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COUNTY LOCALS.
We- vxiut a number of additional
Correspondent throityhotl lhn County.
Can't you write in the in -.us from your
neighborhood f
Basket Supper.
There will lo a basket bupper arid ice
cream festival at the M. E. Church, at
Eight Mile Orove, on the evening of Wed
nesday, August 21. Conic everybody
and bring your baskets.
In caso bad wallier should prevent tlie
basket Hiippcr taking place on Wednes
day evening it will then bo Thursday
evening.
KI.MWOOIJ.
From the K.clio.
Uncle Johnny Kunz and party have re
turned from their Colorado trip.
Knud Hansen was kicked on one of
Iris legs last week by his youngest stal
liou, but nothing serious.
11. A. Chapin, wife and
Greenwood, wen; Sunday
the family of Uri Welton,
Sirs. Ii. L. W'illcorkson
children, of
visitors with
west of town,
has been call-
cd to Kansas to the bedside of her sister,
who is very low with tho dread disease,
consumption.
The Christian folks are negotiating for
a bell for their church at this place.
Nearly enough money hits been raised
for it, and it will be put up in a few
weeks.
WABASII.
From the Item.
Wild grapes are getting ripe but are
not plentiful.
Charles Jordon is hauling the lumber
for a new barn.
Sam Van Every lias become domiciled
in his new home.
Mrs. Sam Ilutton will leave this morn
ing to join her husband in St. Louis.
Miss Eva Worrcl and Sirs. Annie IIul
fish left yesterday for a visit to Kansas.
Sir. and Sirs. J. T. liieiiey left Friday
last to visit their daughter, Sirs. W. P.
.Burrows, at Battle Bend.
Geo. Waterbury. post-ofllce inspector.
Tveni through the oflice here Saturday
and found things all rigkt.
Surveyor Sladole is expected every
day. He will do the surveying for the
boating p.irk and fish pond which Slessrs
llorton and Jacobs piopose to construct
the coming wiuir.
OREKNWOOD.
From the Leader.
Quite a rain passed south and cast of
us Wednesday evening.
Milton D. Polk, of Plattsmouth, was
in town monday looking after his new
investments.
llcv. Campbell and family returned
Tuesday from Bennett, where they had
been attending campineeting.
VMrs. W.J. Toland celebrated her 35th
birthday yesterday, a number of friends
gathering at her home and uniting in the
pleasant event.
A male quartette has just been organ
ized by some of our young men, with
Sir. Byerly as leader. The gentlemen
composing the club are Slessrs. A. Byerly,
N. Estaquc, Bert Welton and Fred Ether
idge. A surprise party was given for the
Ixmeiit of Sliss Lizzie Foster last evening
by about forty of her young friends, who
first met at the residence of Geo.W.Clurk
and all went from there together to J. S.
Foster's where they succeeded most ad
mirably in taking Sliss Lizzie completely
by surprise.
MT. PLEASANT.
No rain here yet.
Some are cutting shock corn.
Slost all aro feeding crreen corn
to
cattle.
Sir. Coombs makes an excellent super
intendent of our Sunday school.
Mr. William Current our old neighbor,
but nyw of Elmwood, was down last
week ater a load of apples.
The festival at the Sit. Pleasant church
last week, was a complete success, in
which the society realized $10. The so
ciety isn't doing tilings by halves now a
days.
We notice there are issues between par
ties concerning the building of a bridge
over the Platte river. Permit the scribe
of these parts to rise upon his dignity
and voice what believe to be th sen
timent of the people by saying give us
the bridge. The i lea that there is no
passway for teams from north to south
along on this side of the river is a strange
idea especially when it is so much need
ed by both the adjoining counties, as
well as by travelers who may be passing
up or down the river.
Rev. Shuman preaches at Xehawka once
in four weeks and next Snnduy at 3 p. m.
is his regular time. Rover.
AVOCA.
Robt. Slalcolm, J. P.. jeweler and bar
'ber'was in Omaha Tuesday.
J. C. LaGrang(;'s new residence will be
a complimentary addition to Avoca
-when completed.
Jfrs. F. Beatty has returned from her
Visit i'o her son, Rev. W. J. Barger, SI.E.
pastor lit Hebron, Neb.
Anyone' with news items for local
A.voca correspondence please leave with
R. Slalcolm for insertion. .
Judfe Wm. Delles, of Victoria, was in
town last week and astonished many
friends with a kind social visit.
