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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-04
A MIRACLE!
TESTIMONIA

CAPT. TRYON j, WOODWARD
Agent Maguirv's Medicines.
No Is Magazine street:
ESTEEMED SIR:-From a feeling OF heartfelt graf
itude. and a general sense OF duty, am prompted
to address YOU and respectfully beg to give you \
voluntary and brief statement OF my past and pres
ent state of he 18th. C~UNDRAsGo LIVER AND BLOOD
BITTERs AND SARsAPABdLLA Tonic. MY health lot
wears has been bad, but from the commencement OF
this year / rapidly declined, forcing me 10 aDsndoR
ali character of business; and upon becoming com
pletely psralyzed in my right arm and with my
whole right side threatened l became helpless and
hopeless indeed, though attended upon by tue most
skiIIful physicians OF thir and other States and
cities. with no benefit; and, in fact, my own Inedi
cal knowledge forces me TO realize the TACT that an
kss some change and Improvement TOOK place soon
wi h me | would shortly die, and made my Snost
earthly arrangement accordingly, when BY 8 nue.
prov. Dental circumstance : was directeo -.
met you, about a month ago, and, from 20, I'm,
erous sympathy, wac induced 10 - my.el}l n
with no hope or confidence Of btDeai
only try the Cundurango; and 70 NJ ,o., sa,,roi.
ishment and qualification. am r., ~ ,ha = ~
restored TO perfect health, sn-saa
put ON notto III SIEsAPARIILA ToSIc. / feel,
DLooI 11 and rcsarrected man, and VIII
lhdee1a 5ene" he grateful In my remembrance
ose!, ny uea Kind interest and generous sympathy
o. YOU . 4, M wretched helplessns>s. and am
SHOWN lLai 10 the use OF Cunderango and ID
nm Pr,,ieence through you- am indebted ioF .
nf F,6m a sense Of duty, let me ask that a pubHca
don OF my case be made; and by my happy expert.
ence none need despair. and that throGgh yoas IN
aud re.icrstion 10 hta. when even hope itseli
has fed. With respeeA snd Staita1esh imam
yours truly, etc. ~ ~
We the undersigned, bsing personshy ae4asinteo
with Dr. Logan. chrsuuiiy eettn! mat we suo's
s,nIemert Is tue AID eorreet n every garienlsf.
. CCALLSTkB
Pm
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so,d BY Censor & Thomas kock leland,
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LAvEiLLE. WARNER 4 CO.. Propr's
Chancery Notice.
A OF tss
RoCK ISLAND COUNTY.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, tss.
RoCR ISLAND COUNTY.
In the Circuit Court Of said Rock Island County, to
the September Ierm- A. ID. lsI4-ln Chancery.
George NJ. Luken and Eliza J. LukeB,-complain-
ants.
.Jobn Strong and the other unknown heirs Of Jacob
g strong, and the unknown persons c aiming 10
own or have an interest ia The : orth Que hundred
and TWENTY-FIVE acres Of the north east quarter Il
section ten. in township sel enteen, n.rt Of range
two. west Of the fourth principal meridian. Tex
cent The rilht OF way Of the Rock Island & Peoria
Railroad Company over and across the same
under and by virtue of a certa u deed pretended
To have been made by one Benjamin Carr TO ssid
Jacoh L.. strong. b.ariBg daie the 18th day of Nay,
u 1S5q. and recorded In the Recorder Office
N ssid rock leland County. in book s. Of ID eds,
at nape l7g therrdf,-oefendanis.
tn All al said defendants In the above emitted suit:
Ia i.e il hereby given that the above entitled
81 summ,sns has been issued against YOU therein.
Nov. unless you shall personally be and appear
befo-. The said circuit Court on the first day OF the
rev, ,srm thereof. 10 be holden in the CouFt House
in the CITY Of Rock Island, 10 the County q Rock
Island aforesaid. on the first Monday of September.
A N Is74. to which time and place the said sum
mons i made rrturnabse, and pl-ad. answ Z or de-
.1nr 10 The bill in said suit fled, tina IL, same will
n taxep { 2 confessed a. agzinsi you I'd decree
.ntereS accordingly.
Rock I.IADd. Illinois, July 2sth, A, T. ISL
1EoRSE D.. GOULD.
clerk OF aid Court.
HESRr CrKTIs, JR., ComplainaEts' Solicitor.
7.2sdsv
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-04
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CANCER, CArARRH, KIDHEY DISEASES. and all dis
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cases of failure. None for Is years. II. d. FOWLE,
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- THE
A GREAT
~ Remedy.
Remedy.

