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MYSTERIOUS MURDERS. Tlve Vienna Mystery ef 1J. A Coldetv Hatred nalc Found I'acked I D rank-The apturc and enfessl sf tie Murderer. The recent trunk murders, which have eluded so great sensation, lend par ticular interest to the great Viena trunk mystery of 12.5, which has already pa.- scd out of the memory M all but the most ancient inhabitants of the gay cap ital of Austria. Jn the spring of that year the Super latcndcntof the l'esth and Vienna Steam boat Line was irrcatlv annoved bv the peculiar stench which pen aded the bag- raze ucpot, on the nock at l'esth. 15 ag rage shipped on the beautiful Danube steamboats' which ply between Vienna fti)l l'estli was generally left here until Liimcd by its owners. After consulta tion, it was determined to make a Starch, and a new trunk, rather larger tfan the rest, was singled out as the one tT'm which the stench must have emit ted. It was opened, and, to the iutense horror of the spectators, the body of a Irautiful young woman,in a perfectly eude condition, was found in it. There v cre no marks of violence on her per son, and the supposition immediately erose that she must have been poisoned. A chemical analysis of the stomach showed that such was undoubtedly the fact that the victim had been poisoned with arsenic, which appeared to have l'een given her in very small quantities in chocolate. It was the opinion of the hemist that the exceeding delicacy of l;cr structure was the only cause of so Miiall a quantity of poison having pro- tlticca death. Here ras undoubtedly a murder, and the Austrian police were not slow to use very cllort toward unraveling the mys tery. One thing which the detectives considered as being greatly in their favor was the striking appearance of the woman. .She was exceedingly small, with tiny hands and feet, and features of remarkable delicacy. While her eyes were dark her hair was of a light gold enhue. If this beautiful young woman she appeared to have been about twenty-two or twenty-three had lived in Vienna, a great many people must have observed her. The first thing they did was to insert a description of the body in all the Viennese papers, but without success. Nobody came forward to volunteer any information as to her identity. The body was meanwhile feu ricd in l'esth, as it was in too advanced a state ot decomposition to be preserv ed. 1 he trunk was sent to the lenna police to aid them in their inquiries The trunk, which, as already previ ously stated, was a new one, was mart cd "E. Z." This was a clew, though a slight one, to be sure. The Police Di rector who took personal charge of the affair was puzzlod to tell whether these were the initials of the owner or of the maker. If they were those of the latter, then perhaps a clew might be obtained to the purchaser of the trunk. Direc tories were then in their infancy, and the lenna police had to visit every trunk-making establishment in that great city. It was a tremendous under taking, but it was crowned with suc cess at last. Emil Zcndler, who lived in an out-of-the-way cul rte sac in one of 1 lie suburbs, declared that these initials were painted by his own hand, and that lie sold the trunk about three weeks ago to a tall young man whose appear jinca had at that time impressed itself 11011 his memory. He described him :is a young man of about twenty-six, of herculean proportions, about six feet two or three inches tall, and proportion ately broad, and of luxuriant reddish side-whiskers, which, he said, he wore like an Englishman. He was rather flash ily dressed in light trousers and a velvet coat, and wore a diamond pin of consider able size in his shirt bosom. The man, he said, impressed him at the time as a gambler or a sporting man. The police director was of course highly elated at the success of his search. He strained every nerve to obtain a clew to the whereabouts of this man. The steam ship agent at Vienna remembered him distinctly. He took a ticket for lVsth, but whether he really went along on the boat, or not, lie was unable to say. The officers of the boat, however, declared emphatically that no man correspond ing to the description above given was seen by them. In fact, nothing further could be learned, and the Police Direct or was completely ballled in following up the important clew he had obtained. From a careful comparison of dates and the books of the steamboat company, it appeared that the trunks lay about five - days in Pesth, and the chemist had said that the poisoning must have been done seven or eight days before the examina tion made by him. From this, the infer ence was natural that the man, if he was a murderer, poisoned his victim just before he bought the trunk. Several days after the trunk-maker had been discovered, and when the Po lice Director and Jiis detectives had al most given up all hope, a lady, clad in deep mourning, called at the police-office, and desired to see the Director. She was evidently stricken with sorrow, for lier young and pretty face exhibited deep lines of grief, and her hair was -slightly tinged with gray. She told a harrowing talc. Not long ago she had lost her only two children in the most sudden manner, and while almost fran tic with grief over their death, her hus band, upon whom she was wholly de pendent for support, mysteriously dis appeared, and had never been heard from since. She said he was traveling agent for a large wine-house in Vienna, and they had lived for the last three years in ISaden, a village which is a short distance from the capital. He never allowed her to romp to his busi ness place, on the plea that he could not bear to see women at stores and was generally away traveling, only coming home for a day or two in the week. When she went to the address he had given her she found that there was no wine-house there whatever. In fact, no wine-house of the name of Althoff,CJross & Co. which was the name he had given her could be found by her or her lncnas. The Police Director, after listening to her interesting story, desired her to give him the description of her husband, and was not a little startled when she drew a picture resembling closely to that of the mysterious purchaser of the trunk. 