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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-14
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-14
q. MI. 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 houn 10 to II NJ. to
Pm T-ljdSwly
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-14
CHAS. FIEBIG.

IS PREPARED To DO ALL KINDS OF LOCK
Work also to repair Sewing Machines.
All kinds of Safe Work Speciality.
Shop on Market Square west SIDE south of the
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-14
New York Market.

New York, Feb. Ia.
FINANCIAL.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-14
Landretla'S Garden Seeds.

The attention Of
Market Gardeners
land private families
iat places where our
! Seeds are not kept
for sale, ID particu-
larly requested.
Landreth's Rural
|, Register and Alma
snae containing Cat
lalogue and Prices,
ale d withou q {
charge to appileants
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
A Pleasant Autumn.

Farmers ought to be able to get into
winter quarters in good shape this year.
1t is seldom that we enjoy such fine
fall for work Of almost all kinds. Po-
tatoes and all root crops can be put in
store in admirable condition. And
what glorious time for husking corn
No cold fingers nor chapped hands, and
the corn can 60 into the crib so dry and
clean that it will come out bright and
nice if not marketed till spring. It is
a good time, also, to build new fences
and repair cid ones. 1t is good time
to rake up weeds and rubbish of all
kinds and burn them, so that they may
not furnish hiding places for insects and
vermin. It is a good time to cut and
haul wood for the winter, and to get it
prepared for the stove. If coal is used,
no better time can be found in which
to get it to the house and placed in a
convenient position for the use of the
housewife. If the barn or shed needs
repairing, no better time can be found
in which to do it. If there is anything
slovenly about the back or the front
yard, it is the best time in the world to
slick up. It is a good time to make
drains, dig bitches, set posts, pillow, haul
manure, pick apples, market grain,
make roads, and get everything ready
for winter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
An Indian About to Turn Farmer.

Naches, the Piute Chief, says the
Winnemucca Siluer State, has conceived
the idea of purchasing two or three
hundred acres of land on the Big
Meadows, for the purpose of making a
farm on which the young men of his
tribe who live in that vicinity can en-
ploy their leisure hours in raising corn
and potatoes. He has selected the
land, which is on a railroad section,
and he is now going to California to in
terview the railroad officials as to the
terms. The land is situated below the
Big Meadows Irrigating Canal, and
Naches says one of his brothers, who
lived in Santa Clara Valley, California,
for several years, is an experienced
farmer, and he has promised to teach
the young men of his tribe how to cul-
tivate the soil 1t is to be hoped that
Naches can make satisfactory arrange
ments with the railroad company, and
that the experiment will prove sue
cess.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
A Badly Matched Team.
From the Springfield Republican

From the Springfield Republican.
Among the first things couple have
to do upon getting married is to &C
commodate themselves to each others
walk, and in this matter of accommoda-
ton they don't always succeed well.
Mr.. and Mrs. McNabb, of the Second
ward, have an especially hard time in
this respect, and are really little better
OFT than they were at the beginning of
the honeymoon. Mr.. McNabb is tall
and lean, with stride of about a yard,
and Mrs. McNabb is short and dumpy,
with step carefully estimated by her
husband at about six inches on the av-
erage; so, when they first began walk
ing together the effect was odd There
was the "patter, patter, patter," Of
Mrs. McNabb's short PAGES, with the
heavy"t hump" of her husbands foot
steps coming in at intervals, and the eff
feet was simply ridiculous. At first
the conversation between them was this
way:
ooh, Augustus, dear, please do take
a little shorter steps.
"Why, Angelina, I'm walking as
usual; can't you step a little longer,
darling"
But he didn't take shorter steps nor
she longer ones, because it was prac-
teal impossibility in either case, and
after a month or two their conversation
ran more Interestingly:
Augustus, don't take such horrid
strides. Pm not giantess."
ono, evidently, you're less like q
glantess than beetle. DoIyou suppose
l can putter along to keep time with
your six-inch hops? Nonsense p
At the end of the first half year the
two never went out without quarrel.
She'd break out every time:
"You're beast, Augustus ! I'd as
soon walk with big pair of shears No
gentleman would straddle 80 with a
lady on his arm, you brute!"
"That'l do, madam It's hard
enough to force q man to literally car
ry you, without insulting him You'll
die of inanition yet, and next time I'll
marry a woman with more legs and
less tongue! This things an Internal
nuisance
And then they gave up walking to-
gether for year or more. Finally as
necessity sometimes compelled them
to 60 out together, it was arranged be-
tween them that in walking he should
keep time with every third step Of hers,
and the plan works, after fashion.
AS they go along the sidewalk the
sound is patter, patter, thump !" pat
ter, patter, thump " and it's funny.
The only difficulty about the device is
that three of her step fall a fraction
short of one Of his, and every other
minute she has to wriggle and hop or
he has to halt and stumble to allow her
to catch up. They are an unhappy
couple, and all because the distance
from their bodies to the ground vary
so much.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
MOOn.StrOke.
A correspondent from India write

