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Medical.

Attention is called TO the advertisement of Dr..
Bohennan, Of ST. Louis, Mo. His reputation is
that of one of the most successful physicians in
his speciality in the West
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FoR Choice Green House and Bedding
Plants call at @. Westphal's on. Sd, between
Brady and Perry street, Davenport, Iowa.
l7-lw
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Q&a laNoNn

Rock Island Lodge No. Is, /. o. o. T., m sss
every Monday evening at Odd Fellows Hall,
southeast corner Of Illinois and Eagle Sta. AZ
u o'clock P.K.
Gus SrEkaEL, N. G.
HARRY HAELET, r. S.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-17

The alleys of the city are presenting
more Clearly and passsble appearance, with
the help of certain officials.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-17

Linimens tables are said to circulate
freely among the Indians of the Northwest,
who take them for greenbscks.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-17

We notice so cent ourrenoies IN oircnia'
lion, bearing the private mark OF Farrano
the Halter.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-17

A NECESSITY of the tiwes-thas you buy
your bread of John Aster-
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LIVINGSTON Il Co. are constantly receiV'
;ng the latest styles of hats and caps.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-17
OPENING ARD CLOSING CT MAILS

This mail arrives on Tuesdays and Fridays,
and departs Wednesday, and Saturdays, This
route tsrminAt ~ New Windsor.
ARRIVES. oLosEs.
ALADo nAIL $3.50 p. N. $500 3. N.
Mall matter for Camden Mills, AndslusiA,
Edgington, Hamlet, PeErytOn, AlsdO, High
Point, New Boston, KeithsburG, 0QuAwkA, 10
OquHWks Junction, (Ssgstown), also for Plsasan,
Ridge, Rsalts Buffalo Prairie, Illinois City,
Drury, Copper Greek, and Miusrsburg, goes by
thiS route.
MONMOUTH GAIL 100 D. m. 7:00 q. m
This mail arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridsysj departs Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
uTdAys. All mail matter for Prsemp ton, Sues
Viola, North Henderson,, Spring Grove, Rich land
Grove and Monmouth, should be sent BY this
SOuts. Also Centre Ridge on Thursdays.
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OLD newspapers for sale-in packages OF
fifty or one hundred-at the
ARGUS OFFICE.
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WANTED.

ABoRERS, Wagons ank Carts, Teams, Car
IL penters, Pile Makers, and Boarding Bosses
on the Louisiana and Mo. River Railroad.
Apply at Fsyetts, Howard Co., to
mehl3-d1m SHEEHAN LOLER
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The spirit off the press-bsd whisky.
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PIMPEES ON THE FACE.

TOR o0MED0NEs, BLA0KW0RMs OR
Grubs, Pimply EruptiOns and Blotched
Designations on the face. use Perry's Conedone
an Pimple Remedy. 1t is harmless and i"Uotu-
able Prepared only by DIR. B. C. PERRY,
DermstOlOgist, 40 Bond Street, New York.
Sold by every Druggist in Rock Island and else
where. feb 27dAW6m.
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bright healthy chile is a perennial spring
of Joy In every well-reguloted family, and where
is that father who after the strife and turmoil Of
business, on retiring to his home, is not beguied
of care BY the innocent prattle of his child 2
Perhaps this father is q worldly man, and makes
gold bis idol, he me J have been successful man,
and amsssed riches. Yet place his child on the
sick bed and all his gold at the disposal of the
pb sieian and the only return be asks is the res
toration of health to his child. Fathers Moth
ers would you preserve your child in health
Then listen to US. There is one preVsiling cause
of the disease in children, aud that cause is
worms. II this cause Of disease is not removed,
your child will sieken and die, or linger suffer
ing invalid for life. We present to you an infal-
Hble remedy for worms; 1t is
DR.. Judson's Dead Shot Worm Candy,
and lie put up in the form of stick of candy, and
80 pleasant to the taste, that children greediIy
tease for it. 1t is purely vegetable, and cannot
hurt the smallest child. Ask for DR.. Judsod E
Dead Shot Worn Candy. For sale everywhere
at 20 cents per package. W. II. ooMsTooE,
deco Sole Proprietor.
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FIRE ExTYNaUTsRER.
Over Three Hundred Actual Fires
Put Out with it!
More than
$5,OOO,0OO.OO
Worth Of Property saved from the
Flames,

