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Lumber! Lumber !! {!
BY SIMON A. WELLER, Mechanics
town, Md.

The subscriber has opened LUMBER
YARD in this place Ms a convenience to
the public. He will sell all kinds of Ium-
Der on reasonable terms; )NE PRICE
alone will DO asked.
cy When large bill is purchased a
reasonable deduction will be made
White Pine Boards and Barn Boards OF
all sizes kept on hand.
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Window and Door
Frames, etc. mndc to order at short notice.
Give me call
may 30.3ws SIMON A. WELLER.
WI :. 80 ! q
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d f MOV E D.
MILTON G. URNER,

Alto RNET A T l. A n,
Has removed to his New Office. immediate
" West of the Court House. adjoining the
Law Offices of Messrs. VIM. J. and G. w.
Ross.
Frederick, may 16.,s.
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THOR SALE AT PRIVATE sALE!-
THE OLD PAPER MILL
PROPERTY,

AAG VIII Al MN MILL
PROPERTY,
Hampton Valley. near Emmitsbmg
Maryland.
formerly carried ON by Patrick Owings
Esq. and adjoining land Of Capt John X
Taylor and others.
Recently occupied ~ Store House. 1t il
IRA a STONE HOUSE, with good
gsssI garden and stable, and excellent
- Spring Of pure mountain water
Il Ia . good stand for 4 country store
Any person wishing 70 view this propeert.
can coli on Michael Stouter, residing
thereo n. The subscriber il acting a. agen,
for N. Keller, and persons wishing 10 pur.
chase will call OH him at Emmitsburg, who
will make known terms.
LEWIS A. +. BAKER.
April ls-6w
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s Ice Cream

WILL constantly be kept on hand At
w the Big Brick House on En-
mitsburg street, near the Engine House
pure and good, the best of the best from
Owings' mills.
may 16-4w JOHN LOIIR.
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AGENT.

l have made arrangements by which l
can furnish almost any kind of Machinery
At the lowest price, and beg that M
trends will purchase through me.
march l4-tf
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Transient BOaralel.s.

IL ESeAAS1VAG 1DO1SA01CASs
and SUMNER BOARDERS from the
cities during warm weather The locality
is airy and delightful, good water and +
quiet abode free from tho noise and hustle
Of town or city.
tE- The rooms ar" airy, clean and well
furnished. The house is new and in good
repair.
The TABLE will be furnished in good
style. with all the substantials and drlca
cies Of tho season.
~ Persons from Baltimore or other
large cities vii! find il a pleasant place t."
larry during the warm season.
CT 1t il directly on tho line Of tho West
crn Maryland Railroad, easy Of access.
Terms for board reasonable apply soon.
MARTIN &. OVERlIOLTZEis.
Proprietor.
April 25.4w*
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TUST received a beautiful assortment Of
u LADIES WHITE DRESS GOODS
at ROOT GROFFS
may l6.4w
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FREDE RICK WHIT L,
Justice OF the Peace md Col
lcctOr,
WILL. attend to all business entrusted t.
him with promptness and fidelity.
tn Office for the present in DR.. Whites
Office near the Square.
Nechanicstown, Md. July. 12.tf
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e. e. r.
hDWAYS READY RELIEF

II. r.. II.
@DWAYS READY RELIEF
CURES THE WORST PAINS
In from One to Twenty Minutes.
NOT ONE HOUR
Ansr rssiins this Advertisement need Any one
SUFFER- WITH PAIN.
AAOVAr' RsAR Rvrs sFlE FIN is 4 CURE ZOE
twas tho nrst and 10
Tho Only Pain Remedy
innammaioni, ana cures COMPOSITIONS whether OF ito
LHns. ,omach. Bowels. or other glands or organs. BY
INFRoN oNR TO TWENTY MINUTES.
sasvnsr SST psns or Il; n N:
Neuralgia, or Frustrated with disease may safer.
RAILWAYS READY RELIEF
nr1AxI T5h s 81 TRH Ef EEbsEy EASE
INFLAMMATION - Tak sSSsSs H. ~. ,rsa.
SORE THROAT. DlFficgGT akEA SaIkSs 100
uYsrza1cs cnouF.A bfFTAI!st OF THE hsAS.
nrADAcus, rooruAcuEc A1Akhh. lSfIOLS-A
COLD CHILLs, AGUE CHILLS
The application ofthe Ready Rcliefto the part or
parts where the pain or difficulty exists will afford sase
ngs'G R ssf s&ss g soSs NJ
inl :. sIHss GqL FxrS KsD THE
ways ReaSS as;sE drop:
water Will prevent sickness pains from change Of
Eater It's better than French Brandy or Btters a.
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Kitl.,ev &C. Bladder Complaints,
DR. RAILWAYS
Observation-Disclosures

