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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-01-18
DRY GOODS
For FAN OF Ia B 3
1z@m<Mou &zs1e<, gHu,
OF BALTIMORE,

Invite the attention Of persons wanting Drv
Goods to their splendid Wholesale and Retail
Stock, much the largest and most varied to he
found in Baltimore Their assortment includes
every class of goods. from the most fashionable
to low priced, But ne Common Goods hat
NAV look cheap, but would he dear At anv
price 1t has heen thAi- aim rhrou rh0ut
business career Of over Fifiv Years TO sell only
goods that will give satisfa rtion and prove Of
fnll value for the price raid This policy has
built mp their large trade and oiven them the
confidence of the public to the fullest extent
Being Large lmpo tiers OF Foreign Goods and
in position to purchase All Domestic Fabrics
Direct from the Manufacturers TO the best ID
vantage, are enabled to give our customers
the benefit Of our position, in low prices
Samples will he sent to parties desiring to
buy from us on receiving definite instructions
in regard to the class of goods wanted about
the price color preferred, &c.
The price In Plain Figures, marked each
on each piece of goods, from which there is no
abatement.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
A Theatrical Agents Luck.
From a Paris letter.


Two years ago, when Billy Deutsch
won so much at baccarat, Garcia's name
came up in the way of comparison
only. Deutsch, who used to manage"
Billy Florence and wife, came to Paris
and said he would quit gambling when
he had won 100000 francs. It was
nothing for him to quit winner 10000,
10000, 10000, $4,000 francs each night.
He lost sometimes, but not often; but
one evening he dropped 100000 in
side of ten minutes. At that time he
had 100000 francs ito the good" and
with this capital he entered the I'm
perial Club, down yonder, by the
Champs Elysees. A young Viscount
opened an unlimited bank at baccarat,
and Billy bet 100000 francs on the
turn. The Viscount dealt a card to
the right, then one to the left, then one
himself; then another to the right,
another to the left, and another to him
self. 81 give" said the Viscount, as he
glanced at his two. The player on the
right had ten and two spot. "Give
me card, he said. The banker dealt
him an eight spot. That made him
nothing, for ten and two and eight
added up are twenty, and it is the last
figure which counts. The player on
the left of the dealer was Deutsch; he
had face card and seven spot, and
when the Viscount declared that he
would give Deutsch said mo" His
face card counted for 10, which added
to the seven spot made II. and as I
said just now, it is the last figure
which counts. The object of each
player is to ge5 nine, or as near that az
possible, for nine is the number which
sweeps the deck" Generally player
who has five will not call for third
card; one who calls for another when
he has six would be suspected of
wrong-doing; it is $40 against 81 that
seven will win, The Viscount had a
face card and four spot. Inasmuch
as Deutsch would not take another
card the Viscount naturally supposed
that that player had five or better,
hence he was obliged to draw or lose
outright. He dealt himself four spot,
and with his eight beat Billy's seven,
thus winning 100000 from the latter.
But Deutsch made this loss good later
on. Inside of two months he had won
10000 francs. He ran over to New
York, had a good time with the boys,
then came back to Paris, and in less
than five weeks had lost every cent he
had in the world. He has not yet
turned trappist, and I don't suppose he
ever will, for he happens to be He
brew.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
Believed to be a Fiction.
IFrom the Burlington Hawkeye.l


Julian Arnold says that "his father,
Edwin Arnold, wrote the most OF Light
of Asia on the cuff of his shirt sleeve,
while riding in the cars to and from his
office. He says his father went into
London every evening, and during the
ride would write on his cuff with pencil.
In the evening, after his return home,
he copied the lines off on paper, and III
this way wrote most of the poem" Ii
Julian Arnold really said that that he
probably told more lies in these few
lines than he ever had told in the same
space before. The "cuff writing" BUSH
ness, dearly beloved, is beautiful, but
rather gauzy fable that exists in the
highly imaginative intellects of young
journalists, of some three or four days
experience in the dog fight and fire
departm ent of an able journal. a cuff
is an awkward thing to write on at best,
and it is very seldom that newspaper
man is so reduced for stationery as to
be compelled to write poems and
leaders on his cuffs. Especially when
the concern" furnishes note books and
lap tablets. When you hear man tell
ing how he took down three-column
speech, at midnight in pelting storm,
on his cuff, ask him if he didn't see to
write his notes by the lurid glare of his
nose. The one is quite as probable as
the other. No more of this ''cuff" bust
ness, Julian. It does not need that
any man should come all the way from
England to tell us such stuff as that.
We have some good old romancers
right here in America. Honestly, we
never knew but one reporter who
claimed to take all his notes on his
cuffs. And we never saw HIM but once
with cuffs on his wrists. And they
were so dirty he couldn't make legi-
BILE mark on them with anything ex-
cept piece of chalk. Call up the next
SQUAD.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
About HumOriStS.
Eugene Field in Chicago News


