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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-12
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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-12

RAILROAD Conductor Nearly SIauS entered
by q Fireman.
CHICAGO, June l0.-In a difficulty
which occurred here to-day between .. II.
Merrifeld, a passenger conductor on the
Carlo and st. Louis Railway, and a man
named Copeland, fireman on the road
Copeland struck Merri6eld on the head
with an iron coupling link. The wounded
man is dangerously injured. Copeland
went off on the train without being placed
under arrest.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-12
New Icrk Market.

NEW YORK, June 12
FINANCIAL.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-12

island which was taken from the govern
ment canal Why is not this property
assessed the same as mined coal would be +?
There are thousands of loads of rock there
which the Water Power Co is offering for
sale, and from which it is deriving hand
some revenue Why is not this property
assessed? This subject was mentioned by
Mayor Wheelock at the council meeting
last Monday night
Da On Saturday, three toys, aged be-
tween s and years, named King, Nc
Clellan, and Wynn, were arrested by
Marshal Wells. charged with highway
robbery. The complaint had been made
before Magistrate Swander, by Y. E. Nc
Clendon, as the friend of Johnny Peter
son, boy about IL years of age, who had
been robbed, as he claimed. From the
evidence it appeared that King, McClen
Ian and Wynn were in Atkinson's park
and were gathering up paper from the
late school picnic, which they intended to
sell. They had quite pile upon the
ground, when the Peterson boy came along
and stopped. His mother had sent hin
to grocery store, with so cents, after
something, but when he saw what the
other boys were doing he thought it would
be good thing to play a joke on them
He accordingly threw the SO cents among
the paper, and then. picking it up again,
exclaimed, Look. boys, I've found some
money!! The three boys claimed that
the money belonged to them as it had
been found 10 their pile of paper, and on
young Peterson refusing to give it to them
they threw him down and took it from hin
by force. The boys were discharged on
their returning the money to the Peterson
boy, who says he wont fool with them
fellers again, anyhow"
Meeting of the Moline Highway Com.
nissioners.
The highway commissioners met in the
Office of Town Clerk Turner, this after.
noon, Mr.. Grenell 10 the chair.
An order on the treasurer was made il
favor of the city of Moline for the sum o
$4,O00-as proportion Of road and bridge
tax; also for Mr.. Grenel for 1925 OF
treasurer commissions.
Clerk reported an error of so cents il
the bill of Smith, Cassel & Co., OF S.
which had been corrected and returned
Com'r. Benson and Overseer Geo. W
Heck, were instructed to inquire the pric
of stone to be used in macadamizing th
new Pleasant Valley and ether roads.
The clerk was ordered to notify tn
agent Of the G. r. |. & ?. Il. r. to opel
culvert east Of Edwards street at such
place as the commissioners aud the agen
l0uld agree on.
A meeting was held last Saturday after
noon, but nothing was done except to allo,
Smith, Cassel & Co.'S. bill of 1885, and t
sign the contract with J. L. huey 4 c.
for the building Of the two bridges q
Frick' hill
The Pleasant Valley r oad--A Preciou
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-12
RENNE,S MAGIC OIL

Van Schaack, Stevenson & Reid, Wholrsals Ag'ts
Chicago Ills. Fer sale iu Rock Island by .. Grot-
ian, and L. Breunert.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-12
CINCINNATI.

WASHINGTON, June l2-Blaine's favor
able symptoms continue and increase
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
CoNsTITuT

WHAT CONSTITUTES A GooD FERTILIZER.
No ordinary plant can thrive without a
sufficient supply Of each of number Of sub
stances needed for its food. With an abun-
dance of all these, in forms in which the
plant can use them, and with other circum-
stances favorable, the plant will flourish and
the yield will be large. But if the availa-
BILE supply of any one of them be too small
light yield is inevitable. Every ordinar y
soil contains all the ingredients ofplant food
In worn out" soils the available supply OF
one or more of these is generally insnfii'
| cient.
Fertilizers supply the plant with food
which the soil lacks. Barnyard manure not
only does this, but also improves the soil as
livi ng place for plants Lime and plaster
(sulphate of lime )are necessary as plant food
but, as fertilizers, they are chiefly valuable
in rendering other plant food available tC
crops. The ingredients to plant food gener
ally most lacking in our cultivated soils are
nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash. Th'
usefulness of guanos, superphosphates, bon'
man ures, poudrettes, potash salts, and 9th
err similar fertilizers, depends mainly uPor
these ingredients. Such fertilizers are gen
orally more or less valuable in proportion a
they contain larger or smaller percentages o
nitrogen, phosphate acid, and potash, an'
as these are in form more or less available
to the plant. If all the other conditions TO
a profitable crop of corn or turnips are ful
filled in a soil, except that phosPhoric aci'
is deficient, the phosphoric acid must be
supplied. This may be done with bone
which contains large percentage of phos
phoric acid combined with lime as "Phos
phste of lime"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
Manuring to Destroy Weeds.

