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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

DIR. PIERCE's Pleasant Purgative Pei
lets or Tasteless, Coated, Concentrated Root
and Herbal Juice, Ambitious Granules--the
Little Giant Cathartic or ql1ult,tn an porUO
physic. No use of any longer taking the huge,
repulsive, nauseous and gripping pills, com
posed of cheap, crude, bulky Ingredients,
when, by careful application of chemical sci
ence, we can extract all the cathartic and med
ical properties from the most valuable roots
and herbs and concentrate them into a minute
pellet or granule, scarcely larger than mus
tard seed, that can be readily swallowed by
those of the most sensitive stomachs and fas-
tidious tastes. Is cents by druggists. 632.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

A New York gentleman writes to
the Tribune to ask what he shall do
with his daughter. who is a member of
the Episcopal church, and last year kept
Lent so strictly as % endanger her
health. She became so weak that she
could not walk, her mind being also
affected. For two months the young
lady. according to her fathers report,
was under the hands of the famlly doc
tor. who finally succeeded in restoring
her to health. Now she is again keep
ing Lent in the same injudicious way.
Leave the pantry door open few nights
30 she can feed on the sly.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

Henry @. Bowen refused $3.50, 900
cash for the Brooklyn Union, last week.
He holds it firm at $500, 900, on which
it annually pays Is per cent.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
sCHBNCK's PUIMoNIc CANDY

Embraces in general degree the principles Of
Schenek's PulmOnic ~ up. and while Rs pleasant
To the palate the purCSt CONNECTIONS. rs medical
properties render II eifectual In coughs, colds
bronchial and catarrhal aiections etc. II y the
most acceptable remedy children or in fans. and
can be given with IMMUNITY; while for professional
gentlemen those who suffer from loss OF voice u
is Indispensable. These candles are put up IN y
cent boxes, convenient for the pocket, and are for
sale by all druggists and dealers. y. ". SCItESCK
b SnN. y. e. cor. sixth ana Arch streets. Phtin.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

PILLS which contain anthony, qui-
nine and calomel should be avoided as severe
gripping pains would be their only result. The
safest, surest, and best pills are Parsons Pur-
gative or Anti-Bilious Pills.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

No Person can take a. ~=a Bittsrs acrat..
ing 10 dircctionss and remain borg uuysol proyidce
their bones are not DESTROYED b. miueral pu m or uhc
means aud the vital organs wasted beyoal The To'l.
Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Heaf,,le. PEr
la the Shoulders Cuu- M, lghrrr RI the Chest pt.
ripess, Sour Eructsiiuus OF thc Stomach, $50 TFHs
in the Mouth % I0rs Au1Csa, P1lpitaiiUn uf ils
Heart Iudammatiou oi Jilc iunrs, Pam boz tIs
III he KiAnevs aud hundred other painful .yHuiaus
are the ofsprings OF Dyspepsa. 10 ihesc conn lIrH
il has equal and one brittle vii prove letter e1'.
auter u its merits than q lengthy Advertisement
For Female Complaints in yoiHs ur "a.
mari al or single. nd the dawn OF wumanluHI iir
arm II life these louie Bitter, display 50 dee" led r'
influence that marked improvement Is soH1 I... -
tibe. am.
mHtIsm and Govt, Bilious, Rrmlicni 'u. lti'.-
mit,rrt Teyers. Diseases Of I've Blood, Liver, ka..s
and Bladder. these Buers have no equal - D..-
easss are caused b. Vtatud Blood wheh y ge.'tI'."
produccd by arrangement 81 the Digestive DfEit
They are n Gentle rurgutiNc as Wen "H
n Tonic. possessing also the peculiar utrt OF 1.iiIE
As q powerful agent in relieving Canuc.ion ~ luhH
nation OF the Liver and Nsccri Or5laa ava ~ lii''
Diseases.
For skin Diseases, Eraitiorr, letter S''t
Rhcrm, Eloches, Spots. prr'lf PUeiules boilh N'f'
apcla, Itch, SCutfs, bsCu.u1uuu. Of ODE Skn, hunNf
and Disease OF The Skin uf Whlityrr ult or n1t..,
literally dug up and c1ui-1 nrf ol che sstcm 'i
short time iv the ~ these Hiirrs.
Grateful Thousands Ifoc.im NtyrsAH liI-
rERs she most wonderful lnyguaut thar ever sustained
the sinking system. =
Druggists aud Gen. ACTS. san ffa.,rDn lul NcwfoI
~ SOLD HNALL DRUGGISTS DEALERS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