Ss-fseuv tAsteleis elegantly coated with sweet gum
yurkr, yssuls, E'rify, cleanse and strengthen Rad.
rays Pills fos r OF all disorders Of the Stomach.
,iy,r io.rlk E,dnsys, Bladder. Nervous Dists.es,
nraaaae c". ;p.tion, Costivsns's Indigestion, Dys
S.psls BIii-f ! Bilious Fever, Inflammation " tho
rosvl. +, r- ! Eh arrangements Of the Internal
Nr.csra wtrt. 1T 10 oHaet positive cure. Purely
eeabs. t"nAn ING no mercury. minerals or delstert
c1M drugs
1. nj from ~ na.,lp disorders Price ~ GENTS
re Re-, -',,.J III !.t.;iit;lSTS.
AEAD "rAh.t AHi lRTE", Sond one letter
i NJ: :. ''i," go a rairds viii I've sent you.
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THE GREAT REMEDY FOR

THE GREAT REMEDY FOR
c0NSU lj MPTl OF
which can be cured by a
timely resort to this stand
ard preparation, as has been
proved by the hundreds Of
testimonials received by tho
proprietors. 1t is acknowl-
edged by many prominent
physicians to be the most
reliable preparation ever in
troduced for the relief and
cure of all Lung complaints,
and is offered to the public,
sanctioned by the experience
of over forty years. When
rcsortcd to in season it sell
dom fails to effect a speedy
cure in the most severe
cases of Coughs, Bronchitis,
Group, Whooping Cough,
Influenza, Asthma, Colds,
Sore Throat, Pains or Sore
ness in the Chest and Side,
Liver Complaint, Bleeding
at the Lungs, &c. Wistar's
Balsam does not dry up =
Cough, and leave tho cause
behind, Us is the case with
most preparations, but it
loosens and cleanses the
lungs, and allays irritation,
thus removing the cause of
the complaint.
PREPARED Br
Sch ". F0WLE + SONS, Boston, xass.,
And sold BY DruSgists and Dealers generally.
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II 1YIU

II o YI q ~
TO OUR FRIENDS, CUSTOMERS
AND THE PUBLIC GENERAL
LY.
4 FTER mature reflection have con-
~ clud-'l that the only way u do bust
T 1css successfully il upon CASH basis;
Consequently will sell goods
Q.NLT EQR CASE.
From February LIST, 1873.
buy for Cash and know IL i sell for
Cash ! will loose nothing, therefore.
can and will sell Goods considerably lower
,iian those Who sell for credit.
Cash buyers are invited 10 give me call
ADnty Saesd i N.ney Made.
will at all times have on hand full
| Stock Of Goods in our line which will be
sold 3. the lowest net Cash prices
Thankful for past favors 7 solicit con.
t!m,ance oftlc same, believing the change
| have made will he advantageous to our
customers az well rs ourselves.
Very Respectfully.
GEORGE W. STOCKSDALE.
y. bah orders not paid for when
given, will be collected ny our driver when
the Goods are delivered, as our terms will
ne positively CASH.
dec Ell If
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Who wouldn't like to he an icicleo
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-10
Grant Before Richmond.

