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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
GRAND GIFT CONCERT.

A grand gift concert is to be held at
l. L1aisviIle, Kentucky, on Tuesday, October
3,ss for the benefit Of the Public Library of
Kentucky. This treasurer of the enterprise
is the Citizens Bank OF Kentucky. $780,
600 in Greenbs cks will be distributed By lot
to the holders OF tickets, in gifts, from
100000 in amount down 10 800 which is
the lowest gift The gifts are seven humid
red and twenty one In ell. Tickets will be
forwarded to any address, in registered
letters, on receipt of Post Office money
order, ,gresnbacks, or draft. Each ticket will
CONSIST OF four quarters OF the value of 81. so
each The enterprise presents itself before
tbe public under the best auspices and with
most influential and responsible patrons and
officers. Among the trustees are several
leading members of the Ksn.ucky press.
The supervisors are to assist the trustees in
the distribution Of gifts. The municipal and
political personsges of the vicinity are ell
engaged in the enterprise and the Grand
GifG Concert at Louisville is xpeo ted to be
one OF the nost successful of it's kind. It's
success is rendered sure by the fact that G.
K. Peters-NoI20 Main Street Louisville,
Ky., and No. Astor House New York.
the gentleman who brought to such sue
cessful termination the great mercantile
gift concert at San Francisco, is its man
sger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
indigestion or Dyspepsia,

Is weakness or want OF power Of the digestive
ulces The stomach to convert Gus food and
drink iato healthy matter for the nourishment
of the whole system. 1t 10 cREted by every
thing til at tends to weaken the body, and more
particularly the atonAch Nearly, At noI quite
one b If OF The diseases, to which we are ii6bIe,
procesd from it. Indigestion produces q great
yaIIety OF UNPLEASANT feelings. Among the
most prominent OF lts miserable effects are, q
want Of, or an lnordinate appetite, sometimes
attended with d constant craving for drink, sour
stomach, grinding psins in the stomach, depres-
sion of spirits, gloom of mind, ffetiulness, vast
ing Of aesh, loss of energy And strength, very
irritable, heart burn, unpleasant tasts in the
IN outh and rumbling In the bowels. In some
cases Of deprAysd indigestion, there is COM
plete disrelish for fcod, at other times person
80 afflicted eau eat heartily without much graft
foation. A long train Of nervous symptoms are
also frequent attendants, general debility great
ianguidness and iucapacity for exertion. The
minds of persons 30 afflicted frequently become
irritable and desponding, and great anxiety 10
Observable in the countsnanee; they appear
thoughtful, melancholy, and detected, ander
great apprehension of aome imaginary danger,
will start at any unexpected noise or occurrence,
ana much agitsted. Yet for all this the mind
is exhilsratsd without much difficulty, pleasing
events and society will for time dissipatc all
appearance Of disease. Other symptoms are vi
olent palpsttiion, ses,less meas with q sense OF
weight and oppression upon the ehsst, night
IN are, etc. 1t 10 almost impossible TO name all
the symptoms Of this invader upon the eonstitu-
tion, as in almost every case of indigestion,
there win probably be something peculiar TO
each, but bs what they may, they are all eceA-
stoned by the food becoming 9 burden, rather
than support 90 the stomach, and in all its sta-
ges, the medicine most wanted is that which
will afford speedy assistance TO the digestive Or
gsns and give energy and strength to the rer-
vous and muscular system, and . new life 60
the wh ole body, and nothing can be, and there
is nothing, that will give quick relief, as lay
lor's Stomach and Liver Corrector, the Gxeat
Remedy for Blood, Liver and Skin 0isea'es. and
from one 90 four bottles win effect q cure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
A LARGE TOBACCO MANurAcrosY.

