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a Terrible warning to Advertisers.

The insanity of DR.. J. c. Aver, OF
Lowell, affords q terrible warning to
advertisers. Here was a mau engaged
in the manufacture of pill, not differ
ing much from hundred other pills
that may be obtained at any drug store.
In an unguarded moment be made up
his mind that he would advertise, not
in the picayune style Of the ordinary
dealer, bit IN a comprehensive sort OF
way, by which he could reach every
possible purchaser of pills. He started
with the idea of devoting half of his
profits each year to ad Gertising. The
result might have been foreseeH. He
accumulated money 50 rapidly that he
did not know what to do with it.
When he had rolled together fifteen
million dollars and had vainly striveD
to find some outlet for his ever-lncreas-
ing profits, bis mind gave way under
the absorbing cares OF his vast tusi-
ness, and he is now patient at an asy-
lum for the insane. How easily this
calamity might have been averted (!
IL he had stuck to the conservative
methods of many of our merchants
and retrained from advert sing, he
mi ht have been passing quietly
through bankruptcy now instead OF
being loaded down with his uncounted
millions. 1t is dangerous experiment
for a man who does not want to be-
come rich to advertise. Or IL he ad-
vertises at all he must advertise grud-
gingly and at long intervals, lest his
profits should grow out OF all proper
ton to his requirements, and he should
find himself burdeBed with wealth.
Advertising, conducted on the prin-
ciple Of deVoting half the profits Of
business TO IL is, we repeat, q danger
GUS experiment. 1t precipitates for
tune upon the advertiser 30 suddenly
that the chances are even that he will
not know what to do with his money
The multitudinous pleasures Of bank
ruptcy, insolvency, and "shinniug
around" for the wherewithal to meet q
note are permanently denied 10 the
man who advertises. There never was
in Europe or America q great adver-
tiser who did not accumulate . great
fortune. Let those who desire To live
unburdened by the cares OF wealth
take warning.
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why suffer Dyspeptic Tertures,

why Suffer DYspeptic Textures.
When the famous regulator of en-
feebled, acid or bilious ST MI his, Hoo
letters Bittera, will GUS y".f Coul
you read the testimony the myri4 F
Of dyspeptics whom it uas cured
though you might be of u skeptic >
turn, you would be convinced. E
dence of its efficacy is constantly mul
tlplying, and this relates not only to
cases of dyspepsia, but also liver COM
plant, constipation, urinary and uterine
troubles and malarial disorders. The
success which has attended the great
stomachIc has melted interruptions
parties to manufacture cheap limitations
of it, which they attempt to palm of
as the genuine article. But, 30 famil.
lar is the public with the real elixir,
that these nefarious attempts are rarely
succe' sful. Neither imitation Tor COM
re itlon atfeccs. me popularity of the
standard article.
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NOTWITHSTANDING the hot weather,
and the further fact that the farmers
are very busy pulling fodder, harvest
ing hay and making sorghum syrup,
business is pretty good in the city.
Trade cannot improve great deal be-
fore September, but still there is per
ceptible change for the better already.
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How IT Is DoSE.-The first object
in life with the American people 10 10
''get rich;" the second, how to regain
good health. The first can be obtained
by energy, honesty and saving; the
second good healthy by using Green's
August Flower. Should ycu be de-
spondent sufferer from any Of the eiects
of dyspepsia, liver complaint isdiges-
tion, etc, such - mex headache. PAL
pltation OF the heart sour stomach,
habituAl costivsness. dizziness Of TO
head, nervous prostEAsioe, Low spirits
ese., you need not suffer another day.
Two doses of August Flower Win -,
lieve Jon At once. Sample bottles Ten
gents. Regular size seventy i've cents
Positively sold By al frst clsss drug
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A Certain Headache Cure.

