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CHAPTER III.

sMalden, Mass. Feb. !, 1880. Gentle
men
! suffered with attacks efsick headache
Neuralgia, female trouble, for
years in the most terrible and excrn-
ciatiDg manner.
No medicine or doctor could give
me- relief or cure until used Hop
Bitters.
1.-The drst bottle
Nearly cured me,
The second msde me as well ana
strong as wheD a child,
And l have been so TO this day"
NV husband was an invalid for
twenty years with serious
"Kidrey, liver and urinary com
plant.
pronounced by Boston's best
physicians
'Incurable ~
Seven bottles Of your bitters cured
him and / know OF the
Lives OF eight persons
In my neighborhood that have
been saved by your bitters.
And many more are using them
with great benefit.
They almost
Do miracles? 2" Mrs. Il. d. Stack.
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who Would Stay

If we could 60 some day
Before Age claims us TOR his prey,
Drope out of all this strife
That wa call life,
And without coward fears,
Or fainting flesh, or wasting tears,
Find saddcnly, the land
OF all our dreams, and stand
There, face to face with treasure lost,
The friends whose dread departure cost
Our souls such sore distress,
Such agonies of wretchedness-
If we could go like this,
With consciousness of bliss
Set full before US, who would stay
To linger on the way
Through weary year by year
Till time was ripe and sere,
With length of days and loss
But set upon the cross
OF ystery an0 pain
We wsit and wait agaio,
Perhaps through threescore years
OF doubiiog hopes and fears,
Aud at the end we say;
"Ah, what little day
OF Joy is life, and long, OH long,
The day OF lain Then from the thrope
We drop away, while others sigh;
Bending above our clay and cry
AS we have cried "Why should VI
wait like this
In darkness and doubt; why miss
SO much Of life in wasting pain ?n
--Norah Perry in the Manhattan
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Never too Late to s.carm.

