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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-05-22

for the purchase OF farm. 1he Col.
is a moneyed man, and would be 3 desir-
able addition to our community,
We had the pleasure of witnessing
the entertainment given by the !"Shep-
herdstown Dramatic Society" at Bill
myers Hall, few evenings since. II
was complete success, and we were
highly delighted the entire evening.
The Society is an ornament to your
town and deserves the encouragement
of all your citizens. By the way Mr.,
Editor it seems that you speak facts
when you say that Shepherdstown is
full of pretty girls. We sat gazing with
rapture at their lovely faces and our
heart went out seven or eight times. 1t
won't beat worth a cent this morning,
it is scattered all around your town in
little pieces. Could you spare us one,
we only want one. We aregetting old
YOU know and are already beginning to
feel the horror and Nightmares Of .
bachelors life. But we, as usual, are
imposing upon your patience. In con-
clusion allow us to congratulate you
upon your Shadsburg correspondent
He is spicy writer and we read hls
items and letters with interest. Did
you hear about that big box OF gold
some one found at Scrabblea Dame
Rumor says Il was large amount One
word more. What has become of Temp
lar, have not heard from him for soma
time. Expect he has the measlesi
More next time, .S.
MARY BEAU.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
: The Simple Secret.

TWENTY clerks in store, twenty hands
in printing office, twenty apprentices in
shipyard, twenty young men in a vii
lage-all want to get on in the world and
expect to do so. One of the clerks will
become a partner and make a fortune;
one of the compositOrs will own news
paper and become an influential citizen ;
one of the apprentices will become a
master builder; one of the villagers will
get handsome farm and live like a pa
triarch-but which one is the lucky indi-
vidual? Lucky! there IS no luck about
it. The thing is almost as certain as the
rule of three.
The young fellow who will distance his
competitors is he who will master his
business, who preserves his integrity,
who lives clearly and purely, who de-
votes his leisure to the acquisition of
knowledge, who gains friends by deserV-
ing them and who saves his spare money.
There are some ways to fortune shorter
than this old, dusty highway; but the
staunch men of the community, the men
who achieve something really worth hav-
ing-good fortune, good name and serene
old age-all go on this road.-RurGI NeD
Yorker
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

VINEGAR BITTERs.-DR. J. WALKER, a
regular practicing physician of Cali
fornia, has conferred a priceless boon
upon mankind by the introduction of a
Critters" compounded from herbs ex-
clusively, which may be truly said to be
supersediug all others, and is becoming
a bitter dose indeed for the charlatans
and quacks, on account of its immense
sale and universal popularity. Not only
are these VINEGAR BITTERs, as he calls
them, an invaluable tonic and Alternative,
but they are acknowledged as standard
MEDICINE, and the astonishing rapidity
with which they cure diseases hitherto
declared incurable seems almost incredi-
BILE. After having been carefully tested
they are kept on hand in thousands of
households and used for any and every
form of disease, many relying upon them
in preference to the most celebrated
physicians. They have become recog-
nized Family Remedy" and properly
so. 25
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
SnaiIs as an Article of Food.

SNAILs were a favorite article of food
among the ancient Romans, who fattened
them in Enclosures (cochZearGal made for
the purpose, feeding them upon meal and
boiled wine. In Pliny's time snails from
Barbary were considered to have the
finest flavor; and, next to them, the
snails of Sicily were held in esteem.
Varro states that some Of these mollusks
that had been delicately dieting upon
meal and wine grew to such size that
their shells would hold ten quarts of
liquor We're this So and the creatures
allowed to have their fill, they must have
got royalty drunk every day of their
lives. In modern Rome snails are no less
priced than they were in the ancient city,
and are sold by women from door to
door. In Palermo snails may be bought
in the streets hot from the dish in which
they have been boiled with herb and to-
matoes. Crowds of the canaille stand
about the baskets of the vendors wait
ing for the delivery of the mollusks
steaming in their calcareous cases.
A century ago Ulm exported annually
about 4, 100000 of snails packed in Gags"
of 10000 each, and bringing from twenty
five to forty forms a Gag. In the Tyrol
the snailtrade gives employment to num-
bers of the inhabitants. In the summer
months children are kept busy collecting
snails as stock for the snail-gardens.
These are small. cleared plats of land,
covered with herbs of moss and pine
twigs, and separated from each
other by meats. The snails are fed upon
grass and abbage-leaves-a less dainty
diet than the snails destined for ancient
Roman tables were brought up on.
After the snails in the Tyrol gardens
have fed until their season is over they
retire into their shells for their winters
sleep, and are left undisturbed until
spring. They are then gathered, packed
average, each garden will turn out 40, 900
snails.
In Paris, Burgundian snails are sold
for halfpenny apiece, and Sc, 500 worth
are consumed in the course of the year.
The trade has assumed such dimensions
that special market for it's accommoda-
ton is becoming a necessity, and the ex-
pediency of tax upon snails is being
considered by the authorities.
Snails may be seen upon few tables
in England. The common garden-snails
are eaten in some districts by the lower
classes. In Turton's " British Land and
Fresh Water Shells" we read that The
glass-men at Newcastle once a year have
a snail-feast; they generally collect the
snails themselves in the fields and hedges
the Sunday before the feast-day."-ChE-
cago Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
A Practical Farmer on Feeding Hogs.

