AN HONEST ADVERTISMENT.

Southland Times, Issue 998, 5 August 1868, Page 3

AN HONEST ADVERTISMENT.

The Board of Health have just divulged the following advertisement of Mrßonner's country place in Westchester country, prepared : by him and : intended to be published last autumn, but withheld at the solicitation of his neighbors, who. were afraid it might injure the value of property there. It was elicited by the Board of Health, in their official investigation of the ice pond matter, at West Morrisani, and is a part of the evidence in that case : " A CoirarTßT Seat Fob Sale, whebe thebe is Eeveb aitd Ague. — I hereby offer for sale my country residence at West Morrisania near Melrose Station, where I have lived for the past three summers, but do not think 1 could live much longer. I have heard that people looking for a place to purchase could never find one where they have chills and fever — they always have it about a mile, a mile and a half, or two miles off, but never right there, at the place that is for sale. Now I offer for sale a curiosity, something rare, the precise exact spot where the fever and ague is I will warrant it to be there. Three of my children have it; my gardener has it my groom has the sure premonitory symptoms, and I have a sufficient inkling of it myself. Any doctor with a large family, who has a specific for fever and ague, would find this a most eligible situation; the neighbourhood is full of the disease, and if he could keep it out tof his own family it would give him a reputation which would insure his fortun.. Besides the fever and ague, the estate consists of a fine double house with all modern conveniences and improvements, such as hot and. cold water, furnace, range, &c, and about two acres of land, with a pretty fW barn and some good box stalls foP/good horses. It is | realey a beautiful place. The grounds are handsomely laid out, and covered with trees and shrubbery jof the choicest kind. These trees afraifl not only a | delightful shade but a nice harbour for mosquitoes. The .mosquitoes thus far have not been so much affected by the fever and ague as to prevent their biting, In fact, it is a good place for mosquitoes. I bought it to pleas my wife, and shall leave it to .please my own family. Terms: cash. lam afraid any security on it would get the fever and ague, and become shaky. Those wishing to purchase will please apply immediately. I want to get away from it as fast as Dexter can carry me. , JRpBEB*riBo2fJO!B. Ledger office, 90, BeekiAah street, ; September 18, 1867: V P.S.— The town authorities liave begun to make alterations in the s.tfeet adjoining, and if they drain the place as well as they do the pocket 3of the landholders, it may become healthy. —California Paper.