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OVERPLAYED THEMSELVES.
A Fool Farmer Nearly Loses $4,000
to a Brace of Swindlers.

STOCKTON, March 1.-Two .sharpers,
believed to be the gold-brick swlndlers who
worked Sacramento farmer out of $1,000
a few days ago. attempted to get $4,000 from
a farmer residing at AcampU, this count y,
on the old lottery ticket game. The farmer
came to town to draw 5000 and exhibit it
as evidence of his standing. but finally be-
came alarmed and the game was at an end.
The swindlers pretended to be anxious to
buy the farmers ranch. but hesitated about
going into the Courthouse to examine the
title, and their willingness to accept the
farmers verbal guarantee of title spoiled
the swfndle
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TOO MUCH GOLD.
The Treasury Has Now Started on
the Tn Grade.

WASHINGTON, March 1s.-The Treasury
Department Is receiving offers OF gold for
small notes in such number that it cannot
accept them all. To-day 1t accepted an adj
ditionsl offer OF $1,000 GOO from Chicago 1t
is thought by next week the free gold in
the treasury will aggregate between
$4,000, coo and 100000. A gain of $500. 600
in gold was made at New York yeste rday.
No gold was taken for export.
NEW YORK. March 1S.-The bank state
ment is as follows: Reserve increase,
1886 COO; specie. decrease S211. 600. The
banks now hold S6.039,OG0 in excess Of re-
uuiremeDts
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WEARY OF MOST.
The Anarchists Have Thrown Him
Over at Last.

OfCl al L-dSts
NEW YORK, March 18-The anarchists
have abandoned Herr John Most. He is
branded as traitor, and the various anar.
chistic associations of New YORK claim that
they are in possession of ample proof that
the great apostle Of discomfort not only
is traitor and coward but is a dishonest
man who has lived when outside prison
walls like a nab0b at the expense
of his dupes. What precIpltaled the
climax was the knowledge that Most
recently had n private meeting with Super
intendent Byrnes and Police Commissioner
Martin, in which it is said he promised not
only to stop denouncng the police In the
future. but also to divulge many secrets
concerning the doings of his fellow-anarch-
lists, on condition that he himself be allowed
hereafter TO enjoy his gains in peace.
Most, anarchist, and Billy McGory,
the ex-divekeeper. are going into the res
uaurant business together, as anarchism has
paid Most quite we'll.
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Satisfied the Court

CINCINNATI, March 1S.-Upon the petition
Of Samuel Thomas of New York appoint
ment OF receiver was made for the Cincin-
matt, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Rail-
way, the Cincinnati Southern. Mr.. S. F..
FELTON,. the president of the road, was ap-
pointed, and his bond was fixed al S1o0 600.
The allegations in the Thomas petition are
not obtainable at present. writing. but they
satisfied the court perfectly
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QUARANTINE STATION AT YUMA.
The People Declare Against the FL
Rio Site for the Post

The People Declare Against the FL
Rio Site for the Post.
YUMA. Ariz.. March 1S,-The people Of
Yuma are indignant over the fact that the
California State Board of Health proposes
to put quarantine station at FL Rio, only
five miles from Yuma. Ell Rio is on the
only line of travel TO San Diego. Lower
California, the desert and the mines south
and west. II is also on the Yuma Indian
Reservation, and at the point where the
Cocopah and Yuma Indians hold many of
their pow-wows- The citizens of Yuma are
determined that it shall not be located at
Ell Rio. where it would be so dangerous to
them. They will insist that 1t shall b. put
at Rock Spur. where the Southern Pacific
railroad officials decided to locate it last
YEAR
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Krupp's Exhibit.

BALTIMORE. Md, March 18.-After a
tempestuouS voyage from Hamburg, with
the second consignment OF the Ktupp ex-
hibit for the Worlds Fair, the British
steamship Longueil arrived off Sparrows
Point at noon to-day. The cargo comprises
exclusively war material The chief article
is big 124-ton cannon. built expressly for
the exhibit.
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sOUANDERED THE TRUST.
A Philadelphia Lawyer Put in a Hot
Roy

PHILADELPHIA, March 18.-Counsel for
the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe De-
posit Company filed in the protho notaries'
office to-day bill in equity against Joseph
II. N. Gazzam. the well-known attorney,
in which the latter is charged with reckless
and improper management of funds while
acting as fiduciary agent of his father-in-
law, the late John G. r aiding The bill
alleges the loss Of upward of 100000, for
which It is claimed Gazzam is responsible.
GaZZam's vile is now divorced from him.
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PROGRESSIVE STOCKTON.
Plans Adopted for a New Hospital and
Almshouse.

