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V ' v I - VA. - WIT AND HUMOR. The " Lady Slipper " is the name of a vessel just launched at Boston. She must be intended for the whaling ser vice. I shouldn't care much about the bugs," said a thin, pale lodger to his landlady, "but the fact is, ma'am, I hain't got the blood to spare." Some day an editor will lose a few dollars by a bank bursting, and then Jou'll hear a newspaper howl at the oose manner in which such institutions are conducted. Nbrrktovcn Herald. "Captain," said a son of Erin, as a ship was nearing the coast in inclement weather, " have ye a alminik on board?" "No, I haven't." "Then, bejabers, we shall have to take the weather as it comes." A woiiAN's-BioiiTS orator f ranklj de clared that the first time a coat-sleeve encircled her waist she seemed to be in a pavilion built of rainbows, the window-sills of which are composed of JEo lian harps. Learned professors know about 30,- 000 words: children of two from 200 to 704; ordinary people, 90,000; book agents, 9,999,99. When they learn the word "nuit" their education will be complete. Old gent to boy (who is smoking the end of a cigar he has picked up) " Ugh, for shame, throw that nasty thing away." Boy: " What, for you to pick up and smcke, eh ? Gararn, I knows yer ! London run.. Tourist (to a friend) "As to that, my boy, one year I drank nothing bnt milk." Friend " Indeed! I have known you a long time, but I don't re member that. What year was it?" Tourist" My first I" Funny Folks. A D anbury base-ball enthusiast is getting up a ball of iron filled with ni-tro-glycerine, which will exjlotle on being caught, and tear the c itcher as under. This will be more wearing on a club than the ball in present use, but it is more humane. " Don't make a fool of yourself with that girl now, Tom; you know love's blind," said his cantious parent. " That's all bosh," said superior Tom. " Love's not blind at all; why I see ten times at much in that girl as you do." Two Irishmen were talking about an accident, when the following colloquy occurred: " Shure, how is the man that was hurt ? " " An he's no bether." "Is he conscious?" " Yis, lie's con scious, but devil a thing does he know." In Texaa, recently, a judge broke down with emotion while sentencing one Longly, a notorious desperado, to be hanged for murder. Longly was surprised at this, and remarked, on go ing baok to jail, " I feel sorry for the judge." Scene, yard in rear of house: Ma ternal voice from third story to young America playing below " Thomas, come in this minute." Momentary pause. "Thomas, come in; I shan't speak again." " Y. A." Well, I wish yon wouldn't ! " In response to written orders, the ex pressmen of Meriden, Conn., were sent in great haste to take the trunk of L. E. Phant to the depot. The landlord took the joke kindly at first, but as ex press wagon after express wagon drove up the joke became monotonous. They had private theatricals at New port, and a criticism thereupon de scribes Colonel George E. Warning as a " beautiful but too cold lover." His wife was playing in the same piece, and it is unjust to censure a man who hadn't a fair chance. Detroit Free Pres.. "Are the Smiths back ?" inquired Mrs. Stayby, who hasn't been out of town this season. " Yes'm," replied the cook, "and Mrs. Gabv got back from Wales last night." " Then.Mary, you may open the front shutters and let them know that ice're got back too." ' " Paddy, my boy," said a gentleman to an Irishman, whom he observed fish ing away at a favorite pool, " that must be a fine pool for trout." "Faith, and sure it must be that same, for I have been standing here these three hours, and not one of 'em will stir out of it." "Come pa," said a youngster just home from school, " how many peas are there in a pint ? " " llow can any bo Jy tell that, you foolish boy?" "I can, every time. If you don't believe it, try me." " Well, how many are there, then?" "Just one pea in every pint, pa." New York Commercial Adrertiser. "Who are Life's Heroes?" feelingly asks a newspaper poet. We can answer that. They are the men who noting the near approach of Fall weather, cau go up in the attic and look calmly upon a pile of stovepipe elbows without a ?lmd der. Lord Majo imported a female emu. While his lordship was away from home she laid an egg, and his perplexed bail iff, writing to inform him of the occur rence, began his letter as follows: " In the absense of your lordship I put the egg under the greatest goose I could find." Visitor " Isn't it terrible to think that the vessel yonder may dash on the rocks, and every soul on board perish!" Old Salt " Y'es; but it's more terrible to think that maybe the crew's a work ing themselves to death, and perhaps there's not a bit o'backer aboard the en tiro craft ! " Operatic Manager " You sav your prima donna has a magnificent voice ? " Prima donna's agent " Simply mag nificent; high-cultured and of great vol ume. Would fill the Academy of Mu sic grandly." Manager "Ah! That's just what I want it to do, to fill the Academy at a dollar and a half a seat ! " The following neat reply of Miss Stevens is reported from London to an Englishman who asked her: " What change do you see in Society since you were last here ! " Replied the heiress : "The only difference is, that many peo ple that I left unmarried are now mar ried, but more that I left married are unmarried." A IiOver of good coffee entered a gro cery recently, and holding up a hand ful of ground coffee from a big can, he inquired: "Are there any beans in this coffee ?" No. sir," promptly re plied the