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To Prevent Pinkeye.

During the past few years owners OF
horses have been large losers of horses
labor and horses lives by a disease
commonly but enormously called pink
eye. Local horse doctors have ignorant
~ treated it as such, and the owners
have continued to use horses afflicted
with symptoms, thereby losing many
valuable animals that if properly used
and treated would now be as valuable
as eyer. My opinion is that by careful
investigation, every horse that has been
afflicted and succumbed to it, if the
truth were known, will be found to have
had a disease nearly allied to it, if not
identical with, pneumonia. Many horses
have been taken suddenly, while driv-
ing fast, on a sharp, frosty day, while
others have got a cold, seemingly slight
at first, and only showing the usual
symptoms of a simple cold, and their
owners have kept them at work, and in
a short time the horse developed what
was called pinkeye. BY carefully follow
ing the disease through its entire course,
l think that any intelligent person will
find it..almost identical with pleuro-
pneumonia-all its general weakness,
lassitude, swelling of limbs, want of
appetite, and finally water thrown out
by the overcharged and imperfectly
working vessels Of the system-more
especially the lungs. Why horses
should be troubled in this way, as never
very generally before, is q mystery for
the wise ones to attempt to solve.
The atmosphere may predispose the
horse to it, as it has seemed to cause a
large increase of late years of pneumonia
in genus homo.
The thing for horseowners to do is to
prevent and arrest the disease if possible
in its early stages. First believe
that fast driving On a very cold day is
extremely dangerous to a horse, as
several horses in the very act of going
at a high rate of speed on u principal
street during the past winter have
actually given out there and then, and
enough to distress them in the least in
where l had a good one wintering was
taken, and they just saved him. On in
curing of the owner if he had been
knowledge;;'' but on further inquiry I
ing his speed in the farmers milk team.
i UcliCNC tuttG Ill dii1lOSI CVOIy luSudlICc
similar circumstances will be found to
be the prime cause. and the horse has
been kept to his work instead of being
kept N a stable away from draughts OF
air, dosed with good tonic and fed on
light food, till he shows strong symp-
toms OF returning appetite. Fora tonic
Ishall lame something that will ur-
prise most, if not all, of your readers.
1t is a strong tincture Of quinine. made
from alcohol, water, and quinine
powders.
Give the horse heavy doses three or
four times during the day and evening,
and keep in a warm place with light
food, as l said before.
! The action of the quinine is similar to
that in the human being--a preventive
of fever, a gentle tonic and stimulant,
thus assisting nature to throw Oft the
cold in a natural way.
By taken these precautions I believe
many valuable horses would be saved,
and the so-called '.pinkeye" would be
rarely known.-Cor. Watlace's Monthly.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09
Diyulging a Trotting Secret.

We presume our readers have all
heard of that private trial in the year
1870, when Mace drove Lady Thorne a
ghostly mile in the gray of the morning,
and only two others, John L. Doty and
William B. Saunders, timed the mare.
In regard to this trial her driver said:
81 never saw Lady Thorne trot a full
mile at her best but once. and there are
two other men living besides myself
who can tell how fast that was. but 1
shall never tell, and it is probable that
they will not. 1t was so fast that it
would not be credited by the public.
and so we agreed that we would never
mention the time. But l will say this
much: It was a faster gaitfor the whole
mile than l ever saw kept up by n
other horse for a single quarter" For
maintain his determination to never
tell" but in an unguarded moment, a
short time ago, out popped the secret.
On the occasion to which we refer Dan
had become much interested in CONVEX
sation with a gent eman about that
year, 1870, when Lady Thorne was to
meet Goldsmith Maid at Buffalo. She
had beaten the Maid whenever they
had commended on Eastern tracks, but the
party Of the little bay mare were quite
confident of a victory at Buffalo. Dan,
after the trial referred to, felt abundant
confidence himself, and he related, on
this present occasion, how he met Mr..
Smith, the owner of the Maid, and told
him he would beat her.
But" said Mr.. Smith, eve can trot
three heats better than 2:2O."
$50 can L. said Dan.
"We can trot three heats better than
2:18."
$50 can l." said Dan.
1--WE car trot three heats in 2:16."
$50 can l." said Dan.
The gentleman to whom Mace related
the foregoing conversation casually
asked: ''Why Dan, how fast did you
ever drive Thorne??"
Dan impulsively replied: II drove
her a mile just as, fast as a mile was
ever trotted in public, and the last half
in LOS"
The secret of a decade was now more
fully out Lady Thorne trotted a trial
in 1870 in 2:1OI, last half in LOS, timed
by two of the most experienced men on
the turf, both still in the flesh, and
driven by a man who now lacks only
two years Of his threescore.-N. Y.
Spirit of tile Times.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09
A Remarkable Curiosity.

