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SCHENCK'S PULMONIC SYRUP, Fob
THE CURE OF ONSUMPTION,
COUGHS AND COLDS.

The great virtue of this medicine is that it ripen:
the matter and throws it out of the systeni pures
the blood, and thus effects cure
SCnENCKs SEA WEED Tonic, FOR THE CURE OF
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGEsTIoN, ETC.
The Tonic produces healthy action of the stom
aeh creating an appetite forming chyle. and curing
the most obstinate cases of indigestion
ScHENCK's MANDRAKE PILLS, FOR THE CURE OF
LIVER COMPLAINT, ETC.
These Pills Alternative and produce a healthy
action of the liver without the least danger, they
are free from calomel and yet eifcacious in
storing healthy action of the liver.
These remedies are certain cure for Consumption,
as the PulmOnic Syrup ripens the matter and pures
the blood. The Mandrake Pills act upon the liver,
create a healthy bile and remove all diseases of the
liver, often a OF Consumption. The Seed Weed
Tonic gives tone and strength to the stomach, makes
good digestion, and enables the organs to form good
blood and thus creates healthy circulation OF
healthy blood. The combined action of these medi-
cines thus explained, will cure every case of Con-
sumption, if taken in time, and the of the medi-
cineS perseyered in.
DIR. Schenck is professionally at his principal Office,
corner Sixth and Arch streets, Philadelphia, every
Monday, where all letters for advice must be adj
dressed. Scheneks medicines for sale by all Drug
gists. ..
Z. J. HART & CO., Nos. 70, 20 and II Tchoupitoll-
las ST., New Orleans, Wholesale Agents.
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The Passions that Induce Disease.

The passions which act most severely
on the physical life are anger, fear,
hatred and grief. The other passions
are comparatively inocuous. What is
called the passion of love is not inju.
rious until it lapses into grief and anxi.
ETY.; on the contrary, it sustains the
physical power. What is called am
bition is of itself harmless; for ambi-
ton, when it exists purely, is a nobility
lifting its owner entirely from himself
into the exalted service of mankind.
1t Injuries when it is debased by its
meaner ally, pride, or when, stimu-
lating a man to too strenuous efforts
after some great object, it leads him to
the performance of excessive mental
or physical labor, and to the conse-
quences that follow such effort.
The passion called avarice, according
to my experience, tends rather to the
preservation of the body than to its
deterioration. The avaricious man,
who seems to the luxurious world to be
debarring himself of all the pleasures
of the world, and even to be exposing
hhhSCh W eHC i"hSo VI kOSCitS, ID ScH-
orally placing himself in the precise
conditions favorable to a long and
healthy existence. By his economy
he is saving himself from all the worry
incident to perjury; 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
appropriation of the sunlight, in pref
erence to artificial illumination, he
rests and works in periods that pre-
cisely accord with the periodicy of his
nature; by his abstemiousness in living
he takes just enough to live, which is
precisely the right thing to do accord
ing to the rigid natural law. Thus, in
almost every particular, he goes on his
way freer than other men from the ex-
ternal causes of all the induced diseases,
and better protected than most men
from the worst consequences of those
diseases which spring from causes that
are uncomfortable. -Popular Science
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The Seller Sold.

A neat game is now played upon
passengers on the Illinois Central
railroad. The candy man goes
around, and, having selected victim,
proposes to sell him a box of figs. If
he does not wish to purchase, the candy
man gets confidential, places ten
dollars in fig box, and, picking up
two other boxes, inquiries how much he
will give for his choice out of the three
boxes. About this time the victim
sees the corner of five dollar bill
protruding from one of the boxes,
which the candy man has, of course,
overlooked. A bargain is soon struck
for two, three or five dollars, and the
victim finds nothing in the box except
the figs and the corner of the bill
This game was tried last Tuesday
morning on conductor LOcke's train,
upon newspaper reporter, who per-
mitted himself to be taken i'm in order
to teach the peanut vender lesson in
sharp practice. After he had been
relieved of his money, he secured the
sharper's name, and, upon his return
ing to the car, the reporter called him
over, complimented him for his
sagacity and assured him that his name
should be duly chronicled in the pa
pers. He thereupon returned the
money with great alacrity and pro-
posed to add 80 more in order to be
screened from exposure. This com
plimentary benefit was respectfully de
clined for the public good, and the
facts are now made known for the
travellers protection.
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General Sherman's report.

