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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-13
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Yesterday Mail

Brought three more certificates in favor of Gamma
bis Indica," the great East India remedy for con-
sumption, bronchitis and asthma:
- Send me one dozen Ointment and
one OF Cannabis lDdica. When Mr.. j. ". Fisher
brought his wife to me for examination, found her
in the incipientstage Of Tuberculous Consumption.
Then it was, concluded to make fair trial OF In.
dian Hemp, and now here is general demand TOR
those remedies. The ointment excels everything
of its kiud ever saw or tried.
Fraternally yours,
p. "A. SIFFORD, NJ. d.
China Grove. Ro an, c.
n. B.-This remedy speaks for itself. One bottle
will satisfy the most skeptcal. Ask your druggist
get it, - so per bottle, three bottles for $500
Pills and Ointment 81 .25 each.
AS these are imported remedies we do not COM
mission them but will make cash agents every.
where. Address CRADDOUk 4 CO.,
1852 Race Street,
novlO4w Philadelphia Pa.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-13

The Mississippi democrats must have a
great deal of cheek TO claim to have q ma
jority in that State, BY the census Of 1870
Mississippi haa white population of3S2,-
SOC and colored population of 44f,201.
As rule, the colored electors are repub-
licau. There can not be less than ten or
fifteen thousand white republicans in the
State. In 1872 the republicans carried it
by 3S,0 majority, and in fair vote the
republican majority would have been no
less this wear than three wears ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-13
THE POLITICAL PROSPECT.

VIEW FROM THE CAPIATL-DEMoCRATI MAD
NESS Their IIEREsIEs TO BE EXPOSED IN
CoNGRFss
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-13

Rod of four years, not now necessary to
particularize, we paid 800 or $3.50 for a
pair Of boots. Ysu see the volume OF cur
rency was equal TO the necessities Of
trade
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
A Troubled Barber.

A JOKE was perpetrated on one of the
best artists in one of our best barber-shops
yesterday, which disguised the young
man very much and made any quantity OF
sport for his associates. The men were all
busy at work when a man entered the
shop, took his seat in the corner, pulled
out a paper and began to read while wait
ing his turn. He held the paper up be-
fore his face in such a manner that the
barber could not see it, and therefore when
he had finished his job he sharply ejacu-
lated "Nexti' No response from the
man behind the newspaper. "Shave,
STRIP came next little louder. Still no
response. Then raising his voice rather
impatiently, as he was barber whose
chair was never sighted before, he shout
ed: "Want something done, sir?" All
was quiet and the man read on as though
he were ten miles from any disturbing
queries. "That mans deaf mute !"
said one of the artists fellow-workers. 1
know him well; he wants a shave, but
the young man left his chair, stepped
across the room and touched the quiet
man on the shoulder. He glanced up,
when the barber began pantOmime per-
Torrance intended to represent the opera
ton of shaving, and then pointed per-
suasively toward his chair. mo, thank
you," said the mute, I'm only waiting
for friend" The look of unauthorized
unmistakable and unspeakable disgust on
that BARRIERS face as he went back to his
chair was painful to witness.
IN. " Chronicle.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
The Strange Dfsease.

LIKE the thief at night, it steals in upon
us unawares. The patients have pains
about the chest and sides, and sometimes in
the back. They feel dull and sleepy; the
mouth has a bad taste, especially in the
morning. A sort of sticky slime collects
about the teeth. The appetite is poor.
There is feeling like a heavy load on the
stomach, sometimes faint, all-gone sensa-
ton at the pit of the stomach, which food
does not satisfy. The eyes are sunken, the
hands and feet become cold and feel clam
my. After awhile a cough sets in, at first
dry but after q few months it is attended
with greenish-colored expectoration. The
patient feels tired all the while, and sleep
does not appear to afford any rest. After a
time he becomes nervous, irritable and
gloomy, and has evil forebodings. There is
a giddiness, sort of whirling sensation in
the head when rising up suddenly. The
bowels become costive, the skin is dry and
hot at times. The blood becomes thick and
stagnant, the whites of the eyes become
tingcd with yellow, the urine is scanty and
high -colorcd, depositing a sediment after
standing. There is frequently splitting up
of the food, sometimes with sour taste
and sometimes swedish taste. This is
frequently attended with palpitation of the
heart. The vision becomes impaired with
spots before the eyes. There is feeling of
these symptoms do not make their appear
ance at one time, but during the various
stages they are in turn present. 1t is
thought that nearly one-third Of our pOpu-
lation has this disease in some of its varied
forms. 1t has been found that medical men
have mistaken the nature of this disease.
Some have treated it for liver complaint,
some for dyspepsia, others for kidney dis
ease, etc, etc, but none of these various
kinds of treatment have been attended with
success. 1t is found, however, that the
SHAKER EXTRACT OF RooTs (not patent
medicine), when prepared properly, will re-
move the disease in all its stages. Care
should be taken to procure a good article.
Sold by A. J. WHITE, General Agent, $40
| Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
FARM AND HOME.