In recent interview with a reporter
of the New York Mail and Express, Mr..
Joshua Billings reiterates the popular
notion that "humorists are the saddest
and soberest of fellows" Then he goes
on to say that Mark Twain does not
know how to laugh, and Nasty never
laughed in his life. Bah! Mark Twain
does his share of laughing, and don't
you forget it, It isn't fair to Judge
Mark Twain or Nasty or any other pro-
fessional humorist when he is on dress
parade, for professional humorist
knows very well that when he is on dress
parade he is expected to look melan-
choly, and accordingly he looks so. But
in their private lives you will find these
humorists as sociable and merry as 9TH
er men. AS Tor Nasty, he is VIGOROUSLY
a social mamie revels in good joke,
and his laugh is as boisterous as a peal
of August thunder. Burdette is as
frisky and chirrupy as a cricket, and
Baily, of Danbury, is eminently a
social fellow. People are apt to get an
erroneous impression of these people
by seeing them on the lecture platform
when they are repeating the same fun
ny thing they have repeated for seasons
after seasons, and at which other folks
laugh, but which have become old chest
nuts to them. Gravity of countenance
is the sauce which makes the humor-
GUS lecturers wit more palatable to the
average audience, and having discovered
this great truth the humorists utilize it
for all it is worth. On general princi-
pies, it is as unfair to regard humorists
as melancholics as it is to call all
preachers hbertines, all lawyers thieves,
and all doctors conspirators with sex
tons and undertakers against the lives
of their fellow-men.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
sit Vhas OmpOssible.7

A Cincinnati dealer in clothing. wfas
standing on the depot platform at Ham
ilton, same state, few mornings ago,
when the north bound train came in.
A passenger whom he knew had his
head out of a coach window, and was
asked the news.
Fire in the city last night" he re-
piled.
"Vhas dot SO? Who vas purned
oudt?"
Why, the fire was in your store"
"No"
$50 I heard 'em saying, and also that
it was set on fire."
"My frendt," remarked the clothier,
as he brushed the ashes off his cigar,
@dot vhas impossible. My shtock vhas
valued at $4,000 and my insurance vhas
only $1,000! Dot fire must have been a
mile awayl"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

20, DEAR! feel so mortified" "Why,
what is the matter now?" "You know
Mrs. Dashaway, don't youp' eyes"
And always considered her respectable,
did you moi" Certainly" well, you
may not believe it, but she has written
me letter which went through the
public mails, was handed into my door
by regular letter carrier, who knows
everybody in our set, and on the enve-
lope, right in plain sight, was one of
those horrid green three cent stamY s
that were out of style almost month
ago."
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
The Daily Scourge of Thousands

OF our fellow cou1trymen and women, dyspepsia
may be permanently stayed by the of Hostetters
Stomach Bitters, which, with certainty and rapdity,
initiates reform in the action of weak or disor-
dered stomach. 1t promotes secretion Of gastric
juice which in the chemistry of the stomach acts
the part OF solvent; removes those twin obstacles
to tranquility in the digestive region, biliousness
and constipation, and remedies heartburn, fatu-
lence sour bitter quotations, distenton of the
abdomen, and other symptoms to which sufferers
from indigestion are subject. Dyspepsia begets
sleepessness, causes vertigo and produces chronic
1rr1ao1ity. These sympathetic evidences of it's ex-
fstence disappear through the influence of this in
imitable medicine. Debilitating maadies which
entail loss of strength and flesh are counteracted by
it, and 1t is the finest known specific for fever and
ague and malarial ailments in general. Kidney
troubles, uterine debility and rheumatism are re-
lieyed by it.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

Fon dyspepsia, indigestion, depression of
spirits and general debility, in their va
rlous forms, also as preventative against
fever and ague and other intermittant fevers.
the "Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya,"
made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York,
and sold by all druggists, is the best tonic and
for patients recovering from fever or other
sickness, it has no equal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
Instantly Relieved.

