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NASHVILLE
SCHENCK,S PULMONIC SYRUP, FOR
HI CURE OF CONSUMPTION,
AND COLDS.

The great virtue of this medicine is that it ripen:
the matter and throws it out Of the system, purifes
the blood, and thus effects a cure.
ScHENCK's SEA WEED Tonic, FOR THE CURE OF
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, ETC.
The Tonic produces a healthy action of the stom
ach, creating an appetite, forming chyle, and curing
the most obstinate cases of indigestion.
ScHENcK's MANDRAKE PILLS, FOR THE CURE OF
LIVER COMPLAINT, Ere.
These Pills are Alternative and produce a healthy
action of the liver without the least danger, as they
are free from caloInel and yet more eficaciOus in re-
storing a healthy action of the liver.
These remedies are a certain cure for
as the Pulmonic Syrap ripens the matter and purihes
fbe Hood. The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver,
create a healthy bile, and remove all diseases of the
Iiver. ,ften a cause of Consumption. The Seed Weed
Tonic gives tone and strength to the stomach, makes
a GOOD digestion, and enables the organs to form good
Mood and thus creates a healthy circulation OF
healthy blood. The combined action OF these medt-
rincs. as thus explained, will cure every case Of Con-
srmption. II taken in time, and the use OF the medi-
cines persevered in.
corner Sixth and Arch streets, Philadelphia, every
Monday. where all letters for advice must be al
dressed. Schenek's medicines for sale by all Drug
gists.
I. !. HART Co, Nos. 70, 70 and II TehoupitOu-
las ST, New Orleans, Wholesale Agents.
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THF MnuNn.RuLnEHs.
TfaeeA Of theiF work IN aEfssisSIppf-Re
Prehlstorie D~iscoyery. +,

Prehisd0ric DfseoVery.
Prof. James r. Gage, Of Washington
city, an eminent geolegist ahd mineralo-
gfst who has recently been engaged in
making extensive explorations regarding
the works of the ancient mound-builders,
reports the discovery of a very remark
able wall in Claiborne county, eighteen
miles east of Port Gibson, Miss. The dis
covefy has been Incidentally mentioned
in Several ,papeks within the course of a
few days, but they do not appear to have
realized a 1.-THE of its antiquarian and ar
theological interest and Importance. We
condense the particulars of the discovery
frem the Professors statement in the
Washington Republican. 1t appears that
blocks of the stone have been taken by
the farmers for building purposes for
many wears, and it has formed a general
quarry for furnishinglarge blocksofstone.
But the farmers have never, it seems, been
aware of the antiquarian Importance of
this wall, which is claimed to be .toevai
or anterior to that of Hadrian's famous
wall iii England. Prot. Gage employed
iaborers and uncovered a portion of the
wall 2Ofeetin width and 175feetin length,
but on removing the soil here and there
he traced it 600 feet. The workmen I'M
covered the wall to a depth of six feet,
but lower than this the excavations were
not continued. Large forest trees of pine
and oak, several hundred years old, are
growing on top Of the wall. The blocks
are limestone, and belong to the tertiary
formation. They were hewn out of this
formation and are three feet in length,
twenty inches in width and twenty-five
inches iii thickness. One of these blocks
has been shipped to Philadelphia for the
centennial. The wall from which it was
taken forms two sides of a rectangler, one
part running east and west and the other
north and south. The excavations were
made near the angle. Three miles due
south from this point another portion of
the wall re-appeafs OH the banksOfBayou
Pierce, owing to the washing out of the
creek, making it a large exposure, and it
is therefore judged that this is a continu-
alton of the ancient wall. The wall was
built on the side Of a ridge overlooking a
swamp which, in ancient times, was evil
IDENTIFY the bed of alake, and the inference
is that the wall waserected by the ancient
occupants as a barrier against an enemy,
or possibly as an ancient levee or dyke
erected for the protection of the inhabit-
ants against the Entertainments of the
lake or the waters of the Mississippi.
From other evidences of the wide extent
of this wall, as described by Prof. Gage,
it appears that it included a large area of
land, covering probably 400 square miles
and extending to the Mississippi river.
The locality where the wall exists is in
the neighbOrkood of the Natchez Indians,
who were found in a state ofconsiderable
civilization when first visited by the
French, and these remains, it is conjectured
by Prof. Gage, had some connection with
the occupation by the warlike ancestors
of this Interesting and famous tribe.
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A LUCKY HAUL.
The Two Most Expert RCoumterfeIfers i'm
the COunfrY CnDfured.

