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THE WEEKLY UNION.

The WEEKLY UNION issued this morning is one OF
Che most valuable papers published on the CONT
nent 1t is not necessary now to refer to its varied
departments and to the skill and labor applied to
each nor to the rare managerial ability displayed
in the conduct of the paper-these speak for them
Selves and give evidence in every column Of read
ing matter prepared selected As a news
journal we desire just now to present its claims,
and while it is complete in all departments of news,
the chief claim is that it gives news oftener and
fresher than any other weekly. This is so because
1t is issued in semi-weekly parts, which gives the
reader the current fact and opinion OF the day long
before the old-time weekly is issued. Each semi,
weekly part consists OF eight RACES making total
OF sixteen pages per week, and all sent for 81 per
gear, pest paid.
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A VOICE ER0M IHE PRESS.

/ take this Opportunity to bear testimony
to the efficacy Of your "Hop Bitters." Ex-
pecting to find them nauseous and bitter and
composed of bad whisky, we were agreeably
surprised at their mild taste-just like cup
of tea. A Mrs Cresswell and Mrs. Con-
nor, friends, have likewise tried, and pro-
nounce them the best medicine they have
ever taken for building up strength and tom
ing up the system. was troubled with cos
tiveness, headache and want Of appetite.
The two former ailments are gone, and the
latter greatly improved. have yearly
contract with q doctor to look after the health
of myself and family, but need him not
now.
s. GILLILASD, Peoples advocate,
July 70. 1873 Pittsburg, Pa.
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In a. hhAA
Treater of Chronic Disease
SUPERIOR wis.,. January. 1880.


I heard in my neighborhood that your Hop
Bitters was doing such great deal of good
among the sick and afflicted with most every
kind Of disease, and as had been troubled
for fifteen years with neuralgia and all kinds
of rheumatic complaints and kidney trouble,
1 took one bottle according to directions. It
at once did me great deal of good. and
used another bottle. l am an old man, but
am now as well as I can wish. There are
seven or eight families in our place using
Hop Bitters as their family medicine, and
are so well satisfied with it they will not use
any other. One lady here had been bedrid-
den for years. is well and doing her work
from the use of three bottles.
LEONARD WHITBRcK.
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IMMENSE SALE.

EVANSVILLE Wis June "a, 1879.
Gentlemen: No Bitters have ever had one
half the sale here and given such universal
satisfaction as your Hop Bitters have. We
take pleasure in speaking for their welfare,
as everyone who tries them is well satisfied
with their results. Several such remarkable
cures have been made by them here that there
are a number of earnest workers in the Hop
Bitters cause. One person gained eleven
pounds from taking only few bottles.
SMITH Il IDE
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REV. H. FrREnER.
MoNRoE fM;cb. !. Sent. 25. 1S75.

MONROE (Mich.), Sept. %, 1875.
Sirs I have been taking Hop Bitters for
Inflammation of kidneys and bladder it has
done for me what four doctors failed to do.
The effect Of the Bitters seemed like magic to
me. w. l.. CARTER.
If you have sick friend whose life is
burden, one bottle of Hop Bitters may restore
that friend to perfect health and happiness.
Will you see that that friend has bottle at
once.
BRADFORD (Pa.l, May s, 1877.
1t has cured me of several diseases. such as
nervousness, sickness at the stomach, monthly
troubles, etc. 1 have not seen sick day in a
year since | took Hop Bitters. Several of
my neighbors use them.
Mrs. FANNIE GREEN.
DELEvAN (Wis.) September "a, 1873.
Gents: / have taken not quite one bottle
of the Hop Bitters. l was feeble old man
of rs when got it. To-day l am as active
and feel as well as did at 80 I see great
many that need such a medicine.
ID. BoYoB.
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BAY Cry Mich. February 3. 1890

BAY Cry Mich. J, February 8, 1880.
HOP BITTERs COMPANY: / think it nv
dutys to send you recommend for the
benefit of any person wishing to know
whether Hop Bitters are good or not. I
know they are good for general debility
and indigestion strengthen the nervous
system and make new life. / recommend
my patients to use them.
DR.. A. PRATT,
Treater of Chronic Diseases.
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OUR BEST REWARD.
WINSTON, FossYrHE Co. IN. CO., |
March Is 1880