General Shermans report. The
nual report Of Gen. Sherman, after stating
the geographical limits of the various COM
mands, says the aggregate strength of the
line of the army according to the last re-
ports received, is $40 officers and 25,O31 en-
listed men, made up as follows: Five regi-
ments of artillery, 270 officers and ,504 men /;
10 regiments of cavalry, 422 officers and :, 2O6
men; % regiments of infantry, Si8 officers and
11,000 men, available recruits, hospital
stewards, ordnance sergeants, etc, 332O1
During the past winter troops in the depart
ments of Missouri and Texas were employed
in arduous and severe winter campaigns
Indians on the Staked Plains, that have for
years been engaged in depredations on the
Texas and Kansas frontier, resulting In their
disarmment and subsection to authority. If
military commanders can have control over
supplies needed by these Indians, as they now
have over their persons, am convinced, by
a recent visit, that a condition of peace can
be maintained. The Sioux Indians have re-
Gently made incursious into northern Ne
braska, mostly to steal cattle and horses from
the farms along the Pacific railroad and north
of it. Gen Crook is of the opinion that an
army acting defensively cannot prevent these
incursions, and suggests that troops be sta
toned in the midst of the Indians to
watch and prevent them leaving on a pre-
tense of hunting. This is imPracticable unless
the army can have supervision of the neces-
sary supplies Of these tribes within the re-
servation; which is now not the case. The
reports of several commissioners, which have
under military escort recently been engaged
in exploring the country and in negotiating
with these Indians, will throw much light on
this subject Generally speaking, the damage
to life and prosperity by the Indians is be-
ieved to be less during the past year than in
any former year, and the prospect is that as
the country settles up it will be less and less
each year until all the Indians are established
ON small reservations; but until they acquire
habits Of industry in farming or stock-raising
they will need food from the government, be.
cause the game on which they have hitherto
snbsided has diminished rapidly.
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To TELL THE AGE OF SHEEP.-A
sleeps front teeth the first year are
eight in number, appearing all of a size.
Second year the two middle ones are
shed out and are replaced by two much
larger than the others. Third year two
very small ones appear-one on either
side of the eight. At the end of the
fourth year there are six large teeth.
Fifth year all the front teeth are large.
Sixth year all begin to show wear-not
till then.
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Sufferings Of the Poor in Germany.

"A recentsBerlIn dispatch says: Ire
depression of trade is felt so keenly
by the industrial classes that the gov
eminent has been requested, as means
of preventing acute distress, to resort
to the measure successfully adpoted in
the last two wars, namely, the -estab-
lishment Of loan banks. The govern
ment has not as yet shown much in
clination to accede to the request.
Serious distress is anticipated among
the industrial working classes during
the coming winter, aud apprehensions
are also entertained of a crisis in finan-
cial circles"
A contemporary commenting upon
the above. pertinently remarks ::
"While France is more prosperous
than she has been since the empire,
Germany is on the extremities of dis
tress. The proposition for govern
ment aid to the people shows that how
ever vigorous and masterful Bismarck
is in war, he doesn't equal his French
rivals in peace. 1t is singular COM
ment on the lack of governing faculty
in the German nation-that is to say,
the stimulus and UNFOLDING of industry;
that in four years from the reception
of an indemnity greater than her ma
tional debt. Germany is the poorest
country in Europe"
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What | Know About VGgetine.
SOUTH BOSTON. MAY Q. Is

SOUTH BOSTON, May 2, Is
H. II. STEVENS: a.,
DEAR SIR have had consider bile ex pericnee VIII
the VEGETINE For Dyspepsia, General Dehihty. and
impure blood. the NEGETINE is superior to anything
which have used. I commenced taking VIC
rriNF about the middle of last winter ana after MS
ING n few bottles il entirely cured me OF dyspepsia
and my blood never in 50 good r"hiiti"n es NJ
the present. time VI Will afford m" peasur TO rive
any further pa isular+ relative tawhii know about
hi GOOD medicine 10 any on" who viii call "r adj
dress me at my residence" - Athens street very
MONROE PARKER.
A linn SII....i
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" Am | a soldier of the cross,
A follower of the lamb 2O
"A Coop DENTIFRICE.-

a Coon Observation-Disclosures two
ounces of borax in three pints of, boil
ing water; before quite cold add one
tablespoonful of tincture of myrrh and
one tablespoonful of camphor. Bottle
the mixture for Use. Add one wine
glassiul of tlic solution TO half pint
of tcpid water, and Use it daily. II
preserves and beauties the teeth and
arrests decay.
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PREMATURE Loss OF THE HAIR, which
vented bv the use of BURNETT's COCAINE.
Ii has been used in thousands of cases where
the hair was coming Quit handsful, and has
never failed to arrest its decay, and to pro-
mote a healthy and vigorous growth. 1t is at
the same time unrivalled as dressing for the
hair. A single application will render it soft
and glossy for several days.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-11

