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THE VERNON CLIPPER 

VOLUME I.          VERNON, LAMAR CO., ALABAMA         NOVEMBER 21, 1879     
NUMBER 36     

HERE AND THERE

MISS JULIE JACKSON, the daughter of “Stonewall” Jackson, is now a 16-year-old 
schoolgirl in Baltimore.  She is a tall and graceful young woman, with fair 
hair, a pretty complexion, beautiful large gray eyes, and gentle manner.

The plague of rats which infested the Deccan districts, in India, is rapidly 
being “wiped out.”  Nearly one hundred thousand have been killed at Hubli, 
fifty thousand at Gadag, and seventy-five thousand at Nowgund.  Very large 
numbers are being destroyed in the southern Maratha Country.

There is in the almshouse at Dublin, Ga., a woman whose skull bones have for 
years been gradually gaping open both at the longitudinal and the transverse 
sutures, leaving the brain unprotected save by the skin.  One may place the 
finger in the tissues and plainly feel the throbbing of the brain.  She keeps 
a handkerchief bound tightly round her head, complaining of great pain and she 
dreads lest it will burst open when the band is removed for a short time.

GEN. WALKER intends that the enumerators for the next census shall number one 
to every 4,000 inhabitants, instead of one to every 20,000, as formerly, and 
quicker work correspondingly will be made of it.  He recommends that persons 
peculiarly fitted to know the population be selected, as assessors, 
postmasters in small places, school-masters and country physicians.  In 
Germany and England, the schoolmasters are very much relied upon in taking the 
census, being well fitted by their daily habit of precise listing and 
registering.

A stroll into the burial-ground near the Congregational Church at Ludlow, 
Mass., is quite entertaining.  One quaint epitaph for a 3-year old boy reads:
With dysentery and with worms
God did Death license give,
To take away my precious soul
And say I should not live.

Another for a matron of 33 years:
Come, stop awhile, behold and see,
The house for you as well as me,
I once upon the earth did stay,
But not long since was called away.
The town was incorporated in 1771, but the oldest grave-stones are several 
years later.

Speaking of the tradition that Capt. Kidd buried treasure at the mouth of Fear 
River, the Wilmington (N. C.) Star says:  “Even now the work goes on, and 
travelers over the country roads in that direction often see mysterious 
excavations by the roadside, and at night catch glimpses of weird-looking 
groups furtively plying the pick and the spade by the light of a torch in 
quest of the hidden treasure.  The mysterious seekers for these hoards of the 
freebooters are generally colored people, whose cupidity and superstitious 
fancies are worked upon by so-called diviners of their own color.  No one has 
ever head of their being rewarded for their toil and trouble, and in all 
probability no one ever will.

The clothes worn by one beauty at a recent English garden party are thus 
described:  The upper portion, or body, which extended without change of 
substance to very nearly the knee, was composed of a coarsely knitted pink 
silk jersey, cut into the figure, and fitting it like the very tightest of eel-
skins.  The skirt was short; cashmere of the same color, kitted in folds, and 
apparently fastened on to the top part by a draped scarf, with long ends which 
was made of the same material as the body.  As this last was laced up at the 
left side, and as the fair wearer kept her arm determinedly over the eyelet 
holes, large sums of money were wagered as the method by which she had managed 
to get into her dress, which, notwithstanding its eccentricity was certainly 
very effective and becoming. It is to be hoped, however, that before rashly 
adopting a costume of this order the virtuous British matron will seek the 
advice of some candid and unprejudiced female friend; for upon any thing but a 
sylph-like figure the effect would be ridiculous.

Educated, pretty and fashionable dressed women were not common in Nevada City, 
Cal., in 1854.  Therefore the arrival of Madam Dumont in that mining town 
caused considerable excitement, for she was attractive in the three mentioned 
particulars.  Besides, she was not more than 20 years old.  She at once hired 
a corner in a large saloon and opened a faro game.  The novelty of a woman 
dealing the cards drew many gamblers to her table, and her success was so 
great that she soon opened a large establishment, where a dozen games were 
kept going night and day.  She gained the reputation of dealing honestly, was 
always smilingly polite, and the miners liked her – even held her in 
considerable respect.  But her luck changed at last from good to bad, and she 
lost all her money.  She spent a few years in other business in San Francisco, 
but could not recover her prosperity.  A few weeks ago she borrowed $500 from 
an old friend and started for the mining region of Nevada, contemplating a new 
career as a gambler.  She opened a faro game at Brodie, but it lasted only a 
few hours, when the bank was broken.  She paid her losses in the old smiling 
manner, retired to an ante-room, swallowed poison, and died.

SITTING BULL KILLS A COW
	Norman Marion, who has just arrived at Winnipeg, from the plains, 
gives the following incident which occurred during the fight between the 
Sioux, under Sitting Bull, and the United States troops, on July 20 last.  The 
Sioux, consisting of 200 lodges, had crossed the boundary in pursuit of 
buffalo, and were attacked by two companies of United States troops and about 
150 Cheyenne and Crows.  After a severe fight the Sioux retired to the British 
side of the line.  An incident occurred while the hostile forces were opposed 
to each other which carries one’s thoughts back to the days of chivalry.  It 
appears that a celebrated Crow warrior, a powerful man, son of a famous chief 
of that tribe, had long boasted to the Americans that he only desired to come 
in contact with Sitting Bull, and promised that, would such an opportunity 
occur, Sitting Bull should no longer trouble them.  True to his word, while 
the forces were drawn up against each other, the warrior was seen to detach 
himself from the Crows and approach the Sioux, bearing a sort of flag of 
peace.  One warrior then stepped out from the ranks of the Sioux, bearing a 
similar taken.  Upon nearing each other the first brave asked if Sitting Bull 
was among them.  The Sioux answered in the affirmative.  He said he desired to 
meet him in single combat, a s he intended to kill him.  This message being 
delivered, that renowned warrior started out to meet his adversary, each 
putting his horse to a gallop, and when within a short distance of each other, 
the Crow took aim at Sitting Bull, but his rifle missed fire.  Sitting Bull 
then fired, and his opponent fell dead.  Sitting Bull then dismounted, scalped 
his fallen foe, mounted upon his opponent’s horse, and deliberately retried to 
his own party.  The horse itself is a valuable animal, and as famous among the 
Indians as the warrior himself.  Thus Sitting Bull added as much luster to his 
name by the capture of the horse as by the death of his opponent.  When the 
Sioux retreated across the Milk River into British Territory Sitting Bull, 
with eight warriors, constituted himself the rear-guard for the protection of 
the main body, and was himself the last to cross over.

THE SINKING OF A VESSEL BY A WHALE
	Since it has been generally conceded that the fish which foundered 
Capt. Larsen’s bark Columbia in mid-ocean by thumping a big hole in her port 
bow must have been a whale, popular interest in the accident has palpably 
decreased.  In truth, it was hardly more the strange disaster itself than the 
possibility of a new and dangerous sea-monster being concerned in it that 
excited attention – some mysterious, powerful submarine creature, it was 
hoped, hitherto unknown and unexpected.  Hence the opinion of one of the crew 
that a whale struck the vessel was at first scouted in favor of the more 
seductively indefinite statement of another that it was “a huge something with 
fins and tail.”  All the evidence, however, is in favor of the whale theory, 
and it is conceivable that a big whale, going at full speed, could stave in 
the planks of an old craft like the Columbia.  Had the vessel been insured, 
some persons might possibly have found ground for suspecting a voluntary 
scuttling, but she is said not to be insured.  Besides, Capt. Larsen, who is a 
white-haired mariner, with candid eyes, broken English, and an honest smile, 
has inspired general confidence in his veracity.  It is said that this is the 
first case of record of a vessel actually sunk by a whale.  Perhaps it should 
rather be called the first case of a sunken vessel whose crew escaped to tell 
the story.  May not more than one vessel that has sailed and ver been heard of 
have fallen a victim to this form of disaster? – [New York Sun]

A WHITE RAINBOW
	The citizens of Mt. Washington who were astir at 6:30 o’clock 
yesterday morning enjoyed a view of a white rainbow.  At this hour a dense fog 
in the Miami Valley was wafted over the hills by a gentle breeze from the 
north.  As it drifted over Mt. Washington, the sun, then about an hour high, 
partially penetrated the bank, and a large, beautiful and distinct rainbow, or 
fogbow, was visible on the western sky, forming a complete arch from north to 
south, as marked and plain as any rainbow, except that it was entirely white – 
[Cincinnati Commercial]

CARE OF THE HEALTH

CURE FOR HICCOUGH – Under this title, Dr. Grellet of Vichy states, in the 
Revue Medicale, that he has never failed in immediately relieving hiccough – 
i.e., not dependent upon any appreciable morbid condition – by administering a 
lump of sugar imbibed with vinegar.

CHLORAL IN WHOOPING-COUGH – Dr. C. H. Smith reports that in two hundred cases 
of this disease treated with chloral, he has in every case noticed a marked 
alleviation of the symptoms and shortening of the period of the disease.  Only 
one case lasted seven weeks, and the majority of the cases were well in from 
two to six weeks.  No other remedy was given.   – [N. Y. Medical Journal]

VENTILATION – A simple device, says the Plumber, is within the reach of every 
one having an ordinary window in his room, by which fresh outer air can be 
admitted in small quantity with such an upward current as will prevent its 
being felt as an injurious draft by the inmates.  It is particularly adapted 
to sleeping rooms when the weather is too cold to admit of an open window.  
Thus, start both top and bottom sashes of the window half an inch, which is 
not quite enough to clear the rebate or stop-beads at top and bottom, but 
which leaves an opening of an inch between the meeting rails, thorough which a 
current enters, but diverted upward by the glass, as it should be, so as not 
to fall directly to the floor, as its coolness might otherwise induce it to 
do.  It thus becomes well mixed with the air of the room without being felt as 
a draft.