A correspondent from India writes
to Nature:
There is a popular belief that it is
dangerous to sleep in full moonshlne,
as il is supposed to produce some IN
furious effect called moon-stroke. A
clear sky admits of rapid radiation, and
any person exposed to such radiation
is sure to be chilled by rapid loss q
heat. There is reason to believe that
under the circumstances paralysis of
one side of the face is sometimes like.
ly to occur from chill, as one side OF
the face is more likely to be exposed to
rapid radiation and consequent loss OF
its heat. This chill is more likely to
occur when the sky is perfectly clear
and in full moon. I have often slept
in the open air in India on clear SUM
mer night when there was no moon,
and although the first part OF the night
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29

may have been hot yet towards two or
three o'clock in the morning the chill
has been SO great that [ have often
been awakened by an ache in my fore
head, which I as often have counteract-
ed by wrapping a handkerchief around
my head and drawing the blanket over
my face. AS the chill is likely to be
the greatest on " very clear night, and
the clearest nights are likely to be those
on which there is a bright moonshine,
it is very possible that neuralgia, paraly-
sis or some other similar injury, caused
by sleeping in the open air, has been
attributed to the moon, when the p,ox-
innate cause may really have been the
chill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29

HE could remember the names of all
the letters of the alphabet except B,
and to impress that upon his memory
Jenny told him TO think of the bee.
Next time ne was asked to name the
letters he remembered the first, but
the second stumpsd him again. He
hesitated NOM ent, then with smile,
said: "Oh, | know, that's the singer !"
-Yoaker's Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29
From the New York Sunday Mercury
THE FELON'S BRIDE
By LIEUT.. HENDERSON.

My opening scene lies in town west
OF the Allegheny range-a town more
famed for It's beauty than It's size.
The blasts Of autumn had swept the
leaves from the trees, and they stretch
ed out their bare and qulvering limits
to implore winter to cover them with
his icy sheen. The poor were SILVER
ing in their novels; the rich enjoying
life as best they could, surrounded by
such comforts as wealth always COM
mands.
In a neat and cosy mansion in the
said town-or rather in parlor there
of-sat two persons; one young man,
whose almost beardless face and youth
full appearance, did not place him
above one-and-twenty years IN the rec
ords of time, if SO much. Had it not
been for a rather reckless and dissi-
pated look, he would have been consid-
cred handsome. He had dark, flash
ing eye; his hair curled around high,
fair brow; his features were regular;
his figure good. and his dress, with the
exception Of being over eWelrylzed,
was ia the fashion, and elegant.
His companion was a modest and
lovely blonde; small and plump in fig
ure, with auburn hair, and those tender
blue eyes, which, while they speak, not
Of fever heat, nor tameless passion,
still contain a world of deep and con-
slant love. Her age was evidently two
or three years less than his; just that
era when the girl is merging into
womanhood; when, with new thoughts,
new feelings, new passions and no ex-
perience, she emerges from the bud
into the fewer, hanging upon the
thorny bush of humanity, at the mercy
of every breeze, and in danger Of every
daring hand.
"What do you say Annie ?" said the
young man. "Will you not be mine
without his consent? '
90, Charles, how can II" replied
the young girl, as she clasped one OF
his arms within both of her own. Chow
can I? I love and fear my father; ]
love you; but is it not my duty to heed
him?
sAnd SO marry old Prendegast, tie
banker, for whom he intends you ,
said the young man, bitterly.
"No, Charles; that will never do !
she replied, in tears the while; 1t Il
cruel in you to say it,"
"And yet he intends it; he tainted
me with it to-day when [ asked you,
hand of him, while he called me moth.
ing but beggarly post-office clerk" :.
A change came over the young girls
face as she heard this. The tears
seemed of themselves to dry upon he-
burning cheeks. Her little form
seemed TO enlarge, and her plump DO
som rose and fell like waves on a lake
let suddenly aroused to motion. The
color on her cheeks grew deeper ano
the light in her eyes more bright.
"He has spoken to me of that ole
wretch" said she; "and he is invited
here to spend this coming Christmas.
"Then, dearest, let him come; but dt
not let him find you here. Let us fly
DISCUSSES for both are ready; the carr
pass in two hours; have plenty O.
ready money, and in a few hours W.
can be in another state, and you shall
be nv welded wife. Then we vii
send your father word, and a copy Q
our certificate of marriage; and though
he may storm and rave for al hour o
two, he will soon see that it is useless
and call us back to his love and nom
again Come, Annie, come
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29

