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Death Of Gen. DibbreIl.

Tennessee mourns the loss Of one Of
her noblest sons.
Gen. George G. Dibrell died at his
home in Sparta, White County last
Wednesday afternoon, full OF honors
and in his 9th year.
He was q man among men; the
soul Of honor; one whose word was
never lightly given, but once passed
was to be be relied on as the unchange.
able truth. @
After the war he engaged in farm.
ing and as merchant until 1874, when
he was elected to Congress, and was
again returned in 1876, 1873, 1873, 1S
so and 1882, when he declined to al
low the use of his name again.
He was a candidate for the Demo.
cratic nomination for Governor in
1885, receiving at one time more thar
sou votes. He was also member o.
the Constitutional Convention O.
1870.
No man had more friends than Gen
Dibrell, and none deserved then
more.-NdshviIle American.
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The Bristol Dramatic Club.

The Bristol Dramatic Club gave an
entertainment in Jobe's Opera House
last Tuesday night. The double bill,
"The Midnight Hour" and "Jessamy's
Courtship" we're well presented. The
company did not meet with the inan-
cial success they bad a right to expect
but they have the satisfaction of know.
ing that those present were well
pleased. All of the performers did ex-
ceedingly we'll but the acting Of Miss
Blanche Gale and Mr.. 7. J. Burrow
deserve special notice. The costumes
worn were made purposely for this
play and were very handsome. AS Q
dude Harry Dodd is success.
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Some Sound Sense.

1t has been the fashion for some
years, in all quarters, to pirate about
the depression Of farming in the
South" as ii there was no depression
anywhere else, or in any other bust
ness. The truth is, an equal degree OF
depression prevails in all industrial
pursuits, all over the civilized world.
In the great northwest, q very large
per centage OF farmers are under mort
cages, the interest on which they can
scarcely meet from year to year. So
it is all over the North. All that saves
them from ruin and enables them to
scuffle along, is the tremendous tide
OF immigration constantly pouring in
upon them, and the immense market
for their products in the South. If
the farmers OF the South had sense
enough to raise all the corn, bacon,
wheat, hay, &C., necessary for home
consumption, you would soon see the
currents Of immigration that flow SO
steadily to the westwards defect to
the South.
That the farmers of the South can
raise all the necessary supplies ] know
from my own experience. / do not
claim to be much of a farmer, but I
can and do raise corn at a cost OF less
than twenty cents per bushel, oats for
less than fifteen cents, wheat at TWEEN
ty-fve cents, cotton at three and four
cents, and other things accordingly.
This have done for twenty years,
land on billy, rocky, and rather poor
plantation at that. During all these
years I have never failed, whether the
seasons were wet or dry, or cold or hot,
to have some OF all these things to sell,
and so far from buying hay, ! have
given away many and many a load of
"long forage" do not know single
farm upon which the same or greater
results could not be obtained. Yet l
know good many better farmers than
I am, with much better lands, who are
all the time handicapped with the
troubles that so much "depress" the
farming world.
They say farming don't pay--agri.
culture is depressed" They say truly.
Farming does not pay them. There
is reason for it. Every effect must
have cause. What then is the prime
cause Of agricultural and all industrial
depression
think l discovered the secret TWEEN
ty years ago. l have persistently act
ed upon it ever since, and there never
has been day, during the time, that
there was not meal in the barrel, and
oil in the cruise. There has been nc
lack, but on the contrary, a steady
increase of "corn and wine and OIL"
OF that secret to which am indebt.
ed for entire immunity from all
depression" mental as we'll as agri
cultural, more HomeSpun," Ia
Cotton Plant.
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Under The Wheels.

LENoIRs, Tenn, May 14.-Henry
Lane, a young man about 81 years old,
night Waterman for the Lenoir Man.
ufacturing Co., was struck by an en-
CINE yesterday morning and received
injuries from which he died. 1t ap.
pears that he was running down the
track in the direction from which the
train was coming, and it is supposed
that the glare of the headlight so bin.
ded him that he did not see how close
the train was upon him, and was una
ware Of his danger until struck.
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DENTISTRY.
Laconic Locals.

G. X. Lde 4 Co. sell pure lead,
paints, and oils, guaranteed.
Dayton Hunter is in the city.
Rev. w. G. Malonee is in the city.
Miss Stacy Crumley spent last Sat-
urday in Bristol.
Ladies, if you want fine shoes go to,
Hunter & Brown.
A, S. Mcneil OF Bristol was in the
city this week.
Bob Wolfe is back at his post with
Mcneil & Wolfe.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. K. Lide and child
rem went over to Creston, N. G. thii
morning.
Try Kirkpatrick & Co.'S $500 flour
it takes the cake.
@. K. Lide & Co. have the larges
stock builders hardware in East Ten
nessee, and sell cheaper than any body
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CORRESPONDENCE.
CARTER'S.

