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From, he Missouri Republican, Isl. Louise
a Remarkable Professional Sucscrs.

Among the noted professional men of this
country who have achieved extraordinary
success is DIR. II. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. y.
The prominence which he has attained has
been reached through strictly legitimate
means, and, so far, therefore, he deserves the
enviable reputation which he enjoys. This
large measure of success is the result OF Il
thorough and careful preparation for his
calling, and extensive reading during long
and unusually large practice, which have en-
abled him to gain high commentator, even
from his professional brethren. DeyotiTs his
attention to certain specialties of the science
he has SO carefully investigated, he has been
rewarded in IL remarkable degree. In these
specialtes he has become IA recognized lead
err Not Il few of the remedies prescribed by
him have, it is said, been adopted and pre-
scribed by physicians in their private prac
tice. His pamphlets and larger works have
been received useful contributions to med
zeal knowledge. lie has recently added an
other, and perhaps more important work, he
cause of more general application, to the list
of his published writings. This book, enti-
tied "The Common Sense Medical Adviser"
is designed to enter into general circulation.
DIR. Pierce has received acknowledgements
and honors from many sources, and especially
scientific degrees from two of the fist medi-
cal institutions in the land.
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HOTSEHOLD HINTS.


Butter will remove tar spots. Soap
and water will afterward take out the
grease stain.
To remove paint splashed upon win
dow panes, Use hot solution of soda and
a soft flannel.
To clean Drowned porcelain kettle,
boil peeled potatoes in it. The porcelain
will be rendered almost as white as when
new.
"A strong solution of carbolic acid
and water poured into holes kills all the
ants it touches, and the survivors imme-
diately take themselves off.
To take mildew from linen, mix soft
soap with starch powdered, half the
quantity of salt, and a piece of lemon,
and lay it. on both sides with paint
brush; let it be in the open air-on grass
is preferable-till the stain removes.
Night is the time for rest, and both
body and brain, especially as to students,
require all the sleep the system will take.
They ought never to be walked up. Ma.
ture will infallibly do that when she has
had her fill, and to shorten sleep is to
shorten life. Half the time of daylight
is as long as any man ought to spend in
hard study.
Don't forget to say good morning"
Say it to your wife, children, friends and
fellows, employers and employees
say it cheerfully and with smile. 1t
will do them good, and do them good all
day. There is kind of inspiration in
every good morning. heartily and
smilingly spoken, that helps to make
hope fresher and work lighter.
:. An excellent, well recommended
pickle for curing hams is made of one
and one-half pounds of salt, one-half
pound of sugar, one-half ounce of salt
petre, and one-half ounce of potash. Boil
altogether till the dirt from the sugar
has risen to the top and is skinned.
Pour it over the meat and leave the lat
ter in the solution four or five weeks.
This mode of cleaning fine glass
gives it great briliiancy: Take finely
powdered indigo, dip into it moistened
linen rag, smear over the glass with it,
and then wipe it off with perfectly dry
cloth. AS a substitute for this, fine
sifted ashes, applied by rag dipped in
spirits, will do as well. Spanish white is
apt to make the glass rough and injure it.
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sBEDESBORGTIN DOCTRINE.

Mr.. G. c. Bonney explains the doc
trines Of the New Jerusalem church
(Swedenborgian), AS follows: Jesus
Christ is not only Deity, but the only
Deity, holding in himself the trinity of
Father, Son, and Holy Chest. Man
must repent of sin, be regenerated by
the holy spirit and live the new life of
love to God and good will to the neighbor
The sacred scriptures are inspired, 'ac-
cording to the divince science of CORES
pOndcnces between natural and spiritual
things Swedenborg was not prophet,
but lie was especially prepared and called
by the Lord Jesus Christ to witness the
fulhllment of the revelation and the ex-
ecution of the last Judgment in the
spiritual world in the year 1857, and to
declare the second coming of the Lord
which followed. The New Church. or
Church of the New Jerusalem, is so
named IN the twenty-first CHAPTER of
Revelations. IL is not new sect, but a
new dispensation of divine truth. 1t will
endure for ever; all other churches will
pass away. Immediately after death,
the soul rises into the world of spirits,
which is between heaven and hell, where
it is attended by angels, and, in due
time, is judged and goes to its proper so
cicty in heaven or in hell, according to
the real quality of its life in the world.
All infants are saved. The material
body is not raised, but the soul rises in a
spiritual body in which it lives for
ever"
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EyTR. IORDIN-IRY ENTERPRISE.

