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MEDICINAL.
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This important organ weighs but about
three pounds, and all the blood in q living
person (about three gallons) passes through
it st least once every half hour, to have the
bile and other impurities strained or filtered
from it. Bile is the natural purgatiye of the
bowels, and if the Liver becomes torpid it is
| not separated from the blood, but carried
| through the veins to all parts of the System,
and in trying to escape through the pores of
the skin, causes it to turn yellow or dirty
brown color. The stomach becomes diseased
and Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation,
Headache, BilieusneRs, Jaundice, Chills,
Malarial Fevers, Piles, Sick and Sour Stom.
sch, and general debility follow. MER.
RELIS HEPATINE. the great vegetable
discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver to
throw of from one to two ounces of bile each
time the blood passes through 1t, IS long as
there is an excess of bile; and the effect of
even few doses upon yellow complexion
or brown, dirty looking akin, will aston
ish all who try it-.they being the first symp.
toms to disappear. The cure Of al bilious
diseases and Liver complaint is made GER
tain by taking Hepstine in accordance With
directions. Headache is generally cured in
twenty minutes, and no disease that arisea
from the Liver can exist if fair trial is
given. Take no pills when you can got
Hepatine OF the same price For sale by
all Druggists. PRICE 26o and 81.
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My custom mado CLOTHING ie warranted
: Of tho best imported material, we'll made, Thea
roughly shrunk. and will be sold at prices to
suit the times Call and convoce yourself, at
8. DEALuAMs e. King ST., otrner OF Fairfax.
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Mail. E1press
South Bound.
n orth. Bound.

Mail, Southwark, connects o! GOrdonsville.
with Chos. s. Ohio Il. T., East and West. A;
Lynchburg, connects with Atlantic, Miss.
Ohio r. T., through SouIhEes! Virgins, l.
Nashville. New Orleans, Memphis, Little Rocs
and Texas-and at Danyille with Richmond d
Danvile Il. K, to South and Southwest.
Express Southwark connects st Gordonsvlle
to all points East and West on Ches. s. Ohio 4.
and ct Dsnville with Richmond & DAnvile
4. T., for The Csrolinss, Goorgs, Florida ant
via Atlanta to Now Orleans.
For MANASSAS LINE leave Washington
100 q. M. and Alexandria : Is a. M, daily.
except Sunday, arrive at Strasburg at l. % p nj,
connecting with the Valley Road East AMI
West Leave St,ssburg Is p. m, arriving Il:
Alexandris OF IS D. m.
For Middleburg daily connection al Plains
station.
For Upper7ille, regular connection 81 Ds!a'
For WARRENTON. lcsve Washington 81
7 co q. m. daily.
All trains make good connections. st Wash
ington, to and from North aud West.
Now Orleans sleeper leaves Washington s:
200 a. n, running through without chang
connecting with through Sleeper to Florida.
Excursion tickets 70 Jacksonville. FlrfiiA
good to May 18th, 1879, e. worry low rnto.
Through tickots sold at the lowest rat,a
NH IA D. Ii. DkOADUS, q, j. =
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FOR NEW YORK

Tho al Steamships 4. u KNIGHT .>-sasa
and JOHN GIBSON leave tho conf s&
panys wharf AleIandria, EVERY MON
DAY MORNING, and New York, from pier
IL East River. EVERY SATURDAY at four
O'CLOCK p. M
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DISTRIOT OF COLUMBIA,

This company offers unrivalled facilities for
the transportation of frsight and passengers,
aud will run their etesmers regularly as follows:
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,.ses OLYDR'S STEAM LINES WEEK
SshMs& EY TO

,snea ULYDR'S STEAM LINES WEEK
tSsA4&s& EY TO
PHILADELPHIA, FALL RIVER, PROVI.
DENCE AND BOSTON.
Steamers leave Alexandria EVERY TUES,
DAY and leave Philadelphia EVERY SAT.
URDAY.
This limo ccnrecIs nj Alexandria with tie O.,
A. s. NJ. and " s. o. L. KS. and at Philadel-
phia with Clyde's regulsr Steamships for Fall
River, Providence ald Boston.
Freight forwarded with promptnsas and cara,
free of commissions.
No charge for transfer in Philadelphia, And
wharfage in Boston. Quick time. Frequent
departures Through ratios and through bills
of lading given. Insurance at the lowest rates.
Agents:
r. A. REED, Alexandria.
WIN. T CLYDE & CO., Philadelphia,
GEO. y. HYDE, Georgetown, y. g.
JOHNSON BROS, Washington.
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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01
New Burial Of Sir John Moore.

