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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
GRAsSHOPPERS A BLESSING.
iron the Worcester Spy.l

through Georgia created less devastation than the
marcn OF the prasshoppers through Kansas.
GRAsSHOPPERs A BLESSING.
from the Worcester Spy.l
Some OF the Missouri people having tried the
grasshopper as an article OF diet ma thas ne mas
great merit hitherto inexperienced IN TINS couu-
try though iI rs unueTsl God that John the Baptist
ayailed himself OF It during his soJourn IN the
wilderness, and uncivlllZed people In various
parts or The world have also found IL better 10
make an INVASION Of locusts season OF feasting
than OF starvauon. Wishing 10 test thoroughly
the detetIc capabilities OF these insects, certain
ladies and gentlemen OIL Warrepsourg SAL
down one day last week 10 locust nln-
ner the nrst course, grasshopper soup,
was tasted with some mlsglvngs, Whlcn
were dispeed, however. Inc party res
OlntelY suppressed their Quaims, made faithful
trial OF the DISH, aud agreed mat ~ tasted IKE
chicken soup with a dellcate mushroom nayor.
The next course was batter cakes, through winch
locusts had been well mixed. PreJudlces mad
already been conquered, and THESE dehcacies
were dlspasslonatelJ judged. and without dissent
approved. lnen a dish Of baked grassnoppers,
plaiu, was presented ana pronounced excellent
Inc crowning glory OF the least was dessert "a 10
John the BapIlst,n baked locust and honey. IL was
the unanimous verdict oi the company THAT the
great foreranner had no reason 10 complain OF
his diet Ia the wilderness. the guests az THIS Qua
banquet were not only satisfied hut enthusiastic.
We 40 not near that they passed resolutions IN
honor OF John the Baptist, whose example had
taught them TO turn terror and pest into
Blessing, but they did declare that henceIorth
they should .esteem grassnoppers q luxury 10 be
classed with oysters, trutiies, mushrooms, &c.n
They believe tnat III future the advent or the
locusts Will be cause OF thanksgiving instead or
mourning q benedcent gifJ OF nature. As evil
dence Of the readiness OF the arrensourg people
10 accept ne culinary and detetc innovation Il is
stated that baker OF that town has advertised
for 500 bushels OF grasshoppers, 10 be de-
livered immediately NJ the present market
price, IS bhshel. The first invoice or this sea-
sons crop OF grasshoppers has already been sent
10 ST. Louis, and an active demand Is expected
from that city. at present, while the locusts are
IN tae wIngless condition. and can be captured
without difficulty, II Is estimated that eacn acre
considerably more than the average yield OF wheat,
while the nutriive value OF the insects IS not less
than rnat oil wheat busnel for busnei. When this
CROP which needs no planting or CULTIVATION, IS
harvested, tine land Is available Tor other uses and
may be made TO give on additional profit
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
OHIO.
From the Toledo Commercial, June AL
-. -. -. -.

From the Toledo Commercial, June AL
SPREADING THE EVIL M MAIL
Speaking Of the practice or sending packages OF
Western grasshoppers through the mails, wbicn
we early took occasion to denounce, the Van
Vert bulletin states that Il Is informed BY an
agent Of the mail service between Chicago and
Crestllne "that ne emptied from mail Gag rev
dsJs ago ooxi with glass cover, containing
i've arassnoppers. The glass was broken by com.
lug ia contact with tue taoie, anu the 'n0ppers
hoped ia every direction lie caught aud killed
al ne could nnd but q NUMBER escaped, and tue
agent aya tnnt nearly every mali carries pack.
ages Of these pests. Inc matter IL well worIay Of
the attention OF TINS Post once Department.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
rxpIAN TERRIToRY.

says . Fort Gibson despatch Of the 10; i---Nlil-
ions or grassnoppers essayed their new wings on
sunday. rising ike swarms or bees, and started
IN 4 westerly direction. me air Was nled IKE
cloud over tae sun as ten O'Clock. Tue Grand,
VerdIQFis and Arkansas rivers we're covered Nisn
the dead hOppers that iailed 70 ~ across 81 the
START. We BID tnem adieu without pang % re-
Qrcf.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19

The spring exhibition OF the Queens County
Agricultural society Will be held az MineoGa Oh
the 22d ana 24tn inst. Arrangements are being
made for an extensive display OF articles Of inter.
est, not only 10 the farming AMI gardening elasa
bnt to tae general Dablle ~ WE'LL
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
UTAH
UTAH.
2ArT Iawu Iunafg 1874