Your Avoca correspondent was spec-
otnrl nbnnt two weeks atro to
vrite you the death of an estimable lady
who livcil near iuia -.-o,
county; sickness preventing, we hasten
-r.iifin niir nromise: Sirs. Ed.
Wiley, of Three Groves, died at her
home at 8 a. m. on Wednesday. July 27th
o f Arm r f Inner flisease. lier ueaiu
1. nuiet and impressive.
Winer an extortion to all
of her dear ones remaining to join heron
the other shore She was aD exemplary
Christian woman, a true and affectionate
wife and mother; patient and forbearing
under her ailliction to the lout, and leaven
her husband a little boy and yirl to con
sole him for his Iosh. Sirs. Wiley was a
daughter of Sirs. Slary Cannon and a
sister ot Sliss Annie Daley and a niece of
Sirs. II. J. Phillips, liying south of Avo
ca. She was interred in the Wi
ley cemetary on Thursday, July 28th,and
would have been twenty-seyeu years of
nje next Nov. She died happy amidst
kind friends, loving sincerely and sin
cerely beloved, with a glorious confident
hop of a better life and a happy meeting
with her loved ones in the future.
Glbanbo.
THRUM OHOVK8.
Amos Worl from Elmwood, was down
after a load of summer apples last week.
Sirs. SInggie Cole has been out to
Eight Slile Grove th last few days visit
ing Sir. Lew Cole.
Sirs. Etta Morse returned frm a trip
to Kansas, and other parts of Nebraska
on Saturday last.
Ben Droste has grown worse again and
has been under the weather the last few
days, from his old complaint.
Sirs. William Wiley gave a quilting
one day last week. Quite a number of
ladies throughout the neighborhood were
present.
In our last letter to the Herald, the
typ;; setter, made us say "Leo. Branstou"
when it should havo been Reverend
Branston.
Our school board has called a special
meeting to be held Aug. 25th, to transact
some unfinished business and to elect a
new director, there being a vacancy in
this oflice ever since the annual school
meeting. The new one elected at the
meeting having fuiled to accept the posi
tion. The dry weather has now impaired
the corn crop to such an extent that not
more than a half crop can be expected, j
Corn that stands thick on the ground has
fared a great deal worse than that other
wise planted. Although there seems to
be a rather slim chance for a crop, it will
ber.t the hail storm year from the fact
tho farmers have the fodder and a few
nubbins, and in some instances, good,
largo ears, and some of them still have
quite a lot of old corn on hands During
dry weather the small grain has been pot
into stack and is in good condition, and
when threshed will be in first-clas3 order
for the market.
Sir. A. D. Finch, the State Sunday
School Evangelist has been holding a
a bible and Sunday School Institute at
the Rock Creek Christian Church the last
week. The church waa crowed every
nijdit to overflowing with people from
almost every quarter and neighborhood.
Sir. Finch seems to be a thorough man
in his work and has greatly enlightened
the peoplo on Sunday School matters
during his lectures there. The institute
was enlivened by organ music by Sliss
Luella Yonng, and solos, quartettes and
choruses during each evening the entire
week. The institute closed on Monday
night with a lecturo on Palestine accom
panied with illustrations u maps and
charts of its cities and inhabitants that
was quite interesting to the audience.
Sir. F. will continue his bible work by
holding an iuststute this week, commenc
ing on Tuesday night, at the U. B. church
at'Ccntie Valley near Sir. Geo. Young's
place. Repobteb
WEEPING WATEIU
From the Republican.
I'. Jv Day and family returned from
Ohio, Sunday noon.
Work has begun on the e cayation for
J. A. Leach's residence in Park Place.
We are pleased to see Walter Cole out
again after being confined to the house
for a week.
Sliss Ella Bates, accompanied by her
father, left for a visit to her brother in
Plattsmouth on Slouday.
Jim Johnson has put the track at the
fair grounds in tiptop order. It took
considerable work Jim 6ays.
About 23 of our young people had a
moonlight picnic in the park last Tuesday
night. A grand time was had, so say
those in attendance.
The martial band took posession of the
hill at the head of Randolph street, .Mon
day night, and furnished tho town with
some tine national airs.
Tom Slarshall marketed the first grapee
rrown in this vicinity, this season, last
Friday, they were of an early variety and
brought 10 cents per pound.