gB~ The attention Of those afflicted with colds,
coughs, and with any disease Of the lungs, is di-
rected to this va u remedy. The season of the
year has already come when, on account OF the sud
den changes in the weather, colds and coughs are
easily taken, and If NEGLECTED may lead 10 disease
of the lungs, What is needed under such circum
stances is a reliable remedy-speedy in ~afording
relief and ~etfGctual in arresting further progress Of
disease.
eS To arrest the existing irritation Of the air
passages and the lungs, speedily aud etfectually,
The seat and cause Of cough, is an important step
gained toward relief and cure In the first stages OF
the disease. MAsTAs PuLMONIc BaIsAM possesses
this important power, and while Ii promptly and
relieves cough, 1t renders the lungs further relief
by promoting u free discharge OF the accumulated
muCus III the air passages, imparting u healthy &C
ton and vigur ut the same time.
sT THose suffering with cough and the first sta
ger of lung disease, will therefore find in this
Even those whose condition Is beyond recovery.
will derive from 3 use great benefit as well as
comfort. For the class OF diseases IL ~ designed TO
relieve, the general commeuda ion IL has received
has proved its great efficacy beyond question. For
the past twenty years thousands have been speedily
aud effectually cured by its timely use while uf.
fering from severe colds, protracted coughs. and
from vegetable balsams and the medicinal proper
ties OF roots and herbs, with no minerals or poison
Gus acids. Simple and safe in the materials used
1t can be taken at any time.
sE~Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Meoi-
ines throl ghout the couut-v. 2-Id&wtf
For sale In Rock Island by c.. SpeidelE,J
Bruoncrt, Benser & Thomas, Emil Kwhlc..
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

cannot build new ones of their own at
a days warning of change IN the
tariff. A railroad, like a horse, may
have cost the present Ownervastly more
than it is worth. Shall the public, IN
the way of transportation, pay interest
on the extrayagaut cost of the horse or
railroad? or shall they pay interest
ON its intrinsic value? An essential
feature of any law by Congress on the
subject will be the rating of all roads
affected, by their actual value instead
Of their actual cost-an appralsement
of their present valuation. This pay
ment of interest on extravaganza and
stealings would thus be cut off, and the
iniudicious investments in premature
and impracticable roads would be cut
down considerably below their cash
cost on the most economical plan OF
building.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
CUSHING FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.

Grant has nominated Caleb Gushing
for Chief Justice. He is a great i'm
provement ON Williams, as he is a man
of extensive learning and one Of the
first lawyers in the country. Mr.. Cush-
ing was born in Essex county, Massa-
chusetts, in January, 1880, and is con-
sequently seventy-four years of age, a
very old man for the position to which
he has just been nominated, though he
is said to look not more than sixty.
He was elected to Congress in 1885,
and has been in public life pretty much
since that time, and 1t is remarkable
that be has been connected in some
way with almost every Administra-
ton for third of a
century. He was elected as a
Wing, and acted with that party until
1871, when he united with President
Tyler in his hostility to the Wing
measures, and went over to the Demo
cratic party. He was nominated by
Tyler in IS43 as Secretary Of the Treas.
ury, but he was not confirmed by the
Senate. Hewas soon after appointed
Commissioner to China, aud in 1874
negotiated the first treaty of the United
States with the government of that
country. On his return he became al
advocate of the Mexican war, then IL
progress, and equipped n regiment Of
volunteers at his own expense. As
Colonel Of this regiment he went tC
Mexico In 1917, and was subse
quently appointed Brigadier Gen
eral. During his absence he was nom
mated by the Democrats as their can.
didate for Governor Of Massachusetts,
but was not elected. In 1852 he wa:
appointed Justice of the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts,, which position
he filled with marked ability unit
March, 1858, when he was invited by
President Pierce to fill the Office of At
torney-General, from which he retired
March 4, 1857. In 1860 he was Presi
dent Of the Democratic National Con.
vention at Charleston. Since 1861 ht
has acted with the Republican party
But, as we have said, he is a man Of
great learning and ability and vii
adorne the Supreme Bench.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
AnAy 10 CELEBRATE.

