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have used your Pra rit ED In my p. actice viii
the utmost success: and believe il to be the hes
remedy ever discovered for the difficulties for which
i is recommended. | have cured more throat ans
lung troubles with this remedy than | ever have
with any other.
Last April, cured two very bad cases Of pneu-
monia after they were given up to die, They wer,
small babies. not over one month old. and - nea
dead that they were Of dark purple color. pul>t
small and trembling. scarcely TO be felt gay,
the Prairie Weed in Tablespoonful doses every
half hour, and put warm applications to the lungs,
and TO the establishment OF every ouc. they FeCov-
cred rapidly, and soon got we'll.
knowing as do its ethciencS. feel ii my duty
10 acknowledge it to yo1. and recommend ii TO thv
public, Yours respectfully.
Dr.. Z. FARNswoRTH,
West Topsham. Vt
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COAL.

TOR SALE.-FOUR HUNDRED BUSHELS OF
Coal per day. al the Black Hawk Goa. Mines.
three miles south of Rock Island Orders for Black
smithing Coal promptly attended To.
Rock Island, March 5. 1873.
} 5d3m b. DAVENPORT. Proprietor.
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Scale in Boilers.

WILL REMOVE AND PREVENT SCALE IN
any Steam Boilers, or make no charge
Address, GEO. w. LORD,
31-Td2m Philadelphia Pa.
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DRESS GOODS!
HOuse Keeping GOOds,
Hosiery, Gloves,
And Ribbons
WEST OF NEW YORK.

WEST OF NEW YORK
2O0O yds Black silk at 81 20; Las; 1I5 100; 20
600 yds coIored dress silks at 81; l,25t,50 1,T5
s.O0 upward
500 yds fancy dress silk at New York retail prices
1000 yds Japanese SILK 55c, 45 so, former price 60
75. l,0Q.
9OOO yds French and Irish Poplns at New York re
tail prices.
upward
500 pieces latest style of Spring and Summer Dress
Goods at lie, 25, 30, 35 40 So former prices, 5c,
35, 50, Is.
800 pieces polka dot, striped and figured percales
100 pieces striped and figured lawns.
500 yds Grenadeanes at 1Tc, 10, 25, 35, upward.
1000 yds grass cloth and Inin sutings at 17c. %,
20, 35. upward cheap.
A large line Victoria and Bishop lawns.
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TEMPLE OF HoNoR-Rock Island Temple of
Honor No II. meets every Thursday evening, and
Social Temple No. 8. every Tuesday evening at
O'Clock, at Templar's Hall
GEO. L. CARLTON, ". c. T:
T. ]. RUSSELL, W X 1s-22dh
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Sold by all Druggists at s100 yer bottle Manu-
aetured by DR. KENNEDY, fs0 Warren street
RoxbaTy, Mass, a-iaiS
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BosToN HIGHLANDS, Oct 1. 1872.
DR.. kENNEDY- Dear S,ir;-I hereby certify that
was afflicted for five years with severe cough
and raising blood after any violent exertion. L
commenced taking your Prairie Weed about Two
years ago, and have not raised any blood for eEh-
cen months past. and believe that owe TO you
medicine the health which vainly sought fous %
many physicians and medicines wouid ne siau
to have You refer any one to me ~no "lshee y"
know what the Prairie Weed has done Tor me-
JAMES I. BICKNELI,
Ietter-f,arrie7 Boston Highlands, Mass.
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MARS JOHN W. GRANT Is DOING THE BEST
wi kind of Laundry work and solicits favors. She
viii collect and deliver without extra charge
Illinois street, next door TO Bromley's Jewelry
Store, a.Tdn
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Mr. Kennedy Dear Sir:-I sit down to pen YOU
a few lines this evening, TO infoEm vou that tht
Prairie Weed YOU sent me last fall has done IN,
much good. truly have not words to express m )
gratitude to you it. Ny health has not been st
good for the last twenty years it has been since
commenced taking he Prairie Weed in November
last | thank you thousands 81 times for il MOI
one night since last December have / been obligct
10 sit up oBe hour with phthisie since / have beer
taking your medicine NY health is : improves
this winter that / can work all the time at light
work, 81 l more than ray my board. and that l.
what have not been able to do foF a long time
Your humble servant.
MARIA LEACH
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Baskets . Baskets =!