Not drum was heard, because the
drummer was not feeling very well and
asked 10 be excused, nor q funeral note
of any kind, as his corpse to the ram
parts we hurried; not n single, solitary
son-of-a-gun Of q soldier discharged his
farewell shot DER the grave where the
remains Of the late Mr.. Moore were de-
posted. The farewell-shot business
was omitted on account of the scarcity ol
ammunition. We buried him darkly at
dead of night. and did the best job We
could for him under the circumstances.
We could not borrow, beg, or steal a
pick or shovel in the entire neighbor-
hood, and were Obliged to turn the
sod with our bayonets, which by
the way, was the first thing that
had been turned by said bayonets since
we had been drafted. We did all this
by the struggling moonbtams' misty
light, and the lantern dimly burning,
with just about half enough oil in it,
and strip Of an old flannel undershirt
for a wick. Few and short were the
prayers we said, the chaplain being home
on a furlough, and no one within forty
miles to take his place. We spoke not a
word of sorrow, our time being some
what limited, as the enemy was not far
distant, and advancing with gigantic
strides. We thought, as We followed his
narrow bed, and smoothed down his lone
" pillow with q canteen, that the foe and
the stranger would tread DER his head
and We far away on the billow; but not
too far, however, as the enemy outnum-
bered us about seven TO one. Lightly
they'll talk Of the spirit that's gone, and
wonder where they can got another flask
filed with the same, and DER his cold
ashes upbraid him, knowing Of course.
that he is in no condition to defend him
self; but he'll little reck If they let him
sleep on in n grave where n Briton has
laid him, and not bother him 10 get up
and take out burial permit, or ask him
to pay ground rent. We wish here "a
correct the impression that slowly and
sadly we laid him down from the field oi
his fame fresh and CORY. We did no such
thing. The corpse was washed and put
in good shape, and VIC defy any man q
show that there was q drop Of gore about
him. It is true that we carved not q line
and we raised not stone, because there
was no stone-mason handy 10 do the iot
ct reasonable figures. About this time
we heard the distant and random CUR
that the foe was sullenly firing. so W.
adjourned the funeral, left the deceased
alone in his glory, a:id made ourselves
scarce in that vicinity.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01

from breaking. No doubt he will be
considered an irreverent follow, and
one to be lightly esteemed by stolid
people. Just now one may count up
all the English-speaking wits Of the
world on his fingers. The best OF
them have tho world at their beck
and call, A witty dramatization in
the hands of good actor will run at
a single theater a hundred nights. 1t
will be just as fresh for the next
place, as so keep its place on the
stage for years. The actor makes
fortune more certainly than he would
as an owner of the best gold mine.
The writer of dozen witty stanzas
becomes famous all over the world.
The fever patient does not moro GER
tainly need quinine than docs joy
less people need the medicine of the
man of wit. Therefore, let him come
and not stand on the order Of his
coming.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01
Infant Mortality I'm New York.

