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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22
SYMPTOMS of a Diseased Liver.

Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
DAM in the right side, under the
1 edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain is
felt under the shoulder blade, and it
frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The
stomach is affected with loss Of appe-
tite and sickness; the bowels in gen.
eral are costive, sometimes alternative
with lax; the head is troubled with
pain, accompanied with dull, heavy
sensation in the back part There is
generally a considerable loss of men,
ory, accompanied with painful SEN
sation of having left undone some
thing which ought to have been done.
A slight, dry cough is sometimes an
attendant. The patient complains of
WEAKNESS and debility; he is easily
startled, his feet are cold or burning,
and he complains of prickly sensa-
eioii Vi ehS ShAh iio opilitS siiC low
and although he is satisfied that exer-
else would be beneficial to him, vet
he can scarcely summon up fortitude
enough to try it. In fact, he distrusts
every remedy. Several of the above
symptoms attend the disease, but cases
have occurred where few of them cx-
listed, yet examination of the body,
after death, has shown the LIVER to
have been extensively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
DIR. c. McLANE's LIVER PILLS, IN
CASES OF AGUE AND FEVER, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No Better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
advise all who are afflicted with this
disease to give them FAIR TRIAL.
For all bilious arrangements, and as
a simple purgative, they are unequaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22
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Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
A Hint to Sufferers.

Several evenings since was attacked with severe dental neuralgia. After resorting to friction, cold and hot appli- cations, etc., without obtaining any re- lief, I lay upon my bed trusting that sleep might come and give me respite. Still the excrutiating pain continued, and while was suffering the " "tortures of the doubly damned" undecided whether to arouse some tired druggist for bottle of chloroform or chop my head off (with decided preference, how ever, for the chloroform), I suddenly bethought me of what I had read of an anesthetic which we always carry with with us. Thereupon I began to initiate my lungs to their utmost capacity, and then forcibly blew out all the air l could. Immediately the pain began to lessen, and after few repetitions of the process it had entirely ceased, being displaced by delightful tickling sensation in the gums, and furthermore know not, for in less time than it takes to tell it l was sound asleep, awakening next morning delightfully."- refreshed and without a symptom of my ailment left. Hence, you 1T was not simply temporarily re- lieved, but entirely we'll again. wish other sufferers would try this and report results. Louisville Medical NesOs.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
That Big Fee.

Some time since number of Detroit lawyers invested in and nailed up at their desks sign reading that they were very busy just then, but would see the visi- tor later. The signs were doing all the good hoped for, when one day with ered-up old man entered an office, gazed stupidly around, and at last inquired
 Kin see the lawyer for few min utes ?'
 He had 8 book under his arm, and tbat settled his case. His eyes were directed to the sign, and after reading it he turned away, saying:
 "Wall, if you're very busy I won't stop. It was a case where there was about forty thousand dollars at stake, and"
 But he was out in the hall by that time, and he didn't seem to hear the in- vitation to come back. The lawyer, vexed and annoyed, tore down the sign at once and hoped the old man might re- turn. Sure enough, he entered the office again yesterday, and not seeing the sign he sat down and asked
 "Very busy this morning ?"
 "Oh, no-plenty of time," was the reply.
 "Sure won't annoy you p
 "Oh, you can't annoy me at all. shall listen to you with the greatest pleasure"
 "Wall, then," said the old man as he slowly undid his book. "I'd like to call your attention to this Life of Ma. poleon.' It is said that the engravings alone cost forty thousand dollars. We are selling this book to lawyers at ,
 The attorney grew white around the mouth, and asking to be excused for $ moment he put on his hat and went dowr for ride on the ferry boat, calculating to be gone just two hours.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
The Prince of Wales Debt.