The most extensive and useful assortment Of trav-
elling shopping, lunch. market and work baskets
ever offered TO the public
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/ 800 yds Table Linen from 25c upward.
5000 yds Crash Toweling al s, 10, l29s l5c per yd.
100 doz Towels at 10, 124a 10 70, 25c upward.
= 500 yds Cassimeres. Cottonades aud Jeans for
Men and BOYS wear at prices TO suit all.
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THE CHANGERS.

We gave last week II memorandum of the
first two days proceedings of the recent
meeting of the Illinois State Grange at
Bloomington, and now the entire proceed
inrs, or as much ofthcm as are made public,
are before us In the new list of officers
elected by the Grange are: A. Colder, OF
Whiteside Master; b. J. Van Court, of st.
Clair, Lecturer; j. s. Armstrong, Of La Sale,
Treasurer O. +. FanAing, Of Whiteside,
Secretary, &c.
The resolutions adopted cover good deal
of ground, and can be briefly summarized as
follows:
Declare the purpose of the order not to be
political but that it seeks the social, intellec-
tual and moral elevation of the farmer class.
Express u cordial feeling of friendship to.
wards the farmers clubs.
! Favor Il free banking law.
Condemn the salary grab.
Oppose any change in the temperance
law
Accept the accusation that the farmers
caused the panic, as Il compliment.
Declare the right Of congress to control
railroads and transportation companies I'M
der the constitutional power to regulate com.
mcrcc between the states
Insist on the removal of restrictions upon
foreign vessels which would otherwise en-
gage in the transportation Of Western pro
ducts to Eastern or foreign markets.
Insist generally on the inadcquacy of
transportation facilities, and favor the open
ing by the general government of such canals
AS are essential to main channels of com
mcrcc, and also, as last resort, the construc.
ton by the government of "a through line of
railroad for freight traffic.
Assert the right of the legislature to con.
troll chartered monopolics, and favoring a
thorough trial of the present railroad law.
And lastly, favoring civil service reform.
The reader will not fail to mark a strange
sort of inconsistency between the first ofthese
resolutions, which declares the non-political
dla,ely follow, nearly all of which are purely
political, -tavoring free banking, condemn
ing the salary grab dec airing that congress
should control interstate commerce, asking
repeal Of the tax on foreign ships, g., &c.
Surely if this is not politics, what is it?
The truth is, in this country all questions
that relate TO the general welfare, or the wei
fare of a class injuriousIy affected by tavorit
ism shown to other classes, are necessarily
political, and can only be adjusted by dis
cussion in the political arena and by polit.
cal action. The Changers and the farmers
associations have already welded tremen-
dous political influence in spite of their pro-
tests Of being non-polltical, but the non-polit-
ical disguise is much too thin to be worn any
longer
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OBITUARY.