.- $3.50 lsOA.aA.Suso J,IUU Ieef.--
In 1858 il had been reduced l 1000 feet, and
until 1866, the abrasion averaged 65 fee
per annum. In 1866 there was q prea
change the abrasion ranged from 800 fee
at the canal to 900 feet quarter of mil,
below. In 1869 there WAS crevAsse, ant
at the close of that year there had been Owe
] 200 feet removed. Levees were built anC
much done to reclaim the land thus swep
away. But in l8G9-70, the main body o
the river was changed, and the point of i'm
pact moved further down the bend, III,
amount of cutting ranging from'200 to 1,50t
feet Capt. Suter of the engineers made asur
vey in the atumn of 1870, and in his repor
states that at that time the width the pen
insula had been reduced to $500 feet The
width at the site of the canal is $3.50 feet
showing, perhaps, that the failure of the
canal was because it was not constructed 81
the proper point. 1t is, therefore, merely q
question of time when the river will force
itself through. Behring'S in the river vii
give no comfort to the Vickshnro mamie
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1871-04-17

New clothes are a great desideratum, but
where to get the best, the most stylish and
at the most reasonable prices is just as i'm
portant to the man who wishes for suit
that will be tasty, well made and of the
finest imported and domestic cloths. This
community need not be told that Tom. Nc
Cullough, the fashionable Davenport Mer.
chant Tailor fills the bill exactly. He has
but recently returned from the Eastern mar
ket with the largest and best stock f.plain
and fancy cloth ever brought to this section,
and which Macs skill and good taste will
soon make into handsome suits. Those who
have not already done SO should give him @
call at once.
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Rrsrniura Fob Printing /.

Orders for Job Printing Will meet with prompt
stGsn tion ct the AasUs OFEIcn, and be executed
n the very beat manner and 81 reasonable rates.
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The oLp.FAsHloNsp CHOIR.

have fancied, sometimes, the Bethel-bent beam
That trembled to earth in the patriarch's dream
Was ladder of song in the Wilderness rest,
From the Pillow of stone to the blue of the blest
And the angels descending to dwell with us here,
"OId Hundred, and 'Corinth, and "China, - and
Near"
All the hearts are not dead, not under the sod
That those breaths can blow open to Heaven and
God =
All, Silver Street. leads by bright golden road
., it is not the hymns that in harmony flowed
But those sweet humOred psalms lin the old lash
Toned choir,
To the girls that sang alto-the girls that sang
Let us sing in His praise" the minister said
All the psam-b books at once futtered open at
York -
Summed their dotted wings in the words that he
read,
While the leader leaped into the tune just ahead,
And politely picked out the key, not with fork /;
And The vicious old vol went growing along
At the heels of the girls in the rear of the song.
| need not wing, bid no genii to come,
With wonderful web from Arabian loom,
when the world was in rythm, and life was its
rythme
Where the streams of the year rolled up, noiseless
and narrow,
That across it there foated the form of sparrow
For sprig of green c; raway carries me there,
To the old village church and the old village
choir,
When clear of the floor my feet slowly swung,
And Joined the sweet praise ofthe song as they
sung,
Till the glory aslant from the afternoon sun
Seemed the rafters of gold in Gods temple begun
I gu may smile at the nasals of old Beacon Brown,
Who followed by scent till he ran the tune down
And the dear Sister Green, with more goodness
than grace,
Rose and fell on the tunes as she stood in her
place,
And when Coronation, :" exultingly flows,
Tried to reach the high notes on the tips Off
To the land of the lea they went with their song,
Where the choir and the chorus together belong.
Q, be lifted, ye gates Let me hear them again
Blessed song, blessed Sabbath, forever, Amen
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TOO OLDTO BE THRILLED WITH.

