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PRICE, 81 PER BOTTLE.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER.

ANN, ARBoB, Mich, April 90, 1875.
DIR. RADwAY-Kind Sir: have been taking your
Resolvent, Regulating Pills, and also using the
Ready Relief about one year for oyariEn tumors on
the abdomen which 'he mos seminent physicians OF
our Medical Collel pronounced incurable
They were like kJOts on tree. When / was eit-
ting In n chair they hung almost to the floor and
my weight was 275 pounds when commenced with
your remedies, and now II is 30 pounds, but they
are not all gone yet have taken twenty-four bot
ties OF ResOlvent, nine of Relief, and twentyfour
boxes OF Pills. get the medicine from q. Grpn-
will. Please send me your beck False and True"
MRS. Q. KkAPF.
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New cloaks and shawls arriving every
week at Mitchell & Parsons from the best
makers in the east. 27d&wl
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ANNOUNCEMENTS.

1t will pay to keep your Harness in good
condition. Use Frank Miller's Prepared
Harness Oil.
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INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES.

For SALE.-A good family horse and
buggy. For further particulars call at this
Office. 20 diff
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Or Of Y Years Gr010th Cured
Radtpaus ReSOLpent.

BEvEHI Y, Macs, July 10, 1869.
Dr. RAILWAY: have had Ovarian Tumor in the
Ovaries and bowels. All the doctors said "there
was no help for It," tried everything that was
recommended but nothing helped me. / saw your
Resolvent, and thought woulu try L.; Init had no
faith In It, because had suffered for twalve years.
/ took six bottles Of the Resovent and one box Of
Railways Pills. and two bottles OF your Ready Re
lief aud there Is not sign OF tumor TO be seen
felt. and feel better, smarter and happier than
have for twelve years. The worst tumOr was in the
left side OF the bowels, over the groin write this
20 you for the bcnedt Of others. You can publish
IL II you choose. HANNAH p. KNAPP.
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Cassimeres and suitings for men aud
boys; best assortment 10 the city-cheap
at Mitchell & Parsons. 27d&wl
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They shipped off two carloads of Vic
torias yesterday. Five hundred aud fifty
sold this season dwtf
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Ridnev and Bladder Oomplaints,

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes,
Dropsy, Stoppage of Water IncOntinuance OF Urine,
where there are brickdust deposits, the water Is
thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like the white
OF an egg, or threads like white silk or there s
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white bone
dust deposits, and when there IL prclting, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and Pain in the
Small OF the Back and along the Loins.
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The Defeat of Crazy Horse.

The encounter between Gen. Miles.
with an effective force of about 800 men.
and Crazy Horse at the head of about
1000 Indian warriors, occurred at n
point about sixty miles up the Tongue
nver, on the 9Th ult. Overtaldng his
ox-train sent forward three days in adj
vance of his soldiery, Gen. Miles, aban-
doning his wagons, began difficult
search for the enemy, and on the 7th en-
gagged in skirmish. The next day he
gave battle TO the main body. This was
well armed, provided with ammunition,
and apparently full of courageous deter
mination. Our forces are reported to
have behaved with great gallantry
and to have been disposed with unusual
skill. The result was rout OF the saw
ages. They carried off their dead ac-
cording to their habit, but it is believed
that their loss was very great. Snow fell
during the action, and the nature of the
ground did not admit of the cooperation
of the cavalry. The fight is said to have
lasted about five hours. Our loss was
four killed and six wounded. The COM
mand returned to the post at Tongue
river in good condition. During the
movement preceding the battle, the
troops encountered great hardships, and
were compelled to move very slowly.
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The Gospel OF Merit.