1 he suspicion that he was now upon his track, that the man who had disappeared was also the man who had poisoned the young, golden-haired woman, flashed across his mind in an instant. He questioned her closely as to the antecedents of her husband, but she said she knew very little about them She was the daughter of a poor, but learned clergyman, in a country town in Styria, and Joseph Marx that was his name passed through the village a lit over three years ago in his travels, fell violently in love with her, and married her. They then settled in Baden, where there had remained ever since. The Police Director took down carefully every word she said, did not betray his suspicion of the guilt of her husband of the atrocious murder that had been per petrated, and only requested her to give him a miniature of Herr Marx. This she did, and upon its being shown to the trunk-maker and to the agent of the Fteambo.it company, they both identi fied him as the individuafpreviously re ferred to. A description of Marx was then sent all over Austria, and publish ed in all the newspapers. A most damn ing circumstance against him was, that he disappeared on the very morning on which the Vienna papers announced the discovery of the female body in the trunk at Pcsth. From the development? subsequent to the trial it appears that Mrs. Marx, as soon as she discovered that her husband was not dead, but had simply fled be cause he was suspected of having com mitted a murder, became most anxious to defeat the efforts of the police toward accomplishing his arrest, and to save him at all hazards. She probably did not believe in his guilt, and was so desperately in love with him that she most likely would have still at tempted to save him from the halter, even if she had thought in her own heart that he was a murderer. She felt sure, from his great affection for her, that he would attempt to return to Ba den, in order to see her, and as her house was watched by the police, she determined to prevent his doing so in any case. Personals, it seems, are very old institutions much older than American newspaper men would be lieve. Mrs. Marx had been in the habit of calling her husband by the endear ing pet name of " Joserl," and she in serted the following advertisement in the Wiencr-Zcilung, a paper which she knew he read wherever he was : "TOSF-Rfy lont return in mr ca.ee. You are J in irirat daiirer. Uo as forks vou can, but write luuiew that I may follow von. Little Pove "Little Dove" was a pet name by which he was always wont to call her. Austrian detectives are sharp, however, and stringent orders had been issued that every letter addressed to Mrs. Marx should be handed to the Police Director. Not Ion? after this "personal" appear ed a letter bearing the postmark of Paris, addressed toner, was captured. Sure enough, it was from him, and read as follows : My Darling Wife: I road the advertise ment in tbe Wiener-Zeituny with a heart full of reverent pratitudc for my dearest, best wife. Thank God ! you love me still; vou believe I am innocent. I am here in perfect safetv, and for fear that this letter may tie captured bv the police, I will not state mv address. "Hut if you can follow me hither f shall indeed be grateful. I inclose vou TxJO gulden, which will pay all expenses. Wrjje to me and let me know "where to meet you within the borders of Kmnce, for 1 dare not go bevond, and I will be there. A thousand thanks for your love. From yours ever lovin'frly Joseri.. P. S. My address is simply "Jean Hab tiste Schneider, I'oste Hestante, Paris." The Police Director, after reading this letter, sealed it up again in so dex terous a manner that it would have been impossible to say it had been opened, and let it reach its rightful des tination. At the same time he gave or ders to intercept any letters addressed as above, and soon enough her answer was captured, announcing that she would leave immediately and meet him in Strasburg, at the Southern Railway Station. Poor woman! little did she know that in the coupe behind her, all the way from Vienna to Strasburg, sat two Austrian detectives with the liand- cuffs in their pockets with which they intended to shackle him. At the rail way station, upon her arrival, he was already there waiting for her, and as she alighted from the coupe she threw herself hysterically into his arms. Alas! her dream of reunited love was to be cruelly dispelled, for the detectives stepped forth, separated them quietly, ana "fastened the handcuffs upon his wrists in au instant. It was a heart rending scene. She fainted away and fell on the ground, while he, speechless and almost paralyzed with surprise and terror, had to be borne away by main force. Marx's return to Vienna, together with kis wife, was the sensational event of the j'car. At the railroad depot an enormous crowd was waiting to see the alleged murderer of the golden-haired woman found poisoned in the trunk, and it was with considerable difficulty that he was conveyed to the prison. Marx still stomtly asserted his innocence, but accident, which unvails so many mysteries, meanwhile played the victory in the hands of the police. A woman, poor and ignorant, called upon the Police I irector to inform him of the mysterious disappearance of a Mrs. Wollner, who lived in an out-of-the-way street of one of the remotest suburbs of Vienna, and was her next- door neighbor. She said that there must be some foul play in this affair, as Wollner, her husband, disappeared soon after his wife, and told her and other neighbors that his wife had gone away to her sister in Linz. This woman, hav ing occasion to visit Linz, made it her business to hunt up Mrs. Wollner's sis ter, who declared that she had not seen her sister for a year. When asked to describe the missing woman she sup plied a description corresponding exact ly to that of the golden-haired female whose corpse was found in the trunk. The Police Director was not a little startled by this strange discovery, and immediately insisted upon having Woll ner described to him. The peculiarity of both their appearance left no doubt as to the real facts. Wollner and Marx were the same person, anil bail lived with these two deluded women as the husban.l! The woman (who was too ignorant to have read the newspaper articles which might have sooner led to the revelation of the mystery) was con fronted with .Marx in the prison, and identified him as Y ollner. It was now useless for Wollner to still proclaim his innocence. At that time it was the custom to employ semi-in quisitorial means of wringing a confes sion from a prisoner against whom the testimony seemed clear. For instance, the prisoner would be shut up in a dark cell and perhaps at midnight he would be roused by the clanking 01 the door- chains and by the glare of lamps, and see the magistrate before him summon ing him grave'y to tell the truth. This highly dramatic measure was resorted to in this ease, and with complete sue cess. Marx, who was a craven at heart, fell on his knees and tremblingly con fessed that his other wife, with whom he had lived under the name of Woll ner, had suspected him of his duplicity and followed him on one occasion to Baden. She had threatened to surren der him to the authorities on the charge of bigamy if he did not promise to abandon his Baden wife, ami as she was already fond of him he soothed her ire with the promise to do so. A terrible battle then raged in his heart. He loved both women, he said, but he felt that he must sacrifice one of them. Finally his greater love of his Baden wife, who had been the mother of his two chil dren, overcame his affection for the other, and to put her out of the way he determined to poison her. He admin istered the fatal drug in a cup of choco late, and how he endeavored to dispose of the corpse the tacts already narrated sufficiently showed. He was only married to this woman a year ago, she being an ignorant but very pretty girl from the country, whose ruin he had attempted but without success, and whom he finally married to gratify his base passion. He told her the same story about being traveling agent for a large wine house which he had palmed off on his Baden victim. Strange to say, after havingthus fully confessed his awful crime, Marx recant ed his confession before the court. He was tried and convicted, however, and