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The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12
DR.. DUPONCO's GOLDEN PERIODICAL
PILLS,
FOR FEMALES

u Are infllible lcautioned against us
for removing Stoppa- = ing pills while in that
ges or Irregularities : condition, as the pro-
OF the Menses. ., prietor assumes no
The Pills are moth = responsibility a fit err
ing new, but have :. the above admoniton
been used by the Doc although their mild
tor in his practice for = ness would prevent
many years, both in any injury to health !;
France and America, = otherwise these pills
with unparalleled = are recommended. -
success In every case; & Directions acco m
and he Is urged by = panying each box.
many thousand Ia :, Price ST.
dies who have used = N. B.-Ask for Dr.
them, to make the = Duponco's Golden
Pills public, for the ?. Pills. See signature
alienation of those on every box. You
suffering from any ir- 9 then obtain pill you
Irregularities whatever = may depend upon.
preventative to ladies e Ladies by inclos-
whose health will not !. ing one dollar by
permit an increase of mail to either of the
family. = agents below, can
Pregnant females, :. have the Pills sent
or those supposing (confdentially to any
themselves so, are part of the country.
Sold by
Bolles, Smith & Co., 1874 Lake-St., Chicago,
Agents for the Northwestern States, also dealers
in Patent Medicines generally
Z. Is: PARSONS. -.-..------- Independence.
r. W. WRIGHT,
G. f. PUTNEY,
Z. w. WHITNEY, Ouasoueton
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The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12
Counterfeit Money,

Counterfeit Money. ~ 5.s1 2 =
.fw- Our country readers, and others
not accustomed to the handling of paper
money. cannot be too careful, now-a-
days, in ,scrutinizing all bank notes, Of
fered to. them. There is an enormous
amount Of counterfeit money in .circula-
ton here as elsewhere over the. country,
and new ones are constantly appearing,
many Of them so well done as to- deceive
even experienced judges. Its circulators
generally manage to keep ahead of the
Bank Note Reporters, SO that these works
are no longer safe guides. One of our
merchants, Mr., P. G. Wilcox, says that
as much as a hundred dollars Of bad
money was presented at his counter du-
ring the past week, doubtless by those
who had taken it in good faith, and who
can il-afford to lose it. 1t is supposed,
with what reason we cannot say, that
there are parties resident in this county.
who are in constant receipt of this kind
of money. and engaged in the work of
circulating it. Whether this is true or
not, it is certain that much Of this class
Of moneyis floating about in our COM
munity. and those who are not adopts in
detecting it, should not fail to make a
special note of tie source from whence
they obtain all bank bills. ya isd
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12
Sarsaparilla and StilIingia.

Thousands who have used the Stillinga and
Sarsaparila viii testify to its remarkable effect
in removing all impurities from their blood,
giving tone and vigor to the whole human frame,
and restoring healthy action to all the func-
lions of the BODY BID tr hl-V OH
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12
To Cure all my Troubles +!

The testimonials we havereceived in its favor
from many members of the medical faculty
would, were we to publish them, fill a large
volume. This preparation stands at the head
of the list of remedies for curing all diseases
arising from impurities in the blood or diseased
matter lurking in the system. -.hu11aTe s.
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12
Purify your Blood
And you will be Healthy.

IL is highly recommended by physicians to
cure the following diseases, having their origin
in disordered state of the blood ~ --~..- g
The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-05-12

It is prepared by one of the best praetic
Chemists in the country so as to insure a vi
formity of composition and purity in all the i
gradients. ft T
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19