NEW PHASE OF THE PRoBLEM.-Lo-
quacious life insurance agent to fat
gentleman on the street: "Come, my
dear sir, if you should soon and sud-
denly be called to die, have you made
such provision for the dear ones de-
pendent upon you as will shelter them
from want and secure for them the
comforts of life?" Fat gentleman
Young man, once the question was,
can Christian man rightfully seek
life insurance? That day is past; ;
now the question il, is Chi istian man
justified in killing life insurance
agent? Agent starts quickly up street
to catch friend.
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WINTER is now fairly upon us, and the

WINTER is now fairly upon us, and the
teams are fastening to the lumber woods in
various parts of the country. Our advice to
every man who gees To the woods, be he cap
tain cook, teamster, or any other man, is To
take alone q good stock OF .johnson's Anodyne
Iinimen and Parsons pur.ativc Pills. Many
months Of labor lin the aggregate) may be
sNved by this precautOn.
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS.

LouIsvILLE.-Fiour quiet and firm. Wheat dull
siio@l Corn active f and higher; new, ss9!2e
Hay dull, s12@19. Provisions quiet. Pork, SILL
az. Bulk meats. s149s3s, I04@Il@l114@i1asc
Lard-tierce, I31z914c; Reg, 1414@f44c. Whisky
S1.1O.
New oRLEANs-.Sugar in good demand; good
common to fair 5fa6e j, fair 6@Szse; prime 7141Me
prime to choice, 47a5oc.' Flour dull; supertine,
family ass9s corn dull White 5se oats
dull; choice ST. Louis, 46c. Hay dull prime s22a23
choice, s25a26 Pork frmer; new mess held at s23
Dry salt meats dull 81, 111aa12c. Bacon dali, 11h
13%a14c. Hams-choiee sugar-cured firm, 171ac
inferior, l5al6e: Lard dull fierce, packers, l24c
ordinary to prime 1s5 {a21c. Whisky quiet refined
S1.14a1.17.
MEMpHIs.-Flour is dull and unchanged at S5as
Corn dull at 49a5Oc Oats are quiet but firm choice
45ai6e; inferior are dull and nominal. Mess pork il
quiet and unchanged at $3.50. Lard is easier Al
131aa1I1ae Baggins is dull and nominal at 12a1214c
$3.50; family, 1928; choice family, 1915; fancy
7.25. Corn meal, unbolted and bolted, sacked. Csc
Corn, new loose from wagon, 35a4Oc sacked in depot
50a52ac. Wheat, buying from first hands, sound ant
dry Mediterranean, 81 Local. 10; red and white, 9O1
S1.25. Oats new. from first hands, 4Oc; sacked de
hands, S1.O0; stained, nominal Rye, from wagon
75asOc Bran, loose, S14 90; sacked in depot, $1,000
Hay-Timothy, 21.00a25.0O.
THE COTTON MARKETS.
NEW oRK.-Cotton-market quiet and easy a
49, a13 Slice.
New ORLEANs-Cotton-dem fair; good or
binary to strict good ordinary 1O54a113sc; low mid
ding to strict low middling 115sa121sc middlins t.
strict middling 1211sa12i4c; good middiing to mid
ding fair 13a1ic.
-Cotton-market steady mddling 1211ss
121c.
GALVESTON. Cotton l. market q,iiet middlint
1219c.
MEMPITIs-Cotton-market quiet and unchanged
ut 12Lc.
LoUIsyILLE-Cotton-ma quiet and I'M
changed at 1254c.
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DYSPEPSIA.

