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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-02-15
Testimonials,

Middlsto~n, No., Aug. 81, 1868.
DR.. C. B. HoWE-Dear Sir 1 hereby certify
bat with one bottle of y our Never Failing Ague
Cure, cured perm anently five obstinate cases of
Ague Fever, the patients meanwhile living u g
swamp and drinking slough water.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-02-15

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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-02-15

cur-s the wor.t pains in from one 10 twenty
minutes. Nctcne houF after reading this sdver-
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''all who know the wines then used will understand the unfermented juice of the grape-boiled and syeet-those esteemed the best which were the least strong."- Such as he himself drank at Jerusalem, and such as Judge Swift of this State more. than sixty years ago drank in Spain, and declared that he never, before or since, tasted of anything that could bear compar ison with it's delicacy, exquisite flavor and refreshing effect," and expressing his be lief that ga gallon of it at a time, if a man could swallow so much, would not in the least affect his head"
 Now, if these statements are correct, there is this legitimate inference to be drawn from them, viz.; When we know that substance, in common use among a people, is employed by them both in a good and bad, beneficial and an injuri ous state; if we find, in writing directed to that people, that its use is sometimes mentioned with approval and sometimes with disapproval, it is perfectly legitimate inference that the approval of it is when good and beneficial, the disapproval when bad and injurious. This is precisely what I am convinced that we do find in the in spired writings. Those writings extend through many ages. The references to this one matter are necessarily brief, and must vary in their tone with the variations in the popular habits, which were some times vicious: but. though thus varied, and always in the free manner which sharac terizes the Bible, this is the radical prin- ciple upon which they are to be understood. I will add briefly that eminent scholars, studying the question as one of philology only. have reached the same view. About forty years ago Prof. Seixas, after revising collation. of texts by Dr. Patton, declar, ed ''Your discriminations are just They denote that there were two kinds of wine and the HebrewScriptures justify the view. 7" Prof. Bush, upon examining the subject at Delayar's request, said ''you have the whole ground, and, in time, the whole christian world will be obliged to adopt your view," and himself published an es- say to substantiate it. So, emphatically, decide Profs Stuart, Taylor Lewis, Bishop Alonzo Potter, Dr. Dawson Burns and many others. In another article I pro- pose to enter upon the scriptural argument.
 H. B. ELLIOT
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-03-16

Dss~ The Norwalk Gazette publishes the following letter regarding our Congression- al Candidate 1s s..ae. ial gza ct
 We have received the following private letter from neighbor of MT. Cohing, which we venture to publish = .---
 EAST CANAAN, Ct, Feb. q. 1871.
 I received a note from MT. Cofing, last evening, stating that he has concluded to accept his nomination. He had tele- graphed to the Congressional Committee that he should decline, bat by the urgent request of his friends, he has been indu- ced to consent to an acceptance. He felt Q great reluctance to being put before the people, which is characteristic of him, as he has no tuste i'll that direction. Still, he is a man that is thoroughly popular among the people of Litchfeld Countysa thorough. energetic business man, one that men of capital have full confidence in, having heavy interests with others in six Blast Furnaces in radius of twenty miles. and managing the same, man noted for his integrity and honesty of character. generous to fault, ready and willing to give his appreciation to every and every good cause. and is not demcnstrative except when thoroughly aroused, then be is a posO- e., has natural reluctance to notoriety, the extreme opposite of his opponent, both living in the same town, MT. Coffng has always been the most popular man (except in the way of disgracefully obtaining votes in which he will not stoop) respected even by his political opponents for his ability and high toned character, He has Q large force of men in his employ which will largely neutralize the influence which we have had to work against as it is now nn- der his management. To make the matter brief, he is worthy of our best efforts. the strongest man by far of any other in the District to make a run against MT. Bar mum, The man of all others" is the ex- clamation of all. The Democracy in this section are distracted. Yours Truly,
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POETRY.

