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THE SUN
FOR THE
Campaign Against National Frau


A President who not elected by the people hav-
ing been inauguarted at Washington through pro-
fraud, call upon honest men of all par
effort for the correction Of this great and the
of the guilty to be enforced through the
FOR this outrage upon the right of self government
the Republican party and its chosen managers are
primarily responsible; but the men who have taken
office through such means, and who actually
ercisin the power of Government upon such author.
ty scarcely less guilty than they who conceived
and executed this unparalleled political swindle.
The Fraudulent President and his advisors ha wing
undertaken to forsake the ancient ways of the Re-
publican arty and having invited Democrat and
a former Rebel 10 occupy one OF the NEST important
Offices in the Cabinet propose 20 debauch the honest
fees and by enormous system of q Government sui
sides for railroads and canals ping thus to complete
time with hypocritical pretenses of reforming the
civil service they stter the vanity of Northern theo-
ministration is founded may be overlooked and con-
doned
atOrswith whom IL orig mated we call upon the people
tOcommence Immediately cam On alike mercIless
and pertiuaeious We promse hem that from the be;
laggard or timorous in this holy crusade; and in
wife recruits from every quarter 20 JOIN IN the
our old friends and readers, body of about mil
lion readers-the same number as the majority OF
whito citizens who, IN November last voted for
Samuel j. Tilden for President-we need only say
that shall continue hereafter, in the Tast, to
tice in public sf,irs. and that shall still en-
deayor to supply all who may consult columns
with careful. complete and irustV orthy accounts Of
current aud from every part OF the world
while from ashng ton es pecially, reports II
The price Of the dav 81 is ~ eenfs month or
$3.50 ear. post paid; or, with the Sunday edi
The Sunday edition, eight pages, alone, is SI.20
THE WEEKLY SUN. eight pages. il "a a year.
Subscribers from any one place will be entitled TO
one copy of the paper for himself without charge.
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From this it will be seen t

From this it will be seen that wheat,
after it is FIVE years old, does no grow,
and the newer it is when sown the more
plants it furnishes. But there is another
point that was proved by the French ag-
ricultural society in series of trials, and
that was that plants were weaker and did
not tiller out as well.
For instance, the seed grown in 1853
and sown in 1856, did not sprout at all
The seed, one hundred in number, grown
in 1854, only had fifty-one grow, and
four DAYS after coming up the leaves only
measured an average of half an inch in
height, and the number of stalks wss two
hundred and sixty-nine. OF the one
hundred seeds of the wheat grown in
1856, seventy-three terminated, but four
days after appearing above the ground
the leaves were but an inch and two
tenths high, and the number of stalks
and ears produced was three hundred
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by their Works We shall Know Them
The Irishman who thought the druggist
stingy because the emetie was SO small, is
only surpassed in his parsimonious drollery
by those who persistently adhere to the use
of those nsuseating, disgustingly large and
drastic pills, while DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pur-
gdtire Pellets, which are sugarcosted, and
little larger than mustard seeds, will by their
steady and gentle action on the liver, correct
all torpiaity, thus permanently overcoming
constipation. In South America they have
almost entirely superseded all other pills,
and are relied on fully by the people, and are
often used as a preventive of the various
affections of the stomach, liver and bowels
so prevalent in that climate. Pierce's Pockel
Memorandum Books are given away al
drug stores.
SMYRNA, Aroostook Co, Maine, Nov.6, 1876.
R V. PIERCE, NJ. D.:
Dear Sir write to inform you that have
used your Pellets for some time and find
them to be the best medicine that ever
used. ! have also used your Favor1te Pre-
scription in my family with entire satisfac
ton. have seen your Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser and think it is the
best thing that have ever seen. Yours truly
G. SHERMAN.
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A Lion and Leopard Fight.

