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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

AN honest reputation is within the
reach of all men they obtain it by So
cial virtues, and by doing their duty.
This kind of reputation, it is true, is
neither brilliant nor startling, but it is
generally most conducive to happiness.
THE purest and sweetest Cod-Liver Oil
in the world is HAZARD & CAswELL's,
made on the sea-shore, from fresh, Sc
lected livers, by CAswELL, HAZARD q Co.,
New York. 1t is absolutely pure and
ssoeet. Patients who have once taken it
prefer it to all others. Physicians have
decided it superior to any of the other
oils in market.
New YoRK's beer consumption is 49,
$50, 800 gallons yearly. @
PENETRATING to the source of disease
in the secretions and the circulation, regu-
lating every organ, and bracing every nerve
and fibre of the body, DR.. WALKERS VINE
GAR BITTERs are effecting the NEST astonish-
ing cures of indigestion, biliousness, nervous
weakness, rheumatism, scrofulous disorders,
and chrome constipation, that the world
has ever witnessed. .....
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

THIRTEEN millions of money sat down
toa breakfast at Saratoga recently.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

ANOTHER LoTTERY.-Omaha to have a
Free City Library. 100000 in Cash Prizes
will be distributed legally by chance, Sept.
goth, by the Mutual Aid Association, at
Omaha, Nebraska. They charge So each for
tickets. Here is an instance where the
profits benefit the public instead of going
into the pockets OF sharpers. Highest prize,
500 O00
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

PRUssING's Celebrated White Wine
Vinegar will keep pickles. Ask for it.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
WORDS OF A RELIABLE DRUGGIST

~ Read the following from reliable druggist OF
Michigan
MARINE City, Mich. July q, 1870
j.. N. Harris & Co;-Dear Sir: The Aliens Lung
Balsam has arrived. would not like to be without it
for it has saved my life. Itook bad cold and cough
and finally Consumption was seated upon me- was
in very bad state TRIED everything that was
mended. and spent great deal of money, but got nc
help had the Aliens Lung Balsam for sale, but ]
knew nothing of its merits. did not like to take it,
without knowing more about it, had not sold bot
tie. When your agent called on me told him could
not sell medicine | knew nothing about. He urged
me to try it myself did 50, and to my grateful sur
prise the first bottle stopped my cough and before the
and can speak knowingly to my friends and
toners of the qualities of Aliens Lung Balsam.
remain respectfully.
L. @. COTTREL.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
Foreign

DISPATCHES from England, dated August
14th, say that the weather there is favorable
to growing crops.....A terrific explosion of
gun cotton occurred in the Slow market Lon
don, on the 18th inst. Several persons were
killed. Charles Buxton, M. P, is dead.
1t is reported that an arrangement has been
entered into by which the German troops
will withdraw entirely from French terri
tory before the end of the present year,.
Special private information from a CORE
spondent at Salisbury says that the military
organization in Russia is being pushed Wig
orously on the Prussian system of compul-
sorry service, and vigorously carried out
without exception.....The German and Aus
trian Emperors met at eastern on the 18th
inst. 1t is said that an alliance between the
two Powers was the chief question discussed.
This is apprehended by France and Russia.
1.-THE Pope has written letter to the
committee who have offered him the title OF
Plus the Great, and throne of gold. He
refused to accept the proposed title of honor
during his lifetime, and suggests that the
money which has been subscribed for the
throne be employed in procuring the exemp-
ton of students of Catholic seminaries every
where from military service.
IT is stated that there is rapidly increas-
ing opposition arising against prolonging the
power of Theirs in the French executive
ofice......A dispatch from Berlin on the 18th
says: The Imperial government, as well as
the local authorities, have adopted the most
stringent measures for the prevention of the
cholera. Twenty-three persons were at
tackled with the disease at Konigsburg Sat
urday, thirteen of whom are already dead
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has been
made a member of the Arbitration Board
under the treaty of Westinghouse The
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25
Tarrent'S SeItZer Aperlent