| The death of Prof AgassiZ occurred at Bos
ton at 1911 o'clock last Sunday evening. He
was stricken with paralysis a week ago, but
hopes were entertained Of his recovery until
Saturday, when his mind gave way, and, with
him. the man died when his brains went ONT.
He was of French IIuguenot descent, but was
born at Neuichatel in switzerland, and in his
university course ut Munich enjoyed the ad
vantage both or the tuition and companion.
ship of the great Dollinger. Designed at first
for the medical profession, he soon gave that
up for the more congenial pursuits of natural
philosophy and in the region of pure science
there has of late years been no name more con
spicuous than that of Prof Agassiz Alters
brilliant scientific course in Europe, where
he published several important works, Prof.
A., in 1876 came to this country, and soon
became noted for series Of lectures which
he delivered in the lowell Institute, Boston.
Prof A. was about g. years old at his death
and though few men in tins world lived lives
more profitable to their fellows, few received
so little material reward in proportion to the
value of work performed, for Prof A. died
poor man--ln this worlds gear
Judge Samuel Nelson, until recently an
Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court of the
L. S, died suddenly of appoplexy at his home
a CJoperstown, N. Y, last Saturday. He
was Il native Of New York, born in 1892, and
was, therefore, over 50 years of age at the
lime of his death. He was appointed to the
Supreme Bench by President Tyler, in 1916,
and served nearly twenty -scven years and has
thus Joined in many Of the most important
He was retired at his own request about q
year ago. under the law authorizing retire
ment after a certain term of service, and his
place was filed by the appointement Of Judge
Ward Hunt.
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DEATH OF JuDGE DENr-Fredericl Dent
athcr-in-law of President Grant. died at Che
White House in Washington City about T.
''clock on Monday night On Wednesday
his remains were sent to St Louis where ibcy
,rc TO be inferred to-day
Judge Dent WAS born in Maryland, near
Washington City, in 1856, and was therefore
u years Of age. He hud been soldier in
he war Of 1912, and fought in the hattie o.
Bladcnsburg. In 1918 he moved to ST. Iogis
near which city he purchased farm, Upnl
which lac lived until, on the election o. GRAM
10 The presidency, lie moved to Washington
City. lie never filled the office of Judge o.,
Justice of the peace and only received IL,
tile OF Judge" by courtesy
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Since the commencement of the panic in
WALL street, England has sent to this country
over twenty-five millions of dollars in gold
80 purchase breadstutfs. 1t il still coming,
and in increasing quantities That country
needs our surplus wheat and corn, aud must
have it. So il sends its ewn money TO move
it. That WAS why Chicago had plenty OF
money to buy grain with in October in spit,
Of the partial suspension of her banks. Ii
the West had free trade with England ant
Canada bank suspensions In New York ant
New England would affect her no more than
If they occurred in China
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to personal explanation" During the
salary grab war on Wednesday an amend
ment WAS offered by Wilson, of Ind, pro
posing that he Qiale) should pay back as
part Of his salary grab, some $1,000 he had
taken as attorney fees for duties appertaining
ito him as member of congress The dis
cussion brought out Eldridge, Wilson, But
Ter and others, and, as the Tines truthfully
says "as Il competitive examination of black.
guards itresulted IN victory for Ben Butler,
as was TO have been expected; but it also dis
closed the fact that there is lively instinct
Of emulation in that body, and that Butler
must keep his arsenal of billingsgate well re-
plenished if he would maintain his nasty SUI
premacy."
ADJOURNMENT.
The house on Wednesday voted to adjourn
on Friday until after the holidays, but the
senate on Thursday indefinitely postponed
the resolution.
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David A. Gage, late civ treasurer of Chi.

