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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-12-23

We want good reliable agents in every part of
the country. By employing your spare time to
the most liberal commissions, either in Cash or
Merchandise, and all goods sent by us will be as
represented, and we guarantee satisfaction to ev-
cry one dealing with our house.
As the Holidays are coming, we are making
special arrangements to supply eCe7"y one who
reads our advertisement, with the most handsome
or wished for, and to enable them to procure
them cheaply and eXpeditiously, we will give to
any one who will become our Agent, one Hun
bred Free Tickets, enumerating some of the many
different articles from which you can make your Sc
lection of Holiday presents.
For returning full clubs from these Free Tickets,
accompanied by the cash. we will give the same
extra premiums that we now give, just the same IS
you had paid 10 cents for each one of your tick
cts. We wish you to understand that not any 9TH
er firm in the business can compete with US In any
As this free ticket is only good for the Holidays,
you must send in your orders before the 2Oth OF
January, 1870.
In every order amounting to over $50, accompa-
MED by the cash, the agent may retain and In
every order of over $780, $500 may be retained to
Pay the Express Charges.
This offer is more especially to assist agents in
the Western and Southern States but is open to all
q COMMISSIONS.
Agents will be paid ten per cent in Cash or
Merchandise, wheu they FILL UP THEIR ENTIRE
CLUB for which below we give partial list OF com
missions:
For an Order of $50, from club of Thirty
We will pay the agent, as commission, % yards
| Brown or Bleached sheetlng, good Dress Pattern.
Wool Square Shawl, French Cashmere Pants and
Vest Pattern, Fine large White Counterpart, etc.,
| ETC., or So 90 in cash.
will pay the agent, as commission, 45 yards Sheet
ing, one pair heavy Wool Blankets Poplin Dress
Pattern, handsome Wool Square Shawl, Silver
case Watch, ETC., ETC., or $500 in cash.
For an order of $I0O, from club of One
| Hupdrad wa w the commission
100 yards good yard-wide Sheeting. Coin. Silver
Hunting Case Watch, Rich Long Wool Shawl, Sui
of all Wool French Cashmere, etc, etc., $40 OF
in cash.
We do not employ any travelling agents, and Gus
toners should not pay money to persons purport
ing to be our agents. uaIess personally acquainted
SEND MONEY ALWAYS BY REG
ESTERED LETTERS.
For further particulars send for our new eigh
page Catalogue.
PARKER 81 CO..
I'VE SO 8 100 Summer ST.. Boston, Mass
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Read the foUovieg letter from
one Of tie Oldest oad .soss
reliable grocery merc1ants~in
the city Of Davenport.
FRIEND WALTON:
Agreeably to my
promise to you when
here, / write you, for
publication if you see
proper, a true state
ment of the good eff
fects Of Roback's
Stomach Bitters upon
myself. / had been
troubled with indi-
gestion for a long
time, attended with
observation-disclosures
ticularly aftereating,
when fortunately an
old soldier friend
came into the store
and recommended me
to use Roback's Bit
ters. did SO by taxi
ing a small wine-glass
full just before each
meal, andto my great
Joy | was relieved at
once, and am now
well by their use. 1
would not be without
them at any price. 1
have not taken any
other medicine since
II commenced using
the Bitters. And I
can say with a clear
conscience, try Ro-
backs Bitters-they
will do all they are
recommended to do
If taken according
to directions.
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SULLIVAN, M. D.,

j having concluded to turn his attention
aoain TO the practice of medicine and surgery has
onened his Office on Main street, Kenosha. ONCE
the same lately occupied by the Badger State az
ricultural Works. ~
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NHEAP CASH GROCERY.

TRY DIR. Stafford's Stomach and Liver In
vigorator. The great Blood Purifier, The best
Health Restorer, and the most perfect SpriD g
and Summer medicine ever discovered, 1y9
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-12-23

THE GLORY OF MAN Is STRENGTH. -Thereiore
the nervous and debilitated should immeolatels
uee HELMBoLD's EXTRACT BUcHU.
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ONE DOLLAR FOR EACH ARTICLE

We do not offer a single article of merchandise,
that can be sold by regular dealers at our price.
We do not ask you to buy goods from Us unless we
can sell them cheaper than you can obtain them in
any other way,while the greater part Of our goods
are sold at about
One-Half the Regular Rates
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Commercial Intelligence.

