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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
Liver and Blood Diseases.
BY r. V. PIERCE. VI. D.. Author of The People
Common Sense Medical Adyisern

by H. v. FIERCE. Nj. d., Author of : The Peoples
Common Sense Medical Adviser"
healthy liver sccrctes each day about
two and half pounds of bile, which con
talns great amount of waste material taken
from the blood. When the liver becomes
torpid or cOngestcd, it fails to eliminate this
vast amount of noXiOus substance, which,
therefore, remains to poison the blood, and
be conveyed to every part of the system.
Whatmust be the condition of the blood when
1t Is receiving and retaining each day two
and half pounds of poison? Nature tries to
work off this poison through other channels
and organs-the kidneys, lungs, skin, etc,
but these organs become Oyer-taXed in per-
forming this labor in addition to their nat
ural functions, and cannot long withstand
the pressure, but become variousy diseased
The brain, which is the great electrical
center of all vitality, is unduly stimulated
by the unhealthy blood which passes to it
from the heart and it fails to perform It's
office healthily. Hence the symptoms of
bile poisoning, which are dizziness, headache,
incapacity to keep the mind on any subject,
Impairment of memory, dizzy, sleepy, or
nervous feelings, gloomy forebodings,
and irritability of temper. The blood
itself being diseased, as it forms
the sweat upon the surface of the
skin, it is so Irritating and poisonous that it
produces discOlOred brown spots, Dimples
blotches, and other eruptions, sores boils,
carbuncles, and scrOfuloLs tumors. The
oIoihcSn, bOHcIS, anu OtNei organs, cannot
escape becoming affected, sooner or later,
and we have, as the result, costveness, piles,
dropsy, dyspepsia, diarrhea. Other symp-
toms are common, as bitter or bad taste in
mouth, internal heat, palpitation, teas
ing cough, unsteady appetite, choking sem
sation in throat, bloating of stomach, pain
in sides or about shoulders or back, GOODNESS
of cxtremities, etc, etc. Only {. few of the
above symptoms are likely to be present in
any case at one time The liver being the
great depurating, or blOod-cleansing organ
of the system, set this great " housekeeper
of our health" at work, and the foul coIrup-
tons which gender IN the blood, and rot out,
as it were, the machinery of life, are gradu-
ally expelled from the system. For this pur-
pose DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
with very small doses daily of Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, is prc-eminentlv
the articles needed They cure every kind
of humor from the worst scrofula TO the
common pimple, blotch, or eruption. Great
eating ulcers kindly heal under their mighty
curative influence. Firulent blood poisons
that lurk in the system are by them robbed
of their terrors, and By their perseyering
and somewhat prOtracted use the most faint
ed systems may be completely renovated
and built up anew. Enlarged glands, tu-
mors, and swellings, dwindle away and dis
appear under the influence of these great
resolyentS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
Henry Bergb's Exhibit at the Gen.
tennial.

AT the south end Of the Main Exhibi-
ton Building there is display occupy
ing very little space, but nevertheless of
great interest. 1t IS the exhibit of the
New \ Ork Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, under the manage
ment Of the widely known and frequently
derided Henry Bergh. There is a case
been used by men arrested for cruelty to
their horses or other beasts of burden,
and some of them are weapons capable of
dealing the heaviest kind Of blows. Cart
stakes, barrel-staves, fence palings, load
ed whips, and the like, are there; and
each bears label giving the name of the
man who used it, and the punishment de-
creed to him. There are hoofs which
have been torn from horses by the street
railway tracks, and there are diseased
hOofs that have been rendered SO by the
salt which the companies put on the tracks
in winter to melt away the snow. Sew
eral things are on exhibition showing the
efficiency Of the Society in breaking
up dog fights, chicken-f1ghts, pigeon
matches and other cruel sports; and
some of them are positively sickening. A
pair of chickens, stuffed and preserved
with their gatfs on and all torn and
bloody, just as they were taken from the
pit where the . fancy" were looking on at
the battle, are in a glass case; and near
them is the stuffed skin of a bulldog res
cued from Water street pit where he
was fighting with another dog. Several
illustrations of cruelty to animals are
framed and hung on the walls
Of course, every one will say that it is
only the ignorant and uneducated who are
cruel. Don't be so fast about your opin.
ions, and reserve your opinion till you
have seen Mr. Bergh's collection. There are
samples here OF the spur-bit which is used
to give activity to stylish hc-ses on
fashionable turnouts in New York. and
probably elsewhere. 1t is a circle of
thick leather at each end of the bit. and
the inside of the leather is studded with
sharp teeth. like those of a curry-comb.
As the rein is tightly drawn, these teeth
press against the horses mouth at the
corners, and drive him wild with pain, so
that he prances and "shows off, to the
supreme delight of the owner or driver
Great numbers of these instruments of
refined torture have been taken from the
heads of horses on the fashionable ave
nues of New York by the agents of Mr.
Bergh. igeon-shooting has been one of
the sports which the Society has endeav-
ored to stop, and somebody has invented
a metal gyro-pigeon," which initiates
the motion of bird, and can be brought
down by shooting in the same way, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08

