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The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-18
V e g etine
DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUSNESS, AND GENERAL DEBILITY.

D pI EA OLA, \ LII OOcN Ecc,
 AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
 BERNARDsToN, MAss., 1878. We the undersigned, having used Vegetine, take pleasure in recommends inglit to all those troubled with Hu- mors of any kind, Dyspepsia, Nervous ness, or General Debility, it being the Great Blood Purifier. Sold by R. l.. Crowell & Sons, who sell more Of it than all other patent medicine put 'O- gether. MRS. l.. F. PERKINS,
 MRS. II. W. SCoTT,
 JosEpHUS SLATE. Vegetine is the great health restorer composed exclusively of barks, roots and herbs. It is very pleasant to take; every child likes if.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-18

Land Commissioner Smithee announces that he is no longer can didate for the nomination to the same office again.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-18

The Forrest City Times agaln reaches us. We wish you better success this time Bro. Oury.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-18
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D R U G GISTs' TIES MONY. MR. H. k. STEVENS :
 Dear Sir,-We have been selling your remedy, the Vegetine. for about three years, and take pleasure in rceommend- ing it to our customers, and in no in- stance where blood purifier would reach the case, has it ever failed to effect cure, to our knowledge. It cer- tainly is the ne plus ultra of renovators. Respectfully,
 F. NJ. SHEPHERD < CO. Druggists,
 Mt. Vernon, III. Is acknowledged by all classes of people to be the best and most reliable blood purifier in the world.
 V E C EEIN E
 Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-18
V e etine N F. R V o T. s H l. 4 D 4 c II E AND RHEUMATISM.

AND XII U M AIINM.
 CINCINNATI, O., April 9, 1877. II. R. STEs EMS, Esq. :-- Dear Sir,--I have used your Vegetine for Nervous Headache, and also for Rheumatism, and have found entire relief from both. and take great pleas ure in recommending it to all who may be likew ise afflicted.
 FRED. A. GOOD,
 JOS Mill St.. Cinn. Vegetile has restored thousands to health who had been long and painful Sufferers
The Russellville Democrat., 1878-04-18
Star Mills Shingle Factory, ONE MILE NORTH MILL CREEK STAr
 On l.. k. & F. $. Ky.

The undersigned beg leave to inform the pun, lie generally that they are prepared Co hl, A@ orders for shingles on short notice. our sl",S is of the best quality, as cheap as can he hoUsni elsewhere, and we guarsntec satisiaciion' 'l at Mills, or address Us at Russcllyillt lut ih- ther particulars. k. NJ. STEELE X kELLA'
 RussellvIlllc. ArA'
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
NO. r.

teal reading matter for the farm and
home circle than \ 10 be found in any
similar publication. Fresh and newsy
the selections for the Farmer and Ne
chanic are made with the greatest
care by - industrious and discrlmina.
ting editor. while the original articles
are the productions of the best practi
cal minds or the State
This paper has an able corps of con
trlbutlng editors, among whom are
Col. John u. Cameron AMI Mrs. Cor
nelia Phillips Spencer. e Lmeoh.foa
NetcS
The Farmer and Mechanic Is the
best agricultural paper ever published
III North Carolina. Farmers wanting
agricultural intelligence. should sub
scribe 10 IT. but for the latest, best and
greatest variety of news at 81 90 per
year stick to the Sun Concord .S,n.
Many thanks, bros. Warlick and
Harris, for the good word. Ii il
about the only satisfaction We have in
editing TIE FARMER AND MECHANIC.
that the paper is cordially received by
the public, and by our brethren of the
press so far as We can Judge by public
and private utterances.) There are
many improvements We should like tn
make; but our duties appertain To the
pen and scissors, only.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
DiSguSted:

That was it. Just disgusted with
the mountains. This hot weather too,
when the very sight of the Blue Ridge
ought to send down the thermometer
degrees at least. What could the mat
ter be: Only this and nothing more;
He fell among thc,-tell II not IN Gath.
the philistinuus insects. He carried
away two hundred sears. of, wounds
inflicted by those unmentionable, noe
turnal, ,odorous, ,chink -inhabiting, hom
ivorOus, somnlfugOuS, what d'you call
ems. And he thinks the chief product
of the Black Mountains is those. And
the image of those grand peaks and
domes, on his philosophical retina, IS
all mixed up with creeping things. He
was philosopher, and yet he could not
rise above such petty considerations;
although he did considerable ''toiling
upward in the night, two nights, in
fact he says. And that was Buncombe,
that was Swannanoa, that was the Black
Mountains, that treated philosopher
like that And is it supposable that
he will be silent under these two hun
dred injuries, in two nights. And he
accustomed to WELD the pen and the
tongue of a philosopher. Not for Bun
combe. Let whoever live in glass
houses look ou. for philosophers stones,
especially if those houses have any
chinkS about them unmedlcated with
cimicifugous powders or salves.
To the haunted shades of the Black
Mountains ho will return no moro, that
philosopher. In fact he does not be-
lieve in the altitude Of it any more -
thinks it is not IN re than 200 feet
high. And have known other philoSo-
pliers and lovers of the mountains, af-
ter battling for weeks with the enemy,
with various artillery, Persian Insect
powders, SaSsa fras oil. oil of Penny
royal, and oil of Wintergreen and
whole pharmacopocia beS des, to re-
treat in utter route, and sweeter there
after in intolerable summer heats,
dreaming meanwhile of the cool noun
tains and the insects. Not alone those
aforesaid which do SO persistently seek
the habitation of men, but those other
industrious pests, that are supposed to
prefer quadrupedal companionships
In many of the mountain villages the
streets are populous with swine, as
we'll as the farm lanes and barn lots
and the abundance of tleas is some
thing incredible to such as are unfa-
miliar with hogdom. And while the
natives declare that they ae comforta
bic with pint or two of these lively
insects. aboard, an outsider does not
reach that degree of equainimity, at
least in on season. In fact the insects
are too many for the philosophers.
Can't we have hog law too, aid flea
law, etc, etc. w. G. K.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

YELLOW FEVER.-A vail of distress
and despair comes from the lower
Mississippi Valley! Pestilence, the
plague that walketh in darkness and
wasteth at MONDAY" is lowering over
all the lowland towns, almost depopu
lating some. New Orleans, Memphis,
Grenada Port L. ..ds, Vicksburg, all are
losing their citizens from that fea rful
blight, which once it secures lodg-
ment in the clothes, the hair, the
beard, creeps into the system through
the mouth, nostrils, ears, and speedily
lays the strongest man low. New Or
leans has already lost one thousand
lives, three times as many as were lost
ON either side in the battle of Manas-
sas, which created such thrill of hor-
ror in the land. A score of deaths
day is the average in that city.
Grenada, Miss, appears to have suf-
fered the most dreadfully thus far.
The town had never before been at
tackled, and the people were neglect
full of sanitary precautions. Then to
make the matter worse, when the
danger appeared, the city authorities
opened up the main sewer to cleanse
it, and the steaming sun poured down
upon the dead animals, putrid filth, of
the contents. Medical men are be-
coming divided on the subject of re-
moving decomposed matter at such
times. 1t should not be allowed to ac-
mulate, but after gathering in large
quantities it had better be permitted
to remain undisturbed during the sui
try days of midsummer, if there is
any symptom of fevers in the vicinity.
Grenada has now only about 800 of its
former 800 inhabitants.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

Mrs. G. l.. Spencer of New York
gave $500 to the Grenada sufferers.
Mayor Pierce of Boston ord cred the
Mayor of Memphis to draw upon him
for $1,000 New York merchants
(many of them SouthernerS) contrib
uted 200. These acts of brotherly
charity go far to remove the nOxious
poison of sectiOnalism.
-Gov. Vance, Secretary of State
Englehard, and Attorney General
Kenan, with Senators (elect) Luther
X. Waddell, and Geo b. Everett zap
pointed by the Governor will assem-
bic in the Senate Chamber to-day to
act as the Returning Board-Beg par
dom, the Board of Election canvassers,
to 90 over the State returns.
The language of the text is still
Don't fool with kerosene 1t is hardly
worth while to furnish warnings, but
here are three which occurred in
North Carolina within ten days. w.
G. Fergus house and store burned at
Beaver Dam station. The five year
old son of Mrs. Litaker, in Rowan
county, on Sunday started the fire
with kerosene and burned himself to
death. Mrs. Morris was badly burned ::
same cause.
Many sporting men in North Car
clina knew Maj. Thos. w. Doswell of
Richmond, who has had his racers at
both Charlotte and Weldon. His wife
is building an Episcopal chapel at
Hanover junction, mainly with contri-
buttons from patrons of the turf. Re
Gently she received $500 check from
Geo. Lorllard, who last year won
$50, 900 from the heels of his trotters.
Indiana has seventy-eight county
fairs and several Congressional Dis
trict fairs. Many of them were organ
lied by the oranges. What do our
North Carolina farmers think of seven
ty-eight fairs in one State !? But they
need not think. 1t will serve as we'll
to point to the wonderful agricultural
yield of that State and its sisters.
The controversy between the
Charlotte Fireman, and the city coun-
Gil, or a portion OF it, has resulted III
the formal disbandment of the four
companies three white; one colored),
and the surrender of their engines and
apparatus. But just let rattling
alarm" sound some evening, and
every red shirt will rally to his post
like good fellow,
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