The best fattening material for chick
ems is said to be Indian meal and milk.
-BibOrate of soda dissolved in water,
used as lotion, will remove prickly heat.
Scratches in horses may be cured by
using a wash twice a day of teaspoon
full of powdered blue vitriol dissolved in
half pint of water. Keep the feet clean.
-Erchdnge.
To Cure a Felon.-As soon as the
parts begin to swell wrap the parts affect
ed with a cloth thoroughly saturated with
tincture of lObelia, and the felon is dead.
An old physician says he has known it to
cure in scores of cases, and ii never fails
if applied in season.-Erchange.
Potato Sautees.-These are even more
agreeable with meat than fried potatoes.
Cold boiled potatoes are sliced up and
tossed up in a tin saucepan with butter,
mixed with little chopped parsley, till
they are lightly Drowned. Pure goose or
other dripping is, by many cooks, pre-
ferred to butter for this purpose.
PURGE OF Potatoes.-This differs from
mashed potatoes only in the employment
of more milk and butter, and in the whole
being carefully reduced to a perfectly
smooth, thick, cream-like mixture. Where
economy is great object, and where rich
dishes are not desired, the following Is an
admirable mode DIMINISHING potatoes: Boil
them till thoroughly done, having added a
handful of salt to the water, then dry
them we'll, and with two forks placed
back to back beat the whole up till no
Jumps are left. If done rapidly, potatoes
thus cooked ar extremely light and di-
gestible.
Taking timothy hay as the standard
of comparison it requires 100 pounds OF
it to supply a certain amount of nourish-
ment 1t is estimated by careful expert
ment that the same amount of nourish-
ment can be obtained by using the follow.
ing quantities of other food: Clover hay,
ninety-five pounds; rye straw, 355 pounds
oat straw, 22O pounds; potatoes, 195
pounds carrots, $50 pounds; beets, BAG
pounds; ruta- bagas, 262 pounds; wheat
forty three pounds; peas, forty-foul
LYNNE pounds; barley, fifty-one pounds
corn, fifty-six pounds; oats, fitty-nint
pounds; buckwheat, sixty-four pounds
and oil-cake sixty-four pounds.-Rurd
New Yorker.
| In large majority of cases, says the
Journal Of Health, it will be found tina
the best and heartiest meal of the day
should be eaten in the morning. If the
closing repast OF the day has not beer
eaten too late, or has not been excessive
in quantity or indigestible in quality, the
stomach will be rested and active in the
morning after the individual has enjoyed
a cool bath. The stomach will then re
spOnd quickly with the necessary gastric
juice for the solution of food, and if {
fair amount of exercise is taken during
the day large mass of food will be as
simulated and converted into blood an(
tissue. With good, substantial break
| fast no great amount of food will be re
quired during the remainder of the day.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
What Is in the Bedroom.