If you suffer from sicb or nervous
headache, morning sickness or neu-
ralgia, go to your druggist and get .
ten cent trial pack of DR.. Heisley's
Victor Headache Powers, or J. R.
Heisley & Co., Salem, n. j., will mail
them postpaid. A single powder &C
tually cures the most distressing cases
in ten minutes. 1t is purely vegetable,
entirely harmless, q physicians dis
covery, and We guarantee it to do all
we claim. You can get the 80 cent.
packs or the 10 cent. trial size ct Nor
ley Bros, in Austin, and at all other
first-class druggists everywhere. Con-
vince yourself,
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The lady thanked him again, and car
ried off her blushing honors to Russia.
THIS beats all the stories OF women
who have unsexe themselves for sail
ors and soldiers, and the object and
complete triumph of the disguise is its
own sufficient Justification.
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THE sheriff OF Guadalupe county
arrived on Sunday with a prisoner
named Jack Day, charged with cattle
stealing, and brought to Austin for
safe keeping. On the same day Major
Jones arrived from Lampasas With
three prisoners, all brought here for
safe keeping in the austin Jail.
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WANTED-INFoRMATIoN.-If any Of
the survivors of Capt. b. r. A. Wig
gonton's company, recruited in Louis
vile, Ky, and vicinity for the Texan
frontier ssrvice in the year 1885 or
1886 are still alive they will hear of
information that will benefit them by
addressing r. P, L., lock box 1, Hum
boldt, Gibson county, Tennessee.
je20d1w2mw
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FLORIDA lately had tragedy ON Ca

Florida lately had s. tragedy on Call
casieu river. A young lady named
Gunter eloped with a young man named
Bass. They were married by 6 squire,
and were still in the magistrates house
when the lady's father and brother
came on the scene. Old Gunter came
IN at the back door with shotgun,
and young Gunter entered by the front
door with very pointed pistol and
knife. There was no door left for
Bass and his wife 10 get out at. Old
Gunter fired his loads of buckshot into
Bass's breast. and after this Bass drew
his revolver aud fired two shots at old
GRpter's head. Then both men fell.
Young Gunter plunged bowie-knife
several times into Bass, finishing him.
The girl was deeply-interested specta-
tor OF this family merrirskpt. Young
Gunter had tried to carry on his wound
ed father but was parsued 10y the sher-
i'll and shot dead. Old Gunter had re-
ceived two glancing shots in the head,
and will doubtless recovet and he
hanged. The young woman has lost
her husband and all her family, aud
the whole affair was.a blow to the pop
ulation of Florida present and pre-
spec.ive.
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ILI INoIs has passed law which
makes it punishable otfense for any
person to advertise that he will pro-
cure divorces. We will state for the
secret divorce lawyers of Chicago that
it is useless for any of them to come to
Austin. The secret divorce business
has already been carried on here to
perfection.
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BIR. BESGENER, it should be re-
membered, has moved his stove And
tin store to bis peH buiIding on Trinity
street, q io- steps from West Pecan
street. Those having roofing or gut
,eEing to be done can get bargains by
calling at Mr.. Bengener's. and he can
also sell them stoves at reasonable
nrirpa
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Austin Market Quotations.
COUNTY PRopuCK.