Mrs. Ann Lacour, Of New Orleans, La,
writes: Il have q son who has been sick for
two years; he has been attended by our leading
ing he had his usual spell of coughing and was
so greatly Frustrated in consequence that
death seemed iminent We had in the house a
bottle of DR.. Wm. Halls Balsam for the Lungs,
purchased by my husband, who noticed your
advertisement. We administered it and he was
instantly relieved"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

A LAUNDERING Bridgeport, Conn.,,
clerk sent ham to the wrong house.
The woman who took it doesn't look
gift horses in the mouth. In ten min
utes that ham was boiling, and by the
time the Investigation reached her was
ready to say to the clerk: "Sure, ye
brought the ham to me. Fly shud ak
ye who it belonged to? billed it, and
we have it eat. Get the ham if you
oon -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

The following is thu only reference
to himself in the first volume of Mr..
Blaine's 'Twenty Years in Congress :"
James Ct. Blaine entered the
XXXVIIIth Congress from Maine at
80 years of age"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
A Wonderful Substance,

The results which are attending the admins
tration by Drs. Starkey q Palen, 1109 Girard
Street, Philadelphia, of their vitalizing remedy
for chronic diseases, give new surprises to pa
tients and physicians every day. If you have
any ailment about which you are concerned,
write for information aoout their treatment, it
will be promptly sent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

MANY who long suffered from urinary and
digestive diseases, causing nervousness, weak
ness, and debility, after trying bitters, kidney
medicines, iron medicines, etc., without bene-
fit, have found permanent relief in from one
to three bottles of DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock
aud SarsapariLa, the only perfect blood puri-
fer and strengthener. Hundreds of letters TO
the propretors have testified to it's superiority
over the many pretended cures so largely ad
advertised by means of bogus certificates that
are bought and paid for.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
Come, Gentle Spring.

and bring malaria, dyspepsia, biliousness, tor
pidity of liver and train of kindred msladies.
Fortunately Kidney-Wort is at hand. 1t may
be had of the nearest druggist and will purify
the system, correct the stomach and bowels,
stimulate the liver and kidneys 10 healthy &C
ton, remove all poisonous humors and make
you feel like new man. AS a spring medi-
cine, tonic and blood Purifier it has no equal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
HOW THEY FEEL AT vAssAR.

To we'd or not to wed ?-that is the question.
Whether It's wiser in girl to enjoy
The tempting visions of single-blessedness,
Or, to be lsd. by some man of our times to the
altar,
And, by marriage, end them ? To we'd to doubt
No more; and by that act to end
The heartache, and calm the palpitating
Bosom OF some love-sick youth! tits consumn1a-
ton
Devoutly to be wished.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

JAMES RUBENs, a full-blooded Nez
Perez Indian, is in the East making adj
dresses on the wrongs of his race. He
speaks English we'll. and is eloquent.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
Horsford's acid Phosphate.

F ,R WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
DIR. Jo~. HolF, New o leans, La, says: 81
have frequently found it of excellent service
III cases Of debility, loss of appetite, and in
convalescence from exhaustive lllness, and
particularly of service in treatment of women
and children -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

MURDER will out, so will the fact that Car
boline, deodorized extract of petroleum, the
natural hair remover and restorer, is the best
preparation ever invented and excels all other
hair dressings, as thousands Of genuine GER
tificates now in our possession abundantly
prove.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

90 GET the best dyes. The Diamond Dyes
for family use have no equals. All popular
colors easily dyed fast and beautiful. Only 10c.
package at druggists. Wells, Richardson &
Co., Burlington, Vt, Sample Card, 81 colors,
and book of directions for &c. stamp.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

ONE of the late Bayard Taylor's
daughters, with art proclivities, is going
to London to put herself under the
tuition of the painter Hubert Her
lrnnnr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

THAT wonderful catholicon knows as Lydia
3. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has given
the lady worldwide reputation for doing
good. 1t is living spring of health and
strength
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