Statistics are not always dry and nm
impressive, even TO the casual reader
The figures which show the rate Of NOR
tality among the little children in great
cities have pathetic eloquence which can
hardly fail TO attract the attention and
touch the feelings Of the most indiffer-
ent. When the State census was taken
in 1875, this city had population Of
,O41 ,SS6. The same year the number of
deaths was 3O,7O4, giving us rate Of
29.74 10 the thousand inhabitants. II il
inordinately high for the whole popu-
lation. The situation Of the city
q unsurpassed for purposes Of
drainage and cleanliness, and il
has at command an ample sup
ply Of pure water. It ought TO be
one OF the healthiest cities in the world.
and yet the death-rate for London for
the five years ending with 1878 was but
22.s TO the thousand. The Registar-Gen-
eral, after showing the great improve
ment that had taken place in conse-
quence OF q better administration Of the
interests appertaining 70 public health,
maintained that the rate ought TO be re-
duced to 20, and might even be brought
down to II. It depends on agencies en-
tirely within the control Of man to make
large city, favorably situated, as
uefAlI1y as small one.
OF our total population Of ,04I 1856 in
1875, 128, ,169, or little over II per cent,
were children under years Of age. or
the 30, ,704 deaths in that year, II ,S4S, or
more than 4s 1-3 per cent, were Of chill
dren under 5. While the rate Of NOR
tality for the entire population was 29.47
in thousand, for these little ones it was
115.S4 in a thousand, or about one in
nine Of the whole number. OF these,
$40, or considerably more than one
hall, were infants under ! year of age.
The whole number being, according to
official enumeration, q 1872, it is evident
that more than one-fourth of all the hu-
man beings born in this city go down to
the grave before they are twelYemonth
old. The CHASTITY blight upon the pre-
cious crop of humanity is not evenly dis
tributed over the city or through the
year. While the number of deaths per
day varied in January from 73 to 10, of
which from q to 80 were of children un-
der 5, in July the daily number varied
from 73 to 155, of which 81 to los were
Of these little ones. The average in the
heated season is nearly double what If is
in the cold months. It is unnecessary to
say that the ratio In the crowded and
filthy tenement house quarters is vastly
greater than in the more wholesome dis
tricts of the city, though accurate COM
parison cannot be made.-N. 7. Times.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01
A Bankrupt Country.

The bad condition Of Spairi's finances
Ii again showed by the report Of the Fl
nance Minister rs TO the budget He es-
Inmates the revenue at about S165 ,0O0,- :
600, and the expenditures at SI5S, 900, :
900. These annual deficits are the rule
in Spain, and her hnanciers never seem
able to better the condition Of the treas
ury, notwithstanding the large amounts
Of money wrenched from the Cubans,
who had TO pay the expenses Of the late
rebellion, furnish pocket money TO the
Captains General and help support the
home government.
The public debt Of Spain Is now over
q, ,556 ,000. 900, made up Of a consolidated
debt Of 81, ,610, 900 900; bonds to the
amount Of S155, 900, 900, issned in con-
Hideration OF the surrender OF church
lands; railway bonds to the amount Of
s110, ,000, 600; s55, ,000, 600 Of miscellan-
eous debts; a floating debt Of s125, 900, :
600, and an interior debt" Of $500 900, :
600. A large portion Of these bonds
bear interest at the rate Of twenty per
cent, but for years the bondholders
have not received q dollar of interest, as
the army and the government absorb
every cent Of the public revenue Fer
dinand VII, in 1923 repudiated Spain's
first foreign loan, but Queen Isabella, in
1894, was honest enough TO agree to pay
the creditors interest, which was done
until 1887, when the Carlist wars began
and upset every fiscal arrangement. In
lS40 the bondholders agreed 10 give mp a
large amount Of their claims so as TO get
the interest on the balance, but that
arrangement was broken in 1851, when
half the unpaid interest was repudiated
and the balance was reduced. For this
perfidy Spain was shut ont Of the money
markets in Europe. She, however, sue
ceeded in borrowing more money in 1867
and then borrowed more 10 pay the in
terest on that. In 1872 the bondholders
agreed 10 take their overdue coupons,
two-thirds cash and the balance in new
bonds. Spain made one payment under
the arrangement, and has since paid
nothing.
The report Of the Finance Minister.
made last Friday, does not encourage
the conviction that the government will
ever pay her debt Of g, ,555 ,000, 600. It is
Said that no accounts are ever laid before
the nation; that no opportunity is ever
given for an inquiry into the working of
the treasury department, and that the
government lives altogether by under
hand transactions paying a tremendous
rate Of interest, which is sure to bring
the country into hopeless bankruptcy.
The natural resources Of Spain are very
great. Her mines are exceedingly rich,
and her manufactures and agricultural
products in demand, but the government
does not know how to regulate the finan-
ces, and is woefully deficient in enter
prise. The army Is the great drain on
the exchequer, and il has TO be kept mp
nP tho RourhonR xvnrfid toaa thar erin
on Spain.-LouisriIe Courier Journal.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01
Ancient shoes.