To THE Hop BITTERs MANUFACTURING Co.
Gents l desire to express to you my thanks
for your wonderful Hop Bitters. l was
troubled with dyspepsia for five years previous
to commencing the use of your Hop Bitters
some six months ago. My cure has been won
derful. am Pastor of the First Methodist
Church of this place, and my whole congre-
cation can testify to the great virtue of your
Bitters. Very respectfully,
REV. II. FRREBER.
ROCHESTER IN. W, March II, 1880.
Hop BITTERs Co.: Please accept our CRATE
full acknowledgement for the Hop Bitters you
were so kind to donate, and which were such
benefit to us.
Yours very gratefully,
OLD LADIES OF THE HOME OF THE FRIEND
LESS.
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ASK your druggist for Hammers Cascara
SAgradA Bitten.
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of Professor Winchell is as odd almost as if
Mr. Tyndall were to ask leave of Cardinal
Newman before propoundmg q new by
pothesis of sound propagation or light diffu-
sion. There is no question among educated
men at the present day as to the existence of
man before Adam that is before the age
which ignorant theologians have fancifully
assigned as the,time of fictitious and fabu-
lous parsonage mentioned in certain Asiatic
books of no historical or scientific value. In
deed the chief fault we have to find with Pro-
fsssor Winchell is that inlorder to leave some
fragment of standing for the biblical legend
he so curiously venerates, he is driven to strain
logic in curtailing the historic and geologic
periods. He does not believe in an universal
deluge, of course, or his speculations would
be valueless, but he endeavors to confine the
development of Mantle prehistoric age-to
period of from six to ten thousand years.
Man from state of savagery did not
occupy more than three thousand years,
as measured by Egyptian civilization. OF
course Egyptian chronology is a wilderness
without trustworthy guidance of any kind,
but geology certainly warrants the belief that
the development of man from state of mere
brutality must have occupied at least five
times, or quite possibly ten times, the period
assigned to it by our author. 1t is not likely
that this question viii ever be more precisely
ascertained than it is now but the unmis-
takeable tendency of all modern researches in
philology, ethnology, geology, archaeology.
psychology, and zoology, is to push the be-
ginnings Of human civilization farther and
farther back, and to enlarge our conceptions
Of the periods during which man has been
ON the earth. It is pity that any work
evincing 80 much conscientious labor a.
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.

DR.. TANNER at noon on the 9TH tri-
umphantly finished his forty days fast. The
blowing of a steam whistle from factory in
the vicinity Of the hall denoted the expira-
ton of the time. The famished Doctor anx-
iously awaited the signal, holding peach in
his hand, which he ate with avidity amidst
the plaudits of an asSemblage of / 200 peO-
pie who had congregated in the hall to wit
ness the plucky Doctor break his long fast.
He then drank a goblet Of milk,
after which he tackled big
Georgia watermelon and devoured sew
eral slices with an unconcealed relish,
to the evident discontinue Of his attending
physicians, who vainly expostulated with
MIN against his alleged imprudence. On
leaving the hall DR.. Tanner proceeded in
carriage to the residence of DIR. Gum, re-
ceiving an ovation all along the route. At
$3.50 he took a glass of wine and some more
watermelon; an hour later he partOok of
some brOied steak, then slept an hour,
after which he ate three apples. At
seven O'Clock he ate another steak
weighing half pound, soon after which he
went to bed and slept soundly, apparently
experiencing no i'll effects from his long fast
or his subsequent gormandizing. DR.. Tan
ner weighed at the end Of his fast 121 1-2
pounds, loss of SO pounds in forty DAYS.
Up to O'Clock p. m. on the Sth, @6 hours
after breaking his fast, he had gained eight
and one half pounds, his weight at that hour
being $50 pounds.
THE alleged old man Bender and
wife, in custody at Fremont, Neb., were on
the eth delivered over to the Sheriff of La
bette County, Hans, to be taken there for
identification and trial, should they prove 20
be the right parties, of which there was still
some doubt.
COTTON in Alabama has been injured
by recent rains, together with worms and
rust
DR.. PARSONS, the American mission
airy, who, with his servant, was murdered
near Ismid, was making tour in the noun
tains and encamped by the roadside in The
vicinity Of some Zuruks, a semi-nomadic
tribe. Two Zuruk shepherds confessed that
they shot the two travellers as they slept and
robbed them Of their money, amounting to
less than s.. As DIR. Parsons did not reach
his destination at the appointed time, and
as his horses were found wandering about
the hills, his friends instituted a search, and
the bodies were discovered under some
bushes. The murderers were soon after ar
rested.
JOHN BAILEY, who murdered his wife
in May, 1873, on the night Of the It'll was
taken from Athens, Ala, by mob of horse
men and hanged. Four previous attempts
had been made to mob him. He had been
twice sentenced to death, and each time
granted a new trial.
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The Horse in England.

