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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-01
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lie Tor the Hair, and the only article possessing
all the merits claimed for 1t.
1T MAKES HAIR GROW ON BALD
HEADS,
Arrests its falling off or turning gray, cures all
diseases of the scalp, and makes harsh, why hair
beautifully soft and luxunantiy glossy; but above
all is the marvellous rspidity with which
GRAY HAIR Is RESTORED
To its original color. Use it few times, and 10 !
your gray hairs have disappeared as If by magic.
IT'S NOT DYE,
But strikes at the roots of the hair, supplying
them with new life and coloring matter. 1t Is a
much better dressing than Oil or Pomatum, and
avoids their deleterIous effects 1t is elegantly
perfumed, is easily applied, and ia in all respects
agreeable to the If after fair trial, this
does not prove to be the best preparation before
the public for the hair, the money will be refund
ed. Put up IN large bottles and sold by all drug
gists at 81 90 per bottle.
DR.. F. B. CLOCK, Proprietor.
Manchester, n. II.
Fuller, Finch & Fuller, Gen'l Northwestern
Agents, Chicago.
CHAS. A. BENSER, Druggist, agent for Rock
leland. sug22d3m.
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The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Political Matters.

The Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives have rejected the Eight Hour Labor
Bill by vote Of 100 to 81.
The Tennessee Legislature has before
them bills for incorporating forty-three oil
companies, showing that petroleum history
is repeating itself in Tennessee.
The President made speech on the 18th,
to party Of soldiers and sailors who had
called upon him. He gave his views on
the reconstruction question, insisting that
the rebel States were entitled to representa-
| ton in Congress.
President johnson has written letter Of
coincidence and sympathy to the widow Of
Hon Daniel $. Dickinson, and, in conform
iry with a last request Of the deceased, has
appointed s. G. Courtney, his son in law,
TO the Office Of United States Attorney for
the Southern District Of New York, made
vacant by Mr.. Dickinson's death.
Mrs. Clement G. Clay has had before the
President recommendations for her hus-
bands release on parole from such officials
| as General Grant, Senator Wilson, and
Thad. Stevens. They all express the opin-
ion that Mr.. Clay will observe his parole
and that his conduct in voluntarily giving
himself up to the authorities entities him to
this much consideration. His release from
confinement at Fortress Monroe is expected
within few days.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
The ;. Col.,rn bian'' Gin.

This Gin is the purest and very best article over
offered to the public. It Is the dtsaton Of the best
American malt .pirts and Italian juniper berries
Those who find diuretic stimulant necessary should
never BIO without it.
The proprieors Of the Columbian Gin do not UNDER
take to advertise II quack medcine yet they feel
guaranteed In saying that for those requiring pure
liquor, no better can be procured.
Imported SINS ETC., are now nearly ont Of the qucs-
tion, on account OF the extraordinary high import
duties imposed upon them-which nre always payable
in god-so that homemade article, equal In all
respects imported should receive tho attention
of consumers.
Doctor Blancy, tho we'll known chemist of Chicago
says: It's the very best article both as to quality
and strength Of flavor, that have eyor tested"
For sale by all respectable drusgists and liquor
dealers in the United States.
w. sHUFELDT Co,
Sole Distillers and proprietors,
~ .. Water st, Chicago.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Southern News.

lady in Boone county, KY, recently
gave birth to twins-a boy and girl--one
Of which had eight teeth, and the other
four.
A man named George Weeks was lyIched
on Saturday, near Midway, Ky, he having
confessed to the murder Of boy named
Nichols. Object, robbery.
By the breaking of the Mississippi river
through its banks near Baton Rouge, La,
the country has been overfowed for many
miles, and cit looks like an ocean,
Thomas Shields, convicted Of the deliber-
ate murder Of Robert Taylor, was hung on
the 10th, in Libby Prison, at Richmond. He
was unrepentant to the last moment.
The boys Of Norfolk are admitted into the
circus stopping in that city at the price Of
one cat piece. The animals are said to
be the highly relished food Of the lions
Gen. Candy, at New Orleans, has issued
an order explanatory Of the Presidents
proclamation. He says it does not suspend
martial law, or suits already before military
courts.
At the Methodist General Conference at
New Orleans, on the 10th, telegram was
received announcing the extreme illness Of
Bishop soule, and the expectation Of his
early death.
Gen. Forrest, who killed freedman some
weeks ago, IN = personal snsountsr, haa
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
NITRO.GLYCERKyE.
Terrific Explosions.
SAN Francisco

