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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-07
Twenty-Third Year.
MEDICAL.
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-07

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In June
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-08-07

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less as to be free from danger; and efficient az
TO be always reliable. They have the highest com
Wendation from all, and will always render stats
faction.
No. Cures Prices in Bones. Cents
FEvERs, Congestion, Inflammation. rs
9 WORMS, Worm Fever, Worm Colic... Is
CRYING. COlic or Teething Of Infants Is
DIARRHGA, Children or Adults. -. rs
DYsENTERY, Gripping, Bilious Collie. 25
CHOLERA-MoRBUs, Vomiting. ....... Is
CoUGHs, Colds, Bronchitis. ........,. 25
NEURALGIA, Toothache, Faceache... 25
HEADACHES, Sick Headache, Vertigo. 25
10 DYSPEPSIA, Bilious Stomach. ........ Is
II SUPPRESSED or Irregular Periods. ... 25
10 LEUcoRRHEA, to Profuse Periods. -. 25
13 GROUP, Cough, Difficult Breathing. %
ID ERUPTIoNs, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas. 25
Is RHEUMATISM, Rheumatic Pains. ... Is
Ii FEVER q AGUE, Chills, Fever, Agues so
II PILES, Blind or Bleeding. ........... so
1S OPHTALMY. and Sore or Weak Eyes 80
10 :" CATARRH, acute or chronic Influenza 50
20 WHooPING-LoUGH, Violent Coughs. 50
21 ASTHMA, Oppressed Breathing. 49,. 90
~ EAR DISCHARGES, Impaired Hearing 80
% ScRoFULA, Enlarged Glands, ,Swellings 81
"a +" GENERAL Debility, y,PhyscalWeakness 80
25 SEA SICKNESS, Sickness from Riding. SO
2S NERVOUS DEBILITY, Involuntary Dis
charges. .........................1 90
% SORE MOUTH, Canker. ............ 30
30 URINARY WEAKNESS, Wetting Bed. so
81 PAINFUL PERIODS Hysteria. ....... 80
80 SUFFERINGs at haDges of Life. ... / 90
33 EPILEPSY, Spasms, st. Virus Dance. 90
81 DIPTHERIA. liberated Sore Throat. so
35 CHRONIC CONCESSIONS and Eruptions 80
Price In vials large size. Soc and 90
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02

Mr.. Stanley has written to the Lon
don Dajiy NcWs II long communication
in regard to the death of Livingstone,
in which he says:
1T Will come out right at last y
he was accustomed to soy to me con
tinually when any reference was made
to his returning home. BY this faith
he breathed into me the strong hope
that he would live to return, until be.
came also firm in the belief that lie was
destined to receive the laurels the
Christian world was ready to shower
upon him in person.
d" It is now asked what he has done
since he left England in 1866, and
| whether all he has done will ever be
made known, and how much of the
knowledge thought to be gained by his
labor is lost? To the first question
would answer that short rCSUHtc
of his discoveries, such as he gave me,
ard such as / obtained from the study
of his map, has been already published.
To the second question | would answer
that copious record of his discoveries,
extending over period of SIX years,
which / brought to England on the %
of August, 1872, is safe in the hands
of Miss Agnes Livingstone, his eldest
daughter. This record begins from
the day he left Zanzibar in December,
1866, to the 18th of March, 1871. 1t
embraces his discoveries from the
mouth of the Rovuma river on the cast
coast of Africa to the Nyassa Lake,
those made from the Nyassa Lake i'll
the new lands west OF Nyassa, i'll the
districts of the Ma-Iitu, the Bobisa,
Bohemia, the Wa Marungu- Cazembe
Rua, Manyuema, Waguhhah, up to
vi il, where he arrived on the ODD of
October, 1871. 1t also contains his
discoveries made while he iourneyed
with me, from about the middle of No
vember, 1871, to the 1Gth of February,
1872, when we arrived at Unyanyembe.
"To ordinary readers all this may
appear very vague, but if / tell them
that Livingstone has tramped n dis
tnnce of $500 miles afoot in that
period they may have a conception of
the value of the journal which now lies
in the strong room Of a Glasgow bank,
and which was sealed by me on the
18th of March, 1871. They will be
prepared to appreciate the treasure
which must now, according to Living
stones instructions, see the light they
will be able to Judge for themselves
what Livingstone has done; of the
length of the journey the brave heart
ACCOMPLISHED.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
(,aribaldi'S IIOnOrS,