hanged in the presence of 100,000 spec tators. On the very same morning, his wife, who had forgiven all his deception and iniquity, and attended him faith fully in prison throughout his confine ment, fell dead in her room just as she was dressing to go to the hist interview which she was to have with him in pris on before he was led out to the place of execution. It was found that she had ruptured a blood-vessel of the heart, and had thus literally died of a broken heart. . Why is a dead hen better than a live one? Because she will I.13- wherever you put her. GENERAL BREYITIES. The British War Department has had the German history of the campaign of 1870-71 translated for the benefit of the service, and will treat the forthcoming Russian official story of the Crimean War in the same way. Gkf-at Britain has now five iron clads under construction: the Inflexible, to carry four guns of the heaviest cali ber ; the Shanuon.a nine-gun screw ship ; the Nelson and Northampton, double screw ships of twelve guns each, and the Temeraire, an eight-gun ship. A Boston clergyman has advanced the idea in a sermon that striped stock ings are destructive to female modesty. "But a little while ago," said he, "young ladies refused to go up stairs in advance of gentlemen. Now they seem anxious to do so!" The current number of Kalurt tells of a deluded hen who hatched and reared a peacock. As that mother-hen gazed upon the budding tail of her in fant offspring, it must have occurred to her, in moments of depression and anx iety, that possibly she had the jim-jams. Many British manufacturers and oth er employers have lately changed pay day from Saturday to Monday for the sake of the workmen, many of whom have been in the habit of squandering their wages in dissipation on Sunday A similar chance 13 talked of in New England. A rhyme for " month " is now in de mand. Here is one that is very old, but the best we know of : I've triel a hundred times, I guess, To find a rhyme for month ; I've failed a hundred times, I know, liut succeeded in the hundred and one-th." There is a man now serving out a year's imprisonment in the jail at Lex- ins-ton. Kv.. who was convicted of steal- ing a cotton umbrella worth ib cents. As his board costs CO cents per diem, the authorities will be out $219 at the time of his release. But then, he will have been punished and the majesty of the law upheld. Judge Myrick, of San Irancisco, has admitted to probate a will in pencil on two pases of a memorandum book. to which the testatrix had attacned no signature, holding that the fact of its being written in such a book was pre sumptive evidence of its being the draft of a will intended to be executed in a more regular form. Base-ball playing as a business is something comparatively new, but that it pays in some instances is shown by the report of the Treasurer of the Bos ton Association. It shows a balance in cash of $3,261, the profits of last sea son's business on a total expenditure of $.14,50G. Of this expenditure the item of players' salaries is $20,b8o, an aver age of $2,230 for each player. A family who moved on to Beaubien Street a few weeks ago attempted to give a party the other night, but it was a failure. The head of the family met the sruests at the rate and explained : I've got into a mighty bad neighbor hood. e can't borrow chairs or dishes, or sugar or butter, and the party is off. I'll ret out of this as soon as 1 can hnd a house!" Detroit Free Press. The remarkable discovery of a boil inr lake in the island of Dominica has excited much scientific interest, and in vestigations of the phenomenon are to be made by geologists. It appears that a company exploring the steep and for est covered mountain behind the town of Uosseau came upon the boiling lake, about 2,500 feet above the sea level, and two miles in circumference. On the wind clearing away for a moment the clouds of sulphurous steam with which the lake was covered, a mound of water was seen ten feet higher than the gener al level of the surface, caused by ebulli tion. The margin of the lake consists of beds of sulphur, and its overflowing found exit by a waterfall of great height. A Piute squaw is a study of patience and cheerfulness under adverse circum stances. The happiest face in town this mornimr. says the Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle, was probably that of an old leather-colored female sitting on a pile of still mortar before a building going up in the burnt district. The lower end of the board upon which her youngest was strapped was stuck into the mortar so that she was released 01 that care. Her next, a red-faced shaver of three years, warm and dirty in a coat of squir rel skins, gnawed the undecayed side of an apple, and the old lady herself sat with her lap full of garbage, picking out and enjoying the tid-bits, while the family cur renewed the work at her feet on the wU-polished bones thrown to it A mas named Renton a native of the Orkneys has been discovered in the Island of Malayta, where he had passed ciirht years as a slave of the chief man of the island. His story was that he was kidnapped at San Francis co and carried by an American ship to the Guano Islands. Escaping from thence in an open boat with some com panions he drifted to Malayta; his com panions died from want and exposure but he was rescued. The natives, at first inimical to him, grew to like him and seemed grieved to part with him Kenton has sometimes a difficulty in ex pressing himself in h,nglish an em ploys Malaytan words occasionally. The Bobtail Nag, the ship that rescued him has taken him to Queensland. Mrs. Mary Schnevly, Aged 103. Says the Reading (Penn.) Eagle Rev. C. F. McCauiey two weeks ago visited A. Schnevlv at his home at Mer- cersburg,in Franklin County, and whilst there paid a visit to Mrs. Mary Schnev ly at her home, six miles Irom 1 lagers town, in Maryland. bhe is 1UJ years old, and calls her farm of some 200 acres the "Garden of Eden." Mrs Schnevly was married in 1791 to Col David Schnevly and removed to her present home, where she has since re sided. At the time of her husband's death she had been wedded just fifty years. She is a very well preserved woman even at this late day, after the storms of 103 winters have passed over her head. Her sight has failed some what, but for years noglasses have been used by her. Her hearing is good, and her memory needs but to ue revived by questioning. Of course she remembers General George Washington. At her old home in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the Gen eral and his stall in 1 &U-'J0 came to ex amine for a location for the National Capital. At that time he wore the con ventional buckskin breeches, with the old silver knee-buckles, the body coat with its many fringes and brass but tons, the tight leggins and buckled low shoe. He was a tall, well built man and his very presence had its effect on all around. The old lady remembers him well. In 1790 Reading had the largest snow storm it probably ever had. The snow covered the house tops and only the chimneys were visible. i amilies had to dig themselves out and in may cases every article of furniture was used for fuel. Sleighs and four horse teams rode over the house tops on the hard snow. All this Mrs. Schnevly remem bers well. Her visitors remarked that the cen tennial year was near at hand, and per haps on her way through the city she would stop in Reading. 