without giving pain. Samples of this
metallic pigeon are exhibited, and | be-
lleve it has the approval of several men
skilled in the art of shooting. Of course
it will be hard to convince the famous
shots Of the brutality of their amusement,
and some of them will deliver elaborate
arguments to prove that the most humane
way Of killing a pigeon is to shoot him.
This might be so if the bird were instant
~ killed, but everybody who has any
familiarity with pigeon matches knows
that great many birds fly tout of
bounds" and are left to die, or they fly
away slightly wounded and die or recover
as best they may.
Photographs are given of horses COW
cred with sores, or with their limbs twist
ed out of position and, in nearly every
instance, the beasts were found working
in carts or bearing burdens. There are
pictures of cows so diseased that they
were held up By sings to be MIXED, and
the milk thus obtained is regularly sold
to customers. The process OF carrying
fowls by the legs is illustrated, and also
the more humane method of transporting
them in baskets. There are different
forms of brides and bits for horses; and
the gentleness of the one kind and torture
Of another are shown by means of dia-
grams. Altogether, the exhibition given
by the society cannot fail to have a good
effect; it is, believe, the first of the kind
ever presented al a Worlds Fair. Let us
hope earnestly it will not be the last: or,
better still, that there may be no occasion
for another like it. But, to secure this
result, we must make a great change in
human nature. PhdLGdelp6ia Cor. CHI
cdQO Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
The Excavations at Olympia.

The sixth report of the operations of
the German explorers on the site of the
ancient Olympia, in Greece, has been
published. 1t covers the period from the
end of March to the 21st of April, during
which time the excavations continued
fruitful in iscoveries-pedestais, with
and without inscription, bronze pieces of
all sizes, and fragments of statuary coming
to light every day. The great columns of
the portal, which were thrown down by
the earthquake, were found in fair preser-
Walton on the south side of the temple.
The floor of the temple has been partly
cleared and the marble pavement laid
bare. Eighty men are at present employed
In removing the earth from the proanas
OF the temple, and their labor, although
undertaken only in the interest of archi-
tectural science, has resulted in the dis
cOvery OF valuable art relic. 1t is prob
ably the most interesting piece of sculp-
ture-work yet found at Olympia, and is in
The best style of Grecian art 1t is metope
tablet with figures. One of these is
young woman in a long robe, her right
arm with open hand hanging at her side,
her head turned to the right side, and her
wavy hair confined in cap; her left arm
is raised upward. Beside this figure, but
with his back turned to her, is nude
man bearing burden; he is in profile,
but his head, with its large beard, is
turned so that his face is visible beneath
his arm; this figure is undoubtedly Atlas.
whose head was supposed to have been
taken with other fragments to Paris.
Beside this figure is that of Heracles,
with his right arm extended forward and
three apples in his hand; his left arm is
broken, but the remainder of the figure is
remarkably we'll preserved; the head with
its pointed beard, the curly hair and the
band around the forehead.
In consequence of the labor of clearing
the interior of the temple the work on the
outside has not advanced greatly since the
last report. Added to this much labor
has been expended in removing the sculp-
lures to and from the photographers quar-
tiers. The sculptures and Inscriptions have
nearly all been reproduced on the spot in
plaster, and the casts are now ready for
packing and transportation.
Many fragments are now found which
complete pieces recovered some months
ago. Thus the fragment of bird was
found to fit a fracture in the statue of
Nike, and the missing parts of the char
ioteer discovered in December have since
been found. Of the many inscriptions
discovered some relate to Roman men
and times; thus there are three Mummius
inscriptions, and one concerning CIaudius
Tyson.
The work Of excavating will be con-
tinued until the end of May, when it will
be suspended during the summer. The
site of the temple, which was for cen
turtles dreary waste, has now, in spite of
the lack of travelling facilities, become a
resort for tourists. During the Easter
holidays from four to five hundred strang-
ers day came to view the temple-NY.
EDendAg Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
Augfords ExpiOit-A Revolutionary
incident.