A recent steamer from the Orient
brought to San Francisco a remarkable
curiosity, IN the shape of a live sala-
mander, which is confined in i large
wooden trough, and daily supplied with
fresh water and live fish at the Palace
Hotel. The ~salamander comes from
Japan, and was captured in a fresh
water lake in the mountains. The
specimen f. three and a haH feet in
length, has four feet and an extensive
tail, the head being iroad and flat, and
shaped like a heart, and the eyes so
small as to be hardly discernible. The
mouth is not unlike that Of the croco-
die, and the novel guest at the hotel is
known to be at least seven years old. l,
is dark brown in color, the epiGermis
being covered with sX~crescences. which
are watery glands, secreting an acrid,
viscid fluid.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09
Some WOmen's Way.

At the busiest hour IN the afternoon
yesterday a woman who would have bal
anced one hundred end seventy-fye.
pounds of horse feed on the scales
elbowed three men away from the
stamp-window at the post-office and, in
CURED:
els there a mail going north, to-
night?'
sYes'm."
els it sure to goP"
"Oh, yes"
"Have 1 time to write a letter?'1
eyes, five hours time.
81 was thinking Of writing to my hus.
band, who is in Saginaw. l suppose /
could write a postal card?"
81 suppose So"
"Do they go jus: as safelyT"
Certainly"
By this time there were seven men
waiting and scowling around, but the
woman chung to the shelf and con-
tinued:
Il suppose YOU keep postal cards
here?"
"Yes'm."
1.-Two for a cent?"
"No; only one"
81 didn't know but that they were
down this fall. Il presume you can
change a five-dolar bill?'
Eyes" -.
'.Seems too bad to break it for a
cent; but 1 suppose 1 must. You may
hand me a card"
A card was handed out, and she be-
gan to feel for her purse. The crowd
surged up and tried to hustle her, but
she couldn't be hustled. She looked in
fourteen different places for that bill,
but it was not to be found
EDO you suppose l could have lost
it?" she suddenly asked.
"Yes'm."
"Where?:"
"On the next corner"
"Then I'll go and get ii. Dear me!
but l wish I had written a letter!"
She let go and was pushed aside, and
it was about ten minutes before she re-
appeared and called out:
1.-The bill wasn't on the corner, and
1 believe | handed it to you when l first
came i'm
"Oh, no."
"Well, if I did, and you are mean
enough to keep it, you'll never prosper.
I'll go home and get a cent and come
back and buy q card; but l do think
that under the circumstances you might
let me write on both sides of tide
trOEt Tree Press.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09
1t is sometimes hard to kn

1T is sometimes hard to know lust
what to put at the windows in a base
ment dining-room; shades make the
room too dark, and much drapery has
the same bad effect. sFor this purpose
one satisfactory way is to get two
breadths OF dotted white muslin for each
window, make 3ox-pleats at the top.
have the musliSl about three-quarters of
a yard deep, and let it hang loosely at
the bottom. They look very pretty
from the street. and there is no objeo-
ton to them in the house.-N. Y. Post
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

-I'hat American parents are educat-
ing their children to be idlers is tho
complaint OF the Boston HervId. "Not
lGlg ago" it says, lit was shown thst
TIE drift of representative schools in
Boston and Quincy was in the direction
of occupations which are beyond the
rank Of the common laborer, beyond
the limits of common industries. None
of the boys, one of the girls, expected
to really wo k for 4 living. They were
to do what was nice and @enteel, but
not to soil their hands, not to wear
o~veralls or scrub floors; not. in short,
to do anything that did not'belong to q
superior race.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

AN aced citizen of Walpole, n. H., of feeble
wit, Warren Fairbanks, just gone to the poor
house, has bethought himself of S%45Owhich he
hid forty-tive years ago under a rock on his
farm. Tn money has been found and the old
man now has a baak account.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

