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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-03
PettyJohn's New FIGURING
MILL.

MY Mil situated on the Big Platte six miI4s cas-
MI of Lancaster aud IL miles northwest of platte
villeis noe in excellent running order. l have se-
cured the services of good practical miller who
has had oyar twenty years experience and am pre-
pared TO dc all kinds of work in my line on shsrt no.
tce and unreasonable rates. Give trial. Salts
faction guaranteed.
45tf @, ID PETTYJ0HN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-03
BLACKSMITH SHOP.
AT PETTYJoIIN s MILL.

r HAvEjust started a Blacksmith Shop at Petty
Johns new FIGURING Mills; II miles northwest Of
pattevile and miles east of Lancaster, and am pre-
pared to do all work in my line.
Price for work-S3,0 90 span for new shoes 20 cts
for setting .x.,-o,r
45tf JOHN RlLhlNSON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-03
observation-disclosures.

VIM McG0NIGAL, County udge.
f.ated at Lancaster, Wis, the goth day of August
A 1874. 23Wt
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

NJ. De MarcOartu believes that acOus-
tic and optical telegraphs-the former
hardly ever used at the present day,
and the la ter never-while far more
limited in their reach than the electric,
when the latter can establish its con
Quoting circuit, may be serviceably util-
lied for the purposes of oceanic tCle-
graphy. He says that an oceanic and
atmospheric telegraph system would re-
ouire fixed electric stations upou the
coast. floating stations provided with
electric apparatus fer communicating
with the coast, and with acoustic and
optical apparatus for communicating
with the sea and bodies navigating
alike in the ocean as in the air. which,
imDelled bv the waters of the former or
bv the winds of the latter, are capable
of deciphering the measure of the velOc-
itv of the oceanic aud atmospheric cur
rents. For greater utility IN navigation
and ueteOrOlogv NJ. De MarcOartU says,
the floating Geographic stations ought
20 be established upon capes, IN islands,
straits, csnals, banks, at the mouths of
rivers. and in the principal points of
massage of commercial movements and
the principal currents of the ocean
end the establishment al these floating
stations. or IuOorships, will be more or
less costly, but they will be practicable,
as well as eminently useful-at least,
they will be impracticable only at a few
exceptional points among those fire.
Cuented for purposes of navigation.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
Utilization of SILK Rags.

According to Les Mondes, one of the
wealthiest English velvet manufactur-
ers, Mr.. Lister, worked his way to suc-
cess by years of patient labor in search
of way to utilize silk rags. He began
by buying mp all such waste at less than
a cent a pound and mp to the year
1864, he had expended the immense
sum of 81, 312, 800 in fruitless efforts to
find a process. Nothing daunted, Mr.
Lister continued his experiments and
within the past ten years he has discov-
cred a way of making the fefuses into
fine velvet. He carries on this indus
try at Manningham, England, in an es-
Enlistment which employs not merely
4 600 workmen, but 285 travellers in all
parts of the globe, whose sole business
is to buy the silk waste. The factory is
said to have cost nearly IS, 900, 900.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

The Great Favorito with the Ladies'.

VIM. Forsyth, Bvnum & Son, druggists, of
Live Oak. Florida, write, Sept Is, 1874, as fol-
lows: DR.. r. V. PIERCE. Buffalo, N. Y
Your Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative
Pellets sell very largely and give complete sat
isfaction, as numbers of our customers and
friends testify with pleasure. Your Favorite
Prescription is indeed the great favorite with
the ladies. and numbers can say with Joy that
it has saved them from eking out q mi4erable
life or meeting with premature death, and re-
stored them to health and happiness"
Thousands of women bless the day on which
DR.. Pierce FavOrite Prescription was first
made known to them. single bottle often
gives delicate and suffering women more re-
lief than months of treat ent from their
family physician. In all those arrangements
causing back-ache, dragging down sensations
nervous and general debility, it is a sovereign
remedy. It's soothing and healing properties
render it Of the utmost value to ladies' suffer
ing from internal fever, congestion, iufiamma-
ton or liberation, and its strengthening eff
fects tend to correct displacements of internal
parts, the result of weakness of natural sup
ports. It is sold by all druggists.
DR.. Pierce's pamphlet on Di eases peculiar
to Women will be sent to any address on re-
ceipt of two stamps. Address as above.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
IKIIIing Fish.

