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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-19
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THOMAS YATES.
Enamelled Pipe.
Orleans Street Livery

A HENRY, LIVERY FEED. SALE AND
n, Boarding Stable Parties and Funerals u SDe
ciality. Orleans Street, between Buffalo and ia
gle. Charges reasonable. 12 15d1t
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Several other parties have also applied
for licenses but their bonds have not yet
been approved. though it is probable that
they will be in few days
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. May 10.
Wheat-Unsettled; lower; 041s cash: 05as
June; 053s July; No 3, 94a rejected 8i1a.
Corn-Weak; shade lower; AK cash. 46l4 June
or July.
Oats-Unchanged.
Rve--57065.
Barley72 cash; 50 June
Pork-Weak; 20 80 cash: 20 65 july.
Lard-Weak; - % cash; II 321a a112 35 July.
Whisky-1 071a.
LIVE STOCK.
Hogs-Receipts 1900; quiet; generally steady:
light 05G7 10; packing 9Jt97 05; shipping $50
20; Philadelphias 25
Cattle-Steady; receipts 500; sales to shippers
common to choice 2515 90 generally 4004 IS
sock cattle 50QD4 20: butchers stock 5014 40.
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NJ Fl 2 IbEUN. ITtIAN ADAM
STURGEON & ADAMS.

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELoRS AT LAW
~ Office in Mitchell & Lyndes block Rock Island
~. Have complete set Of Books f Abstracts O
Title Of Lands in Rock Island County.
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Renne's Magic Oil

Why let aches and pains your temper spoil:
A curp is surp hy uslnp
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RHEUM MAMISM-Son. six months could not
walk without the help of a crutch tried physl-
clans and many kinds of advertised cules without
benefit. Six bottles Of FentOn's Matchless Syrup
cured me. CAPT GEO HAND
| SALT RHEUM-Ei-ht bottles made perfect and
permanent cure.
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6. M. KELLER. M. d,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residence cor.
: Orleans and Ohio streets next door to Kphler's
Drug Store. Office over Benser & Thomas Drug
tore Market Square, Office hourf 10 to Il NJ, TO
Pm. T-I4dSWly
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BUSINESS CARDS.
JOHN 3, HAWLEY,

JUHN 3. HAWLEI,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
~ Office in Bengston's Block Illinois St, Rock J.
and. illinois, 3-13dlSw6m
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NO. 50 WEST ILLINOIS STREET.
Next door to Don's Bakery,
between the hours OF and 12 A. M. where the pat
entee or his agent may be found, who will take
pleasure in showing how the work is done.
Send in your orders, and come and see the pro-
cess yourselves.
Parties wishing to engage in o safe and proiita.
Bile business will find it to their interest to call and
examine,
Ut. SHELDON, Pdtentee,
d. G. WILSON, Genl Ag ent,
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Saloon Licenses in Moline $500.

The following saloon licenses have been
issued by City Clerk Walker since the first
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CHAS. FIEBIG,

S PREPARED To DO ALL KINDS OF LOG
| Work; also to repair Sewing Machines.
All kinds of Safe Work Speciality.
Shop on Market Square, west side, south of tn
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Carr THOMAS PENNINGTON,

SCROFULA-From infancy treated by the
best physicians and took everyhody's cure, Two
bottles Matchess syrup cured me.
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SCROFULOUS NECK-Eight years cured b.
Fenton's Sarsaparia, after trying nearly ever,
other known remedy. JOHN McGINITY,
Conductor L d NJ Il II, Cleveland, c.
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and extending over the whole country, upon its
'mert only" And we claim without fear or favor
il is the best family medicine in the world, and
guarantee ii the best blood aud liver and kidney
syrnp ever produced. Send for circulars read and
judge for yourself. We will be pleased to send a
circular TO any person who writes for one.
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StuEENEY & JACKSON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNsELLORS AT LAW
y Ofice-Cor. Eagle and Illinois streets Rock Is
ana, Illinois. 11-1Sd1y
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WATCH BUYERS ATTENTION

The undersigned respectful.
tion of parties contemplating
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SALT RHEUM eleven years al over my body;
took all the blood remedies advertised, and in the
hospital New York, twenty weeks: could not get
cured; six bottles Of Fenton's Mat, HESS 5 Trup
cured me. GEORGE Brown, Cleveland, o.
FEMALE WEAKNESS some six years /; used ev-
cry Alternative known; tried the climate from Mn
nesota 10 Texas: could get no relief: after few
month use OF Fenton's Matchess Sarsaparilla was
cured completely,
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s. RosENHKIM.
A sad, Sad Fate.