The Egyptians mummied all sorts of
sacred brutes, including bulls. cats and
crocodiles. If Englishmen should ever
take to embalming beasts, L am sure
that, Notwithstanding the national
name and the place which roast-beef
holds in English song and story, they
would pass by the bull and swathe the
defunct horse in muslin and spices. For
if the horse be not a godin England, at
least the cult of the horse is a sort of re-
ligiOn. There are tens of thousand of
English gentlemen who have horse on
their minds during the greater part of
their waking hours. The condition of the
animals; their grooming; the cut of
their tails and names; the way in which
they stand, or step, or stride; the fash
ion of their harness; the build, the
look, the dress of coachman and groom
these are matters to them of deep
concern, of uneasy anxiety. And this
Is so not once a year, or once quarter,
or once a month, but every day; and
two or three times a day; every time,
indeed, that they ride or drive. Nor
do l mean only those who are called
"horsey' men, gentlemen drivers of
mail-coaches and the like, who are
grooms in everything except taking
wages, and some of whom, was told,
will carry their workmanship so far as
to. take a "tip." Apart from these,
there is very large class to whom the
perfection in the minutest point of
their equestrian turnout is ques-
ton of the the major morals. When
horse, his " trap" and his groom will
bear the criticism of his friends and
rivals, the ineffable air of solemn self
sufliciency with which he sits the saddle
or the box is at once amusing and pitt
able. These men criticize each others
equipages as women criticize each 9TH
er's dress, as pedants criticize each
others scholarship. Indeed, in En-
gland there is pedantry of the stable.
Richard Grant White, IN atlantic
MOnthLV.
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eral it will be found that they can be
displayed and kept best by inserting
their stems in moist sand. Experience
has determined that the most practical
way to provide for flowers at an ex-
hibitiOn is to make tables of rough
boards about three aud a half feet
wide, and as long as may be needed.
All around the edge OF the table nail a
band or strip of board about three and
a half inches wide, thus leaving a
space two and n half inches deep to be
filled with sand all over the table.
After the sand is evenly spread it can
be mOistened by sprinkling and is then
ready to receive the flowers, the stems
of which are inserted in it.
Tall flowers and bouquets are placed
in vases, or commonly in fruit jars, be-
cause they are most easily procured.
If green moss from the woods can be
procured, nothing will finish table
better than to lay moss all over the
sand; it presents very gratifying ap-
pearance.
Sometimes it is found necessary to
place a railing about the table to pre-
vent visitors handling the flowers, and
if this is covered up with branches or
twigs of evergreens, it will conform in
style to the mOSs-cOvered tables.
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PUNGRNT PARAGRAPHS.