the same thing had happened before.
ii: Burns own nature carried enough

the same thing had happened before.
u Burns own nature carried enough
for twenty common men of more force
Of feeling : he never trickled drop by
drop prudentially; he gushed; he came
down booming all aboard like one OF
his own streams. The daisy was not
half so subject to the touch of the iron
plow-share as he to the touch of tina,
daisy's moist look. Like the mountains
OF his own land, he stood, often capped
with storms, oftener shrouded with
mists, often laundering with the sound
Of waters. But there also birds brood.
ed and sung: andlbees opened the
roses, and pure lakes lay rock-bound,
looking silently up to, God. The stern
and the gentle, the rugged and the
bautif',l- Ia strange fellowship. How
could this ambitious and generous
heart make his way into life, and
achieve success :? It WAS question
not how man could carry up cur
half full on his way, but how he could
carry great cup hrimful over a rougf
and stormy road at night? :? 1t was no
4 question of what was righ: and wha'
duty, but what chance Robert Burn:
had with nature compounded of sucl
eccentricity and opposite qualities
profoundest melancholy with the great
est sociality.''
Well did Mr.. Beecher say in conclu
sion:
"Throughout his whole life this low
for Fman was eminent. No tender
heart ever cheer the sufferer. Tht
nation who read Burns in the nursery
would never have tyrants in the Par
Lament House. In all his weaknesses
sorrows, joys and fears, he is universe
in his sympathy. If every man that
within these twenty-four hours, thu
world round, shall speak the name o
Burns with fond admiration, were reg
istered as his subjects, no king on eartl
could have such a realm, and if eacl
one could change the feeling into .
flower, and cast it down before lii
memory, mountain would arise, anl
he could sit upon a throne, now a
length, without thorn.'' =
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19
CURIOUS FACTS.

The difference between the skull of
the domestic hog and the skull of the
wild boar is as great as that between
the European and negro skull. Do
mesticated animals that have subse-
quently run wild in the forest, after a
few generations. lose all traces OF their
domestication, and are physically diff.
ferent from their tame originals. j.
tits not natural for a COW, any more
than for any other female animal, to
give milk when she has no young to
nourish. The permanent production
of milk is a modified animal function
produced by an artificial habit for sew
eral generations. Tn Columbia the
practise Of milking cows having beer
laid aside, the natural state of the func-
ton has been restored. The secretion
of milk continues only an occasional
phenomenon. If the calf dies the milk
ceases to flow. .t
The barking Of dogs is an acquired
hereditary instinct, supposed to have
originated in an attempt to initiate the
human voice. Wild dogs, and domes-
tic breeds that have run wild never
bark, but howl. Cats, which so dis
turb civilized communities by their
midnight caterwaul, iii their wild state
iii South America, are quite silent.
The hair Of the negro is not wool,
but a curled and twisted hair. The
distinction between hair and wool is
clearly revealed by the microscope.
The dark races have less nervous
sensibility than the white. They. are
not stbje to nervous disease They
sleep sound in every disease, nor does
any mental disturbance keep them
awake. They bear surgical opera
tions much better than the white peo.
pie. 'jfsy7 s's'"9.9rg77 4.
A certain species of fungus has been
known to attain the size ofHa gourd
in one night; and it is calculated that
the ccllules, of which it is composed,
must amount to forty-scven. thousand
millions. Ifit grew in twelve hours,
this would give four thousand millions
in each hour: ...,.
AnimaIculcs have been discovered
SO small that one million would not ex.
|ceed a; grain of sand and five hundred
millions would sport in a drop Of wa
ter. Yet each of. these must have
blood-vesscls, nerves, muscles, circu-
lating fluids, &c, like in animals Of
large size. a; e. ,as Ia.
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19
A Story with . Moral.

p MIR. Bones, 5of the firm Of Fossil,
Bones & Co., was one of those remark
able money making men whose steady
and uninterrupted success in trade has
been the wonder and affords material
for the gossip of the town for twelve
years. Being of familiar and easy turn
of mind, he was not unfreqnently N
ierrogated on the subject, and invaria-
bly, gave as the secret Of his success,
that he minded his owu business. 80
q "A gentleman met Mr.. Bones on the
Assanpink Bridge, Bridge, He was gazing
.intently on the dashing foaming waters
as they fell over the dam. He was
evidently in brown study. Our
friend yentured to disturb his cogita-
tion:. 4ogre.n; nz5tsate'r ......,z.g nt
as" Mr.. Bones, tell me how to make =
thousand dollars" .a h,@GGl4 a'fgG
Mr.. Bones continued looking intent
lily at the water. At last, looking atsthe
gentleman, he ventured reply.
edo you see that dam, my friend ?"
g Certainly l do.'' -.1.s.s 1,.l
,.,S" Swell, here you may learn the secret
of making money. The water would
waist away and be Of no practical use
to anybody but for the dam. That
dam turns it to good account, makes it
perform some useful purpose, and then
suffers it to pass along. That large
paper mill is kept in constant motion
by this simple economy. Many mouths
are fed in the manufacture Of paper,
and intelligence is scattered: broadcast
over the land on the sheets that are
daily turned out; and in the different
processes through which it passes mon
ey is made. So it is in the living Of
hundreds Of people. They get enough
[of money. It passes through their
hands every day, and at the year s end
they are no better off: What is the
reason? They want dam. Their .ex-
penditures are increasing, and no prac~
tical good is attained They want
them damned up, so that nothing will
(pass through their hands without bring
ling something back-wshoat accom-
1plishing some useful purpose. Dana
up your expenses and you will soon
have enough occasionally to spare
little, just like that dam. Look at and
Iponder over it my friend.''
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19