Butter, 15c. Eggs, lie. Cabbage,
SOC to 81 per dozen. Potatoes, $l.lO
per bushel. New sweet potatoes, $l.25
per bushcl. Onions, scarce.
Fruit-Apples, 81 per barrel; peacheg,
30 to GO cents per box, and plenty
It $1.25 per bushel. Melons retail &C
from to 90 cents.
Hides, dry flint IL to 14c. Wool e5
to %. Cotton to 10.
Grain.-Corn, whiteshell, 40c. Oats,
20 to 25c. Wheat, No. 2. $i,10;
No. 3, 81; No. 4, $94; rejected, 90c.
WHOLESALE PRICES FOR STAPLE GRO
CERIFs.
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THE following is the report of the
city sexton, CPL. Nitschke, for the
month of July, 1877: Still-born, 8.
Total death, 10; male, 8; female, 10;
white, 10; colored, 4; Mexican, l.;
from birth to years, 2; from 5 to 90
years, 2; from 90 to forty years, Z;
noe unknown. 2
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A TRAoI- CoMEDY.-A short time
since, some Of ''the boys" INDUCED in
an amusement which was once very
popular, before melons became so
cheap. About nightfall they gathered
sud stole quietly out of town to apatch
belonging to one of those individuals
who is always considered to be $50
mean, you know, that it's no harm to
take melons from HIM" Perhaps that
was what the melon.grower thought
himself, for just as each one had
gathered in his arms as many melons
rs he could conveniently carry, they
were startled by the report of gun
and the whiz Of bird shot. Those
youths ''stood not on the order of their
going"--but cent. One tall fellow,
especially, distinguished himself for
his speed. He resembled nothing so
mucl'ss a giraffe a. he ambled out o:
that melon patch, enveloped In = cloud
Of dust. You had better reconnoitre
next time, young men.
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water who are good dancers but not
good swimmers. It's pleasant to have
the tables turned once in a while, aud
be able to contemplate Others awk-
wardness. / never could dance well.
They say it's because | don't put my
m nd in my legs. But can SWIM. lean
&c my mind in my legs in the water
l suppose it floats down there. but
those girls - to see them Kick to no
purpose, except TO drive their heads
under,
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Az exchange says that "the supply
of house servants in Boston 80 far ex-
ceeds the demand that you can now
hire all the Christian virtues combined,
with a thorough acquaintance with
classic authors. for S1.25 q week. "
They should emigrate to this country.
Here. good servants command $40 10
$l2 month, and some of them growl
at that, and then want their employers
to feed regiment of their relatives,
and from three to five dogs.
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A Dir. JAMES McCLosKY has started
Il new daily paper in Galveston. 1t is
called the Independent, and the first
number is well filed with interesting
reading. Galveston gets plenty Of
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CHARLES SHEPHERD, aged 20 years
aad four months, died on the thirty
first of July. Mr.. Shepherd was q
peusioned veteran, and he had lived on
Onion creek as q hermit for the past
twenty years. His death was
caused bY q cancer.
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Popular illustrated boo. (z6o pages) on
MANHOOD! WoMANHooD! MARRIAGE
Impediments to Marriage; the cause and
cure. Sent securely sealed, postpaid, for 50
cents, by DR.. {. WHITTIER, OH St.
Charles Street, St. Louis, Mo-, the great
specialist. Read his work.
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There's a charm about thee, maiden,
Which cannot we'll define;
And | sometimes think it lieth
In that fragrant breath of thine,
In those teeth so white and pretty,
Which with Sozodont do shine.
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FRoM the present sale Col. Peeler
will be able to pay a dividend Of
twenty per cent. to the creditors Of G.
r. Johns s. Co., which will make fifty
per cent. up to the present time.
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CONSTABLE TRIMBLE and Mr.. r. A.
Slaughter, who volunteered his serv-
ices, returned fromA trip to San Saba,