Is of its original tic Settler Spring of Germany The
Aperient based correct analysis OF the Seltzer
Water is even superior to the manufacture OF Nature
herself because it contains all the active medicinal
properties of the spring unaloyed by Of the inert
and useless particles found in all mineral fountns
the Settler Water of Europe purified and perfected;
and probably the best the most genial cathartc ana
ambitious preparation on the lace OF the earth'
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

ford, O., was killed by lightning on Friday
morning while standing in her fathers door.
......Jas. Sinclair, an old resident of Chicago,
ILL.,, died in that city, on Saturday. ... VIM.
L. Houston, very respectable young man,
suicided at Quincy, ILL.,, on Sunday.
ST.. GILMAN, drover from Kentucky
was drowned at Toledo, recently. ..... The
schooner R. B. Campbell found the scow
Scottish Chief, loaded with lumber, wrecked
between Kalamazoo and st. Joseph, on the
eastern shore of Lake Michigan, on Satur-
day afternoon, and towed her to Kenosha,
WIS. The crew were all gone, and are sup
posed to have been lost...... George Shuler,
son of Harvey Shuler, ESQ.,, a grain msr-
chant of Ottawa, ILL.,, aged Y years, fell from
the Illinois river bridge and was drowned,
last Monday Great difficulty is ex-
perlenced by the authorities in enforc-
ing the laws of the State in Min
nesota, near the end of the different rail-
roads being constructed in that State. Sher-
ifs and constables are daily killed and the
law de6ed by the roughs who are following
up the opening of new Railroads.&c.. Mrs.
Colburn has been arrested and admitted to
bail, at Columbus, O., on the charge of poi
soning Buffenberger, her former husband
The preliminary examination will take place
on the 21st inst......A fire at Youngstown O.
on Saturday night, destroyed a row Of eight
dwelling houses, and three children, aged g.
II, and IA, were burned to death.
SAM PAINTER, a Mississippi river captain
reports that widow lady, living at Lynx
burg, near Lansing, Iowa, the mother Of
three children, chastised the oldest, aged IA
After being chsstised, he went into the woods
and hung himself, but was rescued by his
mother before it proved fatal. AT night, the
same boy, while kindling a fire, took can
of kerosene, called the other children, poured
them ALMA WATERFOWL {Wis.) special to
the Milwaukee Daily Neaos says :" While
Monday nights Prairie du Chen express
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
The Flight OF n

WOULD anybody be young again if he
had to take with it the penalty of going
back and doing over again all the foolish
things he was guilty Of IN his youth? 1
wouldn't.
"Give me back my youth againI" did
you say? Friend, it's a mistake. Ten to
one you wouldn't have it again if you
could. If old Time were to come boldly
to you to-day saying, "Take back, o wise,
middle-aged Noodle, these twenty past
years of your life, with all the pains and
disappointments which have made you
clesr-sighted and standardized, with all
the silly actions you perpetrsted in those
days, and all the occasions on which you
made a long-eared donkey of yourself;
worry through, a second time, all the tight
boots and tribulations all the toothaches
and he2rtsches of your youth; do, be and
suffer it all again; be- in short, ones more,
Just the soft young Noodle you were
twenty years ago"-ten of manhood's
hearty hopes TO one doiorous wall for your
lost youth, that you answer, "Pass on,
Father Timel And you may as well tip
those twenty golden sandgrains back into
the lower half Of your hour-glass. l do
not want themr'
1t gives an odd feeling, especially if you
are a woman, TO fiEd yourself getting to
be a little bit middle-aged. First, you will
rolice that you begint to beleft out of very
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
The Queen of the Turf.