From tho Kagle.
J. Chase went to Lincoln Sfonday, to
look at some corner lots.
The ice crop will be exhausted in two
weeks, so says Sir. Gordon.
The steam threshers around here, are
knocking the grain out, at a lively rate,
The G. A. R. boys hava commenced
operations on their new hall on Randolph
street.
A lively little scrap occurred on the ball
"rounds last Thursday, between two of
our citizens, no one hurt, no arrests.
Sir. and Sirs. Wm. Wallen, started
Slonday for a visit among friends in
Iowa, near DesSIoines, they will enjoy
their brief vacation.
Rev. Geo. Hindley started yesterday
on his eastern trip in the interest of the
Academy. It will be a month or more
before he returns.
Be on hand at the fair crounds three
weeks from yesterday to make your en
tries. The secretary will be there to wait
on you.
Dr. Lang has had a relapse since our
last issue, which places him again under
the doctors care, he must now take a lit
tle of the physic that he has been admin
istering to others for so long.
The married folks had a picnic in the
grove last Saturday evening, it was what
we should call, a Sliss Matched affair,
for every lady took some other lady's
husband to lunch, with, lawyers, doctors,
ministers, merchants and editors, had
taste of bliss, that their neighbors when
at home continually enjoy. The entire
party are 'under oblications to Sirs. J. H.
Bellows aud Sirs. A. A. Miller, for the
brief but happy change for a few hours
V; t t ir-
in ineir sweet lives, rwev. w. ciwuicjt
will concur in the above
WRECK OF WRECKS.
1
An Excursion Train of Fifteen Care
with Near a Thousand Passen
Kera Breaks Through a Burned
Culvert en the Toledo, Peoria Sl
Western Near Chatswerth, III.
CnicAGO, Aug. 11. Th Inter Ocean's
Pcroia special, referring to tho Chats
worth wreck says: It was the largest ex
cursion and the largest passenger train
ever talceu out over the Toledo, Peoria
& Western railway. The train consisted
of fiftcou coaches, including fi ?e sleepers,
Two engines were required to pull it, but
only one of these was attached, the other
being sent ahead to the other side of the
Illinois river bridge. At the depot be
fore the train started Engineer McCliu
tock, who was killed in the wreck, ex
postulated with General Superintendent
Armstrong about the way the train was
made up, insisting that it should have
been sent out in two sections, but his
words wero of no avail. It is said that
very few ot the bridges on tho Toledo
Peoria & Western road can stand the
strain of two such heavy engines as drew
this train, and this seems to be bernc out
by the fact that tho railroad officials did
not deem it best to trust both engines on
the bridge across the river here. The
awful calamity occurred on a compara
tively small culvert about ten feet long
and not more than twelve feet high. The
engineer on the forward engine saw the
tire as he neared the bridge, but suppos
ed it to be grass on fire. Too late he saw
it was the culvert itself ablaze, and upon
this tottering structure tho train plunged,
going at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
The first engine passed over the chasm
safely. The second went into the ditch,
burying and killing SIcClintock, and in
after it came the rest of the train, all the
coaches except the sleepers piling in and
telescoping. For an instant the sound
of crushing timbers was stilled, then from
out of the awful silence rose groans and
cris of agony, flames leaped into the
darkness and a storm arising, the wind
and rain added terror and dismay to the
awful scene. Even in her cruelty fate
was lenient, for she willed that the most
of those who wero killed should die in
stantly. A passenger who was en the
third coach says that he was first con
scious of a jar and that when the cars
went together the noise resembled a red
hot iron touching water. t The trucks
dropped off, letting the coaches down.
All the survivors tell similar stories.
Most of the Peoriaus being in the sleep-
ers, more of them escaped than would
have otherwise been the case. Slany of
these were asleep and were only conscious
of a jarrisg when the accident occurred.
The latter speak in the highest terms of
the noble efforts of the people of Chats-
worth to give succor and relief. Yet all
who went there did not give aid. One
of the survivors relates that as the first
engine cleared the bridge the brush be
neath it flamed up as if oil had ignited.