grocer. " How do you know? "asked the man. "Because I washout of beans and had to put peas in ! " was the answer. The wit of Secretary Evarts, says Mrs. Grundy, seems to have descended to his children. He said to a friend here: " I have received a letter from one of my little girls, and she writes: Dear papa Thank you verv kindly for the donkey you sent mebut he's - so lonely. Won't you soon be home, papa? ' " Cassias M. Clay Kills bis Man. Hon. Cassius M. Clay, formerly Min ister to Russia under President Lin coln's administration, recently shot and killed a negro man, Perry White. The affair, which occurred on the farm of Gen. Clay, near Richmond, Ky., is thus described by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer: " Gen. Clay has had in his employ as cook for some time a negro woman, the mother of Perry WThite. A few days ago he discovered that she had been robbing him of his silver plate, his table service and other articles, and he discharged her. Being a very vio lent woman, she swore vengeance against her employer. Previous to this Perry had also been ordered from the place, being known in the neighbor hood as a negro who lived by stealing, who had frequently been implicated in robberies, and was otherwise notorious as a bold , daring man and desperate ne gro. The negro, on his own account, and to avenge his mother, had resolved to kill Clay, and a letter written by White, containing a threat to carry out his murderous purpose was shown to Clay. The latter had anticipated trouble with the negro, and for ten" days past when he went out on his farm he carried his pistol. This morning Gen. Clay mounted his horse, with a small white boy behind him, and started to a negro church in the neighborhood, where he intended to hire a cook in place of the one discharged. He had proceeded but a short distance from his house when he saw a loose horse in a pasture near the roadside. Just as he was passing, the little boy remarked, 'There is Perry White,' looking in the direction of the horse, which had nei ther bridle nor saddle on. Clay saw the negro in the act of hiding or dodg ing behind the animal. Knowing White had no business there, and believing that he had come for some bad purpose while all the other darkies were at church, and at once supposing that the negro intended to make an attack upon him from the cover, Clay leaped down, and, passing in front of the horse, con fronted the negro and ordered him to throw up his hands. The negro obeyed, sinking to the ground. Clay then talked to him roughly, ordering him from the place, and telling him if he moved from his position until he (Clay) got on his horse he would kill him. . " Clay then turned and started to his horse, when the negro rose suddenly and made at Clay, at which time the latter drew his pistol and fired twice. Both balls took effect, one in the neck and the other in the breast, and the ne gro fell dead. Gen. Clay immediately rode to town and gave himself into the hands of an officer of the law." How tho Czar's Soldiers Obey. Of the Russian peasant's military dis cipline and unquestioning submission to his superiors, says the Examiner, a characteristic proof was afforded to some correspondents with Col. Yolshine's troops on their way to Warsaw after the route of the Poles under Lelewel, at Batorsch, in August, 18G4. Ono of the officers was especially loud in his praises of the discipline of the Russian soldier; and, to prove the truth ot his assertion, llff called one of the men out of the ranks, and saying, " Ivan, it is my pleasure to punish thee," dealt him a sounding box on the ear and sent him back again. The man simply saluted and obeyed. At the remark that it would not be surprising if the officer were to be shot in the back at the first engagement, he laughed and called Ivan forth again, and said to him, " Ivan, why did I punish thee just now ? " "I don't know," was the reply. " But you know I must have had a reason for it." "Of course," the man answered, "you must have had an excellent reason for it.". " Yes," observed the officer, "I did it to prove to these gentlemen here, our old enemies of Sebastopol, that the Russian soldier is unapproachable for discipline by any other nation. Was I not right?" "By God! master, you were," replied the man with a broad grin of triumph. There is no exagger ation in these incidents. The indnr ance a sort of submissive fatalism of the common Russian is most remarka ble. It is, in fact, more or less a spe cial feature of the Tartar and Sclav; and, being thus indifferent Jto suffering themselves, they are indifferent to it in others. SiiiVEit. Dr. Linderman, the Direct or of our mints, is enough of a silver man to believe that the fall in the price of silver during the past year is no ar gument against its use as money in deed he thinks the main cause of its depreciation was the attempt not to nse it as money. He gives the following as the cause of the fluctuations, ranking in importance in the order mentioned: First, change from the silver to the gold standard in Germany and Scandi navia; second, use of a forced paper currency in Russia and Austria and oth er States; third, diminished demand for exports to India and China; fourth, the limitations placed on coinage of sil ver by countries of the double stand ard; fifth, increased population. Increase in production is the most in significant of all. A clergyman was annoyed bv people talking and giggling. "lie "paused, looked at the disturbers, and said: "I am always afraid to reprove those who misbehave, for this reason. Some years since, as I was preaching, a