AAhAEh 0s
We had a killing frost last night,
and ice formed in some places. The
early vegetables and late fruit is all
destroyed.
G. v. Lilly, Jr., who lately graduated
at the Commercial College OF Licking
ton, KY, after short visit to the folks
at home, left for Cincinnati this morn
ing.
George I. Lilly, who has been work
ing with the Louisville Bridge and
Iron Co., has also been at home on a
visit. m
Mrs. James Swiney 70 years Of age
who has been afflicted with cancer fol
many years, died at her home milel
east OF here few days ago. Her hut
band had preceded her but few
weeks.
Married, Gordon and Alice Lilly
Marion Glover officiating minister.
The Misses Whitaker, Of Bristol
are visiting Miss Lena st. John.
Rev. James Scott preached at tn
church here Saturday night and Sal
bath at IL a. m. ge
Master W. T. Plummer, who ha
been on a visit to relatives at Peters
burg, Va, is expected home tomorrow
Mr.. Z. H. Plummer has his circula
saw mill in operation and is maxim
some fine lumber.
The delegates who went to tn
Nashville convention are expecte
home tomorrow.
John Morrell, OF Turkeytown, die
at 8 p. M, May is, at the age of s
and will be buried at the old Motter
burying ground Thursday.
May Is, 1888. ID. Mr..
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Miss Eta Hodges and Mr.. James
Deakin's both Of this county, were
united in marriage last Thursday, al
the residence OF the brides father Mr.
Roeland Hodges, by Rev. I. HI
Crouch. An elegant dinner was sery-
ed, after which the newly married
couple departed for the home Of the
groom on the Chucky River
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The Distressing Death Of Mrs. Judd

The Distressing Death OF Mrs. Judd.
Our community was surprised and
shocked yesterday "wednesday morn
ing on learning of an accident the
night previous by which most high
ly esteemed and greatly beloved wom-
an came to her death. Mrs. Carrie
Judd, wife OF A. w. Judd, OF Chatta-
nooga, was visiting relatives in Fay
etteville, and was spending Tuesday
night at the residence Of her sister,
Mrs. H. K. Holman, who lives in the
northern part Of town. A few min
utes after u o'clock the unfortunate
lady, who has been unwell for some
time, became thirsty and announced
an intention Of getting drink. She
left the room and was heard almost
Immediately to fall into the cistern.
The cistern is in the hall, and as the
pump was broken rope and bncket
were used to draw water from it; one
half of the covering being removed.
Mrs. Judd was unacquainted with the
surroundings, and it is supposed that
in cropping through the darkness she
came upon the cistern before she ex-
pected and thus fell into it. 1t was
about twenty feet to the water, which
was about three feet in depth. There
was no man at the house at the time
and she remained in the cistern until
1.-THE neighbols could be notified and
come and remove her, which occupied
from one-half to three-quarters Of an
hour. Doctors Diemer and Goodnel
made every effort to resuscitate her
but were not successful. A slight
bruise on the nose was the only mark
inflicted by the fall. The deceased
was about 80 years of age, and leaves
a husband and three children. -Fay
etteVille Observer.
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Wall paper and window shades just
received at Mcneil & Wolfe's.
Big line OF straw hats, cheap at
Kirkpatrick & Cos.
Mrs. Melia Miller is able to be out
after weeks illness.
Mr. e. Crandall made flying trip
to Knoxville yesterday.
Kirkpatrick & Co.'S, is the place for
.workingmen to buy their supplies.
The young people pic-niced at Aus
tin Springs yesterday. OF course it
rained
Mr.. Briscoe, of the firm of Briscoe,
Sweepson & Co., Knoxville, was in the
city yesterday.
Fresh car load OF salt just received
at Kirkpatrick g. Co.'S.
Miss Mary Painter, of Wytheville
Va, IS visiting Misses Jennie and
Nora Crumley.
No party is needed to describe the
wonderful bargins in goods at Kirk
patrick & Cos.
Col. E. G. Reeves and DR.. H. H. Car
returned from Nashville last Satur
day.
Editor Wells, of the Commomer il
attending the Republican convention
at Nashville.
Mrs. ]. w. Hunter, has been quit
sick for some days, and we are sorry
to learn that she is no better to-day.
Mr.. Sam Lyle, who has been sicl
with fever for some time, was able Il
be in town this week.
Mr.. W. Hunter and Rev. J. T
Kincannon, a.s attending the South
eCn Baptist Convention at Richmond
Gov. R. l.. Taylor arrived in tn,
city this morning and left on the 8 Al
train for Washington College.
10000 pounds OF wool wanted a
Kirkpatrick & Cos. We will pay s
cents for tub washed, clear OF burs.
An impromptu baptizing was in
dulged in by party Of tourists las
Sunday in Buffalo creek.
The poles for the electric light
have been placed and Johnson Git
will soon be lighted by electricity.
| Mr.. Sam Hunt, who lives near tn
lefty, was kicked by a horse one da
last week, and badly, but not serious
ly hurt.
MRS. Il. b. Robertson, was dele
gate from this place TO the Woman
Missionary Society at Knoxville la.
week.
kirkpatrick & Co., are paying IS ct
per pound, for good tub washed WOO
The Evans" base ball club wi
play game Of base ball at Washing
ton College to-day with a picked mir
from Washington College.
Chamber suits, parlor suits, dininy
room suits, single and bed lounge,
easy chairs, and a complete line OF a
. grades OF furniture at Mcneil
Wolfes.
The COMET returned from Nashvil
yesterday morning with ]. A. Marti
b s. s. Crumley, Ike Harr, Jake Bew
and J. H. Pierce, all delegates r
turned this morning.
The McMinville correspondent
Nashville Democrat says Mr.. Geo. '
St. John and wife Of Carter, East TIE
nessee, are visiting the family of I
D A. B. Ramsey at that place.
. Miss Mary Whitaker and Miss Le
st John, came down from Cart,
Tuesday, to attend the entertainme
u Of the Bristol Dramatic Club, and
manned in the city until yesterday.
l. Several couples of johnson q
~ yeung people went down to Wa
ington College to-day to attend {
T; closing exercises OF that school. G.
R. L. Taylor will deliver the ann
st address.
n" Buck" Horton, who was for ma
y. years a conductor on the n. &
Railroad, died Thursday night
Lynchburg, 0ilste he has held a
ly sition as Master of the Union de-
at neutrality-suspicious..
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Wall Paper! Wall Paperli

