The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-02-07
The income from gambling licenses 0
Sacramento is 81, 100 : month.
A SUCCESSFUL ENTERPRISE.

Most men of CONSPICUOUS wealth, enterprise
and eminence commenced life as poor boys
This was true OF Peter Coopcr. A. Y. Stewart,
Sov. Morgan, the elder Vandt rbiit, Evarts Ed
is N. Df.oer Or. Samuel Pitcher. ano Others
who have ttamped their genius and enterprise
by inheritance. Jew York is indebted for her
metropolitan infll nee, opulence and philan-
troph :. Here Is largely concentrated the ua
tons banking capital aud lis commerce. Be,
sides her thirteen hundred Ghurcns lrg"rin'
park, great bridge and innUlnera g., Ua gI.l
residences, New York is tho !avge, lleluil..
turing CitJ In tma lea With ht-.Hu. Ih-. sht
has $4,000 manufacturing estahli'hurp ran
by $4,000 operatives. employing sru} p.y
capital. and turoing out yta:!y product r'
$3.50 COO COO.
Among the notable establishms 1' Oh sl' al
VIII ch nave obtained national celeh-.F one
observed y tourists as they pass ~, t.l H"
waited rnilroai, opposite ST. raul siIt -.
AS Dr. sanlnei Picher. the tculder OF ms
great institution, has apparently captured this
mothers, not on OF this nation, but Of all s.
rael, and tn, ongn his printing pr, SECS aud oIh-
erw.se Is exerting silent but consequential in
hGence IN the homes o! mil ions of persons, a
few words respecting the man aud has enter
Prise, will be of Cosmopolitan interest. From
this estlblish ment emGnates no. alone the nu-
irer0us bottles of Castoiia for whic. It T. said,
Children in al chimes indulge the toying smiles
| of redundant health " but also the familiar an
nual New York Receipt Book" ard A manac,
| filled with interesting stories, when probably
| is read by half our people. Dr.. Pitcher grad
| uated at The head OF his class settled at Hyaa
mis-. near Baston. and rose to cminence in his
| profession while Still young man. The sue.
! cess attained by him during the epiIemic o!
, cholera infantum, which prevailed with such
ffightful fatality in the Eastern States in $780,
| caused Or Pitcher to select children's COM
plains as speciality in his medical practice.
I, To preserve iufant life thereafter became DR.,
| Pitchers mission. Rea zing that the average
| Of human life is less than twelve years, he saw
| that majority Of our species die in infancy and
| childhood He lectured ia Boston, Providence
| and elsewhere upon the physt Logical, dieuC
| and pathological treatment CT childreD and
| particularly upon the Injurious effects o mar
cotics and op!ates, so frequently administered in
! the shape of paregori1 syruns and mysterious
augceas. Dr. Pitchers praltce extended SO
rapidly and far that it became neces for h m
! 10 sdoDt a general prescription for general
! use, Enterts ming a repugnauce towards secret
: remedies AID empiric methods, he boldly print
I oi the formula of his prescription on his labels
! and published II to the world, thereby chnl'
4 / nqing the attention of phi scians every where
twas very generally adopted by the profession aS
| / OF coming under the head Of secret remedies
| report made by the Pathological Society Of
New York in 1862 says: Tho Castorla pre-
pared by Dr. Samuel Pitcher has been found 10
| bs valuable adjunct to the materia me dica,
aud free from morphine or other injurious
, substance"