young man who sat before ine was constantly laugh ing, talking and making uncouth grim aces. I paused and administered a se vere rebuke. After the close of the service a gentleman said tome: 'Sir you have made a great mistake; that young man is an idiot.' Since then I have been afraid to reprove those who misbehave themselves in chapel, lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove another idiot." Daring the rest of the service there was good order. An old negro named Pete who was very much troubled about his sins said, " Oh, m&ssa. I'm sich a great sinner ! " " But, Pete," said his master, " you are foolish to take it so much to heart." "I know de reason, massa," said Pete " when you go duck-shooting and kili one duck and wound another, don't you run after de wounded duck?" "Yes Pete," said the master, wondering what was coming next, " Well, massa, dat is de way wid you and me; de debbil has got you, sure; but as he am not so sure ob ma he chases dis chile all de time." Sheridan's father was one day re gretting that they were no longer styled " O'Sheridan," as they had been for merly. "Indeed, father," replied the son, "we have no moro right to 'O' than anybody else, but we owe everybody." -he Massacres in Ronmelia. A SERIES OF HOBBOBS MURDER, DESO LATION AND STARVATION VICTIMS BY THOUSANDS. Philippopolis is, as you know, main ly a Bulgarian town, and it was natural that the majority of refugees who had found shelter within its vails should be Bulgarians. In company ith a Greek doctor who has devoted himself with rare energy and self-devotion to the am elioration of mfsery about him, I sit ed the various hospitals, all of which were overcrowded. I saw in these places such sickening sights of horror as are not frequently to be met with, thank Heaven, even in war. The suf ferers were all women and children. They had fled from the Bulgarian vil lages which used to surround Kasaulik, but'which are now leveled to the ground. Among them all there was but one man. No other male adult had escaped from the fearful massacre perpetrated by the Turkish irregulars. There were children who had never learned to walk who were horribly cut and mangled. I saw one child of (3 months only who had been shot through the jaws by a wretch who had murderously pursued its moth er. There was a woman in the Greek hospital whoso right hand had been chopped off by another savage; who found that the readiest way to the gold bracelet which she, in common with most women of her people, wore as her wedding dower. The people received us with the live liest signs of gratitude, kissing our hands, kneeling before us and weeping. Some of them who had been in times of peace among the more well-to-do took us into their houses and showed us the desolation to which they had been re duced. They showed us the blood stains on wall and floors which marked the spot of the murder of their male re lative?. One dreadful story, which has since been amply confirmed, was told us of the death of an elderly Bul garian gentleman who had the misfor tune to be second cousin to the Russian Vice Consul at Philippopolis. The rela tionship was known to the Zeibecks and Circassians, as he himself was perfect ly aware that if ever those savages oc cupied the town his death was certain. He resolved to defend himself, at least, and to that end secured arms. His house was broken into, and after a brief but desperate resistance he was seized and bound. A huge Bashi-Bazouk set him down upon the floor, and then de liberatively hacked him to pieces, pro longing the sufferings of the unhappy man as long as possible, and pausing after the infliction of each wound to watch the effect of his stroke, and re joicing at every expression of agony which his cruelty succeeded in wresting from his victim. The barbarity was perpetrated in the presence of the man's female relatives, who were compelled to stay and witness it. Quitting Carlova, we made our way to Calofre along a road which led us through the lower ranges of the Balk aus. Calofre was once a place of 10, 000 inhabitants. We found it a still smoldering heap of ruins, without a sin gle roof remaining, or a single whole wall left standing. The stench of burn ed carcasses and rotten men and cattle was in places almost insupportable. The place is one of indescribable aud fearful desolation. We returned then to our camp of the previous night, packed our- traps, and pushed on to Sopot, which wo reached at nightfall. "What remains of the town stands under a sheer wall of mountain, and as we first saw it beneath the ris ing moon the aspect of the place was beyond description weird and desolate. Our earlier impression was that it was as complete a ruin as Calofre, but in the morning we found that many of the houses remained standing, and that there was a hundred people in the town. They were all that were left out of 5, 000, and, except for those who had been killed before their eyes, they could make no guess as to what had become of their old townsfolk. They told us that tho Balkans, which overlook the town, were thicklv strewn with the bod ies of men, women, and children who had been slain by the Circassians in at tempting to escape. The destruction of the people of this place and of Calo fre had" been so fearfully complete that in all mv travels through hospitals and places of refuge further south I had not met, to my knowledge, witn one creat ure who had escaped from either of them. These are at present the two most awful examples of the fashion in which war is made in this miserable country. The conntry is already do populated, and