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Death of the. irish Giant

james Murphy, Jr.,. known as the
] Irisla. :giant He'd at Baltimore last week
OF consumption. Mr.. Murphy was
born in Waterford, ireland, was thirty
three years of age, and unmarried.
He measured nearly eight feet in height.
The Baltimore Sun says of him {:
Some months ago, when he was in
comparatively good health, he weighed
35l pounds. He had weighed more
when his health was Lbetter. He'had
been in this country twenty-iou years,
hsying been brought here by his father
and mother, who still live at the house
on Chester street. The giant travelled
three years with Barnum, MS one of the
great living curiosities of the world.
In bis professional career, he visited
every part of this country from Maine
TO ;Callfnrn1n and the extreme south.
Alter terminating his engagement with
Barnum, the giant travelled with n cir.
Gus, where he contracted the bronchial
disease which finally ended his life.
Whensin good health he had o fresh.
pleasant face, and, like all large men.
ana particularly all giants, except those
OF story books and nursery tales, was
as aniable lasrhe was great in stature.
he had a very youthful expression of
countenance, coal-black hair, and his
hands We're SO large that one OF them
could cover the head Of large man,
just as IN ordinary hand would cover
On orange His feet were not 40 large
proportionately as the hands, but bo.
side an ordinary shoe, one of his shoes
would Seem to be a sufficient habitation
Tor the old woman of the story book.
who had 80 many children she did not
know what to do. When the under
taker came to measure the dead giant
fGShis coffin; it was found that the de-
ceased was full eight feet long. Surely
the measure of man is correctly known
when. he is dead. The coffin will be,
nearly 81 fest long. III The body body was Wis.
tied by hundreds of people Yesterday.
the giant being well known on Feli's
Point, where he was Justly esteemed for
his amiabiity, especially by the chill.
dren, who, after the first shrinkage,
generally liked to be taken in his arms
and elevated as far above the heads of
their parents as he could conveniently
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20
Blood Diseasea.

The blood being the source from which our
systems are built up and from which we derive
our mental as we'll as physical capabilities, how
important that it should be kept pure. If it
contains vile fostering poisons all organic
functions are weakened thereby. Settling
upon important organs, as the lungs, liver or
kidneys, the effect is most disastrous. Hence
it behooves every one to keep their blood in
perfectly healthy condition and more especial
ly does this apply at this particular season of
the year than at any other. No matter what
the exciting cause may be, the real cause of
large proportion of all diseases is bad blood.
Now, DR.. Pierce does not wish to place his
Golden Medical Discovery in the catalogue OF
quack patent nostrums by recommending it to
cure every disease, nor does he 80 recommend
it, on the contrary there are hundreds of dis-
eases that he acknowledges it will not cure !;
but what he does claim is this this. that there
il but one form OF blood disease that it will
not cure, and that disease is cancer. He docs
not recommend his Discovery for that disease.
yet be knows it to be the most searching blood
cleanser yet discovered. and that it will free
the blood and system of all other known blood
poisons, be they animal, vegetable or mineral.
The Golden Discovery is warranted by him to
Gu, the worst forms of skin diseases, as all
forms of'blotches, pimples and eruptiGns, also
all 9landular swellings, and the worst form of
scrofuious ana ulcerated sores Of neck, legs
or other parts, and all scrofulous diseases OF
the bones, as white swellings, fever sores, hip
joint and spinal diseases, al Of which belongs
| to scrofulous diseases.
CONFERENCE.-THE JOINT DISEASE CURED.
w. GRovE STATION, Ia., July ID, 1872.
DR.. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y.
| Dear Sir-My wife first became lame nine
years ago. Swellings would appear and dis
appear on her hip and she was gradually be-
coming reduced, and her whole system rotten
with disease. In 1871 a swelling broke on her
hip discharging large quantities, and since
that tima there are several openings. Have
had five doctors at an expense of $125 who
say nothing will do any good but, a surgical
July 16, 1878, he writes thus: My wife has
certainty received s. great benefit from tho use
OF your Discovery, for she was not ablo to get
of the bed and was not expected to ifye a
week when she commenced using it, year
ago. She has been doing. most Of her work
for over Blk months. Has used twenty bottles
and still using it. Her recovery is copsidered
as almost miracle, and we attribute it all to
the uso OF your valuable medicine. can
| cheerfully recommend it as a blood purifier
and strength restorer JIM. ROBINSON.
Discovery is sold by druggists.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20