Auguste Laugel, in an elegant essay on Charles
Sumner, in the Rerue deS Deur MOndeS, tho most
polite periodical of Europe, relates an anecdote of
Grant which is characteristic. NJ. Laugel being
on a visit to this country at the time Grant was
in charge of the military operations before Rich
mond, desired to make a trip to the front, and to
enable him to crafty this desire Mr.. Sumner, who
was a personal friend, gave him q letter to Grant.
What followed NJ. Laugel relates as above men
toned. We give the New York Tri5une'S trans
lation of the anecdote:
Gen. Grant is cold and silent; he had ordered a
tent to be given me at his headquarters, but dur
ing my brief stay | never saw him except at din
ner, which was as short as it was frugal. Hardly
a word was spoken. / remember that one day
one of the staff spoke Of an attack to be made at
the mouth of a river, and said that the bar at low
tide had 10 feet of water on it. Grant raised his
head; 'eighteen feet" said he; and everybody
held his tongue. When l was ready to depart, /
gave notice the day before, az the rule was. That
day, after dinner, the General, who usually re-
tired at once to his tent, did me the honor to ask
me to take q short walk with him.. 1t was almost
evening, in the month of January. "You brought
me a letter from Sumner" said he. 81 don't
concern myself with politics, but they say in the
newspapers that / belong to the Democratic party.
You may say to Sumner that l am, before every
thing, the servant of the Union and of the Gov
eminent; that for his friends, and especially for
him, l have no feeling but esteem. He does his
work in the Senate; | am doing mine, as well as
l can, here, and | hope we shall soon be in Rich
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About the Potato.

Our common potato belongs botanicaliy % a
very suspicious order of plants, and 10 Is well Tor
the admirers Of the tu5crs not TO inquire very
closely into its family relations. The knowledge
that the potato is first cousin to such plants as
tobacco, belladonna, hcnbane, nightshade, etc,
all Of them deadly narcotics, might trouble the
sensitive nerves Of some lovers Of the delicious
vegetable. Is the potato plant poisonous? Ger
tainly il is. The stem, foliage, and fruit contain
the same poisonous principles as henhanc, and
cannot be consumed as food without disastrous
consequences. Fortunately the underground
branches are free from injurious substances, If
they are entirely covered with garth. But what
is meant by underground branches? We mean
the tubers themselves, for they arc nothing but
subterTanean portions Of the plant structure, and
are not roots. A potato Isl vegetable monstrosity,
an abnormal production, which is extraordinary
in every particular. Tn tuber is o branch Of tho
plant which takes 10 the ground, and its growth
becomes arrested and thickened, forming a knot
or bunch which consists largely OF pure starch.
If 4 portion of this underground branch pushes
it's way out Of the soil. the epidermis assumes a
green color, and then il becomes, like the above
ground branches, poisonous. The green potatoes
which are found growing half exposed 70 air and
sunlight in our fields should be rejected, as they
are totally unfit for human food. The potato has
true leaf buds, or scars (the parts called the eyes),
and in this respect esemble the stem. We can
cut out these eyes or leaf buds, and from them
propagate the plant, each eye growing and pro-
ducing an Independent structure. These facts
should lead us 10 understand that the subteranean
portions of plants are not always roots.
The potato in its early cultivation met with
strange vieissitudes. and great opposition. The
stern old Puritans opposed it's cultivation, and
denied its lawfulueSs rs an article of food, because
the plant was not mentioned in the Bible! Sir
Walter Raleigh carried the plants to England
from this country in 1886, and put them in has
garden. His gardener thought the green potato
apples were the potatoes, and expressed his disgust
to his master at such products. He was told to
pull up the weeds and throw them away. In
doing so he found the true potatoes, more than
a bushel in quantity, and he hurried back to Sir
Walter in a very happy humor, to show him the
sample and make known his discovery. So late
as l725 it was only cultivated in gardens in
England and Scotland. During q period of more
than one hundred and fifty years after Sir Walter
introduced il into ireland, it failed TO rise supe-
rior to the prejudices of English cultivators. This
is a singular history indeed.
A plant SO nutritious, whose culture is adapted
to almost every soil and climate, must be regarded
as among the choicest gifts of Providence, and
one that is destined to hold its place in the esti-
nation of millions of people so long as time
continues,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-10
What Mr.. Morton Reminded Nj. Jones Of.
Piatt, in the CaPi,AI.l

