FRENCH REPORTERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 254, 2 November 1878, Page 5

FRENCH REPORTERS.

Che"yenue (U.S.) is proud because a wellknown young lady of that town has made ;her debut as a carpenter and joiner But ,that is nothing. Many of our most beautiful jjouug ladies here, says the D anbury News, are trained to sweep the streets. Professor Hoare swam two miles in the (Thames, blindfolded, with hauds and feet jtiqd. ....._• . It.is stated that : the new secret society of "wording men. called the Knights of Labor, now* "numbers' B74,ooo persons in its meinbershipj and has clans (lodges) in every city and ..large town in the couutry. : A Sf. Paul dispatch reports that a farmer "near Faribault shot and iustautly killed two 'tramps whom he caught iv the act of setting -fire to a harvesting machine in his wheat ;field. He gave himself up but was instantly released. The railroads of the United States have in •tose 1 3,560,000 car wheels. Those on fast passenger trains are renewed every ten months ; .but freight cars upe the same wheels sometimes every ten years. The average life of a wheel is 50,000 miles. A disgraceful scene occurred at Cobridge, near fianley. Two women, both married, : and with families, arranged to fight. A ring :was formed, each woman having her partisans. ' Teeth, as well as fists, were freely used, and after three rounds one oil the ' women was severely beaten, and retired. : New South Wales has now a lady medical •practitioner, Miss Ellen Curling, daughter of ,an English physician, and the holder of a certificate of 'competency from the Ladies' Medical College, having commenced practice for ■■ diseases of women and children, in ; Parratnatta. . . > . A guard of Bavarian gendarmes watches day and night before, the closed door of the house of Prince Bismarck at Kissingen, and a line of telegraph connects his appartments witty ; the police station. , Mary Benton, of Elton, Durham County, , England, is supposed to be the oldest woman' -in the world. She was born Feb. 12, 1731, ;and is of course in her 148 th year. She is in: .poasesion of all her faculties, perfect memory, 1 hearing and eyesight. She cooks, washes, and irons, threads her own needle, and sows without spectacles. The great American Wizard (says the • Patea Mail) De Chile appeared at Carlyle, .on. Saturday evening last, and exhibited himself before a very small audience. In his ■ first ' attempt in the three card trick, the . Wizard failed. tHe tried again with the same "result.? After retiring a moment behind the > scenes, he had sufficient assurance to try a third time— and failed. The Wizard tried tosing/butgotstuckat the end of the first line. Getting prompted for the second line, i; he made another dart for. the song, but 1; neitjher memory nor voice served him well, and he caved in. The show was simply a • feel!',' as compared with the announcement, ; and some of the audience intended to have; < satisfaction after the performance, but only returned, from a refresher, to find the Wizard. , and his belongings removed. ; As we are about to try the experiment of a Land tax in New Zealand (says a Wellington) contemporary) it may be interesting' to learn how a similar impost works in Victoria. We learn from the Aye that a complete statement of the classification' -,t>f, the large freehold estates in Victoria, . under the Land Tax Act, ha 3 been made .out. , The list comprises 904 separate classifications. The total, capital value of the , estates made liable to the tax was £ 14,398,307; /but from that sum has to be deducted „ £1,677,500, for exemptions as provided by ..the statute. That leaves .£12,420,807 as the , basU of actual. taxation. A tax. upon that .amount, at ]J per cent., will yield £77,620 • Os'io'd. But, in the second half year, that , sum will diminished, owing to the subdivision, process which is going on rapidly, and it. would go on much faster if mauy of the Jarge estate owners were not jealous, and ..afraid to run the risk of assigning their .estates, by deed to friends and relatives. _The pursuance of such a course opeus up a . vista contingently lesss pleasant to contemplate than the payment of the tax itself. .Notwithstanding the risk, subdivision on '.parchraenS is going on rapidly, so that in a . short time the amount of taxes collected , from large estates will be very much re- ; duced. ; . The Berlin correspondent of the South ...Australian Advertiser writes :— Accounts . from liussia speak of great distress in that .country, which , explains the desire of the Czar to conclude peace on any honorable terms. In many provinces the crops have failed, and the people are starving, while in others epidemics decimate the population. The Czar is said to be terribly enraged at the immense frauds carried out by the army contractors and others, and the strictest enquiry ip to be instituted and the guilty brought to justice. The stones of these frauds are almost incredible, and the sums these contractors have embezzled are really fabulous. . One company of contractors, Greger, Cohan, _ and Horwitz, who had undertaken to supply the Russian army in European Turkey with rations, are charged with having embezzled more than 30,000,000 roubles, while the poor ..soldiers died of fever caused by want of •, proper. nourishment. Another contractor, .. Janhihow, who had a Government provision ..depot in Sistova, is charged with embezzle- _ nient of more than4,ooo,ooo roubles in gold. Similar eases of fraud are brought to light in . endless numbers. The poor soldiers in Bulgaria had no victuals, no tents, no firewood, no medicines, because the contractors and many superior officers put the money for .these things into their pockets, and the state ...of things only improved when General Todlebea got the command of the Itussian ...forces on the Balkan Peninsula. If the frauds; were. extraordinary in Bulgaria, the ,: defalcations in Asiatic Turkey are said to , .have been .even greater. The Czar, it is , asserted, is determined that the guilty parties .shall be punished, but any one knowing . Russia can predict what will happen. Some poor fellows will be sent to Siberia, while the real culprits, bribing judge and juries, are honorably acquitted. The liussians have a proverb very applicable to cases like these —"Heaven is high, and the Czar is far away"— and iv consideration of this proverb they will suffer almost any injustice without complaining.

