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National Republican., 1885-01-17

CoDRoIENE CREAM isapreparation containing
40 per cent of Pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil,
combined with other harmless ingredients in
uch manner as TO render the "OILn as pleas
ant to the taste as honey yet retaining all of its
well-known medicinal properties, which have
proved of the highest value in CONSUMPTION
and all WASTING DISEASES, invariably pro-
ducing Increase of FLESH and WEIGHT.
1t is also an Invaluable preparation for Chill
dren requiring the nutrltivo properties OF Cod
Liver oil, ms II can be taken and retained In the
stomach ofthe most delicate person.
National Republican., 1885-01-17

FpUR.FIFTHs of our American people arc Of,
hicted with sick headache In either It's nery-
pus, bilious, Or congestlye FORMS caused by
irregular habits, high living &c., aud no rem
hdy has over conquered II until Dr. Lesllos
Special Prescription was discovered Give II
atrial. See advertisement In another column.
National Republican., 1885-01-17
IIEDIClL.
HEALTH I!

Swins specific cured me OF rheumatism three
months ago, after my physicians hAl exhausted
III ir remedies without giving reliOG
O. T.. GOODYEAR, Atty q; Law, Bruins.
wick, Ga
have been afflicted with rh umatlsm nearly
turty years, and tew bottles of Swilrs Specific
Clr0l me, Il is GulsCut 10 the Suiltrlng.
j. IL. WALLER, Thomson, ia.
have hccu entirely relieved Of severe rhru.
WHt SUI iu my right arm by the use Of -wliNE
'prCitlc, ami pas ed through last wulog without
" Sidney BEGBERT, Ed So. Culivator, Al.
luutA, GA,
Twenty Noars.-t had bocn q sufferer nom
rheumatism twenty yCAfs; was reduced 10 Is
skeleton; could hardly pet about, even uu
CrutCheS SWlits Specific hus cured mo sound
and Well MRS, EZRA MEN- NOS,
Macon, uL
Swin's Specific has relieved me OfrhrumHlism
which ~ one time threatened lo stop my laiuli-
torial work, REV, w, \, KIRK,
Gross Plains, Ala
Swlrts Specific Is entirely vegetable. Troatlcs
on Blood and skin Diseases mailed ireo,
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Ataula, Ga.
National Republican., 1885-01-17
iSTEAMBOAT LINES.

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Wednesday, and Friday at 6;SO.
Sixth street wharf, Telephone call, 705.
Ere IreiEnL 9tsHmsrs , HElGltI @ni 4 BsoN
ALFRED WOOD, Secretary.
GEO. r. PHILLIPS, superintendent
NORFOLK AND FORTRESS MONROE
IN The popular steamer GEORGE LEARY
leaves seventh street wharf on MONDAYS,
WEpNESpANs, and FRIDAYS, at . y. M,
returning Connccts in Norfolk with an rallroad
ana steamboat lines secure rooms 9n4 tickets
vana avenue, st, Mare Hotel, ana Knox IN.
press, SOB Pennsylvania avenue who will also
check baggage nom hotels and private resi-.
eomuony,'s ,olice, seventh street wharf Tolo,
'''''' ~ WILLIAM p WEIGH
General AGENT
NIERcHANTs AND MINERS TRANS.
NoriolE, The Al iron steamers Al 'IFGW(SY FtGiW(SY
Capt William A. lialletE BERltSHtRE, Cant
M Aq%Ss ,a p RoI III MiLLER SqPS sS9mo9
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Fare including meals ana stRteroon berth.
aSs g9E sAHnSSSAdh A6Ss hIEGE Sa6t no A MoCg T2n
WILLIAM Ia ltl.N NfAt Alll, ~ A. HOOner.
EVERY FIVE DAYS
,,tL arc includlng meals and slatero3m oertlh
class passage and children nt reduced rnteA
IhIuuRh tickets to all points IN Georgia Florida
thN Alabama For freight or passage apply 70
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From pIIGtApFlpllIA Every Saturday I . m.
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Through and prompt connection with Now
York, llOsluly tlll liiyer, and all points North.
Through Eills OF Ludius rvUn. Freight 10.
IeiyGd and delivered daily until 0p m.
W. T., CLYDE IL co,
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cree -
National Republican., 1885-01-17
GENTLEMEN's LIST.