A London correspondent of an Ameri- can paper says :-
 The Prince of Wales, who for some years past has been on the high tide of popularity, has recently given great um- brage to his Somersetshire and Cornis h tenantry by resembling decision tore duce their rents-on account of the pres ent hard times-by twenty five per cent. The poor Prince is placed in rather an awkward position; bis mothers nig- gardliness and his own lavish disposition have combined to involve him terribly in debt. am told on good authority that his Royal Highness is indebted to Lon don tradesmen alone in the sum of 92, 5OO,OOO. Of course, the heir apparent can obtain unlimited credit; all his creditors are sure of their money sooner or later, and even in the event of his death before his ascension to the throne, there is no doubt of their being paid in full. Still the claims upon his purse are most pressing, and the question of "ways and means" which many a poorer man has lately had to take most seriously into consideration, has not been without significance to the future King of England. Most of the landed gentry and noblemen of England have lately thought it their duty, or policy, tc forego considerable portion of thei1 income to those who till their lands The Duke of Bedford has remitted fifty per cent. of his rents, which is a clea, loss of 97O,0O0 a year to him. What
 ever the faults of the Prince of Wales may be, stinginess could never be justly ascribed to him, and very dire must have been the necessity which could have in duced him to alter the determination he had cone to, to follow the example of SC many leading peers and gentry in sacri fcing portion of their income to tn, pressing needs of the distracted and dis heartened English farmers.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
Swallowing Pulverized Glass.

The Shakopee (Minn.) Argus says:- MT. Cichia Lensburg, Le Sueur county, got on spree Monday, at Montgomery, and offered to wager that he could swallow the glass contained in whiskey flask. The wager was taken up by one of the party present, whereupon the drunken man proceeded to swallow the pulverized glass and also tallow candle. Strange to relate, that night he felt no ill effects caused by the rash deed, but next day the glass began to cut and grind his bowels, compelling the man to writhe and scream in agony. This con- tinued until Thursday morning, when the poor wretch was brought to New Prague, in the delusive hope that a physician could save him from his inevitable and fast approaching death. Of course no physicians skill could now save or even prolong the life which had been so deliberately, though un- knowingly, taken. It was pitiful and heartrending to hear the poor mortal moan and scream ill agony as the death dealing glass slowly but constantly cut It's way into the vitals. This could not long continue, however, and death kindly relieved the suffering man Thursday afternoon. A post~mortem examination was held, and the mans stomach and intestines were found to be literally ground to pieces.
 A wife and nine children are left de- pendent by the foolhardiness of man crazed by drink. This may prove a timely warning to those addicted to the excessive use of substance so deadly in it's final effects as that swallowed by the man who came to so untimely an end.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
Dime Novels Again.

A week or two ago, four lads in New York, from fourteen to sixteen years old, resolved to start to the far West to seek their fortunes. After long saving, they managed to provide their outfit, which consisted of one gun, two parlor-pistols, one dagger, four blankets (for their fiery mustangs which they meant to bestride), and twenty cents in cash.
 They met at midnight at one of the ferries for a start, when the leader of the expedition discovered that he had left the photograph of his lady-Iove at home, and declaring that he could not travel without it, went back for it.
 His mother heard him climbing in at the bathroom window, and gave the alarm, 8 policeman arrested him as 8 burglar, and he was marched off to a police e-station, where his father recog- nized him next morning.
 The story came out, and the boys were taken home, we are told, to be taught better sense." We doubt, however, il the teaching will be successful. A lad who can reach the age of sixteen " ith no other qualification for facing ah con. quering the world than pistol, 8 agger, and the ideas gained from dime novels, is not likely ever to make useful mar in it. His parents are too late in begin ming their training.
 We have often before called attention to the growing ill effects of this lower class of sensational novels and story papers upon our young people. An in cident which occurred the other da, enforces this fact as no words of our can do.
 A young woman was convicted to i'm prisonment for life for the murder of he husband, good honest man, who hat been faithful and kind to her. "In he cell, states the newspaper of the town "after the trial was over, was found tn unopened Bible, furnished to all pris oners, and heaps of the cheap novel which she has delighted to read fo years."
 If her reading had been different, s' we venture to say, would have been he actions and her fate. "Figs do no bring forth thorns, nor grapes thistles.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
The Secret Out.