The geological gardns at Pesth have
Just been the scene Oa combat worthy
of Nero or ElagabalA The cage ten
anted by a lion and lness happened to
be next to that in With dwelt a female
leopard, for whom thtcaptive queen of
the desert entertaineda special hatred.
Probably she was jealas of the bright
ewes and beautiful skH Of her neigh Dor,
and may possibly i've suspected her
lord and master of csting tender re-
gard or two across theparrier which sep
arated the two dens The suspicion,
brooded over in silere, became a de-
vouring passion, and iripened into GER
tainty at the precis moment when
vengeance happened ttbecome possible.
The keeper of the gsrens had inadver-
tently one day left hsging within the
lions cage the chainwhich served to
draw up the partitionAnd the lion was
not long in seizing it nd beginning to
pull Whether he waanimated with a
spirit of fickleness or b curiosity alone
must remain forever asecret. But the
result was that the Prtition few up
and the road remand open from one
cage to the other. Though il instantly
rushed the lioness, brething hatred and
malice, but the lion had no sooner
dropped the chain andprepared to fol
low in the chase than tie portcullis fell
and the passage was arred again. In
| the meantime, howeve, a struggle COM
| menccd between the 30 lady warriors
| such as had not been seen in Europe since
the palmy days of the smphitheater.
The leopard, worsted at the onset. at
tempted to take refuge from the foe by
jumping and hanging to the top rails
of the cage. 1t was all in vain, how
ever. She was brought to bay again
and compelled to fight face to face with
the terrible invader. For twenty long
minutes the battle ragged in royal style
The neck and shoulders of the liones:
were deeply furrowed with red gashes
But her victim was oyer-matched, and
at length thrown on her back, when the
coup de grace was given by the savage
fangs of the victor. The lion, who had
been looking on-probably with mingled
feelings-at the scene willnow, no doubt
be restored to the affectionste confidence
of his spouse. Nothing remained, at the
end of the encounter, of the pretty
spotted skin which had so captivated
him but few torn and maugled shreds
and the romance of the cages, if romance
there was, came to tragic end London
Globe
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than the complexion OF person becomes
who omits to regulate his liver when that i'm
portant gland grows neglectful or its secret.
i've function. MoreoveLthe stomach, under
such circumstances becomes diserdered, the
bowels are constricted, pains IN the side and
between the shoulder blades are felt, the
head aches, and the nervous system shares
in the general arrangement. This coneatena-
ton OF evils is, however, easily remediable
with that matchless regulating tonic, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, which insures the
secretion and flow of healthy bile, acts gen.
tly but effectually upon the bowels, and re-
moves every symptom of nervous or digest
i've trouble. The result is that renewed tone
is given to the entire system; the shallow,
haggard appearance of the face to which
D,llous1ess gives rise is superseded by the
stance as well as yigor.
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CHIcA GO JoLLITF OYER MURDEp
CASE.

The Chicago audience which attended
the ceroner's inquest over the body Of
Jones, who was murdered by Pike IA
case involving spiritualism, phrenolopv
md much miscellaneous nastinessl. was
an audience that laughed at every turn
of the testimony. When Mrs. Pike. q
bag of the literary order, spoke of a man.
uscript of hers which was worth $40. 600
the audience laughed. When she re-.
marked that the title was, " The Baptism
of Fire." they laughed again. When she
added that she had been engaged upon it
for eight years they laughed immoder-
ately. When she assured the jury that
a ST. Louis jeweler had offered her SO. 600
for half interest in "The Baptism If
Fire." they laughed and laughed, and
laughed. When she said that she was
Pixies wife they laughed, and when she
subsequently, stated that she was Jones'
wife hey also laughed. When a stout
young man testified that Pike had
charged him two dollars for examining
MS head the audience fairly choked with
nirth; and when he added that Mrs
Pike did not, to his knowledge, help
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q Grade CnIE

A calf was bred at the New Hamp
shire asylum for the insane in Concord,
y. H, and was dropped March l, 1876
The dam was a grade Devon, and the
sire a full blooded sh0rt-hOrn, formerly
owned at the reform school at Manchester,
and of what is known as the =" Hoosic
strain" At four weeks old this calf
weighed one hundred and sixty pounds,
and was purchased by c. II. Farnum, OF
Concord, for a mate to another one that
weighed, when four weeks old, two hun
dred and five pounds. 1t was the purpose
of Mr.. Farnum to raise these animals for
oxen, if they should prove to grow alike
in form and size Their feed consisted
exclusively of skinned milk. and il soon
became apparent that the one which
weighed one hundred and sixty pounds
at four weeks old was outgrowing the
other; and so marked was the difference
in growth and thrift that the plan for
rearing them for oxen was soon aban-
doned. At eight and half months old
the one that was originally the largest,
but at that time the smallest, was
slaughtered. His girth was FIVE feet two
inches, and his dressed weight was five
hundred and twenty-five pounds. This
was a remarkable growth. but considera-
bly, less than that which the other calf
had been maxim.
1t was docidcu to 'ecd this one, as a
matter of experiment, until he should
be year old. His feed for the last three
months was principally skinned milk
and shorts, and his girth was six feet and
fiveIinches, and he was so fat that his hip
Joints were hardly dIscernibe. He was
purchased by Kilburn and Glennon,
butchers in Concord. and was slaughtered
March l, the day he was one year old.
His live weight was one thousand two
hundred pounds; his dressed weight was
nine hundred and two pounds; the meat
weighing seven hundred and forty-eight
pounds, and the hide and tallow one
hundred and fifty-iour pounds. The price
paid by Kilburn and Glennon was ten
cents per pound, whsch made the price
of the steer ninety dollars and twenty
cents. His average gain throughout the
year was about three pounds per day,
having weighed, when dropped, one hum
dred and twalve DOI1Dda
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n THRILLING EPISODE IN A HE'S
TERN NEWsPAPER OFFICE.