An old army surgeon, who was
very fond of a joke, if not repeated
at his own expense, was one day
at a mess after the decanter had
performed sundry perambulations of
the table, when a great wag remark
to the doctor, who had been some,
what severe in his remark on the
literary deficiencies of some of the
officers:
"Doctor, are you acquainted with
Captain G. % eyes, I know him
well ," replied the doctor; "but
what of him ?" Nothing in partic-
ular," replied the officer, 81 have
just received a letter from him, and
I'll wager dozen of old port that
you can't guess in five guesses how
he spells cat."-"Done," said the
doctor, otis g wager" swell, com
mence guessing, said the officer. OK
a double-t." mo" "K-a-t.e.n
"No, try again." "C-a,t-e." "No
you have missed again" "W ell
them" return the doctor, "C-a-dou-
bic t." NO." said the wag, that's
not the way you have lost the wa
ger" "Well," said the doctor, with
much petulance of manner, show
does he spell it ?" "Why he spells
it cat" replied the wag, with the
utmost gravity, amid the roars of
the mess, and almost choking with
rage the doctor sprang to his feet,
exclaiming: "Gentleman, l am to
old to be trlt1ed with in this man
ner."
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JOHN PAUL ON CHRISTMAS PRES
ENTS.,

What did Iget in my stocking?
Nothing, thank you. This year
brought me surplus of pincushions
and the like; young ladies don't
throw these things away on married
men. 1t doesn't matter much, for I
some time since came to the conclu-
sion that the exchange of presents
between the sexes about this time is
little better-on one side at least
than a robbery. There is a certain
poetry, perhaps, in the idea of a
young lady's giving something of her
own making; but what would be
thought of Augustus Aurelius if on
the blessed morning of gifts he sent
Louisa Lucinda wooden hair-pins,
earrings, knitting-needles, or quill
tooth picks which his manly hands
had whitfield, or an impossible apron
which his fond fingers had fashioned!
Yet this is just what Louisa Lucinda
does to him. She piles pincushions
upon him. So with the book marks.
Very much the same with slippers.
With some limitation the statement
is applicable to penwipers. Ifsome
young man were to dress himself in
a full suit of pincushions and pen
wipers and call upon the object of
his alteration, it might awaken the
feminine mind to a sense of its awful
responsibility in such things. AS a
general thing, one pincushion will
last young man of regular habits
lifetime; if put to the push, he can
get along comfortably enough with
out any at -all. For a pocket-pin-
cushion, if may be allowed to speak
on matter in which l have had ex-
tended experience, there is nothing
better than the lapel of ones coat.
"Shiftless," is it? Pc seen young
ladies carry pins in their mouths, and
lpoint with pardonable pride to the
fact that no young man was ever
known to do that. As to book. marks,
it is my firm conviction that you can
not improve on ruler, lead-pencil,
booGack, or anything else which
happens to be lying on the table.
Regular built penwipers are a mani
fest absurdity. For many years of
my lite I thought there could be
nothing to equal the sleeve of black
coat, though now find that my wife's
back hair answers an excellent pur-
pose. Slippers are more sensible.
But if sent to you soled and all they
never fit your feet they always hap
pen to be either too large or too
small. And to get them soled your
self involves an expenditure fearful
to contemplate, though I've an idea
that all the various patterns in che
mile and worsted which have accum-
ulated on my shelves will get sold
during the present winter.-EUery
Saturday.
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The King of the Cannibal Islands,
having the ill-luck which has over.
taken many of his royal brethren in
various parts of the world, Is in
trouble with his subjects. A revolt
has broken out among some of the
rival clans, and the captives taken
in the battles which have ensued
are killed and eaten. King Tha-
kombua, a converted cannibal, has
been obliged to take the field against
the revolving subjects. The United
States holds mortgage on the prin-
cipal island as security for the pay
ment OF damages for killing and eat.
ing of a crew of an American whale
ship. Possibly we may be obliged
to foreclose, and to stop the hannibal
ism which Thakombua hardly re-
strains.-N Z. Tribune.
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THE"STAR SPANCIED BANNER
A "Reminiscences of its Origin.