Socrates, at an extreme old age,
learned to play on musical instru-
ments.
Cato, at eighty years OF age. learn
ed the Greek language.
pIutafch, when between seventy
and eighty, began the study of Latin.
Boccacio was thirty five years Of
age when he commenced studies
in light literature yA he became
one Of the greatest masters Of the
Tuscan dialect. Dante and Plu-
tarch being the other two.
Sir Henry Spellman neglected the
sciences ia his youth, but common
ced the study Of them when he was
between atty and sixty years OF age.
After this time lac became most
learned antiquarian and lawyer.
DIR. Johnson applied himself to the
Dutch language but few years be-
fore his death.
Ludovico Monaldesco, at the
great age of one hundred and fifteen,
wrote the memoirs of his own times.
Ogiby, the translator of Homer
and Virgil, was unacquainted with
Latin aud Greek till he was past
fifty.
Franklin did not fully commence
his philosophical pursuits till he had
reached his fiftieth year.
Dryden, in his sixty-eighth year,
commenced the translation OF the
Iliad. that most pleasing production.
We could 60 on and cite thou
sands Of examples Of men who COM
menced a new study, either for a
livelihood or amusement, at an adj
vanced age. But every one familiar
with the biography of distinguished
men, will recollect individual cases
enough to convince them that none
but the sick and indolent will ever
say II am to old to learn"
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THE establishment Of deep water
through the jetties at the mouth of
the Mississippi river is now bearing
fruit in the character of the ship
ping going to New Orleans. Before
the completion Of the improvements
for opening the mouth of the river
that city could be reached from the
sea only by vessels drawing IS or is
feet at the utmost, but now the larg-
est vessels can get in without the
slightest difliculty.--EG.
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CARES OF LIFE. - AS we come
TO them they are received, borne
with. and pass d over with no
more than thought, if we are in
the enjoyment of health, but if
suffering with Piles or skin disease
of any kind they magnify a hun
dred fold. T.. G Williams Jr e.
Bro, the Druggist, has Dir. Bosan-
kos Pile Remedy which is an alb
sOlute cure for any affections Of
this Kind aud is sold at so cents.
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l am a non-believer in patent
Medicine, but having experienced
marked relief from Nasal Catarrh
and hoarseness by the use of Ely's
Cream Balm, / can recommend j,
to those suffering from this loath-
some complaint and 10 those afllict.
ed with h0arseness or stoppage of
the throat SO annoying to singers
and clergymen. Louis E. Phillips,
1923 N. Y. Ave-, N. W., Washing
ton, ID. &. price 80 cents)
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EVERYBODY KNOWS IT. - When
you have the Itch, Salt Raeum
Calls, or Skin Eruptions Of any
kind, and the Piles, that you know
without being tod of IT.. T. G..
Williams Jr & Bro. the Druggist,
WILL sell you DIR. Bosanko's Pile
Remedy tor so cents, which affords
immediate relief, anu is Il sure cure
for either of the above Diseases,
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\ gentleman from Orwell, Pa,
called my attenti0n-to Ely's Cream
Balm as a remedy for Catarrh, Hay
Fever, etc. lie was so earnest in
asserting it TO be positive cure
(himself having been cured by it)
that | purchased "A stock. The
Balm has already effected cures. -
Z. i. Hyatt, IA d., Bordentown,
n. J.
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WANT OF FAITH.-IfE. G. Will
liams q Bro, the Druggists. do
not succeed 1t is not for the want
of faith, He has such faith ia DR.
Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup
as remedy for Cou., hs, Colds, Com
sumption, ana i.ung affections,
hat be will give a bottle free TO
each ard every one who is in need
Of ne iciue Of his Kind.
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Mr.. Blaine is finding literature
much more lucrative than Congress,
ional work. For his new book he
gets $4,000 cash down and a royalty
of fifteen cents a volume.
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Some inventor advertises for sale
'folding baby carriage" Ii babies
can be successfully folded q Ia jack
knife, the fact ought to be more gen
orally known.
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Bad taste, unpleasant breath and
impaired hearing, when resulting
from Catarrh, are overcome by the
use of Ely's Cream Balm 1t is not
a liquid or snuff, and is easily APP
piled.
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An exchange has an elaborate
article for amateur vocalists /;
"How to begin to sing How
to get them to quit is still an I'M
solved problem.
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Wisconsin reports hailstorm
which knocked the horns off
steer. A Western storm thinks
nothing of taking the bull by the
horns.
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We are sorry to learn that ex-Gov-
ernor w. T.. Stevenson is in poor
health. The State Journal says che
Is quite low and feeble"
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DATENTS. No Patent no pay
L. is our motto We have had IA years
experience in procuring Patents, Caveats,
Trade Marks, Copyrights, ETC., in this
and other countries. Our Hand Books
giving full instructions. ia Patents free
Address r S IS A. p. LACEY, Patent
Atty's, GOA F. ST., Washington, D.
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: AND CLAIMS

II AND CLAIMS a speciality,
IL and Warrants additional Homestead
Certificates and all kinds of LAID Scrip
bought and sold. Large Stock, and High
est Prices Paid. Do you want to sell or
buy? If go, write 10 A A. THOMAS,
Attorney lat Law. Washington. D. G.
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DH. FAt:RNEYS

The wonderful cures effected by this
now wgll-known remedy, not only in
our private practice at home, but through
ont the United States, has drawn The
attention OF the medical profession to its
use throughout the land. In Chronic
Rheumatism and Acute Gout, Jaundice,
Bilious Disorders and Liver Complaint,
Pimpies and Eruptions on the FACE, Fry
sipelas. Dropsical Troubles, Painful and
difficult Menstruatien, Nervous or Sick
Headache, Costiveness or Constipation,
Milk Leg. Scald Head, Skin Diseases, III
GERS and Boils, Kidney and Urinary
Weakness, Female Weakness, and letter
affections
A large proportion of the Chronic and
obstinate Diseases that afflIct mankind
have their origin in an impure state of
the blood and a depraved condition of
the liver, and poisons the very fountain
of life; and no better remedy can be used
than HEALTH RESTORER A Single
Bottle will produce snch change fftel.
ing as often to astonish the sufferer. Be
advised and give it trial. All druggists
and storekeepers sell it. 81 per bottle.
Prepared by
DR. D. FAHRNEY l. SON,
marl7-ly Hagerstown, Md,
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COrsets, COrsets.