The several recent accounts of
persons who were attacked and died
severe deaths from the hydrophobia
occasloned by dog bites many years
previous, have startled many a read
er and aroused his sympathy and
tears. We hoped that we never
would be called upon to chronicle
one of these heart-rending tales.
Many years ago bright and beauti-
full little child was bitten severely
in the arm by huge mastiff as she
held a piece of bread she was eat
ing out of his reach. 1t frightened
the loving parents, of course, but it
soon healed and was forgotten until
recently. In the meantime she had
grown up and married., and her
happy husband and prattling child
ren increased the loving ties which
bound her to life. Reared in af-
1uence, surrounded by everything
to make life lovely, and just passed
into that stage of matronly beati-
tude which is born of peace and
plenty and happiness, loved by all
and adorning the society in which
she moved, twenty-five years from
that unfortunate occurrence, the
sad part of our narrative begins.
She read these narrowing accounts
Of hydrophobia after many years
ana it turned her thoughts to her
own mishap and her heart trembled.
Forebodings crowded into her mind
and troubled her peace, and patiently,
resignedly she awaited her fate, if
it must come. Five years she
waited and II d.dn come, and she
is as hale and hearty now as a steer
and there is no more probability of
her having the hydrophobia than
there is of a lamp-post having the
mumps. The heading to this arti-
Gle refers to the dog. 1t killed him.
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NUM-. II.
FrItz's Troubles.


Fritz has had more trouble with
his neighbor. This time he deter
mined to appeal to the majesty of
the law, and accordingly consulted
a legal gentleman.
How vos dose tings, he said, ven
a feller's got a garden und de oder
valers got some shiekens eat um up!
Don't you got some law for dotr'
Some ones chickens been dstroy
ing your garden? asked the lawyer.
Straw in my garden Nine, it vos
vegetables.
And the chickens committed dep
radiation on them
Ish dot so? asked Fritz in acton
ishment.
And you want to sue him for dam
ages? continued the lawyer.
Yaas, got for temages, und de cab
bages, und de lettuces.
Did you notify him to keep his
chickens up?
Yaas, I Modify him.
And what did he say?
He Modify me to go to haal, und
wipe mine chin down off mine vest.
And be refused to comply with
your lust demand.
Hey?::
He allowed his chickens to run
at large?
Yaas, some vos large, und some
vos leedle valers, but des yust vas
scratchin mine garden more as seben
dimes eech.
Well, you want to sue him.
Yaas, 1 want to sue him to make
Won blank fens up sixdeen feet his
house all around, vot de dam shick.
ems don't got over some more.
The lawyer informed him he could
not compel the man to build such a
fence and Fritz left in a rage ex-
claiming.
Next summer time 1 raise shick.
ems too, you bate. I raise fighting
shickens, py tam! Wipe off your
vest down.
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An Unique Surgical Operation.

We understand DR.. j. G. Roberts
was aroused from slumber a few
nights ago by colored man who
had swallowed a silver half dollar,
and which had stopped at the up
per opening of the stomach. There
being no parallel on record, the
Doctor was left to his own wits to
devise some plan of relief. A cor
rect knowledge of the anatomy and
physiology of the parts soon led
him to a conclusion. Several plans
were proposed, and his friend DR..
Jones jokingly suggested Col. Dave
Cox's ''greenback method;" but as
that was rather novel, he preferred
the following: A large bougie
(No. IA, wrapped with cotton, was
carried down the esophagus with
the intention offorcing the coin into
the stomach; but failing in this, he
forced it to turn upon its axes and
carried the cotton end of the bougie
below it and awaited the efforts of
vomiting to assist him. He gradu-
ally withdrew the bougie at each
effort of the stomach and esopha-
gus to expel it, and at the end of
twelve attempts at last succeeded in
coaxing the hidden treasure from
its resting place into his hand. The
Doctor retains the coin, which bears
the date of 1854, showing that it
had seen a day when it was as cur
rent as corn bread. 1t is a sad ex-
emplification of the tendency ofradi-
cal legislation when our once loved
and current silver coin should be-
come so thoroughly demonetized as
that negroes can frs 40 other use
for it but to swallow It. Tna Doc
tor would have fore II Il CT i5So the
stomach, but he knew It h&d been
demonetized and wouldn't pass.
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zeb orumet's Curse.