To HOG RAIsERS,-A letter from
DR.. d. +. Salmon, Swananoa, y. c.,
was lost in the printing office last
week. We can only now recall that
he desires all citizens of North Caro-
lima who know anything about hog
diseases, or losses, or information in
any way relating TO the animal, to
write at once, addressing him a. the
above postoffice. AS before stated in
these columns, DR.. Salmon has been
appointed one of the eight veterinary
commissioners to examine the cause
and remedy of the destructive pest.
The members of the Board are allowed
500 month and expenses. They
will probably spend two months in the
work.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

CINCINNATI, August 2O.-The steamer
John Gibson, with fever on board, is AZ
anchor three miles below Galllpclis, tue
engineers having refused to do their
duty The Gallipolis health officers
have placed strong guard over her TO
prevent any one leaving. Chas. Degil-
man, an engineer, and VIM. koedler
have died. There are ten cases on
board Captain Bickerstaff is sick.
MEMPHIS, August 20.-The Howard
Association Of this city is advised from
Grenada that the epidemic there, con-
siderjng the size Of the town, appears to
be the most malignant and fatal ever
known in the country. There Is great
want Of nurses and money.
LONDON, August 21.-Fowier, an
American, succeeded in crossing the
English Channel yesterday on an appA-
ratus which consists of a small double
canoe OF India>rubber cloth, inflated,
having board between the two vessels,
standing upon which he padded across.
The sea was calm. Time-ll hours and
20 minutes.
CINCINNATI, August 2l.-Tom Boyd,
confined in Ripley county, Indiana,
for an attempted rape, has been killed.
Eighty vigilants entered the jail and
fired seventeen shots into his body.
VICksBURG, Aug. 21.-One hundred
cases Of fever and twelve deaths are re-
ported for the past q hours new cases,
Dr.. Balfour and DR.. Robbins. BY au-
thority of Grandmaster Murphy, al
appeal is made TO all Masons 10 contri-
butte to the relief of the sick aud desti-
tute of this city.
GRENADA, Aug. 21-The Fever has
attacked full-blooded negroes. Three
have died.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-Wm. Schealtz,
of Dykeman street, Brooklyn, has beeE
sent 70 quarantine. He is supposed to
have the yellow fever.
NEW HAVEN, Aug 2l.-Butler spoke
two hours to 1000 people, last night. lie
said the universal voice of the country
is, that currency is good enough te pay
pensions but not to pay bondholders
and capitalists interest. He favored the
equality of rights in currency add gov
erument.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

ALL SORTS OF ITEMs.-Rev. j. X
Falkner, of Va, is called to Kinston
Baptist Church. .-Henrv Wheeler.
brother of collector Wheeler of For
sythe, died in Philadelphia last week.
Sam Merrill has gone into the cigar
trade at Winston - Salem W inston
are locating Fair Ground. There is
a prospect, also, of the revival of the
Charlotte Fair. There are 1S county
fairs in Indiana what do you think
of that for single State Senator
Merrimon delivered Temperance ad-
dress at Springfield, Guilford county,
on Saturday. Harper again
escaped from Granville Jail, though he
was chained down. Isn't it most
pity to put him to all this trouble -
j. I. Respass and J. I. Waldo, demo
Gratis, defeated Sam CarrOw and Sykes,
colored, for the Senate in the End dis
trict.-Col. J. r. Winston will dis
cuss National issues at Concord on
Saturday.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