The old home and the tomb of An
drew Jackson are within eight miles Of
the city-facts which give to the career
and character of the distinguished war
rIor a peculiar local significance for
the people Of our section. 1t occurs to
us that 1t is a continual lache that our
citizens should fail to make some occa-
sional public recognition Of his memo
~. The greatest day Of his life was
the Sth of january. 1915, when the
victory Of the battle Of New Orleans
suddenly exalted him to the throne Of
the admiration and affection of the
American people. The anniversary of
that day has just passed, and passed
without a mark Of commemoration.
1t would be highly proper that
Nashville should be made
the scene Of some sort of celebration
on each recurring Sth of January, thus
reducing the most brilliant action of
the great hero to a tradition. By it
the people Of cur section would cult
vate noble impulses and be the better
for it. The keeping alive of the tradi-
tons among the people by periodical
obseryances has always had a fine IN
fuence on the popular mind, and the
value of such a course has been appre-
ciated by philosophers in every age. If
we continue to celebrate certain Dor
rowed traditions, we might well add to
the list some Of our own, and have a
Jolly festival day on the Sth Of Jan
uaTy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

THE term ''legalised robbery" is
often met with in these days Of Radi-
cal carpet-bag rule inthe South. South
Carolina furnishes a striking illustra-
ton of the meaning of the term. A
glance at the list of lands forfeited to
the State for the non-payment Of taxes
during the year ending Oct. 81, 1873,
shows how generally and thoroughly
the people Of that State have been rob-
bed and impoverished by their carpet
bag and scalawag rulers. The whole
amount Of delinquent payments was
$50. S5S. and for the failure to pay this
no less than 26S,523 acres of land and
800 buildings were sold. 1t is also
stated that the amount of delinquent
taxes as first levied was only S20,903,
the difference between this and the
amount collected, $50, 858, being made
up by the penalties, costs and fees i'm
posed upon delinquents. These are the
perouisites which fall to the lot of men
who rule South Carolina. tits no Won
der that the people of that State pray
for deliverance from such a band of
corrupt extortionistS.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
TWEEDLEDUM.

Let live and fearless paper have the
temerity to doubt the infalibilityof every
thing done in the name of Democracy.
even though Tweed be the master spirit.
and the fussy old lady, the UNION AND
AMERICAN, shrieks out in piping party
tones, ''shoot it ON the spot. "-Nasi-
Uille Banner.
This is a fair sample of the factious-
ness miscalled independence" which
refuses to cooperate with us in the eff
fort to overthrow the party of corrup-
ton. To dub us a "fussy old LADY, is
poor answer to argument. The Demo-
ocratic party does not claim "infalh-
bility," nor can we accord it to a mere
faction. But the current facts to which
we appeal are infallible, and likely to
have an infallible influence on the peo-
pie. Since when was Tweed our "mas-
ter spirit?" AS we read the record, he
was the master" of several successive
Radical Legislatures at Albany. These
Radicals were his slaves, bought with
price, to do his bidding. They did it,
and New York city was plumber
ed. A truly Independent journal
would feel free to say this. It
was the Radical legislation at Albany
that made Tweed what he was, and
that party is the one responsible for
his acts. If Tweed opened his little
note book to-day, he would like Cakes
Ames, convict ten Radicals of corrup-
ton to one Democrat. That the De-
mOcracy love purity and honesty better
than Office, was signally proven by their
ousting this creature and creation of
Radical lawgivers the moment his in
iquities were found out. They ousted
him at the cost of defeat to their own
party. Democratic lawyers prosecuted
him, Democratic judges condemned
him, and to-day he occupies a felon's
cell Democracy has the vitality nee
essary to sef-purifcation. Radicalism
has not. The latter party has devel-
oped a thousand Tweeds, but where
has onemilionaire robber like him been
put in stripes? Is our city contempt
rary independent of infallible facts? 1t
may be ''live and fearless" to link the
Democracy Of to-day and the future,
with a renegade whom it spew ont of
its mouth, but is it fair or Just?
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
UDIFFERENTIAL JOURNALS.

