DALLAS; OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1869.
VOL. 1.
TUB POLK C O M TIMES
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F olk County Official Directory.
Pel%.',ounty covers an area of about 1,250
• square miles. Number of voters. 1,227. Acres
- of land under cultivation, 93 270. Value of
assessable property, $1.234,529.
The Land
<>#oe t«*r this District is located at Oregon
City—Owen Wade, Register; Henry Warren,
Receiver.
Cor.iTT OrrtciHS. — Commiteioticrn, E. C.
Dice, R. Tatew; Judge, J. L. Collins; Sherijf,
-J. W. Smith : fi e r i, J . I. Thompson ; A»»e»»>>r,
H. Dsvis: Tmteurer, R. M May: School Su-
periuUrudctm J. II. Myer; S u r v e y o r ,T. Burch;
Coroner, C. D. Ernbree.
T an*« o r C o r a r . — Circuit Court, R. P. Boise
•Judge. e<.nvenes in Dallas on the 4th Monday in
April awl 3d Monday in November. County
Court convene* on the 1st Monday in each
/month.
N or siur.« PriLlC.—T. Pearce, E ola; W. W.
Booue. Independence; J. L. Collins, Dallas;
H. N. ttaorge. Buena Vista.
P ost O rric* T o w n s . — Bethel, Bridgeport,
Buena Vista. Dallas (county seat), Eola,Grand
Koude, independence, Luekiamute. Lincoln.
Lewisville, Monmouth, Rickreal, Salt Creek
and Zeaa.
U. 6 . M a i l le a v e « Dallas for Salem on Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday at 7 a in., return
iug same days at 6 a. m .; for Independence,
each Tuesday mornirg at 6 ; f«r Salt Creek,
•each Tuesday at l p m.; for Lafayette, Mon
day and Thursday at 3 p in , returning Wed-
-nesay and Saturday a. 10 a. ra.; for Corvallis,
Wednesday and Satuscay at 10 a. m., returning
Monday and Thursday at 3 p. in.
P R O F E S S IO N A L C A R D S .
W . D . J E F F R I E S , N . L>.,
Physician
and
Surgeon,
E o la , O r e g o n .
Special attention given to Obstetrics and
lt f
Diseases of Women.
J . E . D A V ID S O N , M. D .,
PhvMician and
Surgreon,
In d e p e n d e n ce , O g n .
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R . J E S e l f P , M. D .,
Physician add
$urg«*»n,
D a lla s, -O regon.
OFFICE— At residence, on Jefferson street
opposite Academy Black.
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B O N H A M <fc L 4 W S O Y ,
A tto rn e y s k C ounsellors-at-L aw ,
S A L E M , OREGON.
OFFICE IN THE COURT HOUSE.
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C. C . C U R L ,
A ttorney and C ou n sellor-a t-L a w ,
SALEM , OREGON,
Will practice in all the Courts of Record and
Inferior Courts o f this State.
OFFICE—In Watkinds A Co’s Briok, up
stairs.
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TO C0BBESP0NDENT8.
Whatever you have to say, my friend,
Whether witty, or grave, or gay,
Condense as much as ever you ean,
And say it the readiest way ;
And whether you write of rural affairs,
Or particular things in town.
Just take a jp>rd of friendly advice—
Boil it down.
For if yon é°
g'o »i
spluttering over a page,
When wnouple of lines would do,
Your butter is spread so'much, you see.
That the bread looks plainly through.
So when yon have a story to tell,
Aud would like a little renown,
To make quite sure of your wish, my friend,
Boil it down.
When writing an article for the press,
Whether prose or verse, just try
T o utter your thoughts in the fewest words,
Aud let them be crisp and dry.
And when it is finished, and you suppose
It is done exactly brown.
Just look it over again, and then
Boil it down.
For «ditors do not like to print
An article lazily long
Aud the general reader does not care
For a couple of yards of song.
So gather your wits in the smallest space,
If you’ d win the author's crown,
And every time you write, my friend,
Boil it down.