II san LUIS Potosi, recently a key of pow
der standing in a store blew up, killed two
boys and wounded their mother. While she
was attending their funeral on the following
day, a stone fell on her head from the roof of
an old house, killing her i stantly.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

SAMUEL MILLER is lhe name Of a hermit
who has occupied a hut in the Blue Mount
aims, near Mechanicsburs, Cumberland Couu.
ty, Pa, for thirty years.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09
COMPTROLLER KNOBS REPORT.
WASHINGTON, November 2

WASHINGTON, November 70.
In the report of John Jay Knox, Comptroller
of the Currency, the amount of the circulat-
ing medium of the country on November l is
given as follows:
Treasury notes outstanding...... S346. 6s1 ,016
National bank notes outstanding. 49,, IS7, az
Gold in the Treasury, less certiti-
Gates held by the banks. :. 14S,4435,4i
Standard silver dollars in the
Subsidiary Silver coin and silver 80
bullion in the Treasury. ..... 30. t6}, 49,
Coin in the National banks. TO-, 362, 063
Coin in State and savings banks I,S92.5OO
Estimated amount of coin held by
the oo',oo-''9
,c5o,oI4
The estimated total currency of the country
on November ] thus appears to have been more
than s, 4Ss, 100000, which is Si33,O0O,OO in ex-
cess of the amount held On January ], 1879, and
$1>6,0N,0 600 in excess of the amount held two
years ago on November l, 1880. The gain in
gold coin since the resumption Of specie lay
ments alone has been S294,0O0 900. Tie in
crease in Nat:onalbank notes has been
nearly 39.000,G0a. No,change has be n ma lie
in the amount of legal-tender notes outstand-
amount outstanding at the date of tn. passage
of the act of May 81, 1878, which prohibited
any further reduction of the volume of these
notes.
The report contains three comprehensive
tables of TWO pages each, giving by geograph-
zeal divisions, and by States. Territories and
principal cities, the number of State banks,
Savings banks, Trust and Loan Companies,
and private bankers of the country for the
present and two previous years, together with
the amount of their capital and deposits, and
the amount invested by them in United States
bonds. Tit first official information of this
character ever published in regard to the pri-
waite bankers of the country was contained in
a tsble in the Comptro!ler's report for 1880.
The following table gives the number, capital
and deposits of the private bankers in six
teen of the principal cities.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

from two acres of vines, William
Iuthili, of Huntington, L. L., picked
100. coo cNcumbers t1is season.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

Wet or damp matches, wiped a lit
tie dry and run through the hair; c, VIM
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

%nsighbor. and wneu IL w.s PU..... =. 49,
fuse to do him Justice. Another thing; the
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

living In his wagon Del, wners us nau Uoo.
p,seed By the bystAnders. "A deep cut over
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

I0V uau wv ~.~ 49, ~~'-
enough to aes another horse race, but they,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

II Won wsnt to sell your lands place toeu
in the hands Of +. Winsor 4 Son. slstf
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-four.
New r,isins. and . large line OF preserves
u....,..s -...s nickias. SAUCES. &C.. at
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

Clagett's. o-"
II you want to sell your town lots or
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

door. We called there yesterday. and were IS
...,.s.A o. a.a ~her ~n~Gortshle srd "s.t
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IDrs,,,pr cases in great variety. chss. w.
LOOMS.
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day.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-09

In the report of John Jay Knox, Comptroller
of the Currency, the amount Of the circulat-
ing medium of the country ON November 1 is
given as follows:
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The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-18