A complete stock and prices greatly
reduced at Mcneil 4 Wolte's.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1888-05-17
Cement! Cement!

No. l Black Diamond at $2,35 per
barrel, guaranteed.
@. X. Lide & Co.
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LAWYERS.

Johnson City, Tenn.
viii practice Ia the Law and Chancery Court
oithe counties OF Washington, Sullivan, Carriers
Johnson and Unicei. Collections made any
where in East Tennessee.
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Carpets! Carpets ~ Carpets!!!
New styles, and lowest pricest, just
received at Mcneil & Wolie's.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,

Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Prompt attention given to the collec.
tions of all claims.
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ISAAC HAIR,

johnson City, Tennessee.
win practice In the Circuit and Chancesy
Courts OF East Tennessee and the Supreme
Courts at Knoxville Collections speciality.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN
cHANCERY,
Johnson City, Tenn.
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Main St., Bristol, Tenn.
All operations scientifically performed and
guaranteed. Teeth extracted without pain.
once, next door to Smiths Gallery
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

Lexington Division trains run by Central
time. Main Line trains east Of Huntington
run by Eastern time. which is one hour faster
than Central time. -
No. 4, daily from Louisville, Cincinnati and
Lexington to Washington and the East and to
Richmond and Old Point. Daily except Sun
day from Richmond to Old Point. Solid trains
and Pullman's finest Buffet sleeping cars.
No. 2, daily except Sunday. The Saturday
train runs only as far as Clifton Forge. Daily
Point.
No. 5, daily except Sunday to Washington.
Leave Washington daily. Pullman Parlor
Cars New York to Washington. New Pullman
Buffet sleeping cars Washington to Louisville
and Cincinnati, and from White Sulphur to
st. Louis.
No. i, daily except Sunday. Pullman Sleep.
ing Cars to Washington. Pullman Sleepine
cars without change. Clifton Forge and Whitg
Sulphur to Lexington.
Nos. and 6. Daily except Sunday. Through
Pullman Service between Baltimore, Rich
mond, Old Point and White Sulphur. No. 6
daily from Ashland to Clifton Forge.
Old Dominion Steamships leave Norfolk
Monday Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Saturday on arrival train 90 p m; arrive in
New York next Saturday afternoon.
For Rates, Tickets, Baggage Checks, applyto
any ofdce of O. q o. R'y; or Depot or ticket
once Of connecting lines.
W. @. WICKHAM, n. W. FULLER,
Receiver. Genr Pass'r Agent
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29
Points for WOrkfngman.


