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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-17
WESTERN UNION RAILROAD,
NOW OPEN TO
Rock Island!

I'HE short and direct route from Racine Nil.
Il waukee, and all points in Wisconsin. to
r mock IsIand and Davenport, and all points in
Southern Iowa and Kansas.
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- waukeei and all points in Wisconsin, to
mock Island and Davenport, and all points in
Southern Iowa and Kansas.
On and after Monday, May 3, 1859, trains on
TINS road will run through to and from Rock Isl
and without change Of cars.
Trains leave Rock Islam d at $40 a. m. G.gO u.
M, Freight and Accommodation s:2Oa.m.
Arrive at Rock Island, 1855 p. H., 6:35 a. m,
Freight and accommodation $50 pm
Making close connection with passenger trains
at the following points:
ATRACINE JUNCTION, from and to Mil
Waukce and Chicago.
AT CLINTON, from and to all points in
Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota
AT FREEPORT, from and to Galeua, Du-
bnquc, and all points North and West.
AT SAVANNA, with steamer "IIendersopp
from and to Dubuque, and with st. Paul Packets.
ATFULTON, with trains from and to Cedar
Rapids, Marshall, Boone and Omaha.
At ROCK ISLAND, with trains from and to
Muscatine, Washington, Iowa City, Grnnell,
Des Moines, Omaha, and the Union Pacific
Railroad and with steamers from and to all
points on the Mississippi river between Rock
Island and IT. Louis. Rates of freight and fare
always as low by this as by other lines.
X. c. TATE, sup't.
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On and after Monday, May 3, 1859, trains on
TINS road will run through to and from Rock Isl
and without change Of cars.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-17
1910 q Miles the Shortest Route

All trans run directly through TO New York,
~ 800 MILES, without change Of coaches.
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Hemorrhoids, or Piles.
They cure all Diseases Of the
THROAT AND LUNGS.
CAMCERa.

They have had very extensive pracss
tce aud wonderful success iu the treatment Of
Cancers, which they cure without eating them out
or using the Knife. Let those who have Iumors
and -wellugs, W a red spot lose no time in hay-
ing il attended t., as timely treatment may save
cathcm from the horrors, suffering and death Of
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-17

Trains leave Rock Island at $40 a. IN, $3.50 D.
~, Freight and Accommodation 500 a. IL.
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On. ITarvev'a 0oIdon Pilla.

have 20 equal. They are safe and sure in or
mary cases. Price, One Dollar per Boa.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-17
Drvan's life Knvigorator.


OR JUVENATIN ELIXIR,
For all arrangements Of the Urinary Organs. It
gives
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-17
LADTIa,

II you require a reliable remedy, nee the best
DT. EaTvey'B Female Pills,
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MON nom and after February lslh, 1869, Trains
w leave IN connection with all Western lines, 40
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To the Afflicted!
Drs. KNAPP & SON,

are treating successfully all
CHRONIC DIsEAsHs,
Which embraces the best and most approved meth
DDS in this and other countries for the cure Of al
Chronic Diseases, They treat successfully all
nervous and Neuralgia affections, all forms Of
sorofula, Fever Sores and Old Ulcers, Dyspepsia,
Diseaser Of the Liver Constipation, all Skin Dis
eases, Pulmonary Consumption in It's early stages,
Paralysis, Epilepsy, Salt Rheum, Headache, all
Heart Diseases Of children, and
Seminal Weakness a. Sexual Diseases
Which are carrying thousands 70 their graves, and
they treat successfully, on new method all dis
eases Of the Eye and Ear They have had more
extensive practice and better success in the treat
msnt Of all
DIsHAs1s OF WOMEN,
Than any other Physioian' in America They
have CURED women who have boon confined to
their bed for years. They never fail TO cure
RRuUNIATTsNT.
In all stages; u, matter Of how long Standing
Asthma
50 It noror returns They have Sure Cure for
the distressing disease,
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Arrive at Rock Island, 1885 p H., G:35 a. m -,
Freight and accom- mediation $50 p. IN.
Making close connection with passeng ger trains
at the following points:
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AT RACINE JUNCTION, frOtn and to Mil
Waukce and Chicago.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
Tricks of n Magician.