New Jersey has 40 iron mines, To-
Gated mostly in Morris and the adjoin-
ing counties. The Mt. Hope mines,
originally bought for $500, and which
have been worked some 30 years or
more, are now valued at over two mil
lions.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

THE late Gov. Geary pronounced DIR.
ShaIenberger's Fever and Ague Antidote a
public benefaction. A single trial will estab-
Iish it's merit.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

LADIES, see that your fathers, bro
theirs and husbands wear the Elmwood Collar.
They will always look well if they do.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

AN Iowa paper breaches asharp ser
mon to lowans, because thew send East
for canned corn and fruit, and even
beans and pickles, and then complain of
hard times.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
FASTEN YOUR WINDOWS !

No spring to break, no cutiirs OF sash; cheap, dl-
rable. very easily applied: holds s!eh go any nlace
desired, and splf-fnqieutr when the uHh a. down.
send stamp for circular, CirCluur aud y. yupp o.
brunzed locks sent 10 any address 100 the lnitcl
states postpaid, on receipt or Fi ccn'H Liberal
inducements 10 the trade, Agent wanted. Ad-
dress Reianger sash Lock Co, No. fs Mafkc ~,
Harrisburg. Pa.
For illustration otthis cheapest and het lock, teh
Woods Household Magazine, \. Y. ind'pt'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
That very high-minded gentleman

That very high-minded gentleman
and pugilist by birth, Mr.. Edward
O'Baldwin, otherwise the Irish Giant,
has written a letter from his gloomy
cell at Steubenville, O., asserting that
he was very unfairly treated in the late
"milI - between Campbell and Hickey,
and since the formers seconds rushed
upon him while he was STOPPING to lift
his man, Hickey, from the ground, and
beat, banged and bruised his head with
a pistol-butt, and afterward stamped
upon him. We guess he is right. He
says the once noble prize-ring has be-
come so degraded that he must abandon
it forever. A petition for his release
has been signed by 68 "of the most
prominent citizens of Steubenville.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

If we are to have immigration, let us
try to get the best, and if we make the
effort, let it be in the right direction.
Southern Farm and Home.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

=" SOapweed is the name of an
agreeable vegetable growing in Colorado
Territory How it works may be in
ferred from what happened to newly
arrived young lady who took stroll
out of Denver recently CATER walk
ing two or three miles, she felt weary
and looked around her for something to
sit down ON. Spying large bunch of
soapweed, she went to it and sat her.
self down, not gently; put with consid-
cradle suddenness. As she rose a dis
lance of about fifteen feet in the air,
Immediately thereafter, she evolved a
scream that is described by those who
heard it as regular blood-curdler.
Hereafter she will carry cushioned
camp-chair with her when she makes
excursions in the suburbs" An obese
German gentleman sat down on the
weed with some precipitation, and the
crowd, attracted by his rCars, explain
ed: 81 shoost comes out NIT mine cane
for leetle walk, unit 1 gifts pooty dam
tired, unit / shoost sits down on dot
boonch, unit mine Got in himmel! how I
gifts bit more ash dozen shnakes all to
vonce!" Soapweed is a mass of spines,
very delicate, beautiful and penetrat-
ing.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

LUNG COMPLAINTs, BRONCHITIS ASTHMA, ETC,
are speedily relieved, and If taken in time. perma-
nently cured by Or. Jayne's ENpectOraut. You
will find 1t also certain remedy for coughs and
colds.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
Value of Scientific knowledge to Far
merS

We have not the slightest doubt that
millions of dollars might have been
saved to this country if all farmers had
known that their barnyard manure con-
tanned material called ammonia, which
rapidly disappeared when that manure
was exposed tc the air and weather, but
that little ground plaster or even earth
mixed with the barnyard manure would
stop waste. 1t does not require any
great depth of study fora farmer to learn
that soda or potash put in his soil make
a combination with the sand (silica) that
causes it to dissolve, and that unless
this sand becomes soluble the stalks of
grain will not be firm and strong to hold
up the heads of ears.
1t does not require any great amount
OF brain though for farmer to remem-
Der that soda, potash and lime, when
combined with sul phuric acid, are called
s1lphates, when with muriatic acid, are
called muriates, and when with carbonic
acid carbOnates; and that all are valua-
bic to him, but that the first three will
fix the ammonia in his barn-yard man
ure, and the last>will not. We simply
bel. g We that if more science was written
for farmers in a practical and plain
manner they would make better crops.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