The New York Herald gives the work
ingmen of the country few points which
it would be we'll for them to read, mark,
learn, and inwardly digest. We present a
few of them as campaign document and
for the education of the people. They are
as follows -
If young man buys suit of clothes for
$23 the amount of protection he pays for is
SO. The clothes without protection would
cost $14.
If be buys 81 hat he gets 40 cents
worth of hat and go cents worth of protec-
ton.
# young couple just beginning house
keeping buy yard of Brussels carpet for
81 they receive 45 cents in carpet and 80
cents in protection-or say for a whole
room, $12 worth of carpet and $18 worth
of protection. With free wool $1S would
be saved.
If the young woman pays SO for shawl
she gets So worth Of shawl only the other
$3 she presents to the manufacturer to
''protect" him.
worth of dress and So worth of protection.
If, however, she wants pair of shoes,
which formerly cost $3.50 to So. so, she has
only to pay $3.50 or So. so, according to
quality, because some of the s'protectiOn'
has been taken off hides, from which the
leather in the shoe is made.
If she pays so cents for an iron pot OF
pan she gets 80 cents in goods and 20 cents
worth of protection.
If she buys clock for So she receives So
worth of clock and 81 worth of protection.
If she wants a sewing machine and pays
say $40 for it, she gets $11 worth of sewing
machine and SO worth of protection.
If she pays SIG for watch, $12 repre-
sents the timepiece, the other 81 to "pro-
tect" somebody.
If she buys lamp for 81 there is So
cents in lamp and 45 cents to ''keep the pot
boiling" for some protected" individual.
If she has to buy range or stove for $25
she gets SIT in goods and $S worth of pro.
lection.
If she buys dozen steel knives and
forks for So so she gets about So in knives
and $l.50 in protection.
If she buys dozen glass tumblers for 81
she receives in glass 55 cents and As cents
in tariff.
If a young farmer buys 800 worth oi
implements to start out in farming he gets
$55 in machines and $45 in tariff wind pud.
ding. With the Mills bill passed he could
get horse and harness, as we'll as his i'm.
plements, for his $100.
If the farmer purchases barrel of salt
for 81 he gets ga cents in salt and pays 81
cents in protection to companies in Syra.
cuse, Warsaw and Saginaw.
MIR. Blaine and Field Marshal Mat
| Quay are at liberty to use these facts il
| their new political catechism for the pre-
sent and coming generations.
tariff list now in force, down article b,
article, and you will find the hand of. th'
public robber reaching for your pocket, tt
steal from every man, woman and child il
the country. Since each must consum
something 80 each must be robbed"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

No. has Pullman Buffet Sleeper New York
to Chattanooga, without change, via Harris
burg, Hagerstown. and Roanoke; also makes
connection at Hagerstown with fast mail from
Baltimore.
No. has through connection from Philadel-
phia via Harrisburg and G. v. Railroad, and
from Baltimore via w. M. r. r. Daily except
Sunday. Also makes connection at Waynes-
boro Junction with G. & o. R'y west-bound
train.
CONNECTIONS.
At Hagerstown, Nd, with the Western Mary
land Railroad to and from Baltimore, Freder-
lex, Emmittsburg. Gettysburg, Penmar,
Waynesboro, Pa, and points on the Western
Maryland Railroad and branches.
With the Cumberland Valley Railroad to and
from Harrisburg, Carlisle, Shippensburg
Chambersburg. Mercersburg, Martinsburg, and
points on the Cumberland Valley Railroad and
branches.
Also to and from Pittsburg and the West and
Northwest, and Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia and the North and East.
At Shenandoah Junction, W. Va, with Main
Line of Baltimore &Ohio Railroad to and from
the West
No makes close connection at Waynesboro
Junction with c. g. o Ry. East and West
bound trains.
At Loch Laird, with Lexington Branch OF
Richmond & Allegheny Railroad.
At Buchanan with Main Line of Richmond
& Allegheny Railroad.
At Roanoke, with Norfolk d Western Rail-
road.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At BOyce. for Millwood and Winchester. Va.
At tTroutville for Fincastle.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

THINKING AND woRKING.-In our present
system of education-now happily passing
away for better one-we want one man
to be always thinking and another to be al
ways working; and we call the one gentle
man and the other an operative; whereas
the workman ought often to be thinking and
the thinker often to be working, and both
should be gentlemen in the best sense. As
it is, we make both ungentle, the one en-
wing the other despising, the other; and
the mass of society is made up of morbid
unhealthy thinkers and miserable workers.
1t is only by labor that thought can be made
happy; and the professions should be liberal,
and there should be less pride felt in pecu-
liarity of employment. and more in the ex-
cellence of achievement.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29
ROSES BORROWED TRIBUTE TO
LUCIE'S DUST.
BY q. W. ".