Here is the Worlds sketch of the tricks
now performed by Hermann, the we'll
known prestidigitateur:
He then proceeds to shuttle pack of
cards. They become fluid in his hands
He pours them out in little cascades. He
sets them sailing about the house; they be-
come imponderable, they grow in size, they
vanish, they set all the known laws of mat
ter at defiance. They, in word, open a
new field of possibilities in the old and ex-
hausted domain of sleight-of-hand. The
rest of Hermann's tricks are fresh and won-
derful. He is shot by three murderous
rifemen picked out of the audience. He
gathers a hat full of silver dollars from the
back hair of the best looking ladies; he
turns on stream of them from the peg of
the bass fiddle; he takes vases of gold
fish out of his vest pocket; he
draws small cart-load of mammoth bou-
quets from his shirt-bosom. He walks
down to the spectators and requests them
to use their senses, and then convinces
them that they are of no use. He deties
reason and scrutiny alike with his five
fingers. The disbelieving respectable old
gentlemen in the front seats are compelled
to take his cards and money out of their
pantaloons pockets, and the young men
who are busy explaining to their sweet
hearts how the tricks are all done, have
their mouths stopped with kid gloves and
handkerchiefs, which this necromancer
pulls neatly ironed from their bowels. Al
together, Herman is the prince of illusion,
who battles the scientific research of the
boxes and the discernment of the philoso-
phical gallery in his person proper, without
the aid of vulgar realism and the old clap
trap of the Andersons and such like me-
chanicians IL
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
English Remedy for POlygamy.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.

English writers are constantly scandaliz-
e by the existence of polygany In Utah.
They consider it shame to our government
that such state of things is permitted,
but pass Slightly over the fact that the
converts to polygamy and Mormonism are
principally found in England, and continue
such in America only because they are i'm
mediately turned off into the wilderness,
where hitherto our educational institutions
and public sentiment nave been almost un-
able to reach them. The remedies they
have professed for this abomination have
been greatly diversified, but none of them
sach as we have been able to avail our
selves of.
It appears that of late they have found
polygamy existing among their own sub
jects in an English colony. The natives Of
Natal, it seems, are in the habit ofnot only
indulging in a plurality of wives, but Of
openly buying and selling them at auction.
Wives were thus largely monopolized by
the wealthy-a very undesirable condition
of things. English reformers naturally
undertake to remedy this. Ia doing so
they evinced ideas that were at least very
practical, if they had no other merit to
! commend them. They abandoned all the
! fine sentimentality they indulged in when
giving advice to the Americans, and went
to work in quite another way. They did
not even absolutely prohibit the practice.
| They sought to regulate and tax it and its
abuses out Of existence. To stop the auc,
/ tions, they fixed the highest prices at which
a wife might be sold at ten head of
! cattle. For second or third rate wives,
/ however, SO far as we can see, an aucti0n
might still be necessary to get them off
the hands of their managing papas and
mammas, whomever arrange such bargains.
! Then to discourage, while they did not
absolutely forbid the practice they taxed
the husband for all wives he had besides
the first, according to a sliding scale, ten
dollars per head being added for every one
additional. Whether the Tax Collector
would levy upon the wives of the delin-
quent and sell them to raise the tax and
! costs, if it remained unpaid, is not stated
! The tax may operate to discourage polyga-
my by making it too expensive, but once
paid there can be no further legal objection
to the having of moro than one wife. Eng
hsh law apparently legalizes it., ,.. --.~=4
This, then, is the English plan of dis
posing of polygamy- taking it out of ex-
! istence. What would Brigham Young aud
his Apostles say, if, among the statements
required by the Internal Revenue or Coun-
| ty Assessor, after an enumeration of their
other taxable property, came wives at $50
or S1O0 each, with a sliding scale increas-
ing in proportion to the extent Of the lux
ury INDUCED in. We submit the question
of the operation of such a law to the Utah
journals.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
Personal LIENS,