We don't wish to say much about it
but even a skirmish with an editor must
be written up. After reading our article
last week, DIR. Bently came and inter.
viewed us. He brought few friends
along to see him eat us up, with his
hands tied behind him. He did not ike
the reading of our last article, and we
don't blame him, for there were a few
sayings in it which were little severe.
But he locked arms with us. and we
waltzed around the room with him tn
the tune of high words, and to the in.
finite delight of the spectators. His
hands were not tied very tight. either.
There were numerous chairs and other
furniture in the room which were speedily
demolished and put out of the way. The
doctor got frantic and kicked over two
gallon jug of ink, which of course we
didn't ike, because it was new ink. and
besides it spoiled the looks of the floor
We took the doctor for a sponge and
10 opped the ink UP as quickly as possible.
That's what made the doctor mad. He
then showed over a chair and we rolled
around for while, and then we began
to feel like fight, and we don't doubt Init
what we would have had quarrel very
soon but the doctor suddenly concluded
me didn't care whether we took bact
what we said or not, and as there was
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the ASKING

While DR.. III. James was attached to the
british Medical Staff in the East Indies, his
high position enabled him To call about him
the best chemists, physicians, and scientists
OF the day, and while experimenting with and
emo ng the natives, he accidentally made the
discovery that CONSUMPTION cen be positive
ly and permanently CURED. During the
many years of his sojourn there, he devoted
his time TO the treatment of Lung Diseases,
and upon his retirementh he left with us books
and papers containing full particulars, show
ing that every one can be his own physician
and prepare his own medicine. and such in
formation as we have received we now offer
to the pubic without price, only asking that
each remit three-cent stamp for postage.
Address CRApDOCK & CO 1882 Race ST.,
Philadelphia, Pa
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For ten cents we will send scientific
book of one hundred and sixty choice selec-
tions from the poetical works of Byron.
Moore and Burns; also fifty selected
popular songs and writings. The poetry of
these authors is true to nature and the hnest
ever written. Desmond Co, 80 Race ST.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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A Connecticut woman publisbes

"A Connecticut woman publishes her
husband as follows: "Of the four
wives he had before me, the last he
quarreled away how the other three
came by their death he can best inform
the public but caution all widows or
maidens against marrying him, be their
desire for matrimony ever 80 strong"
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Lanes in testing mediums, there was an
cher outburst of fun. AS the evidence
tscame dirtier the jollity increased, and
,rben the hour of adjournment came ev-
ar,body seemed to have forgotten that
Lanes had been murdered and Pike
:rbt bane.-Neac York Tribune
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not any prospect of our taking it back
right off, he concluded to quit just as we
had got ready to begin. After the whole
affair was over we felt sorry that it had
begun, but as It was none of eur insti-
eating we could not help it.--Rush City
(lIian Pest.
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why seed wheat should be New.

In 1851 German agriculturist tested
the terminating powers of various seeds.
He took the wheat of lS41 and selected
one hundred grains, and found that in
1850 they had lost all vitality, as not a
kernel terminated. At the same time he
had sown one hundrdd grains of the crops
of 1854, 1856, 1857, 1858, 1859 and 1860,
OF these results were as follows:
Out of the 100 grains of 1854 there grew....... s
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GUNS IN THE BRITISH NAvY.--Ac-
cording to the testimony of Major Gen
eral Campbell there are the following
number of guns in the British navy
Five hundred and seventy-eight Finch
guns of 81 tons each; 40 finch guns OF
Z tons each; 1873 S-iDch guns; 63S of 9
tons: 336 10-inch guns; 20 l1-inch guns
81 12-inch guns of % tons each Is
12-inch guns of 35 tons each II of 80
tons each; 2 13-inch guns of 25 tons
each l 10-inch gun OF 81 tons. Four
more of these S1-ton guns are nearly COM
pleted.
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YOU have often to make rolls biscuit and such
delicacies, in about ten minutes. It's easy and
certain with DOOLEY's YEAST POWDER, the
best of them all. Troubled housewife, here is
one cause of your annoyances swept away.
Full weight and the best material are the
watchwords of the manufacturers.
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AFTER an experience of over twenty
FIVE years, many leading physicians aeknowl-
edge that the Grdqenberg MarshdlPs Uterine
CathOtciOn is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
GrGefenberg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for biliousness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion. Sold
by all druggists. Send for almanacs. Graefen-
berg Co, New York.
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When YOU visit or leave New York stop at the
Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central
depot. $50 elegantly furnished rooms Bes
restaursn mt in the city; prices moderate. Bag
gage taken TO and from said depot free
Cars and stages pass the hotel for all part
of the city.
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FACTS for those who have been dosed,
drugged, and quscked. Self-help for weak
and nervous sufferers. Information worth
thousands to those ont of health. the new
Health Journal that teaches all, sent free.
Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, ..
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AsTHMA.-It is useless to describe the tor
lures Of spasmodic asthma. Those who have
suffered from its distressing parOxysms know
what it Is. JONAS WHTTCoMB's REMEDY has
never failed to afford immediate relief.
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Hog Rai.lng i'm th. south.
HOWARD COLLEGE,
MARION, ALA, Feb. 10, 1876.
81. w. HUI & Co. Decatnr Ills