We have excited the ire of some
would-be independent" journals, by
pointingsout the trick of their pretend
ed impartiality. They seek out dill
gently any speck of virtue on the Rad
ical side, telling us occasionally that
after all it is the ''best party IN the
country with equal diligence
they exaggerate any Democratic short
comings, in order to attain the sublime
altitude of ''indifferential' politics.
On the one side they strain at gnats,
and swallow camels ON the other. They
deliberately ignore the strong contrast
between the PRINCIPLES, practices and
tendencies of Radicalism, and those Of
Democracy. They would treat as par
tisans" every honest citizen who recog-
nizes the fact that Radicalism tends TO
the bad, while Democracy tends to the
good. They scout the possibility OF
any citizen or journal being truly indie
pendent who dares to entertain any
strong convictions on the relative mer-
its and dement's Of the two parties.
Their conception of independence is to
entertain no practical convictions on
any subject. The man who ventures
to form Judgment on the daily devel-
opments of corruption, and decides for
himself that Democracy Is pre-
ferable to Radicalism, thereby becomes
a ''partizan, a drill sergeant" and
what not, in their eyes. They cannot
quite blind the public to the abuses of
the dominant party, but they can and
do deliberately close their own optics TO
any good in Democracy, and never by
any slip does their boosted impartiahty
permit them to speak a good word
for this latter opponent-as they prac-
tically treat Democracy. They laud
their own mild criticisms of Radical
rottenness as "iberalty," and they
laud their hypercriticisms Of the De-
mocracy as Independence" They re-
serve all their mercy for the rascals,
and all their rigor for the opposition.
Looking at the Radical party as
whole, and the Democracy as a whole,
they cannot reach a plain practi-
cal conclusion to support the bet
ter cause, and this incapaeity to de-
eide they claim as a virtue, for
sooth. If the people should develop a
similar incapacity, the reigning party
might 90 on outraging justice and steal
ing ad infRitlm. There are some few
really Independent journals in the
country, but there are others whose
claim to this much-abused title lies only
in their want of backbone.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

1T Is an Ill wind that blows nobody
any good, according to the old pro-
verb, and the late panic forms no ex-
ception. 1t is stated by New York
letter-writer that the panic brought a
handsome harvest to the legal fraterni-
ty in New York. Every merchant,
banker or broker who was in trouble
was obliged to retain a lawyer, and in
many instances more than one. The
G1innen bankruptcy case brought six
well-paid lawyers into court. The fees
required by these men on such IN occa-
sion would not be less than $4,000, and
the cost Of the entire Grinnell suit viii
probably equal five times that sum.
The best lawyers value their time from
so to $50 per hour, and some of them
boast a practice worth $4,000 per
year. O'Conor, previous to his retire
ment, made annually nearly four times
that sum. Indeed, he was probably
paid S20O.O0O for his services in the
Jumel case. He is now worth more
than a million. all of which he hasmade
by his own genius and industry.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
IS GRANT HEAD OR TAIL OF RE
PTBLICANISM.

The President stuck to his man Fri
day for the Enthusiastically, after his
nomination, with tenacity worthy Of
a better cause, but the General failed
to have his own way. His surrender at
discretion can not but influence the
course of events IN Washington and
elsewhere, strengthening all combina-
tons in his party, and out Of 1t, against
his Administration. All active busi-
ness politicians have an eye to the Ex-
ecutive chair, and its occupant three
years hence. Grants days are num-
bered, and he must pass, incontinently,
from the head to the tail of Radical
ism. The inevitable is before him,
and impartial history Will write
his story as Judge Black has told
that Of William H. Seward in the
GALAXY. The deep dishonesty
Of the Government under Grant, and
its enormous expenditure Of public
treasure to enrich office-holders and
their friends, tell the true character of
the responsible Chief Magistrate. 1t
is the old Spartan policy which taught
smart boys to steal, but punished such
as were caught to make others sharper.
Attorney General Williams has been
caught in too much rascality. VIII
Gen. Howard come out better? Steal
ing seems to have become respectable
in official circles, but there must be at
least a decent gauze veil between the
theft and the public eye. To pre-
serve this fg-leaf covering gives the
leaders and expectants Of the Republi-
cans a world of trouble. Some of the
rank and file want reform in the party,
but find no way to begin the good
work. Grant loves money too well to
be a sincere reformer. No still SOW
gorged with swill, Is more pig-headed
and selfish.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