Horace Greeley addressed congrega-
ton of Sunday school children on Sunday
last
-Nasby's new lecture is entitled 'FThe
Struggles of a Conservative with the Woman
Question.
Edward Hopkins, ex-chief Of police OF
Cincinnati, attempted to commit suicide a
few days ago by cutting his throat.
Morrissey is said to have bet heavily
against Packer one bet with Sheriff o 'Brien
being SIC, 000-all Of which he wins.
When Mark Twain wrote his first ar
ticle, a California publisher told him that
he hadn't brains enough to keep a mule
going straight ahead in ten acre lot.
Young VIM. Astor, grandson of the
original Jacob" has sailed for Europe,
and IS going to Rome to study for
''sculpist," because he has nothing else to
do.
Miss Martha Jellison, of Ellsworth,
Maine, has been an active teacher for fifty
five years, being now Y years DID, Nearly
all the public men of the city have been
her pupils.
1t is sal,. that Mrs. Henry Keep, of
New York, whose husband died short
IlIlIe ago, leaVlnB ner large fortune, lost
500. 900 by the failure of Lockwood i Co.,
of that city.
james Margrave, of Knoxville, Tenn,
is 107 years old. He left off the use OF
animal food fifty years ago, uses tobacco
moderately never drinks liquor and never
was married
Mrs. Mary Pillow, wife of Gen. GiG. j
Pillow, died at her home, in Maury county,
Tenn, at midnight, Oct. 3. She was strick-
en- by apoplexy while at dinner on that day,
and did not speak after the attack. =.
Gen. Buffers mettle will be put to the
test before the Supreme Court next week,
i: d chemical patent case of great intrica-
cy in which he will have to contend with
Congressman Jenckes of Rhode Island,
one of the best patent lawyers in the
country
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
Transmission Of Mental Disease.

DR.. Charles Elam, an English physician,
has just published book in which medical
problems are discussed. OF the transmits
sion Of mental disorders, he says:
There is no form of heritage more re-
markable than that of the tendency to sui
eide without any other marks Of alteration
Of intellect. DR.. Winslow relates the case of
a family where all the members exhibited,
when they arrived at a certain age, desire
to commit self-destruction; to accomplish
Which, the greatest ingenuity and industry
were manifested. DIR. Gall relates a very
striking instance Of seven children of one
man who all enjoyed competency and
good health, yet all possessed rage for
suicide, and all yielded to it within thirty
or forty years. ''Some hanged some
drowned themselves, and others blew out
their brains" Many other examples of the
same tendency are brought forward by the
same writer. l may add one case to the
above from my own experience. Sitting
one day with an acquaintance, [ noticed
some depression in his spirits. After pro-
longed silence, he broke out into the fol-
lowing dreary attempt at conversations
"My grandfather hung himself, my uncle
took poison, my father shot himself, shall
cut my throat. The facts We're correct;
but constant surveillance prevented the
sequel in his own history.
An Adirondack correspondent tells a
good story illustrative of the responsibility
OF travellers in that region for Introducing
the vices of civilization. Agentleman who
had good supply of liquor in his camp
was generous enough to treat his guide.
This unsophisticated forester got SO furi-
ously drunk that his employer was afraid
to stay in camp with him, and essayed to
get away; but his guide Intercepted him,
and forced him at the point of the pistol to
row the boat, with the guide as passenger,
all the way to the next inn
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
Ages Of American Authors.

Appleton's Journal gives the following as
the ages of living American authors, an
nouncing that the list has been compiled
with great care:-Gulian c. Verplanck, 81:
Richard II. Dana, 70; George Ticknor and
Charles SpragUe, rs; John Neal, 76; J. P.
Kennedy, rs; Sarah j. Hale, II; William
Cullen Bryant, 73; Stephen II. Tying,
Francis Lieber and George Bancroft, 70:
VIM Fl. Seward, and Catherine E. Beeeher.
50; Lydia NJ. Child and Leonard ". Bacon,
68; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 81; Horace
Bushnell and Geo. D. Prentice, Sc; VIM
Gilmore Simms and NJ F. Maury, 64; John
G. Whittier, Louis Agassiz and H. W.
LongfelloW, 60; James Freeman Clarke
and Oliver Wendell Holmes, so; Charles
Summer, Horace Greeley and Alfred B.
Street, SO; Harriet Beecher Stowe and
Samuel Osgood, So; G. 4. Cranch and
John S. Dwight, 81; J. t. Head
ley, H. [. Tuckerman, Henry w. Bellows,
Henry Ward Beecher, and E. H. Chaplin,
56; Richard II. Dana, Jr., and John Lo-
throp Motley, So; John G.. SAKE, 54; E. A.
Duyckinck and Park Goodwin, SO; James T.
Fields, John Bigelow and Arthur Cleveland
Coke, So; William E. Claiming, Henry
Giles, Mrs. E. D. Southworth, F. S. Coz
zens, Z. p. Whipple and James Russell
Lowell, 81; Julia Ward Howe, Thomas W.
Parsons, @. A. Bristed and Herman Mel
vile, so; L. B. Read, Samuel Eliot, j. G..
Holland ana Edward Everett Hale, 48; Al
lice Cary, James Parton and Donald G..
Mitchell, Al; George w. Curtis, 46; Rich
ard H. Stoddard, George II. Boxer, Bayard
Taylor and Charles G. Leland, 45; Mary A.
DenisOn and Charles L. Brace, 43; Thomas
b. Aldrich, 33.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