STOCKTON, March 1S.-The Board OF Su-
peryisors to-day adopted the plans of Arch
ilect Rushford OF this city for the new
County Hospital and Almshouse, to be built
three miles from this city on tract of 400
acres. The building will cost $50, 900. With
the new Courthouse. costing $3.50, 900, the
new Jail. costing $4,000, and the new hos
pital to be builr this year San Joaquin has
splendid public buildings. The county in
debtedness is only $4,000 with a property
valuation of $40. 900 and tax rate as
low as any in the State.
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BERRY WAS RIGHT.
The San Diego Collector Sustained by
the New York Appraisers.

SAN DIEGO. March 1S.-Collector Berry
has received decision from the Board of
General Appraisers at New York sustaining
his action in assessing the duty on 600 lambs
sold here one year ago by Andrew Bere-
eOcheR. The latter protested against the
duty payment, holding they were American
product. Now he Will have to pay and this
will probably make other floek-masters fear
to continue the loose methods practced on
the International line BIZ running sheep in TO
Mexico to escape the Assessor. and then re-
turning them for clipping and ambing.
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DIED OF HEART FAILURE.
The Passing Away of an Ex-senator
of the United States

ST. LOUIS, March 1S-Ex- United States
Senator Armstrong died to-day.
Death was caused by heart failure. He
came to st. Louis from Nova Scotia in 1887
and took charge of the public schools. He
was appointed United States Senator to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Colonel
l.. v BOgy. He was for many years a
member of the Democratic State Central
Committee, most of the time its chairman
He directed fusion of the Democrats
and Liberal Republicans in 1870. which re-
suited in the election Of the first Demo-
cratic State administration after the war
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CALIFORNIA FRUIT IN ENGLAND.
Arrival of the First Shipment of Los
Angeles Oranges.

Los ANGELES. March 1s.-The Earl Fruit
Company of this city received cable adj
vices from Liverpool to-day. announcing
the arrival OF the first shipment OF Califor-
MIA navel oranges ever sent to England.
The fruit arrived in splendid condition and
all sold at an average of So 80 per box. 1t
was three weeks in transit. English fruit
experts pronounce the oranges the finest
ever received.
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For additional telegraph see eighth
page.
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New Orleans Races

NEW ORLEANS. March 1s.-Ths track
was slow.
Four and half furlongs, In Time won,
Little Cad second. May Y third. Time, :57.
Five furlongs, Frank Ellis won, Daphne
second, Galen Brown third. Time, :O3A
Six furlongs, Emperor Billet won. Fam
pest second, Aisel Jr. third. Time. 1:17A.
One mile and a furlong, Phelan Dorian
wen, Wedgefield second, Beeswing third.
Time. 1:59A.
Owners handicap. six furlongs. Tramp
won. Maud second. Readna third. Time,
l :16.
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uQUOR-DEALERS FAIL.
But the Assets Are Said to Exceed
the Liabilities,

ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March l8.-The whole
sale liquor-house of the James Walsh Mer-
camille Company was taken possession of
Tonight by J. F. Smith, acting for the cred
itors. The liabilities so far aggregate Sl41,-
798. The assets are yet unknown. but will,
it is reported, aggregate $4,000.
CINCINNATI, March Is. At about 8
o'clock tonight fire broke out in the inl-
mense distillery of James Walsh & Co. in
C0yington, KY. 1t is not known how the
fire started. In two hours and a half the
walls had fallen in and the destruction was
complete. The loss is put at $3.50, 900, we'll
insured.
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WATKINS, SCHEME.
The Channel Tunnel May Have a
Chance of Life.

LONDON, March 1S-After repeated in
terrogatiOns and much Parliamentary pres
sure the Ministry has at last avowed its
surrender to Sir Edward Watkins. His
channel tunnel bill is not to be opposed by
the Ministry. nor by any ministerial depart
ment. Gladstone is a convert to the tunnel.
He long since advocated it in public. Glad
stonians are free to vote against it if they
like, and there are Gladstonians who take
the liberty of differing on such questions as
this from their revered leader. The Union
lists are against il almo 70 a man.
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The Mexican Boundary.