Where there is so much rivalry as in the manu-
facture Of family medicines, he who would sue
coed must give positive and convincing proof of
merit This is an age Of inquiry. People take
nothing for granted. They must know the
",chys" and "tnherefores" before acknowledge
ing the superiority Of one article over another.
Among the few preparations that have stood the
test those manufactured by II. V. Pierce. NJ D.,
Of the Worlds Dispensary, Buffalo, n Y, have
for many years been foremost. The truth of
any statement made concerning them can be
easily ascertained, for DIR. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy and DIR. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery
are now prescribed by many physicians in curing
obstinate cases of Catarrh and incipient Con-
sumption. The Discovery has no equal in cur
ing Coughs, Colds Bronchial and Nervous Alice
tons. 1t allays all irritation of the mucous
membrane, aids digestion, and when used with
DIR. Pierces Pleasant Purgative Pellets readily
overcomes torpid lirer and Constipation, while
the Fayorite Prescription has no rival in the
field Of prepared medicine in curing diseases
peculiar to females. If You wish to ''kno,c thy-
self" procure copy of "The Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser" an illustrated book Of
nearly 1000 pages, adapted to the wants Of
everybody. Price $1.50, postage prepaid. Ad-
dress the author, r. v Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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What Will Surprise an Indian.

The Indian has little actual and COM
mon experience of many articles of
civilized manufacture, the simplest of
which is as entirely beyond his compre-
hension as the most complicated. He
would be a simple exclamation point
did he show surprise at everything new
to him, or which he did not understand.
He does to the other extreme, and rarely
shows or feels surprise at anything. He
visits the States, looks unmoved at the
steamboat and locomotive. People call
it stoicism. They forget that to his
ignorance the production of glass bot
tie is as inscrutable as the sound of the
thunder. A piece of gaudy calico is a
marvel; common mirror miracle.
He knows nothing of the comparative
difficulties of invention and manufact-
ure, and to him the mechanism
of a locomotive is not in any way more a
matter of surprise than that of wheel
barrow. When things in their own
daily experience are performed in what
to them is a remarkable way, they do
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The New Driver.

A widow lady living in the northern
part of the city hired new coachman
the other day-a stranger who had moth
ing to recommend him but the fact that
he was willing to work for very low
wages for the sake of steady employ
ment. He said he had been used to
horses all his life-in fact had remodeled
about half the equines in this city. In
driving down town he took up most of
the street, cut wheel off another car
riage, and ran into street-car, and the
widow began to doubt that he was pro-
fessional. Going home after call at
the stores, he managed to overturn the
sleigh, and the widow, buried in the
snow, called out:
81 don't believe you know anything
about driving horses -
"Well, mum, he replied, as he picked
up the robes, "I'll bet thousand dol
lars that I'm used to mules, for 1 drove
'em in the army for four years; if you II let
me put a saddle on that nigh boss and
use one rein, L can haw up and gee
up andg lang 'em from Detroit to Texas
without breaking n buckle r'-Free
Press
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MurderOus NOslem.


At meeting held in New York city, a
few days ago, to express sympathy for
the prosecuted Christians in Bulgaria,
Rev. DIR. Thompson was the principal
speaker. He said that the one mighty
influence which molds the feelings of
men toward each other in Turkey is such
that he would no more be surprised at
the Turkish barbarities and the fruits of
the Mohammedan religion in countries
where it is dominant than he would won
der that the wolf does not chloroform the
lamb before he devours him. The world
under Islamism is very different from
the lands leavened by the teachings of
Jesus of Nazareth. One potent cause of
total misrepresentation of the question is
that there is a devotional glamour about
everything done by the Mohammedan.
You cannot complete sentence in any
Mohommedan language without a refer
ence to the Creator Even in the bazars
the talk is all of "Allah." Even the
Pasha who has been concerned in the
Eastern atrocities is surnamed "Divine
Mercy" Divest yourselves, therefore,
of any idea of resemblance between
Christian works and Mohammedan works
the difference is as wide as the difference
between heaven and hell. One of the
first things that strikes the traveller in
the East is the universal hatred that ex-
lists between the various and numerous
sects. Take, for example, the remnant
of the Samaritans of the days of our
Lord, who are saluted by their neighbors
thus: "Hollo, enemy of God, how
I.,.1 l,yll oil l-a.
by themselves; men are never referred to
as men, but according to their religion,
in such way that if it obtained here the
papers would occasionally report that
GA Catholic woman was run over by a
Presbyterian stage-driver, or that " A
Long Island Baptist had his pocket
picked 10y Brooklyn Quaker, who was
arrested by an Episcopalian policeman. F"
DIR. Thompson then went on to relate
some of the harsh experiences of Chris
tians in the East A Christian is forced
to wear certain clothes, to live in certain
quarters, to take a certain side of the
street, to build only one-story houses,
and, lastly, it is an established principle
of Mohammedan law that the testimony
of Christian shall never be taken in a
COtlIb IL I<lSlDttu
hundred Christian men and women were
massacred in Aleppo because Catholic
priest rode to his church on a horse.
Threats of wholesale massacres of Chris
tians are frequent. The speaker then
related other massacres of Christians by
Turkish regular soldiery at Seyden,
Damascus, and other places The rea-
son that so little of this state of affairs is
known here is that it has to be published
through the British press, and it is con-
trary to the British policy to tell the
whole truth about Turkey, and 80 it has
been said, "Oh, there is much exaggera-
tion," and "Oh, it is not as bad as it is
claimed" Fortunately an American,
Mr.. Schuyler, stepped in and told the
truth, and it is now to be hoped that the
relations of Great Britain to this brutal
power will have to undergo decided
change. 1t is to the eternal honor OF
Russia that she has always insisted upon
the right to protect Christians in Turkey.
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Three Children Burned To Death Before
Their Mother.