Wednesday evening, where they went
after some lawless characters who had
been run from this vicinity. They
brought back man named Polyadore,
charged with stealing cattle in this
county, and they would have arrested
and brought back others. but they
found they had been arrested and
lodged in the San Saba Jail for crimes
committed in that county. They re-
port four days heavy rain In San saba
last week and the cotton crop thereby
greatly improved. The corn crop in
that county has been seriously injured
by drought, but the wheat, oat and
barley crops yielded very well, and
now cotton promises well, as does the
sweet potato crop.
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settlement comes We shall bear in mind
that it is the greatest interest of Eng
land, that every county in the world
should be prosperous, and that if sny
country runs the risk of being kumil-
late1 We should try to prevent the hu-
initiation whether it should be the
assailant or the assailed. And / hope,
also, he said, that We shall avoid
the fault which, in my opinion, has
been the great fault OF European
powers in the past, of interfering IN be.
half only of our corehgionists instead
of asking the Turk to secure good
governments to sill the people of this
vast empire, whether they will lie
Druzes, Yezides, Mohammedaus or
Christians.
Under the head Of military inteiii.
gence, the TiAGs publishes the follow
ing: The Royal Victoria Victualliug
Yard, az Deptford, is still busy re-
pienishing the stores which have lately
been heavily drawn upon in order to
provision the garrisoas at Gibraltar
aud Malta, in each OF which there is
now accumulated food sufficient for
the maintenance of large army for
twelve months.
A Bucharest dispatch to the Times
says there is some want of provisions
among the troops between Sistovs and
TIeruovs on account of the difficulty
in procuring wagons to transport the
supplies beyond the depots along the
Roumanian side OF the river.
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WERE Paul living in this age we
think he would advise Timothy to take
Home Stomach Bitters instead of wine
(for his frequent infirmities) as they
contain so many valuable health restor-
ing properties.
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ToBrN BROS. and ]. p. Alvey are
prepared to sell the Preston & Robira
cotton worm destroyer, ard give direc-
tions for its use. Call, buy aud use.
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sources in the different counties trad
ing with Austin. There Is really
cheering prospect about business, and
il is quite likely that trade will open
with some animation by the first Of
gantambaF
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WARRANTED not to contain single
particle of mercury, or any injurious or
mineral substance, but to consist en-
tirely Of medical matter purely vege-
table, which is the reason Simmons's
Liver Regulator Is so effectual, yet so
harmless.
Iwrite you to certify that I have used
DR.. Simmons's Liver Regulator in my
family with complete success.
J. w. D. BIRD,
Chattahoochee, Fla.
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FURNITURE AT Cosr.-For sixty days
Hannig Il Kreisle offer their stock of
furniture, carpets, ETC., at cost for the
cash, in order to reduce it. au2d& w2m
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AT j. p. Alvey and Tobin Bros.
the justly celebrated cotton worm
destroyer can be had in quantities to
suit. The application used as directed
in this paper of July % will save the
cotton
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FURNITURE at cost at Hannig &
Kreisle's, Pecan street and Avenue.
au2 d&W2m
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- We are pleased to find the cotton
worm destroyer of Preston & Robira on
sale at Tobin Bros and J. P. Alvey's
of this city. The easly attention of
farmers to this sure worm destroyer
will save the crop. Notice of the Us,
of this poison was published IN the
STATESMAN of July %, to which stten-
ton is called.
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Illinois College