II always buy my corsets at @. r.
HERRINGS. He has the largest lin.
and sells the cheapest. CorGer q zen
and Martins Streets"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Maltreating Poor Swedes.

CONCORD, N. H., July6.
The Swedish and Norwegian Minister has
called the attention of the Washington
authorities to the arrests of Swedish emf
grants by manufacturing corporations of
Suncook. 1t appears that these concerns
have been importing help from Scandi-
navia, and had claimed that the emigrants
W their passage money. This the oper-
atives denied. Several of them were then
arrested for debt. Through their country
men they sent a petition to the Swedish
Minister, asking that they may be released
and allowed damages for false ilhprison-
ment. They aver that they do not under
stand the language and the
laws of this country, and that they
have been arrested On charges wholly
unknown to them. The officer
who made the arrests says, however, that
Interpreters were furnished each of them,
and that they were told that they were ar
rested for debt just as they were thought to
be about to leave the State. OF the one
hundred and sixty-five Swedes whom Sun
cook corporations received, more than half
have gone away, leaving tradespeople cred
itOls to the amount of 81, 600.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Astoria, Ore, Sacked by Drunken Fish
ermen.
SAN Cal

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July 5.
An Astoria dispatch says: During tn
fire Tuesday night Greek and other foreig|
fishermen plundered ndiscriminately, shid
ping the stolen goods by boat-loads acrc]
the river. In the course of the night
number of thieves were arrested, but duI
ing the excitement their c~onfederates I'd
leased them. The police recaptured severd
yesterday. Their friends threatened thd
if they were not released by ten p. M. a1
other conflagration would follow. Then
number several hundred, inflamed with
strong liquor. A meeting of the Council
and prominent citizens vas held
and a strong special force or
ganized, a signal for assembly arranged,
and all the saloons ordered closed at ten
p. m. About n a. m. an alarm was
sounded. The committee assembled, and
three disreputable saloons were found
open, filed with liquor-infamed crowds.
The proprietors refused to close. The com.
mittee marched to the spot, and one saloon.
keeper closed after some remonstrance.
The second refused and the place was
forcibly closed, and the owner obeyed an
order to leave town. The proprietor of the
third emphasized his refusal with a drawn
weapon. He was arrested and jailed. The
mob was arrested and dispersed. A number
of roughs were driven from the town. Con.
siderable stolen property was restored in
obedience to a public proclamation threat.
ening personal consequences. The town is
now quiet, and steps are being taken to
rehniId.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Six Persons Mangled.

CINCINNATI, o., July5 s.
The T%hunderbolt Express on the New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railway, due
here at half-psst eight Tuesday night, half
an hour behind time and running fast to
make up, struck a huckster Wagon in
which were a family of six persons
and a driver. Every II except William
Bertsch, the driver, was killed. Bertsch
escaped with serious though not fatal in
juries. The wagon was broken to splinters.
Those killed We're members of the family
of a huckster, Henry Kracke, who were
going to their farm seven miles from Winton
place. The names of the killed are: Henry
Kracke, Mrs. Henry Kracke, and four chill
dren-John, aged nineteen; Annie, sixteen;
Maggie, thirteen, and Lizzie, seven.
The bodies of the victims were thrown in
fragments in the grass by the roadside,
where they were picked up by the light Of
lanterns, and brought to the city.
Mrs. Kracke's head was severed from her
body. The engine was so besmeared with
blood that it was sprinkled with flour to
cover the stains.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
The Crime of a Drunken Boy Husband.

NEW YORK, July 3.
Eighteen months ago Agnes Wynne, aged
eighteen, was married to James II. Wynne,
aged seventeen. For some time they had
lived unhappily, and Wynne says he
had intended separating. He had been
drinking heavily and had gone home
Sunday, when quarrel took
place. He threatened to shoot her. and sba
answered: II dare you to do it." At the
time she was lying on a bed with the baby
beside her. The boy-husband drew a re-
Volver and fired. The bullet entered his
wife's breast. He went for a physician, but
subsequently Mrs. Wynne was taken to the
hospital. The wound was pronounced fatal.
ana the young wife died the same night.
Myhne was arrested. Two playmates of
Mrs. Wynne witnessed the crime. A throe.
months old child was orphaned bv tha
drunken fathers shot. "N'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
The Crazy Freak Of a Cook.