According to recent statement in n
London paper, Garibaldi has been pre-
sented, chiefly by Americans, with agri-
cultural Implements of the value of
from II, coo to 1G, 900 lire. He has also
received other presents, consisting of
money, iewelry, etc, to the value of
about 10000 lire, but h: has re-
turned them all to the senders. Carl
baldi is honorary citizen of ninety
towns, villages, and districts, and honor
ary President of 100 societies he has
twenty-one swords of honor, eleven of
which have been sent him from abroad,
and since 1871 he has received upward
OF 5000 addresses of sympathy from
various quarters. The island of Caprera
brings i'll to the General net income
of about 1000 lire.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
Searching for Sunken Treasure.

More Spanish treasure is to be re-
covered after submcrs;On for upward
of $50 years. 1t lies in the harbor of
Vigo and amounts TO about S37 ,0O0,G coo.
1t is stated that this treasure was sunk
in the harbor in September, 1902,
since which date several efforts We're
made to recover it. The discovery of
the diving bell encouraged an English
man named Dickson to make an A.
tempt to raise the vessel i'll 1925 He
found two ships, but gave up the en-
terprise for want of capital. In 1859,
another Euglishman repeated the at
tempt, but failed for the same reason.
In 1869, Col Gowen, an American, who
had distinguished himself by raising
seventy vessels sunk in the harbor of
Scbastopol, was offered the job of
raising the sunkcn galleons for the
Spanish Government, and set to work
to form company to carry out the en-
terprise. Owing to technicaltty in
his concession it was given to Il French
company, but the breaking out of the
war delayed the preliminalies. Since
then, Col. Gowen has purchased the
right of the French company and
transferred it to an American associ.
alton. 1t is probable that the work
will be commenced almost Immediately.
The Spanish Government needs some
such expansion of its currency.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02

assume that there is no point of
view to be regarded as belonging to the
deceased person, and that no one be-
Eeyes that the dead have any interest in
the matter. We who live may anxious
ly hopc-as / should hope at least-to
do no evil to survivors after death,
whatever we may have done of harm to
others during life. But, being deceased,
l take it we can have no wishes or feel
ings touching this subject. What is
best to be done with the dead is, then,
mainly question for the living, and to
them it is one of extreme importance.
When the globe was thinly peopled,
and when there were no large bodies of
men living i'll close neighborhood, the
subject was an inconsderable one and
could afford to wait, and might indeed
be left for its solution to sentiment of
any kind. But the rapid increase of
population forces it into notice, and
especially mans tendency to live in
crowded cities. There is no necessity
to prove, as the fact is too patent, that
our present mode of treating the dead,
namely, that by burial beneath the soil,
is full of danger to the living. Hence
intramural interment has been recently
forbidden-tirst step in series of re-
forms which must follow. At present
we who dwell in towns are able to escape
much evil by selecting portion of
ground distant-iu this year of grace
1S74-some five or ten miles from any
very populous neighborhood, and by
sending our dead to be buried there
laying by poison nevertheless, it is
certain, for our children's children, who
viii find our remains poliuting their
water sources, when the now distant
plat is covered, as it will be, more OF
less closely, by human dwellings,. For
it can be a question of time only when
every now waste spot will be utilized
for food production or for shelter, and
when some other mode of disposing of
the dead than that of burial must be
adopted. If, therefore, burial in the
soil be ctrtainly inj urious, either now or
in the future, has not the time already
come to discuss the possibility of re
placing it by a better process We
cannot too soon cease to do evil and
learn to do we'll. Is it not indeed Il
social sin of no small magnitude to SOW
the seeds of disease and death broad
cast, caring only to be certain that they
cannot do much harm to our own gem
Grafton 1t may be granted, to antici-
pate objection, that it is quite possible
that the bodies now buried may have
lost most, if not all, their power of do
ing mischief by the time that the par
ticular soil they inhabit is turned up
again to the suns rays, although this
is by no means certain; but it is be-
yond dispute that the margin of safety
as to time grows narrower year by year
and that pollution of wells and streams
which supply the living must ere long
arse wherever We bury our dead in this
country.-IOpU'ar Science MOnHly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
Through Many Hands.