Arno Id, David
Anthony, James II
ALE, John
Andrews, j Il
Anderson, j q
Adams, John Roby
Allen, oliver
Allen, Rob
Alexandria Turner ii
Arnold, Master MillarI
BahcOck, A y
Bush, A II
Buel. Barnard (2)
Bishop. Is Il
Bryant, & II
Bush, ChaB 4
Barnes, Charles u
Bailey, David (2)
Batziey, David (2)
BOuton, David
Harrington, Edward
Brown. Eyard
Bates, + j.
BidAnd, GustaYe
Broce, George
Brock, Henry
Brown, Harry V
Bush, capt Jacob
BURNS Hon jas III
Beall, ] X
Brooke. Gen Jno n
Baily, Hon JnO NJ
Borden, j A
BrOmllad, Joseph 90
Boldman, Joseph
BiuCk,.J j
Burr, Mann w
Brown, Noah
Brown, DIR Orlando
Book. II IL
Beverly. Hon Robt
BurCh, 5 X
Ballinger, II j (2)
Burgess, Thomas
Battle, Vincent j (2)
Byer5, VIM NJ
Bradley, Wm III
bingham, W n
Bush, Dr Wln
Bell, w II
Crawford, AliredT n
Cnsselman, Ames
Clark q
Carpenter, Hon &C
ChiirOus, clifton
Corey, Dr & IL
Cook ; Fred |
Cornish, GeOD
Calvert, q II
Carter. Col j w
Carpenter, II w
Cott, III A
Carpenter, Jas
Collins, j Holmes
CudWalader, j L.
Cruin, John'C
Clark, Gen Jno Il
Goats, John
ozark Mr.
Castle, Mr.
Cutler, Plegey
National Republican., 1885-01-17
Puzzles for tho Young Folks.

Puzzles for the Young Folks.
Tho answer to tho question in last
weeks rebus is as follows:
He is bound to excel (XL).
He is above 40 (XL).
He is intent on letters,
Below is another of THE REPUBLICANS
puzzles for the young folks;
National Republican., 1885-01-17
Forthe Moody Meetings.

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A CHRoNoLoGIcAL HISTORY OF THE,
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Seven thousand In number, by regiments, with
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Address
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most active AtOcks in tho New York exchange;
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100, 900 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
Fractions In niths ia proportion.
National Republican., 1885-01-17

A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A
FORTUNE
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
How to Kill the Blues.

Generally speaking if you are trou-
bled with 1.-The blues" and cannot tell
why. you may be sure it springs from
physical weakness. Instead of lying
on the sofa and courting painful ideas,
if you are a despairing lover, a
hypochondriac or valetudinarian,
you should be up and stirring yourself.
The blood of a melancholy man is
thick and slow, creeping sluggishly
through the veins, like muddy waters
in a canal; the blood of your merry
chirping philosopher is clear and
quick, brisk as newly-broached
champagne. Try, therefore, to set
your blood in motion, Try, rather,
what smart walk will do for you;
set your pegs in motion on rough
rocky ground, or hurry them up .
steep. cragged hill; build stone wall;
swing an axe over a pile of hickory
or rock maple; turn grindstone; dig
bitches; practice ground and lofty
tumbling;" pour water into selves
with the Danaides, or, with Sisyphus,
cup the hill heave a huge round
stone" in short, do anything that will
start the perspiration, and you will
soon cease to have your brains lined
with black. as Burton expresses it, or
to rise in the morning, as Cowper did,
"like an Internal frog out of Acheron,
crowned with the ooze and mud OF
melancholy. ."-Prof udthe1oS.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
History of Coinage,