AMMONIACAL SULPHATE OF COPPER IN NEURALGIA – Dr. Fercol has found several 
times obstinate cases of neuralgia of the fifth nerve, tie-donloureaux, which 
had resisted and completely cured by the administration of ammonical sulphate 
of copper. The formula employed is the following:  Distilled water, 100 
grammes,  sirup of orange flower or peppermint, 30 grammes; ammoniacal 
sulphate of copper, 0.10 to 0.15 centigramme, to be taken in the course of 24 
hours, especially during food, in order to avoid irritating the stomach.  In 
one patient, the dose was raised to 60 centigrammes a day without any other 
inconvenience than slight gastric pain and a little diarrhea.  The medium dose 
was 0.10 to 0.15 centigramme, which should be continued from 10 to 15 days, 
even after the complete disappearance of the pains – [London Medical Record]

PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF STRONG EMOTIONS – The influence of anger on the liver 
secretion has been recognized from ancient times – an outburst having often 
resulted in a lilious fever.  Bad news affects the secretions of the stomach, 
so as frequently to take away the appetite.  Sudden fear may cause 
instantaneous death by shock, the nerves of the heart being paralyzed as by a 
blow.  Great good news may act in the same way.  Dr. Hammond of New York, in 
his admirable little work “Cerebral Hyperacmia,” says that he human saliva may 
be changed by rage to a powerful poison, and that the mother’s milk may be 
similarly transformed by fear.  A family having eaten a roe-buck which had 
been so captured as to die only after a long and agonizing struggle, all were 
taken with severe disturbance of the stomach and head – the symptoms in many 
respects resembling those from the bite of a rabid animal.  The man lost his 
sight for several days and was affected with other remarkable symptoms from 
which he was restored only after some months.  His wife died after two years 
of great suffering. Those who ate but little were soon cured.  Dr. Hammond 
believes that the flesh of all animals which have been tortured to death is 
poisonous.  Universal self-control is a condition of bodily health, as much as 
it is of moral excellence.  Even strong religious feelings have their 
dangers. – [Youth’s Companion.]

MALARIAL POISON – A writer in the Practitioner finds a general consensus of 
opinion among Salisbury, Tommasi-Crudeli, Cohn, Lanzi, and Terrigi as to the 
vegetable nature of malarious poison, although they differ as to the exact 
species of algae composing it.  Besides the curious intermissions of ague, 
there are other points about malaria which seem puzzling.  One of these is the 
way in which malaria may again exert its power after a long integral when the 
system becomes depressed from other causes.  Lussana observed that poisons 
taken into the stomach do not at once pass into the general circulation, and 
indeed when taken in small quantities may never get into it at all.  When the 
poison in the portal circulation is to great, the liver is unable to return 
the whole of it, and so a part of it passing into the systemic circulation 
will reach the nerve centers and thus produce its poisonous effects.  What is 
true of metallic poisons Lussanan believes is also true of ague poison.  If he 
is correct, an explanation is afforded of such cases as men who escaped 
illness when in malarial districts but died afterward of malarial fever in 
places where there is no malaria.  Some reaction or depressing influence had 
been at work which afford the development in their systems of the disease 
spores and their passage into the general circulation.  The beneficial action 
of emetics and purgatives as aids to quinine is due to the removal they effect 
of a quantity of bile, and with it probably a number of spores, leaving those 
spores that remain quite controllable by quinine.  In Morocco, where quinine 
is not readily obtained, ague is cured by emetics and purgatives alone.

THE QUIET WAY THE BEST
	The best administrative officers are those who make their authority 
felt with as few words as possible, and never display it unnecessarily.  Men 
who are competent to command – “born leaders” as they are called – have no 
occasion to exact obedience from subordinates, for no one ever thinks of 
disobeying them.  While those who do not possess the faculty only display 
their weakness in their efforts to appear important and impressive.  The story 
is told of a man who had a large number of pigs in a pen near his house, and 
made it his practice to go out every evening and “stir them up” with a club, 
to the great annoyance of the pigs and the disturbance of the neighbors.  One 
of these remonstrated with him one morning, asking why he treated his pigs in 
such a cruel manner.  “Because,” he answered, “I want them to know I am 
boss.”  There are to many men in every community whose idea of executive 
ability is exactly on a par with this.   They bluster and splurge and “stir 
things up” generally, convinced that such foolish parade of authority will 
convince those unfortunate enough to be under them that they are “boss,” 
whereas, the fact is that it served to convince all concerned that they are 
fools.  And the time comes at length when those who are over them find it out, 
and they are dropped.  The quiet way is the best, after all. – [Boston 
Transcript]

LUXURIOUS LEADVILLE LADIES
	The Leadville ladies must be a luxurious lot from the following, in 
the Chronicle of that city:  “There was a time when rich men’s wives and 
daughters in New York and other cities on the Eastern frontier used to be 
richly dressed.  This way during and immediately after the war.  The other day 
a large consignment of the costly jewels worn by the New York social belles 
during the times that were good came to Leadville to be sold.  Such 
consignments have been common in the last few weeks.  Through reverses in 
fortune the high-toned ladies of New York are compelled to sell.  Through 
great and unexpected prosperity the ladies of Leadville think they must buy, 
and to hear of Mrs. So and So, or Miss ---, the daughter of one of the Kittie 
Krocker Mine owners, paying two or three thousand dollars for a pair of ear-
rings, or four thousand dollars for a brace of bracelets, or two thousand for 
a finger-ring, is nothing uncommon.  One house in this city is now wholly 
engaged in bringing to Leadville the most costly jewels that can be found in 
the Eastern markets, and during the season now at hand there will be ball-room 
scenes in Leadville that will dazzle.”

IN THE CHICAGO ART GALLERY
	It was a lady with a check shawl, a reticule and a squint who flounced 
out of the art rooms on yesterday afternoon with a remark that “It’s an 
outrage that them there figgers ain’t got no clo’s on.”
	Her husband, a stoop-shouldered man with a low-crowned, wide-rimmed 
soft hat, a rumpled necktie, long coat, short “pants” and a beard under his 
chin, remonstrated.
	“Don’t make a fool ayerself right afore folks,” said he.
	But the dame was angered.
	“It’s a sin an’ a shame,” she persisted, and her off eye twitched 
further out of true in the excess of her indignation.  “It’s an insult to 
every woman that comes here, an’ what they’ve got on is wuss’n though they 
didn’t have nothin’”
	“Will you keep still?” mildly pleaded the old man.
	“No, I won’t,” said she.  “An’ the sooner you take me out o’this Sodom 
an’ Gomorrer the better for both on us, I guess.” – [Chicago Times]

FOR THE FIRST time in seven years the peach trees of New England produced a 
fine crop this year.

FLIES WORK from sun to sun, but the mosquito’s work is never done.

FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS

JIMMY’S CRUISE IN THE PINAFORE
(We extract the following from a short story by Louise May Alcott, in St. 
Nicholas for October.  A poor Boston boy named James Nelson has a sick little 
sister, Kitty, whom nothing but country air will revive; but his mother is too 
poor to take her out of the hot and dirty city.  So Jimmy sits and sorrows 
about it, until at last he makes up his mind to hire himself out to a ship’s 
Captain, and with his wages, paid in advance, send Kitty to get well among the 
cool, green fields.]
	Little did desperate Jimmy guess what ship he would really said in, 
nor what a prosperous voyage he was about to make, for help was coming that 
very minute, as it generally does sooner or later, to generous people who are 
very much in earnest.
	First a shrill whistle was heard, at the sound of which he looked up 
quickly; then a rosy-faced girl of about his own age came skipping down the 
street, swinging her hat by one string; and, as Jimmy watched her approach, a 
smile began to soften the grim look he wore, for Willy Bryant was his best 
friend and neighbor, being full of courage, fun and kindliness.    He nodded 
and made room for her on the step, the place they usually occupied at spare 
moments when they got lessons and recounted their scrapes to one another.
	But tonight Willy seemed possessed of some unusually good piece of 
news which she chose to tell in her own lively fashion, for, instead of 
sitting down, she began to dance a sailor’s hornpipe, singing gayly:  “I’m 
little Buttercup, sweet little Buttercup,” till her breath gave out.
	“What makes you so jolly, Will?”  asked Jimmy as she dropped down 
beside hima nd fanned herself with the ill-used hat.
	“Such fun – you’ll never guess – just what we wanted – if your mother 
only will!  You’ll dance, too, when you know,” panted the girl, smiling like a 
substantial sort of a fairy come to bring good luck.
	“Fire away, then.  It will have to be extra nice to set me off.  I 
don’t feel a bit like jigs now,” answered Jimmy, as the gloom obscured his 
face again, like a cloud over the sun.
	“You know ‘Pinafore?” began Will, and getting a quick nod for an 
answer, she poured forth the following tale with great rapidity:  “Well, some 
folks are going to get it up with children to do it, and they want any boys 
and girls that can sing to go and be looked at tomorrow, and the good ones 
will be picked out, and dressed up, and taught how to act, and have the nicest 
time that ever was.  Some of our girls are going, and so am I, and you sing 
and must come, too, and have some fun.  Won’t it be jolly?”
	“I guess it would; but I can’t.  Mother needs me every minute out of 
school,” began Jimmy, with a shake of the head, having made up his mind some 
time ago that he must learn to do without fun.
	“But we shall be paid for it,” cried will, clapping her hands with the 
double delight of telling the best part of her story, and seeing Jimmy’s sober 
face clear suddenly as if the sun had burst forth with great brilliancy.
	“Really?  How much?  Can I sing well enough?” and he clutched her arm 
excitedly, for this unexpected ray of hope dazzled him.
	He was so excited he could not sleep, and beguiled the long hours by 
humming under his breath all the airs he knew belonging to the already popular 
opera.  Next morning he flew about his work as if for a wager, and when Will 
came for him there was not a happier heart in all the city than the hopeful 
one that thumped under Jimmy’s threadbare best jacket.
	Such a crowd of boys and girls as they found at the hall where they 
were told to apply for inspection!  Such a chirping and piping went on there, 
it sounded like a big cage full of larks and linnets!  And by and by, when the 
trial was over, such a smiling troop of children as was left to be drilled by 
the energetic gentlemen who had the matter in hand!  Among this happy band 
stood our Jimmy, chosen for his good voice, and Will, because of her bright 
face and lively self-possessed manner.
	When the grand day came at last, and the crew of jolly young stars 
stood ready to burst forth with the opening chorus,
We sail the ocean blue,
Our saucy ship’s a beauty,
We’re gallant men and true,
And bound to do our duty!
	Jimmy hardly knew whether he stood on his head or his heels at first, 
for, in spite of many rehearsals, every thing seemed changed.  Instead of 
daylight, gas shone everywhere, the empty seats were full, the orchestra 
played splendidly, and when the curtain rose, a sea of friendly faces welcomes 
them, and the pleasant sound of applause made the hearts under the blue 
jackets dance gayly.
	How those boys did sing!  How their eyes shone, and their feet kept 
time to the familiar strains!  With what a relish they hitched up their 
trousers and lurched about, or saluted and cheered as the play demanded!  With 
what interest they watched the microscopic midshipmate, listened to Ralph as 
his sweet voice melodiously told the story of his hapless love, and smiled on 
pretty Josephine who was a regular bluebird without the scream.
	That was the beginning of may busy, happy weeks for both the children; 
weeks which they long remembered with great pleasure, as did older and wiser 
people, for that merry, innocent little opera proved that theaters can be made 
the scenes of harmless amusement, and opened to a certain class of young 
people a new and profitable field for their talents.  So popular did this 
small company become that the piece went on to the summer vacation, and was 
played in the morning as well as afternoon, to satisfy the crowds who wished 
to see and hear it.
	But long before that time, Able Seaman James Nelson had sent his 
family out into the country: mother begging Will to take good care of her dear 
boy till he could join them, and his siter Kitty throwing back kisses as she 
smiled good-bye with cheeks already rosier for all the comforts “brother” had 
earned for her.  Jimmy would not desert his ship while she floated, but 
managed to spend his Sundays our of town, often taking Will with him as first 
mate, and thank to her lively tongue, friends were soon made for the 
newcomers.  When the last day came, he was in such spirits that he was found 
doing double-shuffles in corners, hugging the midshipmite, who was a little 
chap of about Kitty’s age, and treating his messmates to peanuts with a lavish 
hand.  Will had her hornpipe, also, when the curtain was down, kissed everyone 
of the other “sister, cousins, and aunts,” and jointed lustily in the rousing 
farewell cheers given by the crew.
	A few hours later, a cheerful looking boy might have been seen 
trudging toward one of the railway stations.  A new hat, brave in blue 
steamers, was on his head, a red balloon struggled to escape from one hand, a 
shabby carpet bag, stuffed full, was in the other, and a pair of shiny shoes 
creaked briskly as if the feet inside were going on a very pleasant errand.
	About this young traveler, who walked with a sailor-like roll and 
lurch, reveled a little girl chattering like a magpie, and occasionally 
breaking into song as if she couldn’t help it.
	“Be sure you come next Saturday.  It won’t be anything like such fun 
if you don’t go halves,” said the boy, beaming at his lively companion as he 
handed down the impatient balloon which seemed inclined to break from its 
moorings.
	“Yes, I know That is so!” hummed the girl with a skip to starboard 
that she might bear a hand with the bag.  “Keep some cherries for me, and 
don’t forget to give Kit the doll I dressed for her.”
	“I shouldn’t have been going myself if it hadn’t been for you, Will.  
I never shall forget that, ”said Jimmy, whom intense satisfaction rendered 
rather more sedate than his friend.
	“Running away to sea is great fun.”
	“With a tar that plows the water” sung Will in spite of herself.
	“And a gallant captains daughter,” echoed Jimmy, smiling cross the 
carpet-bag.  Then both joined in an irresistible chorus of “Dash it!  Dash 
It!” as a big man nearly upset them and a dog barked madly at the balloon.
	Being safely landed in the train, Jimmy hung out of the window till 
the last minute discussing his new prospects with Will, who stood on tiptoe 
outside bubbling over with fun.
	“I’ll teach you to make butter and cheese and you shall be my dairy 
woman, for I mean to be a farmer,” he said, just as the bell rang.
	“All right, I’d like that ever so much,” and then the irrepressible 
madcaup burst out to the great amusement of the passengers:
	“For you might have been a Sooshan
	A French or Turk or Prooshan,
	Or perhaps Ital-I-yan”
At this Jimmy could not resist shouting back as the train began to move:
	But in spite of all temptations
	To belong to other nations, 
	I’m an Amer-I-can,
	Then he subsided, to think over the happy holiday before him and the 
rich cargo of comfort, independence and pleasure he had brought home from his 
successful cruise in the “Pinafore.”


A THOUSAND pounds of powder was exploded in a quarry near Reading, Pa., 
loosening about 30,000 tons of stone at one blast.

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THE VERNON CLIPPER
ALEXANDER COBB, Editor and Proprietor
ALEX. A. WALL, Publisher
$1.50 per annum
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879

Some girls in Berlin who were going to church were attacked at the church door 
by a mouse and driven away.  What kind of a church do they have there in 
Berlin that no young men are stationed at the door to protect the young ladies 
from mice?  At every church that we ever attended there is always a guard of 
young men stationed on each side of the entrance for this purpose. - [Ex.]
	

Any doubts existing regarding the resumption of specie payment would be 
dissolved by a visit to the First National Bank of Montgomery, and a sight of 
the stacks of ten and twenty dollar gold pieces there, which the officers were 
using yesterday in payment of checks.  Cashier Campbell says that it is 
difficult to pay out nearly all customers preferring paper.  It is the old 
story of the Frenchmen presenting his check at the bank during a panic, and 
when offered the money said, “Oh, if you got him I no want him; if you no got 
him I must have him.” – [Mont Adv.

Vaccination is becoming general in China.  One of the most serious objections 
to it yet remaining is curious.  Chinese mammas are unwilling to permit the 
arms of their daughters to be scratched with the lancet, because, unless a 
Chinese girl has a few marks on her face, giving evidence that she has passed 
through small pox, she is considered as lacking one of the chief 
qualifications of a marriageable maiden.  The vaccination scar is still hardly 
deemed a sufficient promise of future immunity from the disease by the 
Benedicts of the Flowery Land.

A singular coincidence recently occurred at Lafayette, Ga.  An elderly lady, 
while out at her cow pen, by some mishap fell over a rail and broke the cap of 
her thigh bone.  She sent for her sister, who went out next morning to perform 
the same work and had the misfortune to fall over the same rail, breaking a 
bone just as her sister had done.  They both now lie in beds in the same room, 
without much hope of ever again being able to walk.

A singular case is to be tried in the Gilmer, Georgia, Superior Court next 
week.  About a year ago a showman was exhibiting a trained monkey in that 
county.  Among other tricks, the monkey had been taught to fire a pistol.  The 
showman handed the animal a pistol and told it to “shoot the ugliest man in 
the crowd.”  Some mischievous boys had put shot into the pistol, and when the 
monkey picked out his man, fired, the shot took effect, and slightly wounded 
the ugly man, who pulled out his knife, cut the monkey’s throat, and whipped 
the showman.  The monkey died next day.  The ugly man was indicted.

A man in Kansas who represented himself as a “practical farmer,” visited all 
the fairs with a prize pumpkin, and took the premiums every time.  It measured 
7 feet around and weighed 230 pounds.  Several days ago, at Council Grove a 
rival farmer attempting to tap the pumpkin in the absence of its owner, to get 
some of the seeds, and discovered that it was made of wood.  This beats the 
ingenious Connecticut invention of bass wood cucumber seed.

Two women at Union, Tenn., had a duel in regular man style.  They both fired 
at the word, and one hit a boy who was climbing over the fence with a 
watermelon, and the other hit a calf in the field.  Both having drawn blood, 
the acknowledged that hey had received satisfaction.

One of the boasted inventions is a milk pail so built that the milker can sit 
on one portion of it during the operation, to prevent the cow kicking it 
over.  That may do in ordinary cases, but we’ve known cows that would glory in 
such a chance to kick both pail and milker over the fence.

THEY COULDN’T MAKE HIM SPEAK
From the Providence Journal
	They had a dime supper in the neighborhood of Pawtucket, conceived and 
carried out by the ladies.  The condition of this novel supper are there:  For 
every word spoken by the gentlemen at the supper table a forfeit of ten cents 
was imposed; but on the other hand (as duties are always compensated with 
rights and restrictions with privilege) it was agreed that whoever could 
weather the whole supper, submitting to all queries, surprises and ingenious 
questions without replying, should be entitled to it gratuitously.  Many and 
frequent were the artifices and subterfuges resorted to by the ladies in 
attendance to entrap the unguarded, and one after another stout and discreet 
men went down before the constant volley of artful interrogations.  At last 
all fee out and paid the dime penalty save one individual – a queer chap whom 
nobody seemed to know.  He attended strictly to business, and passed unheeded 
the jokes and jibes and challenges.  They quizzed him, but all in vain.  He 
wrestles with turkey and grappled with the goose.  He bailed out the cranberry 
sauce with an unswerving hand, and he ate celery as the Scriptural vegetarian 
at grass; and finally, when he had finished his fifth piece of pie, he whipped 
out a pocket slate and wrote on it:  “I am deaf and dumb.”

BE SHORT
	Long visits, long stories, long essays, long exhortations and long 
prayers seldom profit those who have to do with them.  Life is short.  Time is 
short.  Moments are precious.  Learn to condense, abridge, and intensify.  We 
can hear things that are dull, if they are only short.  We can endure many an 
ache and ill if it is over soon, while even pleasure grows insipid, and pain 
intolerable, if they are protracted beyond the limits of reason and 
convenience.  Learn to be short; lop off branches; stick of the main facts in 
your case.  If you pray, ask for what you think you will received, and get 
through.  If you speak, tell your message and hold your peace.  Boil down two 
sentences into one, and three words into two.  Always, when practicable, avoid 
lengthiness.  Learn to be short.

Mr. Garfield, in a recent speech, said:  “I would clasp hands with those who 
fought against us, make them my brethren, and forgive the past, only on one 
supreme condition:  That it be admitted in practice, acknowledged in theory, 
that the cause for which we fought and you suffered, was and is and forever 
will be right, eternally right.  That the cause for which they fought was and 
forever will be the cause of treason and wrong.  Until this is acknowledged 
may hand shall never grasp any rebel’s hand across any chasm, however small.”  
And this is the gentleman whom we invited to address out two commercial bodies 
at Mobile.  At the South we have an unhappy faculty of throwing pearls before 
swine. – {Mobile Register]

JAMES NASH went into his log barn at Richmond, Va., with his lighted candle.  
He was drunk.  A heavy bale of hay, against which he stumbled, fell against 
the door, and the candle ignited it.  The fire spread fast.  Nash yelled for 
help, but his family could not get his out, though they could see him through 
the wide cracks between the logs.  They threw water into the building, but 
that only retarded the fire slightly.  Nash worked desperately in his fiery 
prison, trying to roll the bale away from the door, and to put out the flames 
by shoveling corm on them.  He was driven into a corner and there slowly 
roasted to death.