81 think" l said, Morton stuck on the word
.dOctrinaire; = it had such a dreadful sound to
him. HE reminded me- responded the Sena-
tor, - of a queer character we once had in Nevada,
By the nam OF Pokebury. lie was a lawyer of
some prominence, but came to nothing through
drink. Losing all his clients, he went to mining,
and joined a rough miner named SpOkes. At the
end Of a week POkesbury appeared in town with
4 black eye, a swollen nose and lacerated gar
merts. OF course We were anxious to know all
about it. We'll, you see, said he, Billy and l
were partners, and l like Billy, for he's a we'll
r1eaning man for an uneducated man. But Billy
ana I dissolved partnership; we settled and struck
-lcastwise We struck each other, and Billy set
t.et. Our first little difference was Of an astro-
DOmical character. We divided the day different.
Billy divided on 8 A. n, and | divided l. on 10 A. N,
and Billy, instead Of allowing for astronomical
difference, said l was a lazy dog. But l didn't
mind that, for Billy was my partner, you see, and
had a right TO his views. Then we differed on
ablution. Billy abluted before breakfast, and
said l was a dirty dog, for you see | always ablute
after breakfast. But / didn't mind that, for peo-
pie will differ, and. so long as the difference don't
affect business, what's tine odds? But the third
difference was Just q little too much for me. We
were sitting down to beans and slapjacks, and
Billy blowing about my being a greedy dog, when
suddenly the fellow said 20 me, I'D thank YOU
for those mOlasses.' This was too much-nO
man can say those mOlasses' ~ me and live, and
/ Just took him in the cOuntenance with a right
handler, that settled him and the damned insult
ing grammar together. That's tie way we dis
solved. I'm in town, and l guess Billy will be
here in a couple Of weeks. And so. continued
tire Senator, " Morton stuck or d5c,r.naire."
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allowed upon the joint assent Of the exhibitor and
the Director General; but views Of portions or
the building may be made upon the Director-Gen-
erals sanction.
Immediately after the close Of the Exhibition,
exhibitors shall remove their effects, and complete
such removal before December 81, 1876. Goods
then remaining will be removed By the Director
General and sold for expenses, or otherwise dispos-
cd Of under the direction Of the Centennial Com
mission.
Each person who becomes an exhibitor thereby
acknowledge and undertakes 10 keep the rules
and regulations established for the government Of
the Exhibition.
Special regulations will be issued concerning
the exhibition Of fine arts, the organization Of in
ternational juries, awards Of prizes, and sales OF
special articles within the buildings, and on other
points not touched upon in these preliminary IN
structions.
Communication concerning the Exhibition
should be addressed 10 "The Director-Geucral
International Exhibition, 1916, Philadelphia,
Pa, L. >. A."
The Centennial Commission reserves the right
to explain OF amend these regulations, whenever
1t may be deemed necessary for the interests of the
Exhibition. 4. T. GOSHORN.
joins l.. CAMPBELL, Director General
Secretary.
PHILADELPHIA. July 4. 1874.
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Death from Smoking.

