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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 199, 23 August 1877, Page 2

Twenty-pine pilot boats are employed in New York harbor. They range from 100 to 150 tons burthen. Patronage is raced for afc sea, sometimes running three or four hundred miles. The Challenger brought to England such a wealth of specimens, that it has been estimated that it would take seventy years for a single naturalist to classify aud describe them. The news of the cruel slaughter of Christians which reaches us daily is assuredly most heartrending, aud the wholesale butchery of the unfortunate Bulgarians calls for the sympathy of every kindly heart, but so also should every well-wisher sympathise with the sick, suffering, and dying of our own community. How many are the miseries and wretchednesses through a neglect of ourselves which are constantly being witnessed and experienced, and which could have been averted by the timely aid of the Medicinal Art, and if those who have been benefitted by the use of GnorxAn's Great Indian Cukes would recommend them to others who are suffering the tortures and miseries of Rheumatism, Rheumatic Gout, Liver Complaints, Biliousness, Sick Headaches, Gout ,&c. m the like manner to testimonials so frequently published by the Proprietor and one of which is now appended, an amount of kindness and sympathy would be exerted to influence the poor sufferers to use these Indian Medicines for the restoration of their health, and the saving of many a valiable life fov the benefit of mankind gere-ally, bufc more particularly for the immediate family circle— Testimonial Referred To. Nelson, loth August, 1877 The Proprietor of Ghollah's Great Indian Cures— Dear Sir— Having suffered for six months from Rheumatic Gout, I was prevailed on to give your medicine a trial, and after taking three bottles of the Rheumatism Mixture found myself? completely cured. I am, dear sir, Yours truly, (Signed) G. M. Matheson. Ghollah's Great Indian Cures can be had of all Chemists and Medicine Vendors and of Richard Hadfield, Wholesale Agent for Nelson. Trade purchasers treated liberally. [Advt."j

Captain Coppin, of Glasgow, is to have charge of the operations for raising the Vanguard. Four pontoons with a lifting capacity of 300 tons each, are to be made fast to her with steel wires. Says a Paris correspondent .-—lf the Pope would only form an international exhibition with all his presents 1 Among the many curiosities that France has forwarded to the Vatican is that a bottle of brandy a century old. Napoleon 111 once paid 500fr fo-* a pint of the same brew. The Vicar of Cognac has given as his donation a keg of real mountain dew distilled the very year his Holiness was born M. Berthelot, the chemist, discovered m the Museum of Marseilles a few months ago a vase filled with wine some sixteen centuries old. As there are otl*er old flasks in many French Museums, surely some scientist ought to have identified one as contemporary with St. Peter when Bishop of Rome There is a museum in the Far West thafc boasted a tew years ago of its cuttings from the vine whose grapes led to Noah's intoxication "