IT appears to me that some men eX-
to feed hogs than in almost anything
they undertake. | have neighbor, and
he is no green hand at the bellows, but
farmer of many years standing-one of
those experienced fellows who should
know all about it, and who doubtless
thinks he does-that for the past eight
or ten years has fed his hogs in little
pen three or four rods square without
anything in the way of floor or shelter
beyond what nature has provided
mother earth below and the skies above.
was looking over his hogs to-day as /
passed, for the pen is Immediately along
side the road. The hogs have no place
to go into out of the mud, which is five
or six inches deep, perhaps deeper
they must hunt out the corn from the
quagmire into which it is thrown, and
make their beds in the same precious
mortar. His hogs are from sixteen to
eighteen months old, and do not weigh
over $50 pounds on the average. An
other nelghbor who was with me re-
marked that he did not believe these
hogs had gained pound in a month.
The practice of turning the hogs into
the cornfeld is perhaps a little better
than this, but still not much better It's
about Hobson's choice between them.
Now, such ways of feeding hogs do not
pay at any time, and especially when
corn is fifty cents to sixty cents per bush
ell. 1t behooves US farmers to look into
this matter of feeding and see if we can
not hit upon more improved and eco
nomic methods. 1t behooves US to give
the matter our most serious thought and
to discover how we can make the last
ounce of pork from bushel of corn If
we do not do this we certainly deserve
little sympathy when we complain of
hard times and high taxes.
The practice | pursue is to grind my
corn, or whatever grain | am going to
feed, and cook it with steam into a sort
of mush, which / feed in troughs SO con.
structed as to prevent the hogs from get
ting their feet into the feed. The best
plan is to have plank pen to feed in
with good high sheds for them to go into
out of the storms, and not let them out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
BURNETT's FLORAL HANDBOOK. See AdU'

WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE ToNIC-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit Of their employees, when en-
gagged in malarial districts. The highest tes-
timonials have been given by contractors and
by the Presidents of some of the leading rail
roads in the South and West. When men are
congregated in large numbers in the neigh
borhood of swamps and rivers, Wilhofts
Tonic will prove valuable addition to the
stock of medicines, and will amply reward
the company in the saving of time, labor and
money. We recommend it to all. WHEELoCK,
FINLAY & Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

DEATH BY CoNsUMPTIoN.-It is estimated
that 10O,0 900 die yearly in the United States
with CONSUMPTION. When Consumption first
appears there is pain in the chest and oppres-
sion, attended with difficulty in breathing
Soon there will be cough, if this irritation
is not healed, and the effort to raise will still
add fuel to the fire. Aliens Lung Balsam
will at once allay the pain and irritated
parts, stop the cough, and prevent what
would be Consumption. 1t is making cures
of diseased Lungs which were considered in
durable.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
IMPORTANT INvENTIoN,-"Tn

IMPORTANT INvENTIoN.-" In less than ten
years there will not be a metal truss in use,"
was the prediction of one of our most eminent
physicians on examining the Elastic Truss
of the Elastic Truss Co., 6S3 Broadway, N. Y.
The extensive adoption of these unequaled
instruments, which certainly cure rupture
without torture, will make them the only
trusses used in much less than ten years. We
pany for descriptive circulars, as these trusses
are sent to all parts of the country by mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

until fat. That will not be very long if
you have good breed of hogs, and feed
them regularly and exercise good judg-
ment. They can be made to gain from
pound and half to two pounds day,
and at this rate will soon be ready for
market-J. L., IN National Lice Stock
JO1L1.n1L
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

