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The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-21
Hotels.
Hotels.
PEORIA HOUSE,
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CHAS u. DEANE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Proprietor.
Cor Hamilton aud Adams streets
PEORIA .....-. -.-....-. Ills !
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-21

Fort SooTT, Kansas, Aug. 20.-A spe-
cial to the MOni IT from Lasiygnes, unity
seat Of Linn county, represents great ex-
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-21

BURLINGTON. VI. Aug -. - The
President and party arrived here early this
morning from the White Mountains and
were received by committee of citizens
with Mayor Dodge at the head Alter
breakfast at the American Hotel the
President visited various points OF interest
and subsequently received the people in
the parlur OF the hotel. At halt past ten
the President and party were escorted To
the railroad depot by the first regiment Of
Vermont National Guards, and while a
national salute was firing departed for Lake
George.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
No. "a
Paper IN the Boston Fire.

Curious results followed some of the ex-
periments made. upon charred papers and
documents, and the examination of books in
safes which proved worthless in the great
fire. 1t was found that what paper-makers
call poor paper--paper considerably ''clayed,"
stood the test best. Parchment paper, used
for bonds and legal documents, shriveled up
exceedingly, and the print blistered 50 that
it could be read when writing was illegible.
So it was with the engraved work on notes.
The gliding, on the account books burned
and charred. showed out as bright and clear
as when the books were new, which brings
up the question if to introduce gilt-edged
account books would not be we'll, on the
ground that the gilt would stay the passage
of fire to the pages within. Books crammed
into safe, so that it would he difficult to
get them out, suffered considerably less than
those that were set in loosely, and in some
cases came out from the safes, in which
everything else was worthless, so far preserv-
ed that the figures on their pages could be
deciphcred. With charred papers, which
could not be made transparent by any light
whatever used, it was found, after the en-
ployment of vitriol, oxalic acid, chalk,
glycerine, and other things, that anything
that moistened them to a certain state-tO
which it was delicate work to get and not to
pass-made the1ines, words and figures lcgi-
bic through magniiying glass. 1t has been
the most universal experience that lead
pencil marks show out all right where ink
marks cannot be distinguished. The success
of the use of photography has already been
nOted.-B0sto11 Adrertiser.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
South African Gold Mines.

The following extract from letter re-
ceived from Natal Colony, South Africa, APP
pearcd in the Springfield Republican,:
1t appears that the Tatin gold diggings,
which attracted so much attention two years
ago, are thrown into the shade by the recent
discoveries of the precious metal in the
Transvaal, Dutch Republic,) which is not
far from Port Natal. The Tatin fields are at
least fifteen hundred miles from the seaport.
There is a probability of the Marabstadt gold
fields turning out success. One reef is ex-
tremely rich, giving from $40 TO $50 per ton
of quartz. There are now some hundreds
of men digging for alluyial gold, and they
find it, though not in large quantities. In
one man had obtained nugget of over half
an ounce Others have found very nice gold
about the size of barley-corn. Mr.. Button,
a scientific and enterprising Englshman, has
formed company in London. with capital
of $500 900 to work this reef. The Presi-
dent, Mr.. Burgess, from the Cape of Good
Hope, has been in these fields, and proclaims
the whole country open to the world for dig
ging purposes on payment of $3.50 for
license. Diamond digging becoming more
difficult and expensive, many are leaving
there and going after gold. The diamond
region has been formed into separate State
or Colony, with its own government and Leg
islature, and with the control and expenditure
of its own revenue. There now seems every
proba bility that railways through the Natal
country wilpsoon be commenced. Surveys
have been made The first will be con-
structed along the coast to accommodate the
sugar planters and coffee growers. Labor is
at present our great want 1t is both dear
and scarce. Every native man asks about
$50 per month. Food is also very dear.
Indian meal is selling for So per bag. Horses
and mules are in many cases superseded by
oxen on the sugar estates. The mules are
imported from South America
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
Gold i'm Alaska.