% oi. he Immediately viii tliuaoef'sllo
falfien surrendered iis olaint 10 sont Tic
man who over afterwards remained,
NJ he was always before, his -sin.
coro friend. Subsequently placed 10 iho
seuptc by his adfniring constituents. he 20
wcfl discharged their wishes that they com
PEELED him to accept the position Of Their
representative in the house, So just 50
honorable, 90 equitable Ia his views ana
actions, the Galveston convention In 1870
determined him for an associatoJudgeship
in the court of appeals. Here his conduct,
his decisions speak for him in trumpet tones
of praise, clearer, louder and more elo'
ducntly by far than we can do. Ills
brothers of the bench and bar viii, In due
time and proper mode, do justice to his
memory in common chorus with the Ma
SONS of the state, Of which he was grand
high priest and past grand commander
He leaves wife and children, their hearts
enshrouded and their brightest hours over
Swallowed at the faded laurels that the
warrior wore, and the representative, the
Judge and the gentleman, lays down
That Judge has gone with his Record to the
Supreme Arbier of Heavens High Court
OF Appeals and may there submit his case
without fear as to the verdict. Upon his bier
we ask only the privilege of placing this
single tributary token, knowing not how
we can now give a richer gem than sincere
sorrows diadem. For his family we have
the deepest sympathy, fori ourselves sweet
memories of him.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-18
nrAru OF JUDGE wINKLER

by our Austin dispatch received last night
il will be seen that the name Of Judge
c. NJ. winkler is added u the death roll.
This will be sad news indeed TO all who
knew the illustrious character, the manly
man that has left us for the Neyermore.
lie died early yesterday morning from a
complaint that he had experienced for only a
few days We saw him less than a
fortnight ago at the capital, the very inn
personation Of robust health and cheerful
fulDess and yigor, and little suspected then
that he would 20 soon De on the lone couch
Of his everlasting sleep. JuDeE WINELER
was in every sense a splendid man and
most valuable citizen. When the late civil
war opened, II found him in a
-ool line Of legal practice, but,
like Other patriotic Te1ian, he
responded with alscrity TO the call Of bis
state. donned the grey and shouldered a
musket and remained in the service Of his
section until. gIrdod with gloom End gar
mented with grief the Confederscy went
down with he banner. though wreathed in
eiOry eli torn and trailing In the dust But
brave as the bravest that bore u. and true
as the truest that svOre 10 uphold Il.
he quickly went from the private rank 10
the higher commissions. regimenfal and
BRIGADE. He vns with GEsEEsL Ho0D in
Virginia. with LEE in the Wilderness. eto..
ard trios on the 6eld Of battle with his
lie bod proved the correctness o. TIE
choice that eisrltsd hin % leadership.
When the war closed and hushed vas
even bslohing gun With al their crimson
rin-iss. be retired 10 his county again
b enr.rs IN bt profession e CorslnaHs,
and there butt up q fns prnctios-
Rec1aririns his prs-eminent ttnes
~ G.s rssronEibis post. he uns slecied In
fse III 49, tbonrht. - The district judge
ain and under the irupr-ssi0n hsld tuo
,r-rns q c1u-t. n rs rrooileot riehtlgs but
\ t,sinr Subsequently nsceriainsd thnt hls
ur-.r-r-.i. 1rper RoEra1 g GorLn. TIE
r-r~sut-rhisf 1ustics. rs really nn1 tr-,T
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TEXAS.
Its Condition and Resources-What Colonel
c. j. Murphy, an Old Cincinnatians has TO
Saw of the State


