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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20
ADVICE TO CONsUSIPTIvEs.

On tho appearance Of the Hrst symptoms,
as general debility, loss of appetite, pallor,
chilly sensations, followed by night-sweats
and cough; prompt measures of relief should
be taken. Consumption is scrofulous dis
ease of the lungs; therefore use the great
anti-scrofulous or blood-purifer and strength
restorer. DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery." Superior to cod liver oil as nu-
tritive, and unsurpassed as a pectoral. For
weak lungs, splitting of blood. and kindred
affections, it has no equal. Sold by drug
eists. For Dr. Pierce's treatise on Consump-
ton send two stamps. WoRLD's DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL, ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N Y,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

MESsMAN's PErroN1zED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire Ht,,t-
fous properties. 10 contains blood-makinc,
force generating and life-sustaining properties,
invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly IL resulting
from pulmonary complaints. G swell, Hazard
Co., Proprictors. Nav York. Sold by druggistG
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20
Desperation.

"Give me your money, or ! shall be
forced to do a thing that l have never
yet been able to do in my life"
M. du Due took out his pocket book,
gave it to the robber, and said to him !;
Nov that you have stripped me-
may | ask what you would have
done?"
The bandit looked coolly at his
victim and replied
81 should have worked ."--FiyGfo
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

SAN FRANCISCO Consul \. T. Bee,
of the Chinese Consulate Office, ex-
presses himself clearly in saying that
he. as well as his family have suffered
severely from rheumatism and neu-
ralgia, and that medicines were used
in vain. At last st. Jacobs Oil was
tried, which effected immediate cures
in every case. The Consul regards the
Oil as the greatest pain curing remedy
in existence.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

It gives US great pleasure to state that the
merchant who was reported being at the point
Of death from an attack of pneumonia, has
entirely recovered BY the use of DR.. Wm
Halls Balsam for the Lungs. Naturally he
feels grateful for the benefits derived from
using this remedy, for the lungs and throat;
and in giving publicity to this statement we
are actuated by motives of public benefaction,
trusting that others may be benefited In a
similar manner.
1--WE always keep Pisco's Cure for Con-
sumption in the house.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20
Frazer Axle Grense.

One greasing lasts two weeks; all others
two or three days. Do not be imposed upon
by the humbug stuffs offered. Ask your
dealer for Frazer's, with label on. 1t saves
your horse labor, and you too. It received
first medal at the Centennial and Paris OK
positions. Sold everywhere.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20
WOMAN AND HER DISEASES

is the title of a large illustrated treatise, BY
DR.. r. v Pierce, Buffalo, n Y, sent to any
address for three stamps. 1t teaches success
full self-treatment.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

Mr.. J. E. Harvey, l40 Bridge St., Brooklyn,
says: have no more dread of infammatory
rheumatism since DR.. Elmore's Rheumatine-
Goutaline brought me out of the terrible
condition was in last year."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20
.sIGH MO- MORE, LADIES %,

for DR. Pierce's ''Favorite Prescription" is q
prompt and certain remedy for the painful
disorders peculiar to your sex. BY ali drug
Qists.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

A Boston singer who has warbled for four
teen years recommends raw oysters for
coughs.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

The Chinese are said to swear in English.
Most of our statesmen have the same COM
plant.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

Thou little tricksy Puck
With antic toys so funnily bestuckl
Light as the singing bird that wings the air,
(CarEo!ine, Carboiine restores the hair.)
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

The London Times finds that the
number of watches manufactured in
England is yearly becoming less and
less, and traces the cause of the de
cline to the use of new ideas and in
ventions by workmen both in America
and Switzerland. "ID America" il
says, everything is done on a large
5cale, while we still stick to the
methods of our forefathers. Here the
different parts of watch are made in
different shops, or different portions OF
the country, and trotted about from
one to the other. In America com.
plete watch is made in one building.
One American house alone made 2O1,.
600 watches last year, while our total
production was not more than u.s..
OOO."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

You would use ST. Patrick's Salve if you
knew the good it would do you.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

The best and oldest medicine for cure of lfv>
er disc ases Is DR. Sanford Liver Invigorator
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

Chrolithion collars and cuffs will not turn
yellow nor grow stiff like other waterproof
goods
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

AS all Rocky Mountaineers know,
Cinnamon and gamblers arrive stimuli
taneously at booming mining camps,
and soon constitute more than one-half
of the rapidly growing male popula,
ton. The Cinnamon wash, cook and
clean for the gamblers, whose reckless
generosity with cash soon enables the
Cinnamon to sail through the Golden
Gate homewards Naturally, such
population will produce strange social
results. In Butte, Montana, there are
three distinct sets, the "swellest" being
led by gray-eyed young lady named
Jeanette Emerson, who teaches school,
and whose father retails bad whisky in
shanty saloon. There are 1000 peo-
pie in Butte, of whom 1000 are China
men. Saloons occupy the best business
locations, and gambling goes on openly
in nearly all of them.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

