The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-01-12
Let Common Sense Decide.

What is the rational mode of procedure
in cases of general debility and nervous
prostrationg Does not reason tell us that
judicious stimulation is required To re-
sort to violent purgation in such a Gaze is
as absurd as it would be to bleed a star
wing man. Yet it is done every day. Yes
this stupid and unphilnsophical practice
is continued in the teeth of the great fact
physicel weakness. with all the nervous
disturbances that accompany it, is more
certainly and rapidly relieved by Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters than by any other
medicine at present known. 1t is true
that general debility is often attended
with torpidity or irregularity of the bow
els, and that this symptom must not be
overlooked. But while the discharge of
the waste matter of the system is expedi-
ted OF regulated, it's vigor must be recruit
ed. The Bitters do both. They combine
aperient and ambitious properties, with
extraordinary tonic power. Even while
removing distinctions from the bowels,
they tone aud invigorate those organs.
Through the stomach, upon which the
great vegetable specific acts directly, it
gives healthy and permanent impetus to
every enfeebled function. Digestion is
facilitated, the faltering circulation rcgu-
lated, the blood reinforced with new &C.
cession of the alimentary principle, the
nerves braced and all the dormant powers
of the system reused into healthy action;
not systematically, as would be the case
if mere stimulant were administered,
but for a continuance. It is in this way
that ouch extraordinary changes are
wrought in the condition of the feeble,
emaciated and nervous invalids by the
use of this wonderful corrective, alterna-
tive and tonic. Let common sense decide
between such a preparation and pros
trating cathartic supplemented by pois-
onous astringent like strychine or quinia
A WOMAN MARR1Es Two WIvEs.-A
strange disclosure has been made at Ether
ley, near Bishop Auckland, by the death
of woman who has for the past fifty
years resided ia that neighborhood and
married two wives. 1t is said that she
came from Scotland fifty years ago in the
guise OF young man, and obtained en-
ployment at one of the coilieries at which
she work as one of the men for some time,
and paid her addresses to, and ultimately
married, servant girl living at the village
inn. After her marriage, she relinquished
working at the pit, and commenced max
ing besoms, yellow clay balls, and pipe
clay rubbers, which she and her partner
vended in the surrounding villages. They
had lived together twenty-three years,
when the wife died, and the reputed hus-
band protested to lament her loss very
much, but a. length the grief wore off and
she married second wife, with whom she
lived number of years, but not on the
most atfectionate terms, and eventually. by
mutual consent, they separated. For
some time the woman had lain on bed of
sickness, and been dependent upon some
kind neighbors, whom, however, she always
prevented coming too near her. The
other day she died, and then the discovery
of her sex was made. The deceased wo-
man gave her meme as Josiah Charles
Stephenson, and she has often been heard
to speak of being heir to some property
about Berwick on Tweed but had no mon
ey to go and claim it. Many strange
stories are told in connection with this
strange individuals history,