The weather is warm and the crops throughout
the TERRITORY are IN splendid condition. The dam.
aye done Dy the crlcAets 10 the southern part or
tho TERRITORY u slight.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19

this subject They may DE assured that the foe Is
quite worthy OF their Steel Sherman's march
through Georgia created less devastation than the
marcn OF the prasshoppers through Kansas.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
New line of ladies' underwear at very
low prices, at
WADswoRTH & PARsoNs's.
NOTES HERE AND THERE,

r.. C. Westbrook, of Sabula, called at
the city clerks Office this morning and paid
$500 for the horse ferry, according to
agreement, and he will have the boat towcd
up by the first steamer. All right.
On Saturday evening, at Bremen, Ind.
young man named William Cox died OF
congestion of the lungs, caused by his re-
ceiving an accidental blow from ball
while engaged in game of baseball,
President Warner, of the street rail-
road, has gang of men employed putting
in a new switch on Rock River street. be-
tween Dock and Adams. Also another en-
larging the stables at Centre station.
The Salem Mass Post thinks that if
George Washington himself had only been
cross-examined by Judge Fullerton before
he died, it would have turned out that he
really lied about the CHEEKY tree, after all.
A colored congregation in Dayton,
Ohio, have decided to forgive their clergy
man for betting on three card monte and
losing $50 of festival money One of the
deacons remarked: I'VE are all human.
ana de game is very exciting"
"A sklff containing four men was cap.
sized in the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa.
Sunday One of the number, man nam
ed Joe Neal, was drowned. and the others
barely escaped, having been rescued after
a long and desperate struggle.
Some valdals, on Saturday night about
eleven o'clock, threw some bricks through
the dining room windows of the Burtis
House, in Davenport. and also through the
windows of the railroad depot, In Daven-
port, breaking about eight panes of glass
The rascals got away before being discov-
cred.
Judge Dickey, in reading from law
book the other day, in Chicago, dropped
on sentence commencing: 1T would re-
quire an Ajax or Ulysses" etc.. where
upon he raised his eyes from the page and
observed: Il do not mean the present
Ulysses. This disturbed the gravity of
Judge Williams and all the rest present.
MIR. Fries has admitted his son-in-
law, Mr.. Henry Schmidt, to partnership
in his business, and his customers will re
ceive renewed and careful attention. Mr..
Fries's business has grown to such proper
tons that he needed an interested party in
the store, in order that he conld be little
more outside. The house is one of the old
est and best in the city. See advertise
ment
"A team belonging to Nicholson & Ca
hill, manufacturers of agricultural nipple
ments, of Cedar Rapids, became frighten-
ed at the street sprinkler this morning in
front of Mitchell 4 Lynde's bank, and a
horse tied to the rear of the wagon pulled
back while the other two pulled forward,
thus pulling the box off the wheels The
horses attempted to run but we're stopped.
Damage trihing.
The noted publishers, the Harper
Brothers, of whom only one of the four re
main alive lay all their success to their
having had loving mother of strong Chris
tan principles, and father in easy cir
cumstances, who helped them as best he
could at the start. "A Christian mother
and father who helped as best he could
at the start !" Parents there is whole
commentary in that sentence.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
DISCUSSION
OF THE
BEECHER-TlLTON SCANDAL
FORRInDRN
IN THIS OFFICE

1t pleased the reporter to see this evil
dence of desire to avoid conversation
upon subject which is doing much to de-
moralize the whole country. THE ARGUS
has waited and hoped for some explanation
of the conduct of Mr.. Beecher and Mrs.
Tilton which would establish their inno-
cence of criminal intimacy, and
has purposely avoided the publication Of
the details of this sickening scandal, which,
for three months, have filled many news
papers in the land. For months and
months Plymouth church, Tlton, Wood
hull, the free lovers, etc., have been wash
ing their dirty linen before the gaze of the
public,to the infinite injury of public decen'
cy. Newspapers have carried it to every
breakfast table, every house, home, libra
ry, Office and shop in the country
Men and women discuss it in their faml-
lies; innocent young girls and boys read II
and talk about it; church members every
where discuss it; Sunday school children
talk it over, and our school pupils are full
of it. All discuss it with partisan yea
and with no good result, either to public
or private morals. The whole population
have become familiar with the vile scan
dial, SO much so that it brings no blush Of
innocence to the cheek of young or old tC
talk about the temperament, passions anG
probabilities of what Beecher would Of
would not do; of the frailties and weak
nesses of poor human nature of the love-
of Mrs. Tilton of the scandals of tn
free lovers, etc., etc, land it is gratifying t.
notice the high moral stand taken by tn
head of one of our large manufacturing es
adjustments in forbidding any discussion
Of the scandal in his Office.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
o'sRIEN HELD IN $1,000 FOR sTABsNe
MATHEWS.
Mcmahon Held in $500 as a Witness
Both go to Jail.