Never kick thermometer when il
is down. - YoHkerS Gazette.
Many people who hunt for happi-
ness are continually finding fault
IFhitehgH Times.
"A woman cannot become a success
full lawyer She is too fond of giving
her opinion without pay oil city Der
rick
A bad little Philadelphia boy made
his mothers hair rise the other day.
He stole her switch for kite bobs.-
PHILADELPHIA Chronicle Herald
MIR. LIE Due doesn't seem to be
aware that the great demand in this
country is for black raspberry with
out seeds.-SyrQcuSe Herald.
The base-drum player makes more
noise than anybody else, but he doesn' t
lead the band. There is moral to
this SteubcnUiHe Herald
A housekeeper gives a written de-
scription of how to {" whip cream" for
certain dainty dishes; but the quickest
way is to let the cat lick it, if it must be
whipped.-N o. Picaylme.
The suburban person who talks
most eloqently of crops, focks and
herds, is he who has lived all his days
between the pent up walls of a city I'M
til week before last. Fresh knowledge
is what gives man the itch.-B0St0n
Transcript.
"A Philadelphia lady who never
spanked her boy hard enough to hurt
him recently hung in her sitting room
the Illuminated motto " Whatsoever thy
hand tindeth to do, do it with all thy
might" That boy reformed on the spot.
philadelphia NelCs.
-" What are you doing out there, my
daughter, in the night d9w?" said the
kindly old gentleman on the piazza.
:" Practicing fencing" was the sweet
reply, as she leaned over the pickets
till her face was dreadfully near Will
lam .-SyTacuse Times.
Two friends were dining at arestau-
rant overlooking the Seine, whose pro-
prietor would skin a customer as re-
morselessiy as he would skin an eel.
This is an admirable yiew," said one.
81 love to sit here and look at the
boats" Ssh! Speak low. The boss
will put the boats in the bill. Paris
Paper.
=" Thrashing by steam," murmured
fond mother, as she glanced at an ar
ticle in an agricultural paper. "What
git ups they have to have nowadays. If
I'd had one of those steam thrashers
for my four boys my arms wouldn't have
been so achy and rheumaticky as they
are to-day" and she dreamily thought
of the past as it might have been.-NeW
HaUe11 Register.
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he and the rest were all carefully stud
led from Ds Vinci's picture.
The spectacle is so strange to our re-
ligious world, with its own traditions of
Propriety, that it probably seems to
many of our readers little short of
blasphemy. Yet il has very solemn
effect upon the vast throng which be-
holds it. If some eccentricity of Judas
moved to laughter, the emotion was in
stantly and instinctively checked by the
audience; and if the curtain rose upon
a peculiarly striking tableau, the ten
dency to applause was instantly re-
strained. AT the end of the seven hours
of untlagging attention to the absorb
ing play, during which many had 81
lentlv shed tears, there was deep ear
nestneSs upon the faces of the great null
titude, which moved quietly away with
out levity. The little town, which has
but fifteen hundred inhabitants, is over
flowed with the deluge of strangers,
and there is naturally a difference of
opinion as to the moral effect of the
play. But if to those beyond the pale of
the Roman Catholic Church it seems,
as to an English clergyman who has de-
nOuncedit in an open letter, as devilish
it must be remembered that the Church
of Rome has always appealed to the re-
ligiOus sentiment by every form of art,
and that the Oberammergau Passion
Play is but step further than the ex-
tinguished candles of the "Tenebre,"
and the "Miserere,n in the Sistine
Chapel. Whatever criticism may be
passed upon that renowned and impos-
ing service, no one will deny its pro-
found and touching solemnity. EditOr's
Easy Char, ig Harper's Magazine.
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Why Strawberries Are Red.

ALL ripening fruits and opening flow
ers have natural tendency to grow
bright red or purple or blue, though in
many of them the tendency IS repressed
by the dangers attending brilliant dis
plays of color. This natural habit de-
ponds upon the oxidation of their It's
sues, and is exactly analogous to the as
sumption of autumn tintS by leaves. If
plant, or part of plant, is injured by
such a change of color, through being
rendered more conspicuous to its foes,
it soon loses the tendency under the in
fuence of natural selection; in other
words, those individuals which most
display it get killed out, while those
which least display it survive and thrive.
On the other hand, if conspicuousnesS
is an advantage to the plant, the exact
opposite happens, and the tendency be-
comes developed into a confirmed hab-
it. This is the case with the Strawber-
~, as with many other fruits. The
more bright colored the berry is the
better its chance of getting its fruitlets
dispersed. Birds have quick eyes for
color, especially for red and white; and
therefore almost all edible berries have
assumed one or the other of these two
hues. So long as the fruitlets remain
unripe, and would therefore be injured
by being eaten, the pulp remains sour,
green and hard; but as soon as they
have become fit for dispersion it grows
soft, fills with sugary juice and acquires
its ruddy outer flesh. Then the birds
see and recognize it as edible, and gov
ern themselves accordingly.--St. James
Gazette,
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THE House of Commons, by vote of
1874 to 20, has rejected a resolution, moved by
Arthur Arnold, Liberal member for Stafford,
that compulsory slaughter at ports of land
ing Of fat stock from the United States re-
stricts the supply and increases the cost of
food, and recommending the modification or
removal of the restrictions. The Govern
ment opposed the motion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