ABe IL NO IAO&E Expert NOURu@EA@AA@HS I'm
the Country Captured.
Elmer Washburne, chief of the secret
service, has captured Boyd and briggs,
the most expert engravers of counterfeit
plates and the largest dealers in spurious
money in the country. Both were cap
tured in Illinois, but in different parts of
the state. The raid was made under the
personal supervision of chief Washburne,
he attending to the place of the manufac-
turers at Centralia, while an operative of
the secret service, with two men, appre-
hended the engraver at Fulton, on the
Mississippi river. The latter, whose name
is Ben Boyd, was caught at work, and in
his were found a $50 plate, a 500
plate and $1,000 plate, all unfinished.
At Centralia the chief and three opera
tives captured the press and all the ac-
companyingm material besides several plates
and a large amount of bogus money re-
Gently printed. In the house they found
a man named Stadfelt and his wife and
the wife of Nelson briggs, a man who has
circulated fully million dollars of cOUn-
terfeit money in the last ten years. briggs
and his partner, Charley Stadfelt, made
their escape from the house just previous
to the arrival of Washburne, and were
pursued eight miles on horseback by
Washburne and two men, and finally sur
rendered in a piece of timber, after they
had been shot at many times.
The arrest of Boyd and briggs is of the
greatest Importance, since no device, how
ever ingenious, in engraving, could be
planned in the treasury bureau of en-
craving and printing, that Boyd could
not successfully initiate. 1t was he who
engraved the five-dollar Traders of Chi
cago plate, which passed for a long time,
even among bankers, without suspicion.
Within the last year the name of this
plate has been changed to the.Boston
bank, the Canton bank, and, within the
last month, to the Aurora bank, of Au-
rora, Illinois, large numbers of which
notes are now in circulation. Seven per-
sons have recently been arrested for pass
ing Aurora fves. BY the capture of
these two men, the counterfeiting bust
ness ofthe country has received a blow
from which it will not soon ecover. The
supply of the south and west is cut off
almost entirely by it, and the plates from
which all the real and dangerous counter
felt money in the country was printed
will now be DESTROYED.
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September Rose.

The vacation is over, and the pet CIR
of the household set out to school again.
When her brother went there was a sign
of relief from everybody, but the sister is
quite a different matter. In the stately
house on Murray Hill or the Iowa farm
house, her pretty face, her whims, her
music, her dress, are the happy points of
interest and brightness for all the women,
and in an outside circle, for the men and
boys If they be poor folks, fathers old
trousers can be made owe for the boy
and he is counted lucky to fare so well /;
but mother turns her old merino for an
other winter that the girl may have a
plenty of ribbons to match her new
dresses. Everybody feels that she ought
to have them blue like eyes, and rose
colored as her dimpled cheeks; her
mother thinks that all pretty and dainty
things ought to come to her, and as for
the money and price thereof she is
ashamed that she must consider that all
in the question. She stitches and frills
and flutes the girls clothes, as she can
not put costly embroidery on them.
While the children were babies, and
there was a hard fight week by week to
keep the pot boiling, the house began to
look very bare and empty nobody took
any heed that the wallpaper was dirty
and the old furniture shabby; Life itself
began to be bare and shabby to the father
and. mother, and the house to resolve
itself into a mere shop and kitchen-a
place to work for food in and to eat it.
But now that the girl is growing into
maidenhood, there is a curious tighten
ing and softelning of the home atmos-
phere; the house is dainty kept; there
are prints on the wall, vines over the
window, a glass of roses on the breakfast
table.
There is a piano, with her music scat
tered over it the girl has a sweet little
voice of her own, and sings for her father
in the evening old fashioned ballads
which he knew when he was a boy his
wife finds his old flute and he screws it
together and tires "a second" with his
daughter, and comes out triumphantly
only a note or two in advance, while the old
lady listens delighted, and assures him
that he plays as well as he ever did, and
that Nelly has inherited her musical tai
ent from him, and then they try it again.
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Passions that Induce Disease.