there are no longer roofs and walls to cover a tithe of that gigantic army of refugees which is scat tered in hundreds and in thousands throughout the length and breadth of the land. I myself have seen more than 20,000 homeless fugitives, and I have seen a very small portion. When the statistics of this war come to be figures. When I passed through Adrianople published they wiliamonot to appalling on my return journey I found the hang ing going on with more than their old rapidity. On the day of my arrival thirty Bulgarians were strung up in the streets, and as I drove to the rail way station on the following morning the executions were still going on, and my carriage passed one newly-hanged man who had not ceased to struggle. A mere tripod had been set up as a gal lows, and half the street was blockaded by it. A knot of women and children stood about this edifying spectacle, which is now growing so familiar that a hanging excites no more popular at tention than would be created by the merest trifle of street interest in New Y'ork or London. Xew York Times. Jefferson to his Daughteb. I am glad to learn, my dear Patsy, that you are employed in things new and good. Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent yet so baneful an influence as indolence. Ex ercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body and cheer fulness of mind. If at any moment, my dear, you catch yourself in idleness, start from it as you would from the pre cipice of a gulf. I do not like your say ing that you are unable to read Livy but .with the aid of a master. It is a part of the American character to sur mount every difficulty by resolution. My expectations from you are high, but not higher than you may obtain. Nobody in this world can make me so happy or so miserable as you can. Think nothing is insurmountable and you will be all that I wish you to be. Affectionately, T. J. When I lost my wife, every family in the town offered me another, but when I lost my horse no one offered to make him good. Tne "Bone and Sinew" Of our country have often especially about election time been made the subject of laudation ; but when those useful parts of the human structure become too visible in conse quence of leanness, thej can scarcely be called graceful. The eye delights not to dwell upon angles and ridges in either man or woman. Moreover, extreme emaciation is a sign of im perfect digestion and consequent poverty of the blood. Both these evils are remedied by Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters, which render digestion and assimilation certainties, in consequence of Which the blood acquires richness and the body tub) tan ce. Thus are the hollow places tilled up and the angles rounded off. Through the instru mentality of this peerless aid to digestion and Iromoter of physical well being, the body rapid v gains in vigor, color returns to the hollow cheek, the appetite improves, nervous symp toms vanish, ahd a healthful impetus is given to everv vital function. Life Insiirnnre Claims Adjusted. James Munsell, Jr., has established special facilities in the East for collecting all kinds of claims on policies in Eastern Life Insur ance Companies in liquidation. Parties who have already filed claims direct witli ltecoivers, will find it greatly to their advantage to place the collection of their dividend in the hands of this agency, which will relieve them of all fur ther trouble, and settlement nil! )? made with claimants at this office. It is a matter of great importance) that claim ants should place their policies only in the hands of persona of experience in the insurance busi ness, in order that their policies may be properly valued, and their iaterest efficiently as well as faithfully represented. Appreciating this fact, several attorneys-at-law in San Francisco and elsewhere, have placed the claims of their clients in the hands of tbis agency for presentation with the Courts and Receivers in Eastern States. For the direction and information of claim ants in the interior, who are unacquainted with us, special reference is made to the Managers of the principal Life and Fire Insurance Companies in San Francisco. Parties holding policies must take prompt action in Order to protect their in terests and secure their claims, because it is ab solutely imperative that claims be filed in the East within a specified time, which in some in stances has nearly expired. Office, 224 Sansome Street, corner California, over the Bank of British Columbia, San Fran cinco. Iron and the Unman lllooil. Iron, the oldest of all metals, is also the most widely dispersed throughout all na ture. There is not a plant, nor an animal, nor an iota of the mineral kingdom, but what con tains its proportion of iron, and the human blood is indebted to iron for one of its largest component parts. Iron has been employed for ages as a medi cine, but never have its virtues leen so fully appreciated, nor has it ever been so universally demanded as at the present time. Our fathers of old were but littlu acquainted with therapeutics. If they were ailing, " too much blood " was the verdict, and they had re course to bleeding as a general panacea ; while the church was constantly preaching abstinence and fasting. Tenipm'a mutantur, et wis inula ovtr in illis. Our medical practitioners have well nigli for gotten the free use of the lancet, and our churches, realiziDg the constantly growing physical impoverishment of our race,, have lapjed in the enforcement of their command ments. Indeed, the results of our civilization with its crowded cities aud sedentary habits