The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-07-13
Heal,h's Best Defence.

"The weak eateth herbs," says St.
Paul, so that eighteen hundred years
ago the value Of medicine plants was
appreciated. In the Old Testament
botanical remedies are repeatedly re-
commended, but in no passage of sa-
cred history is man recommended to
swallow calomel, or blue pill, or any
other mineral preparation. The sick
were directed to eat herbs to strength
en- them, to purify them, to heal them,
to restore them. In that day the art
of making vegetable extracts was I'M
known. The herbal medicines were
mere infusions.
1t was reserved for later age to
unite the sanitary essences of tonic,
aperient and ambitious roots, barks,
and plants, with an active stimulant,
and thus secure their rapid diffusion
through the debilitated or disordered
system. The GROWING triumph of this
effective mode Of concentrating and
applying the virtues of medicinal veg
etables was achieved in the production
of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. New
i er before had perfectly pure a.c """.-
ic stimulant been combined with the
expressed juices of the finest specifics
of the vegetable kingdom. Never yet,
though eighteen years have elapsed
since its introduction, has this great
restorative been equaled. 1t is taken
at all seasons, in all climes, as the most
potent safeguard against epidemics, as
q protection against all unhealthy ex-
halations thatproduce debility of beget
disease as a remedy for intermittent
and other malarious fevers; as an ap
petizer; as a sovereign cure for dys
pepsia; as general tonic and invigo
rant; as gentle, painless aperient
, as blood depurent; as vervine; al
cure for bilious affections; as a harm
f less anodyne and as the BEST DEFENCE
OF HEALTH under unfavorable circum
stances, such as sedentary pursuits
. undue bodily or mental exertion, hard
ship, priyation and exposure.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MISUNDERSTANDING the Alaba
5 ma and Chattanooga Railroad, the Tus
t kaloosa Monitor of May 81, says:
0 We have around rs indisputable ev
q licences of the early completion of thi
enterprise. There are in the immed
ate vicinity of town quite number .
$ squads of hands, several hundred
: all, under different contractOrs-all
: whom arc making sensible progre!
with their work. We understand th'
Messrs. Whitney and Munsen, WI
n have the heavy grading between til
n,;;S. and McMath's are expecting
receive several stea IN ss.h,oveis ard oth'
implements of various kinds for y y
completion of their contract but "
n fear that the early closing ofriver MAJ
q igation may interfere quite serious
= with their plans.
IL OF the Selma and New Orleans Raj
l. road prospects, tho Selma Times,
N the 3lst ult., has the following repor
y Judge Byrd, who has been on Wis
~ to MarengO county in the interests
S this road, and who made several a.
/ dresses to the people there on the pr
d. posed subscription by that county, Il
D, vote on which took place last Saturda
vs. has returned to the city. He was
L Demopolis on the day the vote was
In ken, and thinks, from information gal
g, ed that the subscription of $25, 900
ID the county was carried by good m
" jority.
s. w A California newspaper give!
s. olour;nor ,riau Of the Condition of s.