One thousand students sailed from the grounds of the University at Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, on Wednesday night and attempted to overawe the citizens.  Fire 
bells were rung, the malitia companies turned out and a riot ensued.  A number 
of the students were battered severely, and ten of them were lodged in jail.

The Ashville Aegis contains the following letter from a mother of the vicinity 
in relation to the wonderful sense and presence of mind of her child three 
years old; almost too wonderful to believe.
	“On the evening of the 16th inst., my little babe, aged three years, 
while playing in the yard, fell into a well which was covered with plank, laid 
loose, carrying a short plank with him, the well being between 25 to 30 feet 
deep and containing some 8 to ten feet of water.  Hearing the noise of the 
plank, I ran to see the cause, and on reaching the well I was just in time to 
see him rise to the tope of the water.  I was alone, save three other little 
children, who I sent for help.  I had amid all the anguish of my soul, 
presence of mind enough to let the bucket down, and to tell him to take hold 
of it, which he did.  After some minutes he let loose from weakness, sank 
again, except his little head.  I lowered the bucket lower, telling him to 
take hold of the rope.  he ran his hand through a ring tied on for the purpose 
of sinking the bucket, and caught the bail.  And there he held on for one and 
a half hours, begging me all the time in his baby talk, to come down and help 
him out.  I would say:  “Hold on, Bobbie,”  “I will,” he would reply.   At 
length a lady came to my assistance.  We took a rope and made a noose on the 
end of it, and on letting it down, told him what to do.  He put his foot 
through the noose, drawing it up around his knee.  I asked him if he could 
hold on.  He said he could hold on to the bucket, “draw me out!”  He, holding 
the bucket, the rope around his leg, I telling him not to let go, we drew him 
up, until I could reach his little shivering  hands.  Thus I saved my little 
babe from drowning.  Safe to my breast I clasped his little shivering body, 
and praised God for His mercies.”

As Mr. WATT AUSTILL, a well known and highly resected citizen of Lowndes 
County, was returning to his home from Farmersville, a few nights ago, a 
dastardly assault was made upon him from the rear with clubs by two stout 
negroes.   He was quickly stunned by the first blows that he was unable to 
defend himself, and being at the mercy of the cowardly assailants, was 
horribly beaten and bruised about the face and body.  He was left by his 
assailants lying in the road in an insensible condition.  It was several hours 
afterwards when he was found in this condition, and the injuries he received 
were  generally believed to be fatal, but he has fortunately improved very 
fast and is now on the way to recovery.  The Hayneville Examiner, referring to 
this fiendish assault, says:
	“It could not at first be conjectured who had attacked a peaceful and 
inoffensive citizen in so brigandish a manner, but subsequent developments 
pointed to two negroes of the neighborhood, JOHN FLICKLIN and HILLIARD BONEAU, 
as the perpetrators of the outrage.  In the hands of the former was found a 
bridle which was identified as one Mr. Austill had recently purchased, and 
which was one the horse at the time of the attack.  A warrant was issued for 
his arrest, as also for HILLARD BONEAU, who was proven to be implicated.  They 
confessed having committed the crime, but could not state any therefore.  And 
the fact the Mr. Austill is prosecuting JOHN FICKLIN in the Circuit Court, for 
larceny in the only reason that can be conjectured.  Ficklin is now lodged in 
the Hayneville jail, but Hilliard Boneau escaped from his captors.

In the expense account of the city of London is a charge of nearly ten 
thousand dollars for a dinner to Grant, while a like charge of only eighteen 
dollars is made for a reception of the Prince of Wales.  Really we didn’t 
think whisky and things cost so much in London!

STATE NEWS

Tuscumbia Alabamian:  Mr. W. A. WALKER’S store, at Chickasaw, was broken into, 
last week, and robbed of $535 in money.  The thieves were captured, tried, and 
convicted, but were released upon refunding the money.

Also:  HEADLY COCKBURN shot JNO. THOMAS with a double barrel shotgun, killing 
him almost instantly, on R. E. COCKBURN’S place.  The difficulty grew out of a 
horse trade.

Eufala Times:  On Tuesday morning last, about 11 o’clock, a little three year 
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. DANIEL WILKINSON, who live in the neighborhood of 
Drigger’s Mill, in this county, was burned to death.  The father was out in 
the field, and the mother had gone down the road a short distance to a turnip 
patch to get a mess of turnips for dinner, leaving her little daughter in the 
house, and while returning to the house, she saw her child running down the 
road toward her and in flames, but it fell in the road under its intense pain 
before its mother reached it.  Of course, Mrs. Wilkinson rushed to it with a 
mother’s instinct and affection and she extinguished the fire as quickly as 
possible, but the little one was burned to a crisp nearly all over, and after 
lingering for a few hours in great agony, died of its injuries.  It was 
indeed, a most heart-rending and terrible accident, and it is not known how 
the child’s clothing took fire.  It should be a fearful warning to all 
parents, never to leave a little child or children alone in a house where 
there is fire, a pistol, knife, or anything dangerous within their reach. 

A shocking and heart-rending tragedy took place at Spring Hill, in Barbour 
County, on Tuesday night.  Mr. GEORGE P. CRYMES, a gentleman of great worth 
and high character, received a death wound at the hands of his brother under 
the following circumstances:  A few nights ago a burglar attempted to enter 
the residence of Mr. Crymes brother, but the latter succeeded in driving him 
off without having lost anything.  When Mr. P. Crymes reached his brother’s 
residence Tuesday night, the family had retired, and as Mr. Crymes was 
familiar with the place, he started to enter the house without awakening the 
family.  As he was hard of hearing, he did not hear his brother’s voice when 
the latter hailed him.  As he kept on going into the house, his brother 
supposed him to be the same burglar who had previously attempted to enter the 
house or another one, and then notified him if he did not answer he would 
shoot him.  Mr. C. still not hearing, his brother then fired upon him with a 
double-barrel shot gun, and a load of small shot entered his breast, no doubt 
some striking the vital parts, as he expired shortly afterwards.  No one can 
picture the anguish of the brother when he discovered who it was that had been 
shot.  Every one sympathizes with him.  The deceased was universally esteemed 
by all who knew him. – [Mont. Adv.

Yesterday afternoon, about one o’clock, as Mr. JNO. W. SHEPHERD  was crossing 
Court Square, near the basin his shot gun, which he was carrying on his 
shoulder, by some mysterious means discharged itself.  MR. R. G. BARRY, who 
was ascending the steps leading to the “Advertiser” editorial rooms, came very 
near receiving a portion of the load of the shot discharged from the gun, as a 
hand full or more buried themselves in the stair railing into the window 
frame, where they buried themselves.   Mr. Barry had just passed the point 
where the shot struck, but a moment.  A negro man, employed in this office, 
also passed up about the time.  It was one of the luckiest escapes from an 
accident on record.  How the gun was discharged is one of those mysteries 
which will probably never be unraveled.  It was fortunate that the shot ranged 
upward, as the streets were crowded about that time. – [Mont. Adv.]

BURRIS & BRO.  No. 49 Main Street Columbus, Miss.  We have now in store a full 
stock of general merchandise which we offer for sale very low, for the cash.  
Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore extended to us, we hope by 
selling our goods much lower than in the past to be able to add largely to our 
already numerous list of patrons.  Call and see our mammoth stock.

SHELL & BURDINE, Wholesale and retail druggist’s,  Aberdeen, Mississippi. Are 
daily receiving at their Drug Store a very large stock of fresh goods of all 
kinds usually kept in a first class drug house, and will sell at bottom 
prices, for cash.  All we ask is to give us a trial and we guarantee you will 
not go away dissatisfied for we are determined to sell goods so low that it 
will astonish you.

JOHN D. MORGAN.  Wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods, staple and fancy 
groceries, hardware, wooden ware, willow ware, crockery ware, and tin ware.  
Boots and shoes, hats and caps.  Plantation supplies, etc. would announce to 
his friends and patrons of Lamar and Fayette Counties, that he has in store, 
and is daily receiving one of the largest and best selected stocks of goods in 
the city, and invites everybody to call before buying elsewhere and examine 
his immense stock.  It is no trouble to show goods, and when you look, you 
will be sure to buy for he keeps none but first class goods, and will not be 
under sold by any home in the city.  Columbus, Miss.  July 11th, 1879.  J. S. 
ROBERTSON is with the above house, and would be pleased to serve his many 
friends at anytime.

DR. J. D. RUSH, with ERVIN AND BILLUPS, successors to M. W. HATCH; dealers in 
drugs, medicines, whiskey, tobacco, cigars, &c.  Corner Main and Market 
Street.  Columbus, Mississippi.

NATHAN BROTHERS dealers in whiskies, brandies, wines, cigars, tobaccos and 
pipes.  Our Motto:  Quick Sales and Small Profits.  Columbus, Mississippi.

(engraving of possibly Santa Claus with huge ELGIN watch)
BUDER BROTHERS, watch makers, and manufacturing jewelers, and dealers in 
diamonds, fine watches, jewelry and silverware.  Repairing done neatly and 
warranted.  Under Gilmer Hotel, No. 43 Main ST, Columbus, Miss.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1879

Mr. J. A. POE, of Tupelo, Miss., is on a visit to see his three little 
children, who reside with their grandparents, Judge and Mrs. ALEX COBB.

DIED – On the evening of the 15th inst., at his home in Vernon, little CHARLIE 
P. MORTON, son of DR. W. L. and E. J. MORTON, aged 13 years.  Surely one of 
God’s noblest children has gone up higher.  To the bereaved parents, brothers 
and sister, we tender our heartfelt sympathy, and entreat them to hope one, 
hope ever until the perfect day, when they will by the grace of God meet 
little Charlie in one large happy family, and dwell forever in celestial peace.