In viewing that tiny bit of steel called
q needle, it is hard to realize that seventy
pairs of hands are required to make it
perfect. Seventy pairs of hands to
make needle and each pair necces-
sary to make the needle perfect. If
only one pair refused to do their part,
the whole would be a failure-not a
needle would be right. 1t is painstak-
ing in little things and i'll small parts
which leads to excellence and success.
We are apt to slight bits of work, think
ing it is no matter and of no account.
But it is not so. The details Of plan
must be faithfully carried out in order
to make the plan success. If the
parts of work are all well done, the
whole will be complete, and only then.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02

National safety paper is the name
given to an ingenious and apparently
effective paper, designed 10 secure GER
tain protection against fraudulent al
terations. The original feature of this
Invention is that the surface only of the
sheet is tinted, the body of the paper
being white. This tint is composed of
diluted writing inks hence 1t follows
that any attempt to remove from 1t Or
binary ink-lines, such as signatures,
figures, etc, results in the removal of
the tint also, leaving the surface that
has been tampered with white, and
therefore readily distinguishable, BY
an ingenious application of the tint, the
surface appears to be composed of
Closely ruled lines, and thus its restora-
ton is rendered next to impossible.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
IIuIllOr.

SIGNS of promise-Protestcd notes.
ErIrArH for cannibal-" One who
loved his fellow-men.
Mem. for the ladies-The wcalthicst
man in Chicago is a bachelor.
WHEN is a lunatic like pretty how-
er? When he is q little darcy.
WHEN a lady faints what figure docs
she need? You must bring herr.
"WHy Did He Not Die % is the title
of q novel. We have not heard the an
swer, but believe it to be because he
did not take his medicine.
"WHEN Shakespeare wrote about pa
tience on monument, did he refer to
doctors patients p "No." How do
YOU know he didn't ?" "Becausc you
always find them under monument. -
"Do you go to Sabbath school, my
lad ?" kindly asked city missionary OF
depraved little Dubuque urchin.
Nary" answered the innocent child,
"but I've got fghtin' cock that can
walk over any bird III this town that
wears gat1s.
LITTLE girl" Mamma, ] don't think
the people who make dolls are very
pious people" Mamma" Why not,
my child p Little girl" Because you
can never make them kneel. L always
have to lay my doll down on her stom-
ach to say her prayers.
SAYS wit: "Last year l saw watch
spring, a note run, a rope walk, horse
fiy, and even the big trees leave. even
saw plank walk, and Il Third Avenue
bank run; ; ut t',e other day l saw
tree box, cat fish. and a stone fence.
am now prepared to see the Atlantic
coast and the Pacific slope
A BOY was passing through the cars
of the Erie railroad, the other morning,
with an illustrated copy of Nothing
to Werr." A lady remarked, Il sup.
pose that takes off the ladies?' No,
said n gentleman, cit takes off their
dresses. y "Then," rejoined the lady,
cit is quite proper that a stripping
should sell it,"
MARY had a little lamb,
With whom she used to tuSscl.
she snatchcd the wool all of his back,
And stuffed it ih her hustle.
The lamb soon saw he had bean ilcoced,
Aud in passion flew,
But Mary got upon her ear,
Aud stuffed the lamb in, too.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
You All Know.

A colorcd member of the Florida
Legislature recently had occasion to
come to the defense of. the fish in st.
Johns river, which he did as follows {:
GAS you all know, l am Il member of
this Legislature. And l live in Jack
sonville, as you all know. There are
a great many fishes in the st. Johns
river, as You all know. Some OF them
are big fishes, and some of them are lit
TIC fishes. They swim around there.
As you all know, the people and boys
are after these fishes, and bime by
there won't be any fishes to swim
there. Aud, as you all know, We want
the fishes to stay there. SO | move
that nobody shant take fishes out OF the
river on Sundays, so the fishes can
Lave one day to rest themselves"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
How They Kill Cattle i'm Texas.

