The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-01-28
The population Of Great Britain is
80, 600, 600.

There has been received at Chicago
this season, 707, 225 hogs,
II. Jerome Burr is getting up a
combination organ and piano, to be OPP
Grated by one set of keys He has
been at work on it ten years and the
machine whl contain 10000 pieces,
Rather Burr-densome instrument,
that
During the last year the estimated
number Of hides shipped from Texas,
was :, 900, 600 aud their value 81 900 900
In some parts of Texas, off the lines OF
railroads and apart from the towns,
the hides Of cattle are not saved
The owners of Romeo" have got
an elephant" on their hands. In one
of his tantrums recently, he killed his
keeper and is now so ugly that he has
to be confined in a pen of stout timbers
and allows no one 10 approach him.
That elephant has lived about long en-
ough.
"A Household Word. The best, the
only reliable, the cheapest. Try it,.
Mrs S. A. ALIENS IMPROVED (nelo stWe)
Hair Restorer or Dressing, In one Dot
tie. My wife and children prefer it,
Every Drhggis. sells it. Price One Dol
lar.
THE life Of all flesh is the blood
thereof" and no life or flesh can be
healthy while its blood is diseased. Par
sons Purgative Pills will not only
cleanse and purify the blood, but slim
ulate the functions OF the system to
healthy action.
"A True Balsam. DIR. Wistar's Bal
sam of Wild Cherry is truly balsam.
/ 1t contains the balsamic principle OF
the Wild Cherry, the balsamic proper
ties Of tar and Of pine. It's ingredients
are all balsamic. Coughs, colds, sore
throat bronchitis, and consumption
speedily disappear under it's baisamic
influence.
I Farmers and stable men will find
! it for their advantage to administer oc-
casionly Sheridan's Cavalry Condition
Powders during spring and summer
months BY SO doing, they can pre-
vent distemper in every form, and viii
cause the horses coat to assume a
smooth and glossy appearance.
The Vinton(O. Record says: "Such
an effort to get large crop OF wheat IN
the ground was never before made by
our farmers as during the fall of 1867.
Every foot of tillable ground, every new
acre, in fact every available acre, Is I'M
dor cultivation,
Greeley says the wealthy men Of
New York endeavor to earn reputa-
ton for meanness to protect themselves
from beggars, Whereupon an exchange
suggests that their efforts have been
crowned with brilliant success
The loss Of property by fire in the
United States during the year Just
closed amounted TO 3G,905,000 In
1866 it was over $66, 100000, and in
1865 over $43,000,000. These two years
include an amount Of loss by fire very
nearly equal to the aggregate destruc-
ton of the nine previous years; that
is, from 1856 to 1864.
How can We bloom so fresh and
fair? p goes the old Sctch song. How !?
Why, those who show the bloom Of
heath on their cheeks, take Plantation
Bitters, which has the power Of fortify-
ing the system against diseases, and Of
regulating the digestive apparatus.
Are you dyspeptic, weak void Of energy?
Have you little or no appetite, headache
continued lassitude and depression CT
spirits fake S. tt 1s60-X,
and bloom aud beauty will return. The
Btters haye become household friend.
Probably no disease Except cpl
deuic diseases) has been more fatal
than the Diptheria For time il baf
fled the sl.iil Of physicians everywhere,
and is still causing them careful and
anxious study. The "Arcadian Record
or, published at Halifax, n. s., In speak
ing upon the rayages Of Diptheria in
that Provence says Az an internal
and external remedy for the fatal
scourge Of our PROVENCE, Diphtleria
we are told that Johnson's Anodyne
Linement has no equal -eiiectually pre-
preventing when used IN season, and
afording great relief to, and seldom
falling to cure the most stubborn cases
NO family should be without it
The Washington correspondent Of
Chicago paper has published a state
Inent Of the ages Of several Of the most
prominent members Of Congress as fol-
lows: Ia the Senate Simon Cameron,
6S; Ben. Wade, O.; Wan. Pitt Fessen-
den, 81; MesSrs, Sumner and Morgan.
each, 81: Henry Wilson. 56; Lyman
Trumbull, 81; Richard Yates, co,
Messrs. Sherman, Patterson and Nor
ton, each, "A; Dir. Henderson, IL In
the House Or Representatives, Messrs
Coyode aud Hooper are, each, 50; Mr.
sehonck. IS, Mr. Brooks, 81, Fernando
Wood, 50, Ar Cary, IS, Mr. Bingham
~; Messrs Banks and Dawes, each, 81
Mr. sheliabarger, 50; Messrs Jenkes
Butler and Boutwell,, each -; Mr.. Gar
field, 81, Dir Coiiaz, 81. and Mr.. Blain