Classical course equal to that Of East
ern colleges. Scientific course for
young men not prepared in Latin OF
Greek. All classes taught by profess
sors. Annual expenses from $3.50 to
$3.50. Send for catalogue to Prof. r.
c. Champion, Jacksonville, Illinois.
whiPple Academy.
with its English Training School is the
best place for boys or young men who
want careful preparation for college, or
: thorough English academic course.
lend for catalogue to A. Il. Sturtevant,
cksonville, Illinois.
Jacksonville Business College.
This college offers better advantages
I'D at less expense than can be found
for
I. A sound business education.
II. A complete pennanshIp course.
III. A thorough telegraphic course.
The actual business department is
known to be the best in the State. For
the new catalogue, address
G. W. BROWN,
Box 800, Jack onvil e, Ills.
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Whatever discount Is done At the T.
banks commands Is TO "a per cent.
Loans on real estate security f6rfune
time can be had 81 II per cent, paya.
bic monthly.
State wsrrants-vbid 81 i-ec; asked q,
City warrants-bid zoe; asked s0c. \
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MARKETS EY TELEGRAPH.


GALVESTON, August Gold 1860
106. Silver 99@par. Exchsnge-New
York sight, 1s@12 per cent. premium;
New Orleans sight par9A per cent. pre-
MUM.
Wool quiet and weak; Eastern and
Northern fine and medium, free
growth, 271S0c; do, bury, 15@lSc;
do; bury, 12@l5c; Western and
growth 24@27c; medium 20@2Sc; coarse
Western and Mexican 12@l5c.
Hides - market quiet dry, selected,
15ci light, salted, 13c; stack, sailed,
12c; damaged half price; kips lie; wet
sailed, as they run, SIC; selected, 94c;
butchers green &c.
Cottonoreceipts, net 90 bales; gross
80 bales; exports coastwise IL bales;
sales l42 bales; stock on hand 47Sl bales;
market quiet; good middling 111Sc;
middling lie; low middling lO5sc; good
ordinary 101sc.
NEW ORLEANS MARKETS.
NEW ORLEANS, August Cotton
dull and easier; sales 200 bales; good
ordinary 9A@101sc; low middling
1O3s@1O5sc; middling 1OB@1lc; good
middling 113s@1115c; middling fair
11B@l2c; fair 12@123sc; receipts 149
bales; gross 463 bales.
ST. LoTIS MARKETS.
ST. LOUIS, August Flour inactive
and weak; XIX fall So 1896; XXX SEQ
25; good to fancy family brands S. so
as. Wheat higher; good shipping de-
mand for sample lots; No. red fall
$134; No. 3 do. $1.24. Corn inactive
and lower; No. 2 mixed 417s@42c.
Oats dull; white 27@2716c. Rye dull
at SOC. Whisky steady at 81 0S. Pork
dull at $13 05@l3 go for job lots. Lard
dull and nominal Bulk meats nomi-
nally unchanged; shoulders and clear
rib 54@724c asked; $50 bid. Bacon
inactive and lower; shoulders 57S@5ssc;
clear ribs 71s@73sc; clear sides 1851 &c.
Hogs easier at $490@5. 10. Cattle
shipping grades of natives nominal
| Texans in good demand at 225n3. SO;
Cherokees in good demand at $225@
$50.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
NEW YORK, August :. - Stocks
opened strong, but later declined, and
! are now steady. Money ~ per cent.
Gold 1855. Exchange-long 4.S5k;
short 4.s7 State bonds quiet. Govern
ments fraction lower.
Cotton--market dull uplands 111Sc,
| Orleans l15sc; sales 1876 bales. Futures
steady; August 1.36@11.39c; Septcm-
| Der IL 35@ll.40c.
LIVERPOOL MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, August Noon. Cotton
dull and easier; middling uplands Lied;
Orleans 6l4d; sales 1000 bales; for spec
ulation and export 1000 bales.
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a sample Bottle for trial.

gists in the United States. For sale
b7 Msrley Bros.
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SHEEP-DIP TOBACCO for sale.
au7 3n r. BERTRAM.
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SToP SHAKING AS sure as the sun
shines, DR.. TUFTS Pills will cure fever
and ague, if taken by directions - q
bold assertion, but true one. In any
case, where directions are followed,
that they fail, agents will refund the
money.
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Flour made from new wheat
at the Austin CITY Mills
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Square Nv s- sw i'm m 30 ON On 81
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Gardner local NeMs.

The beautiful snow did not do all that was
hoped of il Tuesday, and sleigh riding has been
more duty than a pleasure since. The warm
sun Wednesday removed all semhance OF sleigh.
ing until more snow.
The ladies of Heath Relief Corps held a social
entertainment at Grand Army hail Tuesday even.
ing, 10 which members of Heath Post G. A. r.
were invited. The evening passed very pleasant.
ly, cnlNened with singing by select choir, read.
ings, dialogues and brief speeches, closing with a
substantial supper Of baked beans and other alta.
bles, which the ladies had lav,hly provided, The
Relief Corps is composed of mothers, wives, sis
teis and daughters of soldiers who served in the
army during the rebellion. The design of hi:
association is TO cooperate with the Grand Army
in their works of benefcence.
The sermon before the union meeting at the
Baptist church Tuesday night, was preached BY
Rev. Mr.. Newcombe Of Hallowell, from . Cor ).
IA. For the love Of Christ constraneth us II
was an able production, and the speaker illustrat-
ed the truth Of his text by the faithuness of hi,
preaching. Notwithstanding the storm there was
a very respectable audience.
The old Mechanics Library room has been
newly papered and otherwise rejuvenated for the
use Of the MONDAY prayer meeting The design
is TO continue them through the winter should the
interest hold out.