LIFE is stormy and dangerous voy-
age. The vessel we start in-our cradle
lis childhood's first rock.-Pasnch.I
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-29

PAR1sIANs are wearing furs.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06

prise of the vigilant guard, CAUSING No
small amusement to the whole company. ~
-" Matron" writes to the Cincinnati
Gazette: . hope that few facts of which
| ! am cognizant may be of avail in induc
ing our retail merchants to be more con-
siderate Of the young women who are in
their employ. Not long ago lady shop
ping IN one of our dry goods stores in
CURED at one of the counters for Miss
-, one of the clerks Hushr said one
OF the others. Hushl he will hear your
pointing to the shop-walker, and then
leaning over the counter she said in low
tones; Miss - is lying on the floor at
our ieet. She dare not complain offatigue
anu weakness lest she should be dismissed
anu she is 50 utterly exhausted that She
cannot stand THIS speaks for itself n
Is known, moreover, that female CLERKS
VIII, IN some instances, declare that arti.
cles inquired for are not in the store he.
cause, and only because, one additional
step is suffering and distress to them
FROM the bottom of my heart, and in
common with many others, hope that so
simple ana humane concession as that
ol allowing these women to SIT, when NOT
actually employed in waiting upon Gus
lomers, may at once be made by our
merchants, who only need, | am sure. 10
nave the matter brought under their no
ice, = IN order to insure their acting upon
he suggestion
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06

-Bayard Taylor says that Mark Twain,
VIII Is only skin deep.
Alexander Dumas denounces dandie
as corrupting insects
Hon. Reverdy johnson expects to re
turn home from England mex, April.
-ar. Thomas Ball has been selected tc
MAKE a statue of Senator Sumner for IN,
city OF Boston
- -Ex-Speaker Blaine was In early life
Professor of Mathematics in Dreanon
college, Kentucky.
Paul Boyton wants National Con.
sen'ion TO discuss the swim question. and
calls on the press to set the matter atioa,
Edward C. Marshall, the only living
GIli!a OF Chlef-Justice Marshall, of the
!. hi'eu states supreme Court, Is a clerk
IA tle Interior department in Washing.
Inc late Amasa Walker was quite
successful as practical fnancier, what.
ever may be thought of his theories as he
e aa property amounting In value 10 S,2..
Senator Dawes is still suffering from
ee injuries sustained by the kick of
sIse seVerai weeks ago, Ii Is feared
lt he may be manned for life. At pres
| tiles. ~ 4'''
/ The wife of Houston, the ehiefep.
heer OF the steamship Pacific. who lbs,
Is lie while trying to save the women |
sSengers Of the Inflated vessel, has he. |
me insane from grief a. the death of her
llsband.
i-NIoe- President Wilson's private sec.
Eafy has possession OF all has notes and
: steflai Tor the concluding chapters of his
itlse ana Fall of the Slave Power in the
a'ted States" and will at once finish the
81 volume.
Ex-senator Nye, the Salt Lake Tri5-
ie says, has recovered his health suffi-
en'y 10 permit his removal from the
yum Tor the insane, where he has for
pme time been staying, and his friends
oyery,
v ice. President Wilson, according Ia ,
&c banner Of Light, visited spiritual NE. ,
lum IN Boston about three weeks before
= death, and held communication with !
Is dead wife and son, who informed him :
al he would soon be sick, and warned !
III ~ be extremely cautious in regard 10
entaI labor, or he would speedily come +,
their side of life. x
Mr. {. A. Perkins. the husband of .
e Princess Isabelle of Bourbon. con. .
mined a year ago by the French courts n
years imprisonment and 10 two =
airs :" holding OF the body" for debts =
llch the courts decided were contracted n
der false pretenses, has just finished
year at st, Pelagic and been transferred
the Conciergerie, there 10 submit 10 his q
o years Imprisonment for the debt. II l'
creditor. who has TO pay his board 2
Is not sooner release him. IL
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06