Returns TO the United States bureau
of statistics continue to show marked
decrease in the number of immigrants
arriving in this country compared with
the statistics for the last and previous
years. Germany, though still sending
a third of the immigrants who come
to the shores of the United States
shows the notable decrease, Ireland
coming next. The percentage of fall
ling off is in the neighborhood of forty
per cent in each case. This shows
that the influences by which it is
sought to deter immigration are still
prevalent in Fatherland. However,
there is falling off in all nationalities,
though none are so marked as those
named.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

The returns as to coinage of foreign
countries contains some interesting
facts. In Great Britain no gold wa;
coined in 1882. The best estimate OF
the gold coin in circulation in the
United Kingdom is 100000 pounds
sterling, and of paper money 43. 72l,O0I
pounds sterling. The gold coinage Of
France in 1882 amounted to 3,742,00C
francs, and the silver coinage tc
7,l59,859 francs. Mr.. Burchard, di.
rector of the Philadelphia mint, puts
the total paper circulation of the thirty.
eight principal countries at $8, 1872, e20,.
9O3; the gold circulation at $685..
.4i3,000. and the silver coin al
$2,712,226,O0O.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

The New York Herald says that
most of the heavy gambling in New
York nowadays is done in the fashion
able club houses, among men who in.
dulge in it more for sport" than
money. They lose their money with.
out chagrin, and never play with P
professional gambler if they know
him to be such. These are the men
who lose 5000 to $4,000 a night with.
out considering it worth talking about,
but who, nevertheless. never visit
gambling "hells" because of their f"aI
of being "fleeced"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

The Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Centennial exposition, inaugurated by
resolution Of the National Cotton
Planters association. will open in New
Orleans on the first Monday of Dcccm
ber, 1884, and continue until May 81
1885. This exposition will not only
commemorate the centennial anniver.
sary of the first expectation of cotton
from the United States but will also
he an international industrial expo
sition. This exposition is to be held
under the joint auspices of the United
States government and the National
Cotton Planters association.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

How the world has progressed within
century! George Washington, the
first president of the United States,
never saw steamboat John Adams,
the second president of the United
States, never saw railroad. Andrew
Jackson, the seventh president, knew
nothing about the telegraph. Abra-
ham Lincoln. the sixteenth president,
never dreamed of such thing as the
telephone.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-12-20

President Arthur's cabinet is thus
described by a writer in the Troy
Times; Brewster is the most pune
tilious member, Frelinghuysen the
most aristocratic, Lincoln the quietest,
Gresham the ablest, Folger the most
judicial, Teller and Chandler are the
two who keep track of things generally
and the hardest workers"
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

The friends of Col. Henry Clay
Douglass and especially of this town
were pleased at his receiving the ap-
pointment of Commissioner of Insur-
ance, on Saturday, from Governor
Stockley. The fact that Col. Douglass
held the winning card is the more
creditable because his canvas was con-
Quoted in way so quiet that many
persons were hardly aware that he was
seeking the Office. The other appli-
cants were John R. McFee, Esq, of
Georgetown, the incumbent of the
Office since its creation four years ago,
and E. 7. Cooper, Esq, young lawyer
of Dover. Col. Douglass is amply
qualified to discharge the important
duties of the Office.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

Now that the Legislature has ad-
journed it is proper for us to say-and
justice to him as a public official and
private citizen demands that we should
say it,-that Senator Wilson T. Caven-
der's course in the Legislature has
been such as to command in the fullest
sense the commentator of those he
represented in the law making branch
of our State government. He was sent
there entirely untried, but he soon
showed himself not only industrious
and capable but progressive and honest
in legislating for the public veal
But the characteristic that especially
commended him to cur people was his
readiness of approach by all person:
and desire to fa1nilliarize himself with
the sentiment of the people so that hi
would the more readily be able to vot,
intelligently on matters affecting thei
interest.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25
The New York SUN Reporter ON
the Delaware Peach Crop.

