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i1a BALLENTINE &c MORRIS
lave associated themselves together for
M ine purpose OF carrying on a Select Fam
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% CHURCH STREET, COR. BERMUDA.
fro one ,, of the firm having just returned
q NJ NJ, WIG N0rIh, Where he has purchased
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AS AN Alternative,


it acts directly upon the blood, cleansing
and purifyin the vital current of all the
humOrS aud tatntS which disease or NAL
arious influences have planted there and
erad1cat1ng and neut alizing the effects
OF mercury or Other poisons which may
have been taken into the system. For
this 1t Is infallible us remedy Tor
SCRoFULA, ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN, In
CIPIENT CONSUMPTION, DRoPsY. &C., and
will cure the mostvirulent and obstinate
cases OF
RHEUMATISM AND GOVT.
for NEURALGIA, SICK HEADACHE and
NERVOUS AFFECTIONS, and in
DISEASES OF WOMEN
1t has no equal. Its action upon the LiU-
en- and Kidneys is prompt, salutary and
effective, and 1T Is this property which
renders 1t one OF the safest and most re-
liable .|,.!
DIURETIC REMEDIES
known in the practice OF medicine. Its
excellent and skiliful combination with
other ingredients imparts TO it
TONIC QUALITIES
OF the highest-order not temporarily
stimulating, out permanently 1nVigorat-
ing the digestive organs, and render ing
ii a most valuable curative agent in cas-
es of
Dyspepsia and General Debility
BY taking X N the blood-wnich
permeates all the tissues and nutrition
thereof-1s qualified rem dering the whole
system per 1ectly healthy. .,e
REMEMBER.-ThiS medicine is no off,
shoot of quackery, but the regular formu-
la OF distinguished pra ctitioner now a
resident OF Baltimore city, and so h gh
does 1T stand in the favor and esteem OF
the intelligent and scientific that it has
been adopted by physicians in their prac-
t1ce. and is daily being prescribed and
m M ut
the profession throughout the country.
The better 1t becomes known the more
highly is it praised and the more exten-
| sively is 1t used.
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p O Z T r. Y
A BIRTHDAY LYRE.

Lead me 'mong blossoms white e...,
In the early amber light, -...-. ...
Away from teasing Care,
And let the charmed air,
With luscious tone, +
Soothe me with strains unknown.
Oh, heap the blossoms sweet #
About my face and feet
Till half the blushing sky
And the nook whereia lie
Are curtain'd most deliciouyly;
With odors dsluge me,
With rose.light and low melody; -.
For would dream until earth seems
What once it promised in my dreams.
Oh, radiant land! where my young eyes
Saw angels in the rainbow skies,
And felt Loves arm in all the air,
And heard hope singing everywhere
Sweet land of bovhood! Rose unblown,
Delicious heartsenfolding zone;
How soon-too soonl
The burning noon
Drank all thy dew from bud and leaf,
And scared the bowers of Young Belief.
The drifting sands before me spread,
With murky redness overhead;
| faint with fighting wrong and sin;
To-day, oh let me enter in ...,
The gardens beautiful of yore,
And live again my May-life Ger.
i may come forth more firm and stroni
To deal with error, blame, and wrong;
Upon my heart fresh dew shall lie,
And Heaven seems nearer to ID inc eye.
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OF THE .i.a 175} a...
IRIS VERSlCOLOR ;
BLUE w FLAG

The most powerful, safe and reliable
remedial agent discovered for the heal
Iris Versicolor, hitherto unknown or un-
developed, have been brought within
the control of science, and is now takin g
Its stand as principal among the bles
sings of medicine.
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USOR RENT.--The Large and Comforta-
II BILE Dwelling No. 6e North side Main
street. a few doors West of Church street
Also Large and Pleasant Room on South
W. s. FORFEIT
r. ju2O, Real Estate Agent.
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QUALITY, CHEAP
r- --,4., NESS.