Suitable food for crops, says an English
Journal, enables them to conquer the weeds,
In regard to clover, it was found that when
the land was wholly unmanured, the weeds
formed fifty-seven per cent. of the entire
yield, but that the application of gypsum
reduced the proportion of weeds to 2 per
cent. Nitrogenous manures had very slight
effect, and phosphate manures but little
more. We must not from this, however
consider gypsum as an antidote to weeds in
general, since it is specific manure for clio.
yer, and gives it a power to struggle success
fully with the weeds, and crowd them out.
1t is commonly observed that the frs ef:
feet of large quantities Of barnyard manure
is to make the weeds grow more vigor.
ously. This is partly because the manure i:
usually filled with weed seeds, and also be.
cause the Increase in fertility encourages
seeds to sprout, which, with poorer soil
would have remained dormant The light
warm and rich soil will sprout weed seeds t.
a greater depth than that which is heavy
| cold and poor.
On the other hand, where grain crops arr
sown, multitudes of these weeds are smoth
cred and destroyed by the stronger growtl
of the grain. Almost all annual weed
start from seeds as tiny and feeble as turnip
or onions, and the first appearance of tn
weed is most insignificant. On the othe
hand wheat, corn, oats and barley have
grain of considerable substance, and tn
blade and root correspondingly vigorous
not only outgrowing the weed, but enablin
the farmer to cultivate his sown or drille
) crops with little injury to the grain, but con
: plete destruction to the weeds A ligf
drag passed over drilled oats or barley, jus
2 as the grain is well up, will hardly distur
a single spear, but will bury and up-ro'
millions of tiny weeds. In this way fiel
may be kept clean, and, where spring gra
is to be followed by wheat, the labor of f
ting the s.ubble is much lessened.-MoOr
7 Rura!.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
Agricultural.
Narrowing Wheat in Spring

The advantage of narrowing wheat lands
thoroughly in the spring, as soon as the
ground becomes dry enough to prevent the
horses from sinking into it is known to many
farmers Who have practiced it, bat is un-
known to the majority. Wheat is usually
sown in September upon well prepared land
This land is left then subject to all the
storms of rain and snow, and the dry wealth
er the succeeding spring, until after the
wheat is harvested. In consequence, the
land becomes in May and June nearly as
hard as meadow At season of the year
when the plants are in the greatest vigor OF
growth, the land is so hard as not to give
one-half the nourishment it would if kept
mellow by any process. Suppose, for in
stance, corn should be planted in the fall,
under similar conditions with wheat, and
that the winter did not iujure it; and that
it were left without cultivation of any sort
until harvested it is evident that the yield
weuld be diminished over one-half in fact,
the yield would probably be so light and
poor as to be almost worthless.
Now, wheat, from many experiments in
its cultivation by hand in England, shows
as great sensitiveness to cultivation as corn
the yield, by careful hand cultivation being
increased to 60, and, in some instances, sc
bushel per acre. Now, thorough harrow
ing of wheat in the spring, in very mex
pensive manner, performs the cultivation
nearly as we'll as when done by hand. II
the crust formed by the winter SHOWS and
spring rains is thoroughly broken, and the
ground to the depth Of two or more inches
well pulverized the effect upon the wheat is
almost like magic. 1t starts into the most
vigorous growth, and in few weeks has
nearly doubled in size the wheat not har-
rowed. In pieces of wheat which have
come under the writer's observation, which
were narrowed in strips, that is, one strip not
narrowed at all, and the other strips on each
side thoroughly narrowed in the early part
of June, the narrowed wheat stood fully one
foot higher than the unharrowed at each
side, and in everyway was strikingly rank
er and more vigorous. Mr.. Robert j. Swan
of Rose Hill farm, Geneva N. Y, who has
heavy clay land, says he has narrowed his
wheat for four years with the Thomas harrow
and finds the yield to be increasing fully ten
bushels per acre. Bryan Moulton, of Alex
ander, Genesee county, New York, harvest
ed from fifty acres 1,600 bushels of wheat.
His neighbors only obtained about ten bush
ell per acre. The only difference in land or
treatment was that Moulton's wheat was
thoroughly narrowed with the same imple-
ment in the spring and his neighbors' was
not.
The effect produced by narrowing barley
and oats, after they have obtained growth
of four or five inches is equally as marked
have observed many instances where fully
twenty bushels per acre increase, in conse-
quence of thorough narrowing, was obtain
ed.
These facts and many others of similar
character show clearly the great profit which
farmers may derive from a thorough cultiva-
ton by narrowing Of wheat oats, barley and
other sown crops.-A Cultirator in Country
Gentlemen.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

