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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-12-19

Going North-i1:15 a. m !; 1898 p. IN.
Going South-7:30 a. m; % p m.
Palace Sleeping cars, owned and operated by this
line accompany all night trains.
CONNECTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
cat Burlington with Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw R'y
with Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy r. r., for Chi
caeo. Keokuk, Quincy and ST Louis West to Ottum-
wa and all points In Kansas and Nebraska, and with
Bloomfield and all points in Missouri ard Kansas
At Columbus junction, with Chicago d South
western Railroad foW ashington and Leas enworth.
At Nichols with Mnscatine Division b. G, X .& n.
for Muscatine.
At West Liberty, with Chicsgo, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad, for Iowa City, Desmoines, and
Davenport.
At Cedar Rapids. with Milwaukee Division Of B,
OR & NJ for Independence, West Union, Postville,
ana McGregor; with Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way, for Omaha. Council Bluffs and Chicago, and
with Dubuque & Southwestern r ~ for Dubuque.
At aterloo and Cedar Falls, w.t. Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad for Independence Dubuque, Fort
Dodge and Sioux City.
At Shell Rock with Stage for WaYerly.
At Nora junction, with Milwaukee g. st Paul
Railway, for Mason City and Charles City.
At Plymouth with Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
for all points in Minnesota.
At st Paul, for all points on Northern Pacific
Railway, the great Lake Superior region, and al
points North and Northwest.
f. WINSLOW, Gen'l Manager.
C. J IVES. Gen'l Pass. & Ticket Agent,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
"NoTIoE CHANGE rs
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WILLIAM JACk6ON
howard D. SWEENEY.
SWEENEY & JACKSON.
G., M. KELLER. MI. D.

ATTORNEYS AND CoUNsELLoRs AT law
- oItce-Cor. Eagle and Illinois streets, RccE isl
aud Illinois. i1-1sd1y
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Goodyear Rubber Curlsr Coz,
P. o, Box 6,156. 697 Broadway, New y ORR.
RUBBER GooDs OF EyERY DESCRIPTION.

Mr. Drake of the ARGUs, while in New York. care
fully inspected the above described Pocket Gymna.
stun, and found 1t to be stated by GOODYEAR
Rubber Curler Co., who are houorabe and reliable
Please state IN what paper you saw This advertiser
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N. eIUkHEDN. LINlAN ADAl
STURGEON & ADAMS.

ATTORNEYS AND CoUNsELoRs AT LAW.
n Office in Mitchell g. Lynde's block, Rock Island
III. Have complete set Of Books Il Abstracts
Title Of Lands IN Rock Island County.
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Watches to the su
periority of the
Nickel Movement
w atches, made by
the Meesrs. POBEL
g. CoTRvoIsTBR,o OF
Switzerland Gents
and Ladies' sizes
in Stem aud Key
Winders.
Those Watches
have Equilibrium
Escapem'ts. Chro
nometer balance,
Ruby Pallet, tenn
pered and harder
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Centennial Reduction
i'm Advertising.

Three thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars
worth of newspaper advertising, at publishers
schedule rates, given for $780, and three months
note accepted in payment from advertisers of re-
sponsibili:y. printed list, giving Name, Char
acter, Actual Daily and Weekly Circulation, and
Schedule Rates of Advertising, sent free to any adj
dress Apply to Geo. P RoweI & Co., Newspaper
Advertising Agents, Al Park Row, New York.
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McELHERNE & O'MARA,
CHARLES w. O'NEIL,

A TToRNEYs AND CoUNsELoRs AT LAW
4 and Solicitors in Chancery Office opposite
Rock Island House. Rock Island, III. S-30dw1y
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BUSINESS CARDS.
InEN 3. EAwLEY.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
n oflce in Bengston's Block, Illinois St, Rock J.
and. Illinois 3-13d&w6m
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ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW and
n Notary Public. Office over First Nstiona
Bank, Rock Island. 5-13dw6m
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WATCH BUYERS ATTENTION

The undersigned respectfully directs the after >
ton of parties contemplating the purchase CT
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-11-23
ANDREW.