HUDSON, MASS, JulyG
When her brother Patrick was found
guilty of drunkenness and fined in court
to-day, the wrath of Mary Driscoll, the fat
cook at the Mansion House, knew no
bounds. She hurled invectives and vitu.
peration at the Judge until, out of patience,
he ordered her arrest. Mary is fifty
years old, and would tip the scales
at 200 pounds. When the officers
started to arrest her she flew out Of
the room down the stairs and up to the
Mansion House at a rate of speed which
would have caused Paul Revere to turn
pale with envy. Rushing to her room she
disrobed with the exception of her short
clothes, and then suspended herself from
the third-story window, remaining in that
position until three men reached the win
dow and pulled her in by main force, with
out any aid from the mammoth female
gymnast. She was persuaded to accom-
pany the officer to the judicial laundry,
where she was fined a nominal sum Tor
contempt of court.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
A TERRIBLE
Sinking near Glasgow of the Newly
Launched Steamer Daphne-One Hum
dred and Fifty Lives Lost.

Sinking near Glasgow of the Newly
Launched Steamer Daphne-One Hun
dred and Fifty Lives Lost.
LONDON Julyb.
Intelligence has reached here of a terrible
calamity during the launching of the steam
ship Daphne, at Glasgow, Tuesday. Whlle
being launched, the vessel fell over on her
side, precipitating a great number OF peo-
pie into the water. According to the dis
patches thus far received, sixty persons
were drowned.
A number of men at the ships yard, on
the opposite side of the river, witnessed the
disaster, but were unable to render any as
sistance. They Immediately set to work
saving the people struggling in the water.
They say some of the men on the steamer
jumped overheard and others were thrown
overheard ana that a quantity OF loose fit
tings fell from the deck and crushed many
unfortunates struggling in the water.
A number of swimmers were visible di-
rectly after the ship capsized, but many OF
them were afterward seen to sink. Six men
were seen clinging together. -Four endeavered
to climb upon the steamer as she was sink
ing, but were forced to desist by rush Of
steam from the portfolio. Some climbed
upon the keel just before the ship was sub
merged.
Estimates of the number who lost their
lives vary widely. 1t is known that there
were at least fifty persons in the hold when
the vessel went down. They of course per-
ished. Doubtless about an equa. number of
floaters found watery graves. Forty-one
dead bodies have already been found, and
the divers are continuing the search. Fifty
two names of missing persons are
-,l1:.lal .ssk1.~, -o,,o
admitted to view the launch, it is
are unknown, are among the lost. Many
dead bodies are visible through the port
holes of the ship. There was a rapid
tide, and it is feared the dead have been
carried to sea. There was a large number of
boys on board. The foreman, Joiner, who
had charge of twenty workmen, says he has
seen only three of his men since the acct
dent. Many who were dashed into the
water swan ashore. Several of those picked
up were so exhausted that it was found
necessary to remove them to the hospital.
According to the stories of witnesses and
survivors, the vessel left the slips too rapid
ly, causing her stern, which entared first, to
sink deeply in the water. She was then
caught by the strong current of the river, by
which, as we'll as by her top weight, she was
caused to keel over so far that the water en-
tered her port. She had all her machinery
aboard when launched. She is now COM
pletely under water. She was constructed
for coast trading, and was of five hundred
tons burden.
THE ATTEST.
GLASGOW, Scotland, July5.
It is now estimated that one hundred and
fifty persons were drowned by the Daphne
disaster. Fifty-two bodies have been al
ready recovered. The diver reports that the
corpses in the hold of the vessel are so
closely packed that he is unable to move
them. Preparations have been made to raise
the wreck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
Barbarous Treatment Of a Boy.