The following is clipped from a San Francisco paper, dated September 26: — The exhibit of fruit at the State Fair far surpassed that of last year, notwithstanding the fact that the larvae of the coddling moth have committed such wide-spread devastation among the orchards of the State. For perfection and size of fruit the exhibits from El Dorado County take the palm— although a single plate of peaches from Tuolumne : surpassed anything we ever saw in the ■ peach line. From Sonoma County there -were no less than 123 varieties of apples, 85 ; of pears, four of oranges, 17 of plums, and i 16* of peaches. The grapes, exhibited from ; all quarters of the State, were of the most : tempting kind, and of infinite variety. The , exhibit of Mr Blowers, of Woodland, who : has made raisin grapes a specialty, and has produced raisins that rival the best ever im- ' ported from the sunny slopes of Spain, was a magnificent one in the line of grapes particularly, surpassing all others for size. He believes that to make good raisins large grapes are essential, and he brought to the Fair bunches of which the average berries would measure from three-fourths to one inch in diameter. ,They were of the muscatel variety. The practice of wisdom and prudence is the forerunner of happiness and longevity There is no channel among the many of every day life, that requires more careful navigation than the sources of sustenance for the human body. Diseases are engen- | dered by the neglect of the ordinary rules of health in what we eat and what we drink; should, however, the system get out of order, there are no such safe and quick restorers as those beautiful tonic medicines known as ". Ghollah's Great Indian Cukes." The cures effected by them are marvellous. See testimonials at Chemists.