If we put aside the inartistic and
uninterestng currency of China and
Japan every existing piece of money
can trace its ancestry back to COM
mon source in the seventh century be-
fore Christ The descent of all Greek
coins from the issues of Phedon and
Cr9sus, and the connection of the
Roman system with u Siculo-Greek
standard are well known; but it will
be revelation to many readers to find
how modern and medieval SERIES
Asiatic and European alike-derive
their origin either from Greece or
Rome. India learnt the art of COIN
age from the Bactrian successors of
Alexander the Great; Arabia's first
emission were debased copies of the
Athenian tetradrachm. Parthia imi-
tated the Seleucid kings of Syria, and
the Sapors and Chosroes of restored
Persia continued the Parthian issues,
only to be copied in turn by tine earli-
est of the MahGmetan khalifs The
"dinar" and "dirhem" of Haroun-al-
Raschid show by their very names a
descent from the denarius and drach-
ma, no less than the "sou" and '.livre,
of Louis XVI. testify to perpetual
tion of the "solidus" aud "libTa."- -
| London dcadenU.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20

During the past 800 years, it is
stated, some 200 systems of shorthand
have been devised and published,
The older forms were usually mere
ciphers, or representation of the Or
dinary methods of spelling by the use
symbols for letters, whereby no great
advantage in the way of brevity was
attained. Hieroglyph;cs, or picture
writing, were also classed as short
hand; also, plan Of omission of the
vowels, which might be called ,abbre-
waited long-hand. The first system OF
shorthand which attained the objects
sought for-brevity and accuracy
was that of Isaac Pitman, first pub
lished in lS49. This mode of short
hand was the first to be known as
photography. or sounds rather than
letters Other systems since intro
duced have continued this plan. Gus
tom has of late years adopted the
word of shorthand, which comes tO
us from the Greek, and means narrow
or close writing; in other phrase,
short hand.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
PRICE THREE CENTS

The casual reader of the newspapers
forms no adequate idea of the annual
loss of life and property in this coun'
try by violent wind-storms. The yeal
1884 was remarkable in this respect
The records of the Signal Service de-
partment show recorded during that
year l7S tornadoes in the United
States, 3S occurring in Georgia, % in
South Carolina, Is in Alabama, II in
North Carolina, and 10 each in Iowa
and Wisconsin. Lightning occurred
in % of the tornadoes Their average
width was 1,037 feet, and their aver.
age length was 36.l0 miles. Their
velocity averaged AZ miles per hour.
The tornadoes averaged 45 seconds in
passing given point. The TEN.
perature before the tornadoes was
generally warm, and generally they
were succeeded by cooler weather.
Their greatest frequency was between
and $50 p M. The largest number
of tornadoes occurred in July. Over
1000 buildings were destroyed by tor.
nadoes during the year. The most
extensive tornado was in Minnesota,
September 9, the estimated losses by
which were S4,00O,000 Contrary to
the general opinion. it will be observed
that more than half of the tornadoes
occurred in the Southern States.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20

Samuel" said Mrs ToIblitter, as
they were walking home from church,
"h0w did you like the preachers de-
scription of heaven"
"First-rate, my DEAR" said he, with
energy.
"If what he said is all true, and of
course it is, what do you think you will
like the best when you get there Sam
uel?"
"Thc arrangements for securing
peace" said he. with glibness.
"Now. Samuel, what do you mean
by that?"
"They don't have any marrying
there. my dear said he, edging off a
little.
The discussion took warmer turn
at once.-Chicago Ledger.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20

While at Mt. McGregor it did not
escape the generals attention that
everything he wrote was carefully
preserved by those to whom he ad-
dressed his slips, One night he show
ed that this amused him by a pleasant
alluSion to it in a note to DR.. Douglas.
81 notice." he wrote, that when any
one gets slip it is carefully folded up
and saved. No one throws one away.
| think shall have to stop writing,
or some day | will be hauled over the
Goals for my English"
"Whateyer may be the criticisms on
what you have written, General" DR..
Douglas promptly replied, mo one
can assail your English"
The general smiled. and his output
of slips was not thereafter stinted.
Every one, of course, wanted Cne. DR..
Douglas was the envy of people at the
hotel, as he went about with a memo
randum book thick with slips, and he
was besleged with applications by
mail for specimens; but he rarely
parted with one.-Ne,o York Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20