"A new italian opera is announced,
the scene of which is laid in the garden
of Eden. The choruses of seraphs, de-
mons, and esich" can be easily arrang-
ed. but there is much difficulty in set
Ting upon the appropriate costume for
the primal duo. The soprano insists
upon dressing Eve with yellow satin
train, and the tenor wants to wear a
purple velvet cloak and a rapier as
Adam.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

E-When Vanderbilt falls, stocks fol
low suit. He was out riding on Harlem
lane, day or two since, and his horses
becoming manageable he was thrown
out, receiving-as a New York paper
phrases it-''i injuries of an exceedingly
slight nature;'' but the rumor became
current that the commodore was badly
hut and the price of securities was
somewhat affected thereby.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

u-D nAFACn wEEK-AGENrs vANr
- 4 A-sNJNJ III. business ctIUuImte. lHllIiu
iars1cc. J. WORTH. -. Louis. 2io.. Box ai-i'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04
CIT STILL WAVES. "

spanulod Hammer "atiii waves ana yes every
reader ~ cOlumpF 20 splendid ling ln every
issue Prangs SUP .rb chrome sem Fee O. su..sfr.-
hers Can stir send hack uss fiu isf Get un club
There is nothing like %, never was, never VIII Nf
All for a. Specimens for cuL Addrc Hammer.
TfnadaIe. n II
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-04

-Mr. WandeII, IN q TectHJ ItCVufe at
Salt Lake City, speaking of little girl
who was rescued from death at the
Mountain Meadow massacre, but whose
mother was killed in that fearful slaugh-
ter, said: "She had recognized her
mothers dress on Mormon woman at
Cedar City. The child was at once sus-
pected of knowing too much to be per-
mitted to live. A council of the priest
hood was at once called, who took her
out to a convenient place, and, after
her case, doomed her to die.
A priest, who had received his endow-
ments, then seized her, dashed hePupon
the ground, with his left hand seized
her by the hair, and with the other hand
drew his knife and cut her throat
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
Advertising or Commercial Travellers,

In times like these, says the Milwau-
kee Euening Wisconsin, our merchants
more thoroughly perceive the disad-
vantages which have Injured to them by
relying solely upon commercial travel
ers. 1t has brought to them an enor-
nous credit business, much larger than
is good for them but what they want
is the cash, and that can best be OBJ
tanned by iudicious advertising in es-
tablished journals.
One fact all admit, that there is more
money in the United States now by
many millions than there was two
months ago. Every merchant who has
goods to sell appreciates the necessity
of drawing that cash from the pockets
of those who hoard it. The question
is, How can that best be done? We
think far better and with far more Ger.
tainty, by JUDIcIoUs ADVERTISING than
by legion of commercial travellers.
Some firms in this city are paying $50,
900 per annum for commercial travellers,
while $1,000 in iudicious advertising
would bring them more cash when there
is such a notorious disposition to hoard
currency.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
Yellow Fever.

The yellow fever derives its name
from the deep yellow hue assumed by
the skin of the unfortunate victim of
the disease. 1t appears to be confined
within narrow geographical limits, but
why one city should be desolated by
this scourge, and another having the
same climate escape, is a circumstance
not satisfactorily explained. Apparent
ly this terrible disease is not fully un-
derstood but obscure as are the causes
from which it originates, it is manifest
that its most violent ravages have often
occurred in localities where there is a
great lack of proper sanitary conditions.
A year or two ago Buenos Ayres was
visited by this malady, and the mortal
ity was frightful. But it soon became
known that the sewerage was very de-
fective, and the water was particularly
impure, and garbage and refuse matter
of all kinds were suffered to remain in
exposed situations until the air was
filled with pollution. The unwhole-
some conditions that surround Shreve-
port have been often mentioned since
that city has suffered so severely. Mem
phis is said to have no proper sewerage,
the cistern-water which the people
drink is unwholesome, and the streets
are not kept in cleanly condition All
these circumstances favor pestilence,
and might easily engender it. If suit
able sanitary conditions exist in any
place, an infectious or contagious dis
ease finds it hard to gain a foothold
there. The yellow fever has many pc
culiar features. Children are generally
supposed to suffer most severely from
its prevalence, and the severity of the
disease appears to vary with persons OF
different natic nalities. The Germans
and Irish seldom have it so lightly as
do the French and Spanish, while Amer
leans and the English are attacked with
medium violence. Although it is usu,
ally confined to warmer sections, New
YORK has several times been visited by
this plague, but it has not assumed al
epidemic form here for many years.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
The Prospect of Cold Weather.

