF the
'naororound railroad, as agent for which this
solicitor has been acting. Ii these blacks had re-
begged starved, nor gone unclothed. We learn that
Hack republican pockets are Theoretically sealed to
the man who is illustrating the incapaety OF the
negro to support himself in the Canadas
belfast (Mainel Journal.
ne Cincinnati r1apers record the death of Mr.. Ro-
bert Orr. in the ssth year Of his age. He was born
in Lancaster Pennsylvania, in III. The Gazette
saws: Mr. Orr ffty-seven years ago, raised corn
and other grain on what is the most dense part
If Cincinnati He Sold at that time, piece OF land,
about as large as one of its squares, situated
Fourth and Main streets, for wagon worth $25 In
1900 he purchased 100 acres of land four miles north
west Of Cincinnati, on what is now called the Har
rison turnpike. few years after he added another
hundred acres to his farm, upon which he lived till
the day of his death.
So thick was the forest and underground from Gin
cinnati to his place that he had to cut road to it,
before he could move his family on it, which he did
in 1892 How few live fifty -four years upon the
same placel Since Mr.. Orr emigrated to this region.
what vast changes have taken place in ard around
it, in our State in the great west in country and
in our world. Mr. Orr is of the last, if not the
very last of the pioneers who to this part of the
posterty of children grand children and great grand
children number 80.
The ST. Louis Republican publishes some statistics
of the total number Of inquests held by the
Of that city for the two years. Peruse the figures,
and consider for moment what an epic they mar
rate in little. The total number of inquests held
was upon the bodies of AIT persons. The causes of
their DEATH classified by the verdcts of the uries
were as follows: By drowning, 1874: from ntemper-
ance and exposure, sc; by accident SO; murdered,
sd males and IL females; from causes unknown 40;
by suicide, g. by sun-stroke, 49, congestion of the
brain, 10; nfanticde, s; suffocation and burning,
g. Of the drowned cases. the bodies of LOG were
never recovered.
AN APPROPRIATE NAaE.--The Leigh street baptist
church, at Richmond, Va, have unanimously called
20 their pulpit the rev. Edward g. Baptist, of the
State of Alabama.