The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-10-02
A NEAT NEW SWINDLE.
BLOCKS OF WOOD SOLD FOR BOT.
TIES OF MEDICINE.
How Clever Bogus Doctor Successfully
Works" the Country Towns-Philaael-
phia Detectives Looking for Him.

PHILADELPHIA, September a6.-Green
goods in medicine is the latest scheme
worked by confidence men in this city.
During the past week or TWO thou
sands of packages of new remedy have
been distributed among the residents OF
the outskirts of the city and of the sur
rounding towns. Mexican Bueno Med
icina, the Great Malaria and Liver and
Kidney Remedy and Blood Purifier" is
the title of the new discovery. The
priceis one dollar ':per bottle.
The new remedy is enclosed in asoiid-
looking package of the standard cubic
dimensions of the ordinary high-priced
patent medicines that are put up IN
quart bottles and encased in stiff paste
board boxes.
A thick, closely fitting and carefully
pasted paper Of tlaring red covers the
package and gives in bold, black type
the virtues of the new medicine. The
face of the package giving the title Of
the cure-all is ornamented with a novel
picture of an Indian camp, in which the
medicine man, preparing his mysterious
remedies in a boiling pot at the door
of his tent, isa conspicuous feature.
On the reverse side is a list of the at
flictions for which the medicine is sure
cure. Almost the entire length OF the
package is occupied by this formidable
list, which includes every known i'll to
which human nature is exposed, except
impecuniosity.
Among the hundred or more specidca-
tons of diseases which this remedy is
guaranteed to cure are "blotches on the
skin" difficulty of breathing" "dim-
ness, of vision" fits" ssfever and
ague," swimming Of the head, .
':heartache, ''loss of Appetite, ''low-
ness of spirits" 'pains in the bones, y
rheumatism" "swellings," ''boiis Of
all kinds" "giddinesS,%, and reduction
Of superhuouS flesh
The list is surmounted by the an
nouncement that Bueno Mediciua is
used by Mexican miners, cattlemen and
Indians as the best known remedy for
all complaints, and is followed by this
announcement:
Manufactured by the Montezuma In
dians of roots, barkS, herbs, gums,
seeds and berries. ADDRESS
CDR. D. NJ. LINDSAY,
''Elm House, Bridgeport, Conn.,"
It requires some time to unwrap the
tightly pasted paper cover and the inner
pasteboard box. This done, the pur-
chaser discovers the most harmless sub
stance ever: enclosed in patent medl-
cine wrapper.
1t is plain, carefully sawed soft
pine wood block, which gives the remedy
the standard weight of about two
pounds.
DR., D. N. Lindsay, who has invented
and introduced this extraordinary med
icine, is well-known figure in this city.
His home is at 305 Bowery, New York
city. He is tall, slender man. forty
five or fifty years old, with long, dark,
curly hair. a black moustache and a
forid, weather-beaten face.
Dressed in costume that is an imi-
tation of the garb of a Mexican ranch
ero, he has been one of the most con-
spicuous promenaders of Chestnut
street during the past two weeks.
his arrival here he registered at
and advertised for ''agents to
hest special medicine in the
# 588 lot been here week before
led more than one hundred
with his pine wood Bueno
On tour of Pennsylvania