dedicated 10 the man who won't pay the
Printer.l
May your eggs be rotten at break
fast, your meat stink at dinner, and
you go supperless to bed.
May the bed bugs pull the com
forts over your head on hot nights,
and walk off with every rag of
clothes in the winter.
May your wife be cross, your ser
want girl prudish, and your neigh
bors fences high.
May your dreams be varied be-
tween embraces of crocodiles and
the acting back stop on the hind end
of a mule.
May you have steel filings in your
eyes and be obliged to use chestnut
burs for eye stones.
May you be speechless and be
obliged to shout for 'coektail.'
May the ghosts of starving edi.
tors and printers devils, gaunt, lea1
and hungry, haunt you constantly.
May your boots squeak and run
down at the heel, and pinch your
corns terribly.
May your horse be balky, your
COW give sour milk, your chickens
get lousy, and your pigs have the
scurvey.
May your creditors never let up
on you, your friends be sent to an
insane asylum, and your enemy
prosper.
May your wife go away with a
circus, your business to ruin, and
you go to Chicago.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-12

Mr.. EDITOR In lieu of a better
correspondent will try to give you
few items of interest from the
Vale Mills neighborhood. Indeed,
such a stirring people should let
themselves be heard from often.
Stirring, did l say? Yes, such a stir
as we have had during the past few
weeks among the marrying men
generally; even the old bachelors
seem to be aroused on the subject;
and now we hear that one of them
is about to Ida-lize at last; but do
YOU see anything Amis-s in it? We
have been jealously watching one
of Pulaskis gallant beaux who oc-
casionally comes this way, not
knowing when he may leave a va
cancy in our midst. We have been
impatiently expecting some of Law
rence's fair flowers to be trans
planted IN our neighborhood. We
trust they may yet be safely housed
before the cold blasts of winter
come upon US, rs they do once Per
year, You know. Is there anything
suspicious in young men buying
buggies? It is so long since we
were yong we cannot tell Mr..
Pagan preached his farewell sermon
at Trinity on last Sabbath. He Is
very much beloved by his people,
and they doubtless would gladly re
ceive him another year.
The hand of afiiiction has been
laid upon the sweet little babe of
Mr.. James Short. Drs. Sumpter
and Alternately are in constant at
tendance on it. Our Doctor was
called to Mississippi a few weeks
ago to attend Mr.. Gus Lindsay,
formerly of this vicinity, who is
still quite low. We feared the Doc
tor would be persuaded to remain,
but it seems he thinks "there is no
place like home"
It is very invigorating these
baimy autumn days to see the busy
farmers. The cotton-pickers 60
merrily to their task, and return
with their Aeecy burdens, only to
hear the greedy gin grumble for
more. We begin to hear the drop
ping Of nuts and patter of leaves in
the forest, and it reminds US that
the Centennial year with its grand
exposition, its political struggles
and official disgFaces, viii soon roll
away with them al, to be remem-
bered with the things that were.
Sept. 26. MINT JULIP.
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For the Citizen.l
Teachers Institute.