There is no longer q liking of the
Turf" in this country. This has been Tor
a long time the popular appellation ap-
pied to the horse Dexter, since his won
derous feat of irotting a mile in two min
utes III seconds, 1t has been contended
by many that this time could never be
beaten; but who shall now tell the posi-
bilities of the American trotting horse
Dexter's time has been beaten by Gold
smith Maid, by one fourth Of a second, and
she now holds the crown as the "Queen of
the Turf" This wonderful speed was at
tained on the Cold Spring Course, at Mil
waukee, September 9th. At first, grave
doubts existed as to the track being afull
mile, but it has since been measured by
the city surveyor of Milwaukee, and in a
sworn statement pronounced an accurate
mile track.
This mare is now IA years old. She was
bred by Mr.. John B. Decker, of Orange
County, New York, in the spring of 1857,
and sired by Goldsmith's Volunteer, a son
of Rysdick's Hambletonian. In February,
1865, Mr.. Decker sold her to his son, MIR.
John b. Decker, Jr., for $3.50, who, on
his way home with her to another part of
the county, sold her to William Temp
kins, of Hampton, Orange County, for
$500. Mr.. Alden Goldsmith was anxious
to get hold of the mare, and on the Goth
of March, of the same year, he bought
her of Mr.. Tompkins, for $3.50. Mr.. Gold
smith kept her until November, 1868,
when, after her remarkable achievements
at Buffalo, and on other courses, she was
sold to Messrs. B. Jackmsn and Budd
Doble for $4,000. About a year ago,
Jackman and Doble sold the Maid for
$4,000 to a Mr.. Smith, a banker in New
York, who is her present owner.
At this race she trotted three mile
heats and was timed as follows; First,
2 :2015; second, 2:17; third, 2:20A. As
Mr.. Bonner is understood to have repeat
edly offered 100000 for the horse that
would beat Dexter's time of 2:174, We
think this is now considered a fair figure for
Goldsmith Maid.-PraiTie Farmer.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
Securing Fodder Corn for Winter.

MANY have had an impression that fod-
der corn formed a poor food for animals
in winter, but this impression has been, no
doubt, obtained from feeding out imper-
tectly cured and musty fodder. Properly
cured fodder corn forms anourishing food,
and mich cows, sheep and horses eat it
with a relish.
Fodder corn growing thickly is very
succulent, and contains a great amount of
juice; consequently when its growth is
checked by cutting, fermentation rapidly
occurs, and unless the utmost care is OBJ
served, the fodder will be injured before
one is aware off [. On this account, as
soon as cut, it should be disposed in small
quantities i n a place, and should never
remain long unmoYed upon the grouCd.
1t can, however, remain a day or two, if
spread loosely, without injury. If by in
attention it is left too thick, and heating
begins, lis value is gone. After il has
wilted a day, the fodder should be taxed
up and plsced thinly besides fences, or
what is a very good arrangement, against
horizontal poles placed in forked stakes
set in the ground, the poles coming about
breast high.
A plan involving less labor, and pro-
badly serving the purpose as well, is re-
commended by q correspondent. This
consists in setting single stakes, at conven
lent distances, firmly into the ground.
Then tie the con in small bundles. and
set six or eight of these bundles lightly
against the stake, and tie firmly but loose
ly with a band. This prevents the shocks
from being blown down, and perfect free
dom of air to every part is secured. They
should remain out until thoroughly dried.
When hauled in, the bundles can be I'M
bound and the corn spread over tops of
mows, and also on head scaffJ dds prepared
for the purpose.
Many farmers commit an error in allow
ing their fodder corn to become too large
before it is cut. By so doing, the leaves
are more tough and the stalks so large as
to be refused by stock. Whereas, cut at
the right time when the leaves are tender
and the stalks succulent, the whole will be
eaten up clean. 1t is a laborious job to
cut up an acre or two of fodder o with
g common corn hook, and many farmers
now use the hand scythe as in moving
grass-a little practice being sufficient to
throw the tops all n way so evenly that
it csn be easily gathered up and bound
Maine Farmer.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
Means What He Saws,

Though combinations strong as proofs of
Holy Writ" and as numerous as the sands on
the sea shore, were produced to prove that
DR.. Pierce, the proprietor of DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy, is in earnest and means what
he says, when he offers $500 reward for any
case of Catarrh which he cannot cure, yet
there would be some skeptics and fogies who
would continue to shout, "Hum6Ug! ' "HUM-
BUG!p' alt cannot be, because DR.. Home
spun says Catarrh annot be cured" Now,
this DR.. Homespun is the identical good-na-
tured old fellow who honestly believes and
persists in declaring that this earth is not
round or spherical, but fiat as a " slap.jack"
and does not turn over, otherwise the water
would all be spilled out of Deacon Bascom's
mill-pond. But astronomical science has pos
itively demonstrated and proven that Dr..
Homespun is wrong in supposing this earth
to be fiat and stationary, and medical science
is daily proving the fact that he is no less
mistaken and behind the times in regard to
the durability of Catarrh. In short, it has
been positively proven that this world moUsS
and that medical science is progressive, the
opinion of DIR. Homespun to the contrary
notwithstanding. That DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy will cure Catarrh thousands who
have used it attest.
Then buy it, and use II, in doubt do not stand,
You will find it in drug stores all over the land.
5S6
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29