Thin-bloodeI people and those not
favored with fat pocket. books will be
pleased to hear that in spite of all the
talk about the "hardness of the next
three months there isn't going to be
much of winter after all. Doubtless
there will be an occasional cold snap
between December l, 1873, and March
l, 1874, "but nothing to signify, as
sure you" The old hunters say that
the winter has not, as many suppose,
already set in; the present cold snap
being only the precursorof Indian sum-
mer. In support of 'he assertion they
cite the fact that the blackbirds and
other migratory birds have not left us;
that the muskrat houses are small and
light, indicating a late and mild winter,
and that the bass have cnly just COM
menced going up the creeks. But we
had an early and severe winter year
ago, when all of these signs were differ
ent. The wild geese visited us a month
earlier than this fall, and everything
indicated the advent of winter in earn
| est. t.-Erchanqe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
French Manners.

A recent writer on French manners
observes: "It is one of the highest
merits of the systo m that it tacitly lays
down the princil lie that all persons
meeting in the same house know each
other without the iormality of an intro.
duction. Any m n may ask girl to
dance, or may sp ak to anybody at a
private party. An ther merit of French
manners is the ge eral absence of mau-
vaise honte. If BOY drops his book at
church, he picks up without blushing.
A French woman axes off her bonnet
to arrange her ha before the glass in
railway waitil g room, without q
thought of the Pre- sence of bystanders.
In her eyes all such things are so natu-
raj, so much ma ter of course, that il
never occurs to her to make any fuss
about them"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
The PENNSYLVANIA Peace Society,

At the annual meeting of the Peace
Society of Pennsylvania, Lucretia Mott
was elected President for the ensuing
year. Resolutions were adopted
pledging the society to aid to remove
and abolish the custom of war, declar-
ing the proposed increase of the fortiti-
cations On the Delaware River extrava-
giant war measures; recommending, in
view of the present financial troubles,
the giving out of work by the Govern
ment approving of the formation of
an international tribunal of arbitration
condemning capital punishment de-
ploring the recent execution of the
Modoc Indians, and regretting that the
President yielded to the opportunities
of popular sentiment AID military
counsel; and, finally, protesting against
any act that might involve the country
in war with Spain.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
A London Street Character Dead.

Nne of the street characters of Lon
don is dead. Visitors to the English
capital may not have forgotten the nu-
merous evidences of artistic skill in
chalk which met the eye on a more than
usually clear bit of pavement opposite
the Duke of Devonshire's house in Pic.
cadilly. Exquisitely blue mackerel, an
orange or two, occasionally lemon, a
piece of willow. pattern plate, slice of
salmon, very pinky, and beautifully
devised scroll displaying most wonder
full specimens of round-hand writing.
These were usually the pretty speci,
mems of chalk drawing which were ex-
hibited on the st. James Park side
pavement Of London's fashionable thor
oughfare on summer mornings. The
exhibitor was generally cripple, who
from morning till evening engaged him
self in wearing box of chalks, touch
ing up the back fin of the mackerel OF
smoothing off the roughness from the
skin of the lemon.
Superficial thinkers, glancing at the
surface of things only, imagined that
the cripple was the drawer, and gave
him the pence accordingly, but the men
who were up to the lodges of London
street beggars knew otherwise. The
drawings were done in the night and
let to the highest bidder in the morn.
ing. The man who engaged in this sin.
gular but not Improbable occupation
of selling the copyright and author,
ship of his drawings was named Viii
liams, and bore high character fol
fair dealing among London trsmps OF
the lookout for any easy outdoor job
The drawer of the sky-blue mackeral il
dead, and the void thus created in the
ranks of London street characters vii
not be easily filed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04