Indignant purchaser-See here, sir;
/ don't want this horse you sold me.
He balks. l can't get him over the
bridge.
Jockey-That's the reason l sold
him. Why did you come t me for the
horse?
81 saw your advertisement in the
paper"
81 thought so. l gave you my rea'
sons for selling him.
"Yes. To be sold,' you stated, fol
no other reason than that the owner
wants to so out of town. y
"Well, if you can go out of town
with him it will be more than | can
do."-Phiiddelphia Call.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
The interchange of commodities be-

The interchange of commodities be-
tw cen nations has many apparent ec
centricitieS. Russia sends flour to the
United States, and completes success
fully with our own millerS: America
sends cutlery to Sheffield and manu-
factured cottons to Manchester; France
buys wine in Ohio and California and
cotton seed oil in st. Louis, returning
the former to New York as claret Or
Burgundy and the latter as pure olive
oil, and so on the peculiarities of com
mercial exchange continue through a
long series of articles of both luxury
and necessity. With the present cheap
systems of expeditions transportation,
constantly being improved in every
direction, it would seem that the time
is approaching when it will be impos-
sible to be sure where any article we
eat, drink, wear or otherwise use had
its origin. The only thing certain is
that the people who show the most en-
ergy, ingenuity and business capacity
will certainly lay the rest of the world
under tribute. In such conflict as
this implies the future prosperity of
the United States is assured,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
Origin of the Liberty Can.

The Phrygians were people from
the shores of the EuXiIe Sea, and they
conquered and took possession of the
entire eastern part Of Asia Minor. To
distinguish themselves from the ma
tives, the cOnquerors wore close hit
ting cap, and had it stamped on their
coiDs. The Romans took the fashiOA
of wearing caps from the Phrygians.
but they were only worn by freedmen.
When slave was set free, red cap
called the pileus, was put on his head,
and this was token of his manu-
mission. When Saturanius took the
capital in the year 263, he had a cap
set up on the top of spear as a
promise of liberty to all slaves who
would join him. Marius used the
same expedient to incite the slaves
TO take arms with him against Syla
When Cesar was murdered the con-
spirators carried a cap on Il spear as
a token of the liberty of Rome. The
statue of the Goddess Of Liberty on
the Aventine Hill carried in her hand
cap as an emblem of freedom.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20

AT the agricultural convention called
by Commissioner Colman. of delegates
from agricultural colleges, the com
missioner gave utterance to these
words concerning experimental work
at colleges: He said there was nothing
which would so attract and rivet the
attention of the agricultural public to
the colleges as experimental work. Ga
the college farms should be tested
every variety of fruit, cereals, grasses,
timber trees, and even domestic ami
mails. and those found in i'll respects
adapted to the locality should be dis
seminated by the college. Thus one
college farm would be trying expert
ments for hundreds of thousands of
farmers, who would enjoy the benefit
and not suffer the losses in money, la
Dor and time of making the tests for
themselves. He could see the neces-
sity for great national experimental
farm also, which he would have estab-
lished near the capital, and if he might
90 further, he would establish upon it
a permanent national or wcrld's expo
sition, where the products of this and
other nations might be exhibited side
bv side. These views were indorsed
by the convention. and resoluti ms pass
ed requesting congress to make appro-
priation for this purpose to all agri-
cultural colleges.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
Gen. Grant In Washington.