The cultivation and anufacture of Il a
plAnt-genus nicotiAna-called tobacco, in
this its native country, is one Of the most
important branches of produce and trade.
The extent to which the consumption Of
tobacco, both for chewing and amoking pur-
poses, is used by our own citizens renders
it imperative that the greatest possible care
and skill should be exercised in it's produo-
tion, as any inferiorisy in quality or dslster-
ious ingredient used in manufacturing the
weed" is sure to be productive of ill conse
quences to the consumer. One of the larg-
est tobacco manufactures in America is
that of Chss. R. Messenger of log, lO8, and
llO Summit Street, Toledo, Ohio, whose
agents for Rock Island are Messrs. Henry
Darts Sons. Mr. Messenger is very fine
and agreeable man, and thoroughly under.
stands his business, turning out the best
brands of manufactured tobacco in the
market, and shipping largely. The base
ment of the large works is used for stripping
and cutting the leaf. Here are four cutting
engines, made by the Pssse manufacturing
Co., of Dayton Ohio, and thirty FIVE horse
power engine and boilers which supply alI
the four stories of the establishment with
steam for heating aud drying purposes.
The Offices are on the first story and are
very handsomely furnished, at the back of
them is the packing and shipping room.
The chewing tobacco department. is on the
second floor, where splendid brands Of
tobacco are to be seen. The manufacture
Of smoking tobacco is carried on on the
third and fourth floors. In addition to the
large building are two acres of sheds which
are used for storage etc. From eighty to
ninety hands are employed on Mr.. Messin-
gers works Sll the year round. A visit to
this establishment is exceedingly interest
ing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

Iaose that are subject to it only know what's
distressing complaint it is, and lie vary un-
Welcome visitor. At frat II eanses dlmness oil
vision, followed BY terrible pain, sickness al
the stomach, and vomiting and then for day
or two, persqS feels rs though tneA hsd hI
Of sickness. one dose will cure when drst at
tackled. and one to three bottles will effect per
manent cure.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

EVERY person should be loyal in thought.
word and deed, to SO good a govern msns as
ours aud they that are not loyal, have no
claim for its protection. We do mot say
that uaing Rsnne's Magic Oil for curing
quickly all painful complaints, is the only
evidence Of love TO our country, bus IL is .
siga We love ourselves some. go
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

DISEASES of the liver and stomach are
induced in variety of ways, and should be
dealt with at the outset. Tsylor's Stomach
and Liver Corrsotor is sffsctuAl for the cure
of bilious diseases Of ell kinda, liver com
plant, jaundice, dyspepsis, the various
forms of indigestion, and such other affsc-
tions as arise from . morbid state of the
liver,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
Congestion Of the Liver,

The symptoms of which ere, pain in the righl
side running to the shoulder, q loss Of strength,
appetite and energy, sense of oppression, low
ness OF spirits, sQuesmifhness of the stomach,
yellowish coated tongue, restless mesa, fright
full dreams, all Of which yield to the influence Of
"TAYLOR's STOMACH AND LIVER COR
RECTOR" of which enough should be taken TO
cause q speedy and free evacuation Of the DO wells
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

List Of Marriage Licenses for September.
Sept. .. Matthew L P. Allen, Lillian Allen.
4. A Kiuoaid, Sarah Milton.
s. Michael Gibbons, Matilda Ford.
y. J Barlow, Sarah A Umpherson.
Jas Boston, Lisxie Komble.
IL. j n Wallace; Sarah + UImsr,
IL. Albert shulxe, Louisa Stage.
John Luaburg, Dora Weinberg.
l3. Merton French. Mary Jones.
Allen, Rloreace Golden,
Ia. Otto Gostseh, Lottie Psppe.
19. Z Morgan, Martha sprawl.
W Lsech, Laura Gillstt.
20. Thos Roach. Mary Carr.
Al. W Wallace; Assnath J HArtzell.
John Sti't, Ellen Carter.
%. 4 A FOss. Olivia Eelson.
John Shadtuok, Maria Dssrlim.
20. W Scott Gardnsr, Mary e Vincent.
o BAunsou, Mary E Martin.
~. Ira u Cook, Katie CAvelry.
Geo e Smith, Mary Lyford.
IS. Eric Hogsberg, Annie L Carlson.
wPW Whan, Parmelia Tsnny.
William Klinefelter, Mary Barrett.
80. p A Hrickson, Anna L Peterson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

CATHOLIC BALL AND PRIzE CoNcERr.-
The tickets for the Catholic Ball and Prize
Concert are only one dollar each, and are
selling like hot cakes. The stores where i,
is advertised that a few of the numerous
prizes are TO be seen, are regularly besieged
by ticket-holders, who wish to SEQ the goods
that they are going to win. There is little
doubt that the 10Th of October will see an
immense concourse of youth and beauty 81
the hall
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
Jaundiee.