Alaska, it seems, has greater merits than
being mere fog bank, a land of snow, ath-
letic Indians, dirty Russians, and the greatest
salmon fishing grounds in the world, for
now it is proven that there is gold there, for
the specimens of quartz sent to San Francisco
assayed $500 per ton, but as there is no means
of crushing the quartz the actual value of the
mines cannot be estimated. Sitka has been
decreasing in population Of late, as there are
no possible fields of business open, whatever
trading is done being in the hands of the Fur
Company or suffers. Even the last vestige
of Russian authority has lett us; l refer to
the departure of Bishop Johannes, of the
Greek Church, and all his deacons. They
established themselves in San Francisco, at
the request of the Gar, who is interested in
having his faith represented on the Western
slope. Another enterprise that has lately
sprung into existance here is ship-building,
and it promises some importance in the future
Two small crafts have been built for the local
trade at Kokiak, and larger vessels will be
constructed henceforth forthe San Francisco
trade. The timber which crowns here is ad-
mirab]y adapted to ship building, and we have
among Us skilled Russian artiZans who seem
to have most unaccountable attachment for
the place, as they are out of employment a
large portion of their time. The fisheries are
also open to an enterprising man, for he has
no limit to the prosecution of the business
but the capital invested.-Cor Nc0 York
IVopI1
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
EnrerSeting to Rusiness Men.

The Supreme Court of California has re-
Gently decided case of general interest to
business men, involving the much-mootcd
question of double taxation. In most of the
States it is the custom to tax not only money,
but promissory notes, motagages, and other
evidences of debt as we'll. For instance: {:
Jones borrows $500 of Smith and gives his
note for the amount Neither is richer or
poorer by the transaction, for the one has
borrowed a sum of money and created debt
for it, while the other has parted with the
money, but holds an evidence Of indebted
ness thereof. Nothing has been produced,
and no property brought into existance. The
only property involved it the 800, and, by
every principle of law and Justice, this should
only be taxed once This was the line of
reasoning adopted by the California court,
which held that the money itself or its equiv
alent, being taxed in the hands of the:borrow-
er, the promissory note or mortgage could
not porperly be taxed IN the hands of the
lender. The real point is whether the same
property has been twice assessed for the same
tax. for it is obvious that if the subject mat
ter of the tax is the same whether it be money
or real estate, it ought not to be twice assessed
for the same tax.-Boston Globe.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
LAUGHING Children.

Give me, says writer, the boy or girl who
smiles as soon as the first rays of the morn
ing sun glances in through the window, gay,
happy and kind. Such boy will be fit to
'make up into /. man-at least when con-
trasted with sullen, morose, grabbed fellow
who snaps and snarles like surley cur, or
growls and grunts like all untamed hyena
from the moment he opens his angry eyes
until he is ''confronted'' by his breakfast.
Such girl, other things being favorable,
will be good material to aid in gladdenlng
some comfortable home, or to refine, civilize,
tame and humanize rude brother, making
him gentle. affectionate and lovable. 1t is 4
feast to even look at such a joy-inspiring girl,
such woman girl, and see the smiles flow
ing, SO to speak, from the parted lips, dis
playing set of clean, well-brushed teeth,
looking almost the personifcation of beauty
and goodness, singing and as merry as the
birds-the wideawake birds that commence
their morning concert long before the lazy
boys dreamed that the sun was approaching
and about to pour whole flood of warmth
and light upon the earth. Such girl is like
a gentle shower to the parched earth, be-
slowing kind words, sweet smiles and acts of
mercy to all around her-the joy and light of
the household.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
Strength and Health.

It is quite a common idea that health keeps
pace with strength. know intelligent per-
sons who really think that you may deter
mine the comparative health of company
of men by measuring their arms-that he
whose arm measures twelve inches is twice
as healthy us he who measures but six. This
strange and thoughtless misapprehension has
given rise to nearly all the mistakes thus far
made in the physical-culture movement.
have friend who can lift nine hundred
pounds, and get is an habitual sufferer from
torpid liver, rheumatism and low spirits.
There are many similar cases. The cartmen
of our cities, who are our strongest men, are
far from the healthiest class, as physicians
will testify. On the contrary, l have many
friends who would stagger under three hun
dred pounds that are in capital trim. But
need not elaborate matter SO familiar with
physicians and other observing people. No
test of health would prove more faulty than
a tape-line or a lift at the scale-beam. Sup
pose two brothers-bank clerks-in bad
health. They are measured around the arm.
Each marks exactly ten inches. They try
the scale beam. The bar rises at exactly
three hundred pounds with each. Both seek
health. John goes to the gymnasium, lifts
heavy dumb-bells and kegs of nails until he
can put up one hundred and twenty-five
POuuuS anu l1lC uluc uuuuIcu, aul LIS Ill LII
reaches fifteen inches. Thomas goes to the
mountains, fishes, hunts, spends delightful
hours with the young ladies, and plays crick-
ct. Upon measuring his arm we find it
scarcely larger than when he left town, while
he can't put up sixty pounds nor lift five hun
dred. But who doubts Thomas will return
to the bank-counter the better. man of the
two? John should be the better man, if
strength is the principle or most essential
condition of health. A circus usually con-
tains among its performers a man who can
lift cannon weighing nearly or quite half
ton. Then there are half a dozen riders and
vaulters, who have comparatively little
strength. If anybody supposes that the
strong man has better health than the flexible,
elastic ones, he has but to make inquiries of
circus-managers, as have done, and he will
find that the balance is found almost uni
formly with the latter. Agility and tlexibility
are far more important than strength, and
that fine silken quality of the muscular fibre
which comes only from an infinite repetition
of light and ever-varying feats is far more
important than size.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
Chtcat.O artist I'm Europe.