Robert R. Hughes, a contributor to the
Richmond State Journal, a Republican
— The N. Y. Herald says : The Prin- organ, was arranged at Chester) near
ter8’ National Convention at Albany, Richmond, Va , between Captain W. E.
by a vote o f 46 to 28. laid on the tablt Cameron, editor o f the Index, and M r
a resolution for abolishing all di»tiud*| Hughes. The police arrested the sec
tions o f race and color in the craflfc onds and Mr. Hughes, near the fight.
This means that the distinction of color | \n„ ground. The fight, it is thought,
is to be enforced as an objection tothé will be renewed in another State.
black man, and as it is with the print
— A private letter from an eminent
ers so it will be with *11 the other Tradei
"Englishman standing high in the esti.
Unions. They will all be array«
mation o f the Government, says that
against negro equality in their w«rk-
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Gladstone, Johnson and B ri/h t are
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s hops, and the administration before 4
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strong supporters of Canadian indepen
long will hear from them at the polls.
dence. He further says that the Brit
— The Confederate Genera/ Jubal ish Colonies will within a year be re
A. Early has taken the stump tor Walk quired to manage their affairs without
er, the conservative candidal* for Gov recourse upon the mother country.
ernor in Virginia.
— The new Government o f British
— A negro woman in Chicago has Columbia is Anthony Musgrave. A
sued a white man tor “ breach of prom Victoria paper says his appointment
ise.” She only asks 850,000 damages. was decided upon at the Colonial office
— It is stated that the destruction of some months ago, and it seems that the
property by fire in the United States late iMr. Seymour was aware of the in
thus far in the present year, has reach- tention.
od over 817,000,000.
— Says a London letter : The Prin
C A L IF O R N IA W H E A T C R O P D A M .
AGED.
The San Francisco Herald of the
24th ult. says: ‘ ‘News is arriving from
many sections o f the State that the
damage to the wheat crop by rust is
more aud more apparent, and in some
localities an almost total destruction
seems inevitable. The valleys near the
coast, and the Sacramento river crops
will be the most seriously affected, be
ing more under the influence o f fogs
The heavy fogs of the past week have
been particularly destructive.”
The Bulletin o f the 23d ult. says:—
“ I f auything were necessary to accom
plish th$ total destruction o f the wheat
crop in Ibis State, iu the distiicts affect
ed by rist, the weather for the past
week has been eminently adapted to
bring a>out such a result.
For the
pust three or four nights the fogs have
been so moist as to completely lav the
dust, and to force upon one’s mind th<-
impression that it has been raiuing
These fogs, in connection with a hot
sun during the middle o f the day, have
had a disastrous effect on the wheat
crop wherever they have prevailed
The amount o f cloudy weather experi
enced thus far this Summer has been
so great as to excite general remark
We have no data upon which to fotm
aft accurate estimate o f the damage
done to the growing wheat, but as a
rough guess, wo should say that the
crop has been diminished by the rust
to the extent o f about 2,000,000 bush
els.”
As an offset to the damaged crop
prospects in California and Oregon,
there is now opening a better outlook
tor a market. Pri* es have gone up in
the New York market slightly, while
the rise at Liverpool is decided and more
remarkable than anything that has oc
ourred in the grain market within the
year. The cause of it. according to the
New York Commercial Advertiser, is
that the Russian Government has en
tered the grain market o f Germany as
a purchaser. As Russia is one of the
largest grain supplying countries in the
world, furnishing England more than
that country obtains from all other
sources, including the United States,
its appearance as a purchaser of grain
is the more extraordinary.
It must
eventually exercise an appreciable influ
ence upon the American breadstuff's
trade. The United States will be call
cd upon to furnish the bulk o f the de-
icit, and an increased activity in the
export demand will be the result.
H a y d e n dt S l y e r ,
A G e n e r o u s G i f t . — W e have
already chronicled the fact, says the
Dallas, O regon.
World, of the generous gift o f Mr. W.
OFFICE IN THE COURT HOSSE.