The 18th of May, 1176, was critical
moment tor Sen. Washington. The Brit
BhtrOops had evacuated Boston in March,
and there was d luli in hostilities because
both parties were short of powder Eff
forts had been made for year to manu-
EaCsure powder within the colonies with
very little success. Gen. Washington was
anxious for the future The British
s9nadron lay in Nantucket Roads waiting
a'O less anXiously for transports from En-
gland.
Shortly before this, James Mugford, a
aarhlehead man, twenty five years of age,
had been impressed on board one of the
'rDemy's sloops lying outside of the har-
hor. His wife said that if the people did
not rescue him she would do it herself,
and young Mugford was dismissed by the
Captain at her entreaty While on board
at the sloop he overheard the talk about
Inc expected transports, and ascertained
that the signal of the powder-ship would
De powder key at the masthead. AS
soon as he reached the shore he sent word
vessel for its capture, and then, impatient
nj delay, started from Beverly in the
schooner franklin, craft of sixty tons,
armed with four two-pounders, and lay
s1na in the bay awaiting its arrival. On
the morning of Friday, the 18th, the
Hooked-for signal was seen at the mast
head OF an approaching vessel, and Capt.
1Nngtord, Offering his services as pilot and
exposing but few men, received The well
come signal to come on board before the
British Captain understood the character
of his visitor
Where is your commission? ~ said the
3riton
You have two aboard was the re-
ply. and that's enough for both of MS y
The British feet was not more than q
EiIs; distant, and they were on the point
ct sending their boats to welcome the
powder ship, when Capt. Mugford, hav-
ing persuaded the English officer to sur
render, was seen bringing his valuable
prize into the harbor. The citizens We're
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
" hat One of Shakspeare's TOwnsmen
Knew About Him.

NOT many years since, the writer,
walking through one of the little villages
of the Arden District on sultrv August
afternoon, stopped to obtain drink at a
cottage where the window displayed an
array Of archaic looking ginger bread
soldiers and stone gingerbeer bottles. The
MASTER" as the husband is always
called here-an old, gray-headed man,
with the dull, lethargic, toil-worn face so
often seen in the agricultural laborer who
has committed the crime of living to be
past work-was smoking his afternoon
pipe by the ireless hearth, and itoccurred
to his customer to breach the subject of
Shakespeare. Stratford, he said, was a
dull place, and if it were not for the visit
ors would be duller still < Ees, it
would" And [ suppose you see many
of them here?" "Eees, we do, fairish
lot a stranger-felk in summer time"
"Ah," said the writer, musingly, for he
desired to draw out Agrotis, this
Shakespeare was a great man, a very great
man" And he was brought out with a
vengeance, for at last a chord had been
touched with which he could sympathize.
A CLEAN of animation illumined the wan
countenance, and he exclaimed: "Gret
man! a just war greet man; ten foot WI
out his Shoes Shades of Malone and
Stevens! here was something like
Shakspearean tradition; but alas upon
asking what he meant, the old man re-
piled: Mean what / say, surelie; I've
sin the statty on'm at Guys Cliff, and
there "a is as large as life!" The story of
Shakespeare and the legend of Guy had
intermingled, and this man, wi o had lived
all his life within six miles of Stratford,
had COMPOUNDED Shakespeare with the
hero of the redoubtable porridge-pot-
Hr0zer,s Hn01zine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
A COrsican Duel.