AS people will talk and write about
those subjects which they have the
least knowledge of, so a New York Sun
reporter writes about the Delaware
peach CROP"
We wonder if the reporter knows
that there is as yet no peach crop, and
yet he writes as though it was reality.
He says: IAN excessive yield and
depreciation of the quality of the fruit
is not expected but an average yield in
quantity, 1900, 900 to 100000 bushels
which there is every reason to antici-
pate will be remarkable for its richness
of flavor and excellent size" Then he
refers ito the crop of 1874, when the
yield reached 5000, 900 bushels" Now
the crop of 1874, was not large one,
but 1875 was, and instead of 100000
bushels as the reporter has it
the word bushels should be baskets
But hear him again. He says "the
difference in quality will be more than
made up by the pungentty sdchGriRe
fGUor which promises to be of the best. "
PungentLy sachdrine may be the best
flavor for peach, in the Judgment of
the Sun reporter, but we think no
| pCaOh bAOWOi vi pOAhOiOSiSO Sdh NC
found in this locality who will agree
with him. He continues to write
"the greatest risk of damage to the
crop is between the first and twelfth
days of this month" It is quite evi.
dent the reporter don't know the trees
rarely ever bloom at that time and YET
he refers to the risk of damage to the
crop. He continues, "Since last De
cember the season has been steadily
cold which left the sap in the roots.
This is simply marvellous, Of cours,
there was no sap in the trees, In {
dormant state but all run down to tn,
roots and there it remained accordin,
TO the Sun reporter. Again he writes
! "a Winter like that also gives the tree
a complete rest as the growers call il
J which is a certain guarantee of larg
/, sized peaches during the folIowiii
? Summer" We have yet to learn tia
!, q steady cold Winter gives rest {
; peach trees and causes them to ben
e large sized peaches. This NAV be 81
however, but it is doubtful If any ez
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

On Saturday evening as Geo. G.
Rothwell, Levy Courtman of Black
bird Hundred, was approaching town
from his home, he put pipe that he
was smoking in his pocket after hav-
ing as he thought, extinguished the
fire. Shortly after, he heard some
boys, who saw the blaze issuing from
his back, calling fire, but he gave no
attention, thinking it boyish exuber-
ance, until turning his head he discov-
cred blaze running up his coat. Mr..
r. is strong and able to fight fire or
anything else, and it did not take him
long to squelch it, but not until the
papers in his pocket were destroyed
and the coats ruined. He swore off
from any further use of pocket pipe,
and presumably bought himself new
coat.
DECREASE OF THEFT.-The proceed
ings of this court would indicate an
improvement in law breaking, especial
ly in reference to petty theft in our
community. Constable Weldon tells
us that the first year of his appoint
ment five years ago. that he had
committed, by court time, eighteen
persons to our county Jail, five or six at
one haul from a den of thieves in
Petersville." This court, and it will
be recollected that the imprOvident
have just emerged from the Wintry
season of scarcity and want, there is
not single commitment for theft and
but one case at all, that of John Truitt
| (n) for skipping" from justice after
s,,aVr
ceived in a drunken fight; the other
party to it, Moses Rias receiving his
punishment at the last term.
AN OLD MOTHER GOOSE. Mrs. John
G. Blades, now living on the farm o.
Mrs. M. w. Culbreth, of this town
situated near Suddlersville, Queen
Anne's County, Maryland, has goose
which she says is q years old. 1t was
given to the present owner by hei
grandmother with the request that she
should keep it as long as it would live
The goose shows no signs nor present:
an appearance of having attained 81
many years, for it is full feathered, anC
feeds regularly. eats hearty, and look
much the same as any other goose il
the flock. The unusual age makes it
curiosity ana it may be seen any da!
on the farm. 1t is sentimentalisn
with most young women that they ar
growing old at that age but tina
amount of thought will now have t
be changed unless they all desire to b
considered geese. A dinner off of tina
cooked goose would just about wozzl
hungry man and cause wailing an
gnashing of teeth.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

perienced peach grower has yet dis
covered the fact and it would be a
qualification for them to know it is not
alone the conception of the reporters
brains. "The backward Spring" he
says, "has retarded growth until now
danger from frost is reasonably thought
to be over and nature will proceed
with her best methods to make the
peach crop for 1888 delicious" What
a backward Spring has to do with the
growth of peach trees is beyond our
line of vision. 1t may be, however,
the Sun reporter has made discovery
that will prove of incalculable value to
all peach growers; and as mature will
proceed with her best methods" it
would be intensely interesting just to
know what those best methods are
that is expected to make the 1883 crop
SO delicious.
This paragraph however take the
cake: Every Spring the growers
select specimen branches from various
! ly situated trees and these are placed
in hot houses and their ends dipped in
water that is kept tepid. Then the
buds are forced until an expert can
tell with the aid Of microscope pre-
cisely what the nature of the coming
crop will be. From these and other
Indications l am convinced that the
yield will be of average bulk and of
the finest flavor" Here then is n
whole lot of informatiOn,-a new rev.
elation to peach growers that is of the
utmost value and Judging from the
surface indications the Sun reporter
has made some highly important dis
coveries that peach growers never
dreamed of. 1t might be convincing
for them to test the aid of the micro
scope in order to know the mature ,
of the coming crop, the average bulk
and "pungent sacharine flavor" that
we may expect to find in the coming
peaches. We rather suspect, however
the Sun reporters eyes have been
| cruellV busted
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