14 No," replied the lady, " I am anxious to meet with something of former times. I shall pass right through. I want to see all the great men of the country." And she will go to the Centennial in May next. Col. Schnevly, her husband, was the first person to be baptized in the Ha gerstown First Reformed Church, in 1772. This old building had its centen nial four years ago and has been hand somely remodeled. Her portrait, taken by an artist from Lancaster, who was sent up by some friends, represents the old lady to have been at her then age, fifty years, very handsome and more like tjne at twenty five. She was of queenly presence, with much beauty of face and form. The portrait loots as when first touched by the artist's pencil no fading, no dull ness, no loss of color. The old lady never uses a rocking or easy chair, always sitting perfectly straight, generally on the edge of the seat. They had a peep into her parlor. On the floor was an elegant Brussels carpet laid down in 1812, and is still in an excellent state 01 preservation. The colors are very rich and beautiful, es pecially the border. 1 he old-fashioned chairs, bright in their vermilion colors, and with their ornamental backs, were the models of fashionable furniture used by the wealthy families of those days. She is an interesting talker, and during the stay of four hours' duration, richly entertained her guests. Jsitting at the head of the table the lady waited upon her visitors, handling the silver and rich chinaware as ably as when a half cen tury ago she sat at meat with her hus band. Funerals in her time were differently conducted from now. Girls, dressed in spotless white, conveyed the corpse to its last resting place, and on account of her height Mrs. Schnevly frequently was called on to assist at burials. The old ladv has many visitors, and transacts her bank business regularly. I he newspapers are read to her, and thus she keeps even with the events of the times, rormerlyher almanac was made so that every alternate leaf was a blank. In it she kept her diary. Now, at eventide, in a tjook kept for that pur pose, the day's occurrences are noted Detroit Tolice Court Sketches. STRANGE FEELINGS. He was an old man, too, and he was an old man whose personal appearance couldn't have been injured by a steam boat explosion. His name was .jonn Doe, and he wanted it understoou imu he was the original and only John Doe now traveling in this country. " ell, now, as we fully umiersianu each other," remaked the court, " let us refer to that little affair of yours last night." "1 believe! am dying."' sain iur Doe as he screwed his mouth around and raised his hand to his heart. I guess not you look healthy and fat. Please answer to the charge, air, Doe." " I feel strange the room whirls I am not myself!" whispered the prison er. "Mr. Doe, I wish you would put in a plea." "Oh! death! where is thy sting?" sighed the prisoner. "I'll make it thirty days for you, Mr Doe. and if vou feel faiut Bijah will srive vou his smelling bottle." Bijah led him away and wanted him to smell the hartshorn, but the prisoner suddenly regained his health aud said to the old ianitor: " Bijah Joy, I can lick forty such old horse-plums as you are in nve minuies by the watch." A SONGSTRESS. Lucy Ellis wasn't rigged out in Sara toga style, yet she demeaned nerseii as became a lady of education and intelli gence. She made an impressive bow as she stood before the desk and smooth ing down her rumpled check apron she wiped her nose and remarked: " Great change in the weather since last July." "Prisoncress at the bar, you are charged with throwing a pop-bottle through the window of a corner groce rv. and then trying to throw a box of soan out of the same window, all of which disturbed the peace and raised a great row." "I am the Oueen of song, Mr. Jus tice." she replied, bowing again. "lean sing anv thing, from one of Mozart's farm ballads to one of Joaquin Miller's operatic airs." "This isn't a singing-bee, Miss Ellis but you are on trial for disturbing the peace and quietness of a refined neigh borhood on Atwater Street. Have you anv thing to say?" "I am now organizing a musical troupe, and I hope you'll forgive me she replied. "I can't help your troupe business I can't have any such rows as you got up last night!" "Ami vou ought to hear me sing 'Old Lop Cabin in the Lane.' Judge. 1 don't put 011 anv of these high airs when I 1 u sing." "Vou can sing for the amusement of vour fellow-orisoners in the House of Correction. I'll make it two months." "I will now proceed to sing that beau tiful song called 'Sitting in the Gar den,' " she replied, but before she could do so Bijah had her sitting on the saw horse, and soon after that he came out with the marks of her linger nails on his hands. his strikes. "Is this New York, Detroit, Chicago or Buffalo?" inquired the next prisoner, looking around as if his mind was un settled. "This place, Andrew Bate, is De troit," replied his Honor, as he softly scratched his head. "It is acity of 110, 000 people, nicely situated, contains a great many honest men, and is chiefly noted for the great ease and fluency with which its hack-drivers tell a man to go to Texas." "Well, I struck this town in the night," continued the prisoner, "and I hadn't been here an hour before a loaf er struck me." "Did you strike back?" "Yes, sir, and then I struck out to get away from the police." "But the officers struck your trail, and you were brought in, and here you are," said his Honor. " It strikes me that you are correct," smiled the prisoner. " Well, we will strike off on a new trail. I want to ask what you are do ing here without money in your wallet ?" "I thought I'd come here and wait around, Judge." "For what?" " For any thing." " Micawber never lived here," said the Court. " There's nothing to turn up here. You might wait around here a hundred years and couldn't get a soft and easy situation, such as you probably seek." " I'd like to get to be a clerk in the post-office," said the prisoner. " Have you ever filled such a posi tion?" " No, sir, but I've written a great many letters and bought a good many postage stamps." " Up there where you are going for three months," said his Honor, after a painful pause, " there will be no wait ing, not even for dinner. Days will pass swiftly by, and the June blossoms will be winking at the green cowslips before you know it." " Hang your cowslips ! " groaned the prisoner. "Nevertheless, Mr. Bate, it is my duty to A. Bate you," answered the Court," " and I hope you will return to the corridor quietly, peacefully and without giving Bijah any unnecessary trouble." The prisoner had to be hauled in by his collar and held up against the wall for a few minutes, but when reason re turned he said he was thankful that he hadn't been hit with the crow-bar, as he knew he deserved to be. Detroit Free Press. A Piano One Hundred Years Old. At Whitney & Currer's Palace of I Music, in this city, savs the Toledo ! Uoinmercial, may now be seen a piano , bearing this inscription: "New Fatent. j Astor & Company, 79 Cornhill, Lon don." It is a queer and quaint old relic, about