MARTIN POLL, a young man of twenty
five, grandson of the famous Theodore,
King of the Mountains, so celebrated in
Corsican history, was in love with young
girl of that island. But he had a rival
one Joseph Leca, surnamed the Zouave,
who, by his bravery, had gained the
military medal in the French army.
The latter, considering that the other was
treated with greater preference, enticed
him one evening to a roadside public
house, with view of giving him up to
the gensdarmes. Poll kept the appoint
ment, and having boldly announced his
suspicious of the other, quarrel ensued,
and they determined to settle the matter
there and then. Each was armed with a
musket, and they went out into the open
ground, where the moon was shining
brightly, and each took up his station be-
hind tree, firing at his opponent at eve
ry opportunity, the two gradually APP
preaching each other. At last they got
so near together that they were in full
view, and they fired at the same time,
both falling dead, shot through the breast.
The neighbors, aroused by the detona-
tons, came up to the spot just in time to
see them both expiring in pool of their
own blood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
NeedlewOrk i'm the Exhibition,

MARY s. RILEY, of Louisville, XIV,
makes one of the most interesting and
wonderful exhibits in the entire collection.
lt consists OF admirable portraits of indl-
ylduals, taken either by embroidering in
SILK or by working in worsted. Notwith-
standing the apparently insuperable diff
cultIes In this process in the way of Sc
curing delicate shading with such cum
orous and unmanageable materials, the
artist has succeeded in several instances
IN producing work in black and white,
which at little distance, cannot be dis
tInguished from etching. The work in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
Regulate the Bodily Functions.

This advice should he especially needed
by those who suffer from an irregular habit
of body or disorders of the bladder or kid
neys. Inactivity of the bowels, or of the
urinary organs, is speedily rectified by that
wholesome aperient and sterling invigora-
tive diuretic, Hostettcr's Stomach Bttcrs;
and, as all affections of the organs of dis
charge have strong tendency to become
chronic, and that very rapidly, thcuse of the
Bittcrs should not be delayed a moment
incstimable corrective upon the bowels
differs widely from that of drastic purga-
tive, since it is never violent or abrupt but
always gentle and natural, and its effects
upon the bladder and kidneys are strength
ching as well mildly stimulative. The
healthful impetus which it gives to diges-
ton also renders it most desirable general
tonic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08

different colors is also wonderful but is
nothing to compare in fidelity and sharn.
ness of outline with the work in black
and white. By means of simply STITCHING
black and white silk on a white ground
the artist has succeeded in PRODUCING adj
mirable portraits of Hon. w. E. Glad
stone and John Bright and of James
Bridgeford, of Louisville, Ky. She has
wrought in worsted pictures of Queen
Victoria, Prince Albert, the Prince and
Princess Of Wales, and the Princess
Royal of England, now Crown Princess
of Germany. But the most ambitious
and the most interesting piece In the col
lection is picture il wOrstedwork rep
resenting the Battle OF Langside, or the
Death of Douglas in the Defense of Mary
Queen of Scots" In the foreground is
Douglas lying on the ground in his
armor, with his charger near by and his
knights surrounding him. Queen Mary
Is bending over with look of anxious
sollcltude, and a monk near bv holds a
cross to his (DouglasD lips. Above him
spread the boughs of large oak, and in
the distance may be seen the smoke of
battle. The success which the artist has
achieved in blending colors and in shad-
ing is really wonderful. The deep green
foliage OF the trees, the rich velvet and
silken garments of the knights and ladies,
the bright trappirgs of the horses-even
the deathly pallor and expression of agony
on Douglas facial are brought out
with almost as much clearness as if they
had been painted. -PhiLndeLnhfn Ledne,.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08
Races Against Time.