Yesterday, Marshal Halves was busy
looking for some one who saw James
Mathews stabbed, on Sunday night. Late
in the evening he arrested and took to lis
office man named Patrick McMahon, who
had been telling several persons that he
saw the whole thing. When questioned
Mcmahon at first denied knowing anything
about the affair. A man named Baxter
informed the marshal that it was Jack"
the partner Of Mathews, who stabbed him,
and that he saw him when it was done.
At this the marshal told NIcMahon that he
would have to lock him up. He then ad-
mitted that he saw Mathews's partner do
the stabbing, and that Mathews had also
said: II never thought my partner
would do this" Mcmahon was taken to
Jail.
This forenoon O'Brien and McMahon
were brought before Magistrate Chopper.
Mathewswa not able to appear. O'Brien
denied any knowledge of the affair. Nc
Mahon admitted that he saw the stabbing,
but said he was drunk at the time and
would not swear that OBrien was the man
who stabbed Mathews.
O'Brien was held in 81 900 bonds to await
the result of the injuries, and Mcmahon
in bonds of $500 to appear as witness at
the examination. They both went to Jail
in default of security.
Evidently both of them know more
about the affair than they want to tell.
DrCraig thinks Mathews will be able to
be brought into court by tomorrow, al
though his wounds are still very serious.
He thinks the cut in the breast went
through the bone.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
Water Works N otes.

In several streets, where the number of
water-takers was small and not likely, when |
the works were built, to be much increas-
ed, the commissioners laid down only 2 |
inch pipe. That was the case on Washing |
ton street south of Illinois. The commits |
sioners are relaying that small pipe. This |
is wrong. The pipe is too small, and they
will have plenty of inch pipe to put in
place of the inch pipe if they would man
age differently. The 4 inch pipe on Or
leans street and at some other points, when
taken up,is to be replaced with inch pipe.
They should leave the streets now supplied
by inch pipe until the 4 inch pipe is taken
up. and then put that down where the 2
inch pipe is now used.
There is another piece of useless work
which Mayor Davenport has very properly
put stop to to-day, viz: putting boards
top of the mains. Il was agreed at the
last meeting of the water board, on Mayor
Davenport's suggestion, to put feet of
clay earth top of the pipes; then the best
of the material taken from the trenches
latter separating the rock from it) and
then ell the top of the trenches with
broken rock. Yesterday. somebody com
menced hauling boards to be used in place
of the clay-earth. Mr. Riley don't know
who ordered them. Supt. Boynton seemed
to boss the delivery of the lumber. It will
cost at least thousand dollars for lumber
for this purpose, and it is useless expense.
Every time new water-taker makes con-
nection with the main, these boards must
be cut away, and very soon they will exist
only in spots. Not SO with the clay-eartb,
or saw-dust or cinders-that material can
be replaced. Mayor Davenport has done
right in stopping the lumber business and
insisting on the clay covering as agreed at
the last meeting of the board.
8 The people are not in good humor with
the water commissioners for keeping theil
proceedings so private. The only meeting
they have had lately, as far as known, was
the one called not long since by the Mayor
They should meet regularly at least once
week during the progress of the work
now being done, and agree where to work
the next week, discuss the work as it pro-
crosses, and get the views of all the mem
bers, and work in harmony. No one mar
knows it all,-but consultation anc
discussion and an effort to do the
e very best thing will be productive Of good
And the meetings should all be public
notices when they are to be held should b.
n handed to newspaper reporter, and thel
y the official proceedings should always b.
published in full. The people have RICH
to know everything that is done or talke'
about in these meetings. and good man.
4 people are hoping that the Mayor wi
# again remove portion of the board an
! secure better material, men in harmon
7 with the people and their interests.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