| DAN FRANCISCO, April Ii.
A terrible explosion Of what was supposed
to be nitro-glycerine occurred II o'clock TO-.
day, near Wells, Fargo & Co.'S building.
The explosion shook the earth like an earth J.
quake for circle Of quarter Of mile.
Samuel Knight, Superintendent Of Wells.
Fargo Co.. Express, died in half m hour
| Of injuries received. G. W. Bell Superyis-
or and Assayer. was instantly killed. Mr.
Wallub, John Gallagher, Frank Webster, and
William Justin were also killed. Eight bod
les we're SO mutilated that they could not be
identified.
Louis McLane, Capt Eldridge Of the Pa.
cifc Mail Steamship Company, and Judge
Hoffman, were bruised and cut. Felix In
mix, D. Stacy, Jefferson Taylor, II. Blaine,
clothing dealer, Capt J. Ayres, Fred Leiz,
Frank Morris, and others were injured, but
not fatally. Some will never be identified.
rs fragments Of human flesh, bones ard
brains were found nearly two blocks distant.
Montgomery, Sacramer to, and California
streets were lined with broken glass. scarce
" window for several hundred feet re-
naming whole. Wells, Fargo & Co g house
and everything in the vicinity, animate or
inanimate, were blown into fragments.
The damage is estimated at least 5000 600
- A1hvSus, . uOOh Keeper OF the racine
Mail Steamship Company, is nscertained 10
De among the killed. The cause Of the ex
P'osion IS mystery. The freight agent Of
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company saws
two boxes, each measuring about four cubic
feet, were taken from the steamers dock to
the place where the explosion occurred.
One box was consigned to Idaho City, and
the other to Los Angeles. Both were stained
with oil. The contents are not known.
Forty men are now engaged in removing
the ruins.
:, New YoRK, April 20.
The steamer Arizona, from Aspinwall
has arrived with $500, 900 in specie.
a terrible disaster occurred At Aspinwall,
on the Sd inst There was q fearful ex.
plosion on board the steamer European.
destroying the ship and 40 feet Of her
wharf. The cause Of the explosion is said
TO Dc from nitro glycerne on board.
About 30 persons were killed; among them
the captain and officers Of the boat.
The Panama Railroad Company's splendid
freight house il pile Of ruins. Scarcely
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Il he Fenfans.

On the 18th, a party of English soldiers
crossed from st. Stephens, N. B., to Calais,
Me-, and got into fight with some Fenians,
who, with the all Of citizens, drove the .tred
coats out of town.
The War Department has ordered small
detachment of regular troops to the Maine
border under Gen. Meade to preserve peace
and to ensure an observance Of the neutral
ity laws. A feet of gunboats has also sailed
for Eastport with the same objects in view.
Mr.. A. Pardee Of Hazleton, Pa, has given
fifty thousand dollars to the Fenian fund,
and pledged himself that, as soon as hostil-
tiles between the Fenians and England
should commence, he would increase the
sum to one hundred thousand dollars.
An Eastport special says: There is nc
border war, and there has been none. Nc
fights have occurred at Calais, nor did the
Fenians capture any English flag. There
is no excitement on this side the boundary
The presence Of few Fenians, organizing
Circles, coupled with the Provincial Con.
federation scheme, is the foundation fol-
the sensations. The special dispatches
sent to the New York papers have been vii.
lainously false, and they have drawn hither
many strangers, who came to join in the
strife. Gen. Meade will officially explode
the bubble
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been admitted to bail in Sunhower county
| Miss, without examination, by Judge Yer.
ger. under bonds of $4,000. @z
New Orleans is represented as perfectly
healthy and crowded. Deaths last week,
1903: no tendency to any particular disease.
Emigrants to Mexico are numerous, and
several new steamers are advertised for
Vera Cruz
An attempt was made last week by the
federal forces stationed at Leesburg, Va,
to arrest Mosby, for appearing in the streets
dressed in confederate uniform. The ex-
guerilla took to The woods and made good
his escape.
Hon Francis W. Kellogg. Collector Of In
ternal Revenue AT Mobile, is now in Wash
ington. and says that the negroes are work
ing well, and that the cotton crop in
Alabama this year will be three fourths as
large as that of 1860.
A case Of cholera occurred in Richmond,
Va, on the s h inst. The victim was a
Miss Palmer, staying at the house Of ex-
Mayor Saunders. She was attacked during
the night, and died at 8 o'clock the next
morning. DR.. Coleman, the attending
physician, pronounced the disease cholera
The negroes at Norfolk, Va. celebrated
the passage Of the civ il rights bill on the
10th. While the procession was passing
through the streets, difficulty occurred
between the negroes and whites, during
which one white man was killed and his
brother and stepmother were mortally
wounded. Order was restored By the mil
itary.
The James is taking advantage of Gen.
Buffers +" Dutch Gap Canal" below Rich
mond, and SO enlarging and completing it
that small craft now pass through il at high
stages Of water, saving several miles by .
cross-cut # less than one. Ten years hence
this will doubtless be the main channel
though it may cost something more to make
it SO.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
The Tax hill.

