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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-17
To the Unfortunate.
NEW REMEDIES NEW REMEDIES!
DR.. GIBBONS DISPENSARy,


Of Sexual and Seminal Disease, such
AZ Gonorrhea, elect, Structure, syphilis in all
forms, Seminal Weakness, Impotency, etc. etc
Skin diseases Of years standing, and liberated
Legs, ETC., successfully treated
DR.. GIBBON has the pleasure Of announcing
that he has returned from visiting the principal
Hospitals Of Europe, and has resumed practice.
The Doctor has spared neither time nor money
with increased facilities for alleviating human
suffering.
Seminal Weakness.
Seminal emission IL consequence Of sci
abuse. This solitai. vice, or depraved seIua.
indulgence, is practiced by the youth of both
sexes to An almost unlimited extent. producing
with unerrlng certainty the following train OF
morbid symptoms, unless combatted by scien-
tiic medical measures, viz: Sal!ow countenance,
dark spots under the eyes. pain in the head, ring.
ing in the ears, noise like the rustling of leaves
or rafting Of chariots, uneasiness about the
loins, weakness of the limbs, confused vision,
blunted intellect, loss of confidence, difhdence
in approaching strangers, dislike to form new
acquaintance, = disposition to shun society,
loss Of memory, pimples and various eruptioni
about the face, hectic fushes. furred tongue
fetid breath, coughs, consumption, ght sweats
monomania and frequently insanity. II relief
be not obtained you should apply Immediately
either in person or by letter. and have . curt
effected by his new and scientific mode Of treat
ing disease, which never fails Of Erecting quicl
aud radical cure.
Cured mt Home.
Persons at distance may Be CURED Al
HOME, by addressing . letter to DR.. Gibbon
stating case, symptoms, length Of time the dis
! ease has continued, and have medicine promptly
| forwarded, free from damage and curiosity, e
any part Of the country, with full and plain d
| rections for use.
Persons writing to the Doctor will please stat
the name Of the paper they zee this advertise
| ment in.
By enclosing SO In coin in registered letter
| through the Postonhcs, orthrough Wells, Fargo !
/ Co., . package Of medicine will b forwardsd
| TO any part Of tho Union.
Addrees. DIR. ]. II. 0IDDON.
d11-1y Box 1887. San francisco. Cal.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-17
Utah Northern Railroad.

rI'RAINS LEAVE CoRlNNE AT 80 P. NJ;
i leave Logan at $50 =. m, to connect with
trains for Ogden and Salt Lake. au23-u
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-17
PIoCHE MARKET REPORT.
Cash Prices.

Compiled by S. AsHIx L BRo.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-17
PIPIF'AX.
TWENTY DIFFERENT HERBS,

Is due TO the researches Of learned scholar o
Europe among the archives Of the Rosicrucians
1t Ia made Of
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-06

Church which has been the foster mother OF one
humanity the creator OF our civilization and tho
generous patron of all progress.
The writer is not aware that holder speculator
in mathematics existed In the nineteenth century
than Baron Canchy. and the highest lights OF hta
no deeper thinker in the wide domain Of physics
ana chemistry than the poor, humble, chidliko
priest Pianciant no one among living men supe-
rior in the science OF solar physics than Planet
ants brother In religion the prest Seccnl ana
their every study and discovery had daily bless
Why is IL mat such men could not discover tho
irreconcilable and Innate hostility OF science 70
rehgionf
Let this much suflce for the present. Another
time It viii be well TO descend with science 70 tho
very origin OF things. Well nigh half q century oil
serious and Conscientious study OF the great PROP
only made religion IN more divine ana the faith Of
MS baptism dearer tenfold TO PRUDENTlUA
DIR. Robinson's Relation to the Brooklyn
Scandal.
TROY, N. T.. sept 2, 1874.
10 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
NY attention has been called to an article In
your paper OF September /, entined movements
OF Mrs. Tnton,n in which 1t is stated that while
at Lake Wauramang they had been accompanied
by Rev. DR.. Robinson who preached sunday at
Plymouth church, and who Is indirectly Identified
with the Beecher-Tilton diniculty.n Permit me to
correct the statement. BY chance had the pleas
ure OF being introduced to Mrs. Tiiton at the camp
OF Mr.. GuDn's school, on Lake wauramang. where
| was visiting my son, who is a member OF the
school. Taat is all. II believing with Rev. DR..
Porter OF Yale College tsee his manly, fraternal
letter to Mr.. Beecher}, that Mr.. Beecner is an In
necent man, and II loving him as friend identi.
fes me with the "difiicuity," am content TO have
1t SO; but in no other way am directly or ,4ndi-
recty iden titled" with an affair, the pubhcaton OF
which Mr., Beecher, with all his CONSCIOUSNESS OF
Innocence ioresaw would be socially demoralizing,
but which, in view OF the men he had to deal
with, he unwisey underworld TO spPpTeesnsS very
truly yours, G. r. kOBlNSON,
Pastor Second Street Presbyterian Church.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-09-06