young folks picnics, and to get fewer
notes in pink envelopes than you used.
Then you begin to be family haunted by
vague, sneakiDg doubts as to whether
white muslin aud blue ribbons are becom-
ing to you. Finally, and worst of all,
once in q while you will see an infant Of
the male Eek, whom you remember as a
rosy little fellew in checked aprons when
you were twelve years old, suddenly lifted
over your heal in the shape of a long,
gawky biped, with the tender down Of a
first moustache sprouting from his upper
lip. That gives you an intensely exaspe-
rating sensation. Nor is it pleasant TO
have saucy young ships of girls talking OF
you, behind your back, as old Sarah
Thompson.
Then, too, you may IS well make up
your mind to the hard fact of middle age
when you chance to open some gilt-edged
book of poetry, and discover, carefully
pressed away between the leaves, a little
lock of faded hair, and you can't remem-
Der, in your life, whose it is. l have had
half a dozen such myself. They were
precious as gold once, no doubt, but l
make confidential confession to you that
if l were questioned on the rack, Icouldn't
now tell whose heads they came from.
What makes me know that they were pre-
cious as gold in their time is the fact (yOu
will observe this is another confidential
confession) that they are nearly all LOCKS
of longish-short hair, before college stud
ents began to affect the present prize
fighting style of shaving their pstes. o
poor little rings of faded hair-I Prieve to
say it, but l have forgotten you ALL
Again, when you go to party and
dance more than half the night, far into
the small hours, and then partake of that
grinds.one mess called a party supper,
maybe you notice you feel grumpy and
out of sorts next day. Well, that's a sign,
too. Especially, ifyou have found Your
self pausing to listen now and then to the
cha.tering talk of persons younger than
yourself, and sarcastically wondering
whether you ever made such a wholesale
idiot of yourself, or whether very young
misses always deluge society with such
quantities Of simpering nonsense and atfec-
tation. Q believe they do.) 1t is sure
sign if you find yourself constantly feeling
a call to give your younger sisters advice
which they don't want, end to treat them
now and then to a bit Of q preachment, for
which you get no reward except thankless
insinuations about saving ones breath to
cool ones broth. Or may be you say
occasionally to your sister Ella, who is
sixteen and pretty. "When you have
lived as long as l have, you will find that
the majority of very young people have
precious little common sense."-Lippin-
colts Magazine.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
SlipshOd or RlnnIng Down at the
Heel