.:E.Acorrespondent of the New York
Irabune gives On exceedingly simple
precautionS in the use of Kerosene or
any other cheap oil. His plan is to
fill the lamp lightly with fjeweler'e cot
ton before pouring In the oil. The cot
ton absorbs a great deal of the oil, and
IN case of accident the latter does not
now about, and can thus be extin-
guished. On one occasion his Kerosene
lamp burst, and q mass Of flame jamped
out; but, fbeing ina compact body, he
covered it instantly with o bucket. and
With the help Of water-pitcher and a
,sW wet towels ,extinguished IL before
the slightest damage was done. Had il
nohbeen for the cotton the flaming oil
would have flowed in all directions.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20

! Diamond Cotton Chopper, Cultivator
and Planter, and Corn Planter are guaranteed
to give satisfaction by southern company
whose character and responsibility are vouch-
ed for by the leading bank officers Of North
Carolina. The God Medal was awarded 1t at
the Georgia State Fair. See advertisement
elsewhere. Send for circular to J. W. H1Ss-
DALE, Secretary, Fayetteville, N. G.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20

PERSONS requiring purgatives or pills
should be careful what they buy. Some pills
not only csuse gripping pains, but leave the
bowels in torpid, costive state. Parsons
Purgative Pills will relieve the bowels and
cleanse fac blood without injury to the sy ystem.
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20

1T rs rare thing that physicians give
any countenance to medicine, the manufac-
ture Of which Is secret. About the only ex
ception We know OF is Johnson's Anodyne Lin
iment. This, We believe, all endorse, and
many OF them use it in their practice with
great success
The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-20

CONSTANT EbptOymenG-At home, male or female
?YO week warranted. No capital required. Par
tlculars and valuable sample sent free. Address
with &C. return stamp, G. Ross. .WiliRmsburgh, N Y
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Yoa need not go to Florida to cure
your cough. Take TUFTS Expcctorant and enjoy
the comforts Of home. This is good advice.
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BOOK AGENTS VANFEn

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ID The American Patron is the most popular grange
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PO. Box 5O55.

have an IMPROVED RECEIPT for making
PUR E;BAKING or YEAST POWDER equal to
the best In the market with which will ,end n
So 63ok giving 40 new and EXCELLENT METH
e can be made for i6 cents pound. Why pay SO or
60 oents per pound when you can easily make
your own for 16 cents? Price of my receipt 81 25
IL Will however, be sent upon receipt or 500 BY
MAII. with directions On English and Germany for
@AKiSG i and UsISq II the NAME of the NEwsPA.
Tho C2ST of this nKcEIPT IL sAvED IN l:yERY
THhEE POUNDS OF the powder made. Ingredients =
kept by ROGERS and dI lists everywhere. Address
ID. W. BRIGGS. Practical Druggist, Chicago, iii.
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yTegefat,iciand Flower Seeds. send &c. stamp for
v catalogues. Rob't Veiteh teson New lid van. .Gt,
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gents. Chang Chang sells at sight. Necessary as
soap. Goods free, Chang Chang Mig Co., Boston.
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A DVEKTIbERhi eono n ca 4. EoW.
~ ELL d CO., II Park Row, N. y, fof their f'nna.
phIS or 100 paOss, containing Hats Of 1000 newn-
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The properties of DIR. ,WALKER's
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretio,
Carminativc, Nutritious Laxative, Diuretio
Sedative, Counter-1rritant, Sudorific, Altera
tive. and Anti Bilious.
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G7 n TO $40 PER DAY--Send for .Chromor
Up lO catalogue. J. II BUFfoR D's SONS Boston
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DOM q month TO agents every where. Address
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The daily gazette., 1875-06-07

Mr.. Sherman and he continues to harp
upon contracting the currency, by which
he hopes to humbug the people.
If your neighbor owes hundred thou
sand dollars and his expenditures are
such that he can only pay off $1,000
year. his notes will not pass at par with
out strong endorsement. He sees his
condition and resolutely strips himself
of his expenditures until he proves to
you that he means to pay $4,000 year
of his debts. What is the effect9 His
notes go off almost without endorse
ment. and in ten years they are equal 10
those Of his richest ncighbors. So it
will be with tho United States. When
the Democratic party comes into power,
it should cut down the useless army and
the unnecessary navy and the civil list
until the Government can save hun
dred millions annually to appropriate to
paying off the debt which now rests up
on our real estate. When this is done
our greenbacks will gradually rise to par
with gold and silver, and not till then
The daily gazette., 1875-06-07
Mr.. Sherman and Specie Pay-
naS7ltS,