Frank Leslie, the publisher of eight
cen illustrated newspapers and maya
zines, has just added to the list his Neto
Popular Monthly, a marvel of elegance
and cheapness. 1t is nearly double the
size of any magazine published, each
number containing one hundred and
twenty-eight quarto pages, eighty fine
illustrations, a beautiful chrome litho-
graph frOntispiece, and is brim full of
choice literature. We name as few of
the admirable articles in the first num-
ber-one completely illustrating and
describing the Centennial exhibition at
Philadelphia - also Degrading Pun
ishment of Women" illustrated-an in
teresting sketch of the life and assassina-
ton of Marat, the French revolutionist,
with portrait-the different modes of
fire producing among the aborig-
ines, illustrated - biographical sketch
and portrait of the great million
Aston library. Among the excellent
magazine we notice. elbow we Shot
"Pearl Morgan's Eevenge," "Huldah's
" One Night" by Eta W.. Pierce,
"The Story of Raphael Nelda," "The
Fix Mr.. Ferrers was in" There are over
sixty articles illustrated by eighty-two
engravings, and is furnished one year,
postage paid, for $3.50. The Popular
Monthly has already reached a circula-
tion of 10000 copies-a success never
before recorded of any publication of its
class. Send twenty cents TO Frank
Leslie, New York, for sample copy, by
mail free. Canvassing agents should
secure territory for this successful maya
zine. An elegant chrome is given as
premium. Write at once for terms.
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Rrspect lie burden Then. u,.;Ssfic-.yyad
re paused, and passed ON, one saying him nay
Inc heavy-iaden also went his way.
Ihou happy soul, who trayelest like a king
Along the rose-strewn pathway of thy lot
Respect the burden. Thou ma y'st sesIt on
For one heart is TO another a sealed thing
laughter there is that hi,leih sols or means
fiIn' footsteps can leave blcod- prints tn Stone
Respect the burden. wha,soe'er if lie:
Mhether loud outeries the startled air.
or IN dumb agony of loss despair
Liits her sui face. 50 like tranquility;
ihouSh zach strained heart-sfring quiyers never
shrinks: 1850 e'ei
- Let this cup pass from me,"-then, stoo and
drinks. w. anu
q heavy burden, Why It's horn, and how
hand ~ .'ii-i "nu>e
O. tias iaid a. on the shoulder, and said Stand
Staun upright Take this chrisin upon thy brox
n! OWL shnointesi- Sore thy load NAV he
'"' AHo"-oche''h 1t thou art carrying Me-
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CONSERVATIVES, TAKE NoricE.-Every moment
of delay makes your more hopeless, and much
depends on the udcious choice Of remedy. The
amount Of testimony in favor Of DR. SchenCk's Pull
monte Syrup a cure for Consumption, far exceeds
all that he brought support the rretensons OF
any other medicine. See Dir. Schenck's Almanac
containing the ccrttcates at many persons OF the
highest rrsrcctalility, who have hcFn restored t"
neaith after being pronounced incurait" Icy physi-
clans Of ao know Lodged ability Srhenck 5 fulmonc
syrup alone has cured many these evidences will
show; but the cure is often promoted by the EN-
ployueut Of two other remedies which Dr. Schcnck
provides for the purpose. These additional remedies
are Schenck'S Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills.
By the timely OF these medicines, according to
directions Dr. Schenck certics that most any case
Of Consumption may he cnrcl
Dir Schenck is professionally ut his principal OF
fee corner sixth AMI Arch SITS, Philadelphia, every
Monday, where all letters lur advice must lie adj
dressed.
Ell HART y co, Nos. -, - aud II Tchouptou-
las St, New rIcans, Wholesale Agents.
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The CtnteDniM History Of The United States,
from tie discovery Of de Americaa Continent
to he ciose Of The First Century Of american
Independence. By .Jdmcs ID. McCabe, A"-
thor of al Mnroi Of General History"
"PathmayS Of the Ho'y Lo"d," ETC., etc.
There has long been great and univer-
want ola History of the United
States suitable for general use. This
want is now being supplied by The Ma
tional Publishing Co, of st. Louis, Mo-,
who have issued handsome volume,
styled "The Centennial History of the
unltHa States" by James D. McCabe,
well h3own historical writer. This
work Will, 1ndoubtedly, take rank as the
standard Hh'ory of the United States.
1t Is no dry miss of details-no bombas-
tic effort TO lnflaaQe the national pride,
but Is a clear, vlvlt. and brilliant nara
tive OF the events OF our history, from
the discovery of the American Continent
down to the present time.
We most heartily commend this book
to our readers. 1t gives very Interesting
account of the Indians of North Araer1ca,
from the time of the coming of the White
men. The voyages of Columbus, the ex-
ploratiOns of the different nations OF
Europe and the wanderings of the Span
lads in search of gold and immortal
youth, are told with graphic power.
Every step of our colonial history is
traced with patient fidelity, and the
sources of these noble, and we trust, en-
during institutions which have made our
country free and great, are shown with
remarkable clearness. The causes of our
great struggle for Independence are told
with logical force and ability unsurpass-
ed in any work of the day. Then follows
a clear and succinct account of the for
nation of the Federal Constitution the
establishment of the Union; the course
of affairs until the breaking out of the
Second War with England; and a full
ant comprehensive account of that War
and its results. The events of our career
from the close of that contest to the COM
mencement of the Civil War, follow in
their order. The history of the Civil
War is related with intense vigOr, and
with a strict fidelity to the truth and
the work closes with an account of the
course of affairs since the end of that
great conflict. The author writesthrough-
out with the calmness and impartiality
| of historian, and pleads the cause of no
party or section. He states facts, points
out the lessons which they teach, and APP
pealing to neither passion nor political
feeling, trusts to the good sense of his
ceuntrymen to sustain his views. In
order to render the work complete in
every respect, the author has added to it
an appendix, giving an account of the APP
preaching International Centennial Ex-
hibitiOn.
1t is comprised in one large, handsome
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SERIO ELEPH1NTUS HfLIBURTIS.