two feet six inches by five feet in size ; entirely of wood, except the wires and keys, the frame being of mahogany, inlaid with satin wood, the whole show ing a degree of taste and skill quite creditable; and standing amid the "modern improvements" of hitney & Currier's warerooms, its antinne fea tures are quite conspicuous. It is of English action, aud though now for years past it has been sadly out of tune, when Drusned up and. cleaned, it win dc an object of rare interest. Its precise age cannot now be hxed. 1 he ouiy date about it is given in the inside, where we find the words, " A good instrument in 1808," indicating that at that time it was so old that its good condition was regarded as remarkable. It evidently was from the manufactory of the first prominent firm in England, who began business as early as 1770, and introduced this style in 2. But we are not left to the testimony ol the venerable instrument itself for its age. It is the property of Mrs. F. D. Jermain, of this city, having been in her family for at least se vent y-tive years, three generations of daughters succes sively having taken their first lessons on it. Mrs. Jermain's aunts, one of them now eighty-four 3'ears of age, took lessons thereon when a young girl. It was bought in Moutroal, Canada, of a German music teacher, by Mrs. Jer main's grandfather, Mr. Daniel Page, of Middlebury, Vt. It was said that Mr. Jonas Chiekeriug made a study of the ano as a model for his first instru ment, which view is borue out bv cer tain characteristics common to both. This was clearly among the first pianos brought to the United States ; was the first introduced into Middlebury, and was brought k Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1833, where it was preceded by one be longing to a Mrs. Kingsley. We think the testimony thus furnished warrants the assumption that this is one of Astor & Broadwood's earlier instruments and that its history ante-dates that of the Government of the United States (com mencing 1789), and probably reaches back to the Declaration of Independence in 177G. We think this veteran instrument's claim to a place in the Centennial Ex position of 1870 will hardly be ques tioned, and it is hoped that it may get there. It is not likely that its senior will be found there. Oddities of the Mail Service. General Mail Agent Bangs, in a re cent letter, says : I looked into the collection of articles which have passed through the mails and never been called for, preserved in the dead letter office, a few days ago, and hastily made a schedule of some of the most striking curiosities. Among them were: Rattlesnakes, G. These had passed through the mails alive in perforated tin-boxes. Centipede, 1 ; snake-skin 1 ; wooden shoes, 1 pair; ladies' back-hair, 2 sets ; ox-horns, 1 ; gold-watches, 3 ; Colorado potato-bugs, 1 bottle ; moccasins, several pairs ; tele scopes, 1 ; billiard-balls, 1 ; dolls, sev eral ; stuffed birds, 1 ; toys, very many; silver goblets, 4 ; gambling implements, a good many; jewelry, large "quantity; sets of false teeth, several ; American flags, 2; masks, 2; bowie-knives, 2; razors, 1; minerals and shells, many. Bouquets of flowers are frequently sent through the mails. On one occa sion a bouuuet and a young alligator were in similar boxes in the same bag The lids of the boxes accidentally came oil. and the flowers and alligator were at large in the same bag. One box was addressed to a lady at Albany, New Y'ork, and the other to a lady at Bridgeport, Conn. The route agent was troubled to know in which box to place the alligator and in which to put the flowers. Finally ha settled the diffi culty by putting the alligator in the Connecticut lady's box, aud writing thereon : "If you were expecting flow ers instead of an alligator, forward to Mrs. , Albany, New York." On the Albany lady's box he wrote : "If you were expecting an alligator instead of these flowers, forward to Mrs. . Bridgeport. Conn." By good luck the agent got the different articles into the right boxes. Mortified lo Death. Thomas Roach, keeper of a chicken ranch on the old San Jose road, pur chased, several months ago, a lot of fine cropple-crowns, which lie kept aloof 110m ins less ansiocntuc lunu 111 a small yard. The chief of this family was a large black bird of an exceeding ly haughty disposition. He was mon arch of all he surveyed till about a week since, when Roach procured a white bird of the same breed and turned it in to the yard of cropple-crowns. The two male birds immediately joined in battle, which, after a gallant display of courage by both contestants, resulted in the defeat of the black cropple. The unsuccessful bird took its defeat sorely to heart. In fact, life was no longer worth possessing, since honor had de parted. The bird was seen trying to kill itself with its own spurs. Not suc ceeding, it tried to jam its head under a gate, but again failed. It flew upon a barrel half filled with rain water, and after carefully surveying the situation, plunged into the cask. Roach ran out and found the bird with its wings close ly folded to its side, its beak open and apparently endeavoring to repress the natural struggles at self-preservation. It was speedily rescued from its danger ous situation, but refused to take any further interest in life, and after a few days of mental torture and physical suf fering, it entered that eternal rest which was the one remaning desire of its heart. San Francisco Bulletin. Staring Death in the Face. The passengers on the Lehigh and Susquehanna Road yesterday, says the Scranton (Penn.) " Republican, were startled by the thrilling situation of a young woman upon the track, a . little way from rittston station. It appears that she was walking along the road, and bv some mishap had her foot caught between two rails. This, in the presence of an approaching train, made her position most alarming. She grew white with terror, pulled at her foot with all her might, and struggled to free herself from what seemea to her a fearful fate. At length, as the train approached nearer, she managed, by a superhuman effort, to tear her foot awav from between the fatal rails, leav ing the shoe that had been on it be hind, and hastening away in sheer ex haustion from the spot. We could not learn her name, but those who witness ed the incident will long remember that woman's agony as she seemed to stare death in the face. A deputy-sheriff near nampden, Conn., lately brought a thief whom he was pursuing to a halt pretty suddenly and without harming mm in me ieasi The two wpre evenly matched as to running powers, and the officer, though the cnlnrit. could not gain nnon him. Suddenly the officer threat ened to shoot, and throwing a hard piece of snow at the man fired his re vnlvpr in thn air. The lump of snow hit thA thipf behind the ear and he in stantly fell, believing he was shot, and rpmainpd nprfpctlv onict until he was s 1 captured. HOSE INTERESTS. Indian Rusk. 2 light cups of Indian meal, 1 cup of white flour, 1 teaspoon- ful of saleratus, enough sour or butter- milk to dissolve, 1 cup sweet milk; stir in I of a cup of molasses Wedding Pupping. 