,, THE VOICE OF PRAYER.-A Poem by War ren Sumner Barlow, author of "The
 Voices Published by Carleton. N. Y.
 This poem contains SO much that'is out of the common order, both in thought and expression, that we venture on few selec- tions. It commences as follows: True prayer is boon to the sorrowing soul, And brings many blessings within it's control; ladder that lifts every child of the sod In closer communion with Nature and God. It opens within every channel of love, P And brings us in union with angels above. But God, ever changeless in laws and decrees, Is ever unbending, regardless of pleas: Yet prayer aids the soul that aspifingly prays- | Not only resolving but maeading it's ways.
 The pages that follow reco gnize and il, lustrate the fact that the age of mi racles is past, that,
 No law is suspended should earth everywhere Unite in one chorus to swell the same prayer.
 That all natural phenomena are governed by equally unvarying laws, though often unknown or hut partially understood, is also suggested
 To pray that kind showers may in bounty descend That earthquakes and hurricanes ne CT may offend That fire may not burn you, and water not drown ; To jump from steeple and gently come down n- | Is asking Jehovah to alter His law,
 As much as to say you've detected flaw! Certain other natural limits are also al- luded to:
 No repentance, no faiM can e'er banish woe, For the truth is revealed, dN must reap ,otot ey sOa1." No Jorgiueness can ever change tares into wheat, He who sows, must uproot them, and learn by de- featt
 Then blend all your prayers with this true revela- That leach for himaself n,ust work out his salva-
 tion"
 The matter of the natural Limitations of Prayer is summed up as follows Then pray that your prayers with Gods laws ever
 blend
 In union with deeds, that will bless and extend; For these the prayers that the Lord ever heeds Regardless of color, of birth, or of creeds. :
 Among the special objects suggested we find the following:
 May woman (God bless her D have equal position With man, under law, and in every condition. Her ballot' so gentle like 'snowfakes" descend With feminine features through laws interblend-
 ing,
 May round the rough angles of turbulent man, AA&sSS oAAS
 The closing lines do not promise. we fear. an orthodox Millennium, but they certainly present 8 very pleasant picture of possible future Our churches wide open, divested of creeds, Will mould their instruction to mans highest Their lessons of wisdom will teach self-control- A health-giving fountain to body and soul. The gospel of love will with laws interblend, In union with deeds, for glorious end With one common brotherhood under the sun, All union of interests center in one. Our natures expanded by freedom of thought, Though all become teachers, all seek to be taught; Yet thought in it's channels, like rivers will flow To the Ocean of Truth, as still onward we go; Till the Banner of Peace and Good Will is unfurl-
 ed,
 To all Oceans and Lands that encircle the World That all these rich blessings may bloom every
 where Let Nations unite in efectual Prayer.
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-03-16
For the Enquirer TEMPERANCE.

MIR. EDrroR.-In a communication last week expressed dissent from the position that ''all wine drinking is prohibited by the word of God" and also from the posi- ton of Truth Seeker" that the true mode of reconciling the apparent contradictions of the Bible upon the subject is to inter- prot them as permitting the use and for bidding the abuse of it"-I proceed now to indicate what seems to me the truth of the matter.
 I hold that God, in the Scriptures, as well as in His Providence, sanctions the use of only au innocent unintoxicating beverage, called wine, and condemns the use of only pernicious, intoxicating bev- craze usually called by the same name. I ask candid consideration of this state ment. To avoid the impression either of pedantry or plagiarism, let me say at the outset, that in the arguments advanced I shall make free use of books at hand, with out always using the space req uired for in. dicating quotations.
 What is :. Wine" The origin of the word is ultimately the Hebrew gain, thence the Greek oinos, the Latin vinum aud tn us the English ,Oine All derived from root signifying ito squeeze" The meaning, therefore. is simply the expressed juice of fruit; chiefly, in oriental countries, the juice of grapes. In the Old Testament gain, and in the New. oiaos. are the generic words most frequently employed, though there are numerous striking exceptions to which I may have occasion to advert What then, was the wine of the ancients, in the regions and at the times referred to in the Scriptures I think it can be clearly demonstrated land if your columns were five times their present length or number I would be glad to accumulate the proofs) that it was used in two conditions, fermented and unfermented, and Ae latte, nauch more common and nsuch more hiqhly votued than the former. In the earliest age it would naturally be prepared in the simplest form. but in the long hot summer of that region it would soon undergo a change-thus Noah, having pressed the juice from his vineyard and freely used it as refreshing drink, after time, una- ware of the subtle change. partaking of it perhaps no more freely than before, or pos sibly on some occasion of unintential ex. cess, was once caught in the drunkard' $ stupor-yery like some less innocent cider drinkers. Gradually, however, processes were invented for the prevention of this result, and the skill and care with which they were employed and the satisfaction with which they were mentioned by the favorite writers of different ages show the estimate in which they were held. Three
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-03-16
DIFFERENT VIEWS.