COOP TEMPLAR'S GRAND LODGE.
moderate attendance. Newbcrn pco-
pie hospitable, as ever. Mayor John
5 Long made a welcoming speech.
Officers reported the order in healthy
condition. Following new officers
chosen for the year: L. Z. Williams, Of
Warrenton, {. T.; Mrs Rebecca Bled-
soc Buxton, V. T.; Rev A. ID. Cohen,
Counsellor; Y. Ballard, Sec; Mrs. f..
G. Beckwith, Raleigh, Treas; Rep. to
the Grand Lodge Of the L. S.-Rev.
A. ID. Cohen, y. b. Broughton.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
For the Farmer and Mechanic
Kidney Worms.

FRANKLIN, \. c., August 10. IS.
Col. Polk says turpentine is an al
most sure preceRtiUe for kidney
worms"
Thirty grains of arnica given in ten
grain doses, at intervals of II hours,
is an almost certain cure, in any stage
of the disease. Give it in bread, APP
pie, &c. Yours, w l.. LOVE.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
The Farmer and Mechanic

This splendid journal, under the
auspices of the State Agricultural
Department, and edited by that ac-
complished gentleman, Captain Ran
dolph A. Shotweli, has reached number
seventeen of its second volume.
The Raleigh News says it is the most
vigorous and creditable agricultural
publication yet undertaken in the
State. Its departments are all full and
we'll arranged. presenting more prac-
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22

Vest seem, d as if it Were
precursor of autumn in it peculiar cool
ness.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29

The streets, while they, by the aid of crow
bars, forced an entrance into the jail, where
Tom Boyd, who attempted to commit a rape
upon the person of a Miss Stevens, who lives
near Milan, last spring, was with two other
prisoners confined, and as he stood before
them without a particle of clothing to cover
his nakedness, shot down like a dog. Six.
teen bullet holes were found in his body.
One of the parties composing the mob was
recognized by Boyd, and is known by the
officials of the county, who, it is under
stood, will take steps to arrest and punish
him.
The live stock dealers of st. Louis have
made up a fund of five hundred dollars for
the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers in
the South; two hundred dollars of which
are sent the Howard Association at New
Orleans, the same amount to the
Howard Associa ion at Memphis, and
one hundred dollars to Grenada, Mississippi.
The Hebrew Young Mems Literary Associ-
alton also passed over two hundred dollars
for the same purpose, and appointed a com.
mittee to solicit additional subscriptions,
Aid was also sent from Chicago, Milwaukee,
New York and other Northern cities. A
Jackson, Mississippi, dispatch of the 21si
lays that the PAM" there produced by yellow
fever is unparalleled. People are fleeing
from the pestilence in every direction
Jackson is almost deserted, business
of all kinds suspended, and nothing
thought of except to escape from the
scourge. The situation is truly horrible
On the same day it was assuming more ap
palling proportions in New Orleans
Grenada, and Memphis, and the citizens
were dying rapidly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
American Noodles.
Peck s milwaukee Sun.

The following is the report made by
the correspondent of a Western paper,
who is out of all patience with the Amer
lean "hunkies at Newport:
A day or two since one of the Amer
lean funkies sat behind us for two hours
at the races and talked to a descendant
of John Jay in about this manner:
Male Idiot" Aw, Mish Jay-jeying
the races to-dayY'
Female IDIOT" Yeth; they're aw-
fully jawly, amt they? Right fun to
bet, amt it?'
Male idiot" Yeth, rather jawly
to bet when yeu win, yeu know, but
beastly, awful beastly, to bet and lose,
yeu know"
Female Idiot-"D'you lose? Well,
that want softly jawly! Lost myself
yest'day. Dare say you'll win gain to-
morrow, and hen you'll think it jawly
fun, yeu know"
Male Idiot-Ol dare say shall; but
caunt help feelin' beastly bout losin'
yest'day, yeu know. D'you like boat.
ing? Think it's right fun-s'ofiy jawly
yeu know-and'
And there he sat and listened while
these two funkies-this male and female
funky-repeated the same slang by
words "awfy jawly" 79 times, Fright
fun " SO times, perfectly beastly !" 4433::
times, and "yeu know" 1888 times
Now, I can stand good square slang
slang that means something-but thi.
idiotic English slang which the New
York donky spins out and lives on al
! Newport is enough to cause insanity.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
Scientific and Useful.

