Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-15
Arctic VS.. Mustang.

n invidious and impudent card, recently pub
n lshed by the proprietors OF the Mustang,
seems to call for some notice at our hands, and al.
though we dislike newspaper controversies, and
have always avoidei them, we shall in this in
stance depart from our usual custom. The card al
luded to is aimed at BRACES ARCTIC LINZ
these disnterested gentlemen dsliking to see their
article supplanted so rapidly by BRACES ARC
TIC L1NIMENT. The card is too desultory for us
to follow seriotim, but states that Or. Bragg had
published card announcing that he had no fur
Their connection with the Mustang, and would not
hold himself responsible for its 1eterioratea quality
or for the injuries resulting from the use of the
spurious article with which the market was glutt-
ed. DR.. Bragg's son is the only person Of that
name having any interest in the Arctic Liniment.
BRACES ARCTIC LINIMFNT is now and has al
ways been owned by Oliver T. Bragg and M. Bur-
rowes, doing business under the style of Bragg &
Burrowes, and the only connection DR.. Bragg ever
had with it in the simple fact that he invented
Since nyenting the Mustang Dr. Bragg has had
many years of experience, and it is but reasona-
BILE to presume that in his mature manhood he
could produce a better remedy than in his compar-
atively inexperienced youth The instantaneous
success of Bragg's Arctic Linimert wherever it
was introduced, bears conclusive testimony that
such was the fact Before the Arctic Liniment had
been introduced six months, it had superseded all
others liniments. including the Mustang. In tho
meantime spurious article of the Mustsne made
its appearance in the market, pupt u externalIv
! exactly as the genuine had been by II. Bragg.
but as unlike it in quality ,;osslble Dr.. Bragg
was constantly annoyed by letters from various
persons who ard used this deteriorated and inju-
rious article of Mustang complaining of its bad eff
fects, under the mistaken impression that he was
still its proprietor. If DR.. Bragg considered it to
be his duty to set the matter before the public in
card announcing that he had fur Their connection
with it, that his affair, with which we have
nothing to do. The vaunt fthe Mustang proprie-
tors that they well known to the business COM
Ifvy fn ylNo <11:,
status. The trouble is they are too well known.
Their motive in the card alluded to is transparent
they dislike seeing their cheaply made preparation
Gle greatly its SUPERIOR but which they affect to
consider failure Notwithstanding this aactation,
they offered large sum for its suppression, and
failing in that expanding much money for
newspaper cards, in the vain attempt to persuade
the public that the Arctic Liniment is a failure
The public are not easily gulled these gentle
men suppose. and can redily comprehend that if it
were such failure as these inscriptions persons
pretend, they would be the last to disturb its quiet
oblivion The facts readily percertible that they
are alarmed for the perity of their article
and well they may be, for they know that for an
article to attain the substantial celebrity of
BRACES ARCTIC IMMINENT, it must possess
an intrinsic value capable Of positive demonstra-
ton, and hence their only hope is in abusing it
that people may be deferred from trying it, well
assured that If they once tested its merits, they
could never agasn be induced to use the Mustang.
In conclusion, we claim that the Arctic Liniment
is the best article offered to the public, and
that it will bear triumphantly every test which
may be applied toit. -~-