Miss Lucie B. Byers died at her home nea
Parnassus. Feb. 2lst. 1851
That winter morn was bright and fair.
AiIthings betokeued Spring.
Mellinuous notes OF happy birds
Made field and forest ring;
But could the world that morn have worn
Habiliments Of gloom,
While my sweet friend was dying In
The zenith Of her bloom.
ASH think of those happy days.
That came and went so fast,
The welkin that was then so bright
With clouds is overcast;
A path within my youthful life
With grass is overgrown.
The birds that sang the sweetest songs
Have from my window flown.
Around our school days. Lucie, there
Were lamentations thrown,
And no leaves from the Upas tree
Across our way were blown;
Duplicity's obtrusive gems
Were not in our crown,
By purling streams of faithful love.
We wandered up and down.
now can see the faces of
The boys and girls at school,
The frowns the stern preceptor wore
When we abused a rule;
But sohoolmates, we are scattered le ives.
Far from the Fepdal tree.
No more will we be gathered there.
As we were wont to be.
o stop to think of her sometimes.
Amid your shouts of glee.
Methinks she'll watch you from the skies,
AS oft she watched you here;
Within the "halls of learning" there
She well nigh spent her life.
And with her praises and her worth
Those sombre walls are rife.
With patient toll she strove to reach
The summit of the hill.
While propositions intricate
Would rise to battle skill;
But ah the work that often here
Threw shadows on her brow,
She executes with wondrous speed,
And without labor now.
know the tears of kindness fall
Around the empty nest.
I.know there is an ugly wound
Within each lsving breast;
Iknow that cruel death hath borne
The household pet away.
know each one more softly tieads
In that sad home to-day.
o lovely. dark-eyed Lucie,
Would that the world gould see
In me, those pure and faultless traits
That grew along with thee;
Upon thy guileless, sunny life
There were no marks of sin,
For in the paths of wickednesR.
Thy feet had never been.
And while thy youthful ashes lie
Beneath the verdant sod,
The happy spirit of my friend
Is safe up there with God;
And when the Heavenly master comes
The book of life to close,
o Lucie, stand beside the gate
There walt and watch for Rose.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

A Minneapolis lady, making her way
through a crowd on the street the other
day, accidentally pnshed small bootblack
into the gutter. She instantly stopped and
said: sNIy boy, excuse me; did not mean
to push YOU" The little fellow stared at
her a moment, and then, turning to bis
companion, said: "Say, Mickey, I'd be
pushed off'n the walk every day to have a
real lady talk to me that way"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

nuauu % Rewarded are those who read this
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uiui ployment that will not take them
: from their homes and families. The
profits are large and sure for every 1ndustrl-
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making several hundred dollars month. 1t
day, Who is willing to work. Either sex young
or old; capital not needed; we start you. Ey-
erythfng new. No special ability required:
Write to us at once for full particulars. which
we mail free. Address 5TINsoN Co.. Portland
Maine. dec Y Silly
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

Young Man Ito editor)-Here is little
poem of a pathetic nature, sir, showed it
to my mother, and she actually cried over
it. Editor (after reading the poem)-You
say your mother cried? Young Man-Yes
sir. Editor-Well, you go home and prom
ise your mother never to write any more
poetry and I think the old lady will dry her
eyes.-Harper's Bazar.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

"Don't be fool," she said, with snap,
to her husband. "Why didn't you tell me
that when / asked you to marry me?" he
replied. and silence fell upon that house.
Unidentified Exchange.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29
1t is Never too Late

to cleanse the teeth, and render the breath
oderiforous with fragrant SOZCDONT, but
it is the best to use this wonderful Vegeta-
bla Elixir before the teoth begin to fail, and
the breath to lose its freshness.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

A poet writes: 81 know sweet songs I
cannot sing" There are great many
other persons in the same predicament but
unfortunately they insist upon singing
lthem,-NorristoW Herald.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-08-29

It is simply marvellous how quickly con-
stipation, biliousness, sick headache, fever
and ague, and malaria are cured by "Sell-
ers' Liver Pills." August 15--