A Teachers Institute is a tempo
rary assemblage of teachers for
special drill and Improvement in all
that relates to their profession.
When the sessions are continued
for several weeks these bodies are
denominated Normal Institutes, and
in some instances they have been
called, with doubtful propriety,
Training Schools. An institute diff
fers from an association or conven-
ton both in its objects and in the
methods by which those objects are
to be realized. An institute is, or
should be, a school, and in its or
ganization and management it
should correspond with the latter,
SO far as its special objects and the
circumstances under which it as
sembles will allow. The associa-
tion and the convention are, more
strictly speaking, voluntary delib-
crative bodies, and must therefore
be conducted according to the rules
OF parliamentary law. Their OBJ
jects are of a more general nature
than those of the institute. Their
aim is to discuss those principles
and questions of policy which relate
to the organization and administra-
tion of a system of education. The
objects of the institute, on the other
hand, are more specific and detailed
in their character. In many States
the Teachers Institute is recog-
nized by law as a factor in the pub
lie school system. In some cases
it is aided, and in others it is en-
tirely supported by legislative ap-
propriations, and it is placed under
the supervision and control of
school officers.
Occasionally, attendance upon its
sessions by teachers, is made com
pulsory, and it's operations are in
various ways regulated by statutory
provisions. It's aim is the improve
ment of the teacher in everything
that pertains to the discharge OF
his professional duties, whether
within the school room or outside
of it. 1t seeks, or should seek, to
increase his scholarship by the pre-
sentation and illustration of higher
standards of attainment in the sew
eral branches of study. 1t should
especially labor to inspire him with
a clearer and more elevated concep.
ton of the nature and objects oil
education, and to acquaint him will
those principles and methods oi
teaching and management which Ii,
at the basis of all real success il
this important work. This distinc
ton between the institute and a de
Lucrative body should be carefully
observed, since the former has many
times proved to be disastrous fail
ure, in consequence Of having as
sumed the organization and meth
DDS of management, which more
properly belong to the latter
TEACHER.
Leatherwoood, Oct. Sd.
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Death of General Bragg.

General Braxton Bragg died on
the 9th ult., at Galveston, Texas,
where he had for some time been
engaged in professional duties as a
civil engineer, in connection with
railroad matters. He was about
sixty years of age, and his life
was a most eventful one. His pluck
and determined courage on a GER
tain occasion, when he was a mere
boy, attracted the attention of
member of Congress in his district,
in North Carolina, where he was
born, and through the advice of the
Congressman young Bragg was APP
pointed to a cadetship at West
Point. Here he entered upon a mil
itary career through which he
reached the first rank of the sol
diers of America. His services in
Mexico, especially at Buena Vista,
where his famous battery saved the
day, are part of our national mill
tary history. Bragg and Ringgold
were the first officers to prove upon
the field the wonderful power and
effect of the flying artillery. Their
management and its effectiveness
changed entirely not only horse ar
tillery tactics, but the artillery it
self, throughout the world.
General Bragg's career as a Con
federate general Is too well known
to need recounting. AS a military
man he possessed some very strik-
ing characteristics. He was a born
soldier, and order, system, discip-
line and obedience were with him
supreme laws. The termination of
the war found him bankrupt and
ruined in purse. He settled in New
Orleans as a civil engineer, and was
at the time of his death a citizen of
that city.
In private life General Bragg's
character was pure and above re-
proach, not only in morality, but in
all that pertains to the gentleman
and Christian.
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THF DECATUR RAILROAD.
Some of the improvements now
in Progress on that Line.

The management of the Louis
vile & Nashville q Great Southern
road are daily improving the condi-
ton of the Nashville & Decatur
road. They are now gradually
making the road bed as solid as
possible with broken limestone.
Each cross-tie will be raised from
its present bed in the earth and
placed upon a rock foundation.
Recent improvements are espe-
cially noticeable along the road
near Franklin, where ties now rest
upon a bed of rock, where new rails
have taken the place of the old,
curves improved, and angle fish
bars used in place of the old-fash-
iond fsh-bars, and fills widened.
Most Of the iron laid twenty three
years ago still remains, and some Of
it, such are its enduring qualities,
is now almost as good as new. The
iron was brought from England
and was regarded when purchased
as the best then known to railroad
men.
The angle fsh-bar was an inven-
ton of Col. Albert Fink, and has
been used on the Louisville d Nash.
Vile road for years. is stronger
heavier and costlier than the old
fashioned fish bar, but it more than
compensates forsthe great superior
| ity it has over any other, irfzsnaking
the rails appear continuous and il
being smoother, by which the more
even running of trains is secured
Had this fsh-bar been patented
Col. Fink would have made NOR,
money from royalty upon it thar
he has done upon his patent bridges
They are now used on most of the
roads in the United States.
a good deal Of care is paid tc
ditching on either side Of the road
The consumption Of coal in the
locomotives instead of wood ha.
had the effect to reduce the price o
wood along the line from $3.50 pc
cord down as low s1.75, the highes
price now paid being s2.25 pc
cord.---Ameriean
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For the C1rIzxS.I
'tzAN.i
To Miss L. r.