Gen. Grant was the most conspic.
uous public man who ever lived in
Washington. He was known to every
man, woman, and child in the district
before his name was before the people
for the Presidency. While General of
the Army his headquarters were at
the corner of Seventeenth and F
streets. He used to walk to and fro
morning and evening along with the
procession of clerks, and with nothing
but his well-worn military cloak in
winter and the familiar figure in sum-
mer, and the cigar always, to distin-
guish him from the crowd. He was
usually absorbed in himself, and walk
ed mechanically, though while going
to work very rapidly. While Presi-
dent he was the same sort Of a man.
He loved a horse dearly, and some
times drove four-in-hand drag, but
he usually walked or took street car.
In either case he was always the
cynosure Of many curious eyes. He
had evidently become accustomed to
this, and paid no attention to it as
long as people kept out of his way or
did not force themselves on his person.
al notice. When they did he was an
noyed and would turn abruptly upon
his heel to escape. He always acted
on the street like any other private
citizen who wanted be let alone. This
was so evident that the men, big and
little, respected it, and the President
of the United States could often be
seen sauntering down the crowded
avenue alone.
He was known to have walked from
the Capitol to the White House on a
pleasant day, when the whole city was
out. without suffering single inter-
ruption. Yet if he saw men raise
their hats to him he never failed to re-
turn the salute. During such walk
nearly everybody would stare and
turn and stare again at him as he
passed. lie seemed to walk among
the crowds to be alone. OF late years
he has apparently shaken off much of
this taciturnity, and when he visited
Washington could be seen about the
Willard lobby chatting with friends
and listening and laughing at their
stories, and telling stories of his own
in return. He mistrusted those who
wanted to make show of him, but
patiently suffered the tortures of bore
dom at the greatest receptions ever
given at the White House. When he
took notion to attend dinner party
he went, without regard to the Gus
tomary etiquette of the White House
which prohibits the President from
indulginy in such things.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
So LONDONDERRY, VT. THURSDAY AUGUST 90, 1885

the critter would run right up On the
shore, but he came about when not
more than mile away, and would
have taken US out to sea again only I
cutthe line.
"That harpoon in the corner which
spoke of before is the very one he
carried away with him. You can see
my name on it, If you don't believe me.
The ship Anna Rogers of New Bed
ford killed the whale two years after,
and finding the harpcon in its back
sent it to me. was sorry that whale
was dead, because it had been good
friend to us. I never used the har-
poon again, but kept 1t on land as
relicn
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20

"Not always, Mr.. Arundel" answer
ed a calm, quiet voice. and Minnie
hartford stood before him, her white
dress shimmering like the robes of a
phantom in the semi-darkness, "for at
least the lesson of their folly may
teach them to be wiser in time"
miss Dartfordl echoed Herbert
Arundel, dropping his cigar as he
started, aghast, to his feet; while his
companion looked on as If he would
very much like to disappear through
the cracks of the floor.
81 have unwillingly been compelled
to listen to your edifying conversation
of the last few minutes" Minnie went
relentessly on, "and you yourself can
easily imagine how completely i have
been enlightened thereby, suppose
I ought to be angry with you; but I
can only feel thankful for the fate
which has been averted from me.
Good evening, Mr.. Arundel, and good.
by"
And, with low inclination of her
head Miss hartford passed from the
room, and Herbert Arundel never saw
her more!
He left town the self-same evening,
carrying with him the interesting
consciousness that he had overplayed
his part and thwarted his own plans.
And Clarence never knew what had
opened the eyes of his capricious little
charmer. He only rejoiced that she
had once more taken him into favor.
SWELL" said Aunt Sylvia, on the
morning of the day on which Minnie
hartford became Mrs. Clarence Lee,
81 do believe Pm the happiest old
woman alive!
"And Pm the happiest young one,
Aunt Sylvia" laughed Minnie. 80
there is pair of us!''
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-08-20
A Prophet in His Own Country.

Il tell you, my dear" said an old
gentleman to his wife on the summer
hotel veranda.
Don't tell me anything, sir" retort'
ed the lady, with emphasis.
"But believe"
bah! What do your beliefs amount
to-"
"But think -"
Bah! You flatter yourself. What
are your thoughts worth?"
"But. my dear, know"
Don't talk to me about what you
know. What you don't know would
fill an encyclopedia, Everybody
knows you are stupid old, senseless,
worthless dotard. You don't know
enough to come in when it rains"
''Who is that old gentleman over
there?" asked visitor of the hotel
clerk.
"Don't you know him? Why, he is
the Chief Justice of our Supreme
Court Puck.