WI. person as yellow as s saffron
=. .o,,,con saving you very naturally
ei - tha usion that 1t iG Jaundiee, csused
Sy arrangement OF the Liver, by the bile being
aasI ypsted and 1owing with the blood througout
the system. instead of passing of In its naiurs'
course into the bowels. One to three bottles will
oure the worst case.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

MARRIAGE GUIDE.-- Interesting work,
numerous engravings, 224 pages. Price 80
cents. Address DR.. Butts Dispsnsary, IL
North Eighth street, St. Louis, No. See
advertisement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

TIE new style of addressing letters is
after this fashiou-"LlIinois, Rock Island,
Praise God Bdrebones." II should be gen
evally adopted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

DELAY NoT.-C,nyulsions, wind collie
and gripping in the bowels of infants causs
death. Mrs. Whitcomb's Syrup is tried
remedy. 1t costs only 26 cents.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

President GRANT went through Rock
Island lAs. night. This is lie, but we
want to keep up with the rest OF our ex-
changes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

BLIFFKiNs mentions that he never had
such "dab bad code" before in his life, q,
this particular season.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
LOCAL NOTICE

TorLurIsE is unrivaled as . bsauti6sr Of
the complexion, il is powder, harmless, rs-
fined aud elegant. Try it, so cents per box.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
COStiveneSS.

rL,.t...p,sS by a sluggish, torpid state ofths
Ah'.s Ah' arrangement Of the whole system.
!, ',urprising that there are so many troubled
i,h This distressing disease and give Ii 90 little
attSntion. The diseases that follow habitual
eostiveness sre many, Of which Sick Headache.
Ra Of Bloadto the Head, Dyspepsia, Plies,
Heart, Lung and Skin Disease and Female ana
kidney Complaints, are slwsys aggravated by
II. Many resort to pills. and never have free
evacuation of the howels without their aid To
these, Tssy, stop ana sonsider, az every pill
you take con tains mercury, which will in time
cause you to regret the course you have taken
BY using Taylor's Stomach and Liver Corraetor,
yoa will not need to takspils, two to four bottles
win cure you.
For Sale By all Druggists aud Dealers II Msdi-
clnss.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02

Rockford, Rock Island l. st. Loais
Railroad.
PREsIDRxT's 0FyTCE,
Rock ISLAND, Ill, Sept 23d, 1871.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the
Rockford, Rock Island d St. Louis Railroad
Company, will be held at she office Of the Com
pAny, in the City Of Rock Island, Illinois, on
Wednesday the 1lth day of October, 1871, at
IL o'oock, noon.
RANSOM r. GABLE, President.
JoHs ?. WRITEHEAp, secretary.
sept23-dtd
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
DI@EAS
LIIV ! e r
Stomach!
Mercury or CalonleI
Mercury or CalOmeI

Is the great remedy that physicisHs appeal TO
and use almost entirely in all diseases Of the
Liver. There are thousands ct the present time
that are suffering with tho rheumatic pins in
the joints, caused by the use of Calomel which
has created q disease Of its own worse than that
which it was intended to cure. There 10 no
drug that leaves its mark more prominent in
the system. Yet, perhaps, there are times when
it can be given, and have benifcisl effect, but
should not be dealt out as ID has been, and 10 at
the present time, by those that pretend TO know
what they are doing, but in reality do not. The
Liver 10 more liable to disease than any other
organ in the human system, and when th at fails
TO do its duty 1t leaves the weak points Of the
body exposed, as the bile 10 not thrown of, bus
taken up by the blood, as it passes through this
great filter of the system, and becomes impure.
Then follows n train of diseases, whose name Is
Legion. There are many shat suffer from pain
In the side and across the body, dull, heavy,
drowsy feeling, headache, pain in the right side,
often severe pain In the bowels, costiveLsss, fat
ulencs dsrrhes more or less ind gestion, loss Of
appetite, salow skin, white of the eyes yellow,
sinking of fssb, depression of spirits, ct other
times great craving for food. Some Of these
symptoms are caused only by torpidity Of the
Liver. 1t impossible to give all the symptoms
Of deranged Liver, and they are all cureable
without the aid of Cslomei.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
- NEW & BEAUTIFUL MUSIC