Senator Sherman has again been spec
ulating on the resumption of specie pay
ments. In speech at Cincinnati few
days ago he saidt "We are now carrying
out policy that is designed to bring us
soon to a specie standard" It is all
very well for Senator Sherman to try to
keep compact the lines of the Republi-
can party. He has grown rich in its
service and he wants to serve the mas
ter which pays SO well for long time to
come. But Mr.. Sherman's theory, by
which he hopes to arrive at "a specie
standard" is fallacy, and it may lead
the people in jack-o-lantern way until
they find themselves, after years of toll,
still pursuing phantom.
The most direct road to specie pay
ments Is through economy of the public
expenditures. But this does not suit
The daily gazette., 1875-06-07

1ouGHENED GLAss.-The discovery Of
NJ. De la Bastie, by which he has sue
ceeded ia making glass hard and tough,
has been experimental upon in New
York for two months by Prof EglestoE,
Of the School of Mines, of Columbia
College, and on last Thursday, in the
Cooper Institute, an exhibition of the
glass was gwen before number of the
glass dealers Of New York and some
members of the Press. Messrs. Paturle
and De la Chapelle, agents of NJ. De la
Bastie, were also present. The tests to
which the glass were subjected were SO
convincing that the New York World
branches out with q column of editorial
exultation over the results, from which
we make the following extract:
Prof. Egleston flung glass plates
about the floor, tossed watch crystals
IN the air like pennies, dropped steel
weights from heights ranging from two
to ten feet upon plates OF prepared
glass with as lutte eject as the defend
ers of the castle of Front de- Bouf rain
ed down stones and beams upon the
iron-clad shoulders of Richard Ceur dc
Lion. He convinced his audience not
only that the glass of NJ. De Ia Bastie
cannot be broken excepting under very
different conditions from ordinary glass,
and by the application of much grea er
force, but also that it possesses the pc.
cculiar properly, when it does break, OF
breaking AL up" like mass Of sand,
so that 1T no longer splinters, and dis
seminates the peril of lock jaw all about
the spot where it falls. We are sure
that no intelligent person who witnessed
Professor Eglestons experiments can
have come away from without feeling
that NJ. De La Bastie has really begun,
II he has not brought about, a revolu-
ton IN one OF the most important OF
our manufactures. There was o time
when 1t would have been thought mere
ly insane to talk of building paner boats
or paper coaches. Thanks to NJ. De la
Bastie the legend of Cinderella and her
glass slipper Is in n fair way of becom.
lng commonplace fact. Some thirty
years ago French manufacturer elec.
trihed the world of fashion by weaving
wonderful stuffs for curtains and drape.
ry, robes, cravats and waistcoats out oi
threads Of spun glass. We may look
forward now to seeing glass chimney.
backs and mantels, glass dlnner-tables
ana ooouacks; and even, as Professor
Egieston suggested, to the luxury OF
living in glass houses ourselves without
being thereby deprived of the pleasure
OF throwing stones at our neighbors
Everybody remembers the story of the
distinguished hypochondriac who was
made miserable by the conviction that
the lower part OF Ais person had beer
mysteriously converted into glass, 81
that he could neither walk about or sit
down with confidence and decision, but
was compelled to handle himself as gin
gerly as basket OF new-laid eggs"
The daily gazette., 1875-06-07

NEITHER BRIGHT NOR BEAUTIFUL
The Every Evening makes queer dash
at some member Of the Council, but it
is neither bright nor beautiful, and only
shows the fondness Of that sheet for
personalities. It says:
"a bull with a ring in its nose is not
an uncommon sight, but till last night,
in Council, Ring with bull in its nose
was unheard Of"
Three months ago that paper would
not have hesitated to state exactly who
it alluded to.
The daily gazette., 1875-06-07
borrowing at a Lou Rate.