From the Independent (Kan.) Courier.l
From Mr.. II. Stevenson, OF Labette
county, who was in the city to-day max
ing an entry of land, we CLEAN the par
ticulars relating TO terrible casualty
that occurred in Labette county, about
six miles from Parsons, on Wednesday
evening. The house of Mr.. David Nc
Night was DESTROYED by fire, and all his
children, three in number, were burned
to death. The time of the accident was
early evening. The mother had lighted the
lamp and placed it on the cupboard and
gone to the barn TO milk the cows, leav-
ing the three little children alone in the
house. A can containing about five
pounds of powder was ON the cupboard,
in close proximity with the lamp. While
mt the barn the mother heard slight ex-
plosion, followed by screams from the
children. Dropping the milking pail,
Mrs. Mcknight fastened toward the house,
but before reaching her destination an
other and far greater explosion was
heard. The frantic woman made renewed
exertions, but like flash the entire
premises were enveloped in flames, and
amidst the roaring and cracking of the
fire the means of her children were dis
tinctly audible. The now crazed mother,
needless of all consequences, dashed
heroically into the flames which were
playing sad havoc with everything she
held dear. Assistance arrived, and the
woman was extricated, though badly
burned about the face, head and arms.
The three children, aged respectively
years, years, and months, persisted
in the grasp of the fiery fiend When
the father returned, shortly afterwards,
nothing was left of what was an hour
previous happy home save the wife,
and she in feeble condition. 1t is hard,
very hard, indeed, to even picture
grief to compare with the above recital.
The family resided some two miles from
Mr.. Stevenson, and were held in the
highest esteem by their neighbors. The
supposition is that one of the children
upset the lamp, which exploded and set
fire to the cupboard, thereby igniting
the powder, which produced the second
explosion. Not vestige of anything
was saved from the wreck. This ought
to prove a lesson to people who are in
the habit of leaving their children ut
home alone with lights or fire.
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Taxing Corn.