The following letters, clipped from the journals to which they are credited, show a remarkably wide diversity of opinion re- garding the business prospects of the South They both appear in Republican papers, so that they represent only the nat ural divergence of mems views of facts of general interest, unaffected by political bias, Add to this natural divergence of views all those worse differences which arise from social habits and political prejudices, and can we wonder at the terrible conflict of evidence regarding the state of affairs at the South which render Tribune and World reports almost irreconcilable The editor who attempts to average such differ ences, and to run the true middle line, has no very easy task.
 THE COTTON CRoP.-The receipts of cot ton continne excessively large, aud during the past three weeks of Feb, to the 18th, have been 30.0O0 bales larger than for the same period of 1860, and in fact have been, by that amount, larger than for this period of any previons year of the cotton trade. While we do not wish to offer any estimate regarding the total crop of 1870, we only state that if the receipts for the balance of the year bear the same proportion to those of the same period of last year as those of the expired portion have done, we will have to record a crop for 1870 of not less than 4. 100000 bales It is mistake to SUD- pose that most of the cotton has been for 1o1 &o a very large amount on the plantations Along the, lines of railroads in all parts of the South we see large piles awaiting transportation at the depots, and particu- larly on the banks of the rivers of the the rivers permeating many of the most fertile sections Of the Southwest are not navigable for large steamers until swollen by the winter rains and we also know that during last December not much rain fell, while during the entire month of Jan- uary the South suffered from complete drouth, and not until the 1st instant did our winter rains begin to fall in earnest.- We may therefore conclude that only du- ring this month the crops of many sec. tions of the Southwest begun to move.- The roads to the ports have just been opened. The condition accords with re- ports which we have received from that section.
 In regard to the planting of this spring. we believe that certainly as much land will be put under cotton as in 1870. The average cost of production throughout the South has not been over eleven cents per pound. In the Eastern States it has been greater, but in the Western States, less And each year since the war the cost of production has decreased, and, probably during 1871 the staple will be raised at an an average cost of nine or. ten cents per pound. The low prices of the past six months have stimulated consump- tion. The increase of consumption in this country and Great Britain. and in Russia, most particularly. has been very great, and the increased demand will have tendency to prevent any further materi- al decline in prices. The labor system of
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fore. She did not seem to feel above him. notwithstanding the wide difference in their positiens,aandi treated him as cordial Iy-more cordially .uhey thought-than be- fore the change in his fortunes. He would not have been human had he not learned to love her. -rr .7-rxrtv