A Bright Blue Eye, Song Meiningsr, 35ots
Haze you seen Louise Comic Song. Saxton. 40
Dar{inq Belle Of the Boarding School. Porter30
Girl aclth The Cigarette, Comic Cordells, 30
Tolly Hiqh Times, Comic, Paris, 20
Nour toouldn't you IKE to kaosr, Comic Cordfa 30
.Jerceais Of the Heart, Beautiful Song MillArdS0
Loa IA the Meador, i" . Zush, 81
let il Pass. for Bass Alto, IS
Yet Once Aga'n, Duett for Sop. and Barr,
Gabriel, so
Quarrell;pg Ne'gh5 arc, Comic Duett, aber, IS
SoAaebody's Child, with vs-istious, Mack, so
HeGrenls Greetimgs, Psnsie Roymantique,
Bianohey, SIS
Holiday Vacation March, illustrated title
GilsinR, SO
Street AnticfpatiOns, sOhOttische, 60 IS
Gilsinn, so
Daley, Fantasia, Erug, 50
Any of the above sent by mail on receipt of
the market price.
No mattsr where you sac piece Of Music or
Music Book advertised, send TO us and you viii
receive IL by enclosing the publishers price.
BAL16N2 e. WHEaH.
MUSIC DEALERS,
m27-dedI2m. ST LOUIS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-02
COMMERCIAL.
Gold LIE ga.

RooK ISLAND, September 80.
THrs Flour market 10 corrected at Warmers
Mills and the quotations are the ruling prices OF
she Rock Isi.nd market.
WINTER WRsAF FLoUE-W holsssls,.. 40
+" Retail a.. 4, 90
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-27

"The mole-catcher has just come,
and wanted to ask if he should begin
at once on the lower meadows, as the
vermin have done more damage there
than anywhere elsel"
Certainly. Let him set his trap
there first for the moles have nearly
eaten us up there. Give him groschen
for every one he catches"
The servant left the room and the
baron turned to the table to take up
his cards. Here he found most aston
ishing sight The pastor sat there with
open mouth and staring eyes, the five
face cards spread out on the table be-
fore him. The fingers of his right hand
stretched out like falcons claws, and
unable to speak single word.
my God, pastor!" cried the colon
Ell, ''what in the devil is the matter
with your"
This sacriligious mixture frightened
the pastor out of his apparent trance.
"Moles - he cried, "moles! What
an immense sheep l have been" And
then the good man began to dance
around the card table like mailman.
"But, great heaven, tell us what the
matter is !" cries the colonel again, as
he jumped up from his seat.
''He is crazy !" exclaimed the school
master, as he placed his chair between
himself and the dancing pastor.
"Moles!" cried the pastor again, as
he stood almost breathless before the
baron. Then, reaching his hand into
the back pocket of his coat, he brought
forth--in a manner that is simply in
scribable-a dead mole. Then he
dropped it as if it had heen hot coal
out of the window into the garden be-
low.
The problem was solved. During a
walk couple of Sundays before, he
had picked up dead mole and placed
it in his pocket, with the purpose of
adding it to his collection of objects Of
nature, but had entirely forgotten it.
OF course this was the cause of this
horrible and inexplicable odor-morti-
ticatlon indeed-which had given every
body so much concern, and the pastor
now remembered that it had only been
perceptible on these occasions when he
had put on best coat, though he
had not thought of it before.
He hurried back to his good wife,
threw his arms about her neck, and
burst into tears of JOY, as he exclaimed:
"God be thanked and praised forever,
my dear Marie didn't smell at all
it was a mole"
Since that time, Pastor Feldman, less
L. L I A I e L
happy life with his wife and family,
and there has been no serious "mor
tification in his whole household.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-27
Foreign Gossip.