SOUTH w ESTERN OFF1CE,
sszs ss55 Shreveport, Oct. 10, 1859.
The past week has been Of extreme dizziness with
our iobbug merchants We might, in truth, say that
have jobbing trade at this time. This is owing
to two First, the planters are holding their
cotton back for better prices and second the country
merchant falling to get credit here lays in his stock
in the city, where it appears 1t be had for asking
The retail and small planters trade has improved some
what The forwarding business never was better the
railroad and all the available wagons having as much
as they could do and probably will for some time to
come AS the warehouses full of boxes and bales
We have peculiar feature to note in the cotton mar
Last Thursday, low middling opened at 21@2l1sc IN
currency, and gradually advanced until Monday, when
it sold at 23c Some choice lots brought shade more
The highest price paid in specie that heard of was
l75Sc. Yesterday 8 small decline was observable,
though sellers tried hard to keep prices up and sales
in the forepart Of the day light About 200 bales
changed hands at the following quotations In specie
low middlingl A@17Hc. in currency, good ordinary
es@2ak and low middling 2211 @22Ic a small lot OF
Peeler brought 24c. in currency We hear oonsdera-
bic complaint Of the scarcity Of small notes IN curren
~ Gold appears to be plentiful in the hands OF
bankers. g7aY zs
ESs COTTON STATEMENT :.
Stock on hand Sept !, 1868. oa aaa %
Received yesterday o osa
Received previously o,zos-ooii
TIE tf9S e 5,667
Shipped yesterday y. :. !. lss
Shipped previously ' 90
Stockton hapds n. :, ~ sSi
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Obituary.

Died. in the city Of New Orleans, on the 18th Of Sep.
TENDER, 1859, Mrs. KATIE C0VINGTON SMITH,
daughter of Rufus and Mary L. Me1lhenny.
She was born the oath of August. 1885, and was
united in marriage the Sd of December, 1868, with
Capt. J, Pinckney Smith. && 53E
Beneath these cold hard dates lies concealed touch
ing story Of bereavement This young, fair creature,
reared amid the Establishments of the parental home
called early to its joys extinguished in the bit
terness of orphanage. Cherished still, favorite in
large circle of remaining kindred she recovered from
this first VICE. and had begun to sip the pleasures Of
opening womanhood when the cup OF earthly happi-
filed to the brm, By the new, strange bliss Of
the bridal hour Life boomed before her like the ancient
Paradise. Young beautiful, accomplished in the flush
of grlhoods friendships, full Of all maidenly honors,
she introduced the mistress of new and beautiful
home of which she hereafter to be the centre and
the pride. Here, surrounded by all that wealth could
supply and taste could adorn, her genial and low
ing nature breahed around her atmosphere serene
and pure, like that of opening spring. These outward
appointments only the rich setting, and she the
diamond to make them glorious with her grace and
beauty. Alas that within ten months the Spoiler
should come and blight these hopes in an instant of
time She, who had been the pet of friends, and less
than shortyear her husbands treasured 10y, lies
down nineteen the Bride of Death! Folding within
her dead the babe she never nursed she bore it
with her to the Isles of the Blest" above. It is
solace to know that while the enemy with such
appalling surprise she was ready for the sublime trans
lation. In early youth she had given her first af-
fectons to the Saviour of sinners and had sealed her
VOWS in tie Church of God. Scrupulously devout in
all the sacred exercises of religion those who knew her
inner life cannot doubt her habitua preparation for
the call which came suddenly at the last. 81
Thus has passed away from earth one Of those pure
gentle, loving spirits whose presence makes Heaven
sweeter to those who loved her here below But alas
In the hours of our present sorrow, what action
do but era - 1885 >A"s7ts 3'7 + s2e&F 7f
s1 4@y-- ITO bow down its head,
800" Remembering the day when first she came,
And all the things that have BEEN
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MARRIED.:

In this cry on " tho Rev, Dr. Samfeld s. HEROLI
of H nenT{yt EGK;i aTTFMAN. All of Shreveport.
Win the above notice came the usual fee for the
u;,.or-cske and wine, May they live long ana
Atthc Methodist Episcopal Church, Greenwood on
,he 5th inst, by Rev DR.. Trippett DR.. G. klopi-'7
~ Mrs JANEH. WINANS. All of Caddo PARISH
On the l4th ult, at Trinity Church cheneylif na
pde parish, Hon. W F BLAGhA4GR; a pi nopisb
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Died:

r:, ,.;, oh instant at 70 O'clock, JAUUB
t5ss ared one year and months son of j.
and Matte Gragard.
FRIDAY evening 8h instant, at hsIf-past O'clock
after short illness, MARY Il. E6aN, wife OF Robert
Landreaux.
Saturday morning, 9th inst, at 6 o'clock, WILLIAM
J. HOTCHKISS, aged twenty one years, son of DR.. T.
y unfcbkiss
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KEACHI FEMALE COLLEGE, =
DeSoto Parish. La.

kEACHI FEMALE COLLEGE f.,
DeSoto Parish, La.
TINE next session of this Institution, Rev. PETER
i CRAWFORD, AN, President. will commence on
the Second Monday in September next.
The of ten months, forty weeks, is divided
into two terms Of five months or twenty weeks, each
Each young lady required to furnish her towels bowl
clothes including bolster and pillow. # she prefers
that these things should be furnished, she is charged
90 per term addition to regular of board
Each young lady is bound for the whole term Of five
months and deduction is made, in board tuition
except of protraced sickness Of more than two
weeks duration at time In the event of death money
advanced is refunded IN due proportion.
az If a young lady enters the College in two weeks
after the beginning Of the term. she is charged with
the whole term. SIS
Rates of Tuition, Board, &c. z#s
Board, including washing, lights, &C. in advance, at
the beginning Of each term, in GOLD or its
equivalent, per month. Bis 90
Tuition in the solid branches S. GO to 5 90
Music with the use of instrument. ...........6 90
lncidentais per term 2 W
~ Ali charges except for board payable in u s.
currency. . THOMAS NJ. GATLIN,
President Board of Trustees.
L. L. T0MKIES, Sec'y.
August l. 1862 I6m 49,
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New Yark prY Gaods Trade.

New YoRK, Sept ga little more animation isper-
cevable but the market is far from being active
buoyant. Sprague band stripes reduced in price from
IA to 1871, ~ Davoll beached muslins from q to 20,
"A; do green from 12A to 10 Androscoggln COM
mands 49, Imperial which the seconds sell at 161S
and the Rosebud At the Same price. In other classes
of goods there is no important change.
NEW YoRK, Oct. Trade opened little brighter
and active, but closed more tamely, and prices,
though less buoyant the main rule steady, however
TACOMA brown cotton fannes scarce and prices
have risen to Ice. Pacific mills prints reduced to 1sc.,
and fine plain cottons nc. yard lower. Atlantic
brown sheetings reduced to l2kc Booths to -,
Massachusetts, BIB to l2k, do. to u, Newmarket
to l215 and Bedford to l215c. Standard sheetings
are scarce aud high; piaided fancy and sash ribbons
also scarce, and bringing awfully high prices.
Black silks are depressed. Common .balmorals are
getting very scarce, aud looking up decidedly
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Shreveport Price Current.

IHADK FROM ACTUAL SALES, As rHrY rR.rsrrrrn,
- should be understood that quotations gener.
ay represent the wholesale prices in United States
currency IN nlng small orders. higher rates will
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FREIeHTs.-Up freights are now landed here at two
card rates. Down-cotton s. per bale; cattle $4@s;
cabin passage sao@so and deck S..
For New ORLEANS, To-DAY.- The light draught
packet Rose Franks, Capt. P c. Montgomery, will
leave as above on the arrival of the cars from Mar
shall. Mr.. Fl. p Hyams will be found on the levee
ready to receive cotton on Monday.
For New ORLEANS, TO-DAY. ~ The light draught
feet running steamer Right Way, Capt. Geo E. Will
kinson F. a. Behan clerk, will leave above, on the
arrival of the cars froE, Marshall.
Foa NEW ORLEANS, THURSDAY. = The low water
Kouns-line packet Era No. 10, Capt. Chas P. Trus.
low will leave above, the arrival of the cars from
Marshall .yS ~
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SHREVEPORT UNIVERSITY