PURIFYING THE BLOOD. The principle
Of habitua!ly purifying the Blood in the
Spring and Fall is good A thorough
renovation of the system is necessary to
remove accumulated impurities, and adapt
the system to the climatic and dietetic
changes of the season. CRUMBS PERUVIAN
Alternative will efectually accomplish
this. It is as valuable for removing
Blotches, Pimples, Boils and Eruptive
disorders as it is wonderful in it's cures of
Scrofula, Venerial and all Chronic Blood
Diseased, 1t is the greatest Blood Puri-
fer known to the age. This preparation,
while it thoroughly cleanses ali impurities
from the system, also from its tonic and
strengthening properties invigoIates and
exhilarates the system.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
Personal

Hon. Ira O. Wilkinson, of Chicago, is at
the Harper House.
Deacon Joseph C. yelling, who knows
a thing or two about Singers celebrated
machine silk, is stopping at the Harper
House. 1t is told, quietly, that he arrived
in the city on Saturday, and oversight
himself on Sunday morning, when Mr.. G.
E. Conover,. of New York, sent a police
man to his room to wake the great sleeper,
with the information that city ordinance
required all strangers TO attend church.
The Deacon was astonished, and Conover
says it is the first time in twenty years
that Joseph was ever in a church. The
joke had good effect, as he has deter
mined TO spend his Sundays in Rock Is
land, hereafter. and yesterday he was
around inquiring which church in the city
Ii the most aristocratic. He was referred
to the religious editor of the Uaion,-the
good little David.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

The steamer Diamond Joe will be down
tonight
Tomorrow, the Belle of Lacrosse up
and the Red Wing down.
The Damsel leaves in the morning for
Keokuk.
The river is still falling, slowly. Last
night the water was l0.2 above low water
mark; this morning, 10. ! and at noon to-
day 1905.
The negro who was so badly cut with a
razor on the steamer Northwestern the
other day, has since died. His murderer,
Touey Parks, was arrested at Lacrosse on
the Sth. and is now in Jail in that city.
Parks is said to be one of the most danger
men on the river.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

Seven or eight boys were rushingaround
the postoffice SATURDAY, beaded by yell
low-haired youth who was saying
All want in this world is to lay my
hands on him y
He presently came upon boy weighing
about ten pounds more than himself, and
rushing at him he exclaimed:
Did you lick my brother Ben p
eyes, | did, replied the boy, drop
ping his bundle and splitting on his hands.
"Well, continued the other lad, backing
slowly away, he needs licking once a
week to teach him to be civil" Detroit
Free Press.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

The work of cleaning up Main street,
has commenced and the citizens are hap
by.
Assessment progresses slowly, and it
will take sometime to get the list ready.
Great interest is felt in the next spell
ing match between Rock Island and Hen
~ counties. and all express themselves as
bound to succeed.
Yesterday afternoon, a hunchback,
named Ahmeeke, came from Davenport,
in two horse wagon-he had too much
benzine aboard and drove recklessly
through the streets, terrifying pedestrians.
Marshal Wells kindly cared for him over
night, and this morning he was fined S.
and costs, (which he paid,) and went home
to reflect over the uncertainty attending q
frst-class drunk.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
The New Church.

The Broadway Presbyterian church So
ciety has organized Sunday school. DR..
Stewart is superintendent HI Mitchell,
assistant superintendent VIM. Ell. Trues-
dale, secretary; r. G. Hoyt, treasurer, land
Miss Lucy Buford and Fred H. Plummer
librarians. An infant class. under the care
of Mrs. W, c. WEIGH, was formed two
bible classes of adults, under the charge of
Messrs. d. F. More and III. L. Mitchell, land
several classes of children, under compc-
tent instructors,
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
The Schiller Disaster.

1t is now reported that only Is persons
were saved from the Schiller, and only one
from Davenport-Mr. G. Frahm. Some
800 to $40 persons swallowed up by the
ocean in a moment. Nearly all were we'll
o.do naturalized or native born Ameri-
cans, going for a summer excursion to
Germany, to visit relations and friends.
Thousands of peoDle mourn their loss.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
True Tnwardness is a Fine Thing. but
It Won't Always Work.
From the COurier-JOu


On the whole, Murat Halsteds scheme
of third-party movement, looking to
nominate Charles Francis Adams tor
President, and by getting him early in the
field to force the regular Republicans to
take him just as the Democrats were
forced to take Greeley, does not strike us.
That scheme cannot be executed twice
and on different political sects. 1t failed
badly in ~, and it will fail worse in '76.
Still there is much true inwardness in it,
and true inwardness is good thing.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