mas Eve, on which occasion Aunt Debbv
was heard to deliver herself after the fol-
lowing Characteristic manner:
lou never kin tell till arterward how
q "eudln's goin' to turn out, specially
these days when things is so uncertain.
ana married folks don't think no more O.
cu'ln loose from each other nor men
uoes 0, quittin' the grocery business.
way, divorce bills is getting TO be about
az common as peddlers' licenses and as
easy TO be got. For my part | don't
thlnk much @ sech folks say it's peskv
mean not 10 stick TO bargain when it's
made and signed and sealed, even If il
wa nj wicked sin and fiat agin' Scripter.
ihsnh goo1nessi amt ateared o. John
ana Polly never wantin' no bill.''-N. Y.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06
POLLY'S MISTAKE.
BY Z. A. MATTERS.

BY +. A. MATTERS.
II always thought you liked me,
Pollyr'
$50 do, John; I'm very fond of you,
but not in that way"
mot in what way, Polly? l only
know one way of being found OF people. Z"
"Only one way! Why, there are doz-
ems of ways"
swell, Polly, just say you'll marry
me, and you may he fond Of me in your
own way or in dozen ways. I'm not par
ticular."
But that was Just what Polly would
not do. Ali Johns eloquence could not
induce her to utter that simple little word
"yes.n At last Johns stock of patience,
never very large, gave out, and he told
Polly that she wss a fiinty-hearted little
fiirt, to pretend to be fond of him in any
way, when II was plain to be seen she did
not care button for him. That was
too much, to be called q flirt and fiinty-
hearted fiirt, and by John! Polly's eyes
sparkled and asharp rctort was on the tip
OF her tongue, when the kitchen door
opened and Uncle Silas entered.
/" Be you two holdin' Quaker meetin' y
said he, as he was going out after filling
and lighting his pipe AT Polly's ironing
place, " or be you sayin up TOT the sing
in tonight? Don't override 1t, tho,
Polly. or maybe your tongue II gitstiti in
the jints. Queer things is women :
tongues" And Uncle Silas went Oh
chuckling over his little joke.
OF course after that Polly was not going
to be in any hurry to speak. Perhaps
John thinks she can't hold her tongue,
tool She viii show him. And Polly
bites her lips very hard and tries to look
very resolute indeed. But John had been
busy repenting for ten minutes; he got W
as his father shut the door and said,
quite gently: "I'm sorry, Polly, for what
/ said while ago. / didn't mean II,
dear" No answer-unless a big teal
that dropped on Polly's iron just then
might be taken for one.
Well, Polly, never mind, I'll try t.
get over being fond Of you If II makes
you so unhappy; you need not cry about
II, hope II Is not so bad as that. And
with that John went ont 10 his wood.
chopping and Polly finished ironing and
nobody was any the wiser. That is, no
body but Paul Pry, the parrot, who had
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06