"Spirit photography" is thus ex- plained by a Rochester photographer: "I take a piece of glass and on 1t l paste the photographed heads of such 'spirits as I wish to reproduce in hay outlines about the head of the sitter. In the centre of the glass I put nothing, but arrange the 'spirits in semi circle. Then from this prepared plate I take a negative and afterwards positive. When a sitter comes for photographs take 8 negative just as would any ones. When the printing IS done I place the positive plate of the sitter under the positive plate of the 'spirits," and allow the sun to print both. The sspirits being in semi circle the finished photograph appears as if the sitter was surrounded by heads in the air"
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
An Inland Sea Project.

In his recent speech upon Africa present and future, Victor Hugo spok, hopefully of the well-known Frencl scheme to turn the waters of the Med iterranean into desert region in tn, northern part of the continent, so as tt create navigable sea out of what i. now vast and barren space, forbiddine alike to travel and to agriculture. It is true, in fact, that the French engineers who have been examining this project now report it to be feasible, the sup posed sanitary objections being found imaginary, and the engineering difficul. ties only such as money will readily re. move. The lands surrounding this arti- ticial sea would then find their products opened to commerce by the new facilities for transportation.
 A like scheme is now under considera- tion in our country, namely, the creation of great inland sea in southeastern California and southwestern Arizona. There an arid desert exists, covered for scores of miles with sand and sage brush. It is 8 region about two hundred miles long by about fifty wide. Its shape. it's soil, the shells mixed with it's sands, suggest to the observer that it was once the bed of sea-that it was filled with the waters of the Gulf of California. At all events, it lies, throughout it's ex- tent, at depths varying from fifty to more than three hundred feet below the level of the Gulf, from which it is separated by ridge and plateau. Twenty-Five miles of canal, aided by lake already existing, about the centre of the route, of twenty miles more, would, it is be- heved, accomplish the inland sea. Its sanguine projectors reckon the time re- quired for it's completion at less than a year, and the cost at not over 8 million dollars.
 As in the African scheme, one purpose is to create highway of commerce for surrounding regions out of what will never, as it now is, produce food for man or beast; but the main advantage sought is an increase in the moisture of southern California and Arizona. The latter, lying just east of the basin, is as barren and heated, over large tract, as the basin itself. With such created seq would come evaporation, winds cooled in their transit, clouds, and the rain that alone is needed to make this parched region produce vegetation. With this change, added to the opening of nav igable canal to the Gulf of California the borders of the artificial sea might become peopled.
 The American project, like the African has features of interest independent o its importance. It illustrates the ever expanding scope of modern engineering Long ago this science showed it's ten dency never to see an isthmus without { desire to cut it, nor mountain range without an aim to tunnel it. To these impulses is now added the one of filling all great desert basins with the water of any propinquous higher-level sea.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
BILL AND JOE.

Come, dear old comrade, you and I Win steal an hour from days gone by The shining days, when life was new, And all was bright as morning dew The lusty days of long ago,
 When you were Bill and I was Joe. Your name may Haunt titled trail, Proud as a cockerel's rainbow trail, And mine as brief appendix wear As Tam OShanter's luckless mare. To-day, old friend. remember still That am Joe and you are Bill. You've won the great worlds envied prize, And grand you look in peoples eyes, With H 0 N. and LL.D.,
 In big, brave letters, fair to see. Your fist, old fellow; off they go!- How are you, Bill /? How are you, Joe! You've worn the judges ermine robe; You've taught your name to half the g lobe You've sung mankind deathless strain; You've made the dead past live again. The world may call you what it will, But you and are Joe and Bill. The chafRng young folks stare and say, "See those old duffers, bent and gray; They talk like fellows in their teens Madi poor old boysl That's what it means, And shake their heads; they little know The throbbing hearts of Bill and Joe How Bill forgets his hour of pride, While Joe sits smiling at his side; How Joe, in spite of times disguise, Finds the old schoolmate in his eyes Those calm, stern eyes, that melt and fill As Joe looks fondly up at Bill. Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame? A fitful tongue of leaping flame, giddy whirlwind's fickle gust, That lifts pinch of mortal dust. A few swift years, and who can show Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe? The weary idol takes his stand, Holds out his bruised and aching hand, While gaping thousands come and go- How vain it seems, this empty show !- Till all at once his pulses thrill: 'Tis poor old Joe's God bless you, Bin!" And shall we breathe in happier spheres The names that pleased our mortal ears, In some sweet Hull of harp and song, For earth-born spirits none too long, Just whispering of the world below, Where this was Bill, and that was Joe? No matter, while our home Is here, No sounding name is half so dear. When fades at length our lingering day, Who cares what pompous tombstones say? Read on the hearts that love us still, Hic jdcet Joe, hic jacet Bill.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