compels us to adopt an entirely different treatment. Instead of weakening our system by the barbarous practice of bleeding, it is our imperative duty in all cases to purify and en rich the blood. The most powerful agent for this purpose is iron. The medical profession have no doubt of this. Iron determines the principal action of life and gives to the blood that necessary quan tity of red globules which constitutes tiie heal thy vitality of the individual. Its use quickly restores the appetite and renders to the com-, plexin a healthy appearance, It is common to see ierons, hitherto perfect images of death, acqui.u the health and ruddy glow of the most robust. But if iron produces such wonderful results in all cases of anemy, chlorosis, amenorrhea, impoverishment of the blood, general debility, premature txhaustion from whatever cause, the choice of the ferruginous preparation to be used must be made with groat care ; some prepara tions being insolluble produce indigestion others, owing to certain salts, cause constipa tion or tho opposite, slacken the appetite, black en the teeth, possess a disagreeable odor and many other inc nveniences. There is now being introduced into this coun try a French preparation of Iron, known in France as Jiiche.tse da Sang here it is called Bed Blood which we can recommend as pos sessing all the virtues of iron without any of the vile ingredients or bad effects of common preparations. It is indeed the invigorating tonic par excellence. C. Melquioxd, 415 San some street, San Francisco, is the agent for the United States. To bo had of all the principal chemists. Price, $1.25. California Oil Land). Mb. O. H. Brooks, a gentleman of practical experience, has fnlly investigated the oil lands of California and pronounces them equal in richness and quality of pra.u tion to the celebrated fields of Pennsylvania. He is now forming a company, with headquarters at 405 California street, Sin Francisco, for the im mediate commencement of work. See adver- tLsement. )ln, lieneral .Sherman, Wife ot the General of the United States Army, says : " I have frequently purchased Duraug's liheumatic Remedy for friends suffering with Rheumatism, and in every instance it worked like magic." Send for circular to Helphenstine A Bentley, Druggists, Washington, D. C. Rheumatism Quickly Cured. "Durang's Rheumatic Remedy," the great Inter ruil Medicine, will positively cure any case of rheu matism on the face of the earth. Price $1 a bottle, Bix bottles, $5. Sold by all Druggists.. Sand for circular to Helphenstine & Beutley, Druggists, Washington , D. C. Sold wholesale by II. C. Kirk k Co., Sacramento, Oal. Cakds, $1 ; Cabinets ?2 per doz. People's Akt Gallery, 34 Third street, San Francisco. ir 31 -PAOE CATALOOUK FREE TO AOEST.S- ViKTKtt4 Co., IT New Montgomery su.B.F. VALENTINE VOX. the Ventriloquist. lO ets. ot any bookseller, or by mail. Jkssk IIaney fc Co., 119 Nassau Street. New York. DBnOTAL J. I.. COGSWELL. JL Dkntist, has removed to 234 Sutter Street. (V. M. C. A. Rulidingi, tan Francisco. Kther or Chloroform administered. 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Cor. Post and Miso.i Sts.. San Francisco. Price. 8K.OO per bottle. FIG BITTERS USB the Hleraplcra or Tig Bitters. Cures Fever and Ague, Biliousness. Constipation, Impure Blood, Kldoey Weakness, Worms. Urinary Disor ders, Female Complaints, etc. Druggists have it. Agents, RDrceTON & Co, Wholesale Druggists, San Francisco, Cal. 5t A REVOLUTION IX THE SOAP BUSIHESS A San Francisco Manufacturing firm to the readers of the Russian River Xao : I' A DIES AND GENTLEMEN We address you -i in the hope that our statement may result in mutual advantage. In past years the Soap business on this coast has been conducted in a way which attained more Importance to large manufacturing profits than to honest weight and good quality, ren dering competition in the Soap trade little le tban a rivalry in UASCALITY. Boxen containing less than eleven pounds of worse than worthless trash, are boldly marked and sold as llara IS Pound," and wretched combi nation of caustic soda and putrid grease, taken from the diseased carcases of dead animals are unblush ingly pressed upon the trade and the people as "the bent family soaps," and to supply the deflclency re sulting from Incompetence and the use of refuse materials, mineral substances of the most hurtful character are added, and while such stuff may, after a fashion, supply the place of 12,-.1 SOAP, It does so at the expense of the fabrics, hand Hdd benllb of those who use suck compounds. Meoloal men tell us that the skin is a powerful ab sorbent, and poisonous compounds in soaps have been known to spread from the hands over the en tire body. Just as a touch of poison oalc in one place will he carried from head to foot of the peison poi soned, aud many women who suffer constantly from a dry, bun inir skin, and who find their per sonal appearance disfigured by discoloration, will frequently Hurt the predisposing cause ot their mU fortune in the compound- which are made to sup ply the place of TKUK SOAl for laundry, kitchen, bath and other household purposes. THINK OF IT. Think of tender Infant", children and delicate wo meu being constantly swathed In garments, everv thread of which Is permeated with the putrid poi sons of diseased fat and dangerous mineral sub stances, which are taken up by perspiration aud ab sorbed Into the skin and circulation, endangering health aud the very life of all ! Yes, think of this, and then decide, whether you will pay a fair price for a PUKE ARTICLE or ten times the value of an apparently