are run on all through trains OF this road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these cars be-
tween Chicago and st. Pau, Chicago and Milwaukee,
or Chicago and WinOna.
Al Omaha our sleeDers connect with the overland
sleepers the Union Pacitic Railroad Tor all points
west OF the Missouri river.
ON the arrival OF the trains from the east or south,
the trains OF the Chicago Northwestern Railway
leave Chicago as follows
For COUHCfL BLUFFS, OMAHA AND CALIFORNIA, Two
through trains daily with Pullman palace drawing
room and sleeping cars through 10 Council BUNS.
For ST PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS TWO through trains
daily, with Pullman palace cars Attached 10 Dom
trains.
For GREEN BAY AND LAKE SUPERIOR, two trains
daily, with Pullman palace cars attached and run
ming through to Marquette
| For MILWAUKEE, four through trains daily, Pull
man on night trains, parlor chair cars on day
| trains
FoR SPARTA AND wIsoNA and points In Minnesota
one through train daily, with Pullman sleepers u
| WinOna.
| FoR DUBUQUE, via Freeport, two through trains
| daily, with Pullman cars on night trains.
| For DUBUQUE AND la CROSSE, via Clinton, two
| through trains daily, with Pullman cars on night
train To MoGregor, Iowa. .
FoR sioux CITY AND YANKTos, Two trains daily, Pull
man cars 10 Missouri Valley Junction,
| For LAKE GENEVA, four trains daily.
| For ROCKFORD, STERLING, kENOSHA, JAEEsYIIIE
and other pointsyou can have from Two 10 ten Trains
| daily.
State Street; Omaha ONCE, 1853 FaTnham Street I;
san Francisco office, l2l Montgomery street, Chica
| go ticket ofhces 81 Clark street. under Sherman
| House corner Canal and Madison Streetsi Kinz
| Street depot, corner W. KinZie and Canal Streets
Wells Street depot, corner Wells and Kinze Streets
| For rates or information not attainable from you
| home ticket agents, apply 70
W. II. sTEssErr, MARvM HUGHIrT,
| Gen. Pass. Ag't, Chicago. Gen. Sup't, ,Chicag
| Feb a,i6-ly
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

A NOBLE WOMAN.-During the driz-
cling rain yesterday, Woodward avenue
car jumped the track and almost struck the
curbstone. The driver said he'd have II
b ack ON the track in about minute, but
the only lady ON the car at once stepped of
into the rain.
You'll get wet-you'd better stay inside, y
called the driver.
"Never mind the rain" she pleasantly re-
piled. "The car is of the track, and don't
wish 10 remain where my presence would
act as check on any emphatic remarks
which those half dozen gentlemen may de-
sire TO make"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
WHERE TO ADVERTISE,

A. T. Stewart says the Lest advertising mediums
he has ever found are the old established organs OF
the TWO political parties at the several county seats
throughout the Union." "These," he says 'reach
every family Of the least account in their several
counties, and are more carefully read than any other
class OF Jonrnals." II MIR. stewarts judgment is Of
value, there is no difficulty In deciding which paper
IL is for the interest OF business men TO advertise in
The COLUMBIA DEMOCRAT, upon which this paper is
partially founded, was established In 1886, and the
Col rhBIAS now enjoys n wider circulation and
greater prosperity than 1t ever did, II gees week
lS int two thousand families In Columbia and ad-
joining counties, and by most OF them is read from
tn frst 10 the last line II is the only recognised
exponent Of nearly 1ve thousand Democratic voters
in the county. II gives advertisements tasty dis
play, that makes them attractive 20 Its patrons thus
ehsuring greater certainty that they wih perase
them While Its circulation is undoubtedly much the
lareest In the county, the advertising rates OF the
COLUMBIAN are no higher than those OF ether papers
with barely half ana several not onefourth the num-
Der OF subscribers. Facts Ike these speak for them
sci, es. No shrewd business man viii neglect 10 In
sert his advertisements in the COLUMBIAN II
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

An agricultural journal advestises new
washing machine under the heading
every man his own washerwoman, y
and in its culinary department says that
"potatoes should always be boiled in cold
water"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

A train was carrying clergyman and five
or six youths who kept scoffing at religion
and telling disagreeable stories. The gooC
man endured it all, simply remarking as hi
got out: "We shall meet again, my chill
dren." "Why shall we meet again| sale
the leader of the band. because / am I
prison chaplain" was the reply
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Bachelors are not entirely lost to the re
finement of sentiment, for the following
toast was given by one of them at a public
dinner: "The ladies-sweet briars in the
garden of life."
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

The Greensburg Tribune says "that the
people of Pennsylvania have stamped out
the infamous attempt ofthe Democratic par.
ty to get into power" To which the Greens
burg Times responds-"Yes, stamps did
~
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