1 W . Corcoran, transferring to the City
of Washington a beautiful art building
SU LLIVAN k W H IT8 ON,
and pictures and money, in amount, all
Attorneys
Oounsellors-at-Law, told, more thun * million dollar», while
Mr. Belmont has offered twelve pictures
Dalla*. Oregon,
from his magnificent private gallery to
WHI practice in all tbe Couru of the State. 1 the new collection. N<»w, Mr. Corcoran
has been roundly »bused a« a “ accession
J . L C O L L IN ^
sympathizer,” and this very art build
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, ing was seized daring the war and turn
Dallas. Oregon.
ed into some sort of a loyal and negro
shop, and Mr. Corcoran was obliged to
Special attention given to Collections and to
appeal to a court o f law to obtain pos-
matters pertaining to Real Estate.
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session of his property and rents for
LTCUHCCa v i n k v a r d
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JA8. h . t u b n b r .
the same. It now appears that the
V in e y a r d & T u r n e r ,
property so seized and misused by the
A T T O R N E Y S - A T - L A W , 1“ ederal authorities was designed by the
gen rous and much-abused builder and
Dallas, Oregon.
owner as a free gift to the capital of
OFFICE— On Main street, ene door north of
that government. This, for a so called
the huila* Hotel.
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“ secession sympathizer.” What have
J AS. MCCAIN.
J. A. AVPLEOSTR.
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the Butlers, Dows, Logans, and other
A p p l e g a t e S l V c C a i n ,
loil plate-passers and gatherers who en
riched themselves during and
the
A T T O R N E Y S -A T - L A W , war done in the
o f contribu
Dallas, Polk County, O gn.
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tions
or
ATTO R N EYS -A T - L A W ,
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by
way
to Washington any other city ?
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N E W S IN
BRIEF.
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— Navy Department will soon offer cess Christian is just recovering frnm a
for sale five iron ciads, now laid up iu sudden illness, about which there is
New Orleans.
thrown a great deal o f mystery. She
— A sausage vender of New Orleans was to have gone to Balmoral with the
has procured the arrest o f all the neigh- | Queen, but the attack came on the very
boring butchers because they barked day ° f the departure from \X indsor
and mewed wheu customers came to a°d though it was described as serious,
buy o f him.
the Queen went without her.
Rumor
- I n Chicajo, the other day, there
“ matrimonial row.
was a conte-t between butchers to see
In the Circuit Court at TV ashington
who could cut up and dress a bullock , five colored men were sworn in as grand
o f average size in (he shortest time. jurors. Among tho petit jurors sum
moned were nine colored men. One
The work was done iu 4:40.
bailiff appointed by the Court is colored.
-A correspondent from Havant
________ of the
— Victoria paper says a great change
sends the following statement
forces iu the field ° The Government is about to fake place in British Colum-
has 13,I'OO regulars and 27,000 volun bia. With oue sudden movement, it
teers, added to 1,686 volunteers garri will pass from the condition o f a Crown
soning the principal cities, o f which Colony, governed from Downing streot,
025 are at Havana
The Patriots have to that of a self-governing Province of
35,000 whites and 19,000 nesrroes, of the Dominion o f Canada.
which about 26,000 are well armed.
— The St Louis papers claim that the
This force will probably be increased merchants o f their city will “ capture”
by some 800 whites and negroes in a the trade of Colorado and Utah when
short time, should they continue to re the Kansas Pacific Railroad is extended
ceive arms aud ammunition from the to Denver, and the projected road from
United States.
the Union Pacific to Denver is finished.
— Alexander H Stephens has recov-
— Resolutions have been introduced
ered from his recent illness, caused by j jn the Connecticut IIou*e o f Represen-
hq accident.
