{"newspaper_name": "Mississippi Democrat.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
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"What an age OF humbug we live in;
and as am in gos9lping bpmor, might
as well have my say out. Among all the
men who make fortunes in New York the
successful humbug stands pre-eminent.-
Brandrctb, with his pills, has risen from a
poor man to be man of extensive for.
tune. He has now at Sing Sing three
story factory for grinding his medicines.
Aloes are cassed into it by the ton, and
whole cargoes of pills are despatched to
every part of the Union, and down every
body's throat A few years ago, he said
no humbug could live more than six years
in New York. His pills then were at a
discount, but he has changed his mind
since, and is rising higher 'han ever. He
has expended thirty fire thousand dollars


in single year for advertising. Com
stock began with nothing, but by crowd.
ing patent medicines, has been able 10
purchase one of the first houses in Union
Place, and give magnificent soirces, sup.
pers, &c. Moliit, adding llitters to pills,
has run up handsome fortune of G300,-
900. Sherman, taking the lozenge line,
has emerged from his little shop in Nassau
street, into buyer Of lots and houses by
the wholesale. need not mention Swain,
Of Philadelphia, who, by pouring his pa.
nacea into peoples siomachs, can afford
TO buy single pearl head band for his
daughter worth S20,G00--to prove that
VIC arc pill eating and bitters drinking
people. Your literary man will slaryo in


bis garrett while your pill maker will


emerge from his garrett into palace -
Perhaps there is no greater quack, IN an.
other line, than Barnum, of The New York
Museum. Owning both the Museums Of
the city, he keeps them separate, and fre.
quently gets up furious rivalry between
the two establishments, pressing the claims
Of each house over the other."- N. Y.
Correspondence ofhe Charleston Cour.