SAN DIEGO, March 1S.-Leutenant D.
D. Gaillard of the United States Corps of
Engineers and Lieutenant W. G. Jackson,
Twenty-fourth Infantry. have reached this
city, having ridden across the desert from
Yuma on a reconnaissance of the boundary
line between Yuma and the Pacific.
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THE TACOMA DOCKED.
Freight for This City to Be Discharged
at Victoria.

VICTORIA. B. c.. March 1S.-The North
ern Pacific liner Tacoma has been fumi-
gated by the quarantine steamer Earl, and
locked at the outer wharf this afternoon.
More than fourteen days have elapsed since
the last case developed. and the health
authorities consider that no new cases
will occur. The steamer has 5000 tons of
freight. including large quantity of silk.
San Francisco freight will be discharged
here. The vessel will leave for Tacoma
tO-morroW
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RECEIVER FOR THE MONoN.
Mr.. Craig Likely to Have a Fight Be-
fore Getting One.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March IS.-G. w.
KreIznger. general counsel, E. S. Fields,
general solicitor, and Ayers and Jones of
this city appeared in Judge Bartholomew 8
court to-day in behalf of the Monon Rail.
way in the suit of William J. Craig who
asked for receiver for the road They
filed an affidavit setting forth that Craig is
nonresident OF Indiana and asked that he
be required to furnish the cost of bond by
next Saturday, and they also asked for an
order requiring Craig on five days notice
TO appear and submit to examination under
oath. Judge Bartholomew made both
orders
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was adopted in the year 1889 by Jacob
Young and wife, who then lived at North
Alton. They afterward went West and
died, leaving property valued at $780, 900.
This suit, brought to establish her interest
in the property, was fought by the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company, Michael
Seis and Henry Weinhardt, who are in pos
session of about nine acres of land in the
city OF Portland. Or, valued at $4,000, 600
The case Will be appealed to higher court
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IN GRAVE DANGER.
How the Village of Honeybrook May
Sink Into Fire.

Olih mo f-ITS.
HoNEYBRooK, Pa, March IS. - The
Honeybrook mine took fire several months
ago, burning away the supports and closing
the opening. 1t was supposed to have
burned itself out; but now 1t Is burning
fercer than ever. The surface near the
strippings is so heated that the water flow
ing over it is Immediately dried up. Grave
apprehension is felt forlthe surroun ding
mines, as the fires are liable to eat into their
workings. Millions Of dollars of coal
properly is imperiled. The village of
Honeybrook. Immediately over the mine, is
menaced by a collapse of earth. Fissures
already run through the town from which
quantities of smoke and gases are escaping.
The people are in state of terror.
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"ThE PORTLAND HEIREss."
A Suit Involving Property in Oregon's
Chief City.

ALTON, H., March 1S-The suit brought
by Mary E. lyman (nee Murray for record
ing her adoption. has been decided in tile
Alton City Court in her favor. The case
has become famous. and she has been known
as the Portland HeiIess." Mary Murray
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San Diego Salyationists.

SAN DIEGO, March 1S-The Salvation
Army corps, for several Sunday nights, has
been entertaining guests at the big hotels.
and fasteners are looking forward to a
great meeting tomorrow night. when. after
special services in Assembly Hall, recruits
are to be sMnrn in.
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MURDERED AND BURNED.
An Atrocious Crime on the Illinois
Prairie

ROCKFORD ILL.,. March 1s.-The residence
of Henry Boedeker at Freeport was burned
this morning. Tile bodies Of Boedeker and
his wife were found burned almost beyond
recognition. The first Deighbor to arrive
saw the door open. BOedeker is suppo sed
to have had considerable money in the house.
and it is believed burglars entered, killed
the couple and fired the house to conceal
the crime.
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swINDLlNG PHOTOGRAPHER.
Hundreds of Sacramentans Laid Under
Contribution.