On Friday, the 14th inst, as JOSEPH WEBB, of Pine Spring Beat was on his way 
home from Aberdeen, his team took fright, ran away from the wagon and killed 
him almost instantly. He was a good citizen, and leaves a wife and children to 
mourn his death.

We are requested by REV. MR. A. J. JONES, agent for the American Bible 
Society, to announce to all persons in need of Bibles and Testaments, to call 
at MR. A. A. SUMMERS store, where they will find a well selected lot, cheap.

The popular house of LOUIS ROY of Aberdeen, having bought an immense stock of 
dry goods before the rise in prices, is offering to his numerous friends and 
customers, good ten percent cheaper than any house in Aberdeen.

MR. ALLEN JORDAN was elected Marshall of the city of Tuesday night last.  No 
doubt, Allen will make a good officer.

COL. ROBT. MCKEE, the Governor’s private Secretary and keeper of the capitol, 
returned to the State Treasury his four month’s pay as keeper of the capitol, 
because the legislature failed to make the necessary appropriation for that 
period.

“There is nothing like settling down,” said a retired merchant confidently to 
his neighbor.  “When I gave up business I settled down, and found I had quite 
a comfortable fortune.  If I had settled up I shouldn’t have had a cent.”

Remember when you visit Aberdeen to go to the house of Louis Roy and examine 
his stock.  That popular house has a great name for integrity and honesty, and 
never uses humbug.  Every article of dry goods, shoes, and boots, clothing, 
hats, and fancy goods is fresh, and warranted to give satisfaction.

Europeans say that they can always tell an American woman by her feet, which 
are usually smaller and better dressed than the feet of women of other 
nationalities.

A congregation, anxious to get rid of their pastor, were considerably 
perplexed how to do it without hurting his feelings.  After considerable 
discussion they concluded to inform him they were obliged to reduce his 
salary.  A delegation was appointed to wait for him and notify him of the 
fact.  “Brethren,” was the reply, “I have been with you in prosperity and I 
will never desert you in adversity.”

During the late epidemic at Memphis there were 1,521 cases of fever and 473 
deaths – the percentage of mortality being about 31 percent.

Three hundred and thirty-five European Mormons, en route for Salt Lake, 
arrived in New York, the 18th of October.

Knowledge cannot be acquired without pains and application------is 
troublesome,” and like-----for pure waters, but when -----come to the spring, 
it -----to meet you.  (NOTE:  CAN’T READ)

A little girl passing the Washington Statue asked a lady ---- if Washington 
was buried there.  “No,” said the lady.  “Where is he buried?” asked the 
child.  “I don’t know,” replied the lady.  “Then you don’t read your Bible 
much,” said the little innocent.

Buder Brothers, of Columbus, Miss., are staunch Jewelers, and we are pleased 
to speak of them.  Go and see them.  They advertise, as will be seen elsewhere.

The President has issued a proclamation, appointing Thursday, the 27th of 
November, a day of Thanksgiving and prayer.

A young lady of New York was married the other day in the wedding gown of her 
grandmother, made seventy years ago, without any alteration, and so similar 
were the styles no one knew but what it was a new one made for the occasion.

HON. J. E. COBB, Judge of the Ninth Alabama Judicial Circuit, has entered suit 
against the Tuskegee railroad for $40,000 damage.  Judge Cobb had his foot 
badly mashed by a hand car on the road last fall, hence the suit.

MR. WILSON SHEPHERD, of Northport, while feeding his cotton gin, on the 9th, 
had his fore arm caught in the teeth and severed from the body, from the 
effect of which he died on the 12th.

A woman applied for a situation recently, with her clothes dripping like a 
water spout.  On being asked as to her condition she said she understood the 
lady of the house wanted a wet nurse, and she had come ready for service.

A body was found last week on the shore of Lake Michigan, near Miller’s 
station, and identified, from the description given by dispatches from WM. E. 
BURR, as the remains of his brother, GEORGE BURR, who ascended in the balloon, 
Pathfinder, with Prof. WISE.

Mr. H. A. SANBORN, of this place, has a banana tree, six years old, that has 
been blooming within the last two weeks, and has now four clusters of fruit on 
it – the larger containing ten bananas.  As the tree is now unprotected, and 
the fruit nothing like grown, it is not likely to mature before frost.  The 
tree is quite a curiosity in this latitude.  It has leaves on it fully 5 feet 
in length.  The tree is about ten feet high, and probably four inches in 
diameter.  The blooms, when they first open, are very pretty. – [Greensboro 
Beacon]

$5 to $20 per day at home.  Sample worth $5 free.  Address Stinson & Co., 
Portland, Maine.

As Louis Roy is selling more goods than any house in Aberdeen, he can on that 
account sell ten percent cheaper  than any other house in the place.

ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Letters of administration was this day granted to the undersigned by Hon. 
ALEXANDER COBB, on the estate of WILLIAM WALKER, deceased. This is therefore 
to notify all persons holding claims against said estate to present them 
within the time prescribed by law, or they will be barred, also all persons 
indebted to said estate will make payment to me. This 15tjh day of November, 
1879.
	JOHN D. WALKER, Admr.

NON-RESIDENT NOTICE
State of Alabama, Lamar County
Circuit Court, Fall Term 1879
GEORGE G. WEIR, Executor of the last Will and Testament of DIADEMA COX, 
deceased.  
vs Attachment
RICHARD H. COX
	Came the Plaintiff by his attorney and Defendant shown to be a non-
resident of this state.
	It is ordered by the Court that notice be given to the Defendant of 
this attachment and levy of same on lands of Defendant by publication in the 
Vernon Clipper a weekly newspaper published in this county for four 
consecutive weeks, and that a copy of said notice be sent to the defendant if 
his post office can be ascertained.
	A true copy of the Minutes.  This 19th Nov. 1879
	JAMES MIDDLETON
	Clerk Circuit Court for Lamar County

NOTICE
All persons are hereby notifies not to credit my wife, SARAH THOMPSON on my 
account, or any one else without a written order from me, as I will not pay 
any debt contracted by her from this date.  Oct. 31st, 1879.
	MARVEL THOMPSON	

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
By virtue of an order and decree of the Probate Court of Lamar County, 
Alabama, I will offer for sale one the premises on the 5th day of December 
nest, the following real estate to wit:  NE ¼ of SE ¼  and SE ¼ of NE ¼ and N 
½ of NE ¼, Sec. 19, T 15, R 16 West, as the lands belonging to the estate of 
WILLIAM CORBETT, deceased.  Terms of sale one tenth in cash, the remainder on 
a credit of one two three and four years with equal installments.  This 7th 
day of November, 1879
	GEORGE S. EARNEST, County Admr.

THE BEST PAPER!  Try it!  Beautifully Illustrated.  35th Year.  THE SCIENTIFIC 
AMERICAN.  The Scientific American is a large first-class weekly newspaper of 
sixteen pages, printed in the most beautiful style, profusely illustrated with 
splendid engravings, representing the newest inventions and the most recent 
advances in the arts and sciences; including new and interesting facts in 
Agriculture, Horticulture, the Home,  Health, Medical Progress, Social 
Science, Natural History, Geology, Astronomy.  The most valuable practical 
papers, by eminent writers in all departments of Science, will be found in the 
Scientific American.  Terms, $3.20 per year, $1.60 half year, which includes 
postage, Discount to Agents.  Single copies, ten cents.  Sold by all news 
dealers.  Remit by postal order to Munn & Co., Publishers 37 Park Row, New York

PATENTS.  In connection with the Scientific American, Messrs Munn & Co., are 
Solicitors of American and Foreign Patents, have had 35 years experience, and 
now have the largest establishment in the world.  Patents are obtained on the 
best terms.  A special notice is made in the Scientific American of all 
Inventions patented through this agency, with the name and residence of the 
Patentee. By the immense circulation thus given, public attention is directed 
to the merits of the new patent, and sales or introduction often easily 
effected.  Any persons who has made a new discovery or invention, can 
ascertain, free of charge, whether a patent can probably be obtained, by 
writing to Munn & Co.  We also send free our Hand book about the Patent Laws, 
Patents, Caveats, Trade Marks, their costs, and how procured, with hints for 
procuring advances on inventions.  Address for the paper, or concerning 
patents.  Munn & Co., 37 Park Row New York.  Branch office, Cor. F & 7th Sts, 
Washington, D. C. 

SHERIFF’S SALE
By virtue of a venditioni exponas issued by W. G. MIDDLETON, Clerk of the 
Circuit Court of Lamar County, I will offer for sale for cash  at the Court 
House door of said county on the 1st day of December next, the following tract 
of land, to wit:  E ½ of SW ¼ and W ¼ of SE ¼ and SE ¼ of SE ¼ Sec. 29, T 13 R 
14, levied on as the property of J. F. HAWKINS, and will be sold to satisfy 
said venditioni exponsas, in favor of G. C. BURNS.  Sale within usual hours.  
This 24th day of October, 1879.
	D. J. LACY
	Sheriff, L. C. 

ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE
Letters of Administration was this day granted to the undersigned, by HON. 
ALEXANDER COBB, Judge of Probate, for Lamar County, on the Estate of WOODY 
BAILEY, late of said county, deceased.  This is to notify all persons holding 
claims against said estate to present the same properly proven up within the 
time prescribed by law, or they will be forever bared.  All persons indebted 
to said estate will make payment to me.
	THOS. W. SPRINGFIELD, Admr.

NOTICE
On Tuesday 2nd day of December next, I will sell to the highest bidder 80 
acres of land, on the Military Road, Eighteen miles N E of Columbus.  There is 
on the place a roomy dwelling, kitchen and dining room, all framed buildings.  
Situated on Military road near by the junction of the Jasper and Vernon road.  
Terms one third cash, the balance one and two years credit.  Eighty or two 
hundred and forty acres more can be purchased privately if desired, on the 
above named terms.  The sale will be on the place at twelve o’clock.  There 
will be no by-bidder, the place will sell.
		JESSE CALDWELL.  Oct. 29, 1879.