A St. Louis law Journal gets in this
unintentional dig ut Minnesota's distin-
guished son, the minister to Sweden,
who is the author of the book in question
IA young gentleman in Washington,
Texas, acknowledges receipt OF the last
Docket, likes our list Of secondhand
books, and suggests that he would like
to review a tew of them in his local pa
per, if we will send him the books free.
Andrews on the Revenue Laws is about
the only book we want reviewed enough
to give it away. 1t won't sell at at so
cents. but we think it would stand re-
viewing very well."-S. Paul Dispatch.
This man, Andrews, who was the
butt for the ,iests ofall parties in MINES
sofa. and who exhausted his genius in
an essay upon the baking Of white beans!
has been for eight years kept in the
highest official positioniever given to
citizen OF our state, for the simple reas>
on that he acted on An important occas-
sion rs the tool OF Elihu Washburn and
was paid with q 900 in cash and tor
eign appointment.
This is the most shameful chapter in
Minnesota's political history.
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laws and such tremendously tenacious
grip as human greed.
HAY FOR FUEL.
The Worthington Journal says

The Worthington Journal says:
..Our reporter went down to Mr.. Sut>
toms Okabena Mill last night to witness
the operation Of generating steam by the
use Of slough hay. Yesterday was spent
in preparing the furnace for the recep>
ton Of the pressed bales Of about one
hundred pounds each. The fire was
started about five o'clock ,and the engi>
neer reported sixty pounds of steam in
sixty minutes-fully as quick as that
amount OF steam could be raised with the
best wood and coal. It has been found
that one ton will last four hours-six tons
per day. It is, of course. too soon to
give an exact estimate of the cost of this
kind of fuel, but enough is known al
ready to demonstrate that it is more
economical than either wood or coal.
eve congratulate Mr.. Sutton on his
success, in solving this question, and we
are glad, too, that market is found at
our own doors for our superabundant
prarie grass
Hay and straw are being extensively ly
used in the great prairie regions OF
Iowa and Minnesota for fuel. They cost
less labor to prepare than wood, even
where wood is abundant; and where it
is not, they constitute an excellent sub
Stitute.
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WHO rs DEAD?

Donnelly and Pat Child can now console
each other again. Both are dead ducks, killed
seven times over and riddled through and
through, both are reformers, one is s'nobody's
child" and the other "Child" appears to be-
longs to nobody also.--- GAINESVILLE Argus,
1t is pleasure to know that the edi>
tor of the Janesville Argus belongs to
somebody lis owned, body soul and
brains, (what little he has,) by some
scurvy politician; and that he has not q
single opinion, thought or principle that
he dares to call his own. And he is
proud of it. Proud of the harness, the
whip and the driver.
If Pat Childand Ourself are the only
independent editors in the state, so much
the worse for the state and SO much the
greater honor tor us.
AS to Our being killed "seven times"
etc Wewill only say, that our dead
carcases have more life in them than
there is in 200 of the halt-dead-and- alive
ring editors OF the Argus stripe, who
dare not sneeze except as some congress-
man takes snuff.
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WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
The Irish World well saws:

Inc irish w OrlQ We'll says:
1.-The prospect of victory in the not far
distant future is far brighter than was
the sky that looked down on this country
a century ago. Pay no attention TO the
sneers of small wits atthe "Rag Baby"
Look back into history. Look back into
the storm chased forces of Washington!
Defeated in the fed, but still unbroken
in spirit, in want of clothes, in want OF
shoes, in want of food; deficient in mills
tarv stores, laughed at abroad sneered at
at home, with majority OF the colonial
newspapers in the service of the enemy
with the artillery of England thunder
ing on their tlanks and the Tory forces
as q fire in their rear, the Ragged"
Continentals went into winter quarters at
Valley Forge There amid the storm,
they organized for victory. To those
same despiscd aud ragged" patriots the
power Of Britain afterwards surrender-
ed, The nations hope is once again in
winter quarters. But let us take heart
Here and let us begin to organize, and
ii we only drill and discipline ourselves
for the ''irrepressible contlict"-it the
stuff is in us to enable us to make some
sacrifices-we shall. going forth with
uplifted banners. march on once again
to assured victoryn
We can not see any part of the country
the slightestest indication that the 1nde-
pendents propose to give up the fight.
Th ose 10000 votes for Peter Cooper are
u grand encouragement.
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ORGANIZE. ORGANIZE.
The Irish World saws:


Persons who want to see nothing but torches
and to hear nothing but drums and horns can't
understand this Greenback movement. But
they who think in their closets understand it.
Six months hence onr brave torchlight bear
ers-unthinking slaves Of the Office hunters
will gather in crowds about the office holders
demanding bread; .'Bread or BIood.'' And
for bread the politicians will give them stone.
But what is to be done to liberate this coun-
try from these evilse Educate the people
And how are tha people to be educatedi You
who have studied the Greenback question
can do it. Organize Greenback clubs in every
city, town, and village ofthe land. You, read
er must begin the work. Ii there are but two
others besides yourself in your locality, in
known sympathy with the movement, cali on
them and suggest the organization Of a club,
and commence operations at once. Don't be
discouraged. Every movement Is small and
contemplate in its inception. Begin the
work! Meet at stated places on stated nights
in the week.
With l7O. 900 votes in the Uuited States
we have a foundation on which to build
certain success. The existence OF these
10000 votes will encourage four times
that number. next year, to vote the In
dependent ticket.
The nights are long: our people have
little to do during the winter. Organize
a"Cooper Lyceum' In your township.
Have debates. lectures. balls and festivals
during the winter. Combine instruction
with enjoyment; so that when next spring
comes you will know more that YOU do
now. aud be prepared to act and vote
more intelligently.
We will be glad to publish reports the
proceedings OF such lyceums, or any
similar organizations.
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to.McDowell.

to Mcdowell.
s'Nov. !, 1865. Iwant to pav
a compliment to niece of mine who has
taken great interest in our progress, and
was the first lady who saw the outline of
Gus degrees. As priest OF Demeter.
wish you to appoint her as Ceres in our
seventh degree. She is we'll qualified,
every way worthy of the position. and
works faithfully for the cause. The
compliment will be duly appreciated
and a pleasant surprise.
M'Dowell to Kelley.
NOV. Is, 1868-Inclosed L hand you
letter to Sister Carrie A. Hall, containing
her appointment as Ceres in the seventh
degree, which l Iam we'll assured she is
most worthy of. 1t gives me pleasure
as the humble instrument of our order
to make the appointment. / have con-
ferred this, upon her by virtue of the
authority vested in me as high priest OF
Demeter, in recognition Of her services
to our order, and as the first woman who
has taken an active interest init"
cit will thus be seen how easy it was
Tor some people TO get into the body
which assumed absolute control OF 900. :
600 members. In 1870 the Hon. Thom>
as B. Bryan, Il well-known agriculturist
OF this city, advanced the grange S4OO,
whereon the grange elected him mems
ber OF the executive committee Of the
National grange. It is not, however,
believed that Mr.. Bryan ever backed the
grange goat or walked over the plowed
ground"
We Can scarcely believe these state
nents to be true. Certain it is how
ever that the National grange needs to
be reformed in many particulars.
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THE TRUE ISSUES.

The great political battle is over and
the smoke is lifting from the field OF
strife, and already men begin to see
that the real issuesat stake were not those
on which the battle appeared to turn A
leading southern paper says
1.-The election we have just held was
. mighty conflict of interests. The issue
between the two great parties was,
which OF rs shall hold the offices and dis
pense the power and Patronage OF the
nation during the next four Yeas.
by the noise Of the contending politi>
clans the masses have been deafened 70
their own intsrests. By the smoke. and
dust. and dirt eugeadsred upon either
side and hurled at the oppossn4 candf-
dates. the people haye been blinded vi1h
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-11-23
CONQUERED.