If il ever was true that cotton is king,
it is not so now. The total value OF last
years cotton crop of 4, $50, 900 bales was
about $3.50, 900, 600, but the corn crop of
/ ,295, 000,0 900 bushels, mt the average
price of about 45 cents bushel, is worth
to this country no less than 1888, 900, 600.
1t makes the largest single item Ill our
agricultural product, and our agricultu-
raj product furnishes, in round numbers
about 81 000, 600, 600 out of the So, O00,-
600, 600 produced each year by American
labor. Cotton was king. Corn is now
greater king. But, though corn is king
of kings, it has to pay tribute on every
hand. Middlemen eat deeper into the
farmers substance than the grasshopper,
and the politicians, with their subsidies,
bounties, protective duties, and the like,
eat deeper than the grasshopper and the
middlemen together. There is but one
thing of which the farmer gets the lions
STANDARDIZATION. Although the pro-
ducers of corn are the most numerous
class in the country, their interests are
less consulted in Legislation than those of
any other. For instance, leaving out OF
view the wider questions suggested
above, consider the injury done to the
farmer by the present law taxing distilled
spirits. Alcohol is an indispensable
agent in the manufacture of varnishes,
ether, chloroform, perfumes, and many
other chemical compounds. In Great
Britain alcohol destined for use in the
arts and manufactures is free from the
internal revenue tax imposed on that
which is to go into beverages. The sim
pie device of compelling the manufac-
turers of alcohol which is to be used in
the arts to mix it with a distillation from
wood, called methyl, changing it into a
"wood alcohol" thereby destroying it's
fitness to drink without injuring it for
industrial purposes, protects the Govern
ment from fraud, and gives to industry
an important raw material free of tax.
In this country every gallon of alcohol
used in manufactures and arts must pay
80 cents of excise, or 500 per cent. on
prime cost. The manufactures depend
ent on it are greatly embarrassed, and
their development is hindered. The de-
mand for alcohol from these sources is
kept down to minimum point, and, as
alcohol is made of corn, the farmers lose
sive and remunerative market. Cotton
goes into the arts in this country free of
all Federal taxation, and consequently
the cottOn-planter has the widest possible
market, and relatively high price for
his product. Why should this discrim-
nation be made between the corn-planter
and the cotton-planter?-C Chicago Trib-
ulle.
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enfeebled IN them that she began to fear
the child was permanently paralyzed.
She therefore requested the childs
mother to send him with his two young
sisters to play in the entry of the second
story of her house, where she had fitted
up a window with blue and plain glass in
equal proportions. This was done, and
in a few days Mrs. @. stated that the
child manifested greatimprovementin the
strength of its limbs, having learned to
climb by chair, to crawl, and to walk,
and was as promising child as any one
is likely to wish.
The General also gives the case of
lady in New York who had been placed
under the influence of The associated
light of the sun and the blue light of the
armament, having been an invalid for
nearly three years, for the last half of
that time confined to her room. She be-
came so reduced and her nervous system
so broken down that all tonics lost their
effect sleep could only be obtained by
opiates there was no appetite, and
scarcely vestige of color remained In
her lips, face or hands. AS last resort
she tried the blue-glass rays. She sat
continually for twenty or thirty minutes
at time, the rays falling directly on the
spine. The effects were too strong for
her to bear, and, as she was progressing
favorably by merely sitting in it in her
ordinary dress, that was considered suffi-
cient. In two or three weeks a change
began to show. The color returned to
her face her appetite was more natural,
and her whole nervous system WAS
strengthened and soothed. In six weeks
she was allowed to walk down stairs, and,
in few weeks more, when the weather
was pleasant, was able to walk out The
experiment was peculiarly fair one, be-
cause all tonics, etc., were stopped as
soon as the blue glass was placed in the
window.
A distinguished surgeon of Philadel-
phia has expressed to the author the
opinion that the vitalizing influence of
these associated colors would probably
be found to eradicate scrofula and the
terrible diseases which have produced it
from the human system f; and it is not
impossible that tubercular consumption
of the lungs may be arrested in its prog
ress by the same treatment.
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express the most profound astonish-
ment. have seen several hundreds of
Indians, eager and excited, following
from one telegraph-pole to another a
repairer, whose legs were incased in
climbing boots. When he walked easily,
foot over foot, up the pole, their sur
prise and delight found vent in the most
vociferons expressions of applause and
admiration. A white lady mounted on
side-saddle, in what to the Indian
woman would be almost an impossible
position, would excite more surprise and
adaptation than would a Hoe printing
press in full operation.
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SWORN STATEMENT
BOSTON DRUGGIST.