IT is rare thing that physicians give any
countenance to medicine the manufacture
of which is a secret. About the only excep-
ton we know of is JobnSOn'S Aaaodyae L5aai-
naeat This, we believe, all indorse, and many
of them use it in their practice with great
success.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

PERSONS requiring purgative pills should
be careful what they buy. Some pills not
only cause gripping pains, but leave the bowels
in a torpid, costive state. Parsons Plrgat5ye
ILLS will relieve the bowels and cleanse the
blood without injury to the system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

Sayne. The inhabitants must be all IN
sane.-St. Louis Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

GLEN FLORA MINERAL WATER-If you
would learn of its wonderful cures address
r. II. Parks, Waukegan, H., for circulars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
Blood Diseases.

The blood being the source from which our
systems are built up and from which we de-
rive our mental as well as our physical capa-
bllltles, 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 1t behOOves every one to keep their
blood in perfectly healthy condition, and
more especially does this apply at this partic-
ular season OF the year than at any other. No
matter what the exciting cause may be, the
real cause of a large proportion of all dis
eases 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 so recommend it; on the contrary
there are hundreds of diseases that he &C
knOwledges it will not cure; but what he does
claim is this: That there is but one form of
blood disease that it will not cure, and that
disease is cancer. He does not recommend
his Discovery for that disease, vet he knows
1t 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 aUa1Tanted by him to cure
the worst forms of Skin Diseases, as all forms
Of Blotches, Pimples and Eruptions, also all
Granular Swellings and the worst form of
Scrofulous and liberated Sores of Neck, Legs
VI OCucI pdICSs anu all ScTO1ulOuS disease OF
the Bones, as White Swellings, Fever Sores,
Hip Joint and Spinal Diseases, all of which
belong to Scrofulous diseases.
CONFERENCE.-THE JOINT DISEASE.
W. GROVE STATION, Iowa. July Il, 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 time there are several openings
Have had five doctors, at an expense of 1925,
who say nothing will do any good but sur
gical operation.
July 16, 1878, he writes thus: My wife has
certainly received a great benefit from the use
of your Discovery, for she was not able to get
off the bed, and was not expected to live a
week when she commenced using it year
ago. She has been doing most Of her work
for over six months. Has used twenty bot
ties and still using it. Her recovery is con-
sidered as almost miracle, and we attribute
it TO the use of your valuable medicine. I can
cheerfully recommend it as a blood purifier
and strength restorer. j. M. ROBINSON.
Discovery is sold by druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

ASK for Prussing's White Wine Vinegar
warranted pure, wholesome and palatable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

A FORTUNE easily made. No capital re.
quired. For particulars address Lehman &
Co., Laramie City, Wyoming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

The NORTHWESTERN HORsE-NAIL Co.
" Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

BURNErT's FLORAL HANDBOOK See Adv't.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS.
w please say you saw the ADVERTISE
ment in this paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

ETAGERE CABINET ORGANs.-The eta
gere, as the French call that elegant ar
ticle of furniture furnished with a num-
Der of small shelves, designed for various
small ornamental articles, has become a
necessity in every fashionable drawing
room. The Mason & Hamlin Organ Co.
are now manufacturing a combination of
the etaqere and cabinet organ, very rich
and beautiful, which they furnish for
the price of an organ without the
etqQere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

To err is human. No lives are passed
without errors. The best and meanest
of Gods creatures can, without great
stretch of memory, recall the time when
they got hold of the wrong end of the
poker.
The test of time and experience is the
only sure guide in selecting an instru-
ment. It is of little consequence that a
man makes one or two fine pianos or
organs for fair and intrigues success
fully for a prize. 1t is the quality Of
eUe1yday manufacture that concerns the
buyer-not what exceptional and costly
instruments have been specially made
for exhibition. The SMITH AMERICAN
ORGANS are of high and uniform excel
lence, and are the best for actual use,
having been tried and proved for twenty
five years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
Fashion BAHAR