AN ANGRY FATHER. irascible father in Dahlonega, Ga., ore day last week sent his son after bucket of water. The lad not returning in time, the father started after him in rage, and on ar- irving at the we'll saw boy drawing up water. Without taking time to look closely at the youth he thrashed him se- verely. When he thought the boy suf- ficiently punished he discovered that in- stead of his own he had given neigh. bor's son a drubbing.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

The following was a New Haven colony law in 1869: "Whosoever shall inveigle or draw the affections of any maide or maide-servant, either to him. self or others, without first gaining the consent of her parents, shall pay to the plantation for the first offence 40s., the second 94, for the third shall be i'm prisoned or corporeously punished. " An old record has just been found show ing that under this law Jacobeth Murtine and Sarah Futile got into trouble by "setting down on a chestie together, his arme around her walste' and her arme upon his shoulder O, about his neck, and continuing in that sinful posture about half an hour, II which time he kyssed her and she kyssee him, or they kyssed one another, as y bitlesses testified"
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
con credit" he replied.
 "Where could you find credit for that amount ?" she asked.

amount ?" she asked.
 "I brought it from home," said he.
 "That's very likely" she said, "and is something like your abuse of Judge Crane this morning. You called him a rusty, fusty, crusty old fudge, an old codger, and said you did not care rye straw for him more than you did for yourself"
 At this point the disabilities of the company could no longer be restrained, and laughter came loud and long. One of them at last told the lady that the gentleman she was addressing was Judge Crane.
 "He Judge Crane, she exclaimed in- credulously. "He looks more like Q snipe than crane." Whatever else she laughter. AS it subsided, the judge said:
 Madam, I must confess that am not bird of very fine feathers, but I assure you that am crane, and crane is often very useful instrument. I saw very good one in your kitchen this morning."
 Having been assured the Judge Crane to whom she was speaking was the pre- siding judge, she became profuse in her apologies, but he, with graceful dignity, cut them short, and saying that, not withstanding his little joke, he hoped they would hereafter be friends, he pre- sented her with the shawl for which he paid twelve dollars as an earnest of their reconciliation. The good lady accepted the gift in the spirit in which it was given, and retired in confusion to talk over the events of the day with Betty and the others.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

A VICIOUS STALLIoN.-In Hartford a vicious stallion belonging to the street railroad company-a full-blooded Morgan chestnut, fifteen years old, with four white feet-needed shoeing. He got loose in the stable yard, and when the foreman of the stables, John Crilly, tried to capture him, the stallion reared and sprang at him. Crilly jumped between his legs. Then the stallion came at him with hattened ears and open jaws. Crilly seized the stallion's tongue and twisted it, extorting shrill cry of rage and pain. That ended the fight. Crilly didn't let go of the tongue until it's owner was back in his stall and firmly secured.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
WHERE THE BLACKBIRD
 SINGS.

Down the quiet country road, before you reach
 the lofty ridge, Where the birch tree, first awakened to the
 mornings low breath, swings, ofttimes sit in silence on the small moss- covered bridge, Near the little shady nook where the black bird sings. There the spreading trees meet OCT me and hear no harsh voice calling, Whilst his sweetness to my fancy's dream O sacred feeling brings.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02
Judge Crane and the Land-
 lady.
"REMINISCENCES OF poueHKEErs1E.

