, 1876-10-07

tree correspondent of the Liverpool
Mercury, sends the following to that
paper, and the recipe which it con-
tains may be of service to the suffer-
ing of this coast:
No disease is so repulsive as the
smallpox, and none so generally
dreaded. It is we'll known that it
is much about our town and sub
urbs. I am willing to risk my rep
utation as a public man if the worst
case of smallpox cannot be effectu-
ally cured in three days, simply by
cream of Tartar. This is the sure
and never-failing remedy.
One ounce cream tartar dissolved
in a pint Of boiling water, to be
drank when cold, at short intervals.
1t can be taken at any time, and
is preventive as wellas a curative.
It is known to have cured a hun
dred thousand cases without failure.
1 nave myself restored hundreds by
this means. It never leaves a mark,
never causes blindness. And always
prevents tedious lingering. 1t is so
efectual that if popularly used
would dispense with the unnatural
law of vaccination and the costly
stuff of vaccinators, for smallpox
never appears without need, and
then ought to be purifying and
healthful to the system; and when
capable of being so quickly reno
we'd need never be feared above a
cold or an overflow of bile.
Like the identity of the British
which lost Israel, it is too grand, too
simple, and too good to be quickly
accepted by the people; and the doc
tors, as the ministry to the identity
question, laugh at the remedy, be-
cause it interferes with the old ro-
tine of their customs, and has not
emanated from themselves. Never
tbeless, if the people wonld only try
it, and report all the cures to you,
you would require to employ many
columns if you gave them publicity.
} Those vilest of all vile criminals,
: the train wreckers, have been at
work on the Canada Southern Rail
road. They wrecked train near
Brownsville, for thepurpose of plr l.
der, of course, and threw the whole
train, except one sleeping car, from
the track. Fortunately no one on
the train, except the engineer, was
seriously injured, although it is to
be regretted that one casualty was
not the result. One of the villains
was caught, but unfortunately he
was not hanged on the spot.
We have had good supply of
conventions this year, whatever may
be their value. The Dem ocratic Con-
vention, the Republican Convention,
the Greenback Convention, the Re-
publican Liberal Republican Con-
vention, the John Cochrane Con-
vention, and two or three German
conventions are only a portion of
them. Now comes a colored Repub-
lican Convention at Utica, and a
Boys-in Blue Convention at Indian
apolis. Who comes next?
IHE INDIAN FARCE The war being
over and the Indians victorious they are
now endeavoring to defeat US at diplo-
macy. The old farce Of treaty making
has been repeated with the chiefs, and.
as our special dispatches from Red
Cloud Agency show, they are very
naughty in their demands. and sign the
treaty with an eye to rations this winter
and another war in the spring.
EXPLAINS IT.-Mr Emerson says
that every one has two natures,
widely different. This explains why
it takes a man working by the day
only thirty seconds to climb over a
wall into the shade at twelve o'clock,
while he generally requires twenty
minutes to get back after the clock
strikes one
The Cuban National Loan is not
looked upon as a good investment.
The customs revenues have already
been mortgaged by the Spanish gov
ernment, and, while loyalty is fine
sentiment, people are not fond of
parting with hard cash on a doubt
full security.
The people of Barcelona, Spain.
have got up strong Know Moth
ing raid, only on the other side.
They refuse to patronize anybody
who worships in Protestant school.
1t is not stated whether they carry
dark lanterns; but if they do not
they will, no doubt, come to that
soon enough.
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