Fishermen in some parts of Europe
and of this country kill fish with knife
or bludgeon as soon as they are taken
from the water, because fish thus killed
are found to be better than those which
have long gasped and struggled before
dying. The Dutch, for instance, de-
strOy life by making a slight Longitude
nal incisiOn under the tail with a
sharp instrument. On the Rhine they
kill salmon by thrus'ing a steel needle
into their heads. Fish may be easily
killed by striking them a quick, sharp
blow with a small stick on the back of
the head just behind the eyes, or by
taking them by the tail and striking the
head quickly against any hard sub
stance
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
Water.

1t is not generally known that pound
ed alum possesses the property of puri
flying water. A tablespoonful of pull
ver1zed alum sprinkled into a hoeshead
OF water, the water stirred at the time,
will, after the lapse of a few hours, by
precipitafing to the bottom the impure
particles, so purify it that it will be
found to possess nearly all the freshness
and clearness of the finest spring water.
A pailful containing four gallons may
be purified by single teaspoonful.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
Give the Child a Light.

If child wants light to go to sleep
bv give it one. The sort of Spartan
firmness which walks off and takes
away the candle and shuts all the doors
warmth and the pleasant stir of evening
mirth, and leaves little son or daugh-
ter to hide his head under the bed
clothes and get to sleep as best it can,
is not at all admirable. Not that the
mother means to be cruel, when she
tries this or that hardening process, and
treats human nature as if it were clay
to be moulded into sny shape she may
please. Very likely she has no idea
whatever of the injury aud suffering
she causes, or perhaps her heart aches /;
bat she perseveres, thinking she is do
ing right,
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Seed House of David Landreth &, Son.

1t is pleasant to note the fourishing fall
trade doing by this long established firm, in
the midst of dull times In the prevalent
stagnatlon, enterprise has the field almost
without competitors. So determined are the
Landreths to secure, as usual, a large share of
the approaching years business that they have
now nine of the fast steam presses Of Nc Gala
6 SdUely, diligently at 1rOrb, printing their
" Rural Register for 1875. This has never
before occurred in the history of their house.
The - Rural Register" is furnished without
charge to all who use Landreths' seeds-and
who do not PhilGdelpbia Commercial List
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
Geo. Francis Train breaks silence

Geo. Francis Train breaks silence
by donating 400 acres of Omaha town
lots to the city of Omaha for a public
park. Mr.. Trains sole conditions are
that the city assume certain mortgages
and takes en- indebtedness of about
$50,0G0, now due, and that there shall
be no vote of thanks, monumental COM
pfiments, or any nonsense of that sort.
Mr.. Train naively explains that he con-
siders property unsafe to hold in thes @
communistic times-not too heavy, but
simpIy unsafe
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

THE LATEST TRIUMPH OF TEMPERANCE.
We congratulate the temperance world
on the success everywhere attending the
use of Vinegar Bitters. Certainly no
preparation containing alcohol has &C
complished such cures of malarious
fever, biliousness, dyspepsia, rheuma-
tism, lung complaints, constipation, and
general debility, as we hear of from all
quarters, as the results of this famous
vegetable specific. No true philanthro-
pist will regret to see spirituous liquors
expelled from medical use, if they can
be safely dispensed with and that they
are not necessary in any case of sick
ness, whatever it's character, appears at
last to have been demonstrated. If
public opinion is capable of making
any impression upon the minds of the
faculty, they will ere long introduce
the most popular of the modern medi-
cines into the hospitals, and prescribe
it in their practice. The millions have
given the article a fair trial it has
more than answered their expectations,
and no theoretical opposition can shake
their faith in it.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