cheap one, the use of which U ever at tended with actual loss and danger to health and comfort. Such are thedangers to beapprehended in the use of the "cheap" sops with which the markets are flooded, but none theless dangerous are many which are heralded forth and sold at even extravagant prices, under attractive names, leading people to believe that they will wash well without rubbing, in ice-cold water, or bleach clothing as white us snow by magical qualities, unknown to the science of soap. The very fact of soaps possessing these so-called magical qualities. Is conclusive evidence that thev contain substances which are Injurious to clothing and dangerous to health, and should be avoided under all circumstances. To speak In I,TJ.VTN TERMS, Good, honest, reliable soap can only be made from pure materials, combined after proper methods, by those skilled In the art of soap-making, and we now offer to consumers, through the trade, an article which we guarantee to be strictly pure and made only from the very best retloed materials. Ask your Grocer for S.1ISTBI, LiXY V COS Peerless Soap! And take no other. The pi lwls as low as a pure ar ticle can be supplied for. and its use will always se cure the best re.-ults and remove ull danger of con tamination. DESCRIPTION : To guard purchasers against imposition, we deg crlbe our soap as follows : It is a boilud hob p. made on the most approved chemical principles, from the best refined miiteriuls. It Is of that rich light straw color, obtained oulvbythe most skillful combina tion f the finest raw materials. It is well seasoned and compactly pressed Into cakes of of a pound each, with "HjilTII. l.l'CY & tXJ.. PEERLESS SOAP," pressed Into the cake on one side, Rnd '.SMITH. LLCV & CO., 4oT. FRONT ST.. M. F.." on the other. Each cake is enclosed in a neat red wrapper, with appropriate printed matter thereon. and every care has been taken to turn out an arti cle which cannot fall to give full satisfaction. To KNOW ITS VALUE, It must bt used. So ask your Grocer for " Smith, Ll'cv t Cn'8 I'keri.kms Soap," and do not be put off with others which are said to be as good. Jtcan be retailed for less than the wholesale cost of East ern soaps of equal quality and weight, and as liomt manufacturers we confidently ex pect that the trade and the consuming public will give us their oders and hearty Ci-opration In our efforts to supply the best and purest soup for the very lowest possible price. Respectfully, SMITH, LUCY & CO., 105 FItOXT STREKT, S. V. RING & SONS NEW PIANO WAREROOMS, 31 POST STREET, JlerlianiPt' Inalitute Itui SAN FRANCISCO. ELEGAWTl'IAXOS! An entirely new stock of new and beautiful styles, liRAM),Sll'AKE AKD I'PBIUIIT. Every Instrument fully warranted and perfect satisfaction guaranteed to the purchaser. Pianos sold on installments If desired. I,. K. HAMMER, Nole Asent Paeitie 'a. "Window Shade JIAXUFACTORY. A1 Lt STV1.1.S AM t'O i.O ItS FOR Hltl- Tnt Ilou e. Banks and Oflleea made to order, or the OIL PAIXTED Opaque Uooda, or any material desired. Agreney for Si-ltl.VU FI.VTVKKS. Orders from the Interior promptly tilled. Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Paper IInngiiic. Window Shades, aud all kinds of SHADE MATERIAL. 645 Market Street, (Two doors West of Palace Hotel), San Francisco. GOOD NEWS FOR AIL DR. GLADWIN. DENTIST. IS NOW ABLE TO ANNOUNCE TO NERVOUS persons, and any ona having sensitive, decayed teeth, that with his present mode for treating such teeth they can be tilled without pain. Beautiful sets of teeth made that cannot be detected from the natural teeth. Prices reasonable in all cases. Of fice, O.'tO Market stieet, esan Francisco, next door to liald win's Theater. lTZ. B:E AT-iD, MACHINE ANJMODEL WORKS. T EXPERIMENTAL AND FINE SPECIAL MA--J chlnery. Planing, Gear Cutting, Printing Press. Brass Band Instruments, end General Machine Re pairing. Dies, Taps, Punches, Reamers, and other Tools made to order. Models and Patterns for In ventors promptly executed In Wood or Metals. 314 Commercial tstreet, between Sansome and Leldes dorff, (Third Floor). San Francisco. SAFE DEPOSIT l.OAS OFFICE, Brick ItnildinK. 321 Kearny Htreet, between Bush and Pine, .Nan Francisco. Private Entrance on Belden Place, bet. iKout KOinery and Kearny, Ruh and Pine Ntrcets. Emporium of Choice and ELEUAXT JEWELRY, all of recent mannTaetnre and most artistic finish and delfrn, comprising varieties to nnit the most fastidious tastes. Money Loaned on Collateral Security and I'n redeemed Pledgres for sale. MAX GOLDBERG. HILX. JBEOTHEES, Wholesale and Retail Dealers In ARTISTS' and WAX MATERIALS, Oil Paintings, Engravings, Etc. PICTURES NEATLY FRAMED. R E STOR I N C or Oil PsIntiatBT Npeeimlty, no matter lion badly torn or discolored by old age, etc. No. SO POST STREET, cOpp. the Mechaulcs' Institute). 8an Francisoo FREE ART GALLERY. LOOKI BURBANK fe MYEM, Ira porters and Breeders of Fancy , Fowls, Pigeons, Rabbits, Dogs, etc. Also Eggs for hatching from the finest of Imported Stock. Eggs and Fowls at re duced prices. IirBllA.K MYERS. -a s44 California Market, V iH v ft f. i in.. street, s. f. Enclose stamp for Prick List. rir.axe Mate icAre you unfit thl AdvtrtUi-mrnt. SAN FRANCISCO COMMERCIAL, XO. 4 CALIFORNIA STREET. JOItX 8WIOEUT, JR., PVBLisuta. GHICKE mm JOHN T. LITTLE, Discount Uroker. Real Estate Aarcnt. and Dealer In United States. Wtate. City and County Bonds. Gas. Water, Bask, Itailroad and Other Securities. 