He was fast in the wreck and called for
assistance. lie was aided by someone
outside and as soon as he was safely out
of the wreck his rescuer grasped his watch
and tore it from him. Another man was
robbed of his chain, the vandal failing
to get his watch. The fingers of the
dead were also cut off upon which were
valuable rings, The robbing of the dead
and injured gave rise to the terrible re
port that the bridge had been fired and
the tram purposely wrecked for the sake
of plunder, but no confidence is placed
in the report here. It is behoved that the
robbery was the work of vandala who
happened to be on hand. Six out of the
fourteen who started from Eureka were
killed and four of the seven who left
Abingdon. Of tho fiye from one family
on board four p:?ri$hed.
A PULLMAN PORTER 8 BTOHY,
The only man on the wrecked train
who lingered on the scene till to-night
unharmed was the porter on the only
Pullman car damaged. It was the fore
most of the six sleepers completeing the
train. The tenth passenger coach was a
total wreck, as were all its predecessors,
but the sleepers stopped with the forward
end over the burning bridge. The col
ored boy's story was about as accurate an
account as could be gotten from any of the
passengers. He said it was about 11:30
and the train had been sailing along at
about thirty miles an hour when they
reached the top of the hill about two
miles beyond Ch&tsworth' "At the top
of this grade there is a turnpike crossing
and I remember the engineer whittling
for it as is the custom, and then down
grade we went with a dash. A moment
later came the crash. Everybody was
shaken violently and many in our car
bruised. It was an awful jerk, a lunge
and then an abrupt stop and we were
standing still. When we in the car look
ed out we were so horror-stricken we
couldn t tell what to do. Our car was
afi-e in front and alljefforts were directed
to extinguishing the flames. The people
in the sleeper behind us were not so
roughly handled as we and came to our
rescue. As many of us as were able then
went to work to help those in the day
coaches ahead. It was dark as pitch and
the cars were heaped so promiscuously
we could not get at them at all. The
awful sights and groans and horror of
the whole thing was more than I could
stand. Th news was sent to adjoining
towns as soon as possible. It was a dread
ful wait before any assistance came, ai
though I suppose it was only a little
while. We were little bttter off then, for
their provisions were inadequate for the
great work on hand. Physicians were
soon summoned from all neighboring
towns, and by 3 o'clock in the morning
the officials of the road were on their way
from Springfield with all the doctors they
could muster. Two hours after the wreck
and to add more suffering to its horrors
rain began to pour and for several hours
drenched the suffering and dying. But
the horror might have been worse had
not the burning culvert been extinguish
ed when it was, as the debris would haye
burned, causing a dreadful holocast, in
which hundreds who escaped it either
wounded or injured would have been
burned to death. Not a soul in the for
ward ten cars could have survived. But
the engineer of the first engine returned
to the wreck and gave us what water he
had and after that gave out we extm
guished the flames with dirt thrown upon
the burning timber."
THE IXqCKST. BKGt'X.
Back in the little city, after the doat
had been cleared from tho floor of the
school hourw and the' weary Samaritans
were arranging foe,, the .watches during
the night at bedsides elsewhere,,, the cor
oner's inquest was begun. The superin
tendent of the road and his assistant were
sworn, but before any material facts were
reached an adjournment was taken till
to-morrow.
TUB WORK1 OV VANDALS.'
For one of tho worst features of tho af
fair no excuse is ixissible. There were
vandala at, work nt tho -wreck.- In one
instance a wounded man called to a pass
er-by to help TiiniJ Instead of doing so
the villain reached 'dnivVn, took the watch
from the injured man's pocket and fled.
In another instance the dead body of a
woman was robbed of all the jewelry on
her person.
A HARROWING SIOHT.
Perhaps the most harrowing incident
was the case of one man who, wounded,
crawled out and lay in an adjacent corn
field here. He groaned and sent forth
piteous appeals for a short while, nud
then came a sharp crash and all was over.
His misery had unnerved him and draw
ing his pistol from his pocket he quieted
all pain with a bullet through his head.