TAX NOTICE
I will attend at the Precinct in the several beats in this county at the 
following times for the purpose of collecting the State and County Taxes for 
the present year, 1879, to wit:
TOWN				BEAT		NOV		1	NOV 
	19		
STRICKLANDS			“		“		3	“
	20	
STEINS				“		“		4	“
	21	
MILLPORT			“		“		5	“
	22	
VAILS				“		“		6	“
	24
TRULL’S			“		“		7	“	25
	
WILSONS			“		“		8	“	26
LAWRENCE’S			“		“		10	DEC.
	1
SIZEMORES			“		“		11	“
	2
BROWN’S			“		“		12	“	3
HENSONS SPRINGS		“		“		13	“	4
MILLVILLE			“		“		14	“
	5
PINE SPRINGS			“		“		15	“
	6
MOSCOW			“		“		17	“	8
BETTS				“		“		18	“
	9
The last five days of the year I will be at Vernon.
		D. J. LACY
		Sheriff, & T. C. of L. C., Ala.

GEO. W. RUSH with N. GROSS & CO., Columbus, Miss.  Wholesale and retail 
dealers in fancy dress, and staple dry goods & ready made clothing, boots, 
shoes, hats, notions, etc.  Will be glad to see his old friends and all new 
ones who may be pleased to call upon him.  No trouble to show goods, on the 
contrary, it will be a pleasure, whether you buy or not. Satisfaction 
guaranteed, as to articles bought and prices.
BILL HAMILTON with ROY & BRO., wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods, 
notions, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, &c.  Aberdeen, Miss.  Highest price 
paid for cotton.

A WORD TO THE AFFLICTED
The most miserable human being in the world is that person suffering with a 
shaking chill of a burning fever.  The joys of life are but a misery to his 
mind, and he longs for a balm to go restore him to health.  The cure is at 
hand for every sufferer.  The greatest of all medicines.  Cuban Chill Tonic 
the Great West Indies Fever and Ague Remedy cures Chills and Fever, 
billiousness, and liver complaint every time.  It blots out disease, carries 
off malarial poison, and restores the sufferer to health, strength and 
happiness.  Try Cuban Chill Tonic, the Great West Indies Fever and Ague 
Remedy, if you suffer with chills and fever, and be cured.  Take no other 
medicine.  Cuban Chill Tonic will cure you and give you health.  Get a bottle 
from your druggist W. L. MORTON & Bro., and try it.

Parker’s Santonine Worm Lozenges are the best of all worm medicine.  Thousands 
of mothers, all over the land, give their children Parker’s Santonine Worm 
Lozenges.  Try them, at W. L. MORTON & BRO.

$66 a week in your own town.  Terms and $5 outfit free.  Address H. Hallett & 
Co., Portland, Maine.

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF U. S. MAILS
The Columbus Mail by way of Caledonia arrives Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdays 
at 11 o’clock a.m.  Leave same days at 1 p.m.
FAYETTE MAIL 
Arrived on Wednesday and Saturday at 12 p.m. and leaves same days at 1 p.m.
MOUNT CALM MAIL
Leaves Wednesday at 7 a.m. arrives Thursday at 2 p.m.
PIKEVILLE MAIL
Arrives Fridays at 6 p.m., leaves Saturdays at 6 a.m.
SCHEDULE OF MOBILE & OHIO R. R.
Train leaves		6:30 am
Train arrives		9:30 am
Train leaves		3:20 pm
Train arrives		6:30 pm
Train goes through to Starkville on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays.
Leaves Aberdeen going South at 4 o’clock p.m., returns at 8 p.m.
Leaves Aberdeen going North at 7 o’clock a.m., return at 11 o’clock a.m.

MCQUISTON & HEISEN, Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants 96 & 98 Commerce 
St., Aberdeen, Miss.  Farmers will make money by letting MCQUISSTON & HEISEN 
sell their cotton when they come to the city.

R. A. HONEA & SON, Wholesale and retail dealers in staple and fancy groceries, 
Aberdeen, Miss.  We would respectfully inform our friends, and the public 
generally, that we are at our old Stand next door to J. W. ECKFORD & Bro. (Old 
Presbyterian Block) and have in store and will keep constantly on hand a large 
and well selected stock of staple and fancy groceries.  Bagging and ties, 
corn, oats, wheat bran, &c., which we will sell at rock bottom figures for 
cash.  R. F. RAY, of Detroit, Ala. is salesman.

MEDICAL
M. W. MORTON.  W. L. MORTON.  DR. W. L. MORTON & BRO., Physicians & Surgeons.  
Vernon, Lamar Co, Ala.  Tender their professional services to the citizens of 
Lamar and adjacent country.  Thankful for patronage heretofore extended, we 
hope to merit a respectable share in the future.  Drug Store.

DR. G. C. BURNS, Vernon, Ala. Offers his professional services to the citizens 
of Vernon and vicinity.

LAMAR DIRECTORY 
County Court – Meets on the 1st Monday in each month.
Probate Court  - Meets on 2nd Monday in each month.
Commissioner’s Court – Meets on the 2nd Monday in February, April, July, and 
November.

REPRESENTATIVES
W. A. MUSGROVE and I. H. SANDERS

COUNTY OFFICERS
ALEXANDER COBB – Judge of Probate
D. J. LACY, Sheriff and Tax Collector
W. G. MIDDLETON, Circuit Clerk
JAMES M. MORTON, Register in Chancery
D. V. LAWRENCE, Treasurer
J. E. PENNINGTON, Tax Assessor
W. T. MARLER, Coroner

COMMISSIONERS
W. G. RICHARDS			W. M. STONE
J. J. BRANYAN				J. A. COLLINS

Masonic:  Vernon, Lodge No. 389, meets on the 1st Saturday of each month, at 7 
p.m.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
FRANCIS JUSTICE, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Pikeville, Marion 
Co., Alabama Will practice in all the Courts of the 3rd Judicial District.

SAMUEL J. SHIELDS, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Vernon, Ala., 
Will practice in the counties of Lamar, Fayette, Marion, and the Courts of the 
3rd Judicial District.

JNO. D. MCCLUSKY, Attorney at Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Vernon, Ala.  
Will practice in the counties of Lamar, Fayette, Marion, and the Courts of the 
3rd Judicial Circuit.  Special attention given to the collection of claims, 
and matters of administration.

EARNEST & EARNEST.  W. S. EARNEST    GEO. S. EARNEST.  Attorneys at Law and 
Solicitors in Chancery, Birmingham & Vernon, Ala.  Will practice in the 
Counties of this Judicial Circuit.

NESMITH & SANFORD.  T. B. NESMITH, Vernon, Ala.  JOHN B. SANFORD, Fayette C. 
H.  Attorneys at Law.  Partners in the Civil practice in the counties of 
Fayette and Lamar.  Will practice separately in the adjoining counties.  THOS. 
B. NESMITH.  Solicitor for the 3rd Judicial Circuit.  Vernon, Lamar Co., Ala.

ALEXANDER COBB & SON, Dealers in ready made clothing, dress goods, jeans, 
domestics, calicoes, silks, satins, millinery, embroidery, notice, &c.  Hats, 
caps, boots, shoes, saddles, bridles, leather, &c.  Tin, wooden, Hard and 
glass wares, crockery, &c.  Salt, flour, meal, bacon, lard, soda, coffee, 
molasses, &c.  Snuff and tobacco.  Irish potatoes.  Parties owing us will 
please come forward and settle up their accounts.  Any of our friends who have 
traded with us liberally in the past can get any of the above mentioned goods 
at LOW prices for cash.  We return thanks to our friends for the liberal 
patronage they have given us and hope they will continue the same.

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line.  Obituaries, tributes of respect, etc. making over ten lines, charged 
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$72 a week, $12 a day at home easily made.  Costly outfit free.  Address True 
& Co., Augusta, Maine.

Bring your job printing to the CLIPPER.  We print all kinds of blanks, deeds, 
mortgages, law briefs, cards, tags, circulars, bill heads, letter heads, note 
heads, statements, poster work.  We propose to do all kinds of job printing as 
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any.  When you want any kind of job printing done, please don’t fail to 
examine our specimens before going elsewhere.  Blank Waive Notes for sale at 
this Office.

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To correspondents.  All communications for this paper should be accompanied by 
the name of the author; not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of 
good faith on the part of the writer.  Write only on one side of the paper.  
Be particularly careful in giving names and dates to have the letter and 
figures plain and distinct.  

JAPANESE CARPENTERS
Japanese carpenters – a number  of whom have been exhibiting their skill in 
fitting up the stage of a San Francisco theater for a company of gymnast from 
Yeddo – have an advantage over American mechanics, in the fact that they have 
hour hands instead of two, their toes being as handy as their fingers, but 
they gain nothing by it, because they make no use of work-benches or vises.  
If a Japanese carpenter wants to sharpen a saw, he squats down, places the 
back of the tool to be operated upon the ground, grasps one end of the saw 
with his left hand, seizes the other with the toes of his right foot, and goes 
to work with as much confidence as an American carpenter at a bench.  Their 
tools are not like American tools, though they have a faint similarity, 
showing that all tools have a common parentage, whether their inventor was 
Tubal Cain or some other artificer.  All Japanese saws are shaped like 
butcher’s cleaver, but flattish, as if whittled out of a piece of inch-board.  
The metal shank of the saw is driven into that of the handle, and the whole is 
secured by being wrapped with a fine split cane.  The metal of the saw is 
about the substance of our saws, but the teeth are narrower, giving more of 
them to an inch, and much longer.  They are all pointed toward the handle, and 
cut the wood like so many hooks.  When a Japanese wants to cut a plank, he 
places it across anything that will elevate the end a few inches, then stands 
on the wood and cuts it by seizing the cleaver-looking saw and pulling it 
toward him.  Thus, by a number of short, quick up strokes, he gets through a 
plank not so speedily, but quite as effectually as an American carpenter would 
with the long, low-down strokes of the rip-saw.  The planes are small, with 
single irons, and no handles.  The planes are shorter, lighter and the wood 
shallower than ours, being generally not more than an inch deep.  To plane a 
piece of wood they lay it on the ground, squat down, hold it fast with their 
toes, and work the plane with both hands toward them.  To drill a hole they 
have a short awl inserted in the end of a round stick eight or nine inches 
long.  They take the wood between their toes, squat as before, and make the 
hole by rubbing the handle of the awl between their hands, in less time than 
one of our carpenters could drill one with a gimlet.  Their hammers are solid 
cylindrical pieces, not made shapely with waists  and graceful outlines like 
ours.  They have the same flat-sided handles as the saws.  The Japs have iron 
squares, not unlike American squares, marked with degrees.  Their measures are 
brass, very light and fluted.  On one side the inch, or what stands for an 
inch with us, is one and three-sixteenths inches, and divided into ten parts.  
On the other side is a different scale, measuring one and thirteen sixteenths 
inches, and divided into twelve parts.

