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The Osceola times., 1875-05-01
A NiellnwO ,vas /

A "fellow" was in our city
last week, calling himself Prof. O.
J. s. Dillon, selling a quack medi,
cine, and after remaining a few
days, he left, "dead beating" the
Reamcs' Hotel out of his board
bill, and the "Standard" Office out
of u small amount. The gentle.
man, we believe, halls from Little
Rock. Let the Press pass hlm
around. He's chad egg."-[A
kadelphIa Standard.
The Osceola times., 1875-05-01

The st. LOUIS Times charges
the Little Rock Gazette with urg-
ing Gov Garland for President IN
1876. To which the Gazette re-
spends that the Times is mistaken
and says: We have said that we
believe the Democracy ofthe s'uth
should have the second place on
the Presidential ticket-and in Sc
lecting a suitable man for that
place the country could not do bet
ter than to take Garland, who
stands head and shoulders above
any man yet mentioned in tAat
connection"
The Osceola times., 1875-05-01
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Uur friends who favor us with
items OF news, information, or other
correspondence will please bean
IN mind the following rules.
WRlrE ONLY ON osE SIDE OF THE
rApER. This rule is imperative,
and we will hereafter pay no atten-
ton to letters written on both sides
of the sheet.
BE BRIEF, state What you have
10 say in the fewest possible words.
SEND Us NEWS: We want facts,
dot disquisitidns; moralisings or
reflections on them. Above al
things, DoNT WRITE UNLESS YoU
HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.
The Osceola times., 1875-05-01

Some smarty writes and many
papers have quoted the following
sentence: "Forty girls will run
after a snob with Il gold headed
cane where one will shy up To a
fellow with common sense" When
we say that forty men will run at.
ter hlrt who can sing a little and
thump a little on the piano to whore
one will shy up to Il plain; hard
sense girl who is not ashamed 10
help her mother get dinner, the
case stands about even.
The Osceola times., 1875-05-01

TBE loss Of life at New Orleans
on the burning Of the steamers
John Kyle, Bodman, and Export
sr, is 40; so great us at first report
ed. The mortality Goes not ex-
ceed fifteen or twenty lives.
The Osceola times., 1875-05-01

The Chicot Herald, from ITS ap-
pearancc, has the Yellow Jaundice.
ASIDE from It's color, however, the
Herald is one of the .liyelicst pa
pcrs on our list.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
Six Millions.

About two years ago, Dr. J. Walker,
 an old and prominent physician of Cali fornia, discovered, by actual experience upon his own system, medicine which may honestly be termed ia boon to suffering humanity" Being combina- tion of herbalistic extracts, pungent and sour to the taste, and yet possessed of gentle stimulative characteristics although entirely free from alcohol-he named it Vinegar Bitters, and despite the prejudice existing among his pro fession against all patented medicines, he determined to brave the jeers of his brother practitioners, and give to suffer ing humanity the benefit of his accidental discovery. He did so, and the benefits from it's use became known. The de mand increased, and immense quantities were sold, at merely nominal price. Its merit is told in the fact that st in two years over six millions of bottles have been sold;" and still the demand in creases. Surely such man should be ranked among the benefactors of the human race. Q
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
The Waste of a Country.

The geographers estimate the whole area of the United States and Terri tories at about three and a half million square miles, an area not greatly less than than that of China or of Siberia
 But from this area we have to deduct Q full million of square miles in one "block," nearly third of the whole, for the vast mountain region that lies west of the Mississippi valley. From the eastern slopes of the Rocky noun tains to the western wall of the Sierra Nevada, nine hundred miles from east to west in the latitude of San Francisco, and from Mexico all the way to Canada, twelve hundred miles from north to south, the larger part of the country is bowling wilderness; and not only this, but an irreclaimable wilderness. Ex- ployers and surveyors tell us that most of this region is a naatpagIs, an un- watered country of barren mountains and sterile highlands, domain of min erals and of snow, and that it's mere ele- vation makes it unsuitable for the habi- tation- of an agricultural people. Much of it is full mile too high in the mir for the ripening of crops of our attitudes. The Territory of Wyoming contains 97, 900 square miles, and not a foot of it is less than four thousand feet above the level of the sea- " tE$ L#EE Fs#
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
His Revenge.