1 cup of molas ses, 1 cup of chopped raisins, 1 cup of milk, i cup of butter, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1 dessert spoonful of mixed spices, 1 egg, 4 cups of flour. Steam 3 hours. Removing Tan. Tan can be removed from the face by dissolving magnesia in soft water beat it to a thick mass, spread on the face and let it remain a minuta or two. Then wash off with Cas tile soapsuds, and rinse with soft water. Meat Lo af. Chop fine whatever cold meat you may have, lat and lean to gether; add pepper, salt and a finely- chopped onion, 2 slices of bread which have been soaked 5n milk, and 1 egg; mix well together and bake in a form. This makes an admirable tea or break fast dish. Purple or Red Cabbages. Take off all the tough or outside loaves, slice them thinly and evenly, put them in layers, sprinkle salt freely over each layer, and let them remain twenty-four hours, lirain tne caoDage wen. iou up some vinegar, add alum and spioe to your taste, and pour over it, hot Repeat this process for three or four davs. How to Cook Salt Pork. Many people do not relish salt pork fried, bnt it is quite good to soak it in milk two or three hours, then rou in inuian meai and fry to a light brown. This makes a good dish with mashed turnips, or raw onions cut m vinegar; another way is to soak it over night in skim milk and bake like fresh pork: it is almost as good as fresh roast pork. To Renovate Black Silk. The best article for cleaning or renewing black silk is said to be beer going over the surface of the silk with a sponge, wet in the Germans' favorite beverage. Ammonia is good for cleaning purposes but it detracts from, rather than re stores the color. The best dressing for colored silk Ls to go over itwith a liquid, obtained by dissolving kid of the same shade (old kid gloves) in warm water; for black, use black kid gloves. (heck. An instance of inellable cheek comes from Northampton County, Penn., where, the other night, two men entered the yard of a man named Lerch, and took a fat porker from his pig-pen. iney drove him a short distance from the house and attempted to place him in a wagon that was standing by the road side. Failing in their attempt, they went back to the house and begged Mr Lerch to go with them and help load the pig into the wagon ; that it was too heavy for them ; that they had driven him a long distance, and that he refused to proceed any further. Lr. Lerch at once consented, the pig was loaded, Mr Lerch went back to the house, and the next morning found that it was his own pig that he had taken a hand inloadin, on the wagon. Search has been made for the rascals, but they have not as yet been found. Lerch savs that he feels that he has been left in the lurch. An Old Doll. The Newport News has this account of a venerable and notable doll: "Among the relics contributed by New port to the Centennial fair which the ladies of Providence are carrying on, is a doll believed to be the oldest in the country. It i of wax, about ten inches high, ami it has grown yellow with age until it looks frightfully like a corpse. It boasts the following history : It was imported from Paris as a model of the fashions of the day, and was bought in Philadelphia by Hon. Benjamin Bourne, of Bristol, who was a member of Con gress from 1790 to 1790. The doll was given to his niece Miss Lillie E. Turner, daughter of Dr. Peter Turner, a surgeon in the revolutionary army. Miss Lillie was born in 1792. "The doll's eyes still move, and it still wears the finery in which it crossed the ocean to show the ambitious dames of the young republic how their Parisian sisters dressed. Blosdin", the tight-rope walker, has been heard from again. On the l'Jth of October last, while on the Indian steam ship Poonah, and at sea, he walked on a 7-inch hawser from the main to the mizzen-topmast and back. It is said that with the rolling of the ship and the vibration of the powerful engines the rope was drawn into such sinuous waves that it closely resembled a snake. Dion din was frequently obliged to sit down as the ship rode a heavy swell. A youngster while warming his Lands over the kitc hen fire was remon strated with by his father, who said : " Go 'way from the stove, the weather is not cold." The little fellow, looking un demurely at his stern parent, re plied: 44 1 ain't heatin' the weather; I am warming my hands." A negro boy in Fairfield County, S. C, was packed up in a bale of cotton the other day. It was supposed that he had entered the press box and gone to sleep, and suflocatcd before his pres ence was discovered. Cracker Tie. 6 soda crackers bro ken fine, 3 teacups of water, 2 of sugar, lemons ; grate the nna ana squeeze the juice; bake in paste. ScnuNCK'n PrxMosic Sthup. Sfa Veed Tosto nd Mandbaki Pills. 'lliese deerve'lly cele brated and popniar meileine liae efTcrted a rev olution in the healing art. and proved the fallacy of several maxims which have for many years ob structed the progress of medical science. The false supposition that " Consumption is incurable'' deterrect phvsicians from attempting to Hud reme dies for that disease, and patients slllicted with it reconciled themselves to death without making an effort to escaiw from a doom which their supposed to be unavoidable. It is now provod. however, that lonrumfttion can b cured, and that it hat bttn cured in a verv great number of cases (some of them apparently desperate ones) by Schenck's Pulmonic Svrnp sloue; and in other cases by the same medicine in connection with Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, ac cording to the reijiiii ementa of the case. I)r Schenck Uimself. who enjoved uninterrupted good health for more than forty years, was sup posed, at one time, to be at the very eate of death, bis physicians Uavinu' prouounced bis cae hope less and abandoned him to his fate. He was cured by the aforesaid medicines, and. since his recovery, many thousands similarly affected have uned Dr. Schenck s preparations with the same re nm. kable success. Full directions accompany each, making it not absolutely necessary to personally see Pr. SVheurk unless patients wish their luns examined, and for this purpose he is professionally at his princt li I ortice. corner Sixth and Arch streets. Philadel phia, every Mondny. where all letters for advice must be addrsssed. Schenck's medicines are sold by all druggists. What Shall We Dot It Is no wonder that we hear this question on every corner. S many are dying sud denly of diseases of the brain in these days Unit even-one is alarmed, and is asking: 44 What shall we do?" There is alarm on ac count of dizziness of the head, a whirling sensation when rising up suddenly, a bad, " all rronc" sensation at the pit of the stom ach, like the fcnawin? of an ulcer, with a feeling like a load after eating, pains in the hack, sides andchett, at time's, with costive bowcU, scantv, his;h-colored urine, some times voided with pnin, appetite poor, and when food is eaten it oftentimes distresses; the skin, after a time, beconu-s dark, cold and clammy, eves sunken and tin-red with vcllow, spirits dejected, with evil forebod ing. When any of these symptoms are present no time should be lost in usinif a proper remedy. The. one that we have known to operate with the most certainty is the Shaker Lxtract or Roots ok Ccra tivb Stkup (not a patent medicine), sold by Ih-ugsists and A.J. White, 31'J Pearl street, New York SOUTHERN HOTEL, ST. LOnS. First class in all respects. Trices graded, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50 per day, aecord ingtofloorand locationof room. Telegraph and Railroad offices in Hotel lluildin. None but cowards habitually color their beards. The bra lye but once. Burnett's Cocoaixe. See advertisement. From the Miourl ReiHibSran (St. Lonta). A Itrmtrkablo Professional Success. Araonc the notable protcasional men of this ecu u try who have achieved cxtraordi n iry e ueccss 1 Dr. R. V. Pierce, of RntTalo. N. V. TUu prominence wht h he has attained uoi-u rcacuuu turouj;li strictly legitimate means, aim. so lar, lucreloru, he ai'svrvua the enviable reputation which h enjoy. This I.:--.''