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I would not be out of Van Deusens
Worm CONNECTIONS in my family, Have
used them with wonderful success.
NJ. TREDsTER, Newark. n. j.
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STop that distressing cold with bottle
of Masta's celebrated Balsam. For Sale
by all druggists 10 Rock Hand.
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ASK for Prussing's WhiteWineV inegar,
warranted pure. wholesome and palatable.
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All kinds of sewing machines repaired
at the Boston Bazaar. 22-d&wtf
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CHICAGO, RocK ISLAND q PACIFIC q. 3.

GOING EAST TRAINS LEAVE
At 30 a. IN. Alb p, m. /; and 10O0p. m. Trains
arrive from west as above.
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HOTEL For SALE.-The hotel, known
as the Joslyn House, at Aledo, county
seat of Mercer county, containg 81 rooms,
situated near the business center of the
town, convenient to the depot and post
Office. Will be rented or will be sold on
easy terms. or exchanged for other prop
erty. For further particulars, apply to
John Ochs g. Son, Davenport Iowa. d3w2
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Fluid Lightning cures all nervous pains.
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run
FAST EXPRESS
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in St. Louis in time for western and south
ern connections. Making close connec-
ton at
BEARDSTOWN
for Springfield and points east, arriving
there
HOURS IN ADVANCE OF COMPETING ROUTES
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leaving at $40 a. m. makes close connec-
ton for Burlington, arriving there at noon,
FOUR HOURS RUN.
Connecting at Beardstown for Spring.
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other eastern and southeastern points.
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NEW DEPARTURE
1.-THE Peoples Line"

The Rockford. Rock Island & St. Louis
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The latest telegraphic news can always
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for Springfield and points east, arriving
there
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THE MORNING TRAI

leaving at $40 a. m. makes close connec-
ton for Burlington, arriving there at noou,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Thrilling Drama,

It is whispered that young gentle.
man in town is now hard at work upon
new drama, which, when completed,
he hopes to see presented upon the
boards of one of the st. Louis theaters
1t is purely an American drama. and a
very powerful one. In the seventh act
of the play the curtain rises to show old
Moneypouch, the insurance president,
discovering his daughter going down a
rope ladder at midnight to land in the
arms of an impecunious but loving
young man in the yard. Old Money
pouch yells out
"Hil What's all thisa"
The young man folds his arms sternly
and rejoins
81 wouldst flee with thy daughter p
courses on thee, villain |" roars the
father.
Here the daughter breaks in with :
"Oh, pa, wipe off your chin I"
81 will not wipe off my chin No,
never! False mink |" thunders out the
stern parent.
"Then pull down your vest, pa, do, 3"
responds the loving daughter.
Ungrateful hussy ! How can I pull
down my vest9 Don't you see I'm in
my nightshirt9" shrieks the distracted
parent.
"Ah! we have erredl Give us thy
blessing, father in-law-to- be-" the young
man now puts in, and he and the young
woman flop down on their knees in the
damp grass of the dooryard.
"Aha Bless thee, my children,
bless thee |" answers the old man,
spreading bis hands benevolently. 81
will boost thee in business, my son, and
thou shalt yet become president of
savings bank, and slope in better style
than thou hadst planned"
The curtain falls amid what the writer
of the play expects will DO the widest
applause of the enraptured audience.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Vast Estate.

The Duke Of Sutherland, as is we'll
known, is mighty potentate in Scot
land, where he reigns with undisputed
and benefcent sway over vast terri
tory-vast, that is, for Scotland. Much
of his domain. however, is barren and
unproductive, and about four years ago
he projected a scheme to bring this USE
less land into state of cultivation. He
selected 1900 acres of wild and useless
moorland, and undertook to subdue it
by steam power. The land was so
swampy and stony that it was impossible
to do anything with it by ordinary ap-
planes, including even the common
steam pillow. But he had constructed a
pillow Of an extraordinary character, with
which and twelve steam engines he has
converted his 1900 acres Of useless land
into four excellent farms, on which ad-
mirable crops are now growing. Good
houses have been built, the fields in
closed, and the desert has been made to
blossom as the rose-but at the fearful
cost of e30 an acre, or $500, 600 for the
whole. And still people complain that
rich men own the land in England and
Scotland. The fact is that none but
rich men can afford to own it, and the
Duke of Sutherland's success proves
that with the right rich man in the right
place, their ownership is blessing and
not blight to the country.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
He Went and Married,