FINE CLOTHES AND THEIR WEARERS
	The daughters of the British Minister, in Washington, while still 
school-girls, never appeared in society.  Very rarely they were seen with 
their mother in a box at the opera, and then astonished the gay, bejeweled 
American girls with their high-necked, plain, gray stuff dressed and sailor 
hats.
	English woman of good position have greatly the advantage of American 
mothers in the good sense and taste they display in dressing their girls.  A 
school-girl in England is held to be a child, and is clothed with the modesty 
and simplicity befitting a child.  There can be nothing more pitiable than the 
spectacle which is presented on Saturday afternoons on our fashionable 
thoroughfares, when they are crowded with girls of from 12 to 16 years of age, 
plumed, furbelowed and jeweled, and showing in every motion a pert 
consciousness of their finery.  Many of them, of course, belong to families of 
small means.  The foolish mother stints, saves and stitches until midnight to 
make the dresses and finish the finery which renders her child ridiculous in 
the eyes of persons of good taste, and which gives the girl herself false 
notions of the importance of dress which debase her whole nature.  The 
children of the Prince of Wales, one of whom will probably some day sit upon 
the English throne, wear in public gowns and coats which many American boys 
and girls would think very ordinary and common.

MRS. E. B. DUFFEY, associate editor of the Vineland (N. J.) Daily times, is 
described as a very energetic wide-awake woman.  She sets type, composing her 
editorials without copy, works all day long in the office, doing with her 
daughter’s help the work of three men, filling up her evenings in sewing and 
other domestic duties.  She is an authoress of ability, having written several 
books, which have been extensively sold.

A marriage has been declared null in New York because the young man swore he 
was drunk when the ceremony was performed.  The woman in the case very 
sensibly declined to make any defense, evidently believing that the young man 
was not worth contending for.

SCIENCE AND PROGRESS
Charleston’s business last year amounted to $53,000,000.

The South American Cable has been completed between Natal and Mozambique.

Victoria (Australia) has a short supply of wheat this harvest, amounting to 
957,000 bushels.

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul company ahs the largest mileage of any 
road in the world – 2,363.

During July the exports of petroleum were over 50,000,000 gallons, of an 
aggregate value of over $4,250,000.

A Boston woman receives $10,000 a year in royalties from sewing-machine 
companies, for a simple improvement, or attachment, which she happened to 
think of one day.

The telephone has found its way into Russia, and its use is ingeniously 
illustrated in the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy, near Moscow.  The Professor 
of practical agriculture directs by means of the telephone the work on fields 
several miles distant without leaving his library, and an assistant received 
and transmits his orders to the students in the field.

The production of steel effected by Great Britain last year was 807,527 tons.  
In the same year the United States made 732,226 tons of steel; Germany, 
240,000 tons; France, 140,000 tons; Belgium, 75,000 tons; Sweden, 20,000 tons, 
and Austria, 25,000 tons.  The aggregate steel production of the world was 
thus something over 2,000,000 tons last year.

The grape crop of California, it is stated, will, this year, exceed that of 
previous years, from the fact that a largely increased area has this season 
come into bearing, and that the increased price paid this year by vintners for 
grapers will have the effect, with growers, who formerly sold for shipment 
fresh, or made them into raisins, to sell direct for wine making.

East Liverpool, Ohio, is the great center of the yellow-ware trade, and now 
great efforts are being made to manufacture fine china-ware in New Jersey, at 
Trenton.  Governor McClellan is taking a great deal of interest in the 
industry.  Mr. Fisk, of the American Crockery Company, estimates that the 
growth of the Trenton trade has reduced the importation of foreign war 35 to 
40 per cent, during the past three years.

The Gothard Tunnel is being pushed rapidly to completion. Four thousand men 
are now engaged in the work, and fresh hands are taken on every day.  The 
advance is at the rate of very nearly eight meters a day, and on Aug. 30, the 
length still to be bored was 1,135 meters, so that the tunnel will probably be 
finished by the end of this year or the beginning of next.  The making of the 
Mont Benere branch will be commenced on the 1st of October, and its completion 
is expected to coincide with that of the main line.

Sixteen of the principal English railway companies have suffered an aggregate 
loss of income during the first half of the present year of $3,365,000, as 
compared with the first half of 1878.  Only five companies showed any increase 
of revenue during this period.  In passenger traffic alone, the aggregate 
decrease experienced by the 16 companies amounted to $1,987,670.  The 
consequent falling off in the sum divisible among ordinary stockholders of 
these companies is $1,750,000.

The Italian Government is about to construct a large observatory on Mount 
Etna.  A site has been selected at a height of 9,652 feet above the level of 
the sea, near the Casa degl’ Inglesi, so called form a building erected there 
in 1811 by the English during their occupation of Sicily.  The purity of the 
atmosphere is so great at this elevation that the planets can be observed with 
the naked eye almost as well as with telescopes of low power through the thick 
atmosphere of towns.  Venus, when shining alone in the heavens, casts a 
distinct shadow.  This will be the second loftiest observatory in the world, 
the United States signal station at Pike’s Peak, in Colorado, at an elevation 
of 14,336 feet, being the loftiest station.

A German scientist, after years of study and experiment, has succeeded in 
obtaining a chemical composition by means of which a mirror image may be fixed 
and sold as a photograph.  With this composition the mirror surface is 
painted, and the back part of the mirror receives also a coating of oil.  The 
mirror thus prepared is held before the person who is to be photographed.  The 
oil coating evaporates, and the likeness of the person remains in natural 
colors on the light surface.  The image, so fixed, is brought into a bath, and 
is exposed half an hour to the sunlight before delivery.

Among the tourists who returned form Europe this week are Dr. E. B. FOOTE, of 
the health Monthly and Mr. Dana, of the Sun.  Attaches of his establishment 
state that Dr. Foote has combined business and pleasure by attending to 
publishing interests abroad, his “Home Talk” “Medical Common Sense” and other 
works being translated and republished at Berlin and elsewhere. – [N. Y. Local 
Reporter]

Mr. Thomas Hunt, farmer, of Cumnor, near Oxford, England, celebrated his 
hundredth year a few days ago and is in hale health.

THE LEADING CITIES
	The census of voters just taken in Baltimore indicates a population 
for that city of about 350,000, an increase of upwards of 80,000 since the 
Federal census of 1870.  This shows a fair ration of growth, but 
notwithstanding it, the chances are that by the census of 1880 Baltimore will 
be shoved down a notch in the scale of American cities as respects 
population.  In 1870 she stood sixth, being exceeded by New York, 
Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, and St. Louis.  Boston was then seventh on 
the list, being 17,000 behind Baltimore.  The “Hub” by the absorption of 
Charlestown and some other suburbs, made up much more than the slight lead of 
Baltimore, and with the natural growth of the city was put some distance in 
the lead.  With a population of 341,919 in 1875, Boston is 1880 will not fall 
far short of 400,000.  New York and Philadelphia will, of course, be first and 
second, respectively, in 1880; but only the census itself can tell the exact 
rank of either Brooklyn, Chicago, or St. Louis.  Each of these cities has a 
population exceeding half a million, unless the census of St. Louis in 1876 
and the Chicago directory man are grossly erroneous.  Cincinnati is without a 
rival at present for eighth place on the list, holding the same relative rank 
now that she did in 1870 – [Exchange

“ESQ”
	A young man whose money didn’t hold out as long as the State Fair, 
dropped into the telegraph office yesterday and sent a dispatch to his father 
in an interior town to forward him cash to reach home with.  When the 
receiving clerk saw that he dispatch read, “To John Blank, Esq.” he suggested 
that a saving could be made by erasing the “Esq.”
	“Well, mebbe you think so, but I don’t” replied the sender.  “When I 
am at home I can call him ‘dad’ all day long, but when it comes down to black 
and white you’ve got to ‘Esquire’ him right up to the nines, or walk home by 
the dirt road.  Don’t you dare leave that off – not with the roads as muddy as 
they are now!”
	In about an hour the following answer was received:
To -----:  John Blank, Dsq. forwards you $10 and you can have more if you want 
it. John Blank, Esq.
	“Didn’t I tell ye,” chuckled the young man as he read it.  “Dad’s 
common enough when we’re all home and rushed to get fall wheat in, but the 
minute his back gets rested and a stranger comes along he weighs more to the 
ton than any “Esq” on legs.  I tell ye, you don’t know a man till ye’ve hoed 
corn with him!” – [Detroit Free Press]

HOW HE CONVINCE THEM
	Ex-Gov. J. W. THROCKMORTON  certainly understands all the arts of an 
old Texan.  In his speech defending Ed. Bomar, at Gainsville, after having 
spoken about an hour he said:
	“Gentleman of the Jury – It is said by the prosecution that because 
the decease was in his shirt-sleeves when killed, he had no pistol.”
	Here Mr. Throckmorton pulled off his coat and stood before the jury in 
his shirt-sleeves.
	“You would say,” continued Mr. Throckmorton, “that I am not armed 
because I am in my shirt-sleeves.  Look! Do you see my arms?” cried he, 
holding up his hands.
	No signs of arms could been seen.
	Mr. Throckmorton, then drew a pistol from under his left arm, another 
from under his right , one from each boot, and a huge bowie-knife from the 
back of his neck, placing them upon the table.
	“You see, gentlemen, though in my shirt-sleeves, I could be well 
armed.”
	This was a clincher and it carried the point, entirely destroying the 
argument of the prosecution. – [Dallas Herald]

In former years it was a common occurrence to find 50 percent of the field 
hands in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama struck down with Swamp Fever, 
Chills and Fever or Dumb Ague, just during the busiest time of the summer.  
Now, we are glad to hear that the planters succeed in curing every case of the 
disease in a few days by the use of Dr. F. Wilhoft’s Anti-Periodic and Fever 
and Ague Tonic, which is sold by all druggists through the country.