SYMPToMS-Want of appetite. rising of food and
wind the stomach acility of the stomach heart
burn, dryness and whiteness of the tongue the
morning, of distcusion in the stomach and bow
els sometimes rumbling and pain Costivencfs which
occa sonaIlv pterrupted l,v ,arrhca palrness of
the urnep The mouth is clammy has a bitter
taste Other frequent symptoms are waterbrash.
ralritation of the heart headache and disorders of
the senses, seeing double, etc There is general
debility, languor, and aversion to motion; detection
of the spirits disturbed and fright dreams
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BAD enough to look and feel bad your
self; but no excuse for having your horse look
and feel badly, when for Il small sum you can
buy Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders,
which, given in grain two or three times
week, will make him look and feel well.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-11

After many years trial, we are satisfied that
the CHARTER OAK is the best Stove we ever
used, and cheerfully testify that it is the best
adapted to the wants of the general public OF
any stove in the market.
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PIMPLEs AND HUMORs ON THE FACE
In this condition of the skin, the EeSetine is
the great remedy, as it acts directly upon the
cause. 1t cleanses and purifies the blood,
thereby causing humors of all kinds to dis
appear.
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NV daughter has received great benefit from the
use If VrGrTISE Her declining health was source
Of great anxiety all of her fren'k; few bottle;
of the EFaETINE restored her heaith strenSth. alu
appetite. II. / - y Ell ,;,,
Rostuu Mass June :, IS72.
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lIifU0ffyj N-I'OoIf-o'V"'
THE COTTON MARKETS..
CATTLE MARKET.

CHICAGo-Cattle in good demand and firmer
good fat natives S5a75a6.25; fair to good S5a550
f1eshy steers s3a4.50; Texas 81. 75a425 Hogs, re-
cepts IL, 900 head market dull but firm assorted
packers S7a7.25 shipping S7.2Oa7.5; bacon S7a7 90
but chief at S7.10a715; Philadelphia S7.4Oa7 60.
Sheep-market slow common S3a3.50; best So 75a
$50.
fat hogs and sheep bought up fast received.
Scalawags, 11at21fc; common btcher's 212a3c; good
butchers, 3a51c; select steers, 1ac- Shecp-grOwn,
weighing upwards of 100 lbs, S3. OOa3.5O; spring
lambs, S1.50a3.00. Hogs-stock, &c; well-fattened,
Lja7c.
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The Catholics have eighteen semnaries,
LA professors, and ,23S students; the Bap-
fists have 16 schools, So professors, and 63S
students; the Presbyterians have 10 schools,
"a professors, and 294 students; the Congre-
gationalists have schools, so professors, and
sehods s. 4as 's Students S the
Protestant Episcopal has II schools, Sc pro-
fessors, and 294 students; the Methodist
Episcopal church has Z schools, So professors,
and sci pupils; the Reformed church has 5
schools, II professors, and SO students; the
United Presbyterians, Christians and Free
Baptists have schools each; and the Uni
tarians, African Methodists, Cumberland
Presbyterians, German Reformed, Methodist
church, south, Moravian, Swedenborgian,
Evangelical, United Brethren, and Univer-
salists have one each.-ChicdgO Inter Ocean.
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Feel Myself a New Man.

Mr.. II Il. STEVENS:
DEAR SIR-Through the advice and earnest per-
Iason of the Rev. +. :. Best of this place. have
been taking NEGETTNE for Dyspepsia, of which
have suffered for have used only two BOTTLES.
and already feel myself new man RespectimIix,
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TAKING CoLD.-Many of the colds
which people are said to catch com
mence at the feet. To keep these
extremities warm, therefore, is to
effect an insurance against the almost
interminable list of disorders which
spring out af "slight cold" First,
never be tightly shod. Boots or shoes
when they fit too closely press against
the foot and prevent the free circula-
ton of the blood. When, on the
contrary, they fit with comparative
looseness, the blood gets fair play, and
the spaces left between the leather and
the stockings are filled with comforta-
BILE supply of warm air. The second
is, never sit in damp shoes. 1t is often
imagined that unless they are positively
wet it is not necessary to change them.
This is fallacy, for when the least
dampness is absorbed into the sole it is
attracted nearer the foot itself by the
heat, and thus perspiration is danger
ously checked. Any person may prove
this by trying the experiment of neg
Letting this rule. The feet will be-
come cold and damp after few mo-
ments, although on taking off the shoe
and warming them they will appear
quite dry.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-12-11