 The climax came when she gave a grand party. Then, before the elite of the city, she did not hesitate to receive attentions from him, oniwhich but one construction could be placed. He thought her quite . heroine. and asked no further proof that she could love him. sfsT .t 'IT dsTf
 The next afternoon they met in her fath- CTS library, where he had waited to see her. ~t@eret4 rEng-fgEe1
 ''Nellie," he said, as the usual courtsies morning to learn my fate. Iknow the diff. ference in our positions, and would not urge you-only let your heart decide. My heart lay before you"
 She blushed prettily, and seemed con- fused for moment, then she gave him her hand.
 ''I have loved you, O so longr' she said. ''And feared you would never love me. You were so jealous before you lost all your wealth that all women were mere adven- turesses I was heartily glad when papa said you had lost it, and I--"a ,s (sEaEg-
 'FYou sent him to negotiate withsme!" cried Augustus, finishing the sentence in- tutively. and give it labial emphasis.
 II love you sol" she murmmured, depre- catingly. ,,..,--.-e ., --.-..-1,
 ''I do not doubt it, dearest" And Mir. Augustus Fitz-Humes believed himself the happiest of men. .-,- -.,1 s1 1ota They were married. The wedding was very unpretentious, as became the bride groom's straightened circumstances; and he was in constant ecastacy as he thought of her surprise when he should tell her that his fortune still remained. He sent for Mrs Ashfeld to come and reopen the house and put it in condition to receive its mistress. Meantime they tarrieds at his fathers ,tt..s s,.,I,;e. .srrB
 Augustus, said his wife one day, !'I have favour to ask of you-will you grant it?" l.1 .4.A .r- g- 37'-F
 II will if it is in my power, darlingP' he exclaimed. ....
 ''Well, poor papa is rather short of mo- ney--won't you lend him ten or fifteen thousand?" .i .s
 ''le! Why, you know" ..at s.s.E
 "Oh! l know what you have been pre- tending" was the quick reply. ''But then it was not so-you never lost your money. !"
 Augustus Fitz-Humes was dumb with as- tonishment and chargrin. rg
 ''How did you find that out?" he gasped:
 'I knew it all the time. When heard that you were penniless, papa went direct! ly to our banker and learned the contrary. I think we managed shrewdly."
 think you did," cried her husband, des- perately; "but do you think I'll endure itP"
 ''How can you help yourseIf9 We are married now-will you apply for a di- vorce?" @ a.a.F
 ssNo, wontI' ..............f.... "Then what will you do?"
 ''Answer me one question: Do you really love me?" E- 'srte-44 g. B.
 ''Yes, do." -.r r-.e ...e1s
 "WeIl: if you love me. we will drop the subject " a'~
 T think you'd better" she said quietly.
 We think so too. 1.. gga. -e-i e5
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B6 In ths changeable season of the year, beware of Colds, a slight cold neg lected results in consumption. You all know the consequences. Now, one ounce of prevention is worth Q pound of cure, and one bottle of Warmers Cough Balsam, will remedy the evil by curing the cold; re- member this, you that are predisposed to consumption, for the remedy is always to be had at any drug store on inquiry, if they should happen to be out they will get it for you. Price one dollar, in large bottles. -Cbyistinn Adcocote. oi e e2a1
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-03-16