That Arbor Vita thou didst give,
The emblem Of faithful heart,
I'll cherish fondly while live;
Death only hom me can il part.
Should time, which makes al things decay
To swift decay that sprig deliver,
Yet time shall never take away
Remembrance of the gift and giver.
All, moths heart can ne'er forget
The pleasures that thy presence gave,
Those purest joys without regret
Win cling around 1t to the grave.
That precious gift viii oft impart
Sweet charms that viii ever dwell,
Ard weave around my captive heart
Enehantment with its magic spell.
And Fancy with her wondrous powers
viii often linger to beguile
The memory of those ssnished hourE.
Hours Frightened by thy sunny smile.
She'll with the future blend the past,
And to behold viii Oft invite,
And wish those scenes could ever last,
Those sweetest scenes Of pure delight.
If flowers, the type of beauty, youth,
Bespeak the sentiments oflove,
Between fond hearts loving truth,
Which angels register above,
That green spray should then express
The emblem that is to its name.
Does it indeed to me confess
You really feel lovers flame.
If this it says-''I live for theen
Then, fairest lady, know that l
Wish il TO say the same for me,
Ard also that-for thee I'd die.
OF this be suie-I don't pretend,
Whate'4r faults you may discover,
In me you'll haye q constant friend,
And fond, devoted lover. NJ. D.
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God,s Anvir.

Pains furnace heat within me quivers.
Gods breath upon the fame doth blow.
Aud all my heart in anguish shivers.
And tTembles ct the fiery glow:
And yet | whisper, as God viii
And in his hottest fire hold still.
lie comes and lays my heart. All heated.
On the hard anvil, minded 50
IN dis own fair share 10 beatit
With His great hammer. blow On blow.
and YET / whisper, rs God Wilt
and at his heaviest blows hold silt,
he takes my scftened heart and beatsit.
Inc sparks fly or at every blow;
lie turns It DER aud DER and heats H.
and lets Z cool and makes it glow:
And yet | whisper, as God will!
And IN His mighty hand hold still.
Why shonld murmurl For the sorrow.
Thus only longer lived would be;
It's end may come, and viii, Tomorrow,
" hen God has done his work in me.
30 say, trusting, as God willa
And, trusting to the end, hol I ssil.
lie kindles for my profit purely
Amietions glowing fiery brand,
AND All bis heaviest blows are surely
inflicted by a master hand.
50 | say praying, as Gcd will!
And hope in hlm, and suffer still.
II From the German
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-12

A renowned clergyman lately
preached rather a long sermon from
the text, 'sThou are weighed in the
balance and found wanting" After
the congregation had listened about
an honr some began to get weary
and went ont; others soon followed
greatly to the annoyance of the
minister. Another person started,
whereupon the minister stopped In
his sermon and said, That's right,
gentlemen; as fast as you are
weighed. pass outg' He continued
his sermon at some length after
that. but no one disturbed him by
leaving.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-12

1t is not given to all, like Peter,
to preach, and then to see three
thousand converts as the fruit of
their sermon; or, like Stephen, to be
stoned for the faithful delivery of
his Masters message; but it is given
to US all to take up the cross daily
and follow the Lamb whithersoever
He goeth. We commit ourselve S
to the guidance of even a stranger
who knows the point we desire to
reach, and when we hear his voice
cheering US onward, we take cour
age. though the mountain path be
steep and the mists blind our eyes.
Shall we give less confding trust to
Him who says: Cali power is given
unto me in heaven and earth"-
"Follow meY'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-12

The Republican party is an OBJ
struction to healthy progress. Ever
since it came into power society
has been split by the storms Of dis
cord, and the coutry has been in the
throes of destruction. Relief can
never come in till it goes out.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-12

The Republican party derives its
sustenance from dead things. They
are just now feasting on the Choir
rors of AndersonviIle.'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-10-12

In England the proportion of
owners ofland to inhabited houses is
one to four, in Ireland, one to four
teen. 10 England the average ex-
tent of land held by each owner is
thirty-three acres, though more
than half the said owners have less
than one acre. In England the ay-
erage estimated rental Of each own !
eris fI92 3s.; in Ireland, the rata
bic rental OF each owner is f195 IS.