SHREVEPORT UNIVERSITY.
TIME TRUSTEES of the Shreveport University are
Il pleased to announce that Prof. GEO. E. THATCH-
Err will continue in charge of this institution.
The Board encouraged by the of the past
expressed to believe that they have met want Of com
munity at the right time and in the right place. And
they confidently the public that pains will be
spared to afford educational facilities equal to those of
any part of the country.
The University is located in very pleasant and
heathful situation, two miles west of Shreveport.
The grounds extensive, affording ample room for
exercise, and the building is capable of accommodate
ing large number.
The extensive repairs made during the summer va
cation add much to the comfort and attractyeness
the institution.
JOHN N. HOWELL,
President Board Trustees. S
ShreYennrt. August IL 1899 ltf
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lie -Esz
IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE DEALERS AND
Commissions Merchants
IN GROCERIES and DRUGS,

73. IS and 77TChOuplfOuIas Sffeet,
NEW ORLEANS.
KEEP constantly hand a large and complete stock
Of Groceries, fancy and staple of every description
brands; Wood and Willow Ware full assortment ;
Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, &C.
ss4szAK in DRUGS:
Importers of Rare Chemicals and Pharmaceutical
Products Full lines Of Chemicals from the celebrated
laboratories of Bishops London Meick, Darmstaat;
Rogue Co., Paris; Dorvant. Paris Gehe i Co., Dres-
den, together with full assortment of the American
manufacturers, Rosengarten Sons, and others. I'm
porters of Paints. Paint Oils, etc. Patent Dryers Eng
lish Red Lead genuine English White Lead in oil
genuine French Zinc. Proprieiors Hart White Lead.
full stock of Perfumery and Druggists sundries.
au23 If s#= 5=z#s3z== =s.t5=5
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Shreveport University.

shreveport university.
NyHE SECOND SESSION ofthis Institution will com
i mence on Monday, September 6, 1869, under
the superintendent of Prof GEO. E. THATCHER,
assisted by sufficient number of able and experienced
educators to give efficiency to every department.
While the OF instruction in the classes will be
thorough and complete pains will be spared to meet
the increasing wants of community in the Commercial
Department
Rates of Tuition, &C., per Session:
Primary Department. gao 90
Academic Department ....................... 25 90
Preparatory Department. 80 90
Collegiate Department ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 80 90
Board per session. including Washing lights &c. 80 90
One-half payable in advances balance at the middle
of session.
No deduction will be made from the above rates.
cept of protracted sickness Students charged
from time of entrance Each boarder will be expected
to furnish his wash-basin pitcher, hooking glass;
towels and bedding, except mattress and bedstead
sz#s s JOHN N. HOWELL,
President Board of Trustees
Shreyenort. August IL 1869.
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Exchange for Sale on
BANK OF NEW YORK, New York;
CENTRAL SAVINGS BANK, st. Louis, Mo-;
PIKE, BROTHER & CO., Bankers, New Orleans;
UNION BANK, London, England;
FRED. s. BALLIN 4 CO., Bankers, Paris France
DISCoNTO GESELLSCHAFT, Berlin, Prussia;
NJ A. GRUENEBAUM & BALLIN, Bankers, Frank
# fort-on-the- Main, Germany. E@sss
Coin Bought and Sold. [s24 d&w6m
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Early this morning the Fleta, Capt. Barnes, sailed
for Cypress Bayou with all the freight she wanted for
the water.
About II o'clock AN. the steamer Rob Roy, Capt.
Kane, came in from Carolina Bluffs Old river, with
Late in the day she left for the city with all the cattle
she wanted.
Late in the afternoon the Lotus No. 8, Capt D. D..
Dannals j. j. Dodd clerk sailed for the city with 225
bales of cotton and good list of cabin passengers
The little Mary Ellen Capt Milton, in late in
the evening from Old river with 80 bales of cotton
signed to our merchants.
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SHREVEPORT REFERENCES:
COL B. NJ. johnson, President of Home Insuranc
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lett L. E. Carter J. c. Elstner, Dew L. Tally Jame
"; Howard, Drury Lacy, DR.. Joseph Wilder, Rev.
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TLINE PHELPS, Agents of above Company, are
IN prepared to take risks, both Fire and Marine and
will issue Open Policies to parties desiring them
~ Office, for present, at Col. r. II. LINDSAYtS,
Milan street. Shreveport. La. IiY7 IL 5
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-01
Good and Bad Farm Stock.