DR.. Gait stepped on a single plank,
which had been laid across the water pipe
trench near Copp's livery stable, on Sun
day evening. The plank broke and the
doctor fell into the trench, bruising the
right leg considerably.-Union.
The DR.. says, with some trifing correc,
tions, the above will do. /. 1t wasn't ia
water pipe trench, 1T was an excava-
ton for some other purpose and was about
5 feet wide. 2. 1t was near Bleur's sa.
loon. 3. 1t was Friday, not Sunday. ~
4. There we're two or three pieces of
board laid over the acknowledgement "a
single plank" 5, One of the pieces of board
broke and let him partly down on one side.
6. He didn't fall into any trench With
these corrections, the DIR. thinks the item
will pass.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

The Administration has been seized
with sudden fit of distillery on the brain,
and distilleries and rectifying houses were
yesterday seized in Chicago, Cincinnati and
other places, and revenue officers charged
with being in the interest of distillers and
with them defrauding the government of
revenue. The plan will probably result
in squeezing money out of the distilleries-
for the ring, but not for the Z. S. treas
ury.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
Verdict for Mrs. Valandschoot of SO, =
6zE

The Vanlandschoot case was given to
the jury this afternoon, and at 4 o'clock a
verdict for $3,675 for the plaintiff was rem
dered. The jury were out about two
hours. Kenworthy & Beardsley for COM
plainant, Gest & Parks and Connolly &
McNeal for the city.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11
A commsndahle Example.

Now and then an ARGUS reporter STUN
bles over curious items, not only OF actual
occurrences but curious mental phenome-
ma, of which the following is sample
Stepping into the Office of Buford's PloW
Works to-day he saw suspended in con
spicuous place over the desk Of the presi
dent of the company handsome placarc
on which was printed, in large letters, the
following:
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

Vests Pulmonary Balsam. This is a
rich and pectoral palsam of the most heal
ing, softening, and expectorating qualities,
and has been given in thousands Of cases
with singular success. The extraordinary
power it possesses in Immediately reliev-
ing and eventually curing the most obsti-
nate cases of coughs, colds, hoarseness,
whooping cough, bronchitis, asthma, in
fuenza, and all pulmonary diseases. is al
most incredible. Sold by all druggists.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

KIDDER's AsTHAMA PAsTILEs have,
without any putting or extravaganza prom
Use, quietly worn their way to public favor,
and now are affording sure relief to thou
sands. Their grateful odor and quick eff
feet render them peculiarly acceptable, as
the patient is relieved from the most dis
tressing symptoms while inhaling a de-
lighttul perfume. Price 40 cents by mail
Stowell 4 Co. Charleston. Mass. 1926
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

Ladies, do you want a handsome com
plexlon? Vt course you all do. Well,
then send tor a box of A. J. Pozzoni's
"Medicated Complexion Powder" 1t will
remove freckles and sunburn, will allay all
irritation and impart to the skin beauti-
full transparent whiteness. 1t is sold at
wholesale and retail by A. j. Pozzoni, st.
Louis, No., and by E. Breunert, Emil
Kehler, c. Speidel, and Benser & Thorn
as, Rock Island ll-I4dly.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

Hegeman & Co.'s TOLU AND LIVER
WORT EXPECTORANT, a speedy and
certain cure for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis.
aud all diseases of the throat and lungs.
1t is pleasant to the taste and acts speed
lily; the price also is moderate, being only
so cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

Five cents worth of Corbett's California
Soap Plant will do as large a washing as
fifteen cents worth of ordinary soap. For
cleaning floors, woodwork or washing
dishes it has no equal, A trial is invited.
For sale by all grocers.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

1t is well-known fact that the popular
remedies of the day do not meet the wants
of the age in which we live. often inert,
often pernicious in their effect, they are
not reliable; in pleasing contrast to the
bulk of such articles Burdsal's Arnica
Imminent stands out in bold relief, it is a
preparation of unequalled excellence.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-11

MAsoNIc-Special convocation Of Bar
rett Chapter, No. IS, R. A. M. this Tues-
day evening at 8 o'clock. Work on Post
and Most Excellent Degrees. Companions
sojourning in the city are cordially invited.
By order Of the H. 2.
w. L. SWEENEY. Sec'y.