THE debt statement of Aug. 2 shows
the decrease Of the public debt during July to
be S5,576,053; cash in the Treasury, S19S, =
So, 405; gold certificates, s., 1884, 900; silver
certificates, 1853, 29O; certificates Of depos-
it outstanding, So, j95, 900; legal tenders,
S346,6S1 oil; fractional currency, 81, 2O5, 10;
refunding certificates, S1,167, $50; debt less
cash in Treasury, s., 1886, 596, 241.
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GEN. GARFIELD and party arrived at
New York City on the 4th, to attend con-
ference Of the leading Republican managers
in reference to the campaign. At various
cities and towns along the line Of the road
from Ohio to the East, the Republican NOM
inee for President was met by congregations
Of citizens, whom he addressed briefly as
time would permit
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

GEN. SHERMAN says of the Dalrymple
project TO invade Mexico from Texas: "The
invasion will not amount to any thing in my
opinion. Neutral laws between the United
States and the Mexican Government will, Of
course, have to be maintained by the United
States Army, if necessary; hence should
Dalrymple attempt invasion he would in all
probability be whipped by both United States
and Mexican forces"
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A LIMA letter gives particulars of the
most horrible atrocities committed by THE
Gillian troops on the taking Of africa and
Taena. Both cities, it is alleged, were given
up TO sack and pillage; non-combatants and
wounded soldiers were mercilessly slaugh
tered, and women and girls were subjected
to the most infamous treatment.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

THE Michigan Republican State Con-
gention, held at Jackson on the 9Th, nomi-
mated the following ticket: For Governor,
David II. Jerome, of Saginaw; Lieutenant
Governor, Moreau S. Crosby; Secretary Of
State, William Jenney (renOminated) Treas
urer, Benjamin ID. Pritchard; Auditor, Gen.
eral W. j. Latimer; Commissioner Of the
Land Office, James NJ. Neasmith.
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Suddenly and without a moment s
warming" says an exchange, "the
plank broke and the unfortunate car
penter fell to the ground below" Well,
now, what would you expect of a plankF
Would you expect it to give warning:
g Look out, everybody! can't stand the
pressure much longer, and if this blamed
carpenter don't get often me he'll get
his head bustedr' Would you expect
a common two-inch plank to do that?
The thing is absurd.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

When Mrs. Elizabeth Bowman of
Corydon, Ind, departed this life few
weeks ago, she was the Oldest inhabi-
tant of the State. She was native of
Pennsylvania, and reached the astonish-
ing age of 105 years. She was the
mother Of II children, the grandmother
of 40, the great-graDdmother Of 155, and
the great-great-grandmother OF 80.
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1t was lean little spring chicken,
worth about thirty cents, that strayed
from the Hammersmiths' yard at Madi-
son, Ind, into the Smiths yard. Mrs.
Hammersmith went to get the fowl, and
Smith would not let her have it. Ham
mersmith attempted to whip Smith, who
retreated into the house. Hammer
smith and his wife then threw stones at
the house, and Smith fired out with a
gun, killing the husband
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

PARTICULARS have been received re-
garding the sinking of the Gillian transport
Loa in Callao Bay by means Of a Peruvian
torpedo launch. The torpedo was loaded
with 800 pounds Of dynamite. The explo-
sion lifted the Loa almost out Of water, and
in few moments she suddenly went down
with all on board. At least $50 men persisted.
About 40 were rescued by boats from neutral
vessels lying in the Bay, but many of these
survivors were badly injured.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

DR.. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, of New
York, declares his belief that DR.. Tanners
forty days fast was faithfully performed;
that although there have been other alleged
lasts Of as long, or even longer duration,
none of them is as well authenticated as this
that although the scientific results Of the fast,
owing to the imperfect methods employed,
are not what they should have been, yet
nevertheless, enough has been shown to cause
us to modify our views in regard to the eff
fects of hamilton on the human body. len
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-08-12

THE Democrats of the Third Missouri
District have renominated Hon. r. Graham
Frost for Congress.