Helen Rodius was the belle of Selma, Texas, and John Kincaid, planter, was her unaccepted lover. Two years ago, after again asking her to marry him and again hearing her refusal, he told her that he could no longer bear to live near her. "I am going to Mexico,' he said, "and forbid you to marry anybody else. If I hear of your disobeying this injunction I will come back and kill you" He went away, and Helen thought lightly of his threat. After awhile she fell ill love with druggist named Faust, and married him. A month ago they at tended public ball, and Melen was as tonished to see her rejected lover there
 He was affablc at first, but as the night wore on he drank excessively of brandy, and then disappeared. Faust took his wife home, and then started for Houston on business. In the morning she was found stabbed to death in bed, and Kin caid has not been seen in Selma since.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
A RACE WITH THE FLOOD.
An Exciting Ride from Roses Tavern to
 Port Jervis and d Narrow Escape.


 2 Port Jervis and a Narrow Escape.
 The first approach at Port Jervis, N. Y., of the ice food which was so de- structive throughout the Delaware valley was discovered by Supervisor Nearpass, l.. O. Rose and James Buchanan about seven o'clock in the morning. They went up along the Sparrowbush road to the camp ground, and thence to Roses tavern, about two miles from the town. The road runs close to the edge of the river bank, which between Roses and the camp ground is eight feet above the river, a quarter of mile. 1t then rises to fifteen feet high. Between seven and was rising very fast. Looking up stream ice as high as the banks moving down toward them. The ice in the river where they were began heaving upward, and was soon almost up to the road. The advancing flood from above was throwing cakes of ice high in the air and hurling them over the banks on either side. It was plain to the three specta tors that unless they could put the quar- ter of mile of low ground between them and the flood of ice, they would he cut off from communication with Port Jervis. .F..
 They instantly jumped in their sleigh. Buchanan put his horses on a dead run. The ice had now raised above the, bank, and great cakes began to fall in the road behind the sleigh. The ice moved with l such velocity that the running horses could not increase the distance between it and the sleigh. Before half the dis tance was accomplished the ice received new impetus from the wave from above, which had overtaken the smaller flood. Buchanan saw the ice gaining on him. He piled the whip at every jump, and his horses almost flew. When they reached the foot of the hill, which car ries the road to higher ground, there was less than a yards space between the sleigh and the ice. t The; occupants of the rear seat jumped forward, expecting that before they were-up the hill the sleigh would be crushed beneath the pursuing ice. The higher bank was reached in safety, however. For half a mile the, food kept abreast, of them. Now and then cake of ice, would be thrown over the top of the bank, falling sometimes within foot of the sleigh. When they came to- the hill beyond Buckley's, on the outskirts of German town, the river for some distance leaving the road, they felt that they had escaped the flood. What was their dis1nay, on looking off to the right, to see that the ice had been stopped in the channel of the river, and was making 8 new one through a gulley across Buckley's fiat, and was rapidly approaching the road at 8 point a hundred yards ahead of the sleigh. The distance to be made by both sleigh and ice to pass that point was about equal. Buchanan knew that he must make 8 last effort to outstrip the flood. Putting the whip to his horses the race was renewed. The sleigh passed the disputed point not more than ayard ahead of the ice, which a second .afterward rushed across the road and carried destruction into Germantown.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
Vice President Wilson and the United
 ae States Bounty Bill.

