Daily Republican., 1879-06-27


right and went away and brought
suit"
what remedies are you taking now7"
IA regular physicians prescrip-
tions."
Doctor Fitler says of this particular
case: 81 was out Of town when the
case came up, and the first knew that
it had heen tried read in the Times
that judgment had been given against
me. If had been there should have
proved that the man was cured and
then had another attack. shall have
a new trial."
DR.. Filters confident assertion that
he would get new trial does not ap-
pear to have been carried out by sub
sequent events, for afterwards his coun-
sci appeared before Judges Pierce and
Allison and made the application, al
leging as the reasons why it should be
granted that the defendant was absent
when judgment was given against him
and that the jury in naming the sum
had also refunded the plaintiff for the
kidney cordial drunk in addition to the
money paid for the Rheumatic Remedy.
The Court, without calling upon John
Dolman, counsel for Mr.. Barney, to
make any reply, refused the new trial.
During these proceedings Mr.. Dolman
received letter from Justice of the
Peace in the interior Of the State, stat
ing that a lady acquaintance Of his had
an experience with DR.. Filter and his
remedies similar to that Of Mr.. Barney
and inquiring if the counselor would
conduct a prosecution for her. Mr..
Dolman replied that he would conduct
the suit, but that if error of judgment
was obtained it would not be worth a
farthiDg.
Mr.. Barney is a ruddy-faced gentle
man, with good nature beaming from
every lineament that fringe of gray
beard does not conceal. His counte-
nance denotes most excellent health, but
his limbs are swollen and stiffened, and
it is only with the aid of a cane that he
can hobble along. For fifteen yeara,
with exception of short time, he has
beeQ employed in making car seats in
the Jackson l. Sharp Car Works, in
Wilmington. He does "piece-work, ~
and his rheumatic attacks have serious
ly interfered with his labors, He is
now 50 years of age. In reply to Dr..
Filters allegation that Mr.. Barney IS
to-day improved in health, the latter
says that when he visited the Doctor he
had just got over serious rheumatic
attack, and was just beginning to hob
BILE about, and although at the present
time he is able to walk, but with diff
fculty, yet since taking the medicine
his serious attacks occur as frequently
and are as violent as before he laid
eyes upon DR.. Fitler.
MAN THAT KEATS BARNEY.
To Barney's experience with Rheu-
matte Remedy in particular, and his
to subdue his malady there are
doubtless many parallels, but the case
of John +. Rigdon, of this city, who
lives on Long lane, just off Passyunk
avenue, probably stands alone. He has
been a slave of patent medicine for
years. He commenced with S.-T.-1S6O-
X, brakes Plantation Bitters, and
every new potion put before the public
and pulled, as only the paragraph
praising the pill can puff. Mr.. Rigdon
got and swallowed. His body had
doubtless been the receptacle of hun
dreds of pounds of pills, hundreds of
quarts of liquid doses, and hundreds of
pounds of powders. Every elixir, cor
dial, reyivitier, restorative; all the ner-
vine, consumption cure, liniments, for
Mr.. Rigdon's maladies he regards as
pregnable by internal and external at
tack; King of Pain, and widely adver-
tised patent articles of alleged curative
power that ever was thrust upon hy-
pochondriacal public, Mr.. Rigdon has
had.
The truth of the matter is Mr.. Rig
don is not in the least sick, except so
much as the outrageous doses he has
inflicted himself with have made him.
His pet troubles are Bright's disease of
the kidneys and rheumatism, although
he has neither. Now and then he con-
suits physician, who asks for symp,
toms. They are given. "You have no
disease at ALL" has been the invariable
answer, and from that moment Mr..
Rigdon poised on the vantage ground
Of the self-satistied possession locks
down upon that doctor with scorn and
His last consultation was
with the late Doctor Maury. The doc
tor told him he was sick, but too much
Medicine had made him so. Rigdon is
not rich man, but has just enough of
. market garden on the Neck to assure
lim livelihood.
He lives plainly and has spent near
y $40, 900 for medicine in twenty-five
'ears. That's what he says, and the
of bottles he has stacked up
n his back yard seems to prove his as
ertions. A visitor, who didn't count
hem, estimated their number to be
less than twenty-five hundred.
hio 10 AiSiou nSOiy, 1ooo hio v"
diagnosis of his Affections.
WHAT HE TOOK.
81 took Brakes Plantation Bitters,
Ayer's Pills first, and then | discovered
had disease Of the liver and kidneys.
saw the advertisement ofS-T-1S60-X.,
nd bought dozen right off. Ayers
.lmanac taught me something about
he human frame and I took Ayers
'ills, | spent 5000 on Helmbold's
'uchu, and took that with Schenk's
Pills and Pulmonic Syrup, for there
vas something the matter with my
ungs.
Ichanged off from Schenck's s to Jayne's
and finally l got Piso's
Consumption Cure. | think it did me
rood. | wanted to cure my digestion
10 | got Vinegar Bitters and Rocky
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