CURIOUS PHENOMENON. singular phe-
nomenon, we are informed, has been wit
messed in the vicinity of a village in upper
Austria On Thursday, the 18th ult., the
soil covering several yokes OF land IN the
neighborhood of Mol, few leagues from
the town of Steyer, suddenly fell in with a
crash like thunder, and where the oats
were waving few seconds before, there
suddenly appeared lake. The water of
this newest addition to upper Austrian
scenery is clear, its temperature is very
low, and it is said to have much resem
blance to that of the glacier lakes Though
the river Steyer passes at no great distance
it does not appear that any communication
exists between them; at all events, there is
reason to believe that the lake receives no
contribution to its waters from the river,
though the contrary may be possible. The
water of the river is said to be chemically
different from that co ntained in the newly
discovered natural reservoir.
The total receipts of peaches for the
season in Chicago are 900, 155 packages.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
How Some OF our Merchants Have Risen.

few years ago large drug firm in this
city advertised for boy. Next day the
store was thronged with applicants, among
them a queer-looking little fellow, accom-
panied by woman, who proved to De his
aunt, in lieu of faithless parents, by whom
he had been abandoned. Looking at this
little waif, the merchant in the store prompt
ly said: Cant take him; places all full;
besides he is too small" 'I know he is
small" said the woman; 'but he is will
ling and faithful" There was twinkle
in the boys eyes which made the mer-
chant think again. A partner i'll the firm
volunteered to remark that he ''did
not see what they wanted OF such boy
he wasn't bigger than pint OF cider. !"
But after consultation the boy was set to
work. A few days later a call was made on
the BOYS in the store for some one to stay
all night The prompt response OF the
little fellow contrasted we'll with the reluc-
tance of others. In the middle of the night
the merchant looked in to see if all was
right in the store and presently discovered
his youthful protege busy scissoring labels.
''What are you dong?" said he; 81 did not
tell YOU to work nights" '.I know you did
not tell me SO, but I thought I might as
we'll be doing something. In the morn
ing the cashier got orders to ''double that
bows wages, for he is willing" Only a
few weeks elapsed before show of wild
beasts passed through the streets,
and very naturally all hands in the store
rushed to witness the spectacle A thief
saw his opportunity, and entered in the
rear door to seize something, but i'll a
twinkling found himself firmly elutched by
the diminuitive clerk aforesaid, End, after
a strnpqle. was captured Not only was a
robbery prevented, but valuable articles
taken from other stores recovered. When
asked by the merchant why he staid behind
to watch when all others quit their work
the reply was, "You told me never to leave
the store when others were absent, and !
thought I'd stay" Orders were Immediate
ly given once more: Double that boy s
wages; he is willing and faithful" To-day
that boy is getting salary of 81, 500, and
next January will become member of the
firm
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
An Englishman's Appreciation of Yankee
Slang.