Public speakers and singers use Piso's Cure
for hoarseness and weak lungs.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

'RoUGH ON ITCH" cures humors. eruptions,
ring worm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet,
oh
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

ALIENS Iron Tonic bitters cure all Blood
disorders. All genuine bear the signature of
j. P. Allen, Druggist, st. Paul, Minn.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

''RoUGH ON coRNs." Is cents. Ask for 1t.
Complete cure, hard or soft corns, warts,
buniOns,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

JENNY LIMBS oldest son has just
married an English girl
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

Piso's Cura for Consumption is not only
pleasant to take, but it Is sure to cure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

CROUCH ON RATS" Clears out rats, mice,
flies, sches, bed-bugs, ants, vermin, chip
munks. 15c.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25
HOw TO INSURE A HAPPY

III U" III INSURE A HArF
childhood is a question of
great moment TO every parent. If
it is iInpracfca6le to provide the
little one with sufficient nourishment
from natures supply no better sub
stitute can be found fhsn Ridges
Food. Ridges Food has success
fully reared mere children than all
other foods combined. -Four sizes,
retailing at 35c., CSC, Sl.25, and
sl.75. Send to WOOLRICH & CO.,
Palmer, Mass, for Pamphlets ON the
subject.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-25

"BUcHU PAIBA Quick, complete cure, all
annoy ing Kidney and Urinary Diseases. 81.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-23
sha Mnd Canadanne.

Mrs. II. c. Harshbsrger. Manor BILL
Huntington county, Pa, writes: "DR. ).
B. HARTMAN & CO., Columbus, o.: | have
been afflicted for three years. caused by
over>work too soon after confinement Ny
kidneys became seriously affected, could not
retain my urine day nor night, II WAS
high colored, thick and bloody Ny month
hes had left altogether for fourteen months
during which time was confined to my bed
with beating in right oyaries. The dis
charge from the womb was so offensive no
one could stay in the room. The urine
continued bloody, with pain in voiding it,
and when ia bed would pass from me in
my sleep. ! have had three doctors attend
ing me regularly, one for four months, one
of the others one whole summer, and the
third all winter. We had two others In
consultation with them, and used TWEEN
ty bottles of different kinds OF
patent medicines, all to no good,
then got bottle OF PERUSA,
and before had three-fourths of the bottle
taken quit wetting the bed and could re-
tain the urine sufficient to attend cRareh,
which had not done in three years, and
nv monthlies came back as natural as
ever; indeed, ] considered myself we'll
woman again. Since that time | have had
pneumonia. Ny confidence in PERUNA was
so great that | did not send for doctor.
I followed the directions in your Ills OF
Life" and am over it, as well as can be ex-
peeted of one so delicate as | have been.
Others in my neighborkood had the same
disease, and among them were strong men,
and had the best physicians. and yet died,
while sailed through in safety on PERUSA
and MANALIS. | sincerely believe, and
would say to1all the afflicted in the wide
world, that PERUNA and MANALN are the
only two medicines that any one needs in
any disease. if used as directed in your book
entitled THE Ills of Life
]. E. Fleming, publisher Of the New Do
minion, Morgsntown, W. Va, writes:
Some months since, received some OF
your medicine in exchange for advertising.
Nv wife has taken FIVE bottles fit, and has
derived great benefit from i" E
Mr.. N. C. Pershing, Brsdenville, Pa,
writes; my wife has been using PERuSA
for some time for weak lungs and liver and
kidney complaint, and thinks it is doing
her great good. Has used only one bottle
as vet. Please send your book on the Ills
of Life as we can't get any from our drug
gist."
Mr.. John Denny, Mt Vernon, o., writes:
I'VE have large sale in PERUSA. 1t gives
satisfaction"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-23
ThoDaxed Miner.