A Journal special from Chatsworth,
111., says: "It is a wild and excited
throng which surrounded the Union de
pot in Peoria this morning. The news of
tho wreck of the Niagara excursion train
of fifteen coaches and two engines spread
like wild fire. Four hundred excursion
ists from Peoria, Clinton, Eureka a.id
other places, many of them well known
and highly respected through central Illi
nois, were abroad. All sorts of rumors
were aboard, and the number killed was
variously estimated from six to 100. The
first regular train left Peoria at 8:130. At
all stations along the line large crowds
of people had gathered to hear the latest
from Peoria. Some wild rumors pre
vailed, but nothing of an authentic na
ture could be learned. When tho relief
train reached its destination it wad a sad
aud ghastly sight brought to view. Ten
coaches had either gone through the
bridge or were piled in a promiscuous
heap, crosswise and lengthwise of the
wreck. The shrieks and groans of dying
and wounded could be heard. The
bridge through which the cars went was
a small one. It had been on fire, which
caused it to weaken.thus causing a fright
ful holocaust. So far over seventy bod
ies have been recovered and conveyed to
the town hall, school house and depot
platform. Not one has been taken from
under the cars and not even a sound can
be heard from them. It is feared all are
dead and the number kills 1 U estimated
at 200. The wounded so fur number 150.
Another tiain arrived at 1 o'clock with
twenty-six bodies and seven wounded.
A train latter will bring fifteen wounded
and six bodies
PEORIA PASSENGER'S DESCRIPTION.
Peoria, III., August 11. several
thousand people were ut the depot this
afternoon when the train arrived bearing
the first of the wounded from Chatsworth.
The crowd was so large and so eager to
obtain a view that it was difficult to con
trol it. Accounts of the disaster were ob
tained from several passengers on the
traiq. Sfr. J. SI, lennery was in the first
sleeper and sa,id: "I felt three distinct
shocks and then heard a grinding sound,
and on looking out saw that the car in
which we were was directly over the fire,
which was slowly blazing on the string
ers of the bridge. I got out in safety,
and the scene presented to the eye and
ear was one I wish 1 could forever efface
from my memory, but I know I never can.
The shrieking of the dying and the glar
ing faces pt the dea WHl always lie with.
a
me.
To add to the horror it was pitch
dark, save a fitful light or the fire under
the sleeper, which lighted the faces of
those about only to make their fear and
anguish visible. On the mouths of most
of the corpses could be seen foam, which
showed they died in agony. At last we
secured some feeble lights, but the wind
blew them out and about ? o'clock tb,e
rain poured down in torents on the un-
pretected dead and dving in the hedges
cornfields adjacent. Our efforts were di
vided between trying to put out the hre
and rescuing the dying, whose eries for
help were heartrending indeed. One
poor fellow whose legs were crushed be
neath the timbers cried out in his agony,
'Relieve me or I will kill mysef, which
he did in a short time by shooting him
self with a revolver which he took from
his pocket. Slothers ran wildly about
crying for lost children and aives for
husbands. Strong men were weeping
copious teers over the forms of their be
loved wives. Prayers and entreaties and
groans filled the air until daylight, when
relief parties got o work and removed
the dead and wounded from tho scene.
The bridge was on fire before the train
struck it."
C. Falroth, who was one of the for
tunate ones occupying a berth, was one
of the first to begin assisting the injured.
He says the first work to be done was the
quenching of the flames, which immed
iately began to devour the bridge and
coaches, all of which were more or less
filled with dead and dying. No water
was to be had and not a moment to lose.
All assited with a will with such tools as
could be found on the cars to further
destroy all wsod work possible to remove,
and with dirt, weeds, dry grass, coats an d
clothing, in fact anything that would act
as a weapon against the fierce flames was
used, so that after a terrible struggle the
fire was put out and all then gave their
attention to the sufferers. Mr. Falroth,
on passing one of the coaches, was asked
"for God s sake take my child," a babe,
which he immediately did, and leaving
it in as safe a place as could be found
went into the car and found the mother,
Sirs. Neal. of Slossville, just dead. The
scene in the cars was beyond description.
One young child was found fastened near
the roof of the car, head down, where in
the jar and concussion it had been thrown
and was dead when taken down. Others
were found in all conceivable shapes, all
thrown off their seats,piled in the end of
the aisle of the cars, bleeding from gashes
on the face, arms or other portions of the
body, in all the most sickening sight he
ever witnessed.
A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT.