David A. Gage, late city treasurer Of Chi
cago. and candidate for reelection a month
very awkwardly just at the critical moment
when called upon TO fork over 10 his success
sor IN office. The defe,t amounts, in round
numbcrs, to $4,000, of which, however,
about $4,000 are deposited in suspended
banks that may hereafter pay up, leaving
about $27O,000 to be made up by David OF
his lucklcss bondsmen. Gage has plenty OF
property such as Il is, but ,s just now River
side residence property don't convert into
cash with any celebrity to speak of, Dave.
bondsmen are to be commiserated
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1t may be as well, while reading the telo
graphic reports ofcongressional proceedings
and watching closely what our servants
the members are saying and dong about the
salary grab, TO bear in mind what hollow
farce 1t all is nevertheless. Tho members OF
the house are in a buncombe paradise on that
subject They can roar and buster with all
the truculency of a man encased in impenc
'aable armor. Doubtless the bill TO repea
the salary grab will be banged through the
house, but when it reaches the senate 1t viii
die ~ sweeily and calmly az IN innocen
babe with an overdose .,f chloroform.
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1t is one of the disgracelul features Of the
times that every city of note is having its
Tweed Pittsburg has just been robbed of
half million by dishonest official ChlCa-
go loses probably quarter Of a million by a
specializing city treasurer the Tweed of St
Louis as man named Duner, the head of
the street cleaning department; and the city
treasurer of Philadelphia has Just turned up
II detaulter for half million or more. OF
the long, thieying list, however, Boss" Shep
herd, the Tweed of Washington City, il the
only one that is honoreG and promoted in the
midst of his rlscalitics. lie happens to be a
presidential pet, and instead Of being tried
and sept to the penitcntiary like the New
York Tweed, he Is given an opportunity TO
cover up his larcenies by beng appointed.
by President Grant, Governor of the District
of Columbia; and the United States Scnsie,
which undertook 10 degrade Carl Shurz and
Charles Sumner and cNalt Simon Cameron,
naturally confirms the appointment OF this
notorious thief.
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Last week convict In the pestcntiary al
joliet named Henry Williams, who was EN-
ployed in the shoe shop, failed TO do the
work required Of him, complaining that his
hands were sore He had been punished be
fore with solitary confinement for having
-'sore hands" and this time was ordered to
an iergo The punishment of shower bath"
His head was held under water, and when he
was allowed 10 gasp for air, it was too late
ne died then and there The peniteniiary
physician, who prescribed the punishment,
made poet m0Ttsn examination and reported
that the man died because his heart had
bursted. There was no help for that, as the
hear was diseased and liable TO rupture un-
der the circumstances. But TO prevent any
more such accidents" the shower bath as a
punishment, and especially holding mans
head under water TOO long" is discontinued
at the peniien;isry ''for the present"
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| There was an incident during the debate
on the back pay question in the lower house
at Washington last week that illustrates an
other point besides the back pay cnormity
Lawrence of Ohio, had just made a scream.
ing speech against the "steal," and sat down
with the consciousness that he was a made
| politician. Then Lamison, democratic
member from the same state, got the floor
and held up big book, which had for its
frontispiece an deliberately engraved portrait
Of Lawrence The House roarcd with laugh.
ter, Why? The book was report of the
congressional committee on the New York
election frauds, Lawrence having been chair
man of the committee. The printing of the
book itself was q sheer waste of $4,000, for
the investigation came to nothing, and all
interest in it died when it was over. But
why, III the name of all that's Ineligible,
should thousand or two more dollars be
spent to "embcllish" the book with a steel
engraved portrait of q onc,horse member of
congress, any more than with the portrait of
dozen of noted New York election bruisers
or pipelaycrsy The case illustrates how it
happens that $3,0OO,000 % session are spent on
public printing" when all the printing con.
gress needs ought not TO cost an eighth of
that sum. During Pierces administration the
public printing cost less thar half a million
"A vplr
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Foreign News.
England,
Ward Hun

The foe that had enveloped London for s days,
during which many accidents occurred in the
streets and "A persons were drowned in the docks,
was lnally dispersed by furious storm on Wed
tuesday, by which the telegraph lines were pros
Grated in all directions and immense property
destroyed all over the north of England. Shelf
field, in particular, suffered heavily, the town
looking rs if it had been bombardcd. At Leeds
100000 worth OF property was destroyed; and
shipping suffered severely at Newcastle and
Shields.
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SURRENDER OF THE yIRGINIus

The dark threatening cloud that hung oven
Cuba has passed away, "grm-yisagcd wa,
hath Smoolhcd his wrinklcd front" and pcac,
resumes her bcnignant sway. Despatche,
from Cuba ON Thursday announce the saft
and quiet delivery to the L. S authorities on
Tuesday ofthc Firginius and all her surylv
ing passengers. The vessel left Havana Oh
Friday of last week, under the escort or \
Spanish man of war, and proceeded TO Bahia
Honda, harbar on the Cuban coast about
nifty miles west OF Havana. There, on Tues
day morning at o'clock she was formal,
surrendered to the L. :. steam yacht Despatch
by the commander Of the Spanish war steamer
Fayorita. The ceremonies were very brc'
and simple. The Spanish commander, a very
starchy, dappcr little fellow, boarded the Dis
patch, introduced himself 10 Capt. Whiting
SAID his bushes was 10 deliver up TO him In,
Nirginius, pointed out to him the vessel, ant
told him he was at liberty to take it, That was
about all. The Virginius was placed In
charge of U. S. officers and a crew. and as
soon As steam could DC got up, started in the
wake OF the Despatch and tow boat for Key
West, where all arrived IN safety next day
Al the same hour on Tuesday, % O'Clock
A. NJ the prisoners Of the Yirginius, lO2 in
number, wercrc delivered a, Santiago TO
Commander Brain, at least such was the
arrangement, and though no official account,
of the delivery has vet arrived, there IS &c
doubt entertained but that il Was done
And 80 lifts for the present the war cloud
that hung over the United States and Spain.
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One bright gallant decd shines oLt amid
the truculeucy and endless humiliaionS of
tac EirginiuS bar5arity ~ soon as infor-
nation was received at Kingston, jamaica,
.of the capture of the Nirgnius, and that she
had been taken to Santiago. Cap,. Lorraine,
cf the British ship OF war Nio5e, sailed for
that port. lie arrived too late to prevent the
first executions, but having heard what was
going on, Immediately proceeded TO the resi-
dcncc of the Governor, and in the ab-
sancc of any American war vessel in the har-
Dor, assumed the duty of protecting British
and American interests He demanded, it is
SAID that no more executions should take
place and the right 10 visit the surviving cap
lives and TO take down their names also that
the American flag, irampIcd by the insolen,
Spanish on the deck Ut the Tornado should
be taken up-ali under u threat of opening
fire ON the city. All honor to the gallant
Captain Lorraine.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-20

