Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-10-01
Philad'a., June %, 1868.
PARTICULAR NOTICE

There are many preparations SOFA under the
name of Bitters. put up in quart bottles, com.
pounded Of the cheapest whiskey or common
or rum, costing from 20 to 10 cents per gallon,
the taste disguised by Anisc or Coriandcr Seed
This class of Bitters has caused and will con-
tinuc to cause, as long as they can be sold,
hundreds to die the death of the drunkard. By
heir use the system is kept continually under
the influence of Alchohoic Stimulants of the
worst kind, the desire for liquor is created and
kept up, and the result is all the horrors attcn-
dant upon drunknrds life and death.
For those who desire and will have liquor
Bittcrs, VIC publish the following receipt. Get
One Bottle Iioofiiands German Bitters ard mix
with Three quarts OF good Brandy or Whiskcy
| and the result will be u preparation that will
far excel in medicinal virtues and truc excel
lcnre anv of the numerous Liquor Bittcrs in the
market and will cost much less. You will have
all the virtues of lIooflands German Bittcrs'
in connection with good article of Liquor, at
a much less price than these inferior prepara-
tions will cost you.
ATTENTION SOLDIERS! And tho friends
of Soldiers. We call the attention of all hav
ing relations in tie army TO the fact tha t
'HOQFLAND'S German Bittcrs will cure nine
tenths of the diseases induced by exposures
and privations incident to camp life. In the
lists, published almost daily in tho newspaper
on the arrival of the sick, it will be noticed
that very large proportion are suffering from
debility. Every case of that kind can be rea
Oily cured by Hoofand's German Bittcrs. Di
scascs resulting from disorders of the dis estivc
organs are speedily removed. We have no hes
tation in stating that, if these Bitters were
freely used among our soldiers, hundreds Of
lives mi ght be saved that otherwise will be lost
We call particular attention to the following
remarkable and well authenticated cure of one
of the nations heroes, whose life, to use his
own language. has been saved by the bitters {:
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23d, 1852.
Messrs Jones d Eran We'll, gentlemen,
your Hooffland's German Bitters has saved my
life. There is no mistake in this. 1t vouched
for by numbers of my comrades, some of whose
names are appended, and who were fully cog
infant of all the circumstances of my case. L
am and have been for the last four years, mem
Der of Sherman's celebrated battery, and un-
der the immediate command of Capt. X. U.
Ayres. Through the exposure attendant upon
my arduous duties, was attacked in Novem-
ber last with Inflammation of the lungs, and
was for seventy two days in the hospital. This
was followed by great debility, heightened by
an attack of dysentery. / was then removed
from the White House, and sent to this city on
board the steamer 'Stute of Mane, from which
I landed on the 2Sth of June. Since that time
have been about as low as any one could be
ard still retain spa.k Of vitality. For
week or more I was scarcely able to swallow
anything, and If | did force Il morsel down, it
was Immediately thrown up again.
could not even keep glass of water on my
stomach. Life could not last under these ,ir.
cumstances; and, accordingly, the physicians
who had been working faithfully, though un-
successfully, to rescue me from the grasp of the
dread Archer, frankly told me they could do no
more for me, and advised me to see clerg ;.
man, and to make such disposition of my linn
tied funds as best suited me. An acquaintance
who visited me ut the hospital. Mr.. Frederick
Steinbron, of Sixth below Arch Street, advised
;ne, as a forlorn hope, to try your Bitters, and
kindly procured bottle. From the time 1
commenced taking them the gloomy shadow Of
death recedcd, and am now, thank God for
it, getting better. Though have taken but
two bottles, have gained ten pounds ard I
feel sanguinc of being permitted to rejoin my
wife and daughter, from whom have heard no.