If two persons are to occupy bedroom
during the night let them step on a
weighing-scale rs they retire, and then
again in the morning, and they will find
that their actual weight is at least pound
less in the morning. Frequently there
will be loss of two or more pounds, and
the average loss throughout the year will
be pound of matter, which has gone off
from their bodies, partly from the lungs
and partly through the pores of the skin.
The escaped matter is carbOnic acid and
decayed animal matter or poisonous ex-
halatiOn. This is diffused through the
air in part, and part absorbed by the bed
clothes. If a single ounce of wood cotton
be burned in a room it will so complete
ly saturate the air with smoke that one
can hardly breathe, though there can
hardly be one ounce of foreign matter in
the air. If an ounce of cotton be burned
every half hour during the night the air
will be kept continually saturated with
smoke, unless there be an open win
dow or door for it to escape. Now, the
sixteen ounces of smoke thus formed is
far less poisonous than the sixteen of ex-
halations from the lungs and bodies of
two persons who have lost pound in
weight during the eight hours OF sleep
ing; for, while the dry smoke is mainly
taken into the lungs, the damp odors from
the body are absorbed both into the lungs
and into the pores of the whole body
Need more be said to show the impor-
lance Of having bedrooms well venti-
lated, and of thoroughly airing the sheets
coverlids and mattresses in the morning
before packing them up in the form of a
neatly-made bed ?-Science Of Health.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
A Cninaman's Funeral In Chicago.

Du Long has the honor of being the
first defunct Chinaman that ever started to
meet Joss from Chicago. Seventy-fve OF
his countrymen were speedily apprised of
thronged with the friends of poor Du
Long, who deserted their wash boards and
flat-irons to perform the last duty of re-
spect according to the burial rites of their
religion and the custom of their country.
The time when he breathed his last was
accurately noted. His lifeless form was
then arrayed in his best sack and trousers,
his hat was placed upon his head, and the
late Du Long was lifted to sitting pos
ture in chair. On either side of him a
Chinaman seated himself, dressed in black
sacks of mourning, stolidly smoking their
pipes in silence. In front of the body was
placed plate containing plenty of rice
and cigar, . simple and superstitious
offering to the dead, indicating the will
ingness of his friends to minister material
comfort if needed. In this position was
the body kept exactly twelve hours, a
number of the Celestials taking turns in
cordingly lasted until Sunday noon. A
large number of square bits of wood were
then laid upon the floor at intervals of an
inch or so, and upon them the body was
laid. Candles were placed about the body
and were kept constantly burning, while
the atmosphere of the basement was fire.
quently perfumed with incense. Several
friends still surrounded the corpse, and
this ceremony was continued until noon
yesterday. The crowd of Chinese resi-
dents again gathered at the house of the
dead and sat down on the floor and on
the tables in the basement. They were
all smoking poor tobacco, which they
pulled vigorously, nearly suffocating them
selves in the dense volume of smoke. The
old clothes of the deceased were collected
and burned, in expectation that they
would maierialize and be ready for Du
Longs use as he went on his way to the
spirit land.
About two o'clock in the afternoon the
corpse was placed in a plain coffin of the
usual style of manufacture ana then a
procession, consisting of hearse and
half a dozen carriages, took up its line of
march for Graceland Cemetery. After the
coffin had been lowered into the grave
several pounds of rice and some cigars
were placed n the coffin, and the earth
was then put back into the grave. Pipes
were then lighted, and the friends who
surrounded the grave INDUCED in another
silent smoke. The old hat which Du
Long had worn in the days of his
strength was meantime placed upon the
grave, and under it little heap of COM
bustibles. The hat was reduced to ashes,
and the burial ceremony of the deceased
Chinaman was at an end. The funeral
party returned home, and last evening the
industrious Cinnamon of Chicago were
bending over their slippery wash boards
and trying their best to make up for lost
| time.-CHicag0 Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
Not Prejudiced.

MARK Twain found it necessary to
give description of an acquaintance once,
and especially desired that nothing in his
description should be understood as indi-
eating prejudice against the subject-he
should endeavor to confine himself to
bare facts; and this is the array of facts :
" A long legged, vain, light weight vii
lage lawyer, from New Hampshire. If
he had brains in proportion to his legs he
would make Solomon seem il failure; if
his modcsty equaled his Ignorance he
would make violet seem stuck up; if
his learning equaled his vanity he would
make Won Humboldt seem as unlettered
as the back side of tombstone; if his
stature were propcrtioned to his conscience
he would be a gem for the microscope :;
if his ideas were as large as his words it
would take n man three months to walk
around one of them; if an audience were
to contract to listen as long as he would
talk that audience would die of old age :;
and if he were to talk until he said some
thing he would still be on his legs when
the last trump sounded, and he would
have cheek enough to wait till the disturb
ance was over and go on again"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
About the Kitchen.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Int