a. = We claim for our stock of l
HOUSE FURNISHING HARD WARE
These important elemt nts. and are we
pared s 70 prove to purchasers the truth
81 our ssertion by an exhibition of the
stock, which cannot fail to convinoe the
most careful purchaser that
Z No. % West Side Market Square,
LIS the place at which to obtain this de-.
seriptlon OF Goods.
~ ATTENTION t......
L. Ear cailed e. to the stock or Knives and
French and American Coffee Pots. Wait.
eis ana Tea Trays, Plated and White
Metal Table Casto1s, 4-minute Ice Cream
Freezers, WOOD Ware, &C.. &c
We offer our whole stock at wholesale
or retail, and invite the attention of
those who wish 10 buy goods cheaply to
our extensive esta blishment
E. PsIABB l. CO.,
fo E. j. GRIFFITH,
+4.y.a IS West side Market SQUARE.
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ORGANIC WEAKNESS
DIX. JOHNSTON,

member OF the Roy al college OF Surgeons
London, Graduate of one OF the most emi-
nent Colleges i'll the United States, and
the greater part Of whose life has been
spent in the Hospitals of London, Paris,
Philadelphia, and elsewhere. has effected
some OF the most astonishing cures that
were aver known; many tpOubled with
ringing in the head and ears when asleep,
great nervousness, being alarmed at sud.
den sounds, bashfulness, with frequent
blushing, attended som Lime Us with de.
rangement Of mindwsre cured i'm medi-
at6lV,
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nor SALE OK EXCHANGE
YgVO owners, Masters OF Tessei
and Merchants generally.

Having put my TWO STEAM SEQ
TIONAL MARINE RAIL WAYS, Qarg
and snlalD in new condition, | am pre-
pared to haul vessels from 10 to 500 tons OF
New York rates.
A requisite supply of Timber, and 3
Steam Saw Mill In the Yard, enables m {
to guarantee dispatch in all orders.
Masts and other descriptions OF Spar
made on short notice. ..
Shears for masting vessels, and all Othe
fixtures necessary TO facilitate work at
ached to the Yard. ~ . IT, s.-t.,5 ~
l have under my control mechanics IL
lie different branches, necessary to re.
pair vessels thoroughly and the besi
,uanner. l+n
NATHANIEL NASl4.
pro cS;cai Sh;n Ruildar
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oo WE one me line of the following
Invite attention - w "AAen wv
Papier Mache Writing Desks.
Ornamented Work Boxes.
Foley's superior Gold Pens,
( Handsome Bibles and PRAYERS q
Bronze Inkstands and Paper Weights.
Rogers's Groups of Statuary,
( American ana Imported Chromos,
French Paper ana Envelopes.
Chess Men and Boards, ... -
Cribbsge Boards,
Par nantes Inferno, Illustrated by Dore.
kaulbach's Illustrations, &c. &c,
WILSON IL Wake
apo West Main street
ENOR RENT.-Tue Desirable Store No
II rs Bank street.. Possession imme5i.
ately.
W. S. FORREST
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CAN BE OBTAINED. !.
YOUNG MEN.

Especially, who have become the vie
Tins of Solitary Vice, that dreadful ant
destructive habit which annually sweep
to an untimely grave thousands of Youns
Men OF the most excellent talents an(
brilliant intellect, who might otherwise
have entranced listening senators witt
the thunders of eloquencs, or walked tt
ecstacy the living Tyre, may call with
full confidence.
Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-27

Married persons, or Young Men oontem
plating marriage, being aware of Physi.
mites, speedily cured.
He who places himself under the care OF
DR.. j. may religioasly conflde in his hon.
or as a gentleman, and confidently pely
upon his skill as physician.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
Cunning OF the Fox.