II is said that General Sherman was
IN the House of Representatives on
Tuesday and congratulated the Massa-
chusetts negro, Elliott, who pretends to
represent South Carolina in Congress,
on his speech IN reply to Mr.. Stephens.
of Georgia. Sherman is well known to
be a skeptic on the subject and sneerer
at the capacity of the people for self
government, and to prefer a Monarchy
IN this country to a Republic. That to
carry ont his views he would sustain
the negro in order to make republican
institutions a mOckery is of course
very obvious policy. What the negro
is doing for civil liberty We have lately
seen in South Carolina.-CinciaRaii
Enquirer.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

Store, IjRlCdre, Etc.
PHILLIPS, BUTTORFF CO., - n. College st.
Tobacco, Cigars, Etc.
]. & L. WHORLEY, II S. Market street.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

ENCROACHING civilization appears
to have sealed the fate Of the buffalo on
the plains. For the past two years N
discriminate slaughter has been going
on, and the DeRrer Ne,rs estimates that
millions Of these animals have been
killed during that time, simply for
their hides. These are rather high fig
ures; but that paper cites as an instance
Of wholesale slaughter the fact that
one party of sixteen hunters killed 2S,-
900 buffaloes during the past summer
The hides alone were utilized, and the
plains are said to be dotted in some
places with the carcases Of the animals.
1t Is stated that there are at least two
thousand hunters III camps waiting for
the buffalo. The price of buffalo hides
has been greatly reduced by the large
supply in the market. Two years ago
a hide delivered at a railway station
was worth three dollars; now a distinc-
ton Is made according to the size of
the hides, which are worth from one
dollar to forty cents each.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
THE Chicaqo Times of The Sth inst

THE Chicago Times of the Sth inst.
says: 'The reformers in Minnesota
have commenced the work of retrench-
ment early in the session of the legis-
lature Senator Donnelly on yester-
day went for the first steal that
showed its head, which was, of course,
the stationery and postage stamp lar
ceny, that is as old as the State He
showed that the cost of stationery last
year was S4,l97, and the cost of post
age stamps, envelopes, etc. A frac-
ton over $500. After a stubborn
fight, he succeeded in carrying his res
olution, which was that the cost of
stationery be limited to $500 for the
session. A good beginning; may it
not have a bad ending.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10

DIES MONIES, Iowa, is the home of
the oldest woman, living If she isn't
the Oldest, she certainly ought to be-
Her name is Coleman. She is Of the
colored persuasion, and was born down
in Ole Virginny," A. D. 1757, making
her at present one hundred and fifteen
years of age. She is able to walk about
the house and perform light chores;
her sight is good, and her memory ap-
parently unimpaired by age. She has
been q resident of Des MONIES for the
past thirteen years, living with grand
sons, Carriers by name, and BARRIERS by
profession.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-01-10
State of Tennessee, Hardin Co.

Andrew j. Kelly vs.. Holman Bird.
IN THIS CAUSE IT APPEARING BY Az
| fidavit that the defendant, Holman Bird, is
Justly indebted to the plaintiff, and is nOn-reSi
dent of the State, that ordinary process OF law
cannot be served on him, and an ginal attach
ment having levied ON his property, it is there
fore ordered that publication be made in the
Union and American, paper published in the
CITY of Nashville, for four consecutive weeks,
commanding the said Holman Bird to appear
before me, or some other acting Justice OF the
Peace of said county, at my dwelling in the
eighth civil district OF Hardin county, on the
Dist day of February next, and make defense to
said suit or it will be proceeded with eNparte.
Jan. 3, 1874 HENRY AUSTIN, j, z.
j. & j. ID. McDOugal, Solicitors for Plaintiff
;opln a e-ur2t