THE riot in Dover on Saturday night
would have done credit to the "cow
boys" of Texas, and quite eclipses any
thing of riotous character in any
of our old and staid communities that
we have known. The mind at once
seeks for some cause or reason for
suck an exhibition of such reckless
depravity, and the parents and friends
may themselves be asking why are
they thus afflicted, without thinking
once of the bar-room and pool table
that has been training these youths
month after month in the abandon of
profanity, vice and murder. Not one
Of these fathers and friends petitioned
the Legislature to separate these two
when they knew that the diversion of
the one was the school master to teach
the other. The men who control the
politics and make the laws will warm
the adder in the breasts of their chill
dren, though they themselves are made
to feel the sting of its fangs.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

THE speech of Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago, that struck such consterna-
ton among the Free Traders at the
Iroquois banquet has resounded
throughout the land. The last to
speak has been the Delawarean, which
says that tariff for revenue only is
right and the one we would like to see
carried into effect" but it says a large
body of the Democratic party are in
open hostility to the measure and it
can't see the use of bringing upon the
party inevitable defeat by urging the
measure" Harper'S Weekly thinks the
spanning of the bridge between these
two factions is a job that cannot be
done by 1884.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

THE DeldWarean dies game on the
question of apprOpriating money for
the support of negro schools. 1t re-
iterated in the face of defeat that it
was unalterably opposed to putting
the colored citizen on such basis and
would not "chaw it's words" and now
that the Progressive Democrats {"
have not needed the words of our
Senator but doubled the appropriation
and placed the cOlored schools under
the care of the State Superintendent,
he declares the bars down and the
negro question no longer an issue in
future political contest. He says that
the idea that pervaded the men who
turned their backs on the teachings OF
the party was simply to truckle to
favor and a bid for the negro vote
But he intimates now that the thing is
done, that he can stand it if they can
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25
Death of DIR. william Cummins.

Our town has sustained during the
week past an unexpected loss in the
death of DR.. VIM. CumminS who was
in apparently better health on Thurs
day morning than usual, and a corpse
on Sunday morning. On Thursday
afternoon he returned from visit to
one of his farms and was siezed after
getting out of his carriage with the
pains and suffocating feelings accom-
panying angina PectOriS. He was con-
veyed to the house and medical atten-
ton summoned, but despite every
effort he yielded to the force of the dis
case and expired at sun rise on Sunday
morning. In all that pertained to cor
rect living DR.. Cummins was one of
our most exemplary citizens, lending
himself especially to the moral and re-
ligious influences instituted for the
ameliOration of the people, and ever
ready to take a part where his services
were demanded. He was the fifth
child in family of fourteen children,
of the late John Cummins, twelve of
whom arrived at maturity. seven still
living. The deceased had only reach
ed his sixty-ninth year.
When a young man, after q good
classical education he studied medicine
and on receiving his diploma, settled
in this town, but soon became absorb
ed in other business at the expense o1
his profession. He married Miss Ellen
Lowber, daughter of John Lowber
Esq, who with three children still sur.
vive him.
We have referred above to the inter
est manifested by the deceased in the
religious interests about him. This
change occurred some tweRty-six years
ago-a radical one-during the rector
ship of Rev. DIR. J. f. Grammer Tht
. Doctor became thorough churchman
not in the narrow or restricted sense
: but in its broadest and most cathol
4 view, ready to serve wherever dut,
;. called. He was early constituted
= Lay-reader, and mostly in the absenc
Il of the Rector has since conducted tn
worship at St. Peters He was one O
II II the warmest adherents of the Temper
y ance and Bible societies of the count
= and state, and his last spoken word!
% read to me from the blessed old book
was touching exemplification of hi
y devotion to the Bible cause.
! Though for the last quarter of cen
tury, more of moralist than a polit
n ciSn, he was not without strong polit
# cal convictions. He grew up and II
70 mained Democrat until the breakin
- out of the Rebellion when his who
90 soul was given to the support of tt
Ia Union, and about twenty years ae
q was run as the candidate on the Repu
i lican ticket for State Senator, but IL
is ticket was in the minority. He HI
To been for some years a director in Il
a Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Cor
w pany of Wilmington.
pd While we are going to press Rev. V
as b. Gordon and Bishop Lee are conduC
Of ing at the place so long his residenC
n the last sad rites preparatory to depC
hi iting the remains in the family enclC
~ ure in the Episcopal Cemetery.
Smyrna times., 1883-04-25

THE Legislature adjourned on FRI
day last after the longest session on rec
ord. The changes ofexisting lawsare in
Vulnerable, whether for better or worse,
it will be hard to tell. They exhibited
an utter cowardice in touching all
questions that most vitality affect the
morals of the people, but they did
show progress ON the subject of educa-
ton by materially increasing the school
fund. The changes may have Deen in
the main better than the existing
statutes, but the people were equally
glad with themselves when sine dc
was written on the clerks journals.