The most entertaining article in
the July Harpers' is one by Mrs.
Nellie Eyster, who writes from rec
objections of an octogenarian, and
tells the story of the "Star Spangled
Banner" as written by Key. This
paragraph tells of its first perform
ance:
"Have you heard Francis Keys
poem ?" said one of our mess, COM
ing in one evening, as we lay seat
tered over the green bill near the
captains marquee. 1t was rude
copy, and written in a scrawl which
horace Greedy might have mistaken
for his own. He read it aloud once,
twice, three times until the entire di-
vision seemed electrified by it's pathet-
ic eloquence. An idea seized Fred
Durang. Hunting up a volume of old
flute music, which was in some.
body's tent he impatiently whistled
snatches of tune after tune, Just as
they caught his quick eye. One called
'Anacreon in Heaven" q have played
it often for it was in my book that
he found it), struck his fancy and
rlveted his attention. Note after
note fell from his puckered lips un-
til with leap and shout, he ex-
claimed Boys Eve hit it = and fitting
the tune to the words there rang
out for the first time, the song of the
"Star Spangled Banner" How the
men shouted and clapped for never
was there wedding of poetry to
music made under such inspiring in
fluences. Getting a brief furlough,
the brothers sang it on the stage of
Holiday Street threatre, soon after.
1t was caught up in the camps, and
sang around our bivouac fires, and
whistled in the streets, and, when
peace was declared and we scattered
to our homes, carried to thousands
OF fresides as the most precious relic
of the war of 1912. Fred Durang
died. do not know where-and
Frank Keys bones lie in the GENE
try at Fredricktown, but guess that
song will live as long as there is an
American boy to sing it."
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The late Confederate chieftains
are coming to the front. The
Democratic papers of the North
having, with their usual pusillani.
nifty, gone to denouncing Jeff.
DAVIS because he failed to make
their cause successful, the Southern
press are boldly assuming the cham
pionship. The Galloway (Mo) Fair
Play thus remarks:
mo man who ever worthily wore
the uniform of the Confederate
States can behold the recent com.
ments OF the So called Democrat pa
pers upon some late public utterance
of that great man and Christian
gentleman, Jefferson Davis. with
out a feeling ofmortifcation, of self.
contempt, of loathing, for partisan
politics, stronger and more disgust
ing than he would have felt if eyery
soldier and officer in Dixie had been
compelled to go down on his knees
to Abe Lincoln, and beg for his life.n
Alexander I'll. Stephens, jeff
Davis's first lieutenant during the
season OF his belligerent futility. has
also emerged from transient obscu-
rity, and now appears as editor of
the Columbus San, in Georgia. He
announces that his purpose is to
fight over again the series of battles
that closed at Appomattox Court
House, to contest again for the
principal of estate sovereientv',
that was there decided. The posi.
tion OF the San will be, he saws,
that the government of the United
States is Confederate or Federal
'Republic,' formed by the States,
possessing in itself no inherent SOW
ereignty, but that all its powers
which are specific and limited-aye
held by delegation from the several
States, and that the States are abso.
lutely sovereign in the exercise of
all reserved COR undelegated power"
For four years cannon argued this
matter, carrying their thunderous
debate from the Potomac to the
Bayou Teche. bayonets disputed
across the skirmish line, and rifles
took up the controversy on picket.
Mr.. Stephens will never, during the
brief remainder of his life, sucoesl
in winning for it another hearing.
Post.
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the only one in the world to whom |
was allied by ties of blood; do not
turn me from your hearts =
'The Lord bless thee-the Lord
make his face to shine upon thee my
second son y said the old man SOL
EMMY.
Slowly the darkness gathered
athwart the hills with wailing winds
and whirling drifts Of snow--slowly
the darkness wrapped them round !;
but in Zenas Carey's steadfast soul
the light Of eternal Thanksgiving
was burning and his wife, with
fearful eyes, unused upon her two
soldier bOys-one dead at Gettys-
burg, the other sitting at her side
Harper'S Weekly.
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The impending crisis in Spanish
political affair, has come at last.
The party of the Government has
not been able to withstand the COM
bination of the Republicans, Carlists,
and Progresistas in the Cores, and
has been oat voted on the question of
an address to the Throne. The cab
met having resigned, Serrano has
undertaken the difficult task of Gre
ating new one. This is probably
only beginning of troubles for the
royal Savoyad who just now hap
pens to be at the head of the Govern
ment of Spain. The opposition is
growing more confident, bold, and
what is more-united; and Amadeo
is but an experiment, after all.-N
Y, Tribune.
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Why is the first chicken of a brood
like the mainmast of q vessel I? Be-
cause it Is little forward of the main
hatch.
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; CHURCH DIRECTORY.