MEMPHIS, TENN, July6.
An unparalleled case of inhuman treat
ment was developed before Squire ia.
Coleman. The monster in human form i
one Wright M. Albritton, employed as
machinist on the Memphis & Charleston
Railroad. The victim of his cruelty is ms
stepson, a youth of ten years, named Jose
Maynard. TWAS by witnesses before
the examining magistrate that about Christ.
mas time he numerically whipped the ooy
with a rawhide until he was a bleeding
mass, and then held him before the fire ana
literally toasted him. The boys bodyIs
covered with dark-red scars, showing ths
endish treatment he had been subjected
to. The wife of Albritton, and mother Oh
the boy, during the barbarous crime men.
TONED above was in the room, but hid h Ma
head in the pillow of the bed to shut out 1he
agonizing cries of her child. The case lsa
the hands of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children and Animals, anu
is being vigorously prosecuted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-21
LATER NEWS.

TIE heat in New York on the 7th was
most intense. There were 17G deaths, with
thirteen fatal cases of sunstroke. Each
street was patrolled by carts loaded with
blocks of ice and covered by %tarpaulins.
The deaths for the week numbered l,05l,
against 7lG the previous week.
Two BROTHERS, Aaron C. and Washing.
ton G.. Dctweilcr, prominent and wealthy
physicians of Reading, Pa, were drowned
in the %Schuylkill a few evenings ago while
bathing.
MARIA O ELsNER, the prima donna,
known to tl:c world as Mile. Litta, diod ON
the It'll at Bloomington, Ill, her birth place,
aged twenty-seyen years.
RECENT rains in Mexico damaged the
Central Railroad to the mount of 5000, 900.
TIE State Alms-house buildings OF
BridgewateT, Mass, were destroyed by fire
on the 7th. James Gilmore, a negro in.
mate, confessed that he fired tho building.
The loss was $150,0oO. The six hundred
inmate were removed in safety.
FIVE families of "assisted" Irish immi.
grants landed at Castle Garden, New York,
on the 7th.
MARSHAL HENsLEY set out with n posse
from Greensburg, KY, to arrest a despera.
donamed James Owen on the It'll. The latter
and his friend killed the Marshal, fatally
wounded his deputy, and put the rest of
the party to flight.
GEORGE AYERS, an aged and wealthy
farmer Of Salem, o., known to lave been
insane, killed his grandson on the 7th, fred
the house and barn, shot himself, and per.
ished in the flames.
IT,.
H cholera epidemic is spreading in the
infected Egyptian towns. On the Sth there
were ninety-eight deaths at Damietta,
forty-eight at Mansurah, six at Samanoud,
six at sherbin and one at Alexandria.
A CLERK in the employ of H. FEEDER &
Co., of Cincinnati, absconded with SC. 600
on the 18th.
AT the Sligo ~assizes, in Ireland, four men
were found guilty on the 7th of conspiracy
to murder. Two informers testified that
the prisoners acted under the orders of a
secret society.
). u. BALDWIN, proprietor Of the SPY, at
Worcester, Mass, died suddenly on the
9Th. He served three terms in Congress.
Mrs. ALBERT1E KuHLMAN, aged eighteen.
Miss Mary Donlon, aged seventeen.
were drowned near Baltimore, Nd, on the
sth, by the o%verturning Of a boat.
AS A result Of the prolonged conferences
at Washington, it was agreed on the 18th
by Secretaries Lincoln and Teller that
the captured Apaches should be cared for
by and kept under the control of the
War Department at some point on the San
Carlos reservation. The War Department.
is to be intrusted with police control of all
Indians on the reservation and the protec.
ton Of the agent.
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Militia Called Out.

BURLINGTON, VT, July
Governor Barstow has just called ~.
Tour companies to quell the insurrectioha ~
Ely. The information on which the ",
ernor's is based is to the enc. i
that nearly 800 strikers, nearly all arh %.
and possessing $50 kegs Of gunpoWael y n
longing to the mining company, unreal. al.
to destroy the town of Ely. They nave Ths
ready committed acts of violence. In
Sheriff and posse are unable to cope ~ W." me
them. Governor Barstow will go WIZ Pa v
companies, and Col. Greenleaf, ISL ne afso
ment, in command. The Governor s,sr
t~elegraphed the treasurer Of the n nh to
company that they must be prepared
pay the men at once