412 Montgomery Street. $4do7ooo To -Loan on CITY and COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. $250,000 To Loan on Gas, Water, Bank, Kail road and Other Securities.. MERCANTILE PAPER Discounted, and Money Loaned upon all kinds of Collaterals. JOIOT T. MTTJLiE, 412 Montgomery Street, RAN FRANPISOO. San Francisco, May 30, 1877. We. tbe aadenlfoed Wholesale tiro- eer. take pleasure In remarking tbe in- er-Hed demand for Bowen's I'remlum Yeai Pander, and of testifying to the general satlafaetlon given by this brand i Sax FB.ANOISCO WELLMAN, PECK ft CO.. , BOOT k SANDERSON. LEDDEN, WHIPPLE & CO.. HAA8 BROS.. TABER, HAREER & CO., 3. M. PIKE h CO.. J. A. FOLGER & CO., NEWTON BROS, k CO.. CASTLE BROS.. KRC8E k EULEB, JONES & CO., M. EHRMAN k CO., F. DANERI fc CO.. M. k C. MANGELS. TILLMAN k BENDEL, ALBERT MAU k CO., W. W. DODGE k CO. BaCRamknto ADAMS. McNEI.TX k CO., MEBIUS & CO., BOOTH k CO., MILLIKEN BROS. International Hotel, 824 and 826 KEARNY ST., SAN FRANCISCO. CAL 91.no nuil 92.00 fter lay, su-l lf by tbo Week. MOc-he.i with the name of the Flii w bring Ouescs to the Hotel Free, lie ware tf otlier C'oaubes mad Runners II. C. PATRIDG. Proprlnur HOT BISCUIT EVKRV MORNING. DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER WILL DO IT. BUY IT. W. K. CMAMBKKLAI.V, JR. THOS. A. EOBINWI.V 3 BUSINESS i LJl.Li.Ui, 323 Tost Street, SA tBAM-IStS. I JfrosiTK UJflOX 8QUARK. THK OLDEST r auu most complete uommeroial College on the coast. Elegant balls ; new furniture: thorough In struction; practical teachers: high standing Willi the public. Htudents can commence at any time. iay and Kvenlug HesHions. Circulars free ou application. CALIFORNIA PETROLEUM LANDS. O. H. BJROOKS, DEALER IN OIL LANDS AND LEASES. 103 CALIFOKXIA STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. Information to Country Residents. The ST. GEORGE HOTEL, 812 Kearny St., SAN FRANCISCO. New four-story brick, con taining IOO beautiful light sunny rooms, newly furnished, to rent by the Day, Week or Month. In suite or single, at one-half the usual rates, enabling one to live In the city in fl ne style for the small sum of One Dollar per day. TRY IT. OREGON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. The Only Direct Line to Portland. Cabin Passage. 10 Nteerace Passage. 93 PORTLAND leaving San Francisco ev- ery i-IVii DAYS until further notice (steamships City of Chester. George W. Elder and Ajax, Connecting with Steamers to SITKA and Pl'OET SOUND, and O. and C. R. It. Co. and Oregon and C. R. K. Co. through Willamette, Umpqua and Kogue River Valleys, Oregon. TICKKTH TO ALL POINTS ON THE O. and C. R R. SOLD AT REDUCED RATES. K. VAN OTERE N DORP, Agent. ' 3IO Battery street, San Francioco. PACIFIC COASTSTEAMSHIP CO. Carry In- the V. H. 9f all and (he Express. The Klearant Steamers of this ' f iaaH. n 11. w . 1-ranciKCu. Kvkhv Week for PORTLAND, OREGON, DIRECT, And for Santa Crnc. San I.ols Obispo, Santa Bar. bar a. Ventura. Los Angeles, and San Diego and other porta about EVERY THIRD DAY. Tickets sold to all the principal places on the Pa clHc Slope at TMJE LOWEKT UATluH. Don't Bn.T Tlekels by nny other Line until yon rail at our Tleket Otuee. "an Franelseo Tleket Offlee XII yfont GOODALL. PFRirrva i. en General Agents, No. 10 Market Street, San Francisco. GRAND REDUCTION IN PRICES. M. SHOUT, . Having Jnst received a Large Invoice of WEST OF ENGLAND GOODS, Therefore Informs his patrons that he will make CLOTHING TO ORDER at the Lowest CASH PRICE for the next Sixty Day.: Business Suits to Order, - $25 Pants to Order, - - - $6 Dress Suits to Order, S35 to S50 Commercial St., cor. Leldesdorff, AMD No. O lXea.rxiy Street. EAN FRANCWOO, FA01FI POWLETT's ATMOSPHERIC LETTER COPYING PRESS, Compact. Portable. Onrabi. Uua 1-3 Cheaper than an Iron I'rex Something new. 1 he best thing yet. b sure to see it before purchasln g an Iron pr HOPKINS, TAYLOR & CO., 119 San-some Strkkt, - - Pu Francl. R'ghts for Sale on Liberal Terms. -Flrst-Class Agents Wanted. Tin; sxroirocr b America! SEWING MACHINE. j Thrce-qnarter Lcsi Friction tlma U onvr Jiarnine. IT BEATS THEM ALL J Keir-Tlirei,rtc Miuttlr; l-H"-Tlir-ndii,a -Needle: K.ittlileit ltQbblu. t II !.! Kuritiii,. hlinleitl ! ee-THs .xa, t;..r N fast her- omj:, kuowu a the BEST in thcWORLD! Seo It ! Try It ! Bu It I Wakkantku toGive ENTIRE SATISKAfTJi. AMERICAN SEWING ff!ACK!NECQ O. . WOOD. Jlana-rr, 14 FIFTH STREhT. - - - SA.N FRANCiSo t-Jool Aeeuts Waatrd In all uno,.,.;,, pled Territory. KYE tnd KAtt SPECIALTY "J EfVl O VA L. r J- PAUOll. Ji !.. ha r-Uiov. j to !tl t'lay Mrret. In. eases of the Kvt and rweive esiciaj aitenu.ji' Medical ami Sirr'jtrri! ir-&-tnent Riven In ; disi-K-c. Much experience in l Uri.B; and l.ung diseases. Kicctr;- jHagnt-iisin xu tiriHrnIiua. - piled in diseases of the nervous system. To ;-ii;i. . Urinary diseases much attei ion in iven. Miv consulted by letter. Address V. J. 1.A I KH. M . il t'lay Street, San Francisco, lover t'lay -u-.-Savings Bank). Rooms 1. 1 and 3. 35ts unci Shoes. Jll .SfT I.I.I VA N. N K. cur. R.;t tery and Jack-sou sts , San Fran.-is.-.. offers to make t order the rei Fre-i.-fc Calf Leather ROOTS at from Mo i u California Leather B-h i.s, - - i-i Irench Calf Oxford Ti' S, - -Cniifornia . :i m Boys' and Children's Hoots anrt ma. it-to ..r'i-i Persons in the country ordering R.ms mil MH , i., tbe amount of $12 or more will l e n:;.m e.l a tac tion of four percent., to make the extirss chant.