Contains 800 and elegant illustrations of the latest
fashions of ladies' and childrens garments with full
instructions for making Sent free Send your address
OLMsTED Co, Imp'rrs of Fashions, Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

A NEW contributor sends the following
note, accompanying a communication, to
the Independent: " Mr.. Editor-I am
new hand at writing, but if the follow
ing is of any use to you please accept it,
and say it is from the pen Of John j. Da
Wis, of Oakland, a gentleman we'll known
as one of the profoundest thinkers and
most brilliant literaters west of the Rocky
Mountains. Say, also, that for deep re-
sirch and keen suggestiveness it stands
peerless as a satire"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

A GENTS. Chang Chang sells at sight Necessary as
Asoap. Goods free Chang Chang Mfg Co, Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

d. . GOO per day at home Terms Free Address
SO : NGU tEo. STINsoN 8 Co. PortIand. Maine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

eHAA month to agents everywhe E. Addres
pSUO EAUELSIOR MFG CO. Buchanan, Mich
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

DAS A WEEK. Age ats wanted ever, where. For
y & . outfit 25c. FRITCH WALKER Dayton Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18

cOS PER DAY Commission or $50 week Sal
eDAO airy, and expenses. We offer it and viii pay
it. Apply now. g. Weber & Co., Marion, O.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-06
RIVER TELEGRAMS.

3hs James II. Parker GGost Again
First Reports Exaggerated.
LOUISVILLE, July 5-The first re.
ports Of the accident to the James d.
Parker were exaggerated. She struck
RubePs rock, ct the foot of the falls, and
sunk il three feet Of water. Her pass
engers and freight were removed in
safety, and to-day she was set 81 ,at, and
is now preparing to leave for Memphis.
River falling, with 7 feet 6 inches in
the canal and feet 6 inches in the
IDdign chute. Weather very heavy,
with rain this afternoon. Arrived :
Cons Miilsr, Memphis. Departed: Cons
Millar, Cincinnati.
ST. LOUIS, July Weather clear
and very warm; heavy thunderstorm
10 -night. River falling slowly. Arrived:
John f. Toile, New Orleans; Kate Kin
ney, Vicksburg. Departed: Robert
Mitchell, st. Paul; City of Chester,
Memphis.
CINCINNATI. July 5.-River rising,
with Il feet inches ia the channel.
Weather clear and pleasant. Arrived:
Indiana, New Orleans. No departures.
NEW ORLEANS, July 5.-Weather
cloudy. Heavy rain this afternoon.
Arrived: Thomas Sherlock, Cincinnati;
ii. Z. YeageT, st. Louis; Future City
and baTges, st. Louis. No departures.
VICKsBURG, July 5.-Weather warm
and cloudy, with a light rain. River
rising slowly. No boats up. Down:
Commonwealth.
NASHVILLE, July 5.-River falling,
with feet inches water on Harpeth
shoals. Weather hszy and very warm.
No arrivals or departures except local
packets.
EVANSVILLE, July 5.-Weather clear
and very warm; mercury 79o to So.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-06
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.
County court met yesterday.


The city council will meet at three
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Yesterday The body OF young Nor
gan GTubbs. who was drowned last Sat
urtay afternoon, was recovered ir tho
river at Fort Pickering.
The Geographic reports OF Sunday
brought the intel igence from Louisville
q the sinking Of the James ID. ParECr.
Late last night however, dispatches
from that city. .o he seen underline head
OF "AddluOua. River Reports" beaT the
gratifying Intelligence that the first
statement was exaggerated, and that the
Parker is again afigat and on her way
rejoicing 10 this city, where she will ar
rive some time during Friday. We call
particular attention 10 this matter in
justice TO Captain Wise, inasmuCh as
our river reports contain the substance
OF the first dispatches.
Mr.. John Wright, pic.ure-frame
maker, and q tirst-class workman in
ornamental woodwork, brought to the
oftice sterdsy a beautiful specimen Of
ms hRndicTafg, being an exqUisitely
wrought flower stand, which surp8sses
anything of the kind We have seen
gotten up in Memphis. We regret We
bsVe not space 10 describe il, for we are
proud that such men are encouraged to
come among Us and make their homes.
= en- mechanics as MT. Wright are the
class We want here, and We have no
looot such would meet with the heart