The Brooklyn Eagle says: In the fall of
1867 Miss Kate Cameron, of Chicago, passed
q few hours in this city, while en- route to
Paris, whittier she went to pursue the pro-
fession of art. She has remained there, as
she writes Brooklyn friend, i'sthrough war
and peace, sunshine and shade" until this
present month, when. she proposes to visit
her friends in New York and Chicago. re-
turning to Paris in the fall. During her long
absence Miss Cameron has pursued her
studies with such success as to command for
her pictures the special notice Of critics, and
correspondents of leading New York and
Chicago JOURNALS have favorably mentioned
her work. Agreater compliment than these,
however, was the recent request from the
French Government for one of her pictures.
In an art centre where thousands are striving
for recognition, 1t may be regarded as quite
q triumph for IN American lady artist to re-
ceiye such notice.. 7.l ID 3aaa rr.. Vt saf. s..
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
RusSia,s World Exposition.

An exhibition more wonderful and inter-
esting than that at Vienna will be held in
Russia about the middle of August. The
scene of its operations is the historic city of
Mimi -Novgorod, which is situated at the
confluence of the Volga and the Okla, in
Central Asia. The ordinary population of
the city is about 80, 900 inhabitants, but dur
ing the fair that number will be augmented
by an addition of 300, 900 or 4OO, 900 visitors
from all parts of Europe and Asia. The
fair is held in an immense stone building,
containing 5000 shops, in which the sales are
made. One hundred and forty-fve million
dollars worth of wares and goods were
brought to last years fair, and out of that
immense quantity only $40, 00O, 900 worth re-
mained unsold Ali kinds of goods and
manufactures are sold at this mammoth fair,
and an opportunity will be afforded for see
ing collected together the people of all coun-
tries, and the modes of traffic of every race
in EurOpe. p.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17

Rev. DR.. Cuyler talks in this wise: If the
father generally talks money, money. al
nome, he generally rears family in wor-
snip OF the almighty dollar. If he talks
mainly horses, games and races, he breeds q
patch Of sportsmen. If fashion is the fam
ny alter. then the children are offered up
a: as victims upon the alter. If man makes
nls own firesides attractive, he may reason
a:oly nope to anchor his own children around
1t. My neighbor Q--makes himself the
TTnstant T, evening companions Of his boys
h ne result is that his boys are never found in
oao places. But if the father hears the
LOCK strike eleven in his clubhouse or the
PP,ayhouse, Py he need not he surprised it his
ooys near it strike twelve in the gaming room
W Ie L! drinking saloon. If he puts the bottle
Srnn Sn us own table, he need not wonder If q
ffrnnken fron. son staggers in, by-and-by, at his
ch;1i. eJ,s door When the best friend that
thai. th".iahood and youth ought 20 have becomes
h,ir frr Zoe, the homes become the starting"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
The Law Of Compensation.

The effects of the resumption of inland
navigation on the business interests of the
country can only be properly appreciated
when we consider the wonderful extent and
variety of our water communications. No
country in the world is more highly favored
in this respect than the United States, yet
those great lines of communication are far
from being improved to their utmost capacity.
The bulk of the commerce of the whole
country is, too, dependent on them for trans
tiyely limited influence. Therefore . sus-
pension of that navigation would produce a
paralyzing result on general industry. Five
hundred millions of dollars isprobably =
low estimate for the value of tie various
products and goods which are now being
moved, or have to be moved, eastward, to
say nothing of the far greater amount OF
goods still held in first hands. .--Bost0n 0tooe
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
AnecdOte Of MarrYatt.