1t is difficult for one who has been Graded
in wealth 70 conceive Of the mental and NOR
81 shock given 70 . poor msn By the sud
den acquisition from the struggle to keep
the wolfe from, the door, to life which is
free from both labor and care, dazes him.
He becomes as eccentric in his actions as
one who dreams in his thoughts.
A correspondent Of an English paper,
writing from Australia, illustrates the facts
by the following story:
A friend Of mine came into Sydney a
month ago who had struck = fortune in the
mines, and from being q poor miserable
tramp, with Just enough money to keep him
from starving, ne had becone the owner of
thousands Of ponds IN ready gold.
He rushed into the first store he happen
ed TO see which was drug store.
"Just Leo me have hundred dollars
worth of those 5Ottles there, will your ne
shouted to the proprietor.
Certainly" replied the polite druggist.
"Drugsl don't want your drugs Just
a couple shelves full of those bottles up to
the Hotel---te me, Tom Randall. "a Here
YOUR pay" and he threw handful Of gold
on the counter and rushed out, and into the
next store, which was hardware.
is that good stove? said he kicking
the nearest one. g.r- = ..s. -.
Eyes sir," said the hardware man coming
forward, smiling, that stove will"
Never whatifll do Just send it mp to
Hotel to Tom Randall, will you? How
much is it2 Never mind the change and
was gone before the storekeepsr had reeoy
cred from his wonder.
He then went into a dozen different
stores, ordering countless things which
happened to strike his fancy or please his
within, and, at last, returned to his hotel
! found him there two hours later, sitting
on the edge Of trunk surrounded BY M
different purchases. which with the prompt
ness of the Sydney trsdeSmen had been Sent
according to his orde. .
Nv friend sat with bis face in his hand:
as came in, and did net STIR Finally the
tears began TO trickle through his fingers
and at last he looked up at me with com
ical smile. .-E
Bob" said he, Its the first 6meI evel
had any money in my life. Just think
Here | am a rich man! Why had TO dc
something to prove it to myself. l should
have gone crazy if hadn't. Then after q
pause he added, sand guess | have
proved it pretty well, l guess" With q
pensiye air he glanced over the room, and
for the first time seemed to take in its con
tents.
Then he burst into a laugh in which
Joined. From laughing he passed into cry.
ing, then Quoted down, and asked nAS 70
help him dispose of his numerous purchases.
Most of them were sent to his old COM
rsdes in the mines, and a week, after he
sailed for America. But | believe those
absurd purchases were the indirect means
of preserving his reasons at the critical per
iod Of his life
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-23
PRODUCE.
Wheeling.

"noeluks
Corrected by IsHAM & DIGBY, Produce Com
mission Merchants, 1908 Main street
These prices are based upon wholesale lots. Allow
ances must be made for smaller lotS
Butter-Prime to choice creamery lS92Oe;
choice dairy 100 lSc; common tofair do 100
Ice; good to prime country roll 1896;
common mixed stock 596c. Good de-
mand.
Beeswax-Quoted at 3oa32c p NJ
Beans-Hsnd picked mediums 2 00@
10. Market about over.
Buckwheat Flour-At 3fs3}e 10.
Cheese-Ssles in jobbing way Of prime
mild Ohio factory at 9sl2ic; New York
l4ial5c; Sveitzer lSsl5c; Limberger LA
l5c.
Dried Fruit-New evaporated pared peaches
25@2Sc; impaired do l5sl6c; rsspberries Is
650c; blackberries l0c. New sundried, sp-
pies, quartered. 5@6c; sliced $3.50; peaches,
new halves, 6t@1fc; do quarters, 6f96lc;
do pared l5@lsc; do blackberries &c; do
raspberries 22@25c, pltted cherries 10000.
New evsporated apples l0@l2c. Market
on Dried Fruit nominal; demand over.
Eggs-Srictly fresh stock in fsir demand
at l09llc p doz.
Festhers-Choice, s5@TOc in original
packages 4@5c more in small lots.
Honey-Choice white clover, l89S0c;
choice buckwheat l69l8c-
Nuts--SheIbarks. 75@s5c; black walnuts
5e@Sec. eA
0nions-s0910c y bushel -
Pess-Green, 81 5O@l 60 . bu-; split >
@sic p n. s
Potatoes-New in barrels, % 5o93 Is.
Poultry--Live chickens, 81, 0092 70 .
loz; dressed turkeys, l5@lsc; do chickens
d2Sl3c; do dncks l2@l3c. Good depsnd
Rags-Stesdy at li9l&c for white mly-
ed cotton; l9lic for AL wool and lttSlfc
Tor mixed
Sseds-Sslss Of smosAy seed as u see