The paisi0ns. which act most severely
on the physical life are anger; feaf; hatred
aid grief. The other passions are COM
paratively innocent. What is called the
passion of love is not injurious until it
Iapses into grief and anxiety; on, the con-
trary, it sustains the physical power.
What is called ambition is of itself harm
less; for ambition. when it exists purely,
is a nobility lifting its owner entirely
from himself Tito the exalted service of
mankind. 1t Injuries when it IS debased
by its meaner ally, pride; or, when slim
ulating a man to too strenuous efforts af-
ter some great object, it leads him to the
performance of excessive mental or physi-
cal labor, and to the consequences that
follow such effort.
The passion called a~varice, according
to my experience, tends rather to the
preservation of the body than to its dete-
~rioratiUn. The avaricious man, who seems
to. the, luxurious world to be dcbarring
himself Of all the pleasures Of the world,
and even. to be exposing himself to the
fangs Ofpoverty, is generally placing him
self in the precise conditions favorable to
a long and healthy existence. By his
economy, he is saving himself from all the
worry incident to penurv; by his caution
he is screening himself from all the risks
incident to speculation or the attempt to
amass wealth by hazardous means; by
his regularity Of hours and perfect appro-
priation of the sunlight, in preference to
artificial illumination, he rests and works
in periods that precisely accord with the
periodicy of nature: by his abstemious-
ness in living he takes just enough to live,
which is precisely the right thing to do
according to the rigid natural law. Thus,
in almost every particular, he goes on
his way freer than other men from the
external causes of all the induced diseases
and better protected thai most men from
the worst consequences of those diseases
which spring from causes that are uncon-
trollable.
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The New Postal Law.

The postal committee of the New York
board of trade have been discussing the
proposed new postal law. The bill pre-
scribes that the postage ON books, tran
sient periodicals, unsealed circulars, en-
cravings, Autographs, all printed matter
of the third class (other than transient
n~ewspapers), manuscriptsfo for publication,
proof sheets, seeds, ETC., shall pay one
cent for each two ouncesO or fraction there
of; on transient newspapers, n cent for
each four ounces; on patterns, samples
and specimens, one cent for each ounce ;
that packages under sixteen ounces in
weight or fifteen inches in length may be
registered. When deposited in a post
Office where letter carriers are employed,
newspapers (other than weeklies,) shall
pay l cent each; periodicals and weeklies
the same rates payable in the same man.
ner as when sent by mail; books, periodi-
Gals, unsealed circulars, seeds, etc, and
third class printed matter not otherwise
provided for, one cent for each two ounces;
patterns, samples and specimens not
excluded or heretofore provided for, one
cent for each ounce or fraction thereof
Letter postage shall be charged upon all
mail matter upon which there is any com.
munication written, save a form of pre-
%sentation. Any person employed by the
department who shall use a false, coun
terfeit or illegible postmark shall be fined
not less than $25 nor more than $3.50
special agents are not included in thi:
clause. Matter wholly or partially un
paid shall be returned to the writer wher
possible, or sent to its destination charged
with double postage. Seven of the com.
mittee will confer with the postmaster
general this week on the details of the
hill
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formulating In the South.