DE. WIsHAET. Philadelphia: Dear Sir-D During
a visit 10 Fhiladelp hia. some three years ago
WIS suffering fiOm severe cold and was Induced
take a bott'c OF your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, which
han the effect of curing me In few days. I have
used II in my family ever since, and am OF h
opouon that IL dyed the life OF my daughter
who suffering from severe and painful
cous h. # the publication Of this Will be OF any
service. you are 1t liberty to use Il
Yours respectfully, JONI HODSETT,
81. Louis No.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

Now is the time to buy presents for
Christmas. Combine beauty and utility, and
give your gentleman friends carton contain
ing one hundred EImwOod Collars. They Will
last him some time. and he will think of You
with pleasure every time he puts on one.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

COLUMBUS discovered America, but it
has been found that the only economical shoes
for children are the celebrated SILVER TIP
PED. Never wear out at the toe, and are
worth two pairs without Tips. AL dealers sell
fhann
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
A walking Advertisement.

LIMESTONE SPRINGS, s. G.
DR.. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sri am walking advertisement for
your Golden Medical Discovery, Purgative
Pellets and DR.. Sages Catsrrh Remedy they
having cured me of catarrh of nine years
standing, which was so bad that it disfgured
my nose, and, while curing it, your medicines
also cured me of asthma in it's worst and most
aggravated form. Before using your medi-
cines l had become reduced in flesh from one
hundred and fifty-fve to one hundred and if-
teen pounds, and l now weigh one hundred
and siXty-two pounds, and am in better health
than have enjoyed for twenty years.
Yours truly J. l.. LUlIsDEN.
The above is but fair sample of hundreds
of letters which are received by DR.. Pierce,
and in the face OF such evidence who can
longer doubt that the Doctors medicines cure
the worst cases of chronic catarrh
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
PRoBABIY no one disease is the cause

PROBABLY no one disease is the cause
of so much bodily misery and unhappiness
land the disease is almost universal among
the American people, as dyspepsia It's causes
are many and various. lying chiefly in the
habits of our people. The remedy Is simple
and effectual. Use DR. Wishart's Great Amer
lean Dyspepsia Pills. They never fail to cure.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
OPTICS MAGAZINE, 1875.

Now Is the time 40 Subscribe The New
Volume viii contain New Stories By Oliver Optic,
Elijah Kellogg aud others besides many new fea
lures. ali Of viii h are duly set forth IN our pros
pectus TIE ms s8.O per year, IN advance. bpeci-
men number MALE free on appl cation.
Lee q sH EPARD, PubllAhers. Boston.
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PLAYING it on an Old Man.

The Cincinnati Saturday Night has
the small pox joke in a new form /:
Yesterday morning a nice young man
got into car on the Dayton Short-line
railroad, and saw to his delight the only
vacant seat in the coach was by the side
of young lady acquaintance. He
reached for the seat with joyous strides,
and her eyes answered his delighted
looks; but just before he got there, an
elderly party from the other end of the
car waltzed up the aisle and dropped
into the coveted seat. The young man
approached more slowly and accosted
the young lady. How is your broth
er? he asked 9 is he able to get out? >
Oh yes she said. will he be very
badly marked p he continued and the
old gentleman grew suddely interested.
ooh no, said the fair deceiver; with
the exception of few small pits on his
forehead, you would not know he had
ever had it. Were not you afraid of
taking it?' the young man went on,
while the old gentleman broke out in
cold perspiration. Not at all, she re-
piled Il had been vaccinated, you
know The seat was vacated instantly,
two young hearts beat as half a dozen,
and the prattle of mice talk strewed
that part of the car, while a gray haired
old mau scowled upon them from the
hard accommodation Of the wood-box, "
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
Consump,ion tor len Years cured.

DR. l.. q. a. WIsuART: Dear Sir-I am grAtafu
to vOu from the fact that YOU have made medi
cine that Will cure the disease Of the lungs. Ay
wife has tad the consumption for year .
Physicians had told me that they could on patch
her up for the time beng. She was confined to
her bed, and had been for some time. | heart OF
your Pine Tree Tar CO'dial and secured one bot
lie il TelieN ed her CSlgh. she has now finished
the fourth bottle and Is BILE do the work for her
family and may God speed you on with your
great discovery ana cure you have made for con
sumption Rev. r. n. II, .PKINR,
Jackson Centre. Shelby "a. nhIo.
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WISHART'S
PINE TREE TAR CORDIAL.