There was an exciting scene near jack
sonville, Fla, the other day. AS one of
the Jacksonville watermen was looking
off to sea he saw, out by the st. Johns
bar, at the mouth of the st. Johns
river, something that looked very like
a whale" "Thar she blows" shouted
the mariner. The cry brought a score
of men to the beach. cts a whale,
sure" said they, and thereupon harpoons
were hunted up and sharpened, lines
were rugged, and three boats were manned
by seven men in each. Then there was
an exciting race to see who should first
reach the monster, who was lazily tumb
ling in the surf On the bar. The
quickly made the three miles which lay
between the shore and the thing they were
seeking. When they came nearer the
older men saw that the fish was not
whale, but what it was they did not
know; but they determined none the
less to capture it if possible. Quietly
they rowed nearer and nearer, until the
leading boat sent harpoon whirling into
the side of the monster, and the other
crews followed suit. Then there was
tremendous struggle. The fish dashed
the water to foam in his endeavors to
escape, and the twenty-one men strained
every nerve to prevent him. At length
he was tired out, and after much trouble
was landed. He was found to be 9. feet
long, % feet from tip to tip of his lateral
fins, ami 81 feet in diameter at the head.
He weighed 1,5O0 pounds. Barnacles
said to be 100 years old were fastened to
him. What to call him the fishermen
did not know, but Prof. Hart, of the
Smithsonian Institution, and Prof. Hey
don, of the Cleveland medical institute,
soon settled that little matter. The fish
was simply Serio elephantus haliJurtis,
and these learned men said he was at
least 400 years old.
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"YoUNG ladies have the privilege of
saying anything they please during leap
year." she said, cycling him out of the
corners of her eyes with sweet look.
His heart gave a great bound, and, while
he wondered if she was going to ask the
question which he so long desired and
feared to do, he answered "Yes." "And
the young men must not refuse" said She
" No, no! How could they ?'' sighed he
"Well, then" said she, twill YOU"
He then fell on his knees and said :
i" Anything, anything you ask, darling"
g Wait till l get through. Will you
take Il walk, and not hang around our
house SO much ?' And he walked.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19

The LAWYERS TRADE.-A day or
two ago, when a young man entered a
Detroit lawyers Office to study law, the
practitioner sat down beside him and
said: Now, see here, | have no time
to fool away, and if you don't pan out
well won't keep you here thirty days.
Do You want to make a good lawyer ?'
" Yes, SIR Well, now, listen. BE
polite to old people, because they have
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19

A Box OF GROCERIES FREE to every
subscriber is what the publishers of The
Housekeeper offer in our advertising col
umns. Messrs. Wingate & Co. will do
ust what they promise. 1t is the best
chance for agents ever offered, as no good
housekeeper who sees the box would fail
to subscribe. Read the advertisement.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19

POPULAR OCCUPATIONs.-The follow
ing figures are taken from the censuses
of the two countries. In observing the
differences, it should be remembered that
the population of England and Wales is
22,712, 266, and of the United States 49,
555,OS3, according to the respective CEN
s,Ises of 1871 and 1870:
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WASHINGTON SOCIETY.