If some statements on the subject of
iron-making, presented in a letter pub
lished by Mr.. Geo. 7. Lewis, of Tennes-
see, be correct, Alabama, Georgia and
Tennessee are destined to become, if not
the future center of irOn-making in the
United States, the seat of large and i'm
portant furnace interests at least. Mr..
Lewis has been engaged in making iron
i'm Tennessee for forty years, and has
studied and experimental until he pro-
tesses to know all about it. He states
that pig-iron not only can be made,
but has been and is made in these three
southern states for less than $40 a ton,
a price far below the cost of making it in
the iron districts of the north and east.
The cost of producing in Pennsylvania
Is put down ut $3.50 a ton at Youngs-
town, Ohio, at $1,000 a ton, and in Indi-
N at $3.50 a ton, while in the south it
ranges from $15.43 a ton in Tennessee to
$40 in Georgia and Alabama. The ex-
PLANTATION of this greater cheapness is
found in the abundance of charcoal and
good stOne-coal in these states, both to be
had, with limestone, near the iron beds;
the mildness of the climate which makes
winter expenditures nearly as light as
those of summer, and the ~cheapness of
colOred labor. The Alabama and Ten
nessee ore is said to be of a superior
quality, and a favOrite in the market.
When it is considered that the Pennsyl-
vania furnaces are now forced to send to
Missouri and lake Superior for ore to
mix with the different ores of that state,
there would seem to be nothing needed
but capitalize transfer a large portion of
the iron manufactures of Pennsylvania
to these favored states of the south.
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HOG CHOLERA PREvENTIvE.-We fine
the following in an exchange, credited tt
a writer in the Southern Cultivator: Last
year l lost nearly all my hogs with chol
era. My neighbor lost none scarcely
which led me to believe that he must pos
sess a sovereign remedy for this evil.
asked him why he lost no hogs. His re.
ply was that che kept them clear O fworms
and stimulated with black pepper" Said
he, II first fed them on corn soaked in
I've and copperas, to clear them of worms
afterward gave them plenty of black pep.
per. Those that were sick got well, and
those that were well remained so, OF
course"
This year l have given my hogs an oc-
casional dose, twice a week, of kerosene
oil, said to be a preventive of cholera.
Several of my neighbors lost nearly all
their hogs, andsix weeks ago mine showed
signs of disease, and I concluded to try
"lye and pepper" l prepared it as fol-
lows: First, shell an ear of corn and soak
in strong lye all night; next morning,
add a half t~easpoOnful Of pulverized cop
peras, mix and feed in a II 1ugh. This
was repeated on the following morning
and a half teaspoonful of black pepper
was added. After this | put a teaspoon
full of pulverised pepper in the food, boiled
grits, every other morning for a week.
Result-My hogs stopped dying, ali
that ate got well, and are as thrifty now
as l could wish. The above is the dose
for a single hog. 1t is simple and reliable;
as a preventive it can't be beat, and l
have seen hogs sick, very sick, too, re-
stored to good health by the use of this
remedy.
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Warmers Fire.ExtinguisIer.

Mr.. Warner, a respectable and law
abiding citizen of Baker street, rode
home in an express wagon the other day,
having a hand fire-extinguisher and the
driver for company.
What's that thing % asked his wife
in cOntemptuous tones as she opened the
hall door.
What's thai? Why, that's a fire-eX-
tinguisher; best thing you ever saw
meant to have got one a year ago."
Jacob, you are always making a fool
of yourself" she continued, as she shut
the door. every patent-right man gets
around you as a cat lays for a mouse"
"Does, Ell? If you know anything
at all, you know that every store and
office in Detroit has one O. these. They
have saved lots O. buildings, and may
save ours"
"You throw it at the fire don't you?"
she asked in sarcastic tones.
He carried it up stairs into a closet
without replying, and she followed and
asked
"Does it shoot a fire out?"
eff you don't know anything I'll
learn YOU something! 1t is full of chem
icals; you strike on this knob on top and
she's all ready to open this faucet and
| play on the fire?
She grinned as she walked around it,
and finally asked:
"Do you get a horse to draw it
around 2"
"No, l don't get a horse to draw it
around. You see these straps? Well, l
back up, put my arms through them,
and here it is on my back"
al 500 II iS - Sbo Snoarad
"And can't I run to any part of the
house with it?" he demanded. "See
- see--?'
And he entered along the hall, into
the bedrooms and out, and was turning
the head of the stairs when his foot
caught in the carpet. He threw up his
arms and she grabbed at him, and both
rolled down stairs. He yelled and she
yelled. Sometimes he was ahead, and
then she took the lead, and neither OF
them had passed under the "string''
when the extinguisher, humping and
iamming, began to shoot off its charge O,
chemicals.
You Old" she started to say
when a stream from the hose struck her
between the eyes, and she didn't finish.
"What in-O-u-c-h ?" reared MI. War
ner, as he got a dose in the ear.
They brought up in a heap at the bot
tom Of the stairs, the stream playing into
the parloZ, sgainst the hall door, and up
stairs by turns and she grasped:
"Tll have you sent to a fool asylum!"
Who's a fool" he roared, dancing
around with his eyes full of chemicals.
"Pm %fainting - she squeaked.
"And I've broken my back! !" he
shouted.
1t was a sad house when those two
highly respectable old people got so that
they could use their eyes and discuss
matters calmly, And she doubled up
her fist and hoarsely said:
"Take thai investigator, or distin-
guisher, or whatever you call it, back
down town and tell everybody hat you
are a lunatic !"
And he said:
"Dummit | know more than ali your
family put together !"-Free Press.
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The SUMAC DELUsIoN.--There is a
demand for dry sumac leaves, and a look
at the figures ($40 to $50 per toni often
awakens a desire in those who have never
had a hand in the business to make a
trial of sumac-gathering. 1t is the pure
leaves only that are valuable, and it takes
a large pile of the green article to make
one ton of the dried. Children and per
sons who have nothing else to do may
earn their bread in gathering sumac, but
beyond this there is very little money in
it. 1t is plentiful all over the country,
north and south, in fact there Is no dam
ger of the stock running out, although
many farmers wish it would on their
lands, for in light soils some of the species
are very troublesome. 1t is rather too
late in the season to think of gathering
this year.--New York Tribune.
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Oiling Harness.