Chicago, August 12. P. C. Church,
commercial traveler fwr n New York
hard wan? house, arrived from Pooria this
morning and related lnauy incidents
of the disaster to a group of excited list
tellers at t lie Sherman house. "We didn't
henrabiutit until Wuudcsday morning,"
said lie, and the first report was fhut
soveral hundred had been killed. There
were, ion excoursiomstri irom I'eoria
alone and a special train was at once
madu up to go over to the. scene of the
accident, about sixty miles distant. A
inenu and myseit thought we wouiu take
a run over, but we never expected to see
what wo afterward did. At Chatsworth
there was a row ot dead muies Kin"
side by side on the depot platform. A
piece or paper pined to tho hrenst gave
tho name of each one. Vhn we reach
ed the place where the accident occurred
the first thing we saw was a pile of mash
ed up coaches as high as a telegraph pole
tho top of the second cimir car shot up
on top of tins, standing like a monument,
at least fifteen feet hiih. We arrived
just in time to see Slr.Twurphy, a hotel
keeper from Galesburg, climb out !' a
hole in the top of the first r hair enr, which
was ju.'.t in view, upon a pib: of broken
timber at th" top of the heip. lie pu!I d
out h's wife and babe uninjured, but
almost exhausted from having been pen
nod up for nearly twelve hours. It wjih
witli great diiiiculty they were assisted to
the ground. Sir. llurpliy then went
back into the hole and brought out alive
a little baby. He had torn it from the
arms of a dead mother. Alter that he
helped out an aged woman -whose back
had been hurt. These, together with two
others were all that wero taken from the
car alive. When the hotel keeper came
down I asked him how it happened that
he was not killed. He replied that when I
tho crash came his wife was sitting in one
seat and himself and the baby were in
the one just behind, near the fornt of the
car. The baby was knocked from the
seat and he stooped to pick her up as
they shot into the mass of ruins just
ahead. Just at that moment, he said, a
timber penetrated tho car, shooting across
the place where he had been sitting, and
struck a young lady who sat opposite in
the neck. He was thus pinned down by
the timber, which also protected him
from being smashed and saved his life,
lie looked across the aisle and saw the
young lady's head hud fallen over on the
back of her seat and hung only by the
skins. Tho sight of the dead and wound
ed lying in the adjacent fields was horri
ble. Sly friend counted ninety-seven
dead bodies at noon yesterday and the
wreck was not nearly cleared away.
They were lying in little heaps of
about a doen, all having been
killed in a different mauner.
The entire side of one man's face would
be mashed in, while a hole as largo ns
your fist in the forehead of another would
show where a timber had penetrated.
Three-fourths of the dead never knew
what killed them. It was asiht I never
want to look upon again.
There were
youns ladies in their new
dresses with I
their white skirts saturated with blood
and the front of their faces mashed be
yond recognition. One yonng looking
mother had held her baby in her arms,
when the timber, striking the child in
the back, impaled both victims in instant
death. The mother's face didn't bear a
scratch, but the expression upon it wi'd
haunt me to the grave. I was sick when
I returned from the catastrophe last night.
It would make any man sick. The depot
at Peoria was surrounded by 5.000 peo
ple, all waiting for news from the wreck.
The switch yards had been cleared of
cars and along between the rails stood
rows of cots to receive the dead and
wounded as they were brought in. Nea
these cots were backed up perhaps 100
covered wagons, and hevond the wagons
s,tood 150 soldiers to keep the crowd back.
A committee of 100 citizens, wearing
crape, are stationed at the cots to take
care of the victims All Peoria is in tears.
There were scores of her best citizens on
that train, among them being seyeral
young ladies. Everybody says it was the
jolliest party that ever started on an ex
cursion. They were us merry as school
children. Hundreds had been to the
train to see their friends depart, but
thousands were there to take their dead
bodies away on their return."
Peoplo Demand Protection. Pat
ent Medicines.
What are they? As a general thing
they are prescriptions having been used
with treat success by old and well-read
Physicians. Thousands of invalids have
been unexpectedly cured by their use,
and they are the wonder aad dread of
Physicians and Sledical Colleges in the
U. S., so much so, that Physicians grad
uating at Sledical Colleges are required
to discountenance Proprietary Medicines,
as through them the country doctor loses
his most profitable practice. As a manu
facturer of Proprietary Sledicines, Dr. G.