hereby ce5s ina, have had Ca
buz5ng In the head pains across the ,epPls dizzy
the chest, and every indication OF consumption, NY
ssas y sss that nC
themfree. Frequently az night would spring out q
would then lave 70 every means in my power
20 the macus from ny throat and head before
my tonsis were liberated and so much infamed that
eminent surgeon in regard to an operation ON them.
but at his request postponed It. The constant innam-
asn matter soppng down my had
30 irrtated and named my lungs that coughed In
Began 70 show s ELECTS Of this disease
as psS snS snGTsS q hs
fss q Of SIX asc
Alter using IN the rst bottle began to improve rapid
W The nrst dose seemed to clear my head as h9S
arrest the discharges. 70 stopped ny cough fn three
days By using it as gargle soon reduced the In.
To trouble co.
sss ss sSyzS 10 seas
ReSsey and every sy%Bom Of dseqss sna5
Of ns sSs
nave ssSe been mus efPss o%
hope to convince many that this i great remedy.
am familiar with the treatment of Catarrh as prac-
most cfp about my case. / have used every kind
ofremedy and annaratns that have appeared during
their use taken great care OF my general health but
obtained no RELIEF or announcement from any OF them.
Since curing myself with SANFORD RADICAL CURE,
have recommended IL IN over one hundred cases
without single case OF failure. and have in numerous
instance received wholesale orders from parts TO
whom have sold one bottle. Thsis the only patent
medicine have ever recommended never having be-
cved in them before although constantly engaged in
BosToS, Feb. s3, 1873 GEORGE F. DINSMORE.
SUFFOLK, IS. Feb. o. 1875.
Then personally appeared the said George f. Dins-
more and made oath that the foregoing by
him subscribed is true. Before me,
SETH j. THOMAS,
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IT ig now generally admitted by honest


physicians that, when once the consumption is
fairly fastened upon the lungs, no human power
can save the patient from death. They also say
that about 80 per cent. of those who die from
this disease can trace the causesto neglected
cough or cold, which might have been cured by
a small bottle of Liquid Opodeldoc, or, what is
the same thing, Johnson'S AnOdyne Imminent.
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AT HONE OR ABROAD, get DIR. j. II. Nc
Leans Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puri-
fer recognized all over the World as the best
tonic, invigorator and purifier of the blood For
puny or weak children, or delicate females, an
absolute necessity. DR.. j. II. Mclean 3l4
Chestnut street. st. Louis.
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Is THERE ONE reader of this paper suf-
phenstine d Bentley, Druggists, Washington,
ID. c., for a circular Of Durang's Rheumatic
Remedy. This medicine is taken internally, and
will positively cure any case Of rheumatism on
the face of the green earth. Price, one dollar
q hottie
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Cur this notice out and bring it with
You. We are authorized to refund the cash TO
any person or persons who shall buy and use
Parsons PtTgdttre Pills and fail OF relief and
satisfaction
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THAT NASAL TwANG, it is Catarrh; cure
it at once. before it shows on your face by Or.
j. II. McLean's Catarrh Snuff. It soothes irri-
tation, cures Sores in the nose, face or skin.
Trial boxes so cts, by mail. DIR. j. II. Mclean.
314 Chestnut. 81. Louis.
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VEGETABLE Pulmonary Balsam, the
great New England cure for coughs colds and
consumption. Cutler Bros. d Co.'S, Boston,
only genuine.
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SEE advt headed down with high prices"
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Meat Consumers.
The relative meat consumption of the
different peoples of Europe stands thus ::

THE New York Tribune expresses a
fear that a hfe-insurance panic is i'm
pending.
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TO TAILORS The Tssi American IT, p. Tgs' E.

~ AdA0OISO' Review, ne Leadiy Re
Cent? Fashions published ready for Spring
and Summer, comprising handsome Chrome Plato tS
Hgures and supplementary Vest Plate "a Figuresl Pat
terms of Lending Garments and standard Coat System
never before published Yearly Subscription 10 Quar-
terly Report, 5000. Single Copies Semi,annnal Re
port 50 90. Address JNO j. MITCHELL, Pub
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Il HAVE sold dozens of Hatch's Universal Cough
II Syrup for the past year than have sold Of
similar medicine during the same length Of timo. |
have shelves thirteen different cough remedies,
comprising most of those considered staple in this
ton. WESLEY RUbISON.
Evans Mills JEFF. Co., n. Y.
Sold by VAN Setback STEVENSON A REID, Chicago, IN
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SUFFOLK, IS.

SUFFOLK, IS. Fch. q lF15.
Then personally appeared the said George f. Dins-
and made oath that the foregoing statement by
him subscribed is true. Before me,
SETH j. THOMAS,