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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-05-02
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PHILADELPHIA Jan 18th 1873
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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-05-02
BULLS
sARsAPARILLA

Read the .folloscing extract Of letter
from Mrs. Ripers, scife Of Rererend DR.
Rieers, one Of the most learned, eloquent,
and popular Ministers Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and soho as al present
stationed at Broadaeay Church, Louisville,
Kentucky.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
The LOOmis Aerial Telegraph.

A bill incorporating the Loomis Aerial
Telegraph Company was recently passed
by Congress. This aerial telegraph
scheme is novel thing. The plan of DR..
Loomis, the inventor. is to telegraph from
a high point of the Rocky Mountains to
the highest attainable peak of the Alps,
at which point tower is to be erected,
on the top of which huge mast is to be
placed. An apparatus capable of collect
ing electricity is to be put upon the upper
end of this mast, by means of which, at
such elevation, it is claimed that strata
of the atmosphere will be reached which
is charged with electricity. Ground con-
nection, the same as is used in ordinary
telegraphy, will be erected. This electri-
fed strata of the atmosphere will, as with
the ordinary single wire and ground con-
nection, make complete circuit, and it
is claimed that the slightest pulsation of
electricity at one tower will produce SINH
lar pulsation at the other. The company
is to have a capital stock of two hundred
thousand dollars with the privilege of
increasing it to two millions if the inter-
est of the company shall require it. The
business and objects of the corporation
are stated in the bill to be to develop and
utilize the principles and powers of nat
ural electricity, to be used in telegraph
ing, generating light, heat and motive
power, and otherwise, and operate any
machinery, run by electricity, for any
PURPOSE,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
What Jean IngeIOw Desires American
Women to Do.

In letter to Mrs Lucy Stone, of the
Boston Wom0n's Journal, Jean Ingelow
says:
81 am glad of the information derive
from the Journal, but l have not found
time hitherto to give the whole subject
of rights such an amount of study as to
make it wise to utter my crude thoughts
respecting them; other things appear to
be given to me to do, and take them up
to the exclusion of what lies beyond.
'You have, venture to think, more
than one problem to work out in Amer
lea, on which, in great degree, depend
the welfare of women. In one of these /
take keen interest, and I hope to see
you settle it for yourselves and for US. J.
want you to discover how domestic work
is to be combined with high culture.
$50 long AS household work is thought
degrading (and nowhere is this so much
the case as in America), there can never
be anything like universal education;
there must always be some who work all
their lives because others will not at all.
It is to be one of the great things that you
Americans, believe, are raised up for,
to teach this world how this is to be done;
but the teachers can never be those who
are poor; they must be those who are not
obliged to work at all.
"How to make clear starching and
ironing graceful and pretty occupations.
land such they were thought by our great
great -grandmothers) how to keep house
clean, and to assist, even in kitchen,
without the least sense of being lowered,
or the slightest personal deterioration,
might surely be managed if women gave
their minds to tiff more delicate ma
chirery was invented for helping them,
and if it could even be made the fashion
for all women, young or old, to pride
themselves on their domestic skill"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
Khfva and the Khivans---The Russian
Invading Force.

SOME of the circumstances of the i'm
pending contest between the Empire of
Russia and the Khanate of Khiva are
sufficiently singular to merit attention.
1t seems absurd at first sight to speak OF
contest between colossus and dwarf,
especially as the Sovereign of Khiva
stands alone, and can command no al
lies, except a few from among the un-
certain and feeble nemad tribes who sur
round his little dominion. Yet 1t must
not be forgotten that thirty years ago, in
the reign of the Emperor Nicholas, these
very Khivans not only repulsed but de-
stroyed Russian invading force of 900
men, and purchased for themselves by
that successful resistance an immunity
from similar attacks which has lasted to
this day. There can, however, be no
doubt of the triumph of Russian STRAIT
egy and perseverance in the end; still,
there are many preliminary difficulties to
be contended with. The first of these
arises from the geographical position of
Khiva itself. The Khanate occupies an
oasis of extremely fertile soil, highly pro.
ductive and well peopled, owing all its
prosperity and its very existence, indeed,
to irrigation from the river Oxus, which
passes through the heart of it, feeding and
enrlching the dwellers on its banks, a very
mixed people Of Touranian and Iranian
elements, strongly welded together, not
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
The Greeley Monument--.Address OF
the Committee.
To the peonle of the united States:

To the People of the United States:
The committee to raise fund to COM
memorate the virtues of the late Horace
Greeley, by a statue and monument in
Greenwood, has been fully organized by
the appointment of the Hon. VIM. w.
Niles, of Westchester County, as Chair
man, the Hon. Andrew 81. Green, Con,
troller of the City of New York, Treasur-
er, and Edmund G. Stedman, Esq, of
New York, Secretary.
The members of the committee, as far
as appointed, are to work in earnest and
with sure prospect of success. But
they are conscious that it does not belong
to them or to any limited number OF men
to render adequate honor to one whose
just fame belongs to the entire people.
Horace Greeley was pre-eminently man
of the people; he rose from among their
ranks by industry, frugality, and life of
blameless purity; his example no less
than his written words will remain for
ever a precious legacy to the masses of
workingmen who are actuated by the
same pure ambition as. that which raised
him from poverty and obscurity to the
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

honorable and conspicuous position in
which for many years he led the public
opinion of the country. There is nothing
in his character or career which mars the
force of his beneficent influence. No
young man can ponder the story of his
life without profit. He is one of the few
public men of our age who may be safely
held up to the imitation of the young. 1t
is, therefore, to the people at large
that the committee confidently ap-
peal. 1t is their privilege and
duty to honor worthily the man who best
represented the brain and conscience of
the masses.
This is in no sense partisan enter
prise. The committee is composed of
members of all parties, equally proud to
do honor to one whose laborious life was
passed in devotion to the general well
fare.
All who believe with us, that Mr.. Gree
ley's great efforts in behalf of freedom, of
enlightenment, of economy and of pro-
gress, have not been without bcneficent
results, are cordially invited to share in
this tribute to his memory. The rich
cannot better show their appreciation of
the lessons of industry and order which
he taught, and the poor, in giving what
slight sums they can afford, will honor
their own estate and aspirations. 1t is
not doubted that every editor in the
country will be willing to forward the
work, either by an editorial Endorsement
or by receiving and forwarding such
sums as may be raised in his locality.
There is not village in the land but con-
tains some man who has profited by Mr.
Greeley's teachings. We hope there is
not one where an effort VI III rot be made
to contribute to this expression of the ma
tional gratitude.
A memorial volume will be kept con-
tanning the names and residences of every
contributor; and upon the completion of
the work will be deposited in the histori-
cal society for preservation.
WILLIAM M. NILES, Chairman.
ANDREW FL. GREEN, Treas.
EDMUND G. STEDMAN, Sec'y.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
The Credit MObilier Investigation

Before the Poland Committee on the 9th,
Horace T. Clark, President of the Union
Pacific, testified that he never had any inter
est IN Credit-Mobilier: onehundred per cent.
was not regarded as a large profit on con-
struction; he did not think the capital
cifc, even if $4,000, 900 of profit were guar
anteed.
Congressman Beck was examined by Mr..
Brooks, and testified that he was member
of the Conference Committee in relation to
the Union Pacific Railroad; had been very
intimate with Brooks, and does not remem-
Der Brooks ever speaking to him in any
shape or form whatever in regard to the Pa
cifc Road.
Daniel W. Voorhees, was also examined by
Mr.. Brooks, and stated that he was MEM
Der of the Pacific Railroad Committee during
the Forty-frst Congress, and had questions
up in which the Union Pacific Road was
deeply Interested; Brooks never spoke to
witness on the subject of Pacific Railroads,
and never appeared before the Railroad
Committee on any measure before it.
Mr.. Brooks then said that the charge had
been made that he received shares to in
fuence memb ers of Congress, and this tesu'
mony was to show that he had never made
any such attempt. If the Committee desir-
ed further evidence, he hoped they would
call any member of the Democratic side.
Before the Poland Committee, on the
7th, John l. Blair detailed the history of the
building of the Sioux City, Iowa Falls and
DUBUQUE Railroad, the legislation by Con-
gress renewing the land grant in 1856 to the
State, and the legislation of the State giving
the grant to the road, and testified that not
dollar was expended in procuring such legis-
lation, either before Congress or the State
Legislature. The witness never ex-
pended cent for blackmail for any one,
either a member of Congress or private citi-
zen; never had any correspondence with Mr..
Blaine about taking stock. The members of
Congress who hold stock bought and paid
for it, and none was given for corrupt pur-
poses.
Hon. James G. Blaine was recalled and ex-
amined by Mr.. Stevenson. The witness reit-
Grated his former statement regarding the
stock which he had procured Of the Messrs.
Coburn.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
The Oldest Inhabitant:

THE Oldest Inhabitant came out during
the late severe storms. He stood under
the edge of a wooden awning in Dock
square while some of the boys shoveled
snow on his head. He appeared to be
oppressed by yearning to meet some
body who would call this snow storm
The Oldest Inhabitant remembers dis.
tinctly when there were eleven feet OF
snow on the Common, and the boys used
to coast from the top OF Bunker Hill
Monument clear away down to Charles
river. "We don't have no such weather
now" said the Oldest Inhabitant, with a
regretful sigh "Folks call this cold
weather! why, it's dog-days and yeller
fever to what it used to be when l was
Young" The reference to his Boreal boy.
hood brought frozen tear to the aged
veterans eye. He rubbed his right ear
refiectively, breaking off a small frozen
fragment, and pocketing it with the in
difference of one who despised such
degenerate frost. eyes, them was cold
snaps, when me and Paul Revere used to
skate down to Minot's Ledge to play
hockey with the Provincetown boys.
You'd say it was chilly if you saw my
brother Lilies iron teeth 1--WE didn't have
no fancy dentists in those days, and when
Lille broke his front teeth on bet that
he could chaw stick of frozen mercury
out of Captain Jones' thermometer, my
Uncle Eph, the blacksmith, cast him
new setl-if you'd a-seen Lies teeth
glued together by the frost SO we couldn't
open them without cold chisel and
blasting powder, you'd have said so too"
The Oldest Inhabitant admits that the
Boston fire was considerable of SINCE
for our times, but then he knows, with
whitening pity, that we can't be expected
to remember the great eonfagration of
Sorghum Center, in 1854.
It is good and holy thing to be an
Oldest Inhabitant. 1t argues some occult
virtue, on his part, to make him worthy
a special prolongation by Providence.
Nothing but an inscrutable decree, or
preternatural toughness, could make him
survive his extensive and continued as
saults on veracity. Therefore we admire,
and respect, sand avoid the venerable
bore.-Bosto1e Commercial Bulletin.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
Danger Of Carrying Concealed Weap-
OnSs

There is absolutely no safe way to carry
pistol except to carry it without
charge. A young man lost his wife, re-
Gently, by trusting to the directions of
friend who told him how he should carry
pistol without danger.
His Mary Jane resided some distance
from the city, and he had great horror
of dogs, so he put his revolver in the hip
pocket of his Sunday clothes, one even
ing, when he started to see her. The
prospective mother-in-law met him at
the gate and, told him to take the rocking
chair, and, as he did so, the report of fire.
arms caused the old lady to scream and
fall to the floor, while fire in the rear
claimed Charles Henry's attention, and
consumed portion of his best doeskin
"smalls." The old lady swooned; the
girl ran in, forgetting her disordered dress
and hair, and followed her mothers ex-
ample. The old man and his double
listed boys ran in, and, seeing mother
and daughter lying on the floor, went for
that young man. and he went through
the window, carrying sash and glass
with him as he went. A big dog aroused
by the noise, make for the fugitive, who
in his turn made for the city, about a
mile and a half or two miles distant,
emptying his revolver at the dog as he
went The dog was dead for thai young
man in more than one sense; for he dares
not approach the house now, lest the old
man may revenge the loss of his dog on
him. The old man says he will never for
give the murderer of his dog. If any one
asks that young man how'he likes Mary
Jane, he says that her nerves are too deli
cate for country girl, and betrays an
anxiety to drop the subject; but he con-
fided to friend that. in sitting down, the
hammer of his revolver caught upon the
rocker, and ID was In that way discharged,
whereupon that house and his clothes be-
came too hot for him. -EgonSUiNe (lnd.)
.Lo1LrnnL
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
THE OLD WORLD.

A dispatch from Calcutta informs us that
the city of Lehree, BeloochisSan, has been
nearly destroyed by an earthquake. Up
ward of 500 persons were killed. Lehree
was walled city, having total population
of about 5000.
It is stated that over one hundred persons
have been frozen to death in England during
the recent cold weather.
The English Parliament reassem bled on
the 9th. The Queen, in her speech, ex-
pressed regret at the rapid rise in prices,
and the consequent disputes between the
workmen and employers, and promised that
bills would be introduced improving the
system of higher education in Ireland, the
reconstruction of the Supreme Appellate
Courts, and for the prevention of corrupt
practices at elections.
Robert Bowles, of the firm of Bowles
Brothers, American bankers in Europe, has
been tried in London for the fraudulent con-
version of securities deposited with the firm,
and acquitted.
The cholera has again broken out in yir-
ulent form in several places In Russia and
Hungary.
The earthquake shocks on the Island of
Samos, which caused so great a destruction
of property and loss of life, continued four
days.
Advices from Paris state that a compro-
mise has been effected between President
Theirs and the committee of thirty. The
latter agree to modify their constitutional
project by extending the veto power Of the
Executive so as to allow the President to
suspend he operation of a law by his veto
for two months after its passage by the AS.
sembly, and also giving the President the
right to participate personally in the debate
in the chamber on interpretations and all
] questions of general policy
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