G. Green of Woodbury, N. J., advocates
most cordially, in order to prevent the
risk that the sick and afflicted are liable
to. almost daily by the use of Patent
Sledicines put out by inexperienced per
sons for aggrandisement odIv, and the
employing of inexperienced and incom
petent doctors by which almost every
village and town is cursed; and men
claiming to be doctors who had be:ter be
undertakers, experimenting with their
patients and robbing them of their mon
ey and hoalth, for the good of the af
flicted that our government protect its
people by making laws to regulate the
practice of medicine by better experienc
ed and more thoroughly educated Phys
icians, and thereby keep up the honor
and credit of the profession, also form
laws for the recording of receipts of Pro
prietary Sledicines, under examination
and decision of experienced Chemists and
Physicians appointed for that purpose by
the Government, before they are licensed
for general use. lie would most freely
place the receipe of Boschee's German
Syrnp and Green's August Flower under
such laws, had he the proper protection,
and thereby save the prejudice of th
people, and ayoid the competition and
imitation of worthless medicines. Copi-
id from the Chicago Mail. Aug. 3, 87
MARRIACE BY:PROXY.
An Apparently Popular Spanish
' Custom.
Sjjpclal llHittrh to the filolie-Dt'lHonut.
Gai.vkton, Tex..?- August 10. Sumo
time ago JustiecSpann, of this city, wu
called upon to perform inarriago cere
mony by proxy, the lady in this iustanco
J being married by proxy to her betrothed
j in the City of Slexico.
This morning Justice Spnnn was busily
engaged in fixing up tho papers for an
other proxy marriage,' this time for a
yound Spaniard, residing in G'alvtsfon,
named Enrique Coyero Benturo. It up
pears that when he left tho picl.ure.squo
town Caruna, Spain, some yenrs ago, lit)
left his heart iu keeping of Rosa SInrcot
Erandiz, of tho hhiiio town, promising
that he would either M urn in person to
tlaim h, r ttM l,ri(1 or marry '' r by proxy
und have her transported across the At
lantic. Justice Spiuin made out the nec
essary papers upon the young Spaniard's
application, and the pnpers will be for
warded to Caruna, Spain, where (he mar
riage will be performed, the paity iwting
us proxy having already been designated
by the young Spaniard. After the mni.
riajie has been duly cousuinatcd in this
manner Kosa Slurcot l-raudi. will embai k
from Carumu for Galveston, whero sho
shall join her husband, although having
been married to him by proxy, with
thousands of miles water flowing between
them.
In speaking with the (ifube-Dtmoi rat
correspondent about the matter, Senor
Benturo, the prospective groom, s.iid that
of course the priest and tho Cnurch of
Spain did not regard such a proceeding
in a very wholesome light, but had never
interposed any serious objection to the
ceremony, as it was un old custom that
was made use of whenever the marriat'e
ceremony could not be conveniently per
formed in the usual way. JIu Hunt that
the custom had been found very conve
nient at times when the contractiur par
ties happened to be so situated that such
a course became necessary. In his case,
he said, it was much more convenient to
marry his betrothed by proxy than rr to
CoruiiH personally for the ceremony.
When hsked why he could not mstrmt
his betrothed to sail for Galyeston and
marry her upon her arrival at this port,
thus obviating the necessity of a mairiage
by proxy, lie Mii ugged his shoulders, say
ing with a smile that such was the custoul
of his country, and such an arrangciii'-i.t
was far more satisfactory than the one
suggest i-d by the correspondent. Usually, .
he said, some personage of good social
s-tanding, and who was a friend of thu
bride and goom, was selected to act a
the proxy, and that the party accepting
such & duty considered it mite mi honor.
When handed the necessary papers Lv
Justice Spann, ho went away smiling in a
very happy manner.
And ail Skin and Scalp Diseases
Speedily Cured byCutlcura.
Our little son will be four yearn of ae on tbo
25111 ini-t. In May. lKr, be w;e uttu'-ked with ;i
very ia!iilul breaking, out of l lie skiu. Wi call
ed in a pliysieian w ho treated I'lin for about
four wei'kn. The chili received little or lio
Kood from t lie treatment, as the breaking out,
xuppoxed by tho physician to be htven in an
ravaieu torni, Docaine tauter lu blotche. and
more Ht;i more diHtreHhiu. We were trwinmt-
ly obliged to et up iu the niKht and rub lilin
wiin Miua m water, ftronj; linuiifcutf . etc. Fin
ally, we culled other physician", until no less
than silt had attempted to cure him, all aliko
failimr. and the child steadily petting worse
and woise. until about the tfith of l:4.-t .lulv.
when we bec:ni to (jive him Cuticuha JOwol,-
vk.vt internally, and the (Jn jccua. and Cu-
ticuka Soap externally, and bvtnelartnf
August lie was so nearly well that we Bave him
only one dose of the Kksoi.vknt about every
second day for about ten days longer, ai-d ho
has iu ver b:en troubled unci- with Hie teiriblo
malady. In all we used le?n than one h.-ilf of .
llOttJ'i of OITICCKA Kksoia-kst, h little PSi4
than one box of (.'trricCKA, and only one cake
Of C'CTICl'ItA MOAT.