Shoes without counters or stiffening,
when carelessly worn, are apt to jut over
and soon run down, and thus present a
most untidy and unsightly appearance.
Did it ever occur to the reader thst there
is a striking resemblance between old slip
shod shoes and certain characters? Such
likeness may be seen in many careless
persons we meet. They are no less slip
shod and careless in morals and in their
habits than in the way they wear their
shoes. Easily tempted to go astray, they
can motor do not-say No when they
ought. They yield first to one little temp
tation, telling a wrong story, then to
another to cover that up, and so go on
from bad to worse till their moral sensi-
bilities are blunted, and like a poor old
shoe, are run down at the heel. There is
no s~tiffening in them. They do not stand
up to right and duty, but go shutting
along, going lower and lower, and at
length fetching up in a poor-house,
asylum, or prison.
Young men begin or take their FIRST
steps in a slipshod life by neglecting daily
deVotions; by disobedience; by violating
parental authority; by selfshly sppropri-
ating to themselves that which belongs
equally to others. G~reediness, gluttony,
dishonesty, eye-service, deception, smok-
ing, chewing, or drinking on the sly"-
all these things lead directly to running
down at the heel"
Hon to keep up.-Dress the feet, body,
and mind with proper care keep the shoes
properly tied; step squarely; have a plan
for every day, and work, study, or play
according to it. Be prompt in rising,
washing, and in dressing it is much easier
than to drGgalong; be on hand at break
fast if not first, do not be always last at
the table or at prayers. Then, being ready
for the duties or pleasures of the day, go
about the same with alacrity, and be sure
to finish what you begin" Application
is an indispensable element of success.
Guard against i'll temper, impotence, and
cultivate self control. Be not diverted by
others. Ask Gods blessing on your work
or your play, and you will not run down
at the heel" Being OF the right track in
the line of duty and usefulness, you will
rise and shine" and become what your
Maker intended you to be, a godly, manly
man. Oh, the human wrecks we meet on
every handl How sadl how p%itifull yet
nine in ten, if not all, could have done
better; could have escaped the rocks by
resisting temptations, self-indulgence, in
dolence, and dissipation. Our faculties
grow by use. They degenerate or remain
latent by disuse, and they permit US to fall
and run down at the heel" by wrong use
or perversion. Oh, that each could see
and realize the certain doom that awaits
-transgressorsl May God put it into the
hearts of us all to so live that we may in
al respects be useful to our fellows and
acceptable to Him.-PhrenOlogicaI Jour
1nI
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29

al the bundle, like a man-of-war protect
ing q merchantmen.
It took but a few minutes to get back to
the Astor House. Here was vexation.
The door of the room in which he had
left Mallet was locked. Down to the
clerks Office few the irate and impatient
Quoin.
Where's my friend and roommate,
Mallet, of room 369Y'
"Mallet? Yes, yesi Mallet, is it? Why,
Mallet paid for his room, and left half an
hour ago"
"What?"
"Just SO. Paid for his room half an
hour ago /; took q coach, and went to the
Erie Railroad Depot"
"Whatf"
"No mistake. Went by the Erie Rail-
road"
Not even then was Quoin convinced
that his polite friend, Mslley, was & delu-
sion anu a snare. But he had the pre-
sentiment. All day long he traversed
from hotel to depot in an agonized frame
| of mind. Nor did he fail to call on the
Chief of Police, to make sure that his
| friend had not had a fit, and been sent to
the hospital. Nor is it worth while to
| recount his visits to booksellers and his
inquiries touching the publisher, Mallet,
of Buffalo, who was unknown to them all.
As night settled OF the city he felt able to
express a decided opinion concerning
sallet. He was "an unveracity and an
inaptitude, a phantasm and a wind bag"
/ As for Bodkin-words could not do him
Justice. But he never saw either of them
agsin.
That dsy Bodkin closed the ledger &C.
count of Quoin. That day Bookin and
Mallet went out riding on the Coney
Island road. And the riders of that fire.
quented thoroughfare were astonished at
the ~vivacity and righteousness of the
specialized elderly gentleman and his
young friend. They were evidently at
ease and at peace with the wide world
So Mrs. Bodkin thought For Bodkin's
temper was sweet for a month"; state of
mind unknown before or since.-COmic
Monthly.
South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-09-29
Old Things Have Passed Away.

This is at least true of the old method of treating
the long abused and much abused human body.
1t is no longer considered wise TO put a patient
to the torture in order to cure him Of a disease in
which pain Is already undermining the energies
of his system. True science ranges itself on the
SIDE Of nature, and endeavors to assist her in her
fight against disease. This is the province of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, the most approved tonic
ever advertised in this country. 1t may be re-
commended as a fall medicine, par excellence;
for 1t is in the fall that biliousness, dyspepsia and
malarious feyers are especially prevalent. The
frame, exhausted by the heats of summer, is re-
Taxed and feeble at its close, and requires, we
may say demands, artificial assistance. Afford il
that assistance in occasional doses of Hostetter's
stomach Bitters, and the evils referred TO may be
escaped. Throughout the far West, and on the
steam1ng alluvial Of the Southern rivers, all the
varieties of periodical fever are probably rife to-
day. Had a course of Hostetter's Bitters been
commenced by the sufferers a month ago, 1. g., be-