\ good harness is costly, but if prop
perly used and cared for will last a good
many years. If neglected it will soon
need repairs, and in a short time become
utterly worthless. In caring for a har-
ness one great point is to see that it is
suitably oiled. A work harness, in use
on a farm, should be oiled twice a year, in
the spring and fall. 1t should be taken
entirely apart the places where sweat
and dirt have collected cleaned with a
chip or a old case-knife, then washed
clean in warm water, in which a little
CASTLE soap has been dissolved. As they
are washed the straps should be hung
on a pole to dry.
When the outside is nearly dry, but
before the moisture is all out of the
leather, the oil should be applied. This
may be lone with a clean paint brush,
which is the best thing for the purpose, a
spOng or wooden cloth. A moderate
quantity shonld be used, and if it does
not soften the leather enough, another
light coating may be applied when the
first one is well dried in. This is better
than it is to put IN a great deal at once.
Care should be taken to obtain a good
quality of oil. Neat's-foot is the very
best kind of oil, for leather. There are
some patent preparations in which a
waterproof ingredient is added to the oil
and also a little coloring substance to
make the leather look black and glossy.
An honest mixture of this kind is better
than the crude oil. Cheap oils are gem
orally poor. When dry, the harness
should be rubbed with CASTLE soap, then
with a dry wooden cloth. When this is
done, it may be put together and used.
This work should not be neglected until
the hurry of planting and hoeing time,
but should receive attention now.--Lire
Stock Journal.
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deprecated by the ever recurring winter
deluges of rain.
! remarked above that the effects of
deep ploughing, and undertaking even,
had often been mistaken for proofs of
veritable additions to the real fertility of
soils, when in fact they we're, in Efeat
measure, devices for more thorough ex-
haustion. That farming is essentially
poor, whatever its temporary results,
that does not add year by a to the
soil-store ofappropriable plant food. But
before dismissing the subject Of rain-spo-
%liation, | would remark that while In
derdraining seems 70 Offer an eihcScious
remedy, there Are objections to the device
now 50 popular. In portions of Ger
many, on underdrained lands, such an
accumulation of vegetable matter takes
place, that a species of worm thrives to
the destruction of the crop. In England
the same accumulation ofvegetabIe mat
ter II frequently encountered, and they
are forced to apply enormous quantities
OF lime Tor its correction. In Germany,
III some places, driving the sheep over
the soil is resorted to, for its compress
sion, to the great injury, 1t is said, of the
sheep. The same injurious, tendency,
doubtless, outcrops IN our northern states,
for we noticed, sofne years ago, that
farmers, who had incurred the very Sc
rious expense of, u~nderdrains for their
land, complained That the resulting
growth, though making a brave show of
stem and stalk, did not give a CORE
spending increase of grain. In u lati-
tude this evil tendency will be probably,
less manifest, because of the more rapid
decomposition of vegetable matter, be-
fore noticed, and a less propensity to the
encouragement of peat plants.
The farmers soil being his real bank
of deposits, we have tried to show with
the Importance of keeping well locked,
some of the insecure doors. At another
time We may have something to say
about the proper mode of depOsiting in
it, for as in other good banks, facile
draws and timely deposits are closely
connected.-J A. Goree, in RuaL Carotiun.