Some we'll preserved projections for
the foot, worn in ancient times by the
Egyptians, are to be found in the British
Museum, made Of palm leaves. In one
OF these. slices of palm leaves overlap
ping each other from the sole, these be-
ing bound securely together by double
band Of twisted leaves round the edge.
As q pad to the feet these sandals must
have been exceedingly pleasant in hot
climate. The Egyptian sandals varied
slightly in form; those worn by the mp
per classes and by women were usually
pointed and turned up at the end, like
our skates. Jewish ladies appear TO have
paid great attention to the beauty of
their sandals, which probably did not
differ much from those used in Egypt,
excepting, perhaps, that from the greater
roughness of their country they were
usually of more substantial make and
materials. In Solomon's song the bride
is thus addressed: How beautiful are
thy feet with shoes, o princes daugh-
teri And Holofernes, the Assyrian
general, was charmed with the sandals
worn by Judith of the Apocrypha. The
transition of the sandal to the shoe or
boot is enveloped in obscurity, and the
fashion of shoes and boots has under
gone innumerable changes. The word
boot came from the Welsh bates, which
means shoes. The poorer Anglo-Saxons
had neither stockings nor boots, but
wore cloths bound round their legs and
feet. The soles of the earliest shoes
were made of wood. It was illegal 400
years ago for any one in England to have
soles more than two inches thick, and
the clergy said that such high soles broke
the scripture edict: "Thou shalt not
add q cubit to thy stature" A method
Of increasing ladies height by shoes was
adopted in the time of Cyrus, for Keno
phen mentions the wife Of Ischomachus
as wearing high shoes for that purpose.
In Elizabeth's time very high shoes were
worn, called the chopiae. She was q
woman of low stature. Hamlet men,
tions the ch0piRe when he salutes one OF
the lady actors: "What, my young lady
and mistressl By'r lady, your ladyship
is nearer heaven than when / saw you
last, by the altitude of o cLopiae!'
Hamel described the Venetian ladies as
consisting of three parts, one part wood
(meaning their chOpi1leS), one of ap
parel, and the third part being woman
The ch0pines were termed wooden scat
folds" In the reign of Henry VIII
shoes grew very broad, to suit his goutN
feet, but his daughter Mary got Parlia
ment to limit their breadth over the toe
to six inches. Long forked shoes wer,
worn in the time of James I. A write
of that period says: "a fashion we hav,
lately taken up is to wear our forket
shoes as long again as our feet. Corr
Troy Times.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01
Neglect Of the Eye.

Whatever an ounce of prevention may
be to other members of the body, IT GER
tainly is worth many pounds of cure to
the eye. Like achronometer watch, this
delicate organ viii stand any amount of
use, not to say abuse. but when once
thrown of its balance, It very rarely can
be brought back to its original perfec-
ton of action, or, if it IS, it becomes ever
after liable TO q return of disability of
function or the seat of actual disease
One would have supposed from this fact,
and from the fact that modern civilza-
ton has imposed upon the eye an ever
increasing amount of strain, both as to
the actual quantity of work done and the
constantly increasing brilliancy and du-
ration of the illumination under which it
Is performed, that the greatest pains
would have been exercised in maintain-
ing the organ In a condition of health,
and the greatest care and solitude used
in its treatment when diseased. And yet
it is safe to say that there is no organ in
the body the welfare of which is so per-
sistently neglected as the eye.
have known fond and doting moth
ers take their children of four and five
years of age to have their first teeth
filed, instead of having them extracted,
so that the Jaw might not suffer In it's due
development, and become In later years
contracted, while the eye, the most intel.
lectual, the most apprehensive, and the
most discriminating of all organs, re-
ceives not even passing thought, much
less an examination. It never seems to
occur to the parents that the principal
agent in child's education is the eye;
that through it it gains not only its sense
of methods and ways of existence of
others, but even the means for the main
tenance of its own; nor does it occur to
the parents for an instant that many of
the mental as well as bodily attributes
of growing child are fashioned, even
if they are not created, by the condition
of the eye alone.
A child is put to school without the
slightest inquiry on the part of the pa
rent and much less on the part of the
teacher, whether it has the normal
amount of sight; whether it sees OBJ
! iects sharply and well defined, or indis-
tinctly and distorted; whether it be near.
sighted or far-sighted; whether it sees
with one or two eyes; or, finally if it does
see clearly and distinctly, whether it il
not using quantity of nervous foree
sufficient after time not only to exhaust
the energy of the visual organ, but o.
the nervous system ut large. e.-HaTper''
Magazine for august.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01