Joseph Hammerschmiot, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, who recently spent seven hours
at the bunghole OF cask of precious
wine to.prevent tho escape Of the liquor,
was married. Hammerschmidt's custom
ha been, when a cask of wine arrived
from Germany, to shut himself in his
cellar with his favorite dog and bunch
of bologna sausage and cheese, and
spend the day bottling the wine. On
this bottling day he refused to allow
any one to remain in the house except
himself. His housekeeper spread his
lunch in the cellar, put his dog there,
too, and went away. When Han mer-
schmidt went below he found the dog
was eating his lunch. He angrily took
hold of the animal, tied one end of a rope
to its neck and the other to the spigot
of the cask, and raised club to beat
him. The dog jumped the full length
of the rope, and took the spigot with
him. The wine spurted out in stream,
and Hammerschmidt, dropping the
club, ran to the bunghole, clapped his
hand over it. and soon stopped the flow.
He then begun to cry for help, but as
no one was in the house to heed him,
the echoes OF his voice died inside of
the cellar. For seven hours he called
for help, and held back the wine. At
length, late in the afternoon, his cries
we're heard, and he was relieved when
he was we'll nigh exhausted. The dog
and the spigot were going around the
cellar together out of the mans reach.
Misunderstanding made up his mind to
run no more risks, and offered himself
to widow, who accepted him.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Servant of the Sultan.

Sieno- Donizetti. a nephew of the
famous composer and pianist to the late
unfortunate sultan. Abdul Aziz, de.
scribes bis experience TINS: You are
summoned at eight o'clock in the morn
ing to play for three hours. You must
be in full uniform you wait for seven
hours in elegant gallery, where you
are forbidden to sit down. From time
to time they come to tell you what is CO.
curing in his maiesty's apartment.
ellis highness is going to arise" The
moment YOU hear this you must pros
trate yourself. ellis highness is going
to the BATH" Again you PROSTATE your
self. ellis highness is DRESSING" You
PROSTATE yourself lower than ever. And
so the Intelligence continues, until you
are wearied beyond endurance and the
sultan is finally ready. Then an i'm
mense grand piano is brought in with
out its legs, for the floor of the gallery
is precious mosaic of the rarest woods,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Suggestion.

Great trouble and expense are fire.
quently incurred in the prosecution Of
offenses, says the Sun. Evidence is
procured with difficulty, and thousand
impediments are interposed in the way
of proof.
We have suggestion to offer to dis
trict attorneys, the adoption of which
would save them much labor and vexa-
ton: Whenever man is indicted, at
the same time get him nominated for a
public office. Evidence will be forth
coming, and abundant, that he has COM
mitted every offense known to the law !;
and if the Office be sufficiently high, the
probabilities are that he will be shown
to have invented several new crimes,
heretofore unknown.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
Why We Cough.

An Italian investigator has been study
ing the cause of coughs, and has come
to the conclusion that they are the result
of the presence of parasitic fungus in
the air passages. In severe cases the
parasite multiplies and takes possession
Of the lung cells. Quinine is said to
possess the power of stopping the mi
croscopio fungi, and is therefore recon-
mended as a remedy. The italian doc
tor has successfully used a powder COM
posed of the Carbohydrate of quinine,
one part; bicarbonate of soda, one part;
gum arabic, twenty parts. The soda is
intended to dissolve the mucus, the gum
arabic to increase the adherence of the
powder on the bronchial passages. The
blowing in OF the powder should take
place during a deep inspiration of the
patient, SO that it may penetrate the
windpipe, the chief seat Of the micro
scopic fungus. The remedy, whatever
may be the truth of the theory on which
it is founded, has the merit of simplicity.
and if its application did little good, it
could not do much harm.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Load Of Them.

A priest was hearing confession, and
q boy came to him and said he had a sin
in his mind. "Well, me good boy,
come on wild it," saia his reverence.
"Augh, den, your reverence, do be
always sayin' Be the Holy Father. "
" You do ?-that's very bad, me boy.
Now, how often do you be sayin' that T.
" Begor, more than forty q day, your
reverence. "Go home now" said the
priest, "and get your sister to make you
a bag and hang it round your neck. and
every time you say Be the Holy Faith
er, drop little stone in it, and come to
me this day week." That day week his
reverence was, as usual, in his box, and
he heard an awful noise in the church,
so he looked out and saw his penitent
dragging . sack. "Tady Mulloy," said
he, "what do You name BY such conduct
as that in the church 7" "Shure, yer
reverence" says the fellow, dose is all
Be de Holy Fathers,' and de rest Of
um's outside on the dray."
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
His Imagination.