-, iilfht. I sell llootsand Shoes of 1 V O WN M FACTURK ONLY. Roots and sh-i w r u. u Positively one price. PRESCRIPTION FREE. F OR Till-: sl'KDUV Cl'KEul Senium! UVtk Hess, Lost Manhood and all disorder br.,-i:i(li! n by Indiscretion or excess. Any druist hs it.i-ingredient. Ir. W. JAQL'KS & CO., :' W. -n::, hi reel, Cincinnati, Ohio. DR. STEINHAKT'S Essence of Life A PoMiflve Cure g-uarantee.l In all fai- of Nervous anil Physical lelililj, Premature Ieeline an-.l I ".x It mist d Vitality, no matter of tioit luni; staudiusr or froin lirvt cm use Produced. Price A t per bottle, or 4 bottles tin casei MO. ttSeu t to any addrrs, secure tum i.O-i--i Vkij-.a, ur-on receipt of price iru O. D. To be had only of OR. STFIMI AStT. At the oU established ottiee, 4" Kkakky sr San Frunci-tO-j. Consultation aud Advice, personally at -rlice. tr by letter . Free Dr. Tort's New Discovery. THK UKKATtST A 1)1)1 TIIIX TO JIOl) -- MKUKAL St It.M'K. DR. n. TOUCARD, late of F.urope. having & Voted manv ventre i.f feint,- i, n.. j....... brated hospitals of Kurope and America, and Iihv lliR gained n extensive repiicnt'on oil both crnt -nenu for tho successful treatment of all kind- --I Private Diseases, now offers to ti.. public the resuu of bis researches. He has made an entirely tie discovery in the treatment f Uonorrhaa. Svphih antiMeruinitl Weakness, bv which her-xn cure the most complicated cases in half the time re quired hy the old methods. Medicine and directinm for any private disease, sent to any address on re ceipt of $il and full statement of case h writ'e-: ?;uarantee accompanying medicine if desired. i u orfelt will paid for any case the lir. undertake and fails to cure. The Dr'a new mode. of trsiit if diseases of this nature can be conducted privately. nvi oiuiiitii inierieriUK wun tne patient s husiiie-? Persons wishlnea Dersonal interview .-Bti ri. . hv communlcaUne their desire hy ietlr. IViedicin-t pacKeu secure irom observation. Address, writing name, city, county and .-State. I)R H. TOL'C'Al'.U. P. O. Box 1705. H, Francisco. Cal. DR. Is. J. CZAPKAY'S rrlvut Medical Institute, HOO Kenrnv mi.. San Franelseo, Kstabllslied !i: 1S.V, for the Permanent Crre of all Special n-t-t (Tronic Diseases, as also all Femult Cump'aints mn1 DUeanetofthe Xervoui Sytlrm. THK IMMKNSK DESTRUCTION OF HUM AM life annually from xecret and chnlc disea.-s. caused this old Rnd reliable institution to he estab lished Hrst In Philadelphia, Penn.. In lsi", and after wards in Kan Francisco, Cal., in WA, as a pr. vate d-s pensary. In order to alft.rd the bfllicted tbe hjsl med ical and surBlcal treatment, for the nhiv and !! other affections and complaints. Consu)t&t:o:is iti tne institute or by letter. HtKK Physical ana Mental Debility. Vital weakness, nervousness. low siilriis las.siMi.1f. weakness of the limbs and back, loss of musouisf power, indisposition and Incanahilit v for l.hi.r mii.I study, a weak, exhausted feeling, no euergv or cour age, palpitation of the heart, dullness of apprehen sion, loss of memory, aversion to society, love "I solitude, timidity, self-distrust. loss of manhood, diz ziness, headache, pain, la the side, affections of tlie eye. pimnies on tbe face, sexual or n-h inHmtm.- In man or woman, are cured by the justly celebrated pbyslclan. L.J.mpHAV,)I. I. His method Of curing, diabase in nw-mlarlr l.t. nu ti (unknown to others) and hence the great succe-s ntiruni.tic tin venous, cnronic catarrh, diseased ii the stomach and kldneva. -liver successfully treated. 1)11. CZAPKAY.oneof the most successful me.il cal practitioners on the Pacific count, may be con sulted confident-ally in reference to the above uuJ all other complaints at the institute. o. SOS KEAR.r KT., Nan Fraut-Uro, al- WTh Doctor offers Free Consultations, and asks no remuneration utilpsii he enVct enr-a r-hama moderate. CorumunlcatiiDH t-tricllv corfiieniial Medicines senthv Rxnreua lilHnxat T I-71P1HI M. I).. Postofflce Box 64, San Francisco. r. SPDHEY & CO., No. lit Kearny Street, rjtREAT ALL CHRONIC AND sl'KCiAL . -Ulseases. Who may be suffering from the eflect.sof yontliful follies or tnd excretions, will do well to avail thuii selves of this the greatest boon ever laid at tlieaitar oi sunerina; iinmaulty. l)H.MIS5l!.V win Kuara--tee to forfeit five hundred dollars tur every case ul seminal weakness or private disease of any kind of cnaracier wnicn ne undertakes and fans in He would therefore say to the unfortunate suff'-rei who may read tbis notice, that you are treadiiK upon dangerous ground when vou longer delay in seeking tbe proper remedy for your complainL You may be in the fiist stage remember you ara approaching tbe last. If you are bordering upon tbo last and are suffering some of ils evil effects, remember that if you obstinately persist in pro crastination, the time must come when tbe most Bkllltul physician can render you no assistance, when the door of hope will be closed against voh: when no angel of merry ran bring you relief. I" no case has the Doctor failed of success. Then let not despair work Itself upon your Imagination, hut avail yourself of the beneficial results of his treat ment before your case U beyond the reach of med ical skill, or before grim death hurtles 3011 to a pre mature grave. iiiii.ia;i:i jikx: There are many of the age of thirty to sixty who are troubled with too frequent evacuation ot the bladder, often accompanied by a slight smarting or burning sensation, and a weakening of the system In a manner the patientcanno-account for. There are many men who die of this difficulty, ignorant of tbe cause, which Is the second stage of seminal weakness. Dr. S. & Co. will guarantee a perfect car la all such cases, and a healthy restoration oi tbe gsnito-urinarv ureina. Omce hours 10 to 4 uJ 6 to ft. Sundays from 10 to 11 a. m. Consultation Free. Thorough Examlnlion and advice, J5-. ,, call or address DR. IbPlrXEY dt -u- Kearny street, dan Francisco. mm ob mm