THE FRENCH TRADE DoLLAR.-I in.
formed you recently OF the intention Of
the French Government to authorize the
Paris mint to coin trade dollar for cir
culation in Cochin, China, whence il was
expected soon to make its way into other
countries of the extreme East. The
original idea was that this new coinage
should be left to private individuals.
who would have first TO obtain authoriza-
ton from the Minister Of the Colonies or
the Governor of Cochin, China, but that
the Government should not coin for
itself. That intention has apparently
been modified, for | now learn that the
new coinage has commenced, but for the
Government, which recently purchased
silver for a sum of one million of francs,
and sent it to the mint to be con-
verted into the new trade dollars.
This coin is of the exact weight and
fneness of the American trade dollar,
and therefore small fraction heavier
than the Mexican piastre. Although OF
the same hneness as the French 5-franc
piece, it does not correspond to any
French coin in value, the 5-franc piece
weighing 25 grammes and the new trade
dollar 27.2. The value in French legal
| tender silver coin would therefore bt
about 5f.44c. The French Government
is just now paying particular attention
to the circulation in its colonies of the
East Hitherto the English rupee hac
circulated Reunion Island at the rate o.
2f.5c., or 2s,, concurrently with French
coin and other moneys, but an order o
the Governor was recently issued pro
hibidng the rupee as legal tender anG
announcing that it would cease to be re
| ceived in the public Offices. - L4OnOIOJ
Economist. June 26th.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-08-01

When chief Is about to fight with an
other, he calls his army doctor, who
brings intclzi, which he bruises, places in
q pot, pours water on it, and then squeezes
il with his hand, and mixes II with water.
The long tail Of a large animal, which is
well known, called the gnu, Is placed in
the vessel, and is used 10 sprinkle with.
The army forms o semi-circle, and no one
speaks; there is perfect silence for, in
deed, when an army is being led ont 10
war, no one speaks, even little; It Is
an evil day, for men are going 70 die,
and they eat nothing. The doctor
spFinkIes the whole army, going
round the whole circle. When an army
has had this done to It, no one among
them may associate with his family at
home If man breaks this rule, he "kills
himself, making his eyes dark !" that Is,
he has made himself stupid, he has lost
his sense, so that when he goes into bat
tie he must surely be killed. On the day
when troops are summoned, and ASSEM-
BILE at the chiefs headquarters, cattle are
always slaughtered. The meat first eaten
is black, being smeeTed with powder
made of dried flesh of various animals
leopard, lion, elephant, etc. The Zulus
believe by these medicines TO impart
| the fierce and powerful qualities
of the different beasts. The whole force par
takes OF this wonderful meat before Roina
into battle, that they may be brave and
not fearful. When the doctor has finished
sprinkling the army, the chief comes intt
the midst of it, and addresses the soldiers
praising the "Amatongo," or spirits Of hii
ancestors. He ends with an admonitior
to fsght as becomes brave nation; he
Troops Of our people who con
/ quered so-and-so. / shall hear o
your doings. The sun Is in tht
sky I have this day given the enem,
| into the hands of such-and-such
regiment, and direct you to follow II
If you do not conquer, you will disgrac'
yourselves. My father was brave; h,
was never known to be a coward. LIE
the assegais wound you in front, let ther,
be no wound in the back. If see yol
coming back conquered, viii kill you
you will, find no place for you here a
home. too, am an enemy IL you ar
towards" Then there would begin leap
ing and rattling of spears against thei
shields; some shouting and making vows
and then the chief dismisses the army.