SACRAMENTO, March 1S.-A man named
Lloyd, who has been conducting what was
styled as Hurton's Photograph Gallery in
this city for some time past, has disap-
peared, after swindling hundreds of resi-
dents. He had numerous agents. who COL
lected orders and % cents on each picture.
A balance OF 81 was charged and collected
when the party came to sit before the
camera. A proof of the picture would be
promised ready for delivery in few days.
but nOue was ever given.
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BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR CATTLE.
Arizona Stockmen Benefited by the
Recent Heavy pair and Snn,,,faII

Recent Heavy Rain and Snowfall.
YUMA, March 1S.-The heavy rainfall in
the southern part and snow in the eastern
and northern parts of Arizona have bene-
flied the cattlemen hundreds of thousands
Of dollars, and they are jubiant over the
prospects for good feed for their stock.
Ranchers and fruit-growers are well pleased,
as now the irrigatlng canals Will have full
supply of water for the season. The snow
Is two feet deep In WilIiamsons Valley,
near Prescott, and four feet deep in the
hills and mountains of the upper Ola River
in the eastern part of the Territory. Three
fourths Of an inch Of rain has fallen in
Yuma in the past ten DAVIS.
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OREGON Pacific RonI<s

NEW YORK. March 1S-Judge Ingram to-
day, after hearing arguments of counsel,
said be would en- Monday make an order
confirming Everest w. Hadley as receiver
OF the Oregon Pacific Railroad and direct
ing ex-Receiver I. Egenton Hogg to sur
render the books Of The company
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The Dempsey-Maber Fight.

PORTLAND, March 1S.-Jack Dempsey
said to-day that he has been in correspond
ence with Butte (Mont.) club regarding
his match with Billy Maber. Dempsey
says he will fight there If the club puts up
purse of $4,000 and he can get side bet Of
$4,000,
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THE DIAMONDS DISAPPEARED
Guardian of Young Girl Suing for
Family Heirlnnn1S

SAN DIEGO, MOrch 1S.-A singular suit
has been brought by the guardian of Mar
guerte Boies, minor Of 10 years, again st
the estate of Marguerite Wells. her maternal
grandmother, to recover the value Of $500
worth Of diamonds intrusted 10 her keeping
by the girls mother, also since deceased,
until Marguerite should come Of age. The
diamonds were to have been stored in a
bank vault but have disappeared. The ap-
pearance of a family skeleton is anticipated.
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BELIED HIS APPEARANCE.
Stockton Merchants SwIndled by a
Seeming YokeI.

OSChihS iOhSI.
STOCKTON, March 1S.-A smooth rascal
worked several merchants here last Tuesday
on forged checks and orders, but so far as
heard from, he got away with only S55. he
claimed 10 be a farmland and appeared
countrifed. but he was slick as such fellows
usually are. He appeared to be about 80
years old. of medium height and weight,
fair complexion and clean shaven. His PEN
manship is poor and the c1unterfeited sig
nature is careless, but his ease and ap-
parent frankness make him dangerous.
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MILTON. March 1S-The Hon. d. J. B.
Schroebel. Assemblyman from Calaveras,
returned from Sacramento to-day and re-
ceived warm reception from the citizens
of this place. assisted by the Third Regi-
mental band Of Stockton.
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NEYADA'S DELEGATES.
The Silver States Representatives at
the Trans Mississippi Congress-.

CARSON. March 1S.-Governor Colcord
to-day appointed the following Nevadans
to represent this State in the Trans Missis-
sippi congress to be held in Ogden April "a:
Enoch Strother. c. A. Jones, R. Sadler, R.
NJ. Clarke, B. Fl. Bowler. A. C. Cleveland,
Frank Williams, w. A. Massey, w. D.
Jones and John Gallagher.
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BAPTIST CENTENNIAL.

A Great Celebration of the Event in
Progress.
RICHMOND. Va, March 1S.-The Baptist
Centennial celebration, which commenced
in this city this evening and will continue
until the Goth. opened with devotional
meeting at the First Baptist Church. con-
Quoted by Rev. DR.. Broaddus OF Louisville.
Tomorrow services will be held in all the
Baptist churches of this city and Manches-
ter. when the subject of modern missions
will be fully discussed.
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procession passed mp and down the business
streets. headed by the Livermore Cornet
band. Six competent judges were selected
to pass upon the different horses. A large
number OF people from the surrounding
country were in attendance at the exhibit
ton. and our town took ON regular holiday
appearance a running race with six en-
tries took place at 8 o'clock. and was won
by Hugh McMurray's bay horse Harry
Wilkes. Others would have followed had
1t not begun raining The exhibition and
races were voted a grand success.
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0audaur viii ChaIIenge stanburv,