Vice-President Wilson of the United States, in giving his reasons why he cast his vote for the Bounty bill which President Grant vetoed, says: There en- tered the armies during the first two and half years of the wnI' about l,25O,O0O men, who were to receive as sal compensa- tion SIS per month and bounty of $100. The pay and bounty, when promised, were at gold rates, when the currency was at par, and when paid was not worth more than fifty cents on the dollar. Under the order of the War department and the act of June, 1864, in creasing the pay, and the act of July of the same year, giving a bounty of $100' for one year, $20O for two years, $500 for three years, 800,O men were called for by the President. Aside from this, he says, these latter men received large land bounties. In the Thirty-l1intll Con- gress other bounties were given, but this still left the first troops far behind those who last enlisted in the amount received. The amount paid as per the additional bounties paid by the Thirty ninth Congress, was $62, ,517, ,204, AS. The bill passed by the last Congress would have so capitalized the bounty, he says, that each soldier world have re ceived $8.331 per months bounty, and this would have settled the bounty question forever, He declares that as the ratter now stands great injustice has been done the troops who first en- listed, and says that by no possibility could it have taken from the Treasury more than $1O, ,O00, 900 or $12, ,000,000 in the next two year The soldiers could not have sold their claims, as claim agents could not have bought them. Had the bill passed it could not have been fully carried out in less than seven or eight years, and in amount it could not exceed the sum required by the act of 1866, and the total amount paid out would not have exceeded that bill, or the sum of s63, ,00O.0OO. 8&
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

A NEW TUNNE1.-A company has re- gently been formed in Spain under the title of the Inter-C Continental Railway Company, the main object of which is to unite Europe and Africa by tunnel under the Straits of Gibraltar. This one, as projected, is to be a right line, extend ing between Tarifa and Algesiras on the Spanish coast to Centa and to Tangier on the Morocco shore. The submarine portion will be A, 160 feet in length, or nearly nine miles. e.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
Measured Wit.

It is old, but good In early days, say 1850 and 1851, Lieut.. Derby, United States army, familiarity known as . Phoenix" took passage for San Diego. Derby, advancing to Capt. Bob Haley, asked the price of passage, to which the answer came: "Sixty-fve dollars. |" Derby" Captain Haley, what is the freight on lumber 2" (which was worth $100 per 1000 feet.) Captain-' Fifty dollars per thousand. Derby (who was on deck and small man) )-" Well, Captain Haley, as the freight on lumber is less than passage rate measure me, for I am board"
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

The iano-Harp Cabinet Organ is Q new invention, combining three and one-half octaves of pianoforte, or of an instrument with tones between those of the piano and the harp with the organ. It is beautiful instrument, costing but little more than the organ. The Mason x Hamlin Organ Go. are not able to manufacture it rapidly enough to supply the demand. Y r
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
A Few Words to Feeble and Delicate
 Women. +1st -

Women. 4~-t6 %-
 By R V. Pierce M. D.. of the Worlds Dis pensary, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Knowing that you are subject to a great amount of suffering, that delicacy on your part has a strong tendency to rrolong, and the longer it is neglected t6e'more you have to en- dure and the more difficult of cure your case becomes, I, as & physician, who is daily con- suited by scores of your sex, desire to say to you that l am constantly meeting with those who have been treated for their ailments for months without being benefited in the least, until they have become perfectly discouraged and have almost made up their minds never to take another dose of medicine. nor be tortured by any further treatment. They had rather die and have their sufferings ended than to live and suffer as they have. They say they are worn out ty suffering and are only made worse by treatment. Of anything more dis couraging, we certainly cannot conceive, and were there no more successful mode of treating such difficulties than that, the principles of which teach the reducing and depicting of the vital forces of the system, when the indications | dictate 8 treatment directly the reverse of the | one adopted for them, their cases would be de- | porable indeed. But, lady sufferers, there is better and far more successful plan of treat ment for you one more in harmony with the | laws and requirements of your system. A | harsh, irritating caustic treatment and strong medicines will never cure you. If you would | use rational means, such as common sense l w AAANSAAAoSAA" such medicines as embody the very best in vigorating tonics and nervines, compounded with special reference to your delicate system. Such happy combination you will find in my Favorte Prescription, which has received the loudest praise from thousands of your sex. | Those lanquid, tiresome sensations causing you to feel scarcely able to be on your feet or ascend flight of stairs that continual drain that is sapping from your systems.all your for mer elasticity, and driving the bloom from your cheeks; that continual strain upon your vital forces that renders you irritable and Fret full may all be overcome and subdued by a pcrsevering use of that marvellous remedy. Irregularities and Instructions to the proper workings of your system are relieved by this mild and safe means while periodical pains, the existence of which is sure indication of serious disease that should not be neglected, readily yield to it, and if it's use is kept up fol reasonable length of time the special cause of these pains is permanently removed. Fur ther light on these subjects may be obtained from my pamphlet en diseases peculiar to youl sex, sent on receipt of two stamps. My Favortte Prescription is sold by druggsts.-C Com.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