A LONG TaAnp.-The Omaha Nebraskian
in making mention Of tho arriyalsin that city
Of gold hunters who are en- route for Piko's
Peak, says: ,t, :, ts.',.sss ~; r ~ g - 3
"A German, solitary and alone, al, the
way from S.. Paul, Minnesota, on foot, pas
sed through our city On Thursday last
bound for the gold rygion. His outfit con
sisted Of > ride, large butcher knife, and
the clothes BE- wore. On being asked if he
expected to reach the gold mines on foot h
replied: 'Yaw;; me hash walked from 81
Pau, he hlrder nor ds.,' 's"'; IL &c,
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19

be done outside the tomb. Pushing
his child's coffin aside, he got in 81 its
side, taking with him, his poison and
the other articles with which he had
provided himself: Ills hat he placed
upon the coffin; hrs coat, which he
had taken off, he wrapped around a
brick for pillow. He shut himself. in
with the board, by means, Of the handle
he had screwed to il !; the board fitting
outside the wooden frame. The iron
bar, which was Of tile proper length,
he placed across the frame inside. The
thickness of the frame would not allow
the bar topass through the trunk-handle
on the inside Of the board; so he,se-
cured the handlcand, the bar by means
Of his wire, coiling it through the one
and around the other. He did rot
succeed in fitting the board squarely
upon the frame. One, corner Of it
caught upon the brickword ouside the
frame; this he did not discover, prob
bly,, owing to the darkness Of the night;
and but for this little circumstance his
fate would probably have never been
discovered, or not at least for many
years. Having thus hid himself away,
us he fancied, beyond mortal discov.
cry, he drained off the contents Of his
laudanum bottle, composed himself on
his back, placed the brick and coat
beneath his head, and went to sleep,
and off into the unknown region Of the
suicides. .., -'...-.... .
AS he did not return home on Thurs,
day night, his wife feared the worst
well the tendency Of his
late conduct and the tenor of his part
ing words. On Friday morning she
rose early and went out to the GENE.
terry. She looked all around, and fail
ed to find her husband. She went and
looked at their tomb, and was abou,
to leave, when she happened 10 notice
that the boards did not fit snugly into
the frame as usual. Looking closer
she discovered the mud in the screw
holes; and putting her hand on the
board, found it was standing loosely
She pulled it out a little, and the first
thing she saw was the. dead face Of he,
husband. She tainted away, and laid
in the grass she could not tell how long
She recovered at last, got up and wen,
and informed the sexton, Mr.. Merritt
Of her discovery. The latter went and
looked at things. and sent word to the
coroner; and the inquest was held, as
We have stated, on Saturday. Il J.. =.
The coroner's verdict was in accor.
dance with the facts 50 plainly appa.
rent-suicide by laudanum.
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19

-
A NUr FOR THE TARIFFS MES TO
CRAcK.-Thc duties that will be paid
into our Custom House duringthe: pre-
sent week will amount to nearly, if'not
quite, two millions of dollars, aud those
ofthe next week will not vary far ffo,n
the same. This revenue is from goods.
already arrived or known TO &c OH
their way. It is stated by many Of
our most intelligent jjobbcrs,. ta,st:t7,o
orders which have been sent ods for
goods exceed anything that the rev.
enuc during thepresent moatlt ct Feb.
r,tary must exceed that Of any prcyi-
o..e 't,o'''a. n'.. t' e,4olL .erhn:l.d
with people, and the spring trade IS
opening with spirit that encourages
every one. The only complain: among
importers is. that oar public storage
and Custom House facilities for tie
dispatch ofigoods are quite unequal
Ito the requirements Of trade and call
for further increasc.-4N +, HsrgHM.
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19
Extraordinary Suicide in New Orleans
a Man Buries Himself Alive-He takes
Poison in q Tomb.