TT Is now fteen years since the attention Of the
i public was first called b. DR., l.. q G. Wishart
to this wonderful remedy and so well has Il stood
the tps Of { me, that TO day u not only mas tLe
confidence Of the entire community, but Is more
ii than any other pTOpri, tary preparation ia the
country. II is the vital principle OF the Plne Tree
obta!ned by a peCu lar process In the dstillaon OF
the Tar, by which its highest medicinal properties
2 e relaine . For the following complains, IN.
famma;On OF the lungs, coughs, sore throat aud
breast, bronchitis, consumption, liver compliant
weak stomach, disease OF the kidneys, brlnATy
complaint. nervous debility, dy, pepsia ana dls-
eases arising from an Impure condition OF the
blood, there Is no remedy la the world ihat mas
been used 50 successfully Or can show such a NUN
Der of marvellous Curt s. The following VIII serve
to show the estimation I'm which this sovereign
remedy is held by those who have usel Il.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

DIR TUFTS PILLS cures dyspepsia and its $3.50
ciste disorders. Sick headache, costiveness, piles,
liver complaint, iaundice dropsy, bilious fever and
diseases
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18
TR.y1NG ON THE RooTst

soon ait r"at - -le another letter, as follows;
- De1T SU- Ny little boy mas examined the
specimen numbers which you sent him, has TIED
the boots on, and likes the hit so please send him
the YOUNG FOLKS Nav for one year.
FRFDDIEs FATHER"
Send three-cent stamp for specimen copy.
Try on the boots dTSt They are sure to fit Price.
only Sl,25, and warranted TO last for one year,
with han isOme chrome given d" 10 boot The
paper for one year postage paid and the choice OF
Jour chromoS, S1.25. or The paper. with either
chron llOtUnffd, SI.5Ot with ttBO Chromos
mounted SI.75; or With four chromos mounted
S2.25. Mounted chromos are ready for framing.
Send a three cent stamp for Specimen NtfUibcr.
ALFRED MARTtES Publisher.
q outh Seventh street, Philadelphia.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-18

DIR. j. walkers California Ntns
egar BitterS are n purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges Of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Caliior-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted thcrcfrom without the use
of Alcohol Tho question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause Of tho
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BTT-
TERS?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health They are the great
blood purifier and lile-giying principle,
a perfect Renoyator and lnyigorator
of the system. Never before IN tho
history Of the world has % medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of YINEGAR BIrrERs in healing the
sick Of every disease man b. heir 10. They
are a gentle Purgutive a. well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation OF
the Liver and Nisccral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases
The properties Of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTEFS are Apuricut. Daphoreuc,
CHnmmuHvc, Nutritious, Laxative, Ourehc,
Sedatiye, Counter-l r-tant. Sudorihc, Altern~
tive, and Anti Bilious
Il. NJ. MCDONALD - CO..
Druggists and Gen. A rts san Francisco California,
and cor. OF Washington aud Charlton Sta. n. Y.
sold by all Druggists - nd Dealers.
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THE WEEKLY SUN. iad s5ss; ssnii sas:i
and fearless newspaper. OF IS 1rOad cOlun"s, % =
cially designed for the farmer, the mechanic, the
merChan and the prOfe slOnal man, and th-lr
wives and children. We aim to make the week
lY Sun the best 70 mily Newspaper IN lhe WoIlu,
II In full OF entertaining and instructive ftlaluk o
every sort but prints nothing 70 offend the most
scrupulous and delicate taste. Price Si,SO PsT
year. postage prepaid. The cheapest papei puo-
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Go TO Riverside Water Cure, Hamilton, III.
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WATER WHEELS. he Rochester Turbine
w Is now the iavOTlte. New price list free ROCh.
ester Turbine Wafer Wheel Co, Rochester, N. Y.
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A GENTS WANTED-Men and women, S34 a
"A week or 500 forfeited. The ssc5 et free. Write
at once to IOWEN g. co, Sth street. New York
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SEOS PER DAY commission or $40 a week
AZ ASD salary, and expenses. We offer il and will
pay it. Apply now. G.Wehber&CO, Marion o.
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Use Of Superphosphates.