FAIRVIEw-Union Circuit, Union Tp.-Rev.
}. G. Thompson, Pastor.
UNIVERSALIS SOCIETY No regular servi-
ces. sabbath schoolat p. m.
NE. CHURCH-Rev. j. W. Mcdonald, Pastor.
Services at 1917 a. m, and p: IN. SUNDAY
School. p. m. Prayer meetings. 1hurSoay eve
nings.
SIMPSON CHARGE-(M. E.) Rev. B. Mark,
Pastor. Services at l0hi a. m, and p. m sun
day School at ? D. m.
EPISCOPAL CuURCH.-Services every sun;
day, al l0h a. NJ, and ~ P. M sunday scnool
Thursday evening. Thomas B. Kemp, Pastor.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.-Rog. s.
.. McCunc. Pastor. Services at l01i a. m and 7:4o
p. III. Sunday School, ga. m. Prayer meetings,
Thursday EVENING".
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.-Rev. J. K.
Suowden Pastor. Services at 10Y a. IN ana p
N. sunday School at l2h p. III. Frayef
meetings, rDrTsday evenings.
yIJd2.HLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Rev VIM Wi!so. Services on sabbath al a. lon
m, m. D. m sabbath School9h a. m. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. - Elder B. w;
johnson. Pastor. Services al 10Y a. m anu
20. IN. sunday School zap. M prayer mee'ius'
rlprsday evening.
BAPTIST CHURCH.-Rev. J. f. Childs, Pas
tor Services at 1917 a. m, and III p. m. Sun
dav school . a. IN. Prayer meeting, thursday even
ings.
L. P CHURCH-Rev. R.. A. McAysel,
School 918 a. IN. Prayer meeting, Thursday even
ings, At p. IN.
SECOND NJ. E. CHURCH (COlored)-Rey;
Coleman. Pastor. Services every Saooath at lots
4 m Sunday School at 3H p. m.
FRIENDS MEETiNG;-Corner OF Monros ano
IL L. IA; on 1st day att p M Saohatn scnooi inn
laaiatciy after services on 1st day morning.
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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE

Wendell Philips, in a recent
speech, is represented as saying:
Let General Grant lay hand on the
leaders of the sOuth-meu who count their
acres by the thousands, and are instgators
OF assassination, and you will never hear
of Ku-KluX again. Let the Ku-Klux of
Carolina know that the President is terri
bly, in earnest and there will be an end of
the outrages."
Whether the above, as given
in the GAZETTE, as the utter
ance of this distinguished man, is
properly reported by the telegraph
or not, there has been no sentiment
enumerated in connection with our
Southern difficulties more true. The
moral support given by those who
control society in the South, to head
long and irresponsible youngsters
leading Of the equally irresponsible
"white trash in deeds of horrid vi
olence to Union men, has been the
means Of sustaining the Ku.Klux
spirit In its nefarious and terrible
reign. When an outrage is perpe-
trated, these regulators Of the social
system wink at it, fail to bring the
criminal to the bar of justice, and
perchance, sleep under the same
roof with the most vindictive of the
assassins.
Suppose the power of the United
States-and when we say this, we
mean the thing itself, and not its
mere epauletted neutrality-suspicious.
go into the city OF Jackson, Flor
ida, and demand the murderer or
murderers Of Captain Dickinson, and
of sixty eight other Union men who
have gone to their graves by Ku-
klux ssasslns-suppose no mega
tive would be taken, upon the prln-
ciple that a community thus consti-
tuted, must, III some form, eXpiate
such record of crime, so barborous
and un-Christain in the eyes Of the
civilized world-does any one
think there would not be rafting
of dry b mes in the guilty and terror
stricken confines of the country? Sup
pose a dozen hostages were picked
out, taken from their plantations or
their Offices and held until the &C
tual perpetrators of crime were Civ
Ell up or accounted for-does any
one suppose influence, would not be
brought to bear to effect their liberia
ton, by having lot of long-haired
guilty villains surrendered
Yes! "terribly in earnest" should
be their doctrine. The Government
of The United States is despised, spit
upon, in many localities in the South,
because it has chosen to be magnan-
imous. Never such folly in the
world as the exercise of this feeling
toward the vindictive Southron
This fellow has been taught to hate
the fag-he should now be made to
respect it in shivering fear. The re-
diculous, namb-pamby mode which
has been instituted of treating rebels,
is enough to sicken any one having
proper feeling. Their property
should have been confscated, every
inch of it; special cases of clemenoy
should have been instituted, predi-
Gated upon solemn promise of con-
tinuous good behavior; and the war
debt should have been paid to the
uttermost farthing by the sale of the
land. If we are forced into another
conflict, our opinion is, this will be
done yet-just as that great and
good man, Thaddus Stevens, desired.
Dan. Gazette.
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'Hallo, there, Betsy, what o'clock
is it, and where's the chicken pie p
Its eight, SIR