l" WHEELER & WILSON'S NEW NO. 6 MACHINE must eventually supcrsede all others mow run cih mhich t comes i,, competition We recommend .tor it the highest award tphich it is in the poarer of tue Institute to bestow."-From the unanimous report of the five Judges of the American Institute, New York, 1874.
 The Board of Managers unanimously ap- proved the report, and recommended for this machine the Gold Medal of the Institute.
 The Board of Direction unanimously ap. proved this recommendation, and awarded the Gotd Afetlal to Wheeler X Wilson, the only gold medal awarded for Sewing Machine by the American Institute for many years.
 The Austrian Official Report of the Vienno Exposition pronounced it "he marpel of the Exposition" and added, " his amiuersaI machine seacs the heaviest Jedther harness and the fines, guuze 'Vih truly peari stitch."
 1He Grand Medot of Progress ,cas awa'ded for tt.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
DEATHS BY CoNsUMpT1oN.--It

DEATHS BY CoNsUMPTIoN. It is esti mated that 1O0,00 die yearly in the United States with consumption. When consumption first appears there is a pain in the chest anG oppression, attended with difficulty of breath. ing. Soon there will be cough, if this irrita ton is not healed, and the effort to raise vii still add fuel to the fire. Allen's Lung Balsan will at once allay the pain and irritated parts stop the cough, and prevent what would be consumption. It is making cures of diseased lungs which were considered incurable. Fol sale by all medicine dealers.-- Com.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

More than fifty years have elapsed since JohnSon's Anodyne Linin,ent was first in- vented, during which time hundreds of thou sands have been benefited by it's use. Proba- bly, no article ever became so universally popn- lar with all classes as Jolnson's Anodyne Linillt1lt,-CO7n.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

ELECTRICITY IS LIFE. nervous dis orders chronic diseases of the chest, head, liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and pains, nervous and general debility, etc, quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing Volta s Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable book froe, by Volta Belt Co.,, Cincinnati, Ohio- Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

FOUND AT LAST IA remedy that not only relieves but cures consumption, as well ae coughs, colds, bronchitis, sore throat, infu, enza, etc Tho remedy to which we allude is D' Wistar's Baysam of Nid Cherry, prepared by Seth w. Fowle t Sons. Boston. Fifty cents and one dollar a bottle, large bottles much the cheaper.-C Com.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

Pills which contain antimony, quinine and calomel, should be avoided as severe gripping pains would be their only result. The safest, surest, and best pills are Parsons' PaugdtiUe O. A,.ti. Bilious PiUs-Con.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

f The past season, 341, ,057 barrels of apples were shipped from Wayne coun, ty, Y. It is estimated that 100, GOO barrels were used for drying and making
 cider, and 100000 barrels were packed for home use, which would make tho crop of the county 541 ,O57 barrels. IT,
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

"There that explains where my clothes-line went to l" exclaimedan Iowa woman as she found her husband hang ing in the stable. E41sFE'
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

.,' Six Milwaukee women, with babies, met the other day, and agreed to vote which was the handsomest infant. Each child got one vote.
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing Machines.