n the wind attacks the Summit House by whole
sale. &na the visitors carry if on bJ retM In Inc
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
WOlcOtt, the Drunkard A Very
Practical Temperance Lecture.
[From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican,

[From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
1t was sad, sorry spectacle which
the passengers on the 4 o'clock train
from North Adams to Cheshire saw,
Friday afternoon-and one not without
its lesson. The early comers to the
train were met by man at the car en-
trance who introduced himslf as "John
c. Wolcott of Cheshire, the clown, often
called the fool" He was direct descen-
dant, he said, of old Oliver Wolcott, one
of the signers of the Declaration of In
dependence, and am not, he added,
Henry Ward Beecher or a thief or a rob-
Der. am only John G. Wolcott, the
drunkard." Alas, the poor fool--for
such rum had made him-and it was
truel This man in his patched trousers,
rusty coat and eminently drunken hat,
with naturally fine face drawn into a
silly pucker, was John G. Wolcott, the
eccentric, talented member of the Berk-
shire bar, and once quite we'll known as
an effective temperance orator, going to
his Cheshire home from a North Adams
drunk. Alternately during the ride he
played clown, addressed an imaginary
jury, made faces at an indignant Irish
woman who objected to his companion
ship when there were many unocupied
seats about her. A while ago there was
a demand that he be expelled from the
bar, but Wolcott very ably pleaded his
own cause at Pittsfeld, and the lawyers,
who are 10th to give up Eccentric John
Wolcott," refused to cast him out. Once
a favorite student of the late Judge Bish-
op of Lenox, John C. Wolcott dare not
now go out of town with more than rs
cents, tits said, above his railroad fare,
lest the temptation to drink overcome
him. He lives in a slovenly way, with
only boy for company, on the old
"Wolcott place." and this young man,
for whom Mr.. Bishop predicted such a
bright career years ago, cannot now be
trusted with the management of his own
property. In his sober moments he is
yet lawyer of more than average abili- |
ty, and in the little cases which are oc-
casionly given him these days, he often
displays much of his old brilliancy and |
power But "the boys" now like to see
cold john" as they call him, drunk,
and if he hasn't got any money, it is
quite fashion to treat him. Especial
ly is this true at North Adams, where |
the train officials say they have seen him
even fighting to get away from his
friends (?) who would persuade him to
make sport for them over another train
And then John C. Wolcott goes home
at last to act the clown to a carload of
disguised, pitying strangers, reeling off
at the Cheshire station to make fences |
from the Iltform- till the train disap-
pears and shuts him out, an unsighdy |
nuisance.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
A VoraciOus Plant. .

