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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
Letter from Coal Valley.

To The ARGUS:
COAL VALLEY, May 30, 1877.
George Bell, who ahsconded on the 18th
inst, because he was implicated 10 the
disturbance of the peace on that day at
his place, an account of which has been
given in THE ARGUS, was arrested, and in
default of bail was locked up over night in
the village calaboose, for trial. The next
day, before Police Magistrate Otto Leah
uer, he was assessed Sl1.93.
Geb. Deneour was arrested for insulting
citizen named A. Nj. Plomgoquist. on
the public road, and was also brought
before Magistrate Leabner, who assessed
him S. 25.
Coal Valley is unusually dry and dusty.
The farmers in this vicinity have ali got
their corn planted and are now patiently
waiting for little rain,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
Additional Licenses.
Something for Contract tors.

Sealed proposals, in duplicate, will be
received at the Office of COL J. n Macomb,
corps OF engineers, in this city, until -
o clock noon on the Goth of June. for fur
uishing rock to be used in the construction
of dam and rip-rap shore protection for
the improvement of the harbor of Fort
Madison, Iowa. The contract shall be
catered into within 10 days after the mott
6cation Of the award of the contract. The
usual conditions will be observed. The
right Is reserved to reject any or all bids.
All information and blanks can be obtaine d
at Col. Macomb's office.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

The Fourth Ward Hose Co, will have a
grand hall on Thursday evening May 3lst,
at Darts Hall No disreputable characters
will be admitted and care will be taken to
make this the finest ball of the season.
Everybody invited. Music by j. Bleur;
supper by Mrs. johnson. 2Sd4t.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

VIM. Tucker to f. j, Whitney, the s
OF the of sec. %, township Is.
range w-Buffalo Prairie-dated May
%, 1877. for $l,700.
George Singleman to Adolph Gottsche,
lots Z and 10. block 2. in Watermans
Place, Moline-dated May 30, 1877, for
$500.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

The immediate effect of Dr.. Harter's
Elixir of Wild Cherry is to strengthen the
stomach, sharpen the appetite, tone and
regulate the bowels, and give steadiness
and vigor to the nerves. For sale by TIL.
Thomas,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

The ladies of Trinity Church will give
an Ice Cream and Strawberry Entertain
ment at the Rectory tomorrow, Friday,
from 4 P. M. and during the evening,
Friends are generally invited.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

The annoyance occasioned by the con-
tinual crying of the Baby, at once ceases
when the cause is las it should be) prompt.
ly removed by using DR.. Bulls Baby
Syrup. IS cents per bottle.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
II ~.
The weatner--ro-Day.

The following shows the temperature
at THE ARGUS OFFICE to-day as in
Dictated bv thermometer
IA NJ rs above zero 10 $50 above zero
GA N, 49, " 8P.M. $40
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Personal.

MI IL. ID. DOugHLy, local eQltOT Ol the
Aledo Record, paid The ARGUS sanctum
pleasant call to-day The latch string
is out to all our craft as we'll as to friends
and acquaint9nces generally.
Charles w. Durham, superintendent oi
the surveying department of the engineer
corps, under Col. Macomb, for the Upper
Mississippi, and David Upton. pilot on
the government boat Montana, left on the
Minneapolis, for the mouth of the Illinois
river, to see if there were any snags or
other Instructions to navigation III the
Mississippi between this ci,y and that
point,
Mr.. Fred. Weyerhauser, president Of
the Mississippi Logging ard the Beef
Slough Boom Companies, who has been in
the pinerias for several weeks past, has
returned home.
Capt. l. Huber and Fred. Hass, mem
hers of the National Brewers Association,
will leave Tuesday next for Milwaukee, to
attend the annual meeting of that associa-
ton, which will be held in that city on
Wednesday, the 9th of June.
Iowa City ought to be ashamed Of itself
since decoration day has been appointed it
has always been observed until to-day.
What has caused this is not known. Had
a meeting been called aud the observance
then fallen through, lack of patriotism
would have accounted for it, but no steps
having been taken towards the celebration,
the cause will have to be left with the
coroner, who says, unknown. "-IOaod City
Press,
The reason is found in the fact that pub
lie interest in the matter is falling off, and
with the disappearance of the present
generation of people it will probably be
abandoned. The custom was begun in a
partizan spi it and seemed to be managed
so as purposely to offend a portion of the
people and purposely create opposition.
Had it bee. commenced with the idea of
decorating the graves Of all our dead
soldiers in all our wars it would haye
elected no unfriendly criticism. But it
was begun by politicians, for political
effect, and they made the terrible mistake
Of sending file of U. s. bayonets to drive
mourning women out of Arlington who
laid flowers on the graves of relatives who
persisted on the wrong side in the late war.
There is no treason in the grave. or in the
beyond. and this act of the 6. A. r. called
out bitter denunciation from men of all
parties. The shocking mistake was re
peated the next year, and then public
opinion forced its abandonment. Men may
be patriotic and still be wrong, Success
is not always evidence of righteous cause.
Bravery may be honore1 even in our
opponents, or in men who are wrong. The
custom of honoring the memory of the
departed in some way, is right,-but when
it is conducted as means of partizan
effect it is likely to be criticised and ulti-
mately to fall into decay,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