1 tat'ves. proposing three amendments
— The severest storm ever known to the State Constitution. One proposes
swept over the lower peninsula o f Mich that the State officers shall hold office
igan on Tuesday o f last week. Such j for two years, instead o f one as at pres
tornadoes are o f rare occurrence Fen- ent, another changing the regular Leg-
ces were prostrated houses blown down, islative sessions to Wednesday after the
crops flattened and freshets w re caused first Monday in January; and another,
l»y the heavy rains. One man was fa faking the power of granting pardons
tally injured and others are reported from the Legislature and bestowing it
injured. The details arc not yet re- upon the Governor and the Judges of
ceived
In some places the storm the Supreme Court of Errors,
swept everything before it. A church
_ q - Wo local reporters on the Mont
in Macomb county was struck by light- gomerv (A la .) Mail recently fought, a
ning and seriou.-ly damaged.
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duel because they differed as to the
— Boric has resigned the Secretary- color o f an actress’ eyes.
ship o f the Navy, and Geo. M. Robert - 1
_ j nd{ie 0 de]|, of Massachusetts,
sun, of New Jersey, formerly Attorney decided, in the case of Ward vs Hun-
General of that State, has been appoint- trei5Si that
a man a “ damned
NO. U.
ELECTRO P L A T E D P E O P L E .
ing on within gave way, a large gap ap.
peared, and a mass of earth was heard
Many people have the true, sharp,
to strike a pool o f water an indefinite clear ring of genuine metal, many have
distance below with a heavy splash.
an unmistakable dead leaden character,
— The President will, on the 10th but a very large proportion may
of July, after tho Virginia electidn, or summed up under the very conrpr
der an election in Mississippi fdr the hensive title “ electro plated-people
15th of September or first of October.
It is not easy to discover these at one
— The Government has sent down to They have ail the brightness and pold
Mt. Vernon a number of cases formerly of true metal, they answer all the par-
in the Patent office, containing uni poses of sterling silver for a time, and
forms. cooking utensils, camp equipage it is only after you have occasion to
and other personal property of General make use of thetn frequently, and test
Washington. They have been forward tlmm pretty severely, that you will find
ed and committed to the care of the the thin veneer o f true metal pass away
Ladies’ Association, who will prepare and their true coppery character made
them for public inspection in the old manifest. For everyday gentle usage
electro plate is very well, and provided
house.
— Ex President Andrew Johnson was too tnuch strain is not put upon it, it
taken violently ill with the colio through may'answer your purpose for years to
eating too many oranges recently, and come, and it is often only when you
was in considerable danger through the bring \t to »he melting pot, and are anx
night. He has since recovered and re ious to know its real value, that you will
find oul that it is worth but very little.
sumed his canvass of the State.
So it is with the people who may be
— In an Iowa saw mill recently, a
termed electro plated ; you may depend
visitor touched a swiftly revolving cir
on them as fur as you know it is worth
cular saw with the fore finger o f his
their whiW to be depended upon
If
right hand, and it was cut off. In des
they think it to their advantage to know
cribing how the accident happened,'the
you, they will know you and be o f ser*
visitor reached out his left fore finger
vice to you; but do not put any trust
to the saw, when it too was cut off.
in their stability. Let any vast calam
— A New York paper contains the ity or di-grkce come upon you. and you
following advertisement: “ Feeling a will speedily find out that they have a
sense <»t‘ guiltiness, I request all well- ij^ise substratum to their glittering ex
disposed persons to pray to God for me. terior.
Frank. Newspapers please copy.”
Electro pitted people are like electro
—Two beautiful and brilliant young plated spoons and forks, always best
daughters o f the late Confederate Gen when they are new. See how electro
eral Zollicoffer, were married two weeks plated goods shine and glisten in the
since— Nat. Gaither, o f Kentucky, and shop windows, and then think how bril
Miss Mary,and Mr. Bond, o f Columbia, liant, well-informed and hearty you
Tennessee, and Miss Octavia.
used to think Bo-and-so, but how you
— At the Observatory in Washington have found out his real character at last.
arrangements have been made to.carry Electro plated ware is best and bright
into effect a plan o f signals, by means est in the show-room, so are electro
of the telegraph and steam whistles, to plated people; they soon tarnish and
get dim with constant using in prosaic
warn the city of coming storms.
everyday life. You may polish a plated
— The Star announces that S. S.
spoon up to a certain point with great
Conant, managing editor o f the Times,
effect; it will look all the more briliian$
has succeded Raymond as editor in
and effective ; but eolw yond thit point
chief.