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Inter
Ocean writes as follows:
l am not going to write this piece for
those people who can keep half dozen
servants and sit upstairs, but for those
women who compose the larger part of
our housekeepers, those who do their
work themselves, washing, ironing, bak-
ing and all, besides taking care of several
children. These women know that to do
their work and do it well they must spend
a larger part of their time in the kitchen.
And as our surroundings are so does our
life seem to us. AS woman spends most
of her life in her kitchen, as it is, so will
everything seem to her. If it is bare, dark
and unpleasant, how much barer, darker
and more unpleasant will it make her life
seem, and cice rersd. Even though the
rooms are kept clean in the strictest sense
of the word, we can't help seeing what a
hard, sharp, unpleasing look some houses
have inside as well as out l think if
housekeepers would, instead of keeping
all their pretty things for their best rooms,
bring few of them into the kitchen it
would bring great deal more sunshine
into their lives. Have cheerful paper on
the walls mot gaudy), and the woodwork
prettily grained instead of the dark steel
blue so commonly used. Have plenty of
sunshine there are no carpets or uphOl-
pictures or ornaments liven it up a little.
If they do make some more busting they
amply repay for the work spent on them
in the satisfaction they give. A few ge-
raniums, or pot of ivy in a sunny win
dow, or winter bouquet on the clock
Shelf do not come amiss. I have in my
mind while l am writing this u happy
home, one of the happiest ever knew of,
where lived about year while was at
tor
the house was the kitchen. 1t was always
SO light and cheerful, with few bright
pictures on the walls and ornaments on
the brackets; the painted floor and wood
work were always clean, the stove bright,
and a few flowers in the sunniest window
1t was always so easy to work in that
kitchen, and things seemed to keep " done
up'' OF themselves. 1t was only few
minutes work to dust and arrange the
little things that would keep the heart glad
all day long. And if there was no fire in
the sitting-room when company came or a
girl friend came to see me we were not
ashamed to take them into the kitchen
and give them a seat in the easy-chair that
| always stood there and that was always so
nice TO drop into when you had a minute
to rest. / am sure it did great deal more
good than if it had been sitting stiff and
straight in the best room. For somehow
the husband and father seemed to prefer
sitting in it by the bright fire, with the
pretty Pictures around him, in the evening
rather than sit on a hard counter at the
country store or GROCERY, among the
fumes of tobacco smoke.
If women only knew this secret it would
make their lives more cheerful and happy,
to say nothing of the good it would do
their husbands and children, and the little
extra trouble would be paid back in a two
fold ratio.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
A Plea for Late Suppers.

A Paris correspondent, who has fallen,
doubtless, into the European practice of
eating late suppers, says it is q mistake to
suppose the medical faculty hostile to
sleep following supper. He discussed the
question recently with an able physician,
who said to him: There is nothing
more absurd than to pretend It's I'M
healthy to sleep Immediately after the
days last meal. Is not man an animal?
Do not animals, without exception, sleep
Immediately after eating, Do we not feel
like sleeping after each days last meal?
and is it not by an effort that we shake off
sleeps Evidently the body yearns for
sleep. Exercise Immediately after every
meal is pernicious. Rest is healthful.
What rest can compare with sleep, which
reposes the mind, the lungs, even the
Joy better health than they do. Supper is
the best meal of their day. No sooner
have they supped than they go to bed.
Look at the actors. There was Rubini.
He dined at three, went to his dressing
room in the Italian Opera-House, and
slept till the theater opened its doors. At
midnight he supped heartily, and straight
to bed he went He died of sheer old age.
You know Mons. Theirs habiti The
moment dinner ends he stretches himself
out to sleep, and sleeps an hour. The
truth is, you look about you there will
be found that the great majority of men
go to sleep Immediately after making their
best meal You certainly never saw any
where in the world healthier or stronger
women than those of the great markets.
What is their rule of life? Dinner and to
bed. Take another, the very opposite
class-astronomers. They keep late hours
Their best meal is taken when the stars
say Goodnight Then they go to
sIaor, hid xyot, hoar Of
mer dying under 100? The great MAORI
ty of servants and mechanics go to sleep
Immediately after taking their best meal.
They are right. They obey natures
voice, which always gives judicious
counsel"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
Consumption Can h. Cured.