TT
Dear sirs: The Hog Ringer and 100 Rings
came IN due time Enclosed send P. o.
themselves in few days. 7 wish our South
ern people knew of their value. By aid of
our green crops which grow summer and
winter here. they could raise hogs at very
small cost. Since received the Rings and
rung my hogs they have been getting their
living on my rye. which is now is inches
high. | shall speak to my friends Of them,
ton | see good many farmers.
Yours truly,
j. 7. MURFEE, Pres't.
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PAINTERS AND GRAINERs, send for new
prices of metallic granting tools for 'wiping
out" J. j. Callow, Cleveland, o.
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A POSITIVE CURE FOR RHEUMATISM
Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circu-
lar to Helphan slime g. Re ntlY Washington, ID. C
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RHEUMATISM cured at once by Durang's
Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circular to
Helphenstine Bently, Washington, d. &.
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VEGETABLE Pulmonary Bslsam, the great
New England cure for coughs, colds and con
sumption. Cutler, Bros. Cos, Boston, only
genuine.
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THE M-IRKETS.

DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY never
fails to cure Rheumatism. Sold by alldruggists
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" r THAYER

Manufacturing Jeweler and Jobber in Watches.
diamonds, Jewelry. Clocks Of all manufacture,
diamond Settings and Fine Rings - plain gold
have genuine Elgin movement in coin SILVER case
guarantee at I4x dollars. Fine rolled plate gold
Chains gents TO 10 dollars; ladies to no dollars;
euaran teed 10 wear for years Goods seat on selec
fion Adjusting of all kinds of watches Old gold
and silver taken in trade. ". h. THAY YER, the
live JWeler, Memphis. Tenn.
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Reliable Evidence,

sir. II. Il. STEVENS:
Dear sir-I will most cheerfHllv add
my testimony 10 the great number you
have already received in favor OF your
great and good medicine, VEGETIxH.
for do not think enough ca o be said In
its praise. for was troubled over thir-
~ years with that dreadful disease.
Cafsrrb. and such bad coughing spells
hat IL would seem a. though + never
csul5 breathe any more, and FFGETISE
has cur ID me; and l do feel TO thank
God all the time there is 30 good a
medicine 81 HEGETISE. and l also think
II one Of the best medicines for coughs
and weak. sinkins ieelin sst the stom-
sch. aud advise everybody TO take the
NEGyrTSB. for / can assure them ID II
one OF the best medicines that ever
WAS. Mrs. l.. GORE,
Cor. Ma gazine and Walnut -.
Cambridge, Mass.
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HAIR-DRESSlNG

New YoRK, Sept. ~.
Fors some time past have been using your Cocoa
me and think it far preferable to anything l have
ever used for the hair. FRANK LESLIE.
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IRRITATION OF THE SCALP.

VAUDEVILLE, ME-, Sept. IS.
purchased botNie only, for the purpose of hair
dressing but, my surprise 1t has entirely removed
the irritation of so long standing. have recon-
rnended it TO several of my friends, who afflicted
in the same way, and it has wholly irradicated tho
disease JOSEPH HILL, JR.
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JOSEPH BURNETT & CO., Boston,
sfacfurers and Proprietors.
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In answer to the question asked at
what age trees should Be- set out for an
orchard member replied that he had
exPerminted with traosnlsnting trees OF
different ages from one to four years
from the graft, and hepreferred the one
year trees. They canba taken up more
nearly with the entire roots, are get
quicker and are not checked in the
growth.
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and sixty-five. But Of the seeds grown.
in 1856 there were sepenty.four out OF
the one hundred germinsted, and the
height of the leaves four days after their
appearance above ground averaged one
inch and six-tenths, While the number OF
stalks and ears from he seed was four
hundred and four, showing plainly that
new wheat was the bet for seed, as more
grew, and also what did grow seemed to
have more vitality, A The plants were
stronger and the prediction was larger.
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THIS WORLD appears very beautiful
when you are we'll; to remain well, healthy
and strong. take Dr. J. II. McLean's Strength
eniig Cordial and Bloed Purifier, the great
est tonic in the World. 1t strengthens the
BODY and purifes the blood DIR. j. H..
AcLean's Office, 314 Chestnut, st Louis, No.