APPLY THE REMEDY.-It appears that
we need no longer be tormented with
Liver, Kidney, Bladder, and Glandu-
lar diseases, Mental and Physical De-
bility, Partial Infammatory and Chron-
ic Rheumatism, Dyspepsia and Morbic
Humors of the blood. DIR. WALKER s
VEGETABLE VINEGAR BrTTERs conquers
the causes of all the above Irregularities
by securing perfect digestion, a proper
fo,O Of bile, and a free discharge of all
aUdste matter. 1t is not vile doctored
whisky, cotton up to deceive the pub
lie and tickle the palate. 1t is a medi-
cine to the sick stomach, the relaxed
nervous system, the weak circulating
blood, and the overworked, prostrated
brain. An infant may take it, and to
children affiliated with worms, and even
adults who suffer from this cause,
ignorant of the fact-and their numbers
are millions--it is the greatest remedy
of the age. Take one bottle and you
will be satisfied that this is no catch
penny nostrum.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
A California Balloon Hoax.

Balloon ascensions seem to be no
more Trustworthy in California than
they are farther east, and the marriage
in the Clouds" of which even the tele-
graph was called on to make mention,
has proved delusion, as the following,
from the San Francisco Chronicle,
shows:
cit was announced, that Professor
Lay would ascend from the City Gar
dens with his intended wife, Miss
Smith, and Justice Townsend, and,
when far above the regions of cloud
land, be united to the fair one. The
professor even went so far as to procure
marriage license, and this fact settled
many doubts in the minds of those who
were disposed to be skeptical. The re-
suit of these brilliant advertisements
was that the City Gardens were crowd
ed with men, women and children, all
anxious to witness this novel marriage
ceremony. Professor Lay was busy about
the balloon, but no lady was seen near
the 'orold.'
cat half-past 8 the huge gas-bag was
about half filed. It contained about
twenty-five thousand feet of gas, not
enough to carry up one man of ordinary
weight. Justice Townsend was on the
ground, but he evidently had no idea of
ascending. At this time it was decided
to send up the balloon; and the basket
was accordingly attached. No ballast
was placed in it, and the anchor, which
is an indispensable adjunct to bal
loon when it is intended to bring il
down again, was wanting. A hundred
men held by the nettings. The huge
gas-bag swayed to and fro in the wind.
The expectant bride had not yet appear.
ed, but Professor Lay was there, super.
intending the arrangements.
Suddenly he cried let CO. And
the men did let go. The gas-bag, with
an empty basket attached, shot up in
the air, and then the Professor cried
hold on A few men grasped the 'one.
thousand-foot rope which was just
twenty feet long, but it passed through
their fingers like red-hot iron, and the
balloon mounted to the ethereal blue al
the rate of a mile minute. That the
entire enterprise was humbug meant
to draw people to the Gardens there
can be no doubt, and so the spectators
regarded it..
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-04
How he Got his Name.

Not long ago died the Col. Russell
known in the Southwest as "Owl Rus
sell, who was once Henry Clay's pri-
vate secretary. He was a man of in
tense egotism, whose chief object in
life was to be admired and notorious.
Years and years ago, while in the Mis-
souri, Legislature, he got the Soubriquet
which clung to him all the rest of his
life, and actually carried him out of
his political career. 1t was during O
violent debate in which he had shown
an absurd pomposity, that one of his
political comrades rose and quietly told
Il little story. He said that one night
Russell, while travelling through the
woods, lost his way, and being a stran-
ger in that part of the country, became
rather nervous. While in this sorry
plight he suddenly heard voice not
far away, calling out, "Who, who, who
are you ?" The answer was loud and
prompt &c am Col. William H. Rus
sell, for many years prominent mem
ber of the Kentucky Legislature, was
School Commissioner for the southern
district of Kentucky, am now the Re-
preventative of Galloway County in the
Missouri Legislature, am spoken of as
the Whig candidate for next Congress,
and L am lost. Who are you ?" OF
course the question was repeated, and
the answer was again returned with all
its linked dignity until the audience
screamed with laughter and greeted
poor Russell whenever he dared to rise
with Who, who, who are you?" And
SO he got his name of "Owl Russell,