ScHENCK's Pulmonic Syrup. Schencks Sea Weed
Tonic. Schencks Mandrake Pills, are the only
medicines that will cure Pulmonary Consumption:
Frequently medicines that will stop cough will
occasion the death Of the PATIENT they lock up the
liver stop the circulation of the blood, hemOrrhage
follows and. in fact, they clog the action Of the
very organs that caused the cough.
Liver Complaint and Dyspepsia are the causes Of
two-thirds Of the cases OF Consumption. Many
persons complain of a dull pain in the side consi-
patton coated tongue, pain in the shoulder blade,
feelings Of drowsiness and restlessness, the food
lying heavily on the stomach, accompanied with
acidity and belching up Of wind.
These symptoms usually originate from disor-
dered condition of the stomach or q torpid liver.
Persons so affected, il they take one two heavy
colds and il the cough in these cases be suddenly
checked. will find the stomach and liver clogged,
remaining torpid and inactive and, almost before
they aware, the lungs are q mass of sores and
liberated, the result Of which is death.
Schcnck's Pulmonic Syrup is an expectorant
which does not contain opium or anything calcu-
lated tn check cough suddenly.
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic dissolves the food,
mixes with the gastric juices Of the stomach, aids
digestion and creates q ravenous appetite.
When the bowels costive, skin sallow, or the
symptoms otherwise Of bilious tendency,
Schenck's Mandrake Pills are required.
These medicines are prepared only by J; q.
ScHENcK Son, N. E. cor. 9Th and Arch sts, Phil
ada and for sale By all druggists and dealers.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23

THE late Richard NJ Blatchford stopped
one day in the winter of 1873 at an old
woman's stall on Nassau street, New
York, to buy banana. He laid pack
age down by his right side while he Sc
lected the fruit, and fumbled in his pocket
for the pennies needed, and feeling tap
on his left shoulder turned to the left a
skillfui thief grabbed the package with
out being discovered and made his
escape. The package contained $4,000
in Government bonds, and no trace of
hem has ever been obtained.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23

MY household gods are all abroad,
Their names scarce remember,
And naught is on my hearthstone now
'Cept ember.
And even thus next month shall come,
With humor grim ana sober,
And then what's standing now will be
Knockt obcr.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23

THE most dangerous mines in the
United States are in Schuylkill County,
every 85 900 tons mined. One man is
killed in England for every 1873, 900 tons
mined, one in Pennsylvania for every
200 tons, and one in Ohio for every
1873 600 tons. This destruction of human
life ought always to be considered when
making complaints about dear fuel. No
doubt the prices often charged for coal are
too dear, but the excess of charges is on the
part of those who own the mines, and
never on that of those who work them.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23

Potatoes Souffiees.-These delicious
blistered potatoes are prepared as follows:
The potatoes, if small, are simply cut in
halves; if large, cut into two or three more
slices these are fried in the usual way,
but are taken out before they are quite
done, and set aside to get cold; when
wanted they are fried second time, but
only until they are of light golden color,
not brown
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23

THERE have been few brighter things
than this, which appears in the Graphic:
:" The golden rule-Do undo others as
they would undo you. This is the whole
law and 1t protits.''
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23
A CULTIVATED woman is the same in all

A CULTIVATED woman is the same in all
civilizations, and now that The Paris fash
ion is the law of the genller sex, from
Russia to Mexico, from Australia to Am
sterdam, IN London and in Leipsic, in
Berlin and in Boston, it is amusing to no.
tice how little mere language changes the
fair daughters of Eve. Their grace is the
same in all climates, and l have met i
German woman who at first looked so
much like an American that, until she
spoke, should have sworn | had seen
her in Philadelphia Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-23

WILHoFT's ANTI-PERIoDIc OR FEVER AND
AGUE ToNIC.-This invaluable and standard
family medicine is now a household word
and maintains its reputation unimpaired. 1t
is Endorsed by the medical profession, and
prescribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhoft's
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men Of the country, and is
worthy of such Endorsement. WHEELoCK,
FINLAY & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BIZ ALL DRUGGIsTs.