Somebody proposes the following new
amendment to the tax bill:
For kissing pretty girl, one dollar.
For kissing homely one, two dollars,
the extra amount being added probably for
the mans folly.
For ladies kissing one another, two dol
lars. The tax is placed at this rate in order
to break mp the custom altogether, it being
regarded by our NJ. C.'s as piece of mex
cusable absurdity.
For every Irritation, ten cents.
Every young man who has more than one
girl, is taxed FIVE dollars
For counting in the kitchen, twenty five
cents.
Counting in the par or, one dollar.
Counting in romantic place, Eve dollars,
and fifty cents for each offence thereafter.
Seeing lady home from church, twenty
five cents.
Going from church without accompanying
lady, five dollars.
Seeing lady nome from the Mite Society
tive cents, the proceeds to be devoted to the
relief of disabled army chaplains.
For ladies who paint fifty cents
For wearing low-necked dress, one dol
lar.
For each curl on q lady's head above ten,
hvo cents
For any unfair device for entrappine
young men into matrimony, five dollars.
For wearing hoops larger than eight feet
in circumference, eight cents for each hoop
Old bachelors over thirty are taxed ten
dollars and bsnished to Utah.
Each pretty lady to be taxed from twenty
five cents to twenty-five dollars, she to fix
the estimate Of her own beauty. 1t is
thought that q very large amount will be
real zed from this provision.
Each boy baby, fifty cents.
Each girl baby, ten cents.
Families having more than eight babies
are not to be taxed, and for twins pre-
MUM 0: forty dollars will be paid out of
the funds accruing from the tax on old
bachelors.
Each Sunday loafer on the street corners.
or about church doors, 10 be taxed his value,
which is about two cents.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

Why do the birds feel depressed carly
in summer morning? Because their lit
tie bills are all over dew.
There, John, that's twice you've
come home and forgotten that lard" LA,
mother, it was SO greasy that it slipped my
mind"
The month in which NO are has been
m eventful one in our recent annals. In
April, the war began. In April, it ended
In April. Lee surrendered, and in April
President Lincoln was mu tdered.
49," How are you, John I'm deuced glad
to see you" Very we'll, Charley. Come
and take drink. old fellow. .Tisn't often
we meet" That's = fact, John-and
when We do, its meet and drink Z"
"A man out west says he moved 80 often
during one year, that whenever q covered
wagon stopped at the gate, his chickens
would fall on their backs, and hold up their
feet in order to be tied and thrown il.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Congressional Doings.