The Princess of Wales has had six
children.
THEY killed 2s6 persons and injured
l, $50 on the railways of England last
year.
The Methodists of Canada are divid-
ed into five separate ecclesiastical bod
les.
The death is reported, at the age of
eighty, of NJ. Becquerel, the celebrated
electrician He died in Normandy
during the siege of Paris. f
ANOTHER Marchioness de Briuvilliers
has been discovered in Pisa, Italy, in
the person of Pipona Cetelli, woman
of forty, who has poisoned her father,
her husband, two children and lady,
all in the last six years. She had been
condemned for the murder of her hus-
band, and confessed the other crimes.
The Catholic Bishop of Pekin has
been offered $500, 600 by the Chinese
government as compensation for the
massacre of the Sisters of Charity at
Tien-Tsin. The Bishop scorned the
indemnity.
A LINGUIsT at Warsaw, in Poland,
named Prescensky, has just completed
a polyglot dictionary in twenty three
languages, upon which he has been at
work for over seventeen years 1t is
believed that the Imperial Academy at
st. Petersburg will publish the work
at its expense.
AN extraordinary blast of granite
took place lately at the Bonaw quarries,
Argylishire. A perpendicular rock face,
about 100 feet square, was pierced be
low the centre by tunnel 2 feet high
and q feet wide for 80 feet inward, and
then branching off at right angles for
ID and Is feet, terminating in couple
of chambers, wherein 5000 pounds of
gunpowder were deposited, and fred by
a galvanlc battery. There was a slight
report, and then a burst outward into
the quarry of about so, 900 tons of gran
lite.
STRANGE combinations resulting from
strikes are rather startlingly illustrated
IN the ace-trade of Nottingham, Eng
land. There exist unions of the en-
ployers as well as OF the men. and both
appear to be amply supplied with funds.
One manufacturer has a dispute with
his men, resulting in a strike. The
employers union pays the manufacturer
the average earning of each machine
standing still, and the workmen's union
pays each workman full wages as long
as he IS on a strike; which certainly
don't look very promising for an early
adjustment.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-27
The Revolutionary Calendar.

The Revolutionary Calendar has again
been adopted in Paris The origin of
the Revolutionary Calendar dates with
the troublous term of 1898. On the
9th of October in that year the Fabre
d'Eglantine submitted report advo-
eating the adoption of the calendar, and
on the oath of November 1893, the
National Convention of France passed
a decree approving of the report, and
the calendar went into operation. The
year, by the calendar, consists of 365
days, divided into twelve months of
thirty days each. Five complimentary
days called sansculottides) each year
added, and a sixth complimentary day
introduced every fourth year. The first
year of the republic, according to the
old calendar, began at midnight on
Sept %, 1898. After thirteen years of
existence, the Revolutionary Calendar
was abolished and the Gregorian reck-
oning substituted in its stead, by an
Imperial decree, dated Sept. 9, 1905,
which took effect Jan. 1, 1906.
According to the Revolutionary Cal
endar the months of the year, with the
corresponding date of the Gregorian
reckoning, are as follows:
lst Vendemaire is September 90.
LIST Brumarie is October %.
LIST Frimaire is November 81
LIST Nivose is December 81
LIST Plurionse is January 90
LIST yentose is February 10.
LIST Germinal is March 81
1st Floreal is April 20.
LIST Prairial is May 20.
LIST Messidor is June 49,
LIST Thermidor is July 10.
LIST Fructidor is August Is
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-27
The New Oil Field.
The Oil City Register, speaking
the new oil strike, says

The Oil City Register, speaking 0
the new oil strike, says:
The striking of the Findlay well, on
the Milton farm, near this place, on
Wednesday night last, has created
great excitement throughout the oil re-
gion generally This well is located
about one mile from the Allegheny riv-
er, at a point nearly opposite Reno, and
some four miles from Oil City by pres
ent roads. The depth of the well is
nine hundred feet, thickness of the
third sand thirty-one feet-a hard peb-
BILE. The oil is of forty mine gravity,
showing conclusive evidence of the ex-
istence of large amount. From the
best practical judges, we are enabled
to place the real production of the well
at fully eighty barrels per day, while by
some it is claimed one hundred The
well Is located on lease of some thir-
ty-tive or forty acres
OF the effect of this new strike upon
the general prospects of our new city,
it is needless to speak. 1t is apparent
upon every beamlng countenance you
meet. Large numbers of persons from
all parts of the Oil Region are passing
through here en- route for the new oil
field that will prove the sensation of
1871. Lands have been leased for a
considerable distance around the new
well, and large number of wells will
at once be commenced.