The farmers of western New York
are reporting very favorably on their
trials of superphOsphates used on wheat,
barley, oats, grass, potatoes anu turn
FPS. Samuel d. Otis, of Sherwood,
who has not only used them for seven
or eight years on his farm, but bought
hundreds of tons for his neighbors, in
forms the Country Gentleman that a
good superphOsphate will carry out
three crops well, or one of grain and
two of grass. He uses it on all crops,
and finds it to pay largely, often in
creasIDg the wheat crop ten bushels per
acre, and when the land is poor, much
more. The past summer he moved
sixty heavy loads of hay on twenty
seven acres. There is but little dimin-
ution in the grass the second year. On
poor land, his phosphated barley gave
thirtv-four and half bushels per acre.
B. F. Beatty, of Sherwood, has fur
nished interesting details of his expert
ments and observations for eight years
on different soils, and with different
crops, and the varying degrees of sac
cess which have attended the use of
this fertilizer. Much benefit has been
derived from drilling it in with winter
wheat at the rate CT 200 pounds per
acre, but he finds less benefit to spring
crops. On corn, its effects are nearly
lost, unless manure has been plowed
under. 1t gives the corn a start, but if
there is nothing to keep up the growth,
its benefit is slight, unless it be to cause
early ripening.
More than a Thousand tons of this
fertilizer are annuf lily used in Cayuga
county alone, at cost of fifty dollars
a ton. The return is estimated at from
500 900 to $3.50 900.
Josh Billings was asked, Glow fast
does sound travel ?" His idea is that it
depends a good deal on the noise you
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Josh Billings was asked, Chow fast
does sound travel ?" His idea is that it
depends a good deal on the noise you
are talking about. 1.-THE sound of a
dinner horn, for instance, travels half "a
mile IN a second. while an invitation
to get mp in the morning have known
to be three quarters of an hour going up
two pair of stairs, and then not have
strength enough left to be heard"
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| HEc con per day at home. Terms free Address
! WJEWEu GEO. STINsON a. Co. Portland Maine
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BE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK

Offers and will give 10 every subscriber, Whel Der
single or in a club who pays In advance for 1875.
and RENTS direc 10 this office,
A Copy of 1.-THE RESCUE"
The haBdsomest chrome ever offered. For crcu-
lar, containing terms etc address l. A. Cooley,
y. Z. Cor sixth d Chestnut ts., Philadelphia. Pa.
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CINCINNATI WEEKLY STAR!
Including Posfage. and the Finely uInstrated

ANTI-MOEOPoLY-THE CHANGERS PAPER
Containing eight large pages of readi & matter.
The farmer m reliant and mechanic in any part
of the country will find this the best of the Week
lies, to say n Ithing of he low price Agents are
offered Inducements superior to anything here o
fore attempted Specimen copies free. Address
s. THE STA X >" Cincinnati Ohio.
Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-06-02
Come to u at Last.

The Philadelphia Al Day city Hcm, edited by
oae of the most consistent Republicans in PhlA-
drphia comes square down TO Thad Stevens
aud Summers doctrine III the following;
"Let the average Democrat compose his disor
dered feelings. hc need not ask the colorcd man
To dinner or make him his son-in-law, or marry
the colortd woman, unless he be exceedingly
ANXIOUS to do so. Ii the average Depocrat have
al irresiatabls inclination to anything oi tue knu
why should the law obstruct him!"
The great aim of the Radical party IN this
State is to secure the repeal of what Its leaders
term "the Black Code" That means, Of course,
the law prohibiting whites and negioes to marry.
In Pennsylvania there may exist laws Of the
same kind. Iu one of the northwestern States
where low northern white women who could not
get white men to marry had emgrated, a law
has recently been passed forbidding marriage be-
tween whites and negroes. They had by expert
ence found that the old laws of the land were the
work iof experience, and that restraint OF mar
rage between whites and blacks was as neces-
saIy now as it was in the early days of the Re-
public.