A family of plants, known as the
"sundews, or by their scientific name
"Drosera," have curiouss fy-catching
leaves, which entrap the insects which
the plant appears to require for its
nourishment. Appleton's Journal says:
can esteemed correspondent describes
this plant as consisting of a tuft of dimin-
utive orbicular leaves, from the centre
of which there shoots up, in midsum-
mer, a slender stem of inconspicuous
flowers. AS in the case of the Dionaa,
the leaves of this plant are its distln-
gushing feature. These are covered
with shining ecarler hairs, which secrete
at their tips drops of clear, viscid
fluid, resembling dew, which increase in
size and number with heat of the sun,
while real dew, under the same condi-
tions, is speedy dried up. 1t is from
this circumstance that the plant derives
its popular name of sundew. But the
design of this novel secretion is more
curious than the fact of its elaboration.
II ATTRACTS, Dy It's sweetness, llny insects
-gnats, flies, and midges-which no
sooner touch and taste the fatal liquor
than they are lost its adhesive quality
serving to hold them fast, while the de-
licate hairs, moving slowly but surely
upon the victim, fix their little points
like fangs, and suck its juices, leaving
only dry carcass. This accomplished,
they leisurely relax their hold, return to
their natural position, and there await
the approach of fresh prey, 1t has been
demonstrated that any attempt to sus-
tain these curious plants, except by fav
oring their carnivorous habits, invaria-
bly, proves futile. When these sensitive
fbres are touched with straw or bit of
paper, they refuse to respond. and it is
only when approached by their natural
food that the hairs show signs of life.
The sundews are native to the temperate
parts of both hemispheres, and are found
in sandy and marshy places"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

A Mrs. Noper has just succeeded in
stawing herself to death at Industry,
ILL.,, after a voluntary fast of forty nine
days. She was believer in spiritual
ism, and about two months ago received
an impression that she was possessed
with an evil spirit, which it was neces-
sary to starve to death. She resolutely
abstained from food and after becoming
so feeble that she was confined to her
bed, refused the most savory dishes,
which were freely offered her. During
her entire fast she claimed to be fed by
invisible hands, and that her strength
was miraculously kept up. In this be-
lief she lived seven weeks, preserving
consciousness to the last.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
The Invisible Children.

1t is not when your children are with
you, it is not when you see and hear
them that they are the most to you; it is
when the daisies have resumed their
growing again where the little form was
laid; it is when you have carried your
children out and said farewell, and come
home again, and day and night, are full
of sweet memories; it is when summer
and winter are full of touches and sug-
gestions of them; it is when you can not
look up toward heaven without thinking
of them, or look down toward yourself
and not think of them; it is when they
have gone out of your arms, and are liv-
ing to you only by the power of imagin-
alton, that they are most to you. The
invisible children are the realest chill
dren-the children that touch our
hearts as no hands of flesh can touch
them
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
CHARLEY ROSS.
Probably q Clue to the Fate Of the
Missing Child.

NEW YORK, December 1.-THE
Police Superintendent received a dis
patch from Hamilton, Long Island, this
morning, stating that William Mescher
and Joseph Douglass, burglars were shot
last night, and that Douglass, before dy-
ing, declared that Mescher knew all
about Charley Ross, the child stolen
from Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, PA, December IA
Detectives state that Mescher, one of the
two burglars shot near Brooklyn, Long
Island, last night, and accused by his
companion with being the abductor of
Charley Ross, resided prior to the alb
duction on Monroe street, near Second
street, in this city, and at that time own
ed a horse and carriage.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

Upon the arrival of the 4 o'clock P.
NJ. express train in Reading, Pennsylz
vania, on Wednesday, the car inspector,
while tapping and testing the wheels,
was astonished to find, secreted on top of
one of the wheel-trucks that supports
the body of the passenger car, a middle
aged man, who in this manner had sto-
len passage. The stranger was told
to vacate his dangerous hiding-place,
and, upon creeping out, appeared to be
cold and stiff. He stated that he had
come all the way from California, and
had travelled altogether in that matter.
Such thing is terrible to contemplate.
The only wonder is that he was not
struck dead-while telling the story.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
A Prisoner Under Life Sentence
Taken from Jail and Hanged.