-' measure of success Is the ru.ult of a thorough ml careful preparation (or his tailing, aud extensive reading tlurinij a lonir and" uuuually laro practice, which have enabled him to gain hisjh eommenda tiou. eva from his professional brethren. Devotiue his attention to certain specialties o the M-ieuce he has carefully investi gated, he has tioen rewarded In aremarkaMe decree. In these upeclaUies hs has become a recuijntteil leader. -oi a lew 01 me reme dies prescribed by him have, it is said, been adopted and prescribed by physicians in their private practice. His pamphlets and larger wor&g tiave ucen roceiveu as usciui eoutributrons to medical knowledge. He has receully added another, and perhaps more important, work, because of more gen eral application, to the list of his published writings. This bock, entitled "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," la de signed to enter into general circulation. Dr. Pierce has received acknowledgments ami honors from many sourets, and especially scientilic degTecs from two of the first med ical institutions in the land. Burnett's Cocoaixe. See advertisement. The varied and extendio? use of pnper pulp at the present time is illustrated in the manufacture of such articles as water- pails, which arelH'inniaiieiiilarieQiian- fiticsof that material, and are found to answer an excellent purpose. In the or- diaary way of making pails the separate purls or staves are cut one at a time irom the log of wood, and in this process all the chips ami smaller pieces are wholly wasted that is, so far as the real object of the nianulacturiuir operation is con- ccrncil In producing a paper pail, how ever, the tiuTons material is oi courss wholly utilized, and if the original stock is woial as in part it mav lc then tne lar-,'e proportion that would be wasted in chips unl debris is entirely saved. V. Y. Weston has sailed for Euhwid. Now if he would o'i'.v eel to walking some liiht in his slrep! Cincinnati Hunt. F. an is licensed at E'ko, C.il., tor S 10:1 a fpiartrr. A r-CT.nv saved li'': there oaiti t:iitt ihet-ii4 ul' i ! i l- y-ar. ;iv i r'v f-iSt'ti.'Oi ;l.vf.u Tiii'Kn '-" - I iinies. ai'd v. -a wi.l uta d.:i : i & 8 I J.--j ii.-tud -f cents. S -f V - - Par. nt remember t! Is. M..ii'Mi of dolUr p:v.-.-'! y---ir'v v" i v.ii.i; s uk.'.v II.. I- ll . 1 !ie llr iilxl hi"- f 1 ' :; If . (T ll. Ait iinl 11 R! i- -M-u;'- J .:iu-iil t -t. TIS'O. B. PMiK SO. Ciimmisslen Merchants. U Uiune, Poultry, Furs, etc. UB Far Tlace, D. lurK, S il)t ) AO. 4 MONTH. lOO ARTICI.KS lre--8 11. N. KiMSKl, l.'lrolt, J11CQ, si "i x - n Jd'J'-Ufrce. lav at home. Sanioles worth 1 1 sen STINSo.N 4 Co., I'oruau'i, .ne. ?f SALARY oulv. Ajfents wanted, 1tlf aw Ftmalt. AJilresa (1. It. Christian, Marlon, Ohio. E VKTIV FAMILY Want It. Mooev In It Soh! by Ajcenls. AiMresa M. '. Lovell, Erlr, Pa. Jitlo A DAT. H W T- MA KB IT. Something i W. VOE. roXtiE CO- St. LoHU, MO, 3. CTUfil A ni3 "AT VBItHSnreCnre. Trial free, Ad I KwlAAuureaa W .k.lliis, InJianapolis.Ind. M EXT Particulars anJ Mnnthlv Om- us free. W . M. t.lLU Kirkaville.Mu. A! d-i" nenlav. S-n! IV.rCtiromoC'ataliirn ciu--?;)j-iiiiif FUKD'S S INS. BoHtoll.MaSti, 11rlp IT Atnomi-. Either Ser. 91'jO am II XJil IS- Agents' Supply Co., m Ikiw.-ry, N II RESTORED. Oreat Inreailoo Bui.- free. o. J. ttouu. -Madison. 1 aa. (1 O a Oar at Hoi'-e. taierifc. Ii. t. Al'lraTkuCO..Angiuta.Ma. r wanted HnMII . r "l-nttPs'OTPIsIITS ' AGE. On rvu'UU tSBO'iverninent ail'! Histir. iHilreed til l IS. ...Is. B.l.,en.l Map Il.Mise. Chicago. $350 MONTH. AirtntswaiitHl. 84 beat sell article in the w..r!'l. One sample free rcss JAY I,KUSO. Oetrolt. .Vllcl rtAilv fo Auents. H'r new articles ar.f! t?ie hest p-i' I Family Paper in America. :lh two V Cliro- A.VlElS. U'F'GtU.,'.IW Broa.lw.iy, . r 15 n J TV -V'' rupMVj with 8w bl U n t I Outfits. ( at:u.-i:e in d.L S. M. Spencer, 3-1 ; tVaaliiugu vnell Key Check- 1 r.:!l prtrrii'iiUrt un street, Boston. Etinil Hooks. Knrlons Goo'la. Spurtlne Articles, it 1 1 . ri etc., 6 1-j"i" H'Hilt for two 3-eet-t -u-.ipn. IllUilUALOWk CU.. Ill X:uil M.. N. Y. (T I ( lo ls. Week and Eipene4. or flOUfor S1W ftil-ii. All tiie new ami u:iiiid S-ivr.it es. Cjiou.-'H, etc. -iluHbie Samples free w.tli Circuiarfe, li. L. i i-intUKl;, 111 Chambers street, .vw York. 0PIU1 'and Morphine Ilahit absolutely ftn!t sjceitilveiireil. 1'ainlenarno puoiu'l ry Send stamp for particiflarv Or. Vfi.SHIN";TON, D. C. P. O. ROX 4U5.2J w w W. Offutt. Att'T-t-L.w. orresiiouU- ence solicitetl from any one having busine;.? or desir ing any Information, from the Seat of Government. REVOLVERS!!! IJTV fUOT 1 $3.00 Mm Bid IUimu r M 9m a Itfifa. liiTt FaCafskr itrstiwid. I. .CM T1IK WHAT IS IT. Something new. Sells at sight. Hi Inducements to Agents. Samples '.'a cents ami stamp. Agents wanted. Sent lor Cata logue. U. S. SPECIALTY tO ; Fulton St Boston $250 s A MONTH. Agents wnnteil cvery- here. Business honorable ami it rt- cla9s. Particulars sent tree. Adiln-ss J. WOKTII 4 CO, St. Loula, Ho, 1 finVflW All wabtt it Thousands of lives and ItJK V I V Millions of property saved by it lor JUlii.1 1 1) tunes uia-lt wi'.h It Address Lis. i.w.ok I'aos., Xe York or Chicago- $10 to 25 per Day men o tM n article , STAPLE COFFEB. to Farmers And "t'H-rn m th.-ir i'wn ot-ig : , iM.r .o m Us. Particulars Free. Aiidri'M-THS CM1 1. NIAi CO,, BU Louu, Alo. tPk Rr H B I B 3 llsblf Car J t Hums. t W i f J lr 3 Ku publicity. Tune short. Trrins I L I-s' III f$tM moderate. I.CkO testimonials. 5lh KIH IVb year i.f iinprlie.e-i mcre-s H- scr.t case.. Ad vr. . F. K. ilaraU. Uulncy, Mich. 3 PKil M'EKli GrABAKTEED TO Airerttri, Mule; will Kfiiutlo. tn thtir n lo cality. T'TIiik niitl Ot-TFir h urt. A-Mro r. v. vii-u.jLUi x AufftateUk Maine D eral com ante, (Tiromos, St! Enrrav.njrs, Flio totrntiihs ASrrap-book HcturfW. Mottoes, etc. FleL'itnt eaninUf ami fafaloffiie sent post-paid tor lOcts. AVtD wanted. J-L-Tattt-n A Co,162 VllliaiuSt..N.V. TonrlName Kltrantly Print ed DO 1H 1 RAW 9 PA K KH T VlBITISO Cards, for 35 Cent. Kch currl cuntimi mm iBTwibU until hM toward. Uit liphL Nothtar like fham -r hfnr ofTret in AmoHft. Biff inrtnremnBi to Anla. Ni.vki.tt PaiNTiao V,om, AihUnd, , Mai lrr. 1 1 niri Md 'omMnni li the oi.lv prpmttnn,oiir package ot whwft will force'lhe t-nl to prow thurt and heavy on the inoothet face (withoet injury) m 21 day in everv eaat. or money clu-erriilir re fmiri'd. 5 c'nt pt prkae, potpail; 3 fur 50cuif. . W. JONES, Ashland. Ma. e alt xac I "Mann' Iteartionnry. M Airt-ut's discount on ontcra or I two or u.tr. tTtrv laoitiy diould have one. Address ior I inl'oruiatioo , STEARNS, 206 Olive St., St lAf AHTED IHMEDIATELf Ptt m 7,1 Mere Vonnx Men to Learn Tl-1.