The st. Cloud Times, (Dem. } says,
after quoting from our columns:
Mr.. Donnelly was not elected to
Congress in ithe Second District, but
from the following it will be seen that
; although beaten, he is not conquered.
We admire pluck on all occasions, and
Donnelly is certainly chock full of it,"
"Conquered No. We have enlisted
for life. And, brother Mcdonald. we
are lighting your battle as well as our
own. Go among your people and ask
them how much prosperity they are en-
loving. Read the daily record OF bankrupt.
cies. See the pinching want written on a
thousand faces. And then remember
that if the financial policy of the nation
remains unchanged all these things will
be intensified !. hundred fold.
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THE GRANGEAGAIE.
The Chicago Times saws:

The Chicago Times says:
The masters Of the state oranges with
their wives take the sixth degree OF Flora,
(Charity), and compose the National
grange, now in session here. Above
this is the seventh degree of Ceres FAITH
the members of which are known as the
Priests OF Hemeter.
1t consists Of the members OF the Ma,
tional Grange who have served q year
and been elected to this senate Of the
order by members who had alreadv ell
ected themselves. 1t has charge OF the
secret work and impeachment. Pre-
cisely what it is will best appear from
the following extract from Kelley's
book page 63).
at was suggested by Mcdowell to
change this Ca plan providing for the
government OF the order by delegates
elected directly by the membership en-
| tirely, as once we we're fairly started
those now engaged in establishing the
order would perhaps be thrown ever
board. and the whole aim OF our work
changed. Ii the order amounted to any>
thing in numbers designing men would
get control OF it under such plan oi
organization.
This is very frank avowal and ex-
plains how, in an order presumed 10 be
popular and democratic, the absolute
control rests in the hands OF a secret and
self-created senate" The seventh de-
gree, Mr. Kelley goes on to say, is "a
continuation Of an ancient association
once so fourishing in the east. II gave
us all the antiquity we could ask for. and
was received from Mcdowell and his
associates As the controlling degree ol
the order. all others being subordinate
He was accepted as the supreme hea<.
with the title of high priest McDowea Z
it appearsfrom P. q. got the degree fvom
'.the duke, and again, on page 13s, hs
sAy: II told the duke when he lave
ed me with The authority to intsadacs
the degree Of Demelor IN Am1uns !
should have but Httle time 70 a Il
it, So the Absolute control or s'se aa-
erican order rests q : mumslerg
lorned bY doke Il Europe Tsss szsll
sAew how - sboato, veGiee with s.osy.
en-, was undo p: Lettsr Ispaa Ksllsg
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THE INDEPENDENT rOTE.

Peter Coopcr's vote in tho United
States is estimated ut 10000. This is
more than the abolitionists polled in
1910. st. Paul: Honecr-FrcSs.
Yes. The abolitionists in 1910 polled
but 1853 votes ;-Birnev being their
candidate for president.
The vote for Peter Cooper is greater
than the vote for Hale. the abolition
candidate tor president in 1852
This is the way the vote stood:
In lS4o Birney received ,o59 votes.
:. lS44 :. '' 6o,30o :.
). 1852 Hale - l55, ,So5 ..
:. 1856 Fremont =. S74,534
=. 1860 Lincoln l.S67.6l0
The Independent party has polled
a larger vote. after six months Of exis-
tence, than the abolitionists polled after
twelve years of continuous effort.
II the financial action OF the dominant
party does not satisfy the people and re-
store prosperity to our impoverished la
borers. the Independent party will sweep
the nation tour years from now. And in
our judgment. the capitalist class viii
be as slow to let 60 Of Its hold upon its
victims, as the slave-holders were 10
concede the liberty Of tho slave. There
is nothing in this world has such bulldog
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greatly distressed by the Determinations
made against them by the transportation
companies. The Gazette says:

greatly distressed by the determinations
made against them by the transportation
companies. The Gazette says:
Columns have been written in the
newspapers on the subject of freight dis
examinations, meetings have been held,
resolutions have been passed, commits
tees have been appointed and trade has
beenE seriously injured in some direc>
tlons, yet nothing practical has been
accomplished. There is no cohesion or
cooperation in the business community
on this subject. The Merchants Ex-
change has appointed an able man as
Superintendent of its transportation bu-
reau, who has worked faithfully in this
cause the Grocers' Association have q
transportation committee that takes q
turn at it occasionally; the Cotton Ex>
change has a committee on transporta-
tion which has also worked at it, and the
Board OF Trade has. through a commit
tee. given attention to the SUBJECT, but
Notwithstanding all this labor the railway
managers have adroitlv kept these va
rious forces so steadily divided as to
neutralize their efforts and to prevent
any combined and persistent action of the
WAOAS AAOASNuSAAO COLAuluu1Uy Al q UOOy
against freight determinations which
are admitted to be detrimental to the
best interests ofevery business man in
this city. The meeting held yesterday
manifested considerable spirit.and SEEM
ed to be disposed to work faithfully to
accomplish something towards the adj
justment Of freight troubles, and
psssibly out of it there may be in
volved a sufficient unity of action between
the various commercial interests as will
make it necessary for railway companies
to make reasonable concessions. Yet il
remains to be seen whether the skillful
strategy of railroad managers can beat
so intelligent and able body of men as
the St. Louis millcrs."
We would suggest that the millers
form an association for mutual protec-
ton, with a clause in their constitution
that they must not "discuss politics ;
and then resolve that any effort to elect
legislators, congressman or governors
to pass laws for their own protection is
"political action" I
Fancy the millers of the United State:
organized into society, with lot o.
paraphernalia, forms, ceremonies, rib
bons, sashes, degrees and .'priests o
Merida" to do--nothino
Fancy therl turned from their course
and into bankruptcy lest they might hur
some political party.
Bah!
The millers will put an end to al
these exactions and determinations, be-
cause like sensible men, they will unite
all their forces, numbers, capital and in
fluence into one thunderbolt and hurl i
into the faces of their enemies. That i!
what the millers OF Minnesota did yea
or two ago when they offered their en-
tirc shipments Of flour to one road ant
thus broke the ring which had becl
formed to plunder them.
Bnt the farmers! Any knave can Sc
them to tearing each others eyes out b,
appeals to party bigotries. They hav
SO far proved themselves incapable o
self>defence.
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reference to the public veal. By the
lavish use Of money at the drinking SAL
oons, and the false issues dwelt upon by
paid orators, the industrial classes have
been intoxicated to such an extent as to
be oblivious to that phase OF the cam
paign in which their own interests are
wrapped up. The leaders in these con-
flicts use strategey to accomplish their
ends. Anything to overcome opposition
or defeat the enemy is their motto.
When they succeed, the spoils of Office
must reimburse for the wastes of defeat
or the costs of success. To divert atten-
ton from the objective point they seek,
one industry is not unfrequently arrayed
against another, while few prominent
ones from the several industries are
brought in to participate in the profits of
the ring. Thus, by creating stampede
down an old beaten trail. the money-pow-
ers hasconducted another campaign and
received the votes of the peoble to secure
them in their ill>gotten gains.
The interests of this power were
most prominent on both sides, so that, no
matter which should win their purposes
would be served. The great multitude
of producers have been vanquished by
the superior organization, equipment and
skill of their natural enemies-the money
lenders. The South has been led to
believe that political power is what she
most needs; whereas, the facts is that
plenty of money, at low rate ofinterest
would revive her prosperity and render
happy and contented her people.
The North has been persuaded that her
chief interest lay in preventing the polit
ical success of the South; whereas the
great question that underlies all indus
trial activity both North and South, with
out which commerce must languish anc
decay and civilization retrograde, ha'
been ignored and set at naught."
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Anti- i-9}lu1lupolist.
lcNATlUS DONNELY Editor.
THE WHEAT CROP.

Wisconsin will have 3,425. 900 bushels of
wheat Of this years crop to export, which is
a small showing for the 100000 acres sown
with that cereal.
Less than two bushels to the acre! And
vet wheat rules comparatively low.
WHY? Because the demonetization OF
silver has increased the purchasing pow
er of the gold dollar, so that it is an
equivalent tor greater amount OF
wheat. Iowa has no wheat to sell :Min>
nesota has about one>third her usual
crop England needs 105 100000 bush-
els, and yet wheat rules low. 1t should
be worth 81 so in the markets OF Min
nesota .ins tead or from 80 cents to 81 90.