A CERTAIN jagare, who was one morn.
ing keeping watch in the forest, saw a fox
cautiously making his approach toward
the stump of an old tree. When suf6.
GENTLY near, he took high and deter.
mined jump on to the top of it, and, after
looking round awhile, hoped to the
ground again. After Reynard had re-
peated this knightly exercise several times,
he went his way, but presently returned
to the spot bearing a pretty large and
heavy piece of dry oak in his mouth, and
thus burdened, and as it would seem for
the purpose of testing his vaulting pow
ers, he renewed his leaps on to the stump.
After time, however, and when he found
that, weighted as he was, he could make
the ascent with facility, he desisted from
further efforts, dropped the piece of wood
from his mouth, and coiling himself upon
the top of the stump, remained motion
less as if dead. At the approach of
evening, an old sow and her progeny, five
or six in number, issued from neighbor-
ing thicket, and, pursuing their usual
track, passed near to the stump in ques-
ton. Two of her stockings followed
somewhat behind the rest, and, just as
they neared his ambush, Michel, with the
rapidity of thought, darted down from his
perch upon one of them, and in the
twinkling of an eye bore it in triumph on
to the fastness he had so providentially
prepared beforehand. COMPOUNDED at the
shrieks of her offspring, the old SOW re-
turned in fury to the spot, and until late
in the night made repeated desperate at
tempts to storm the murderer's strong
hold but the fox took the matter coolly,
and devoured the pig under the very nose
OF its mother.-NatUralSs in Norr00y.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
The Sleepiest Man in the World.

HE is Montanian, and a typo. We
have known him frequently to drop into
q sound sssnooze while standing at his
case distributing" and with half a
"take" of matter in hand. As com.
positor, he usually takes nap at the end
of each sentence, Gas often in the broad
day as any other time), to be aroused
therefrom only by sneeze from one of
the boys, or from some other unusual
sound If not particularly hungry, or en-
gagged in exciting conversation with the
fellow opposite, he invariably sleeps
between his courses, while at his meals
The other day, at noon, he started down
the stairs Of the Office to go to his "hash,"
and after reaching the doorway leading
to the street, he suddenly yielded to
Morpheus, leaned up against the broad
door jam, and enjoyed profound nap,
until some sound or jar awakened him,
and, having dreamed that he had actually
been to dinner and tarried longer than
usual, drew forth his toothpick, and hur-
ried up stairs again, where he nervously
rubbed his hands, hastily finished picking
his teeth, jerked off his coat, and went to
work. All these things we have seen
ourself; but his room mates and intimate
brother members of the craft tell us that
on diverse occasions, after retiring to his
room to go to bed, he would get off his
hat, perhaps one boot, and while con.
templating the exertion necessary to finish
the job of undressing would actually sci
to doing, and be found next morning
still sitting in his chair, with his legs
crossed, arms folded, his head inclined to
one side, and snoring like porpoise.-
Helena (lNonta1a0) Herald.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
farm an6 6onsebol6.
WanureS.

THE failure to raise good crops OF
wheat upon land long cultivated is not so
often attributable to Indifferent seed as to
unfair cultivation. In most cases the soil
has been robbed of the wheat producing
properties, such as the phosphates, potash
and other salts. This is true in large de-
gree of the wheat growing sections OF the
older States, where the soil has been so
long drained of its substance that it is no
longer possible to raise a heavy crop OF
wheat in the best season. On such lands
farmers should apply bone dust, or soluble
bone dust, or bone super phosphates and
ashes to restore the potash. Lime should
be used to gather carbonic acid Lime
deposited in large piles will collect car
bonic acid from the air and become bet
ter fertilizer. Lime should be applied
with grass or other vegetable matter, upon
which it acts chemically and produces
plant food It also corrects the sour ACIDS
in the soil. Some fields need sulphuric
acid, which is supplied by sowing plaster.
Sown upon clover, plaster causes 1t 10
draw to it the ammonia from the air and
water, and if the clover be plowed down
when in full bloom and quick lime be
used the clover is converted into plant
food.
The best fertilizer in the experience OF
the writer is compost of muck, barnyard
manure and clay, thoroughly decomposed
and mixed with equal parts of lime, ashes,
salt, plaster and bone phosphate. No soil
except virgin soil will fail to produce
wheat with this compound. 1t should be
thoroughly mixed and screened, 80 tn at 1T
can be drilled in with the wheat. 1t should
be used in the fall, when the rain helps to
decompose it and to enrich the surround
ing soil, and when the grain roots are
ready to take up the parts most needed for
food for the wheat plant Plant roots do
not permeate manures and take them up
until they are decomposed by the action of
the moisture, and in times ofgreat drought
manures yield very little nourishment
When the moisture penetrates the soil the
roots of plants search for nourishment,
and If the soil be loose they can penetrate
the particles and gather it.
Vegetable manures contain very small
proportion of salts, and these must be
supplied if the farmer wishes to enrich
the soil and raise large crops of grain
Fd1Ya sIournQL
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
Heads.
A SCHOOL BOYS COMPOSITION.