Its Condition and Resources-what Colonel
Say of the State.
Colonel Charles J. Murphy, who left this
city in 1861, to take up arms for his country,
and who, at the close of the war was sta-
toned with his command on the RIO
Grande, in Texas, has since made 10 home
in that state. The colonel arrived in this
city on Saturday on his way to Washington,
and left for that city yesterday afternoon, to
attend 10 the prosecution Of some private
claims against the government, carrying
with him letters o. introduction to. Con-
gresham Young and others.
The colonel is an unfiinching republican,
and from his long acquaintance with the
people Of the south, and his residence
among them. is able TO speak intelligent y
of the resources and condition Of the great
state Of Texas, where be has mede his nome
for the past seventeen years.
The colonel was found at the Emery, and
was intervlewed substantially as follows
"ColOnel, would be glad 10 hear some
thing about your life ia Texas, and what
YOU know OF the prospects, politically and
financially, Of the people Of that state"
Colonel-Well, TO besln with, / live at
Brownsville on the Rio Grande, twenty-five
miles from its mouth. have been there
ever since the close ofthe war. and am en-
gagged IN the practice Of law, having been
admitted 10 practice in the state and
county courts. Brownsville has q popu-
lafion Of 600, and the Mexicans who
live there are loyal aud thrifty. Land that
was only worth twenty-five cents an acre
has gone up 10 81. The land IL fertile and
the climate perennial spring. Or. pes, pump
kins and corn are the CHIEF produces. Iti,
expected that there will be large increase
in the population Of the state amer
the summer has ended.
The colonel gave en- account Of the sev.
erAl railroads nov building or in operation
in the state. among which are the follow.
ing- The Missouri Pacific. Teras Pacific
Southern Pacific. Mexican National, Inter.
naiionaI -A~--&a<k 1exHs 4 MexicAnl
- and the Mstsn ras 4 non'erel
riiroads-e.rbt roads .6 ne -.
trande, where three yes1 Ae2 nee -, ~ Z.
fot one. In fifteen year ~ - ~ -. n
z r1atwnrk Of railroads. tt1eIs - hoN
trae thousand miles 81 IA roaa N opefA
- r ~ has bse1f rstber SLOW n
li-i-,, ~ A. aupropristi0n ~ oeere1 -
- >. - II Galveston. buf With ~ erpen1l
- ~ sl-0 900 this vii - one %, he mes
,----- ii enfrv IN The United $50 lif
-, 49, 4 popuiafi0n 81 DlYu. aro /
49,, y iru1lr5rflIr. The People sc intel
/ l,--'---s tlI-fftr ard lar-atilrE.
re ~-r-Its n TIE rar were long FL, b..
frors lse 70 1873 scbools toarl-1e1, ane
fh--r uns en- era 81 prosperiiJ- vur -.
perify vas grsnisr IN thai tine tn.n = n
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-18
A Bombghell,

The following dispatch in yesterday
mornings HERALD fell like clap of thun-
der from clear sky on the republicans of
this city. "The president to-daynominated
James l.. Mckee, OF Texas, to be marshal
OF the northern district of Texas; IL. J..
Goslin, of Texas, marshal OF the western
district of Texas; j. G. Bigger, OF Texas,
attorney.for the northern district OF Texas"
1t was startling news to the majority of the
CLAN who considered Norton and his COM
rades in office as invincibie, and through
out the day it was the main topic If
conversation. There was great rejoicing
on the part of the Davisites, who smote
themselves upon their hips and laughed
hjlariously; yea, verify they stood upon
in the air, so exceeding great was their joy
over the downfall. of what they term the
lone man power" The nominations are
yet to be confirmed by the senate.
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Stolen Watch Recovered.

A few mornings since the mention was
made in this paper of burglary committed
at the residence of DR.. Benton, No. 1VUe
Elm street, when the watches of two
Loariers were carried off. Yesterday even
ing City Marshal Arnold, by some means,
known only TO himself found out that
Messrs. John Devanny and George Kelley,
If Fort Worth, who were in g
city, had one of the tim :
pieces in their possession, and he arrested
them. but on their stating that they had
purchased it from young man Of this city
named William Beres, they were released.
The officer succeeded in arresting old man
Beres, who appears 10 have been an accom-
plice of his son, but the latter maze his
escape. The officer has the watch in his
possession.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-05-18

ISsrEAD Of the retirement Of the HoS.
ALExANnLR II. STEPHENS from public life it
seems. from our telegraphic report, that we
may anticipate seeing him at tie head Of
an Independent movement in Georgia as q
candidate for governor. Mn. srEPHESs'
desire 10 become the executive Of the great
commonwealth he has 80 long served with
distinction in other positions, is but
natural and eKcusable, but we doubt II be
Is taking the right course 10 accomplish D I.
snd-doubt, indeed. II even his great name
viii prevail against the tremendous ma
iority which the regular democratic organi-
zation Of Georgia is in the habit Of roll
NJ up.
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Consumption Cured.

An old ply sician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and per-
manent cure for consumption, bronchitis,
catarrh, asthma, and all throat and lung
affections, also positive and radical cure
for nervous debility and all nervous conf
plants, after having tested its wonderful
felt it his duty to make it known to his suf-
fering fellows. Actuated by this motive
and a desire to relieve human suffering, X
will send free OF charge TO all who desire i,
this recipe, in German, Preach or English,
with full directions for preparing and using.
Sent by mail by addressing with stamp,
naming this paper, w. A. Noyes, l49 Pow
er's Block Rochester, New York.