The Springfield Register makes vigorous
assault on Logan and Farwell's bill in con
rress for an air line railroad from New York
10 Chicago, The scheme involves an enor
NOUS fraud and swindlc. When the bill
passes, the New York Central and its con
nection. west will organize under it, and
will thus be enabled to lay their entire double
rack from New York west with steele rails
duty free, and monopolse the business to the
destruction of all competing roads.
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Perfect.

As there was no report to the contrary last
night, We presume that Perfect, the Chicago
negro wife murderer, was duly hanged al
Joliet yesterday, The man, after pcrsistng
steadily in asserting his innocence and solem
y swearing TO it, finally made an homes,
confession, admitting the justice of his pun.
ishment.
Fext Friday Rafferty,, the murderer of the
Chicago policeman O'Mcara, is to be hung
al Waukegan. In one respect it is greatly
to be regretted that his hanging don't occur
at the same time and place with that of Per
teet The thought that the readers of the
Chicago papers must again endure in Raj
tertys case the infliction of all the nauseating
details and sentimental swash poured upon
them in reference to Perfect, ought to be
enough to drive them Wild But then Rafler,
y is white man, and therefore not half as
interesting an object as the Senegam ban
hero at Joliet, whence we infer that II column
N two in the Chicago dailies is all the de.
'cription his dull taking off will justify.
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;. :. h. PRIME AND THE CHANGERS. The
state Grange nj its recent meeting at Bloom
ington having passed resolution censuring
; I. h Prime for showing Partially 10 the
Chicago Tribune in furnishing that paper
with reports, dc, tO the exclusion of other
papers, that gentleman comes back in "A com.
municatian IN the Tribuas denying the charge
and says the resolution of ccnsurc was pass
ed during his own absence and that of three.
iouithS of the members Mr. Prime acted A.
special reporter for the Tribune, ana as the
associated press has no agent at Blooming
on, OF course no other papers got reports ex.
cepi such a5 their own agents sent.
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The Philadelphia corruptionists, who made
such strenuous efforts 10 defeat the new con
Stitution Of Pennsylvania, because it's adop-
ton weuld render hereafter impossible the
election frauds by which they have hitherto
been able to control that state, have received
4 fearful rebuke. The vote on Tuesday on
the question Of adopting the new constitution
resulted In a majority throughout the state
Of 10000 IN favor Of that INSTRUMENT. Even
Philadelphia gave $4,000 ma Gritty for it, as
no fradulen' voting was attempted. The vote
is regarded as not only a terrible rebukc TO
Cameronism. but "a IT'S death
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VINDICATED."-Tha what the republi-
can papers now say Of Carpenter, since his
reelection to the presidency pro tem, OF the
u. B. senate 1t is to be noted, however that
OF the 40 republican members of the senate
but 80 voted for him, the others either casting
blank ballots or abscntlng themselves, and
that % votes were castagainst him. Carpen.
ter was elected by minority Of full senate,
in which the republicans have more than a
two-thirds majority. That looks Ikea pretty
lame "vindcation."
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fFrance.

President McMahonhas committed the punish
ment of Marshal Bazane to twenty years Sc
clusion on the island Of st. Marguerite, in the
Mediterranean but degrading him from his
rank.
England has asked France to facilitate the ~
quiry into the Vile du Hayre disaster ana mas
offered to defray the expense of British witness
es France has accepted the offer, and promises
that the investigation shall be searching ami
complete,