It is stated that an Indictment has been
found in Paris against Gen. John c. Fremont
and some of his associates who helped him
to negotiate the Memphis & FL Paso Railroad
bonds in the European market, and that the
trial will come off there shortly.
The Empress Caroline Augusta, widow of
the Emperor Francis l., and grandmother of
the reigning emperor, died at Vienna, Feb
ruary 7, aged 81.
The Spanish Congress has adopted bill
making military services compulsory on all.
It is announced from Geneva that the
Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva has
decided against the complete separation of
Church and State.
A Paris dispatch of the 9Th says the north
ern portion of France had just been visited by
heavy snow-storm,s sand railway travel was
blockaded.
A collision occurred on the morning of the
8th on the North British Railway, near Dun
bar, about twenty-five miles from Edin-
burgh City. Nine persons were instantly
killed and several were severely (some prob
ably fatally injured.
A dispatch from Paris says that Lefebree
Durufe, a Senator under the Empire, and
now one of the Directors of the Societe In
dustrieIle, has been arrested for connection
with alleged fraudulent financial transac-
tions. Another director of the company
has fled from the city.
The Swiss Council of State has stopped
the salaries, for three months, Of all the
priests who read from their pulpits, unau-
thorized, the pspal brief establishing sep
arate Bishopric for Geneva.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, February
10, says: "King Amadeus manifests dis
position to abdicate the crown, in which
case he will resign his power into the hands
of the Cortes" A later dispatch of same
date says that the Kings disposition to quit
the throne is attributed to differences be-
tween his Majesty and the Ministry.
A Paris dispatch dated February 10 says
that the insurrection in Spain is daily gain
ing strength. 1t now exists in eight north
ern provinces, and is extending to the
central and southern provinces. The Gov
ernment is acting on the defensive. Towns
are being fortified, and volunteers arriving
to resist the advances of the insurgents.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

A BRooKFIELD man writes for the best
way 10 manage bull. If our Brookfield1
friend has got bull on his premises, and
the bull is well, he don't want to manage
it. All he has got do is to get few
things hastily together, mortgage his
place and steer straight for the west. He
might as well try to ward off a streak of
lightning with fifty cent PAL brush as
to manage bull -SprinQtSed Rep'10tsc1'''
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

THE New York World makes the serious
charge that few days ago not less than
twenty car loads of diseased Western
sheep arrived in that city from Chicago,
and many of them were killed as quickly
as possible and sold to consumers. The
senders were Immediately telegraphed to,
and warned that if any more diseased
sheep were shipped they would be imme-
diately returned or seized by the proper
authorities. Sheep whose fleece showed
evident signs of the pestilence when alive
it was found could be detected by COM
petent butchers after they had been
slaughtered. The deep, dark blue veins,
filled with sluggish blood, along the back,
visible when the pelt was stripped off,
was sufficient indication that the disease
permeated the system, to say nothing OF
the general leanness and thinness OF the
mutton.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14
AFTKR WARDS.

LIGHT after darkness,
Gain after loss,
Strength after suffering,
Crown after cross.
Sweet after bitter,
Song after sigh,
Home after wandering,
I'D Praise after cry.
Sheaves after sowing,
Sun after rain,
Sight after mystery,
Peace after pain.
Joy after sorrow,
Calm after blast,
Rest after WEAKNESS,
Sweet rest at last.
Near after distant,
Clean after gloom,
Love after loneliness
Life after tomb.
After long agony
Rapture Of blissl
Right was the pathway
Leading to thisl"
-S0u1adGq M0qazi1
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

a PHILANTH.ROPIST.

WHAT dOes.h he do when the sidewalks glare,
And every brick seems but snare
To catch the passer unaware?
He spreads his ashes.
And when down town we creeping 90,
And trembling tread, a tottering row,
With honest features all aglow,
He spreads his ashes.
Long may he live, that man of soull
Filled be his bin with red-ash coal,
Till halos crown his sanity poll
Who spreads his ashes.
And when he leaves this world of slides
And with grim death serenely glides,
May this be heard, and naught besides
"PedCe to his ashes"
Hartford Times.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

"A small squirrel at Franklin, Pa,
was lately surprised with eight bushels of
shelled corn in his possession,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

"A British zoologist throws cold water
ON the ehvdropathic system by stating that
whales are peculiarly subject to rheuma-
tism.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-14

Over $4,000 white children in South
Carolina do not attend any school,