A steel trap set in a store in Belfas
revealed the following morning the two
tore legs OF rat, firmly grasped Tn,
animal had gnawed of both legs an.
lmade his escape.
! AT Rochester, n. Y, few DAYS ago
? little girl four months old was smooth.
slred to death In It's mothers arms durinp
y s!sigh-rlde. Life was crowded out bv
6ohe very means adopted to secure is pres.
. tyaion.
- "A pauper ran away from the Polk
,puhty tlowal poor-house, the other night,
,,1d 10Th his feet were so badly frozen be.
saFe morning that they had 10 be ampi.
! yea. That's the treatment poor fellow
rdls cut in the cold, cold world
Fe,-A young girl named Kightlinger, Of
.eFm Nenango County, Pa, was terribly.
,bhot fatally burned, recently, by boy
iUreo Welsh, who, for fun, took shovel
.Iy Of Goals FROM the stove al school and
7 w them among bevy of young girls.
u rin baltimore, recently, man stood
Z near hot stove and his coat.iail took
b His wife was filing lamp at the
and threw oil on the flames, Since
'uneral she has spent all her time i'm
, pg to convince the neighbors that her
%as the result OF sudden excitement
| : T. World.
| Nary Ogle committed suicide al
fburgh, Pa, a few days ago, by throw.
tth9useh IN front OF an approaching |
i"ctriive. She was struck by the engine |
ahdIbown over convent wall, about |
toft! let high, and instantly killed. As
lhe raj. was backing up to pick up her
'ody Tie rear car struck an old man who
vas waking on the track, and passed
yer hin, killing him instantly.
-The;rowd of people at the Pittsfeld.
ass, dpot ON the arrival of the six
CLOCK rain from the west the other
Sht were horriticd q. tho sight Of the
angled body Of woman on the plat.
fm 10 front of the engine. A Mrs.
aged sixty years, had been
ucK ana instantly killed by the train |
out hall mile from the station. and ,
IS Drought in without stopping the cars. /
The Jailer at Henderson. Ky, from J
fose custody sixteen prisoners recently I
apfa' committed suicide at his own /
use few days ago. lie took the De. |
cry very much To heart. and had been
,ressed a'terward, fearing public sus- 4
ION that he aided the conyicts. He 4
ied up all debts in the morning. in. q
ing on paying them, but assigning no h
hcuiar reason for go doing. He went \
light home, and. going into an upper /,
N, pistol shot soon told Of the deed. y
Michael Carney . Cincinnati stcreo. b
sr, had terrible fall the other after b
rom the top Of a fiye-st0ry building j.
ugh hatchway 10 the street floor. He e,
gone to the hatch with the stereotype r
g IN ms arms to send II down. The "
lad been turned of and II Vas dark m
g. lie had no idea. II seems, but that n
elevator platform was up. BY habit. h
wing y ought 10 be there, he stepped th
and down. II was irightfni fall, vi
sour landings, until be struck on the sh
orm at the street floor. The pla.e of
broken--fhe man was not Snbse. kn
II medical examination showed that ar
as not seriously injured. va
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06
"reminiscences OF the Elder Dumas,

Inc papers being naturally filled with
"reminiscences Of DejaZct, nave also taken
10 raking up numbers about other noted
iolk, and this wonderfully pathetic one
about The elder Alexandra Dumas has lust
been printed. When the veteran novelist
went down TO the country house Of his
children in Palay, In 1870, his strength
was nearly gone and his courage was wan
Ing. lie saw the grave opening before
MN, anu probably many remembrances
Of his extrayagances and escapades now
and then came to him. When he was
obliged 10 take To his bed he was so weak
mat The attendants were compelled to
assist him in undressing. While laying
aside his garments he mechanically put
his hand In one Of his pockets and drew
out the single gold coin which remained
to him. He looked at the shining piece
Tor few moments with bitter. smile,
then he said When | first went 10
Paris had two pieces like that. Now [
have one left" Then, as he laid down
YEARLY In the bed, he added, with that
Keen sense Of humor which pcrmeatcd
every fiber Of his being And yet they
say have been spendthriftw Between
ne time when Dumas went TO Paris as a
literary aspirant with his two louis d'or
~ his pocket and the moment Of his serio.
;omic reflection on the remaining coin he
lad probably earned many millions of
rancs. But money seemed 10 burn his
myers. Granville Monay tells US that
DUMAS used 10 keep his gold pieces in
arge wooden bowls on his writing table,
nd when a needy friend came coughing
nd stammering 10 ask for loan tie
reat ronancer would look UP from his
york, point TO the bowls with his pen,
nd say in kindly and Inviting tone
Help Yourself, and come again If you
eed 10. Parts CIR. Boston journal.
. -
- Rraf Harfe a. N ,.~s..... T.. 81. r
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06

Bret Harte Is a printer by trade. Ten
years ago, 1t IL said, he was working at
the case on the Pacific coast.