Grocers everywhere see National Yeast.  If you have never used it, buy a 
package and be convinced of its superiority over all others.

Chew Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.

Guns, Revolvers.  Illustrated catalogue free.  Great Western Gun Works, 
Pittsburgh.

Big pay to agents for Gunn’s Newest Family Physician.  J. W. Marsh, St. Louis, 
Mo.

$3000 a year.  Our agents make it.  New goods.  Coe, Yonge & Co., St. Louis, 
Mo.

Big wages summer and winter.  Samples free.  National Copying Co.,  300 W. 
Madison St. Chicago.

Students.  English branches $10 a year.  Write to Miller’s Great Business 
College.  Keokuk, Ia.

Hair.  Wholesale and retail.  Send for price list.  Goods sent COD.  Wigs made 
to order.  E. Burnham, 292 W. Madison St. Chicago.

$2000 a year easy made in each county.  Good business men and agents Addr. J. 
B. Chapman, 60 West St. Madison, Ind.

Pure teas.  Agents wanted everywhere to sell to families, hotels and large 
consumers.  Largest stock in the county.  Quality and terms the best.  Country 
storekeepers should call to write The Wells Tea Company, 201 Fulton St. N. Y. 
PO BOX 4550.

Bryant & Strattons (NOTE:  ELEGANT CURSIVE SCRIPT)  Business and Telegraph 
College., St. Louis, Send for cir.

We loan Money on farms, city, church and Village property.  For particulars 
address (with stamp).  U. S. Home and Power Association.  201 N. 6th St. St. 
Louis, Mo.  Responsible agents wanted at six percent.

Dyke’s Beard Elixir….(TOO SMALL TO READ)

Well – Auger.  Ours is guaranteed to be the cheapest and best in the world.  
Also nothing can beat our sawing machine.  It saws off a 2-foot log in 2 
minutes.  Pictorial books free.  W. Giles, Chicago, Ill.

Agents read this.  We will pay agents a salary of $100 per month and expenses 
or allow a large commission to sell our new and wonderful inventions.  We mean 
what we say.  Sample free.  Address Sherman & Co., Marshall, Mich.

Ridge’s Food for Infants and Invalids.  Has found its way into high places the 
world over and Medical Journals and physicians give it their approval.  
Woolrich & Co., on every label.

Cure fever and ague, dumb ague, &c. for 50  c with a bottle of Dr. Bond’ Comp. 
Tonic Syrup.  The medicine was never known to fail.  $50 offered for a case it 
will not cure.  Sold wholesale by Meyer Bros & Co., and at retail for 50 cents 
per bottle by all druggists.  Dr. Bond Med. Co., Prop’s., Peoria, Ill.

Beautiful “New Style” organ in solid walnut case.  5 octaves and 4 stops only 
$41.  Elegant new 9 stop organ, two full sets reeds only $50.  Elegant new 
Rosewood $800.  Parlor upright piano only $141.  All sent on 16 days test 
trial to your home.  Illustrated Catalogue free with thousands of reference.  
Address U. S. Piano & organ Co., New York.

Catarrh, asthma, and bronchitis cured at your own home by Devone’s Inhalene a 
healing vapor taken direct to the disease.  The most reliable treatment 
known.  Satisfaction guaranteed.  Home treatment sent on trial, to be returned 
if not satisfactory.  Send for circular to the Home medicine Co., S. W. Cor. 
10th and Arch Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.

25 cents.  On the 39th of September we began the publication of the most 
interesting Serial Story ever presented to the readers of this country, and 
will send THE CHICAGO LEDGER, postpaid, from that date until January 1, 1880 
for twenty-five cents.  This offer holds good till Nov. 1, 1879, and back 
numbers of the Story will be supplied.  Address THE LEDGER, Chicago, Ill.

$25 Every day can be easily made with out Well Augers & Drills.  One man and 
one horse required.  We are the only makers of the Tiffin Well-Boring and Rock-
Drilling machine. Warranted the best on earth!  Many of our customers make 
from $20 to $40 d day.  Book and Circular free.  Address Loomis & Hyman, 
Tiffin, Ohio.

The Sing Class Season.  Just out.  The temple ($9.00 per dozen) a splendid new 
Singing School, Convention, and choir book; by Dr. W. O. Perkins.  As a choir 
book equal to any of the largest ones.  As a Singing School book, better than 
the cheaper and smaller ones, since it has much more music; that is, 130 pages 
of new songs and glees, and 150 pages f the best Metrical Tunes and Anthems.  
Specimen copes mailed, post-free, for $1.00.  Remember also THE VOICE OF 
WORSHIP ($9.00 per dozen) recently advertised Johnson’s new method for singing 
classes, and excellent book, ($6.00 per dozen) and L. O. Emerson’s ONWARD 
($7.50 per dozen) Send for specimen, catalogues, or circulars.  Just out.  
STUDENT’S LIFE IN SONG. ($1.50) with introduction by Charles Dudley Warner.  
115 of the jolliest of college songs.  A capital book for social singing.  
Just out.  THE VOICE AS A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, by C. H. S. David, M. D. (37 
cts) An invaluable treatise on the construction and management of the Vocal 
organs.  With plates.  Just out.  THE LAST NUMBER OF THE MUSICAL RECORD.  Send 
6 cts. for one number.  $2.00 for the year.  “Wouldn’t be without if for five 
times the price.”  Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston.  C. H. Ditson & Co., 843 
Broadway.  New York.

Occidentalis.  Prevention is better than cure.  To avoid chills and fever, 
billious attacks, sick headache, dyspepsia, constipation or piles, use our 
great herbal remedy.  No aloes, quinine, arsenic or nauseating drugs.  
Thousands are using it.  All indorse it.  Ask your druggist for it.  A. & V. 
C. Miller, Proprietors, 722 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

Pond’s Extract subdues inflammation, acute or chronic controls all 
hemorrhages, venous and mucous.  Invaluable for sprains, burns scalds, 
bruises, soreness, rheumatism, boils, ulcers, old sores, toothache, headache, 
sore throat, asthma, hoarseness, neuralgia, catarrh, &c.  Physician of all 
schools use and recommend Pond’s Extract.  No family should be without it, as 
it is convenient, safe and reliable.  Invaluable as a pain destroyer and 
subduer of all inflammatory diseases and hemorrhages. Farmers stock breeders 
and livery me should always have it.  Leading livery and street car stables in 
New York and elsewhere always use it.  Sprains, harness and saddle chaffing, 
cuts, scratches, swellings, stiffness, bleeding. &c are all controlled and 
cured by it.  Our special preparation, veterinary extract, is sold at the low 
price of $3.50 per gallon, package extra.  Prices pond’s extract and 
specialties,  Pond’s extract, 50 c, $1.00 and $1.75.  Catarrh Cure 75c.  
Ointment 50c, plaster 25c, inhaler (glass 50c) $1, Nasal syringe, 25c, 
Medicated pap’r 25c  Any of the above preparations sent free of charges in 
lots of $5.00 worth, on receipt of money or P. O. order.  Caution – Pond’s 
Extract is sold only in bottles, enclosed in buff wrappers, with the 
words,  ‘Pond’s extract’ blown in the glass.  It is never sold in bulk.  No 
one can sell it except in our won bottles as above described.  Send for our 
new pamphlet to Pond’s Extract Comp’y. 18 Murray Street, New York

Epilepsy or Falling Fits.  The following from an article on Falling fits, from 
the Christian Statesman, may be interesting to the reader:  “having very dear 
friends so troubled with this malady that death is looked for by them almost 
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DR. CLARK JOHNSON’S INDIAN BLOOD SYRUP.  Cures dyspepsia.  Cures liver 
disease.  Laboratory, 77 W. 3d. St., New York City.  Late of Jersey City.  
Cures fever and ague.  Cures scrofula and skin disease.  Cures biliousness.  
Cures heart disease.  Cures rheumatism and dropsy.  Cures nervous debility.  
Trademark (picture of an Indian).  The best remedy known to man!  Dr. Clark 
Johnson having associated himself with Mr. Edwin Eastman, an escaped convict, 
long a slave to Wakametkla, the medicine man of the Commanches, is now 
prepared to lend his aid in the introduction of the wonderful remedy of that 
tribe.  The experience of Mr. Eastman being similar to that of Mrs. Chas. 
Jones and son, of Washington County, Iowa, an account of whose sufferings were 
thrillingly narrated in the New York Herald of Dec 15, 1878, the facts of 
which are so widely known, and so nearly parallel, that but little mention of 
Mr. Eastman’s experiences will be given here.  They are, however, published in 
a neat volume of 300 pages, entitled “Seven and Nine Years Among the 
Commanches and Apaches: of which mention will be made hereafter.  Suffice it 
to say that for several years Mr. Eastman, while a captive, was compelled to 
gather the roots, gums, barks, herbs, and berries of which Wakemetkla’s 
medicine was made, and is still prepared to provide the same materials for the 
successful introduction of the medicine to the world; and assures the public 
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(Picture of another Indian)  Wakametkla, the Medicine Man.  Cures female 
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and feeble, care only being required in attention to directions.  (Picture of 
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and is known as Dr. Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood Syrup.  Price of Large 
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of those who have been cured by the use of Dr. Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood 
Syrup in you own vicinity.  Testimonials of Cures.  DYSPEPSIA AND 
INDIGESTION.  Greensburg, St. Helena County, Ia.  Dear Sir:  This is to 
certify that after trying various kinds of medicine in vain for dyspepsia and 
indigestion, I got some of you wonderful Indian Blood Syrup, which I took 
according to directions and was greatly benefited thereby.  It is an excellent 
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May 11, 1879.  Dear Sir: - This is to certify that after trying your Indian 
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with dyspepsia for several years, and have tried every kind of medicine, but 
to no effect.  I was induced to try your Indian Blood Syrup and purchased four 
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fever.  It is the best medicine I ever used, and would not be without it.  
Mrs. John Blue.  CURES RHEUMATISM.  Mannington, Marion Co., W. Va., March 4, 
1879.  Dear Sir: I have been bothered for several years with rheumatism, and 
was unable to find anything to relieve me, I got some of your Indian Blood 
Syrup, which relived me wonderfully.



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