11. K. KVAN, CayiiKa. Uvinjrston Co . HI.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this fourth
day of Jan uu. y, 1K7. C. N. COK, J. 1.
SCROFULOUS HUMORS.
f.ast Npriii;; I wa very sick bcliif covered
with some kind of t-ei-ofula. The doctors could
not help me. I wan advived to tiy tbeCcTii lka,
Kk-ih.vf.nt. I did so and in a day 1 crew
better and better, until I am a well a ever. I
thank you very much, and would like to havo
it told t" ! he public.
1J W. liOKMASN, North Attleboro, Maes.
SKIN DISEASE CURED.
Mr. Frank MeClusky says tnat your Cuti
CT'KA ltK.MKtiKs cured his boy of a kin disease
after several doctors htd fi.iled to help the boy.
lie spent over oue hundred dollar wiili Uoe
tore. Ci .I Icliia I'.KM kh cured him.
J. K. 'J It' FAX Y, Meauaut Mount, Pa.
Ct'Tict'itA, the preat skin cure, and Cuticu
ha Soap prepared from it, externally, aud Cu
ticuha Kf.solvknt the new blood purifier. in
ternally, are a positive cure for every form of
t-kin ai;d Llood disease from pimples io
scrofula.
Sold everywhere. Trice: CuTicunA.5ocens ;
Ccxicuit Soap, 25 cert ; Coticlka Kksol,
vkxt, $l.oo. Prepared by Pottkk Uitio am
Chkmk.-ai, Co., Boston.
Mend for'-ISuw to Cure Hk.In DifeeafeC."'
TJTrPI.ES, lilackheaus. SUln lilemikhes.ad
JrJL-.ll IJaby Humors, use Cuticuha hoAF.
A Word About Catarrh.
"It i the mucous membrane, that wonderful
eemi-tiuiJ envelope surrounding ilie delicate
tiM-uc-B of the air and food I assume", that C'a
tarrh makes its t-tronhcld. Mice ei-tablished.
it eats into the very vitals, and rentiers life but
a lotitf-drawn breath of misery ai d disease,
dulling the feni"' of heai injr, trammelling the
power of speech, destroying the faculty of
smell, tainting the breath, at.d killing the re
fined plea-nre of tate. lnsiduouciy. by creep
ing from a simple cold in t;4e head, it assaults
the membranous lining and envelopes the
bones, eating through the delicate coats hnd
enuring i:t.l!ama:ion, sloughing and death.
Nothing bhort of tolal eradication will necnre
health to the patient, and ali a'leviative are
eimply procrastinated sufferings, leading to a
fatal termination. SaxfI'KK s Kadicai Ct'KK,
by Inhalation and by Internal administration,
hac never failed : even when the disease hau
made frightful inroads 'on delicate constitu
tions, heal ing, Miiell and taMe have been re
covered, and the disease thoroughly Uiivca
out."
Sanijkord's Kadi pa l ( ukf cotuists of one
bottle of the Kakk al Cukk. oi e box C'A
TAltKIIAI, Ssolv yht, ami one Impkovku
H ai.kk. neatly wrapt t'd lu one package, with
full directions ; price, $1.
Pott e a Dituo & Chk.micai.Co.. Boston.
OH! MY BACK. MY BACK I
iti:i,iKvr.i ix om:j!IMTk.
AcniDK lucks, nips, aiiunucs, Rioiirj
anu uienne pain. wenKiiess nouin
Mammiittou, rheumatic, neuralgic, scia
tic, sudden, slmrp and nervous paine.
comrhsc'ild and htrainn relieved In
one minute by t at new, original. eh gvnt
and infallibl antidote to n nmi inri-ini' ion,
the I'atirurn Anti-I'aia I'lawter. t.. ;
Ml -. . ... I -. ... . . A ...... v I k 1 1 1 . .nil
Inve lorci; uiauui iiggisie in uB
. Chemical Co.. Uoatou. iw-uil
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