\ correspondent of the Baltimore
Imericun says: "The ordinary plan
Of drawing the steer down to the block,
and striking him on the head with an
AK, is too slow for the wholesale butch
cry carried on here. About one dozen
head are driven into a small pen, Just
sufficiently large to hold that number
closely packed, and gate forced to be-
hind them. This pen has an open slat
platform across the top of it, upon
which two men are stationed, with sharp
pointed knives fixed on the end of them.
With rapidity acquired by long prac-
tice, they plunge their spears into the
necks of the aifrighted animals, cutting
| the jugular vein, and each successfully
falls as if struck down with on ak. The
blood spurts out in streams as if from Il
dozen fountains, and i'll less than a
minute the whole penful are down quiv-
ering in the throes of death, and COW
cred with blood. The door of the pen
leading into the rendering room is then
| thrown open, the animals drawn out III
succession, knife rapidly splits the
skin around the neck and down the
stomach A rope is attached to the
upper part of the hide by a clamp, at
the other end of which is a mule, which
leisurcly walks off down the yard, car
rying the skin of the animal with him.
and leaving the carcass still quivering
with animal life. A tackle hoists the
body up to level with the mouth of
one of the immense cauldrons, and IN
less time than we have takento describe
the process, it is in the seething and
boiling mass. There are four or five
of these cauldrons, each large enough
to hold dozen beeves, and they are
kept constantly going during the killing
season. The tallow is drawn off into
hoSsheads, and the remains of these
great soup kettles are carried out to
what is called the "hash pile" consist
ing of bones, horns, and the animal
matter from which all the substance
h1s been extracted.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
Regard Others.

Be kind to all, rich and poor alike.
The great duty of life is not to give
pain; and the most acute reasonor can
not find an excuse for one who volun-
tarily wounds the heart of fellow
creature. Even for their own sakcs,
people should show kindness and regard
to their dependents. They are often
better served in trifes, in proportion
as they are rather feared than loved
but how small is this pain compared
with the loss sustained III all the
weightier affairs of life. Then tho
faithful servant shows himself at once
as Il friend. while one who serves from
fear shows himself us an enemy.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
An Eve 10 Business.

Journalistic riyalries are sharp and
decisive in Chicago. A young man
actiog as a reporter OF the Chicago
Past called to see Mr.. Storey, of the
TImcS, the other day, and asked him if
lie had shot pr. johnson, AZ was ru-
mored. The old man Immediately
pulled of his spcctaclcs, squared round
to the reporter aud replied: Young
man, do you think am fool enough to
10 it in time for the evening papers p
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
ChriStianity.

A valuable table of the statistics of
Christianity is presented in Prof. A. j.
Schcm's " Statistics of the World" for
1873, Just Published in New York and
London. In North and South America,
out of population of 81, 500, 900, A.
Coz, 900 are Roman Catholic, and 3d.
00o, COO Protestants. IN Europe, out of
population Of 30l 900, 900, 147,00O,O 900
are Roman Catholics, 7l,S00,0O0 Prot
estants, and 7c,2o0,000 adhcrents of
the Greek Church. In Asia, out of a
population of 79i 900, 900, 400, 900 are
Roman Catholics, ], 100000 Protestants,
and $500, 900 adherents of the Eastern
Churches. In Africa, out of a poppla-
tion OF 1872, 800, 900, 100, 900 are Roman
Catholics, 100000 Protestalts, and
5000, 600 adherents of the Eastern
Churches In Australia and Polynesia,
out of a population of 400, 900, 400, ,000
are Roman Catholics and 1900, ,000
! Professionals
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
Sumner.

Last July, few days before Mr..
Sumner left Washington to pay his last
visit in life to Boston and the beloved
friend of his youth and manhood, Long
fellow, at Nahant, he said to me : My
life has been battle but it is almost
over. For myself, the sooner it ends
the better. | would like to read the
last proof of what Lee ~ Shepard call
my Complete Works. l want to see
the Civil Rights bill passed. Then |
shall have nothing on earth to stay for.
[ have no dread OF death. l dread
nothing but to survive my faculties and
my usefulness, and such agony as that
which | have just passed. My prayer
is that I may go soon and suddenly. '-
JIuj.U (YCUl3ncr IH1fS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
VOLUME III.
a DRINKING SONG.
by II. W. LONGFELLOw.


