Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-11-09
NUMBER a.
J. RIOS. Browne Issue. medical c.rtinc.ts

The following letter, recently written and adj
dressed to l.. d. Baldwin, will explain itself
DEAR SIR IL profess to have streak of graf
itude lett In my nature, Notwithstanding the
hardening lnnnence OF facts and figures A few
months ago, While IN search of mining statistics
up in the mountains, l was bucked from my
horse ian animal popularity reported to be
Moore's Flat, and landed fiat on nv back in
front of the Downieyille Hotel. The sensation
was perfectly astounding assure you; quite
equal to that experienced by the Irishman who
was g dangerously wounded by the bursting of
a bombshell in his head | thought for a mo-
ment that several torpedoes had bust simulta-
neously in my head and dorsal extremity. What
the citizens of Downieyile, assembled in front
of the hotel to witness my arrival, thought of
the peculiar manner in which arrived | have
never to this day ascertained. Doubtless they
thought it was a dexterous way had of dis
mounting.
Two days after, sad, sore and mortified as
| was, the Marysylle stage, in which was pas
senger, stopped at the Summit. a lady looked
as if she wanted drink of water. Getting out
Of the stage stepped back gracefully and po
litely, intending to get her some, but there was
q deep rayinc behind me and fell into it. fell
fiat on my back. Nothing was visible but my
feet. The passengers pulled me out. Thank
fortune was not killed. l was only mortally
wounded. My leg was badly bruised, but sue
ceeded in getting down to Marysvile.
The driver said he knew good Samaritan, by
the name of I" Old Baldwin, who would cure
me. Baldwin, the jeweler. said didn't want
any jewelry on my leg, or even on my back. The
driver said it was a liniment-a wonderful lini-
ment which had cured him. tough as he was, of
broken ankle. l asked him il was Mustang
Liniment? (for the truth is, my experience of
mustangs had not prepossessed me in favor of
anything bearing the name.) q No. said he,.
'' it is an original h-ll-hre kind of liniment,
that would bring dead man to life P'r4'' Then,
said l, :. 60 with aud I'll try it-for I'm pref
ty near gone in" So we went and saw the good
Samaritan, and he pulled forth from his coat
pocket bottle of the genuine elixir of life, and
clapped it on my leg, which it immediately
cured, and then on the top of my head to draw
a headache out of it, and then 10 my nose TO
brighten my intellectual faculties; and the re-
suit of it all is, am writing you this letter, my
dear sir, to show you that am not insensible 10
your labors in the great cause of humanity.
You gave me two bottles (for which you would
take pay), and asked me to apply it, general
ly at Oakland. | have done The effect is
magical. 1t draws wonderfully in cases of rheu-
matism and neuralgia, sprains or bruises. in
tend to use it at my next lecture on Iceland to
draw audience. i believe it would draw
teeth. l very certain it causes to draw
on my imagination. 1t seems wonderful that
you can habitually carry it in your pocket. |
should think it would draw the change out of
anybody else's pocket. That or something else
has drawn the change out of mine ! may pos
sibly use it for drawing views of quartz mills.
! But really consider it great inyention-the
greatest of the age, next to Blake's crusher 1t
cradicates diseases, tears it up by the roots, and
scatters it on the four winds of heaven. | walk
SO much better now with my bruised leg than
with the sound one, that frequently when think
ing of statistics, 60 all round in circle like
old Pipes when he stuck his wooden leg in q
knot-hold on the bridge, and walked around it
all night, thinking the bridge was devilish long.
Yours truly, j Ross BROWNE.