Capt. Marryatt, the novelist, was forever
running away from school, and was always
at or near the sea. He was allowed to have
his own way, and in 1906 he was afloat in
the Imperieuse. In that fighting ship alone
the boy was in fifty engagements. After
one bloody affair, he was laid out for dead
by the side of others between the guns, the
fresh sea air blowing over them ALL An
officer who had not been of the boarding
affair, which had cost so many victims, and
who was an enemy of the lad, looked down
on him and said, ''Heres young cock who
has done growing. Well, for wonder,
this chap has cheated the gallows! !" The
fresh air however. had brought the chap
to his senses, and Marryatt family exclaim-
ed, s'YOu're liar!" :, bng
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
An American who IS Satisfied with his
Country.


say as man who respects the English
people, who believes them to be the best
govercned people in Europe, and who con-
cedes them to be the most loveable in the
world, that, with all their advantages over us
in point of precedence and culture, they are
less happy in their situation, in their national
spirit, in their institutes, in their habits, Gus
toms, and ideas, considered politically, than
we are: and, revering their aniqutities, and
rejoicing in their literature, l declare that l
would rather be what am, an obscure ex-
Confederate, out of power and out of favor
at home-nay, a citizen of Louisiana-than
be a well-tO-dO citizen of London, living
under the shadow of Mr.. Burkes coeval
towers, and of that constitution which is so
girt and fenced in by Initiating statutes as to
deny fair man fair chance in his own
country. 1t is the sheerest CANNON to talk
about English freedom. The only freedom
they have in England is begot by fear in the
upper classes, in the Cabinet, in the Parlia-
ment. Though more agreeably enslaved, the
people are as much enslaved az the people of
Poland; enslavcd to prejudices, predictions,
fastened into laws. The ball of revolution,
successfully set going in Spain and France,
Will presently come this way; and then you
may look for Lord Macsulay's Australasian
sitting among the ruins of st. Paul's, for all
the cities of the world, as Butcher first sug-
gested, London is the one city that seems to
have been meant by God and nature for sack
and pillage, the fire and sword, the civilized
tnmahawk and the scientific torch.-Hen,y
hdHerson's London Correspondence.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17

THERE is possibility that electricity will
take the place of rennet and work as well
Authorities say that electricity will coagulate
milk even faster than rennet, and q cheesema-
ker, who claims to have sued it for the pur-
pose of cheese manufacture, says be he's
found the curd made by it to cure, into fine
favored cheese. he reports It - having ex.
Iraordinary efficiency * nc in reducing the eurd Of
but it did not restore the 'aavor that was lost
by the removal of the cream. II was said to
have Just the favor which the milk in its
skinned or unskimmed condition would pro-
duce. -e ektff 9f5Y gr,.-r ri. 4a~e.a
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17

The agitation in reference to the various
railroad expressions seems to have taken
shape in petition, which we shall hear
from at the coming session Of Congress.
The demand for double track freight road
from Chicago to New York, to be worked
at slow speed and cheap rates, is right and
reasonable but will not be easy to get from
Congress-. see it stated that such road at
seven miles per hour, would carry in the year
from Chicago to New York $50, ,0O0, 900 bush
els Of grain, and return IN equal tonnage in
merchandise The effect would be to relieve
the West and East alike, giving higher prices
to the producer and lower prices to the con-
sumer. But in the hands of a great railroad
monopoly it would fail of these objects, and
a long battle must be fought and great
change in public sentiment must be effected
before such work can be undertaken by Con-
gress. But the movement of the farmers
awakens thought in all directions, and it is
not improbable that we are on the eve of
marked change in the management of our
railroads, .e.,.,........ ..5
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17
. .: y ". tlsx: FISK FISK Bros, Publishers
Written for the Herald.
LOVE.