The New Orleans Crescent of the
9th gives the following remarkable
story of \ suicide: f.-n -.,.., .. j.
Z Sylvester Rupert, 81 years of age,
an Englishman by birth, and by trade
a ship carpenter, lived with his wife
and two children in house on Perdi-
do Street. In October last the yellow
feaver, then prevailing, counted ai1ong
its victims the youngest child Of the
Ruperts-their little girl Lizzie, about
four years old, and the particular pet
|of the father. This was blow from
which the father never recovered
Not able to buy a tomb, he had the
child buried i'll the ground in Green
wood Cemetry. The grief preyed
heavily upon him. It was his only
thought; and, being ont Of his regular
employment, he found employment in
his grief. h -.......
He bought burial lot and some
bricks and other material, and with
his own hands, and all alono in the
Cemetery, built him brick tomb. He
had not the means to make the tomb Il
stylish one; 50 in it's mouth or entrencc
he fitted a wooden frame, and OH this
frame he fitted a piece Of board, and
secured it with screws in its four corn.
crs. On this board, with which he en-.
closed the vault, lin lieu Of the usual
brick and mcrter or marble slab,) he
had carved nicely with his knife the
burial inscription of his child. The
tomb finished, he disinterred the child's
body and placed it there. He fastened
the board with screws, in order that
he might afterwards have no trouble
lin removing it when he felt like gazing
upon the decaying remains Of his child,
This employment finished, it was
his habit to visit the cemetry, open the
tomb, and look at the corpse of his pet
He always carried a screw-driver in
his pocket, with which to remove aud
replace the lid of the coffin. Neither
the haggard aspect Of the shrinking
little corpse, nor the foul odor of its
decay, could repel him ii, his morbid
grief: His visits were frequent, and
sometimes his wife wen: with him.
lie frequently complained to her tina,
he could not get work !; and this ina
bifity doubtless tostered the lespon
dcncy which was drawing him te
death; He frequently spoke of having
no faith in the future, and Of death a.
desirable thing:
On Wednesday he went to The Gem
etery with Two shrubs which he had
purchased, and planted them in front
of the tomb. On Thursday, when he
left home, he told his wife that if he
had no better luck in finding work she
would never sec him again. He also
said something about having a place in
which to rest, ~ ,-'. ...2s .'7i3a2t ~
"That evening, or that night-for nc
one saw him in his. gloomy proceedings
he visited the cemetery; taking with
him his screw-driver, an iron trunk
handle, a small rod Of IRON, piece o
wirc, some new screws. and a: large
vial of laudanum. J Unscrewing the
board of the tomb, he threw away thu
|screws and filed the scrcw-holes in tht
board with clay. q ,asa'4.=ea ta
I With his new screws he then secured
1.-THE trunk handle to the inside of til.
hoard, This work, of course, hsd Z
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19
BURNS, EPlTAPH.
BY HIMSELF.
- L. i-tA


In there whim- inspired fool, 2FAsgir.
Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owre blate to seek, owre pround 10 snoul?
at "a Let him draw near
And owre this grassy heap sing dool, aa"
r., @tt 1o-'3'mari : =: y And drap tear
Is there bard Of rustic song, 1@5@
Who noteless, stea's the crowd among, 49,
That weekly to this era throng! 81 %'t'
'.'1 :'s' ''<''' - . pass not by
But with frater- feeling strong? F7l.
''''''5 ''''@ '1i'7 'i''s Here heave sigh
Is there man Whose judgement clear.
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs himself lifc's mad career,
Mild as the wave
Here pause-and, through the starting tear
T.. ....., .,,., '.'.'';<' '''. Survey this grave
The poor inhabitant below ..r....
Was quick to learn and wis to know,
And keen]y felt the friendly glow,
And softer fame
But thoughtless follies laid him low, -
, -, And stained his name
Reader, attend-whether thy soul
Scars hncy's fight beyond the pole,
o darkliDg erubs this earthly hole, .....
..-:.l:q.-. ,,,.e .. ...: .,r In low pursui
Know. prudent cautious, self:contrel,
.:t,.o.. o.. ,.-:;-.s.--.:.., In wisdom's root
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19
Weddings in Winter.

