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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1030, 24 August 1883, Page 4

’ ■ ‘ .Tiie ..following' despatch was received from-Chicago, June 22, from ■■Reed’s Staand 1 is vouched for as authentic ;—Alex. Semiloff, a young Pole, ~ , died yesterday. Before death'he rnade a oonfession. lt appeared that his sister, ayoung married woman, was betrayed by a son of a man named Romanoff, prefect of , district in which Semiloff# then seven pld, and his father lived. This was, ip. 1853 ; and his father' made him swear to murder all the Romanoff family. i father murdered the prefect and entered the Crimean: war, where he killed two , Romanoffs,. sons of officers. Ten ,^ r years .later young Semiloff and the father r r murdered the elder Romanoffs ■ brother, " fi jpember of the .Russian (legation at *_ i l'lprence> Old .Semiloff was .executed for and yojiog Semiloff, after going with a band of robbers for a time returned to his native town to find all the whole sonlan6ff'family* gone. Some had ;J)een,.exiled to Siberia' fori treason and ' died. '* Xhaonly, l remaining one had gone rj to Semiloff,; followed him, * searched for him for years, and found him , u lb a. mining region neat here,'and’murdered fcim two years ago. Semiloff*gave a '’description of tl/d -spot 'wherb ; the murdered mm, was .buried,, and his bones have beeil' dug tip with ’a largo knife fji , , . 1 , PfoLLOWAYS Pills,—Nervous Debility.— f ‘ ’"'Nop'arf of the'human machine requires more watching than the nervous ‘system—upon it hangs health and life itself. These l .pills arthe best regulators and strepgthencrs* of the nerves, and-ale I skiy^t'^6ne i fal ' purifiers. Naue c,; sea,: headache, giddiness# ■ numbness, and, mental apathy yield to thetn.,j.THey dispatch in a summary manner those distressing dyspeptic symptoms, stomachic pains, fulness,at the pit < ‘<Jf'the'st'omiiiih# aDdofiiffial distension, and overfm.comeaboili'capricious' apatites 1 and confined bowels—the commonly accompanying signs ef defective or deranged nervous power. HollooiWay’^Pffls■ are:,.particularly recommended to persons of studious! and sedentary habits, who gradually sink into a nervous and debilitated State, unless some, such restorative be occa'sibnauy taken.—[Advb]

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