Just after the first Republican Con- stitution of the State of New York was framed, and the circuit branch of the Supreme Court was established, Judge John Crane, an eccentric and wealthy man, was chosen to preside at the first sitting of the court in Duchess county. The high sheriff of the county was also the popular landlord of the hotel st which the judges and lawyers would have to stop. The county town was Poughkeepsie, and the old tavern was located on Mill street, near Vassar, on the site at present occupied by s. J. Farnum. It was 8 rough stone house, built in 1701, and was the first dwelling house in Poughkeepsie. During the war of the revolution it was turned into an inn, and in 17S7 the State Legisla- ture held its session there. It was final ly removed in 1885.
 Judge Crane was remarkable for the plainness of his dress and habits, and for his fondness for joke. The sheriff landlord was the possessor of a wife, who, like Katrina Van Wrinkle, knew her power and asserted it. The first morn ing the court sat, Judge Crane walked from his residence, twenty miles away, through driving storm of rain, hail and snow, and entering the tavern, said i:
 ssI have no money and was obliged to come to court. I have walked over twenty miles through this dreadful storm, and am wet and cold, dry and hungry. want something to eat be- fore the court begins.
 The landlady, with countenance in- dicative of severity and contempt, said :
 "You say you are wet and cold, dry and hot. How can that all be7"
 "No, my dear madam" said the judge. ''I said I was wet and cold, and had you been out in this storm, as I have been, you would also be wet and cold. I said wanted something to eat and drink"
 But you have no money, you say, !" said the landlady.
 CT told you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" was the judge's answer. "But were asirich as Crmsus, I would be willing to work for something to eat and drink"
 "Croesus Who is Crssusa" queried the landlady.
 "I never knew him." said the judge, but I have understood that he was very rich. I want something to eat and drink, and were as poor as Job in his utmost calamity would willingly go te work little while if I could get some. thing to drink and bit of good vic tuals."
 tWen, old Daddy" said she, "how much do you want to drink?"
 Half gill of good brandy, madam, 2 said he.
 She gave him gill of brandy, and then instructed him to go to the wood pile and cut for her three armfuls ot wood, and she would give him some cold victuals. He fulfilled his part O the contract faithfully, and, having placed the wood on tue hearth, said:
 Now for the victuals."
 She gave him some cold bits, upol which he exclaimed:
 It is almost as cold as I am, but no half so wet, and see neither tea, coffe, nor chocolate with which to wet it."
 Beggars must not be choosers, said she.
 '.I am not begging of you, madam F but have paid the full price demanded, said he.
 z I told you" she answered, ss that would give you cold victuals, and ther' js cold boiled ham, cold pork and beef
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

IN SEVERAL COUNTIES in Georgia the fish in the rivers and polds are dying by the thousand. It is thought that the fish are killed by the guano which, dur ing the severe storms early in the season was washed into the streams.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

-Scraping an acquaintance-A barber shaving friend.
Connecticut western news., 1879-07-02

-EThe Paradise of birds-Lots oi esumbs and no cats.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-05-15
NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
s I M M ID R.

That have the Largest and Finest stock of Spring and
Summer Clothing, and that am able to sell my goods at
lower price than any similar house in Southern Illinois, are
facts that should be of Importance to all varieties of Gus
TONER'S The great success of my business and its immense
growth within brief period furnishes the proof of my
assertion.
therefore invite every man and boy i'll the vicinity to call
and be fitted with my beautiful Navy Blue suits for $500 or
handsome scotch suits for $1,000
am prepared to sell ready made clothing equal to the
cliStOm work of merchant taiors
Square dealing and low prices the open secrets of my
past success.
Straw hats Of the most fashionable manufacture John B.
Setson hats direct from the factory. Genemens furnish
inc goods complete assortment This is no talk but facts
For proof call at
A. M "A R&'S, 81 Ohio Levee