Come, o'd friend, st down and listen
From tn" pitcher, placed between us,
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Io,1h h,' H., ;,,"I,r; 10 sat,'rs
or 49,, d., l.,,' ~, ha,,, ;s :,,,,i'o,
po,p1 about ti,, foir p,ocb,r.os
na'i",,r .,,-aai ,,,i 49,,
WilI trn!,, T,ri"" ,,rn,,oo nv laTto's
,rh,,s lao ,,.o,, .,uo,,,,,, ~, .,,o ,,.io,,,
i,tail IN VIZ, an ,i tiiG .r".ao,S'
raro as n,T,,,' ~ ,i. .i'r
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
Beer.

The London Morning Post says
Maine liquor laws are ont of the ques-
ton for England. In the United States
the consumption of beer increased from
$500, 600 barrels in 1S64-5 to 5000, GOO
in 1872. In France. since the increase
of the tax on beer, its consumption has
declined, while drunkenness has also
fearfully spread since that alteration
was made" There is tradition that
beer was first brewed in Pelusium, in
Egypt, "in the year 20l7." 1t is to
be regretted that the invention cannot
be ascribed to Noah, as a sct-ofi to his
discovery of the occult virtues of the
grape. Beer is still brewed in Egypt,
and is called "booza." The surplus
corn of that fertile land perhaps sug-
gested the use of the strong drink. The
word "bere" is derived from the old
Saxon term "berb" or barley. At
present Bavaria is, MS might be expect
ed, among the foremost of beer-drink-
ing nations. She shows Il consumption
of 191 maas "per year and per head. y
Porter and ale were invented about
the year 1870. Before that time ale
was not brewed with hops. Porter was
invented by brewer named Harwood.
England and Bavaria are now the two
t0ci of the brewing world. Our system
adopts high fermentation the Bavarian
method produces a milder and thicker
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02

The streets of Yokohama are wide
and straight. Each house is built of
wood, without an atom of paint, and is
Il real toy-house, genuine Liliputian
Swiss chalet, built with Il taste, nicely
and a neatness which are admirable.
The japanese are wonderful workers in
wood, and it is pleasure to see the
roofs, so light and yet so strong, sup
ported by walls which are made, like
the side scenes III theater, OF thin
strips of wood, over which are pasted
sheets of cottony, transparent paper.
In the evenings, when the lanterns dis
pense their soft light round the inside
of these white buildings, the spectator
seems to be looking at magic lantern.
During the daytime the sides of the
houses are slipped out, as side-scenes
are, and the house becomes only IL root
resting on the four light corner posts,
the whole interior being thus opened tc
the air. Every part OF the house is ex'
posed to view, and everything done IL
1t can be seen, while behind it appear
the charming verdure, the cascades
aud the diminutive plantations of tho
little gardens situated in the rear.
SMALL silk bows are worn in the hail
ON the left side, and also Mt the back o
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
Verbal Criticism.

A London paper rebukes an American
journal for using the word "illy.'
Quoting the sentence enforced CAVITY
lily became her," the critic adds
"Whcn over here she did very welly,
and no doubt on her return will succeed
betterly than in Yankee land, for how
overly muchly they may approve hei
there, here we like her morely stilly."
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-05-02
ALI ihn WAY from Dambmry.

WHAT this country needs Is a TIN ped
dler with red wagon.
Ir is astonishing the amount of noise
a rcd-hair,d 10y Will get ont OF
whistle.
A DANBURY man has brought out
new vCrmifuga with the significant name
of /" The Early Bird"
A LADY faiuiing at the Opcra-Housc,
Thurad.y evening, begged her husband
with her faiiug cath not to forget to
put the mackercl to soak.
y DASBuEy lady of lately acquired
wealth who vi-it1d Dr. Myers, Friday,
t. BE- vaecinatcd, said she wanted the
highest-pr.ccd scab-an Alderney, she
believed.
SOME pcorlc lose their temper uron
the least proyocition. A young man
who was Gil,t siyc to the parents Of II
young lady on Wooster street was
caught there by the irdtc father Sunday
eyosiuc and after being freely cuifcd
on the side Of his head was deliberately
kicked into the street. Gaining his
| feet us soon as possible, he turned
passion-dis,ultcd face back ut the old
Gentleman, and screamed through his
white lips: "You do that again, and
I'll punch your black sEoot for you !"
And immt diatcly left 10 prepare the
punch.