HEADS are of different shapes and differ
ent sizes. They are full of notions. Large
heads do not always hold the most. Some
persons can tell just what man is by the
shape of his head. High heads are the
best kind. Very knowing people are
called long headed. A fellow that won't
stop for anything or anybody is called
hot-headed. IF he isn't quite so bright,
they call him soft-headed if he won't be
coaxed nor turned, they call him pig. head
ed. Animals have very small heads. The
heads of fools slant back. When your
head is cut off you are beheaded. Our
heads are all covered with hair, except
baldheads. There are other kinds of heads
besides our heads
First, there are Barrel-heads. Second,
there are Pin-heads. Third, Heads of SER
mOns-sOmetimes minister used to have
fifteen heads to one sermon. Fourth,
Headwind. Fifth, Head of cattle-when
farmer reckons up his cows and oxen he
calls them 30 many head of cattle Six,
umheads-drumhead are made of
sheepskin. Seventh, Heads or tails-when
you toss up pennies. Eighth, Doublhead-
ers-when you let off rockets Ninth.
come to a head-like boil or a rebellion.
Tenth, bbageheads-dunces are called
cabbageheads, and good enough for them.
Eleventh, At Loggerheads you
don't agree. Twelfth, Heads of chapters.
Thirteenth, Head him off-when you
want to stop horse, or boy. Fourteenth,
Head Of the family. Fifteenth, A Eiun-
derhead. Sixteenth, The Masthead
where they send sailors to punish them.
Seventeenth, get up to the head-when
you spell the word right. Eighteenth,
The Head of stream-where it begins.
Nineteenth, Down by the head-when a
vessel is deep loaded at the bows. TWEEN
tieth, Figurehead carved on vessel.
Twenty-iirst, The Cathead, and that's the
end of a stick of timber that ships
Headland, OF cape. Twenty-third, A
Head of Tobacco. Twenty fourth, Bulk
head, which is partition in ship.
Twenty-ffth, Go ahsad-but first be sure
you are right.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
The Effect Of Charcoal on Flowers.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Revue H0rtScOZe
says that not long ago he made bargain
for rosebush of magnificent growth and
full of buds. He waited for them to blow,
and expected roses worthy of such no.
BILE plant and OF the praises bestowed up
on it by the vender, but when it bloomed
all his hopes were blasted. The flowers
were of q faded hue, and he discovered
that he had only middling multifiora,
stale colored enough. He therefore re-
solved to sacrifice it to some expert
ments which he had in view. His atten-
ton had been directed to the effects OF
charcoal as stated in some English publ
cations He then covered the earth in
the pot in which the rosebush was about
half an inch deep, with pulverized char
coal. Some days after he was astonished
to see the roses which bloomed of as fine
lively rose-color as he could wish. He
determined to repeat the experiment, and
therefore when the rosebush had done
Towering he took off the charcoal and put
fresh earth about the roots and waited for
the next spring impatiently to see the re.
suit of this experiment. When it blOomed
the roses were at first pale and discolored
but by applying the charcoal as before
they soon assumed their rosy-red color
He then tried the powdered charcoal In
large quantities upon petunias, and found
that both the white and violet colored
flowers were equally sensitive to its &C
ton. 1t always gave great vigor to the
red or violet colors of the flowers, and the
white petunias became veined with red o,
violet tints; the violets became covered
with irregular spots of a blueish or al.
most black tint. Many persons who ad.
mired them thought they were choice new
varieties from the seed. Yellow flowers
appear to be insensible to the influence oil
charcoal
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
A Genuine Snake Story.