The Senate was not in session on the
l4th. In the House, Mr.. Garfield delivered
brief, eloquent, and stirring eulogy on the
martyr Lincoln, and then the House adj
journed.
Ia the Senate, on the 10th, bill was re-
ported for the establishment of assay offices
in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
Idaho, Montana. and Minnesota. A reso-
luton was introduced for the appointm emit
Of q Commission to report as to the proper
place Of bridging the Mississippi riyer....
The bill to establish volunteer militia force
was reported, from the Military Committee,
without amendment......O On bill relative to
the Sioux City and P.cifc Railroad, high
" personal colloquy took place between the
California Senators, Messrs CONFESS and
McDougall...... The Senate agreed to a con-
ference committee on the bill prohibiting
the sale Of liquor in the Capitol.
In the House, on the 10th, resolutions
were adopted inquiring into the propriety
Of passing bill to punish claim agents
who swindle soldiers, calling for the report
Of the evidence in the Wirz case, and ask
ing the President for the official corresron-
dence with the French Government respect
ing the withdrawal Of French troops from
Mexico..... Mr.. Stevens offered a resolution
TO furnish three copies Of the Washington
Chronicle to each foreign Minister, Consul,
and Commercial Agent abroad...... bill
for recognizing the army was considered,
and some further amendments adopted,
among which was one that two Of the
twelve regiments Of cavalry shall be COM
posed of negroes. A sharp personal con-
troversy arose in the course Of debate be-
Messrs. lngersoll Of Illinois and Eldridge
Of Wisconsin No final action was taken
upon the bill.
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Grimes
introduced bill regulating the appoint
ment Of officers Of the navy. 1t provides
for one ce-Admiral, IL Rear Admirals,
25 Commodores. 80 Captains, 80 Command
ers, 108 Lieutenants, and I60 Ensigns......
It was stated that the cost Of the public
printing for the last year was $1,75O, 600,
Of which only 100000 was for Congress
$50. The bill for the relief Of the naval con-
tractors was taken up, and its discussion oc-
cupied the entire day.
In the House, on the 18th, the considera-
ton Of the bill recognizing the army was
resumed. The motion to strike out the part
relating to tho Veteran Reserve Corps WAS
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

ance to the United States, and give hi.
parole Of honor to conduct himself as loya
citizen Of the same, and to report himself in
person at any time and place, to answe,
any charges that may hereafter be prefer
red against him by the United States.
| The Omaha Republican of the 9th, has
some rather exciting news from Utah. 1t
learns that "the greatest excitement pre-
walls among the Mormons, and a fixed deter
| mination on their part to drive out or
extermina,e all Gentiles. Eight men have
recently been assassinated, while the editor
Of the j+idette, with all other Gentiles has
been notified to quit the country, or fare
morsc. Placards are posted up in Salt Lake
City warning all Gen,iles to leave imme-
diately.'
shameful April fool hoax was perpre-
trated by lady in Phi ,ladelphia, who sent
to the pulpit in Methodist church, notice
of meeting to be held in aid Of another
church Names Of prominent clergymen
we're mentioned as to take part in the exer-
cises The preacher read the manuscript
to his large congregation without hesitation.
until he came to passage announcing that
a certain layman would sing comic song,
when he became confused, suddenly re-
membered the day. and abruptly sat down.
most remarkable flow of natural burn.
ing gas was recently discovered while boring
for oil at Ge.zville, near Buffalo A COM
pany has been formed with ample capital,
who are about to develope and utilize this
gas by introducing it into that city in mains.
contract has already been made with
the city gas light company, by which they
are to receive forty thousand cubic feet Of
gas per day, at 81 per thousand. The COM
pany have recently procured from Professor
Hadley accurate tests Of the gas produced,
showing its superior quality.
Detective Major has made very yolum-
inous report in reference to bounty Jumping
frauds perpetrated under the calls for
troops. He traces the jumpers from the
time of being sworn in till their reaching
the field. He shows that Of the FIVE hum
dred thousand men called ont and sworn in
by the Government, only one hundred and
sixty-eight thousand reached the field as
soldiers, although thousands Of others re-
ceived their bounties. This wholesale sys-
tenn of fraud is shown to have been perpe-
trated in nearly every loyal State.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25
Incidents and Accidents.

a little girl in Story county was rece ntly
scalded 50 badly BY upsetting a cup of cot
fee into her bosom that death soon cnsued
Mr.. Evans, living near Salem, ILL.,,
died from lockjaw on Tuesday A mashed
thumb which had taken cold was the cause
Thomas c. Norris committed suicide, on
the llth near Franklin, Ind, by sticking
his head under the main crank of a saw
mill.
A married lady in Bridgeport, Conn,
took dose Of medicine to produce m abor-
ton. and after four days Of intense suffer-
ing died in great agony.
destructive fire occurred in Battle
Creek. Mich. on the night of the 14th,
completely destroying the Battle Greek
House and several adjoining stores.
Lieut. Louis ohrem, Of the Veteran Re-
serve Corps, committed suicide in Washing
ton on the 10th, by shooting himself with a
pistol, the muzzle of which he placed in his
mouth
queer accident occurred at the Reed
we'll, on Cherry Run. Pa, one day last
week. team of horses, attached to an oil
wagon, became frightened at the locomo-
tive of the Reno Railroad and ran away.
The wagon tongue came in contact with an
oil tank, broke through it, and about COO
barrels Of oil were thus lost
An armed mob, represented as numbering
from 25 TO 200. attacked the tanks of Harley
Co., at Shaffer, Pa, On the Goth, drove off
the watchmen, and set fire to the tanks,
which were entirely consumed. The mob
defed the people. and prevented any effort
to exiinguish the flames. The guilty parties
are known to be Transfers who are out Of
work.
On the l4th, little girl and boy, children
Of Mr.. S,anbeck, living three miles west of
Princeton, were burned to death. They
went into barn to play, and while there
set some straw on fire near the door Being
quite young, they did not know enough to
run out Of the barn until it was TOO late,
when the devouring flames wrapped around
their little bodies until they were charred
almost to coal.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