how their agonies may be appeased and their sufferings alleviated. Already a long list of names have been rnroll'd.aml it is my desire that all who h«ve been cure<i shouli eend me their address, not for pubic i' ion, but as a satisfaction to my own uiind, and as a jußt tribute to the Uila. I illicit there cannot be any fear of being accused of exaggeration after reading the teotimoriiAN pub i*hed,ar,d those now appearing, to Buy that in the experience of human kn.iwl«dge there ntver 1113 been an agent effirred to the public which has so easily, piin'es*!y, ami pleasantly cared so many people repair led by onr noble Faculty of uit-didne as incurable j and it cannot now be s»id that, profes^onal men have been distance' by ocdimry mcrials. I glory in the [act that I belong, by birth and education to the profession *i o)a?s. I regret, however,that the c >mmtrcial conditions of things renders it necessary that I should adopt a pyßtetn of action at variance with professional etiquette for the sale of my goods. lc i a , however, a great satisfaction to ma tint 'the grandest cures which could be accomplished anywhere have been done in the very city and country where the discovery was made, and I trust that as people gefc accustomed to the use of the Scottish Oil, we shall see hundreds and tbousands of suffering humanity rejoice again in the vigir and Btrength of regenerate 1 constitutions. Here follows iha most extraordinary list of cures ever presented, to the inhabitants of these colonies: — Fifteen Yfars a Martyr to Headaohb. July 11, 1877. Dear Sir,— lt is impossible for auy one lo express his heartfelt gratitude for the relief I now ci joy from a terrible affliction, under which 1 existed for years. I can hardly now think of it but with horror. It must be a great satisfaction for you to know that you? Oils c<»n to quickly and painlessly cure. I shall certainly feel bound to tell the good newa to all my friends. — - James Goodwin. £60 Spent, but got No Relief. TKBTiMONrAL. — Another testimonial respecting Potties Highland Oil has been received by the Agent, Mr C. L. Tweedie. It is as follows: — Sir, for many years I have suffered from rheumatism in the back; and some time ago it cost me over £60 to go to Bydney and have medicnl advice, without, however, receiving any relief. I de-termined to try a bottle of Highland Oil, for which you are agent, and have much pleasure in stating that after a few applications I was entirely relieved from all pain, and can safely recommend it to others suffering from a ainrila? complaint to mine.— John Musis, fiombala.

Lumbago for 26 Years. Ryletone, October 7, 1876, To Messrs. White & M'Culloch, Rylstone. Gentlemen,— l have much pleasure in informing you, as Agent 8 for Fottie's Scottish Highland oil. that the said medicine has been the means of curing me from lumbago, from which I have suffered for the past 26 years, being at tinies scarcely able to crawl, owing to the severity of the complaint. I make this statement feeling convinced that the Oils (S.IL) will cure any one suffering in a like manner. I request that you will give publicity to the above, and remain yours very truly, — John McNeii. Beaton.

102, Liverpool-street, Sydney. Dear Fir,— l was hid up for many loDg nnoths in bel. and had tried all the doctors could do for me, but got only wo«e. At last a man called with a little of Scottish Oil. I was ihen in bed, suffering terrible agony, with my legs bent under me. I saw no Ivipe for life; but the first bottle of yaur Oil brought relief, and I coullcrawl about. I stuck to the fomentation, Oils, and hot iron, and in two months got the use of my limbs. I can never expect to be perfectly well, for I am an old man, but I owe alt to the Scottish Highland Oi'.—AscH M'Eldowhy.

Newtown. Twenty-threfi years bad with a tumour oa my neck, and tried no end of prescriptions, until I saw that an operation was my only chance. Fortunately I heard about the Scottish Oil, and by rubbing regularly, the tumour melted away without auy kind of pain.— H. Chase, Newfcown.

Fbom Sydney Fkeeman's Jouehai.,. MIRACULOUS.— A most miraculous cure has come under my notice iv Araluen. A miner in this locality named Duggan had been complaioing /or years of a swelling on his breast, which defied the meiical skill of the district. Dr Llewellyn, residing in Braidwood, after vainly experimenting with divers panaceas. &c, advised the patient to go to the Sydney Infirmary After some time he did as he was counselled, but what was the result ? Why, after remaining in the hospital for about nine months unr'er the treatment of the leading medicos, he was pronounced incurable. He returned to Araluen vrovae ia fact than when he went to Sydney, pwing, I suppose to the vast quantities of medicine ha had taken, coupled with the fatigue of such a long overland journey. Some months ago Mr Curry (Dr Llewellyn's servant) suggested to Mr Duprgan to rub the swelling with •Potties Highland Oil.' He did as was suggested, and wonderful was the result. The swelling came to a head in a abort time, and burst, discharging a quantity; of matter. In one of these discharges a bone cams out, it being the sole cause ol the swelling, as can be testified by the man, whose health has been perfectly restored. He is now able to work hb usual in the claim. Now, the nuc lor your Sydney M.D.'s is, how came the bone there? My principal reison for writing this, is to inform those gentlemen who attended Mr Duggan at the Infltmary of the mysterious result.— Araluen Correspondent. Manufactured by J. PuTTIB, 263^ Eliza-* beth-3treet, Sydney.