We call attention to the Wheeler & Wilson advertisement in our columns.
 This we'll known company has the most advantageous facilities for supplying the public with sewing machines, on as favor able terms as tho business will allow.
 They warrant all their work, and 1t is Q matter of importance to the purchaser to deal with company whose position and permanenee gave assurance that their guaranty will be fulfilled. They have agencies and offices throughout the civil ized world, for furnishing needles, thread and other necessary supplies, and have an established reputation for reliability and fair dealing.s sss @z "a VI
 Some of the Presbyterian papers in the United States are advocating the in troduofion of6 the responsive use of the Psalms in, their church worship; and they Fepudiate the idea that there is any thing in such responsive services that belongs exclusively to Episcopacy or any othersformiof church governments " '"'
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

BURNETT's CoCoAINE is the best and cheapesG hair dressing in the world Com
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02

If you want the best Elastic Truss for rup- ture, write to Pomeroy & Co.,, 744 Bdway, N. Y. Com \ tf+ .Ea III S
Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
V. Y. N. U.-Nn l3

R. H. MCDONALD tS CO.,. Druggists and Gen. \ gts. San Francisco California and cor of Washington and Charlton Sts,, x. Y.
 Sold by all Druggists and b :tirb'S.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-05-21

SAN Francisco DISTRICT. - Judge
Lober, a resident of Beaver, Utah, and
recently from San Francisco District, ar
rived in Phoebe on the Salt Lake stage
Wednesday. He is fayorably impressed
with the prospects of San Francisco Dis
trict and thinks that We shall hear good
accounts from there before long.
REcoRpEp. A paper was recorded yes
terday on the county records showing
the divorce of Elenore Allen from Reu-
ben W. Allen, in Ormsby county, also
the decision Of the court to the effect
that she was entitled to all the property
that has been held in their joint names
in Lincoln county.
LINCOLN DIsrRICr.-By private letter
received from resident of Lincoln Dis
trict, Utah, it seems that mining matters
have received a very considerable i'm
petus and are looking very encouraging.
THE best of sherry and claret wines
are TO he had at T. C. Poujade's. lw
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-05-21
Pacific Coast.

SAN Francisco, May 20.-A rumor
obtained extensive circulation yesterday
not only in this city but it is believed
throughout the State. that certain gen.
tlemen prominent in stock and financial
circles have become involved and sus-
pended payment. The parties in ques-
ton authorize the statement that the
report is utterly without foundation,
They consider it designed to further the
objects of the clique now operating to
bear the stock market.
Senator Booth was serenaded last even
ing at the Grand Hotel, and accorded a
hearty reception by large concourse of
citizens. In response to calls, he ap-
peared on the balcony, and was intro
duced by NJ. M. Estee, and addressed
the assemblage, briefly defining his po-
sitlon and claiming that in the presen I
condition of political parties. the peo-
pie 5 party afforded the only hope for the
sound administration of public affairs.
he was frequently interrupted by ap-
plause. After the speech the Senate,
and his friends held social reunion in
the parlors of the hotel, and the crowd
dispersed.
The Second Brigade N. G.. c., left the
city by steamer this morning. to 90 into
camp at Ross Valley, near San Rafael
Tomorrow Gems, Schoield and Thomp.
son will visit the camp officially. Or
Saturday the brigade will be reviewed b,
Gov. Pacheco.
VIRGINIA Cry, New, May 19.-Thi.
afternoon fire broke out in a fran,
building on B street, between the Inter
national Hotel and Masonic Block.
1
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-05-21

burned through TO { street, doing con-
siderable damage to the Hotel, Masonic
Block and Williams " Blxler's building.
The frame building is entirely consumed.
The report that a man fell into the flames
and was burned to death il not yet au-
thenticated
Shipped on the V. i, 7. r, r., during
the "a hours ending at las p. m. yes
terday, l0l car loads of ore aggregating
707 tons.
MnroN, Cal, May 2O.--A fire last
night destroyed the business portion of
town. It originated in the Calaveras
Hotel burning east on San Francisco
Avenue. The losses foot up about SIS,
900, insurance very light