- W I fi WiRAI'llV. li'JtMl situations ftMran- 1 ti.tiW te.il. A'l'lres". -:th utainn. r't CI - IJ fW TrNDKNT l'Mn.N TH.fcl.l.A ,!U CO Ml' A NT. OH Kill. IX, OlltO p WII.LHAVKOrRC.OODS. Semi 2H cents and we will eml tiy mail, prepaM. our Uar I- ili kk. with F which von can All anv Aeroune lamp rutiout r- motinj cliiwnty or (fettlnir grrase outiute Lamp. 0 At .iuie time we mall vou all our Ircnlars ami Pterins to aircrits on twenty useful lmtiselioM articles with which any person can make from S3 L to ! ilallv. V e want Aifents pverrwnerw. E Bostos, liasS. VITUIVII Ai:rTV K3IPOKILM, Tits Best of. All Good Company. The D ANBURY NEWS l-XFXnWLED AS A HOME PAVER. Terms, now. V'. Ill per year. After Jan. 1.1S76, v. '0. n"!v-e I'ai'l SoM ny all Newsdealers. Sl'ikI slump f-.r .-;-e, i:nen Copy. IlAILli V fc UUMOVAY.Dsabarr, Conn. A Great Offer! We w iUflnrtnethe ITolir1mya1ipocof lnO IM A NoS'M.MUi W 1 V rjmt-cla.44 lu ikers I nc lutl in sf V TICKS', at lower price 1 limit ever t-for wfTrrrtl. M onOtl jr I iitUllinrn ranmnt; from 1'4 to 3ti month- rerrivtd. W airintH forft yttnr. Vmnrl-hann !- tfrnmrnlft'itritrrmelar low rlrfurraih. ltti itri OtUtloytft mii- J. a re room a 4l Broadway. r-w loik. 1IOUACK WAT KR3 A SOXS. Tills nw Tnisa la worn "wlrft perfect comfort, nir!it aud (lay. Adapt iw-:f to every motion ut theboly, ret.ilulnt; Knr ture umlcH the hardtft exercUe or iertret tram until permanently cared, bold cheap by the ELASTIC HHSS CO.. Jfo, CS3 Broadway, .. 1 City. , and sent by mail . C ail or aeod for circular auti oe cureu SEEDS! Mv ILHSTRATF.I PEED CATALOG Jf'F for 1ST is ow ready an1 will be milled. mi F-OK II AlKiE. to all applicant upon receipt of tt cent for pontntre. KiiitllMi aul liernian Vtiltlon. Ad dress JOHN KERN, 211 Market Street, St. Louis. fWSUtte where you saw this sdrertiaement. nw I th time to o r a n I le ncl if l hitr ivod c! lit Mi . "Lntii. 8tn1 Tonr btdma and fn oni-U!inf that will bring 70s. W4NT la tKimriNr i.rrr f I montli, wir. nnur isvtJiTOBfisiiii, ill lit I 174 Greenwlc street. Kw Yor. BRIDEiil .miu , ' l ark. tne Miter uollar Package. It soa. ami class tPV DTStoDos. nrixl l-sr pl.tctl prabclUer.soldva pro. pnou.an.i - l Lnz. Svni-lt pacaair-J, wiiu r.. r-- - Ur M1m surnt.i M onof las nins W ' ; Mirer dollar. nd a .) rsld plsoe la wr JOO lo W. Agents etrcuiftr fre , ixud. lar 6O a: if p i sacaatms. , ;l.6o "STllK BF.ST itiths World. It t,,iT.- I mvrrid rllfTHm. nnDKRFlL Kconomjr. mite ........ ttrM.i t,i lM. rlour. t MORRIlOl K UltF. AI. Fopm iMlimaslfl.. hi'iU'f in t aixrTK. U CiK-Moa. Urtnr. 111., vi Him : '( liv Mtt Usui u- ait ap a )ur for ti.i - ; lur iun irntl inveni-l tW Hrt riit may "njnttn; 111. tMl (it I tlfttiic m:nm Urn UvrH,, NiM l.v mil IV'irttafa, l jwr Nov by mail. p-u-tl. rmi 'arKujr' r rr JLtilrr. m tnf ) iiii(i, r. purinw a t.. PHII AI's.1 PMIA, PsV, ODsviESTiC' SEWING MACHINES. liberal Terms of Ti Chaneefor Second-hand Machines of every des cription. 'DOMESTIC" PAPER FASHIONS. The Best Patterns made. Sen.l.lcts. f or Catalogua. aliirsss rCSSSTi: SITStt JIACSZJS CO. AtiiJTs Wasted. MEWIOBK. Sinifli Organ Co., DO ST OH, MASS. Th.se Standard InstmntenU Sold by Music Dealers Everywhere. AGENTS WASTED IK EVEET TOWS. sold TiiEoranocT tub esitid btatis oh ttib 1XSTAIXMEXT PLAS ; That Is, on a System of Monthly Payments. T.ve. . hn til f,,r the Shith AushicasObv OAX. Catalogues and full uarlitulara ou acpllcatlon. A ilANPsoT.T-Ii.t.rTATn.Hinwi.T ETaTrw inu Jrvmu M hazinb, containing stories of ad Tentnre sketches la natural history, fairy st-.rles, Docllis. nuzzles, etc. .".t paptr. printing, and ttnrr tm- lAii A'l' ' 'trr bfn p'U mo t lmtpr,ctt Migif .- fi-i!iit'lee--p!el'ceuw. Xo poftais. til AS. V. JI-.Mil.ss, 57 Bible Uuuse, Ksw York. Burnett's Cocoaine, Burnett's Cocoaine, Burnett's Cocoaine. Is an invaluable remedy for DANDRUFF. Frrnw, Oct. r. I have used than a bottle. The d-indrurT and the irritation which caused it, have entirety disap peared, ai.d my hair wa. never before in so cola condition. A. A. Kt LLEK. BALDNESS. Chii; r,rv, M.iy tj, Pinre t!e rccrnt nsc of your ' Ocoaine, my pre Yiouslv brtld head has hern covered Ly a luxuriant growth of hair. I had always esteemed vour prepa ration a a dresmc knowing many pen ns w ho re garded it vrry hfMy as such, but t:vcr befure knew bow valuable it was as a restorative. J. C. LEWIS. LOSS OF HAIR. Banger, March 3, t. Your " Cocoaine" is the only drr.ini; for the hair ud in my family fr the lat eiht year. It not only sifffw J my wife's hair from coming nut, but in creased its jTrowth. I am aUo undrr obligations to tliisaame "Cocoaine" fur avmj my own hair, which was very fast coming out previous to u-..og this valuable preparation. J. C, MITCHLLL. IRRITATION OF TIIE SCALP. Watervili k, Mr , Sepf. n. I p'irchasod a battle only, for the purpose of a ha;r fjrcvsing; but, to my s'lrpri5, it has entirely removed the irntaii. n of Jn sundi";.:. I h.ive rerom meivied it to several of my friends, who wrre afflicted in the same way, and it ha w!io!!v irradiated the discus. JOStFU liitL, Jh. HAIR-DRESSING. New York, Prpi. sj For some time past I have been using your Cocoa ine, and think it far preferable ti anviiiintj 1 hav ever used for the hair. FKANK. LESLIE- JOSEPH BURNETT & CO., Boston, Manufacturers and J'roprietort, inc. s h:foiiivs LIVEH INVIGORATOR. CumpoiindeU entirely Irum 4-uuis. These H.l.Mrr- Per won UM.ng move all morbid) fy shoalfladaptt!ic or bad matter iZ. P4 dne to their in- frora thesy ntem, 00 dividual consti supplying in O tution, from a teaanooufull to their place m healthy flow of btlct luvlljornt I njr the stomach. I causing food to digest well; PC KIFYIXU Til K m.OOIr, giTing tone and health to the whole ma-' r, tsi wU sreo 1 r . blenuooiiiull ecordlua; to ef fort, l or all af- fections of the L1VKU, irregu larities of Mom. aeh and llnwels, diseases depend 'rnt on or caused by such derange, tnent as Itlllous attack. C'otie ncsa, t hrouie 1M-arrhtra,lspep-sia. jaundireand Female Weak.' nesses. 1 table spoonfull taken rhliifrT. remnv-i Ing the canse of sl the diseases, ef-.! ferting a radical enre. Afm r A.'l- It Is t.I-.tiCAL- and i AL- WAM SAFE nt commencement of an attack of SICK H EAD AC H E - In l.l minnte. 1 I I. LOiVor &ALL.OW KKIS MA UK YOl'TII- ITIibjrl bottle. THY IT I For pamphlet containing useful Information and all shout the X,iver, address IMI.KtMOH l, Aew York. hOLB 11 A 1. 1. IIKK.t.lsTS. VANBUSKIWS FRAGRANT SET V?f xr' Go AND ISYIQORATES AND HARDENS THE GUMS ! It imparls a delightfully rtfrcskins taste and feeling to the mouth, remov ing all TAUT A It and SCTKF frora the teeth, completely arresting the prr gress of decay, and whitening such parts as have become black by decay. IMPURE BREATH caused by Bad Teeth, Tobacco, Spirits, or Catarrh, is neutralized by tho daily use of SOZGDOm It is as harmless as -water. Bold by Prcggists and PTfrs iaTincy Good One bottle wttl last six months. A.V.K.S.L CX - Ml ADVEI1TISKRS l.lre to reach country .w""" . resl-rs esn do so lr. the lt snd rhe.t manner hr "sins o U-.TS. Applj to K. K. FKATT. 7 i. bv iiMns ose or more ArXlUART kson Slrm. Chicago. nn Vftll M!e or Fn!e. LI II IUU and m soin'iiim mm tl 3 5 MrK IrvaW IS