TIE .jnice of ripe Tomatoes WI ro-
move the stains of walnuts from The
hands without injury to the skin.
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THE BORDER WAR.
A COMPARISON WORTHY THE ATTEN-
TION OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Gen. Ord, in command of the de-
partment of Texas, after reporting at
length on the border operations of the
Mexican banditti, says: alt seems to
me that the circumstances of the
plumber of stock ranches of the Rio
Grande are almost identical with the
piracies committed on our commerce
at one time by the Algerines who fled
in safety to their ports with their own
prizes. There the offenses were COM
mitted on the open sea, and here they
are committed with the same ease on
the open plain. In both cases the
pirates found ready sale for the cap
lures in the ports where their expedi-
tons were fitted out, namely, Algiers,
Tripoli, ETC., for the Moors; Mata-
moras, Reinosa, Camarga, Mier, and
Guerrero for the Mexicans; and in
both cases the pirates were rewarded by
promotion and honors. Patroling the
country along the Rio Grande, with a
view of intercepting raiders before
they can reach the river with stolen
herds in their. possession, is as if we
had tried to stop depredations upon our
commerce by the Moors by scattering
our cruisers along the north coast Of
Africa, with a view of intercepting some
A!gerine pirate before he could get
within three leagues of land with his
American prize. The success of Capt.
MNally, of the state troops, in strik-
ing the party of Cortina's men with a
stolen herd recently was due to his
accidentally capturing two struggling
robbers, who by the use of the only
effectual means known in such cases,
but not legitimate enough for regulars
to apply, where compelled to betray the
position and strength of their band.
1 have good reason for the belief that
the order from the Mexican govern
ment to arrest Cortina was due to the
order for the movement of naval
force to the Mexican border. As Cor
tina was not the only leader of raid
ing bands, and the others are still at
their old business, some more effectual
means must be adopted than sending
troops and sailors to look ON while our
people are being despoiled and MUIR
dered; for it is very evident that the
sailors and soldiers, however willing,
can do nothing if confined to this
side of the river, and an order
to make reprisals, with the means to
carry out the order, sometimes resulted
in indemnity as well as security"
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The New York Herald states that

the death-rate of that city has increased to an
alarming extent, owing to deficient drainage
and impure drinking water, which have the
effect Of making the whole city a very breed
ing place of malaria with the concomitant
typhoid fever. The Herald gives the follow
comparative table of death-rates in thirteen
of the large cities of the world, from the
sixth report of the Massachusetts, board of
health for 1874:
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VIRGINIA SLAVES ATs THEIR OLD
MASTERS GRAvE.-As soon as the
funeral services at the new-made grave
of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph
was concluded, and before the grave
was filled up, a veteran negro stepped
forward and asked if there was any
objection to service by his people
He was told that such tribute would
be acceptable to the family, and then a
scene that should go down in history
was enacted. Quietly Mr.. Randolph's
former slaves assembled around him,
and then swelled up from hundred
negro voices that most pathetic of
hymns:
Gam a soldier of the cross,
follower of the Lamb?"
A gentleman who was present says
that in his whole life, extending over
seventy years, he never witnessed any
thing so touching. When the last
notes died away amid the oaks of Mon
ticello. there was not a dry eye in the
vast assembly--Richmond Enquirer.
A STRONG solution of carbolic acid
and water, poured into holes, kills all
the ants it touches, and the survivors
Immediately take themselves off.
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The commissioner presents in this report a
much fuller exhibit than has previously been
made of the condition of the normal schools
of the country. In 1870 only So reported; in
1871, 60 in 1872, 9S; in 1873, 143; in 1874,
1874 These schools had in 1874, 900 instructors
and "a, 4O5 pupils. Normal schools are now
supported in all the states except Nevada and
the District of Columbia. The graduates for
the year numbered 1882, Of whom 1856 are
engaged in teaching.
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
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Every State reports one or more school of
science; twenty-seven states report schools
of theology; twenty states report law schools
twenty-seven states report regular schools of
medicine.
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COST OF SCHOOLS PER CAPITA.
The following table shows the per capita
rate of expenditure during the year as ar
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IN WIN. ID. AstOrs ueatn the people
of New York lose public benefactor. Mr..
Astor fully carried out his fathers purpose Of
giving TO New York a magnificent library,
and supplemented the elder Astor's dona-
tions to the Astor library in a very handsome
manner. This great collection (now number
ing 10000 volumes) and the superb building
which contains it form an enduring monu-
ment to the public spirit and taste of both
father and son. Their millions have not
been selfshly applied.