John Jarvis was o native of Dublin,
where he practiced the art of painting
on glass for some time, and then re-
moved to London, where he soon gained
for himself high reputation. When
the bacchanalian propensities of Jarvis
had rendered him rather an unequal, if
not an unsafe, artist. he was employed
by gentleman to paint his wife's por-
trait-a miracle of plainness-under the
stipulation that pint of wine at single
sitting must be the extent of his pota-
tions. Jarvis assented, and in a short
time produced perfect fac-simile of
the lady. On exhibiting it to the hus-
band he seemed quite disappointed.
"Oouldn't you have done it" said he to
the painter, "a little less-that is,
conldn't you give il a little more"-
eff you expect me-" responded Jarvis,
seeing the husbands drift at once, "to
make a handsome portrait Of your wife
must have more than pint OF wine az .
sitting. I couldn't get mp imagination
enough to make her good looking under
. quart at the very least"
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
Fun that Ended In Death.

The persistency of Jennie Bennett. of
San Francisco, in wearing male attire,
after making her whim for several years
a diversion for herself and her acquaint-
ances, has ended in her dreadful death.
She was born in Paris, twenty-seven
years ago, and her father and mother
were actors. The family went to San
Francisco in 1852, aud Mr.. Bennett,
being able to speak English with sufi-
cient accuracy, was employed during
the next dozen years or 80 in the poorer
theaters. After that he was employed
in mercantile establishment. Jennie
grew up about as she would, and her
ways were wild. One of her fancies was
the wearing of male attire, and she wore
her hair short to assist in the disguise.
A companion of hers was Blanche Blu
neau, and few days ago they were out
for ride, and something occurring to
prevent their return to the city they
stopped at hotel, the landlord of whom
knew Jennie and her whims. Blanche
had an accepted lover, William Deneve.
whom she was engaged to marry. He
was Frenchman, and extremely jeal-
Gus. Once he saw her with Jennie, who
was unknown to him, and whom he re-
garded as an interloping young man.
Deneve at that time upbraided Blanche,
but she did not undeceive him as to
Jennie's identity. 1t is believed that he
saw or in some way learned of her de.
parture from the city, and Was furiously
excited by her apparent fickleness. He
followed them, and watched their move
ments until the terrible end of the ad-
venture.
The room in which Jennie and
Blanche were to sleep was in the first
story, adjoining a balcony. They re-
tired late. Blanche got into bed first,
and Jennie was preparing to do so.
Suddenly, without previous warning,
there was gunfash and report at the
window, and heavy charge Of buckshot
entered Jennie's side, killing her in
stantly. Blanche ran screaming to the
door, arousing the household with her
cries. The frightened landlord hesitated
10 go to the balcony, and before he
braced his courage sufficiently to make
St arch the murderer had escaped. A
jury gave verdict against Deneve.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14

with bona tides, and he, too, was do.
olared guiltless before the law. The
doctor was fully convicted. The public
minister demanded, a. his sentence,
three years imprisonment-a year fol
each day during which his victim was
immured in the asylum, and that SEN
tence was pronounced by the judges.
Dr.. Cosimati appealed, and the term OF
imprisonment was reduced TO one year.
Not content with this remission OF the
sentence, the doctor-always, be it re.
marked, enjoying provisional liberty,
that is, not imprisoned at all-applied
to the court Of cessation but his plea
was rejected. Then he solicited the
kings mercy but Signor Vigliani, late
minister Of Justice, refused him that
also. The eighteenth of March came,
and, with it, the Left to power. The
appeal to the kings mercy was renewed,
and his majesty was advised tc grant it,
-entence was commuted to internement
in prescribed locality from May to
November,
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Born Trader.

The Chinaman is such q born trader
that he has been known to attempt to
take the advantage of the missionary
who sells him portions of the Bible. A
colporteur writes from China: You offer
Matthew for ten cash. A man buys and
turns to 60. No man should become q
missionary to the Heather Chinee who
cannot count ten. You count, and find
eight cash. You call after the man and
repeat the price that you have repeated
fifty times-mayhap it is all you can re-
peat. He looks dazed. You hand back
the money with an emphatic "don't
WANT" With the air of a bankrupt he at
length produces one more cash. You
again kindly but firmly illustrate, on
your fingers or otherwise, the theoreti-
cal distinction between nine and ten.
He overwhelms you with violent demon
STATIONS that he has not another cash in
the world. You repeat. He repeats.
At last, with smile that is " childlike
and bland" he calmly extracts the other
cash from his ear, where it has been all
the while, as everybody but you knew,
takes his book and departs.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
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The First Marriage in Deadw00d.