There is no fact, in agriculture more fully
established than that it viii not pay to keep
poor stock, when it is possible to secure that
of better quality. The cost of keeping an
inferior COW is precisely the same as that of
better one. A good horse will always
cammand better price in the market, or is
more valuable to its owner for his own pur-
pose than poor one. The cost of keeping
is the same. Why not, then, raise the best
horses? There are breeds of swine that grow
rapidly and fatten on much less food, and in
4 ashorter time than others. Why not pro-
cure these improved kinds2 The same may
be said of sheep, poultry, and in fact, every
kind of fsru stock, and yet we find thou
sands of farmers in the face of these iucoa
trovertible facts, arraying themselves in
steady hostility to 81 movements having for
their object the Improvement of domestic
farm animals. They cling to inferior stock
with pertinacity that is surprising.
In order to produce thoroughbred stock
into neighborhood liz the first cost is an
objection, half dozen farmers could unite,
and thus make up the amount necessary for
procuring 6rst class animals The time has
gone BY for numbering our farms any longer
with scrubs. Let US go in for having the
best.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-01
Gardening for Women.

There is nothing better for wives and
daughters, physically, than to have the care
of a garden--a flower pot, if nothing more
What is pleasauter than to spend portion
of every passing day working among plants.
and watching the growth Of shrubs. and
trees. and plants, and to observe the open-
ing flowers from week to week as the season
advances? Then how much it adds 10 the
enjoyment to know that your own hands
have planted and titled them, and have
pruned and trained them. This is pleas
ure that requires neither great riches or
profound knowledge The humble cotta
ges OF the iaboring poor, not less than their
grounds, may De adorned with pet plants
which in due time become radiant with bean
ty, thus ministering to the love of the baan-
tiful in nature
The wife or daughter that loves home and
would seek ever to make it the best place
for husband and brother, is willing to fo-eyo
some gossiping morning calls, for the sake
OF having leisure for the cultivation of plants
shrubs and flowers, as is the husband at his
place of business.
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for the farmer.
THE Treatment of Sick Animals.

TIE Treatment OF DICK kuiiAdis'
The CRYING evil of the agriculture OF this
country is, tbat we have no good system OF
veterinary instruction. Except in the large
cities. and, indeed, in most of those, 1t is in-
possible to 6nd well educated veterinary
surgeon. Throughout the whole length and
breadth of the land, our poor dumb brutes,
condemned 20 suffer from diseases generally
brought about by our own carelessness or
neglect, are obliged to bear the still greater
suffering of barbarous treatment OF common
farriers and quacks, who know almost moth
ing about the organization of their bodies.
A. natural consequence, violent purgings,
frightful blood-letting blisters and irings,
are applied without thought and without
reason, entaiiing untold agony to the AMI
NAL, and generally much loss to the owner.
OF course, when an animal is sick. any
farmer who is ignorant of what should be
done ought to secure the best advice within
his reach. But he should always retain so
much control over the treatments as to avoid
resort to barbarous remedies, unless the
unskilled practitioner can convince him that
there is good reason for it; for, as general
rule. an animal left to the unguided curative
process of nature would come better out Of
its troubles than if subjected to the opera
ton of brutal means for the restoration OF
Its health.
With animals, az with men, there is far
too much medicine giving, blistering and
bleeding; and probably more are killed or
permanently injured by these practices than
are cured by them. Of course, in some
desperate cases, they are necessary, but they
should always be resorted to with caution,
and with much hesitation. In all minor
diseases, which result almost invariably
from bad air, food. filth and neglect, the
wisest treatment is the removal of the cause
and the restoration of those simple, natural
conditions upon which the return, no less
than the maintenance, Of health is based.
The purging ball may often be with advant-
age supplanted by Ioosening diet, bleeding,
almost invariably by such diet and pure
air. Warm clothing and thorough groom
ing viii usually do the work of blister, and
do it much better In all cases of spraius,
bruises, and wounds, water is an almost
sovereign remedy and in nine tenths of the
cases in which it is thought necessary to
send for the local horse doctor, tbe simple
treatment above indicated will be found not
only cheaper, but far better in its applica-
tion and in its effects. ts.-Amertcan Aqricml-
tGrtst
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1869-09-01

1t is said that one of the most powerful
remedies for bots iu horses is a strons de-
coet'on of sage tea, made very swee, II
> dis!odges the bots instantly.