The statistics of marriage in Cincinna~
ii, for the past year, present ono two
curious points worth remarking. Dur
ing that time more than two thousand
persons were married; the number for
Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-02-19
each month being rs follows:

The Philadelphia Bulletin in at
tempting to account for the difference
shown in the prevalence Of the matri-
molial fever in different srasn"s ~e-
marks as follows: s,..sts .si
That the fewest marriages occur
during February, may be accounted
tor on the principle that during THAT
month ladies talk least. March and
May are proverbially popular, and fool
ishly regarded as unlucky'' for we'd
dings, and we consequently find the
fewest instances Of couples being
turned off in them. Male ,aet, bent qui
Aaio n.ense ',ube,,t. They marry ill
who marry in May said sally old
adage, in vogue even among the. Ro~
mans. We shorad expect that, follow
ing the general law manifested in ma
ttre, there would be the most we'd
dings in Spring, but it is in February
that they begin to fall of, and do not
recover until October; a fact suggcs--
tive of the Canadx editor who regard
ed two tons of Goals and wife" as
indispensable for getting through =
winter comfortably. Beginning hou:e o
keeping with the year, and our Amcri-
can business habit Of dating all part
nerships frona the first of the year, may
possibly account for the fact that nup-
tial arrangements generally increase in
number until the holiday season, and
then abruptly diminish. We, have not
tables of statistics Of other cities at
hand to refer to, SO that we cannot de-
eide whether She Cincinnati figures
hold good here. Possibly people de-
fer marrying out thc1 1c till the Pig kill
ing begins, for the sake Of the spare
ribs. e5Esf tye.ss. g..tasa =
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-25
STICK 10 ONE SIDE OR rHE oruER

The New York Evening Post Of the 2lst proves 10 ia
own satisfaction by It's own arguments and those Of Mr.
loyoe OF south Carolina that the South does not want
that the Louisiana sugar planters think It's acqui-
siion would ruin them while the South CarOuians
believe that would not be support southern senti-
ment on the subject Of slavery, but rather source OF
danger 10 tho Institution.
The Post having thus established that the interests of
the South against the acquisition of Cuba will prob
bly, proceed 10 tell as in its next editorial that the scheme
OF buying Cuba IS one to aggTandzo the sayc power
and prep up slavery. Its adjuncts certainly will for
that is the position they have already taken We call on
the Post, therefore, 10 inform which side il means
to adhere or whether II intends 10 occupy both Does
the Post propose 70 play game Of on this ques
tiohi lat ms hear.--A5aay Argus.
The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-25
TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTI:

Have we a democratic party among MS r. This ques-
uon promptly and well answered in the following par
asraPh, which we clip from the Boston P0a.
"Somo of the blatant opposition and false hearted
democratic presses OF the country tickling their read
crs by propouning the above interrogatoy Children
are said to bc pleased with straw even and 10 we sup
pose ought not 10 deprive the opposition of the mea
Ee crumbs of comfort afforded them In this innocent pas
time They will find out when the ballot boxes arc closed
IN 1860 that there democratic party among u.s. and
successful one, too The glorious past history Of this
country Is but record of the trmphs of the democratic
party IL has already controlled the governments Of the
United States thrcefourts of the time during its exist
ence and venture tho prediction that II win continue
odo So Surviving the ignominy heaped upon it by in
competent and designing men, OUTLYING the assaults of
open enemies and secret foes the democratic party will
III 1860 take the field under the banner of It's tim hon
ored principles, and despite the howlngs Of is ayc
rtes, II will again achieve victory" 81