and the more yoo polish and use it the
— The woman cause has achieved a worse it will become. Not so with ster-'
victory in Boston, where Miss Emily ling silver and genuine people. The
Judson Harris was chosen to read the more you polish the one. aud the greater
Declaration o f Independence at the degree o f intimacy yon have with the
Fourth o f July celebration.
other, the more you will bring out their
— Gentlemen who are fortunate en brilliancy and good points. Electro
ough to get free passes over the Pacific plated clergymen, electro plated Christ
philanthropists,
Railroad are informed, for their encour ians, electro-plated
agement, that it ouly costs ten dollars bankers, bill-brokers, tinkers, tailors,
per head a day for sleeping aud eatiug soldiers, sailors, apothecaries, plough-
boys and thieves, abouud on every side.
accomodations on the route.
— The ability of a female tongue to Formerly we preferred good old silver,
keep a secret is proved by the conduct bruised and blistered though it might
of a St. John’s girl, who did not, tell be. The period of silver has passed
her lover that she was worth four mil away, and the present is an electro
lions in her own right until alter the plated age.
marriage.
— Boston has a citizen, who, after a
journey over the Pacifio railway, wrote
home that the distance “ to San Fran
cisco by the Pacific Railroad is equal
C'l
h'9 p1a(>e-
Englishman” is not swearing, within to 211 games euchre, 178 drinks aud
— A Washington special says that the meaning of the statutes, so long as 117 cigars.”
— Bishop McQuade, o f Rochester,
Commissioner Delano’s recent order ro- the Alabama claims remain unsettled,
says
that the progress of the Catholic
garding the reduction o f the clerical
_ John N. Maffitt, commander of
Church
in America is owing to the sanc
force in tho various revenue depart the lafe Confederate steamer Florida,
meuts, saves the Treasury 81,100,001 has instituted legal proeeedings to re- tity with which its members regard the
per annum.
j cover some ten thousand dollars worth marriage relations.
calling
— It is said that it will cost the gov.
ernment six hundred and twenty mil-
lion pounds sterling to purchase the tel-
egraph lines in the country as contem-
plated.
— Boston is to have a new postoffice,
but its triumph is dashed by the fact
that a beautiful horse chestnut tree—
the pride o f the Hub— must be sacri-
ficed to make room for tbe building.
of property confiscated in tho Uni'ed
States District Court, at St Paul three
years ago, and sold by the United States
Marshal for about three thousand dol-
lars.
-Eighteen in favor to one against,
is the vote o f the Methodist Episcopal
churches in Philadelphia, on the ques-
tion o f lay delegation.
Nineteen
churches have been heard from so far.
— The annual examination of cadets
— The following intelligence compg
at West Point was held during the past from Bucharest: A brigand of Her
week. The graduating class numbered culenn strength w n about to be hung
forty.
i f° r murder. He hurst the straps which
__TI d Supreme Court o f Georgia hound him like flax, seized the execu-
decideti »hat the c*»de o f Georgia, adop tioner and hanged him before assistance
ted by the new constitution, forever could arrive. He was thereupon ap-
prohib rS m irriage relations between . pointed to his victims’ s office,
white/persons and persons o f African j
— The new marriage law of Ohio
descent. They declare such marriages prohibits the intermarriage of first
annulled.
cousins, and of girls under sixteen »nd
Department o f Agriculture of bovs under twenty one, unless with
estimates the increase in the number o f the consent o f their parents.
In con-
horses iD the United States since 1860 sequence, a young lady who is nn or-
at
000 or 25 per cent. The whole phan, and is not legally
age— eight-
number U now said to be about 8,000,- een— and so. without a guardian. c«n^
000,
at 82.666,000,000, which not get. married until she “ grows up.”
— Miss Mary Gray, o f Georgia, has,
is considerable more than the whole
by her own efforts, caused the bodies of
national debt.