A string and gun trap for tigers, invent ed by one Captain Rogers. seems to be a great success. The Jubbulpore Chronicle states that . man eating tiger, long the ter TOT of the district, and (Which has been known to attack party and kill four or five persons at time, "was short time since despatched by having incautiously put his foot in string attached to trigger that discharged bullet which killed him. The trap seems to be an admirable invention, but rather disagreeable to set, for the bait. it is said, was ga dead woman."
Litchfield enquirer., 1871-03-16
VALUABLE MILL PROPERTY
 FOR SALE.

V@NHE we'll known Grist mill at Bantam -A Falls, with run Al feet burrs, bolts, scourers, 6 elevators fitted up with Prin. dle's Patent Cups, with 40 feet fall, IS feet overshot wheel, building S0x7O. Situated on the outlet of Bantam Lake, also on the line of the shepaug Valley Railroad. Good run of custom, 16O tons of feed and 800 tons of plas. ter can be sold annually. A dwelling house in connection is also for sale. For furthe par ticulars apply on the premises or address
 MILLER,
 Al If Bantam Falls, Ct
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B9F Ton cannot have good fire with.i out good fuel, nor get good bread from poor four, nor make good coat with poor material, neither can you obtain. good light if you use poor oil Always buy, therefore, the best. Pratt's Astral Oilis the best, hence the most economical. It Is perfectly safe, and it's Illuminating quali-sl ties uneaualed. Buy it for its purity. for safety If you upset and break lamp, filled with Pratt's .s Astral" oil, the con- tents will not explode. nor take ffe.. Ask your dealer for Pratt's Astral Oil don t let them sell you any other oil. sd sIain
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population of the Southwest has very largely increased by immigration since 1865. No man is able to place any limit to the cotton production of the South She is capable of supplying any amount that the world may require, and we may yet live to see free labor give the world an annual crop of six or eight millions of bales.-Boston Jour.
 POVERTY IN GEoRGA.-Never since the surrender of the Confederate armies have l seen the people so poor and distressed as they are now. Never have I known so little money in the country, and never have I known it so hard to borrow money. The cotton crop of 1870-71 was immense. It. has far exceeded what the most sanguine expected. But it cost an immense sum to make and gather it. Labor was hired with cotton at twenty-five cents per pound, and with belief that it would not fall below that price. Thousands of tons of fertili- gers were bought and applied lavishly to the land at an average rate of $75 per ton cash, and $s5 to $9O on credit All the meat. most of the corn, hay, &c, needed to feed men and beasts. were bought at the highest prices, either for cash or on credit, with ruinously high rates of interest added When the laborers were recom- pensed. and the guano, meat, corn, bay, interest &c., paid out of the cotton sold at 10 cents or Il cents per ponnd, many'a a planter found that he had lost money, and many and many one found that he had not made cent, while not 9 few hav- ing lost stock, implements, and everything but the land, have been compelled 10 aban- don their farms altogether. being unable to raise money to carry on another year s operations. The homestead and Relief laws have done great deal to destroy credit. No mortgage or lien is now of much value in face of two thousand dol- lar, gold realty, and one thousand dol lar, goldtpersonalty, for a homestead. The result is that, in cases within my personal knowledge, persons have only been able to raise money to farm this year by convey ing their property in fee to the parties ma- king the advance. As another proof of the poverty of the people, would point to the number of cases where men have allowed policies of insurance on their lives which they had kept up for years. to lapse from absolute inability to pay the premiums or to raise the money. It is 9 stupid delu- sion to suppose that the cotton crop of 1871 can be (" a very heavy one, IN r 1fmes.
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Pennington Savings Bank.

A HIS old and well established Bank has Sur. plus Fund of more than
 FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, loss Interest at the rate of Six per cent free of all taxes, has been paid on Deposits for the last seventeen years. New deposits are put upon in- terest the first day of every month. All loans are made under the supervision of an efficient Board of Directors. Amount of Funds, March 1, 1871, sl, 7,l79: Business hours. from to IA, a. m., and from 2 to 6 p. m. -
 SAMUEL s. CoWLEs, Treasurer.
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A New Orleans man is troubled to know whether ''strychnime, what the police give to dogs, won't pizen the human being af- ter sassengers has been fried"
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H. c. DUNN, Watch-Maker and JeWeler, LITCTIFIELD, CONN.

Has on hand good assortment of Watches Clocks, Jewelry, and silver ware; also. Gold Silver and Steel Spectacles. Most and prompt attention paid to cleaning and repair. ing watches clocks and Jewelry. Engraving neatly done. In Judd's Building; South, St.
 40
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Book and Job Printing. All kinds of Book and Job Printing neatly and Business Cards, Wedding Cards, Bill Heads Labels,
 Ball Tickets, Handbills, Pamphlets, &c., &c.,
 done in the best style, and as cheap as at any office in the State. a1 Orders by mail or otherwise respectfully solicited. All Jobs returned O. D.
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THE VOICE OF PRAYER. Poem by War
 ren Sumner Barlow, author of "The Voices Published by Carleton, N. Y.