Table cutlery, spoons, castors, etc.,
lower than elsewhere in the three citi""
a. May Bros. 3ldlt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

1t will pay to keep your Harness in good
condition. Use Frank Miller's Prepared
Harness Oil.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

Breakfast and dinner sets, vases, chan
deliers. lamps. chimneys. etc., at net
wholesale prices, at retail. May Bros,
cor. 18th street and I'd avenue. aldlt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
Another Letter from Mrs. @. Kropf.

-hUUUsT 10, 100.
DR.. RADwAY-Kiud Sir: / take the liberty to ad
dress you again. My health IL greatly improved
by the use OF your medicines. Three OF the tumors
are entirely gone and the fourth Is nearly SO.
Dropsy is gone, health still improving, and my
weight decreasing evry fast / have had a great
many calls this summer to inquire OF the wonder
full cure your medicine has done for me, one from
Ohio, one from Canada, three from jackson, and
quite q number from this place. Yours with re-
spect MRS. G. KRAPF.
We are we'll acquainted with Mrs Krapf She is
estimable lady, and very benevolent. She has
been the means of selling many bottles of the Re-
solvent by the druggists of Ann Arbor to persons
afflicted with internal .umOrs. We have heard Of
some wonderful cures effected by It. Yours re-
specfully, EBERBACH u co.
Ann Arbor Mich Aug 49, 1875
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n nnU OUR $3.50 AND $500 oUIEIItr
JUN FREEl Something New! oH''
one Agent in a town.
- Illustrated Catalogues. Address
W. W. BISHOP
129 West Madison street, ChlCAu0'
Refer to the Editor OF ARGUS,
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WANTED-By every one who has an in
telligent conception Of its value, Health.
Health depends upon the possession of
pure blood; and pure blood is the sure
possession of those who use DR.. Bulls
Blood Mixture, acknowledged as Il supe
rior blood pnrifer,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
TumOr of IL Years Gro1oth Cured La,
RddtcaUs RESIDENT

l. INIuEb July
DIR. RADwAY: have had Ovarian THmOr in the
OvRries aud bowels. All the doctors said ''there
was help for it." tried everything that was
recommended, but nothing helped me / saw your
Resolyent, and thought l woulu try it; hut had no
faith In it, because had suffered for twelve wears
j took six bottles of the ResOlvent and one box of
Railways Pills. and two bottles Of your Ready Re-
Lief aud there is not sign Of tumor TO be
felt. and j feel better, smarter and happier than
have for twelve years. The worst tumOr was in the
left side Of the bowels, the groin. write this
to you for the benefit Of others. You can publish
II u you choose. HANNAH z. KNAPP
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
PRICE, 81 PER BOTTLE.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER.

ANN, AEBOR, Mich, April 80 1875.
DIR. RADwAY-Kind Sir: have been taking your
Resolvent, Regulating Pills. and also using the
Ready Relief about one year for ovarian tumors on
the abdomen which he mos semnent physicians OF
our Medical Collet pronounced incurable.
They were like sOts on tree. When ! was cit
ting In u chair theJ hung almost to the floor, and
my weight was 275 pounds when commenced with
your remedies, and now 1t is 2l0 pounds but they
are not all gone yet have taken twenty-four bot
ties of Resolvent, nine of Relief and twenty -four
boxes of Pills get the medicine from G. Gren-
will. Please send me your book "False and True
MRS. G. KRAPF.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
Railways Ready Relief
FEVER & AGUE

Fever and Ague cured for fifty cents There is
not a remedial agent in the world that will cure
fever and ague, and all other mAlarious, bilious,
scarlet, typhoid yellow and other fevers (aided by
Railways Pills. so quick as Railways Ready Relief
Fifty cents per bottle.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31
kidney and Bladder COMPLAINTS,

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes
DrOpsy, Stoppage of Water, Incnntiuuance OF Urine
Brght's disease. Abumnuril, and in all cases
where there brick-dust deposits or the water il
thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like the white
OF an egg, or threads like white silk or there s
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white bone
dust deposits, and when there is prcking, burn
ing sensation when passing water, and Pain in the
Small Of the Back and along the LOins
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-05-31