— A hoy and girl, at Goffstown, N. fifteen hundred Confederates, who fell
H., aged respectively sixteen and elev- in the battle o f Franklin, Tenn., to be
en and one halt years, are said to have collected and decently buried,
got married. A clergyman whom they
— Some men were exploring a cave
called on sent them to the Town Clerk in an Indian mound near Davenport,
for a certificate. On their way, a man Iowa, a few dnrs ago, and had secured
married them for 37 cents. The wife several stone hatchet* and other relies,
now attends school, and gravely talks when thev fe’ t a movement o f the earth
to her playmates about her “ old man.” under foot, and clambered hastily out.
— A duel
out o f an article They had hardly
the entrance
in the
Index, denouncing. when the ground they had been stand
— The
1,750
0f
valued
growing
Petersburg
reached
H en ’ s R ig h ts .— T he New York
Herald gets off the following good hit
on that class o f '‘ female roosters” who
are continually crowing about “ ben’s
ri-h ts:” “ There is a movement in high
chicken quarters.‘stated since the poul
try show, to have tbe hens assert them
selves before the world in a series of
resolutions poin'ing out that the roost
ers do all the crowing and fighting and
roost on the highest perches, and yet
lay no egLrs. and that this is oppressive
and unjust to the hens.”
— In New York the papers complain
that, rather than reduce the price o f
ftay* A Pennsylvania girl thinks the
strawberries below a certain rate, the advertisement o f agricultural societies
monopolists who regulate the berry are the best commentaries on the man
market throw them in the river.
agement o f their fairs. “ Look at the
— The English papers contain a full premiums,” she says: For the fastest
description of a gorgeous suit o f clothes trotting horse. 85 » ; for the next fast
which the Hon. John Jay, American est, 825 ; for the best team o f work
Minister to Vienna, has had made in horses. S5 ; for the best loaf of bread,
London.
50 cents.”
— At a fashionable wedding in St.
N o b l y E x p r e s s e d . —
clip this
Louis recently, the officiating clergy little gem from au exchange: If there
man, Rev. Father F, M. Keilty, iu his
is a man who can eat his bread in peace
address to the eroom said : “ You are with God and man, it is that man who
the man, and the man must be the ruler lias brought that bread out of the earth,
Any idea lookin to woman as being the or won it by his honest industry. It
ruler is a perversion o f Scripture.”
is cankered by no fraud; it is wet by
--Prentice thinks the Radicals have no tears; it is stained by no blood.
no cause to complain o f Grant’s ap
W h y is t h e M a r r i a o e o f t h e
pointing incompetent men to office.since
S
exf
.8 D e c l in in g ‘/ — The Revolution
they set the ex imple last November.
answers this important question : Stew,
— The Indians are reported to be
art has sold twenty shawls this seaAoif
down on Grant’s Quakers.
“ Um I”
worth $3.000 each, and one worth $ 4 -
cried Hole-in the-Boitle, chief o f the
600. One woman ran up a bill for
Arapahocs, “ Quakers no good; bring
S20.000 at his store in a couple of
water ; no whisky !”
months. At the recent “ Charity ball”
— Registration in Richmond, Va., in this city, a lady paid $10,000 for
last year showed six thousand male ne diamonds to shine in on the occasion.
groes subject to assessment for poll tax.
Beautiful was the reply o f a
The assessor this year can find but half
that number. The Whig
that venerable man to the question whether
a great many are dead, and sarcastically he was still in the land o f the living—
opines that quite as many never existed ,‘ No, but I am almost there.”
suspects
at all.
— A yonng lady exhibited at the
Hampstead Literary Society the foot of
a stocking, exquisitely darned, placed
in a neat glass case, and labelled. “ Spe
cimen exhibited by a Girl of the Pe
riod.”
The effect of !>r. ! Walker’s V ikfoak Bir-
TKR8. oven when
for its cathartic proper,
tics, nre very different from those o f any other
medicine prepared specifically for that purpom».
There is no natfrea or di-turban e o f the
stomach, and instead o f causing any sense of
languor, or debility, it Reeins rather to invigor
ate the whole system, and excite the kecaevt
appetite.
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