To clean glass bottles and other vessels
that have been soiled with fatty sub
stances, use permanganate of potassium,
to which a few drops of hydrochloric
acid are added.
The microscope shows the hair to be
indented with teeth resembling those of
a coarse, round rasp, but extremely ir-
regular and ragged, and which all incline
in one direction, from the roots toward
their extremity.
A recent patent for a nursery lamp
shows a plan for warming liquids, giving
illumination, and showing the time,
which latter is done by the fall of oil in
a tube, the fame being gagged to con-
sumo a given quantity of the oil each
minute.
There are in the human voice about
nine perfect tones, but II, 592, 1876, 044,-
Ala different sounds. Thus fourteen
different muscles, alone or together, pro-
duce 173, al, 1923, and all in cooperation
produce the above total.
1t is said that water moving at the
rate of 900 feet an hour tears up fine
clay; at 300 feet carries fine sand, at
$500 feet, fine gravel; two miles, moves
pebbles as large as a hens egg. Some
authorities believe that when a riverhas
the proper load of sediment it loses in
abrading power.
The slow industry of the coral insect,
which builds up continents by infnites-
imal deposits, has been often quoted to
point a moral, but it seems that it is not
o very slow after all. An Australian
paper mentions a piece of coral five
inches in height and six inches in
diameter, which has been built upon a
telegraph cable laid only four years ago.
A Connecticut inventor has devised 8
saftey lamp for railroad cars. A kerosene
lamp is placed outside the car at one
end, throwing its light by a reflector
into a tube a foot and half in diameter
which uns alongside of the ventilating
deck. At intervals the tube is tapped
for light, a system of re1ectors distrib
uting the light through the interior o
the car. An attachment is provided
which extinguishes it the instant tn,
lamp is off its balance, so that in tn
event Of an accident no fear of fire neet
be apprehended. The tube conducts tn,
light so admirably that fine print can b
read at a distance of forty feet from tn
lamp.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
The South.

The Republicans of Tennessee met in con-
Vention at Nashville, and nominated Hon.
Emerson Etheridge for Governor. The fol-
lowing resolution was offered by Xenophon
Wheeler, of Chattanooga, and produced a
commotion: "ResolUed, That we cordially
indorse the administration of President
Hayes, as both able and patriotic, and one
that commends itself to all fair minded men
without regard to party" A motion to
table this provoked an animated dis
c~ussion, in the midst of which the Chair
man said if this resolution was rejected he
would Withdraw from the chair. The resolu-
ton was finally referred to the Committee
on Resolutions, and withdrawn by its
author, just before adjournment.
At Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South
Carolina, Friday, two bro hers, John and
Will. Locklear, and Pompey Easterling,
their negro confederate, were hanged for
the murder of Frank Bryce, an Irish
peddler, in February last. The Locklears
were half breed desperadoes, and formerly
belonged to the notorious North Carolina
Lowery gang.
Denis Belor was hanged by a mob, near
Shelbyville, Tennessee, for committing an
outrage upon a married oma
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-29
NEWS suMMARY.
Maahinrfan,

Senior Zamacona, the Mexican Minister,
having been asked whether he anticipated
wal with the United States, replied: "By
no means. President Diaz is very anxious
to preserve friendly relations with the
United States, and is doing everything in
his power to put down the lawlessness on
the border; but the Mexican Government IL
like this c%ountry-it can not at all times
keep perfect order in outlying and sparsely
inhabited States.n
The Washington Post publishes a state
ment that Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner, in conversation with some personal
friends of his, about his recent trip to
Europe, remarked that he had conyersed
with several leaders of the Grant movement,
and they are indeed earnes in pushing
General Grant for the Presidency. He SAID
that the choice of a man for the second
place on the ticket had embarrassed the
Grant managers a good deal, until the name
of General Key was suggested, when it was
adopted at once.
In the recent storms there were 2,i47
shade trees destroyed in Washington city.
The new census of Washington ID. c.
District amounts to 161, 7s5 population. By
the census of 1870 it was 131, ZOO.