CHICAGO. December 15.-A special dis
patch from Des Moines iowa, says:
"This morning, about half past o'clock,
a body of one hundred and fifty men,
disguised, entered the Jail, knocked
down the jailor, bound him hand and
foot, took the keys to the cells from his
pocket, overpowered the guards, and en-
tered the cell where Charles Howard,
the murderer of Johnson, who was yes
terday sentenced to imprisonment for
life, was confined. His wife, who was
sleeping with him, clung to him; utter
ing horrible shrieks, and it was only
with the force of half a dozen men that
Howard was dragged from his bed,
rope was placed about his neck, and he
was dragged through the halls and court
house yard to a lamppost and hung.
All the men had their faces blackened,
and were divided into squads, each do
ing its allotted work without word spo-
ken. After Howard had been fastened
70 the post the mob departed as silently
as they came. 1t is supposed that the
work was done by members of the Vigi-
liant Committee in this county, who have
been recently holding meetings, and on
Saturday, when the jury came in with
their verdict, several were seated near
the nrisonar
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
The Fall Of the Republican Party.
From the London Examiner, November Isl


From the London Examiner, November 2sI
The story is a simple one. The Re
publican party was the child of the anti
slavery agitation. In It's early day it
had no inheritance but trial, no dover
but danger. No man in America would
have entered its ranks but for the sacred =
ness of its aims. The self-seekers were
all with the party in power-the Demo-
cracy-which was the throne of slavery
In a moment ofmadness slavery toppled
over its own throne: the Republican
party stood forth as phalanx to defend
the Union, and the people gathered be-
meath its ensign and bore it to victory
Straightway every place-hunter, every
schemer abandoned the defeated for the
winning side, claimed to have been all
along on this side, assumed the front
seat in it, seized the reins. All the real
and tried friends of freedom too heed
less of all but its dazzling victory were
hustled out of sight, and the Republican
party was represented by those whose
political graduation had been among its
enemies. From President Grant, a
Democrat up to the day Of his nomina-
tion, which long seemed as likely to
come from one party as the other, down.
ward, it would be difficult to find any
official representative of the Republican
party who has ever done anything for it
in the days of its unpopularity. Such
Abolitionists as Garrison and Phillips
were forgotten Sumner, Wade and
Greeley went down to their graves be-
meath the supercilious contempt of the
eleventk-hour men who enjoyed the
fruits of their labors. One or two of
the more pliable Republicans-Chase
and Wilson-obtained reward by stoop-
ing for it but as general thing the
party was given over to men of whom
Butler is the type, men without princi-
pie, whose sole object in espousing Re-
publicanism, was to hold on to the pow
er and the gains that could no longer be
supplied by the ruined Democracy.
The salary grabs, the Credit Mobilier
corruptions, the unblushing administra-
tive nepotism, the use of public Office
for private ends, which did not even
fear to parade itself in foreign countries
these are the records, not of Repub-
lcanism, but of the parasites who swift
ly covered it and have eaten away it's
straooth
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
Governor Allen Still Looming Up.

TFrom the Toledo Democrat and Il erald]
The old chief, Governor Allen, is loom
ing MP as a cacdidate for President all
round The highly indelicate proceed
ing of Thurman and his little coterie
who got up the Columbu entertainment,
and so arranged the affair that they
could telegraph all over the country
that the Governor had called on our Sen
ator, has produced a strong feeling in
favor of the old Roman, who was treat
ed so dIscourteously by those who owed
him better treatment. The Governor
represents the whole State-the people
and their sovereignty-andi is entitled
to receive the courtesies of social civili-
ty from every other officer of the State,
whether holding Office within its limits
or representing it in the National Gov
ernment. The attempt TO give the Sem
ator precedence over our honored Gov
ernor was a shabby trick, which Will do
no good to any one connected with it.
The people are not to be shut out from
a man they love and honor and intend
to elevate by any such subterfuge
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

Another sad feature has been added to
the familiar picture of the wretched end
of Poe's life. The editor of the Balti-
more Gazette remembers the late Gener-
al Shepherd Leaken, saying he saw Poe
on the morning after the memorable
election day when he was drugged and
maltreated so heartlessly. Poe was sitt-
ing in the room to which he had been
carried from the gutter insensible the
night before. A piece of bread and a
bone of a ham had been given him for
his breakfast, and miserable, disheveled
wretched, he-sat there the bread in one
hand, the bone in the other, a most pitt
able spectacle to look upon.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

Bhang is the native drug of India and
answers to rum or whisky in this coun-
try A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from India, tells some
curious stories of the stupefying powers
of bhang. He says: 81 once fired every
chamber of six-chambered Colts re-
volver over a man drunk with bhang,
and could not wake him. A gentleman
tells ME that the effects are extraordina-
ry. A straw on the road is often magn-
nifed into huge roller, and seems a
difficult barrier to pass. So, also, in the
case of water, a small pool is magnilied
into lake"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