TORONTO. Ontario, March 18.-Jake Gau-
daur Will in few days issue formal chal-
lenge to James Stanbury the Australian
Oarsman, who is now in San Francisco.
The challenge will be for $500 a side and
the championship of the world.
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THROUGH THE HEART.
1t Is Dangerous to Interfere in Family
OuarreIS,

CHICAGO, March 18.-Frank WandeH, a
swiichmsb. tonight shot and killed David
Candrell, a fellow-workman. WaDdelPs
wife deserted him this morning, and he in
sisted that his landlady connived at her
fight. He abused the woman violently,
and when Candrell interfered to protect
her he shot him through the heart.
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-Four frst-premium medals awarded More agree
able TO the taste and smaller dose than other mag
nesia. For sale In bottles only with United states
Government registered label attached, without
which none Is genuine. At druggists and cOuEsJ
stores.
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MARRIED MONEY.
The Romance of an Oak
land Reporter.
WEALTHY MRS. WALKERLEY.
A Story That Begins in Courthouse
and Winds Up at the
Altar.
Special to THE MoRNINa CALI.

NEW YORK. March 1S.-William F. Bur
bank and his bride, formerly Mrs. Blanche
NJ. WaIkerlsy of California. are at the
Buckingham. They were married near
Boston Tuesday. After visiting Washing
ton and other places. they will 90 to Win
stonsalem, the twin city of North Carolina.
where Burbank owns and edits successful
daily and weekly newspaper. Their engage
ment dates from July last.
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HOODS PILLS cure Constipation by restor-
Ing the peristaltc action OF the allmeutary canal
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COVERED BY INSURANCE.
Slight Loss for a Big Milwaukee
Fire

MILWAUKEE Wis, March ia fire this
afternoon in Friend Bros block on Broad
way damaged the stock of the Ellsworth
Manufacturing Company. hats and gloves.
to the extent of $4,000 Some Of the stock
of Friend Bros, wholesale clothing, was
damaged, making the entire loss, mostly by
smoke and water, in the nelghborhood of
$4,000. The building was only slightly
damaged and the stocks were fully covered
hv In
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HAMMERED HIS BRAINS OUT.
The Paramour of an Oregon Woman
Murders Her Husband

BAKER CITY. Or, March 1S.-Mrs. Shaw.
who, together with a farmland named
Calm. was arrested for the murder of her
husband, Alfred p. Shaw, in Grant County,
giving out that he was Kicked to death by
stallion, has broken down and confessed
that she was intimate with Calm and that
the latter killed her husband with a ham,
mar
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STOCK AND STATIONS.
Success of the Tenth Annual Exhibit
ton at Liyermore.

tIOIf E-IN
LIvERMoRE. March 1S.-The tenth annual
stock and stallion exhibition was held here
to-day. On account of the threatening
weather the entries were not as numerous
as on former occasions, but those that were
entered were Of a very high grade. The
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP co.

DISPATCH STEAMERS FROM SAN On
~ francisco for ports In Alaska > A " Aaa
March 81, April and May 10, %. June 4, IA, ~, .
For British Columbia anc Puget Sound ports
Mar. "a 81. April s. and every fl TIA day thcrsafter
For Eureka, Humboldt Bay, Wednesdays, 8 A ~
For Newport. Los Angeles and all way porLs
every fourth and fifth day. A. N.
For San Diego, stopping only at Port Hartford
Santa Barbara RedondO and san Pedro (LOs An.
geles). every fourth and fifth day, at IL A. NJ
For ports in Mexico, first of each month
Ticket 0aice-Paiace Hotel, 4 Now MONTGOMERY AZ
GooDALL, PERKINS & CO, General Agents
4U 10 Market 81, san Francisco.
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as even years ago our daughter Blanche, then
four years OF age, had a humOr break out on her
hands and face, which our physician pronounced
eczema. She seemed to derive no benefit al all
and II the cold air reached her face or hands
they would swell up at once and look almost
purple, and headed blisters would form ana
break, diseharging a watery substance, and
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The Burning and Itching

wild Unless We eucased her little hands she
would tear patches If skin from her face and
hands. The itching was intense. We tried
many doctors and many remedies, and at last
gave the case up as hopeless. But In the sum-
meT of 81 our daughter Cora tried Hoods Sar-
saparla, to cure a scrofuous lump near the left