A letter-writer was lately criticised for
mingling in the. social annals of Wash
ington the names and doings of foreign
ministers and their wives, members of
the cabinet and their families with those
of clerks in departments and their house
holds. Chow can l help il? ?" plaintively
questioned the aggrievcd writer in reply,
"when they will do it themselves?
These foreign and domestic dignitaries
appear to have no sense whatever of their
own importance and will persist in
visiting on terms of intimacy depart
ment people, whenever they find such
as are agreeable or possesses talents
which contribute TO the pleasure of
Others" This is quiet true. Our native
productions in the way of grand panjan-
darums are, of course, er obfcio compelled
to have an extensive acquaintance, but
their intimates are of their own selection
and no laws of caste govern their cheice.
The foreigners i'll our midst have as
many friends living in unpretending
style in quiet streets-nay, more than
they seek to have among the aristocracy
of wealth. 1t is to their credit to say
that they appreciate the peculiar social
structure of a republic and accept ladies
and gentlemen as such on their merits,
never asking if they enjoy elegant or in
elegant leisure or earn Il support for
themselves by clerical labor. When
such information is gratuitously furn-
ished it is regarded as Il matter of small
import
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liners and bakers in the smaller popula-
ton of England and Wales may be ac-
counted for by the fact that in the
United States much of the work of those
trades is done by housewives.
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WHY should any one buy soap half
rosin or clay, when Dobbins' Electric Soap,
(made by Cragin Il Co., Philadelphia is
for sale? 1t costs but a trifle more, and
will go five times as far. Try it.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19

CENTENNIAL STAMPED ENVELOPES
The postmaster general has adopted a
design for the embossed stamp on the
centennial stamped envelopes. This
stamp is represented by a shield, bearing
at the top and in a scroll the words,
80 United States Postage" beneath which
is a representation of a mounted post
boy on groundwork of telegraph poles
and wires Beneath this is an engine
and - postal car, and at the bottom of
the shield, within scroll, are the words,
Three Cents" The date 1875 and 1876
are at the top and bottom Of the shield
respectively. The stamped envelopes
will be manufactured and sold in the
government building on the Centennial
grounds, and will be furnished under
the present contract for stamped en-
velopes, without additional cost. These
envelopes will not be furnished by the
government for any post office except
ing the Philadelphia office, and only one
denomination (three ccnts) will he manu-
featured, with only one size and quality
of the envelopes, namely, that which is
known as the No. 3. full letter, first
quality envelope. These are not in
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GENERAL MARKET QUOTATIONS,
MEMPH IL.