BOrFOlUiHU ut q Lou Kate.
The low rate of interest which the
Bank of France charges that govern
ment shows that its managers are pa
triotic and that they have more regard
for the working people, who pay the
taxes than the rich in that aristocratic
country are here credited with. In
fact it will be astonishing to most Of
our readers, to know that the bankers
of France have loncd to their govern
ment $500, 100000 at one per cent.
while in this country it costs the gov.
ernment almost twice that to secure
the use of money equally as good from
the banks. The following is worthy of
attention:
Bourbonism in finance and Bourbon
ism in politics both appear 10 be dead
just now in France. BY the new con-
vention between the French govern
ment and the Bank OF France it is pro-
vided that specie payments shall be re-
sumed by the bank January /, 1878.
This seems rather long delay in view
Of the fact that the circulation of the
bank is only $4S9, 900, 900 against which
S307, 600, ,0G0 in specie are held. The
French paper money, however, is IS
sued by the bank, and the object to be
accomplished is the rcsuption of pay
ments in specie on such basis as TO
admit of all the ordinary banking op'
erations being carried on with ease
The chief obstacle to resumption, in
the opinion of the bank, is the war
loan made by it TO the government
This loan amounted to $500, 600, 900 at
one per cent. per annum, the total cir
culation of the bank being S6l4 600, 900
The governmenthas since reduced this
debt to $155, ,0O0, 900. and the bank lis
circulation to S4S0, 600, 900. The bank
now exacts the further payment Of
500, ,000,000 before resuming specie
payments in 1873, measure of caution
illustrated by the examples of England
and Germany, each of which arc pro-
vided with ample stores of specie, and
make it a prime object to maintain
such reserves. The notes of the Bank
of France are now worth par in coin
by reason of this management. The
difference between the values Of the
French and American systems can be
computed by reference any day to the
quotations in the gold market.
The daily gazette., 1875-06-07
Trouble with the .RIs Elephant"

The elephant Empress" at the Zoo
logical Garden, il said to weigh fourteen
thousand pounds, and to be the largest
animal of the kind in America. Since
her arrival ut the garden, several months
age, she had been kept in house with
the two smaller elephants and rhiho-
ceros. During all this time she has not
lain down or had any exercise. ON last
Tuesday she was taken out by her keep,
er and walked up and down the road
inside the fenco at the lower end OF the
garden, for exercise; while walking she
stepped on some soft earth and lost her
footing and fell over on her side. She
would make no effort to get up, and nell
ther tho threats or persuasion OF ner
keeper or q severe prodding with his
steel pointed rod could induce her to
rise. She was then allowed to remain
where abe was until Thursday, when
derrick was erected over her, ropes
passed around her body. and by the aid
Of block and tackle. and windlass
propelled by about q dozen laborers, she
was got upon her feet, but, as soon as
the ropes were slackened she fell again
in nearly the same place. Operations
were then suspended until Friday. when
the derrick was again rugged, trench
dug under her body. the ropes again
passed around her, and after several
trials she was got upon her feet late in
the afternoon. When tho Ledger re.
porter left tho garden the tackle had
not been removed from ths body, and
she was allowed to stand. partially sup
ported by the ropes, until she gets
used to her legs"
The Empress" does not seem to bt
sick or injured. bat merely stubborn
All the while she lay on the ground she
deyoured buckets full Of carrots and
lettuce. with any quantity of hay, and
was frequently tempted by her keeper
with strawberries and other delicacies
to get up and go home; but she seemed
perfectly satisfied to lay just where sh,
fell. Sue was entirely good-tempersd
and paid no attention whatever to the
operations of the workmen, who climbed
over her and stood upon her body "a
will. to arrange the tackle.-Lsdger.
The daily gazette., 1875-06-07
SKIERgFF,S SALE.

DYvIrtue OF sundry wrlts OF Vend. Exponas
ID TO me directed, VIII be exposed to public
sale. at the Warerooms Of Joseph Il. Booth,
300 Shpley street, Wilmington, In Now Cas-.
tic County, Delaware. on
TUESDAY,
THE 9Th DAY OF JUNE, 1870,
at 10o'clock, A. NJ,
Tho following described personal property,
large stock OF new Furniture,
such as bureaus, tables, chairs, book case,
hat racks, Lounges, wardrobes. Mattresses,
sofas, oil, looking glasses, unfinished work, /,
wash stands, lumber, rocking chairs, walnut
chamber suits tools, machines, spring beds,
arm chairs. chair frames, extension tables,
sideboards, marble top tables and stands,
household goods. wheelbarrow, &c, &c. Also,
the unexpired lease Of the store 800 Shipley
street.
seized and taken into execution 40 the pro.
perty OF Joseph L. Booth, and to be sold by
WIN. Ii. LAMBSON, Sheriff.
Sherif's Office, New Castle,
May27 A. d. 1875 Smay27-9tawts