SNAKE stories, as a rule, are 80 un1ver-
sally incredible, that anyone who is bold
enough 10 relate marvellous one, not
only subjects himself to the imputat ION
of untruth, but even to public rldicule.
The one that we now present comes so
well attestedt that its credibility cannot
be successfully questioned. On last sun
day night, DR.. Dufield, OF Hannibal, IN
this State, was summoned to the bedside
of patient, upon whom he had been IN
attendance for several days, for measles,
and upon his arrival the lady, who was
slender and delicate female, and who had
been in ill health for several years, COM
planned of a " choking in her throat" and
that she felt something moving, and also
said that the throat felt very sore. The
drug store being closed, the doctor ordered
strong pepper tea made, and sum alum
put in, with which to gargle. She used
this, and the choking increased. He di-
rected her to swallow some, thinking it
was worm, and having nothing at hand
better, supposed this would relieve her,
by causing it to withdraw downward into
the stomach. The feeling yet increased,
and as a placebo, until something better
could be obtained, she was directed to eat
sugar. In a moment or so, she said some
thing was crawling upward, and she
looked as though she would sutfocate.
She coughed violently, and Immediately a
squirming, live reptile was elected from
the mouth, which, on examination, proved
to be water snake, about twelve or four
teen inches in length, and about "a or q
of an inch in diameter about the centre
of the body It was a yellow, notified
snake, with dark or black eyes, and its
tongue darted out in fearfully disgust
ing manner, 1t is supposed that at some
time, when drinking from some branch or
brook in Michigan, whence she had lately
come, she unconsciously swallowed the
hideous reptile, whilst it was very small.
The woman, as stated, had suffered from
i'll health for year or more, and is now
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
USEFUL RECIPES, ETC.

IT is said that if sheep is kept fat the
wool will be coarser than If kept only In
moderate flesh.
A HOP GROWER in Massachusetts, ha.
proved that he can get more and better
crops by setting one pole to hill thar
two poles, as is generally practicsd.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country Gen
henan says every time colt, a calf or
other young animal feels miserable, hun.
cry, cold or tired, mark to certain ex'
tent will be left on the general figure.
At recent meeting of an agricultu.
raj society in Pennsylvania, it was re-
solved to set apart two hundred dollars
toward fund to be used in import
ing insect-destroying birds from Europe.
The society extend an invitation to other
societies to join them in this enterprise.
KIDDING A HENNERY OF LIoE.-Daniel
Kemble, of Mount Holly, N. j., is positive
that eff you mix about gill of gas-tar
with pail of whitewash, and apply it
with brush to all exposed surfaces, these
pests of the reost will either die quickly,
or 60 away very fast"
A WRITER recommends the following
practice in feeding chickens: "For the
first week after Matching, hard boiled
eggs, chopped fine, at least twice day,
wheat stepped in milk, and coarse Indian
meal, bread crumbs, etc. A change of
food is necessary twice week, substitute
ing cracked corn for wheat"
A WRITER in Hearth and Home has
found the best way to take starch out of
bleached goods to be as follows: Make
strong soap-suds, and dip the goods in it,
and hang them out to dry without wiring
ing. They will be perfectly soft and free
from starch, and nice to work either by
hand or machine"
ANTS NESTS IN GARDENs-A CORE
spondent informs the american E,otomoIo-
gist that by burying few sliced onions
in ants nests he has caused them to aban-
don their quarters. The same paper
learns from horticulturists, that two or
three tablespoonfuls of kerosene poured
into the holes in their nests will produce
the same effect
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural World
advises the application of pine-not coal
tar too a brittle hOof, asserting that he
has frequently applied it to hard, dry
and cracked hoofs with good success. 1t
appears to penetrate and soften the hoof,
gives lit bright and clean look i also
eAoeoS Iuc cIdCAei Woulu Apply OACc VI
twice month.
BROOK CoRN.-A Chautauqua county
correspondent states that one-third great
er yield, and that Of better quality, would
be produced if the hills were not more
than twenty inches apart one way and
three feet the other, instead of three or
four feet each way, as is the general
practice. Only eight stalks should be
left in hill, and the harvest should COM
mence as soon as the seed is fully grown.
STAFFoRDsHIRE PUDDING.-Line shall
low pie-dish with puff paste, and put
raspberry,jam about an inch in depth,
over the bottom; beat the yolks of four
eggs and the white of one, to which add
a quarter of 3 pound of powdered loaf
sugar, three-quarters Of a pound of but
ter, and flavor with little essence of
almonds. Mix all well together, pour it
upon the jam, and bake it.