MAKING DEATH FAsHIoNABLE-
The giIded aristocracy of New York
have devised a means of making even
death fashionable. The only daughter
of wealthy parents, belle in society,
beautiful and good, died suddenly of
heart disease. Such a waste of good
clothes which the envious world had
never seen 1t was too bad and some
thing must be done. The pretty corpse
was rugged out in white satins and laces
looped with diamonds, bejeveled with
the barbaric extravaganza of On Orient
al despot, her hands encased in six-but-
ton kid gloves, and the full Uniform of
the salon. With music and refreshments
the exhibition was prepared for the
guests, who came in answer to 800 in
vitations. What is bred in the bone
must come in the flesh, and one genera
tion cannot eliminate the ancestral pass
ion for "an illigant wake.,'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
A Wife Sold for $500.

tFrom the Topeka (Kan.) Commonwealth
Spending last Sabbath at the quarter
ly meeting of the Centropolis Circnit,
we were informed by Mr.. Pray that Mr..
Hamilton, who has been residing in the
south part of Douglas county, lost his
wife about two years ago. Soon after he
paid special attention to niece of Mr..
Bear, who finally gave him the mitten.
He then sought the hand of Mr.. Bears
daughter, but the young lady declined
to place her affections upon him. AS a
last resort he visited Mr.. Bear and pro-
posed to give him $500 for his wife.
Mr.. Bear consented, received the money,
and left for Pennsylvania. Mr.. Ham
ilton has five children and Mr.. Bear
eight. The eight children have been
turned over to Mr.. Hamilton, according
to agreement, together with some stock
for their maintenance. Mr.. Hamilton
and his new chattels are about starting
for California.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18
The Kidnapers Found, but Too Late.

PHILADELPHIA, December 15.-The
following dispatch was received in this
city this evening:
"NEw YORK, December Is.
"To Jones, Chief of Police, Philadel-
phia
"Walter Ross identifies both of the
dead men positively. The other witness
one of them sure
[Signed] OWN. R. HAMS,
Capt Detective Police of Philadel-
phia."
The witness mentioned is Peter Call
ahan, who is employed in residence
adjoining that of Mr.. Ross. 1t will be
remem bered that he saw one of the kid
napers in the neighborhcod of the house
before the abduction took place.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

The area of the German Empire is
only 212, 900 square miles, or scarcely
four times that of Illinois, and on this
small space dwell over AZ, ,000,0 900 people,
which exceeds the present population of
the United States, scattered over twelve
times that extent of territory, and Ger
many produces enough breadstuffs and
meats for the support of her population,
and raises sufficient quantity of beets
from which to manufacture nearly all
the sugar and molasses consumed by her
inhabitants; whereas the United States,
with their great variety of climate and
soil, expend S1OO,OOO,OOO annually in
the purchase of those commodities from
tropical countries. Germany grows
most of the tobacco consumed by her
people and they are inveterate smokers.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-12-18

One reason why Count Moltke is no
more of a favorite, says an English writ
er and he is anything but popular, is
that he is an insufferable prig, and os-
tentatiously wraps himself up in man.
tie of self-conceit. 1t is told of him
that when simple Colonel he astonish-
ed the members of his mess by taking
ten Fredrich-d'or 'ors out of his pocket at
them beside his plate. Regularly after
dinner he repocketed the gold, buttoned
up his coat, looked sourly round, and
disappeared. 1t was resolved to ask him
the meaning of this strange behavior.
"Wen," he said, II have noticed that
from the time 1 entered this regiment,
the conversation at table has always turn
ed on women or cards or horse-racing and
l had determined to make present of
the ten pieces of gold to the first man
who should start sensible subject. No
man has yet earned them" Even on
congenial topics Moltke is never very
talkative, being famous for holding his
tongue in ten different languages. And
when he does open his mouth, it is
sometimes to make such extremely un-
pleasant remarks that the wonder is that
his career was not long ago abbreviated
by duel. Probably even in Germany
genius is allowed some liberty.