Itten Tor the Herald.
LOVE.
Love waited from celestial shore,
Hopes fair sweet guerdon evermore,
Love of youth, and chaste as truth.
Pure as Peri's first pure kiss,
Welcoming souls to scenes of bliss;
Love, as deep IS autumnal seas,
Iaving golden Hesperides,
Fixed in faith as devotees
Kneeling as their god decrees,
BY ehoreless sands of sunlit seas,
Such, the tale that's never olden,
BY the gate, that secmcth golden.
Roseate balm, ambrosial laden.
Such, the love of youth and maiden.
THE PARTING.
Can hearts grow cold, thus torn asunder:
DO souls Gro learn surcease of sorrow,
The weary day, the endless morrow?
Or do they change, and are they ever
From every burden freed ah, never!
Does pride control the wayward will?
That safeguard is no safeguard still.
Methinks glance, sigh, tone,
A weariness of life expressed,
mutual wrong, in part confessed,
Would give back hearts, too true their own.
How DO they bear life's fatal blunder !!
fain must wonder, oh, wonder.
Oh. ye, who in life's brightest morning,
Together watched the Sun, day dawning,
And in the middle walks of life,
With mutual loye, through sorrows rife,
Ye hold your own, against the world
Think well, think earnestly. and deep,
Ere ye essay the barriers steep;
Two paths diverging, never meet
And parting is at best, word,
Though spoken lightly, there is stirred
A saddened loss, in future years.
by all thy hopes, by all thy fears,
Thy last sad heritage of tears
While round the altar Of thy love,
Doth backward move, untiring fit,
With olive branch, the cherished dove
The arrow, sped, two lives are hit,
Beware! thy souls the price of it.
[-MRs. HELEN 4. TAYLOR, Bannack.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1873-07-17

THE Secretary Of War has decided that
the United States will transfer the remains
of such Union soldiers as are now buried in
Evergreen cemetery, at Gettysburg, "a, to
the National cemetery, in the same place,
upon application of friends of the deceased,
who have the right to make the request.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-09
Real estate TO Grrbdnse

cash and DWELLING to EXCHANGE for
CIV Orope-A superior built house with o. oean-
nj level avn cellar light Try and neat not 70 SOIL
Elizabeth y. j. which, With several
onsand dollars cash will BE- ayeu Tor corresponding equity IN one
m moe neat medium dwelling eby situated IN ihs part
of with cuIFs and MI W. ohaer
Oak III insurance Company, l6l Broadway New-forki
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-09

PHLAbErFtnA. June 7.-tiotfon qnct; Mai.ngs. 1919
MENFHl June lotion ln Low ht1l-s, l1tttci receipts
3al haest EH. rneutL SO bales. stock. p .is5 bales
Cotton qlet demand fair; Aidthngs, Is0lBc
receipts ~ bales ooastwlse 40 bales 80 bales
stock. 2ll5l haies
CHARLESTON June lection quiet; Mddllng l9lc Low Mid
tugs, stc Good Orrar, 6t1i6ic O1in1r l3cl4c
ps 20 6lesi eKpors-coastFse, s6S bales les 200 bales
5focs. ll.62l bales
Jne 7Coroa uu and heavy; Mtirgs l85c; net
SKvORIEASs, June Trott0u-Demand moierat', Mo
nugs t receipts ST baes e8 bales eI9orts-to
5rei Bnn, $40 bales caassse So bales sales 900 bates
.asi evening, 800 bales STOCK 1fb56 bales
BuETUN, Juns 7Caton quct firm; MiilufS. l9ci
receipts. 16 bales; sales POI bales; stock 1000 bales
AususTA June 7COtion Quiet le doing MiiHss l7ie
rs bales; shipments W biiez
June Cotton unchanged; Mdilngg Bc receipts
OIL Bale; shipments. 200 bales
7Coon dB gei; Strict Low M8dng
M1dhurs - bales g bales weekly
receipts, 4 l53 bales shipments, 58j bales
BALTIM0Hr Cotton NtI1r net rccfipts
bales gro ~ bales e - bales sales i9J bsles
stock IAN bales
bales sales, Is bales siock, l.s5i bates
CINCINNATI June Cotton quiet; Mdi1gS, ses receipts y
oaiess shipments. 81 bales; stock 1858 bales
NOKFOLK. June Cotton inn; Low mddhn-s ; receipts
5t bsee - baesi sales 2) bales; stock 52o3
GALVESTON June cotton ulehanget Good Ozar li aei
Ordinary -sr receipts, li eEp0I.. u4t Britain LII
1alesi sales, 30 bales stOcEi % as bales.