FIour-supcrfne 81; 75a5. s6aS %; choice iami-
w. 81 25a7 rs; fancy, sass per Dbl Corn meal
X ln-dried, g.. 25a230 per Dbl. Corn-Mixed, asa
soc white, 4sa5Oc, per bush Oats-Mixed, 4Ia49c;
white, 53a54c seed, 60c per bush. Bacon-Break-
fast, I5aI51ac; sugar-cured hams, 141aal5c. Lard
131aa155sc.
Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat higher. No
2. red winter 49,, bid cash; Corn active and
higher, No. 2. mixed 3s1a@3s1ac Oats easier,
3i15M35c bid cash. Barley steady and in fair de
mand at 69c. Pork is strong and higher at 1860
1000. Lard dull and nominal, 12c asked. Bulk
meats light, but firm, shoulders re; clear rib
lg,CG11c. Bacon higher, shoulders Sc clear 111s9
re clear sides 1214@12c. Green meats nominally
hiShe, but nothing doing. Whisky dull at S105.
NEW ORLEANS.
sugar steaey and strong common, &C. fair to
fully far; 61sgx.Sc prime to strictly prime. 714g
74e; yellow carfied, s14as1se. Molasses steady
and strong; centrifugal, 2Sm3sc; prime reboiled,
4igiGc; fair feTmenting 3sto40c; prime ferment-
ing, 43to45c. Flour in good demand; super
fine, s3.75; double extra, "a; treble extra, s575
choice and family s7.25. Corhmeal firmer and held
$40, Oats firm Galena. 47a4sc. Corn firm, 52a
soc; yellow in demand. Pork So 75a22. Dry salt
meats 81, So. II, 1114a1llac. Bacon 90 I2Iaa13c
Hams--choice sugar-cured, lie. Lard-tierce, ordi-
nary packed 1214c; cheice prime steam, 1254c; re-
fined, 1312c; kegs, 1876. Ricc-Louisiana prime
SIC choice, sc; common to good, 41aae54c COT
fee quiet, jobbng lower; cargoes ordinary to prime
17a19c. Whisky S1.17.
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Dame Fashion declares that the
style of wearing .jewciry on the streets IL
obsolete. Ear rings and lockets are the
last to go, and in their place Il display of
costly buttons is being made.
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tended to supplant the present three
cent envelopes, but are additional there
to, and their issue will be discontinued
at the Close of the Centennial.
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cash. Be good to the boys, because they
are growing up to cash basis. Work
in with reporters and get pufs. Go to
church for the sake OF example. Don't
fool any time away on poe.ry, and don't
even look at a girl until you IAN plead 4
case. If you can follow thes. instruc-
tions you will succeed. If you IAN not
go and learn to be a doctor and XIII your
best friends"
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PIMpLEs AND HUMoRs ON THE FACE
In this condition of the skin, the Vegetine is
the great remedy, as it acts directly upon the
cause. 1t cleanses and purities the blood,
thereby causing humors of all kinds to dis
appear.
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PIMPLEs on the face, rough skin,
chapped hands, saltrheum and all cutaneous
affections cured, the skin made soft and
smooth, by the use of Juniper Tar Soap.
That made by Caswell, Hazard d Co., New
York, is the only kind that can be relied on,
as there are many limitations, made from
common tar, which are worthless.
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THE COTTON MARKETS.

LOUIsvILLE-Marketd duh at 12lzc.
CINcINNATi-Market dull at 12Lc.
NEW 6ORK-Market weak at 13a13 Slice.
MEMPHIs-MarEet dull and lever at 1214c.
LIvERPoOL-Marketd dull and depressed middling
upland ed; middling Orleans 13-16d
ST. LouIs--Market irregular but fairly active
lower grades have declined middling 124c; low
mddling &c; good ordinary 97sc.
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KIDNEY COMPLAINT.

Probably there is &" complaint that aficts the h,I-
which little understood the pres
cnt time. of the varied forms of Kidney
Com plaint
There is disease which such acute pain
more alarming in its results than when the kidneys
fai from the blood the uric acid and other
poisonous substances, which the blood accumulates
in its circulation through the sy stem.
If from cause the kidneys fail to perform the
funct ions devolving upon them, the cumuatons
taken up by the absorlents and the whole system
thrown into state of disease causing great pain and
suffering. and often immediate death Hence
the importance of keeping the kidneys and blood in
a healthy condition, through which all the impuri-
ties of the blood ia pass.
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Pain in the Back.

There is no remedy known to medical science which
has proved itself more valuable in of idncy
Com plant than the NEGETINE. 1t acts directly
upon the secretons. cleanses and puriies the blood
and restores the whole system to healthy action.
The following extraordinary cures of great suffer
crs who had been given by the best physicians
hopeless cases. will speak for themselves and should
challenge the profound atten ion of the medical
faculty, well those who suffering from Kid
unN nlnint.
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DRAINING THE ZUYDER ZEE.--It is
now proposed to drain that immense
island gulf. the Zuyder Zee, in extent
two hundred and odd miles by about
sixty, once indeed, what it will probably
again be, a fruitful plain dotted with
smiling villages. The Maarlem Lake,
the bed of which was overwhelmed by
an eruption of the sea in the sixteenth
century, was drained not many years
ago by Il company of English engineers.
The Zuyder Zee dates from about the
time when Earl Godwin's lands became
Il treacherous sandbank, an epoch re-
markabIe for extensive inroads of the
sea along the whole southern coasts of
the German ocean. A writer in The
London Daily News observes that the
addition which the drainage of the Iuy-
der Zee will make to Holland will be
equal to the superfcies of the county
of Surrey, or nearly six per cent. of the
whole present area of that country.