An unusual attraction was offered in
the theater at Deadwood, new town in
the Black Hills, according to the Pioneer,
the bills announcing that a lady and
gentleman of Deadwood would be united
in marriage at the end of the play. A
large and expectant audience assembled,
and at the conclusion of the first play
tile curtain rose and discovered the
principal members Of the company
standing on both sides of the stage.
TIE center was occupied by Mrs. Nc
Kelvey, the bride, and Mr.. Morgan, the
groom. Mrs. Mex. was attired in an
elegant evening costume. Mr.. NJ. was
jauntily dressed. Judge Kuykendall
performed the ceremony with grace and
dignity, and emitting the paroxysmai
kiss. be shook the hands OF the pair.
and the curtain fell on the first marriage
in Deadwood
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
Eccentrlcities OF Genius,

A Cork manager tells how he engaged
Geo. Francis Train to spout in his
theater. After the engagement had
been duly heralded, the opening night
came. Says the manager:
The night came! The street was
blocked with people. The house was
full to overlooking, and I was informed
by the call boy that, although it was
ten minutes to eight, and the music had
been "rung in" Mr.. Train had not put
in an appearance.
Here was dilemma! knew the man
too we'll to hope. I fastened to a hotel,
and found him seated, slippers and
gown, reading paper. "Mr. Train, "
I cried, edo you know what time it is ?
The theater is jammed with people, and
the music is already
"Never get excited" interrupted he /;
stake things quietly. I have decided
not to speak tonight"
The GOODNESS of his reply angered me,
and said:
"You shall go to the theater if carry
you there" then rushed around the
corner to the theater, and ordered the
brass band from the balcony to the hotel
at once.
"There's one condition." said Train,
meeting me at the door of his room,
"upon which I will accompany you"
"There's no condition, SIR" I angrily
replied. IL have ordered the band
here, and you must follow them, or
prove your superiority in strength over
NINE"
Apparently in delighted mood at the
joke, he followed me to the hotel en-
trance, followed by the band playing
"The Rogue's March," At eight clock
precisely he walked upon the stage,
leisurely removed handsome light
overcoat and pair OF gorgeous kids,
and amid thunders of applause bowed
to the immense assembly before him.
"Two years ago." said he, beginning
in that oratorical manner as few, having
once heard, can ever forget, "when I
came here, you desired to crown me
king of Ireland. but you made another
stupid blunderl You placed a twenty
twoi inch crown upon me, when you
knew my head measured twenty-four
His discourse was one of his noted
melanges, jumping, as the Cork Herald
termed it, "from Halifax to Jerusalem,
and returning by way Of Hong Kong"
His voice was in perfect tune, and his
wonderful gestures were carrying his
hearers by storm, when voice from the
gallery sung out: Chow about that
case ye have againstthe English govern
ment for damages, George2"
He rushed to the floats, and in voice
of thunder shouted:
"Twenty, four hours after I'm Presi-
dent OF the United States, I'll collect
that hundred thousand pounds, or I'll
hang the British minister to lamppost
in front of the White House |"
The next minute I saw Mr.. Train
walked off the stage by two policemen,
and only by the most strenuous effort
did I get the house pacified and the
speaker released.
Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-10-14
A Chinese Parable.

Fohi, in the course OF his wanderings,
coming to village, knocked at the door
OF rich weman and begged permission
10 enter. "What |" said she, "do you
think l receive into my house every
rowing vagabond No, indeed 1; Il
would be unbeAtting a respectable
woman Go your way I"
Then he went to the cottage OF poor
woman, who at once kindly begged him
to enter. She set before him the only
food she had, little goats milk, broke
q piece of bread into it, and said
May Fohi bless it, that we may both
have enough"
She then prepared for him couch OF
straw and, when he fell asleep, per-
ceiving that he had no shirt, she sat up
all night and made him one out OF some
linen she had made by her own hard
labor. In tho morning she brought it
to him, begging he would not despise
her poor gift. After breakfast she &C.
companied him little way, and at part
ing Fohi said: "May the first work you
undertake last until evening""
When she got home she begun to
measure her linen, to see how much was
left, and she went on measuring, and
did not come to the end of it until
the evening, when her house and yard
we're full of linen in short, she did not
know what to do with her wealth. Her
rich neighbor, seeing this, was sorely
vexed, and resolved that such good
fortune should not escape her again.
After some months the traveller came
once more to the village !; she went to
meet him, pressed him to 60 to her
house, treated him with the best food
she had, and in the morning brought
him shirt of fine liuen, which she had
had made some time before but all
night shs kept candle burning in her
room, that the stranger, if he awoke,
might suppose she was making his shirt.
After breakfast she accompanied him
out OF the village, and when they parted
he said: May the first work you un-
dertake last till evening!
She went her way home, thinking the
whole time of her linen, and anticipa-
ting it's wonderful increase but just
then her COWS begun to low. Before
I measure my linen." said she, &C. will
quickly fetch the COWS some water"
But when she poured the water into
the trough, her pail never emptied
she went on pouring, the stream in
creased, and soon her house and yard
were all under water; the neighbors
complained that everything was ruined
the cattle were drowned, and with diff
Guilty she saved her own life, for the
water never ceased flowing until the set
ting Of the sun.