The following sad warning is put on record by
the New York correspondent of the Buffalo Com
meTcidi Advertiser
The use of tobacco is bad enough when begun
in mature life, but it is infinitely worse when the
foundations of the habit are laid in early years,
as it seems to have been the case here.
A case in my own intimate acquaintance has
this very week appalled, a large circle of friends
in this city. The victim was exactly my own
years, and a companion from early childhood.
For thirty years, at least, he has been a daily
smoker of the choicest cigars, but in all his othef
habits temperate and regular, and of excellent
constitution-one who Of all men would have
laughed at the suggestion that tobacco was kill
ing him.
with a progressive paralysis, characteristic Of
nicotine, and on Sunday night he died.
His death was most pitiful. First, sight was
lost, then speech, then motion of the neck, then
motion Of the arms, and so on throughout the
body, and he lay for a fortnight unable to move
or make a sign, save a pitiful tongueless, ~inartic-
ulate sound, which sometimes almost rose to
~franctic effort, all in vain, to make known what
he wished to say to his family or friends-for his
consciousness and mental faculties were left I'M
impaired till within two hours of the last, to
aggravate to the uttermost the horror of his stu
ation-a living soul in a dead body.
The sense of hearing was left unimpaired, so
that he was conscious of all around him, while as
incapable of communication with them as if dead,
save by a slight sign Of assent or dissent to a
question. The doctors were fully agreed that
tobacco was the cause of the stroke.
NAfter a years consideration and discussion, the
american Medical Association, at its recent meet
ing in Detroit, passed the following strong
Resolved, That in view of the alarming pre-
valence and i'll effects of intemperance, with
which none are So familiar as members of the
medical profession, and which have called forth
from English physicians the voice of warning to
the people Of Great Britain concerning the use Of.
alcoholic beverages, we, as members Of the med
ical profession of the United States, unite in the
declaration that we believe that alcohol should
be classed with other powerful drugs that when
prescribed incidentally, it should be done with
conscientious caution and a sense of great respons-
Utility.
Resolved, That we are of the opinion that the
use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage is productive
of a large amount of physical and mental disease;
that it entails diseased appetites and enfeebled
constitutions upon offspring; and that It is the
cause of a large percentage of the crime and
pauperism in our large cities and country.
Resolved, That We would welcome any change
in public sentiment that would confne the use Of
intoxicating liquors to the uses Of science, art,
medicine.
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FIGHTING Poison WITH PoIsoS.-As an ~illustra-
ton of the power of one poison to counterfeit an
other in the human system, a recent case in this
city furnishes a highly important and interesting
instance. We give the statement as related to US
by DR.. Harris, who was called to the relief of a
would-be suicide, and who administered the sue
cessful antidote. The person had taken between
forty and fifty grains of opium, and was fast
dying. He could no longer swallow, his ex-
tremities were cold and had turned black, while
his respirations only numbered between six and
seven to the minute. This last of itself seemed
to indicate that all hope was gone, as anything
less than eight respirations a minute had hereto
fore been known as a sure precursor OF death.
As a last resort, the doctor determined to try
heroic treatment, and he accordingly, with a
syringe, injected two-thirds of a
drachm of nux-vomica dissolved in a teaspoonful
of water beneath the skin over the heart, stomach,
spine, and on each arm above the elbow, and the
eft each leg. The quantity Of nuz-vomica
would have been the death of any well man in
existence, but in antagonism to the opium 1t was
IN this seemingly hopeless case an agent Of life,
md in fifteen minutes the man was sitting up IN
bed, conscious, and rapidly Tecovering.-AH'sTi-
cG paper. .
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The great fact should be mace prominent that
the United States, strong enough financially to
borrow hundreds of millions at FIVE per cent. has
actually promissory notes floating about and
quoted at GIG cents in the loo. The Boston
Journal Of Commerce says that We can pay them
to par if we choose and the first step to wipe out
an evil is resolutely to look it in the face and ac-
knowledge its existence. Hence the masses who
can complacently see gold quoted at l093 would,
if the press powerfully presented to them the
fact that the greenback dollar was worth only
Gig cents in the 100, demand of their representa-
tives that it be made good for 100 cents. And
this very feeling. says the Journal, would appre-
ciate the currency TO nearly par in gold. Capt.
taIists would hasten to invest by purchasing at a
discount money that would soon be at par, and
thus the desired end would be speedily accom-
plished. To carry out its views, our Boston
Contemporary gives notice that henceforth gold Will
not be quoted in the Boston Journal Of Commerce,
but that the greenbaek will be at the ruling rate
Of discount.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-10

What epithets applied TO n man are libelous is
not only an interesting but growing legal ques-
ton. Little more than a year ago a tribunal in
North Carolina decreed the appellation Of %
~ Pennsylvania Yankee " 10 the libelous extent Of
$1,000. Within n few months a Maryland court
decided Old Warty" 10 be n dangerous aud
costly soubriquet to bestow, even verbally, upon
a gentleman with an excrescencc ON his nose.
And now Mr.. Willis Phelps, Of Springfield. Mass.
asks justice 10 award him the snug sum of$200,-
600 from the fre-proof safe Of Mr.. Samuel
Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, in s%atisfac-
designating him " the Boss Tweed Of Springfield"
5000, 900 Is n great deal Of money, and there are
many thousands Of sensitive American citizens
quite willing to be published Ms "the Boss
of any place for one-half the amount
claimed by Mr.. Phelps, Of Springfield.