The Hon. Richard Busted, U. s. Judge
for the District Of Alabama, has decided
that a New Orleans steamboat captain is
responsible for money lost at poker by a
minor when passenger on board his boat.
The cause Of the fertility produced by
the overflow of the Nile is not occasioned
by vegetable but by animal matter, accord
ing to the researches of Gutenberg, who
found the mud deposited TO be largely COM
posed of infusorla.
There is q cat in the town Of Goldsboro,
n. G, now engaged in the responsible duty
OF rearing nine members of family - four
kittens and fire young rats. She is equally
as tender Of the latter as the former. She
killed the mother rat and assumed the task
Of rearing the orphan young
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$4,000 Tickets will be Disposed Of.

i
hey will be given away IN the following manner:
$4,000 Prize Packages will be Sold
at One Dollar each. and a Ticket will
be given with each Package.
list Of Articles.
Wano"d Set, Lava set, Pearl Breast
Plus. Finger Kings. Gold Studs, sleeve
Hnttans. Gold Ear Rings. Ear Drops and
Work. Ladies' Cold Finger Rings, Cent?
cold Finger Rings. and Fancy Bcsora
studs ~ sets, and many other Articles
Of value.
Every package contains something of value and en-
titles The iolder 2 = ticket Send in your money rs
nmea and buy prize packags. send stamps pay
the return Of the package Ivy mail: a ticket will hs
sent with each package. Each tickle duplicate
o. the same number. which y registered hefre being
sent ont. The drawing will take place at Crosby's
Orefa Hons.. or some other public psce, where thou.
sands Of ticket holders can witness the drawi r. Tho
duplicate tickets will nil be placed in a wheel and
drawn out by some disn,erestrd person. chosen from
the audience present I'll" day Of drawing list Of
the numbers SO drawn III be- once or soon ~
made out TO each ticket he lder who then conrare
his number with the lii Of drawn numbers; the
moneys or goods will then be held to his order, t. be
sent hy Express ntheru Use. lie may direct Our
cYerprise y nron the grandest scale known, A.
tieke holder will obtain rtz. purchasing
\ prize package, and have good opportunity 10
obtain Five THOUSAND Dollar Prize, as person could
have IN any milar Gift Enterprise,
The GARDEN CRY ENTERPRISE 10 arranged that
the tickets will he rapidly disposed Of 80 much 80
that very seldom II ever. any postponemet Of the day
81 drawing can occur Aud 0 cise I'D the post
= n"tn.nt IL for longer time than 4 weeks. The
articles contained In enterprise all Of the most
approved kind # the best manufacturers and MI war.
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next monthly distribution All orders will receive
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Examine our unprecedented club rates; every active
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Don't waste sauf money foolish ainusements, but
buy on, prize packages and get something Of resl
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To -st NJ small clubs first; when they become
gnanted with the wurk they can get up larger ones
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-04-25

sent ut our risk.
Garden City Gift Enterprise Co.,
P.O. Box 4N4. 100 n. Clark st. ChfcagO H.
liberal donation will he rendered at avery drawing
20 the agents VI the Soldiers Relief Fund, Tor the
benest Of disabled soldiers and thei families.
LUCKY NrMBER-Drawn by Miss Libbie
Gee Of 1odwaier, Mich. Fine Ennmeed Gold
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drawing $4,000 IN prizes. No ono loses. Unlncky
numbers tspn,chased. Send stamps for circulars.
Address, Gift Concert. ?. @. Drawer 6l97 Chicago ILL.,