In looking around for an original rhyme
for month yesterday, we came across it in
the only place in the world where it could
be found-the New York Commercial AdVer'
tisr. II reads as follows:
There were two men training went
Twas in December's month;
One had his bayonet thrown away
The other had his gun tn
rown away
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

A Canadian walked twenty-five miles
through snow and ice and mud to borrow
IS of his sister, and then found that his SIS
ter didn't have eight cents, She had the
measles, however, and that helped his feei-
ings little.--D Detroit Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

An alderman who had become furious
parliamentarian after two weeks in Office
was expelled from the church for rising in
the midst Of the sermon and moving the pre-
yious question
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

DIR. Hall says that people sometimes take
cold through their ears. This explains why
a Milwaukee man always stuhs his ears uI
with horse blankets and buffalo robes il
damp weather.-Ch Chicago Times.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

An Iowa man has invented new broom
handle of great durability. He has dis
covered that it is a common experience in
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

The new style of boots are made with
thick soles and very wide at the toes.
Young men should remember this and see
her only to the front gate
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

They have disagreeable way in Canon
City, Colorado, when a man takes a broken
chair to the cabinet shop, OF saying "Hit
you with a chair, did she?" This is very
trying to the average citizen.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

The Indian chieftain, Col. w. P. Adair,
was made to pay $4,000 to get a $50, 900
claim through the department. This is
what might be called Robbin' Adair.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Mr.. Cam, of Boston, offers to wrestle
with any one in this world. Parties of that
name often wrestle unsuccessfully with the
tail of small dog.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Before his marriage Broughm praised the
artistic manner in which his wife changed"
her hair. Now he complains of the cruel
manner in which she bangs his head.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Blobbs, speaking of an acquaintance whose
stock of brains was heavily mortgaged, re-
marked "Why, he's next door to fool
and sometimes moves in"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

An Irish schoolmaster recently informed
his pupils that the feminine gender should
be applied to all ships and vessels afoat,
except mail steamers and men of-war.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

A Boston paper speaks about President
Tyler's "last fatal illness" How many fatal
illnesses did he have, and how did he cure
the first one p Detroit Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Babcock can say with the apostle: "None
of these things move me-" He is still pri-
vate secretary to the President of the United
States.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Joaquin Miller tells of man whom his
friends thought must lie, because there
wasn't truth enough in the world to keep
him talking as much as he did.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Boys are so bad. Yesterday one coaxed a
goat into an empty sugar hogshead, and
when that goat got out every other goat he
met wanted to lick him.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

One of Tweeds relations says he used to
be fond of learning verses from the Bible
when boy. And now he has committed
Exodus.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

The bull-frog was the first circulating
greenback, and the entire breed have been
notorious inhationists ever since the flood
New York Evening Mail
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Button parties" are popular in the West
We don't know whence they derive their
name, unless it is because they're always
sure to come off,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

The question "Can any good come out Of
Nazareth p has been answered in the aiiir-
NATIVE. Annie Good came out of Nazareth,
and was arrested in Reading for vagrancy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
Humorous.

When birds soar they wsrble, but when a
throat's sore It doesn't.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

Why are cents separated from dollars by a
pointY To make sense, of course. Don't
you see the point2--Dda6ury Ncws.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

An exchange says that "glycerine is goot
for Group" Nitro glycerine will cure any
disease
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

A Vermont woman tackled bear last
week and killed it, greatly to the disap-
pointment OF her husband, who witnessed
the contest.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

The town clock at Norwich has stopped
and the Norwhich Bulletin says that the
hands are thrown cut of employment.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12

In what key would lover write pro
posal Of marriage BE mine, ah
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
EASTWARD.

Erie Mail West. Limited Mail West Lock Haven
Accom-. West and Day Express East make close con-
nection at Northumberland with l.. Il B. X. X. trains
for Wilkes Barre and scranton.
Erie Mail West, Limited Mail West and Fast Line
West make close connection at Willlamsport with
n. G. X. W. trains north
Erie Mail East and West Limited Mail West Fast
Line West and Day Express East make close con-
nectlon at Lock liaven with b. L. V. X. X. trains
Erie Mail East and Vest connect ut Erie with
trains on L. S. & NJ. II. II. at Cory with o. c. & A.
" X r. at Emporium with II. n. \. q r. II. X. and at
DrftwOod with V. Y. X.
ParlOr Cars will run between Philadelphia and
Williamsport on Limited Mail West Fast line West
| Philadelphia Express East and Day Exlrt East.
| Sleeping Cars On all night trains.
VIM. A. BALDWIN,
| Dec NT6-u General Supt.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1876-05-12
Green hay and Marquette Line
Pullman Palace Cars

Is the old Lake shore Route, and Is the o. ly on
Park, Waukegan, Racine Kcnosha 70 Milwaukee.