SUCH feats as Parker's and Peralto's
have been performed before. Nell III.
Mowery, Aug. 2, 1868, at San Francisco.
rode 80 horses 800 miles in IA hours 8
minutes, making the 200 miles in s hours
2 minutes As seconds. In 1856 a pony
rider, Jack Powers, carried the mails from
Los Angeles to Monterey, 225 miles, in
"a hours, lassoing his horses from the
herd of spare ones driven with him, as is
the custom on the Plains and also with
the fast messengers of the Manitoban half
breeds. In 1858, at San Francisco, using
IA horses, he rode $50 miles in hours 43
minutes "a seconds, and Tom McNabb
rode 300 miles within ten hours also at
the California capital. George Osbalde-
ston, "the SQUIRE" in November, 1881,
for wager of 1000 guineas, using 20
horses, and riding over four-mile course
on stormy day, heavy rain falling for
four hours of the match, made 200 miles
in hours AZ minutes, the actual running
time being hours 10 minutes and Sec
ords. He rode one horse (Tranby, that
was afterward brought to America, and
sired some of our best stock Is miles, one
10, seventeen s, and nine 4. Two hours
afterward he had taken bath and ridden
to town to dinner, where they "kept it
up" in the characteristic style of those
days-and nights.-N. Y. Cor. Chicago
Tribune
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-08

The fraternal camp-meeting of all
branches of the Methodist denomination,
which is to be held at Round Lake, near
Saratoga, this summer, is to begin June
%, and close july 3.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-07-13
Garfield again to the Front.

The Cleveland Leader of the 9th ia
informed by its Washington cores
pOpdent that Hon. Rev. Gen. j. A.
Garfield has patriotically consented TO
sacrifice his own interests and again
become candidate for Congress in
this District this fall. And thercupon
the Leader proceeds to bestow half
column of stale flattery upon our
pious, patriotic, Credit NJ obilier, De-
Golyer Pavement, Salary e rabbing
member, and to inform its readers that
there is no other man In the ranks of
the party Of all the intelligence, NOR
ality, patriotism and purity who is fit
to occupy the place, and that without
his services in the House the country
will go to sure destruction. Now we
may expect to see the political wire
pullers in this region who believe in
the "herlthy principle of rotation in
office" pull off their coats and sail IN
to secure the denomination of this
great reformer! Thus will they DEM
onstrate their consistency. su..,-it3
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-07-13

The Radicals are getting their out
rage mill ready for the coming cam
paign. The first document promises
to come from the Mississippi Outrage
Committee which has recently return
ed from that State. The Radical men,
bcrs are already relating stories of the
horrible condition of affairs there,
which is to be made the pretcnse un.
dOubtcdly OF sending troops into the
State this fall to wrest it from the
hands of the Democrats in the Presi-
Dental election. The President is rep.
resented as being very desirous OF
sending the military into Louisiana
and Mississippi this fall, and only
waits for the slightest occasion, either
through a report of the Senate Com.
mittee or bogus outrage, to issue the
necessary order. Look out for howl
along the whole line.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-07-13

HAYES has written his letter of ac-
ceptance, and puts on the collar pre-.
pared for him by the Cincinnati Con.
vention. His letter contains nothing
new unless it be that our third-term
Governor makes big bid for votes by
declaring in favor of a single term for
President. On the currency question,
il there were any ambiguity in the
Radical platform, he has failed to
make it perfectly clear, though it
would seem as though he is in favor
of taking no "steps backward" but
of CARRYING out the act for the forced
resumption Of specie payments in
1879. lie is AS fierce for civil service
reform as ever Grant was, and has
most tender regard for the sacredness
Of our public schools. Vive Ia hum.
bug.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-07-13

The Difference Between the Two Great
Parties.
The principal difference between
the two great parties, says the Zaues-
vile Signal, is finely and fully eXen-
plificd in the treatment by them, res.
pcciivcly, of their reforming candi-
dates for President. I'll. -E..l
Mr.. BristOw, who had shown dis
position to put down tine Republican
WHISKY Rings. to prosecute and pun
ish the public robbers and private
peculators within his Department as
Secretary of the Treasury, and to en-
force an honest collection of the reve-
nues of the Government, was not
Ouly rejected for President by the Re-
publican National Convention, but has
been obliged to resign his position in
President Grants administration and
retire to private life. Not only this,
but all connected with him in the de-
lection and punishment of Ring frauds
on the Treasury, have since been dis
missed from the public service. ~
On the other hand, Mr.. Tilden, who
relentlessly pushed out of place aud
power, and into the penitentiary, all
officers and others under his jurisdic.
tiOn whom he found or suspected TO
be guilty of frand or embezZlement,
is invited by the Democracy to Ego up
higher" and the people will vote for
him to step up there. This is the true
Significance of the situation.