From the Buffalo Express. eHHH
The peryersity with which some people
adhere to the Queens English, utterly re-
fusing to comprehend the modern style
of rhetoric, as found in the terse sign1fi-
cant phrases and sentences of every day
business conversation, very often proves
sorely trying to the patience of those
adopts in Yankee slang and pointed alb
breviations. A good story is related by q
well-known lake captain who has been
running Buffalo propeller for several
years past. Some time since he had
among his passengers from this city a
wealthy, honest hearted, but rather irasci-
BILE son of Hold Hengland," who had but
recently arrived over from Great Britain,
and was going to Toledo to visit married
daughter. The day after his arrival in that
city, while taking walk about the town
with Captain --, he observed a lot of
fine horses on sale exhibition, and desiring
to present his daughter and son-in-law with
something in that line, he stepped up and
priced one or two of the animals. The
owner Immediately stepped up and gave
himthe figures.
Sow much his thisn 2" pointing to a
1880"
'Ai SAO 1AhhO u s5oOu OuSSy hOhoO'
asked the Epglishman.
''You bet!" came in an emphatic tone
from the jockey. rs
''Bet What do You mean? Hi don't
want to bet; hi want to buy the 'orse, if hi
like it."
To this the dealer in horse flesh made
no answer, and after moment or two OF
critical examination, our wealthy friend re-
marked:
''Hi don't think she will hanswer for a
family orse.
I've got stamps as says she amt got no
super'r as a family 'orse in this city, " re-
piled the irritated owner.
Stamps! Who is Stamps? Hi don't
care wat Stamps says; hi know a good
'orse wen hi see one as we'll as Stamps hor
hany hother person., sharply responded
the Englishman. -..r.....sf ..-..
'Oh, well, no, " said the jockey assuming
a conciliatory tone, ''take another look at
this animal Why she was just made for
your
MADE for me, you puppy r clustered
the excitable Johnny Bull, COW could that
hanimal ave been made for me? Why, hi
'avent bin hin this ere blasted country
hree weeks vet p
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
p0ctru.
FEEAKTH-GLOW.


BY ApELTNE d. T. WHITNEY.
Ia the freshine, at the TWILIGHT
The pictures that / see
Ara less with mimic landscape bright
Than with life and mystery
Where the embers flush and flicker
With their palpitating glow,
see, htfuller and quicker,
Heart pulses come and 60.
and here aud there with eager fame,
n little tongue of light
bpFeaches earnestly to claim
somewhat out Of sight
Eknow, with instinct sure and high,
4 somewhat must be there;
Else should the fiery impulse die .--
In ashes Of despair.
Through the red tracery discern
a parable sublime; r. .. g..
solemn myth of souls that burn
IN ordeals of time.
How the Iife-spark yearns and shivers
1illthe whiteness Ger it creep
Tiii the last pale hope outquivers,
And quenches into sleep Fs
Till mid the dust of what hath been,
II lieth dim ard cold,
Yet holdeth secretly, within,ss r
Heart-fervor, as of old
as from the darkening nreside
/ slowly turn away, ef
I think Row souls of men abide
The breaking of the day.
When morning Touch shall stir again
Those ashes of the night,
That gathered Ger our hearts of pain
TO keep their life alight
Hours at Home for October
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

A Chinaman named Tye Kim recently
arrived at Omaha on his way round the
world. He went from China to England
seven years ago by way OF the Cape of Good
Hope, and studied foqryears at Cambridge.
He afterward directed eoolie plantation
in Cuha until the revolution broke out, when
he went to New Orleans and opened q
school, He is now on his way 10 China to
engage thousand laborers for Louisiana
sugar-planter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

APPLEToN's ILLUSTRATED ALMANAC FOR
1870. d. Appleton q Co., N. Y, have ex-
celled all their rivals in Almanacs this year
The designs by barley and Fem are per-
fectly superb. When it is considered that
the engravings cost So, 900, We are really
surprised that the book can be sold at 80
cents Every one who really wants some
thing chaste and beautiful, should send at
once for copy. The publishers send free
of postage on receipt of the price.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

Mrs. Eva Lancaster, of Navasota, Tex
as, is now running three institutions her
self-the Navasota Ranger (newspaper),
incumbent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

F. Lawson was Instantly killed by the
falling of large mass OF rock from the
roof of the Taylor coal-shaft in LaSalle,
H., on the 18th.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

Mrs. Stoves reply to her assailants
viii probably make a small volume. 1t will
be published by Fields, Osgood & Co.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

Judge Sawyer, OF the District Court of
California, has decided that Chinese testi-
mony is admissible agains. white men un-
der the fourteenth amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27

STORING POTATOES. If potatoes are to be
stored in a cellar, it must be either natural
ly dry or made so by proper drainage. The
potatoes ought also to be dry when put in
to it-that is, they should lie for an hour
or two at least after digging before they are
carted to the cellar. Tt makes them clean
er, of course, to knock all the dirt from
them while picking them up, and keep that
which settles to the wagon floor from going
in the cellar with them; but they viii keep
better in the bin if these precautions are
not taken, and considerable portion of
dry earth is allowed to go with them.