Every Drop of the SARSAPARILLIAN RESoL-
VENT communicates through the Blood, Sweat
Urine and other fluids and juices OF the system the
Nigor Of Life, for it repairs the wastes Of the body
with new and sound material. ScrofulA, Syphilis
Consumption, GlandulRr Diseases, Ulcers in the
Throat Mouth, Tumors, Nodes the Glands and
other parts OF the system, Sore Eyes, Strumorous
Discharges from the Ears and the worst forms of
Skin Diseases, EruptiOns Fever Sores, Scald Head,
Ring Worm, Salt Rheum. Erysipelas, Acne, Black
Spots Worms in the Flesh, TumOrs, Cancers In the
Womb, and all Weakening and Painful Discharges.
Night Sweats, Loss of Sperm and all Wastes of the
Life Principle within the curative range OF this
wonder OF Modern Chemistry, and few DAYS use
will prove TO any person using IL for either Of these
IOrms o. disease Its potent power to cure them.
If the patient, daily becoming reduced by the
wastes and decomposition that are continually pro-
crossing succeeds in arresting these wastes, and
repairs the same with new material made from
healthy bloOd-and this the SARsAPAPILLIAN
will and does secure-a cure Is certain; for when
once this remedy commences its work Of purihca
ton and succeeds In diminishing the loss of wastes
its repairs will be rapid and every day the patient
will feel himself growing better and stronger the
food digesting better, appetite improving, and flesh
and weight increasing.
Not only does the SARsAPARILLIAN REsoLvEE7
excel all remedial agents in the Cure Of thronic
ScrOfuous, Constitutional and Skin Diseases, bu
ia he n
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

SEVERAL days ago the STATESMAN
announced editoFially the election of
Stanley Mathews and of Don Cam
eron to the United States Senate and
deduced the conclusion that Ohio was
thoroughly "liberalized and Penn
sYlvauia thoroughly Radical. We an
ticipated the facts. The two men
were chosen afterwards, and the result
is that the Senate of the United States
will now be manageable by the Presi-
dent. If any scheme he would execute
be too liberal for. the Republicans,
there are four Senators holding the
balancs of power IN this lawgiving
body who will always cooperate with
the President. Booth of California,
Christiancy Of Michigan, David Davis
of Illinois and Stanley Mathews OF
Ohio will hold the balance of power
in the Senate aud give its mastery to
President Hayes. 1t was feared that
the Senate would refuse to confirm ap
poIntments in the South by which life
long placemen and carpet-baggers a'e
to be slowly exiled and Conservative
Southeyners substituted; but the COM
position of the Senate is now of such
materials that the President will have
no difficulty in effecting his pur-
poses, and the money drawn from
the Federal treasury by oficeholderE
in the South will be invested in the
! South. This is of greater importance
to the people and to local popular in
dustry than most men have dreamed.
The South really psys two-thirds Of
the tariff because it is protected" in
nothing, and after this money is heaped
up in the treasury and distributed and
stolen among placeholders the whole
sum, under Grants system of sending
us officials from "down East" wa.
transferred for investment in farms and
homes and stocks to Northern and
Eastern States. The Grant system wa
o. ruinous pecuniArily to the South a
the life insurance business. All thii
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

The conflict of opinion between the
allopa;hic doctors of this city and the
district Judge, Turner, will be renewed
in the coming medical convention at
Galveston. The regular profession in
Texas is divided on the question, and
there Will probably occur final dis
ruption of the learned body. The
very issue made here has been deter
mined in other States, and the Nation
al Medical Association, we believe, has
sustained those who resisted the action
OF the district judge and refused to
serve on examining boards with homn
pathists. II Is stated, however, that
several most prominent members Of
the learned profession approve the
conduct of the regular doctors who
accepted Judge Turner's appointment
and serve with DR.. Routh, the homo.
pathlst.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

Two sharp, shrewd scoundrels not
long ago trayersed New England in all
directions. They declared themselves
Texans, and New E1gland letter
winter tells that they pretended to give
away town lots ia a new city, which
they called Melano, said to be in Milan
county, Texas. 1t reported that they
gave (D away 100 lots per day, at a
cost to the victims Of 60 cents each for
the deed, and $3.50 if they had them
recorded. Some men took as high as
ten and twelve lots each. 1t is said
that the land cost these Texans 80 cents
per acre, which they sold for from SIS
to s2S per acre, cut up into city lots,
by which they made $50 per day clear
Of expenses while in Yankeedom.
One good thing, however, they did ac-
complish, and that was to thoroughly
advertise Texas. They distributed tens
of Thousands of circulars, maps and
land documents. They stirred the
spirit of emigration to its nethermost
depths. Another element in this work
has been the effective efforts of the
Galveston and San Antonio Railroad
Company, another Boston enterprise, to
advertise Southern and Central Texas.
In this they have been very successful,
through their president, treasurer, and
DR.. Ami Brown, their emigration agent,
so that more than one-half of the colo
nists now leaving Boston for Texas
are bound for the vicinity of San An
tonic. Silently, but efficiently, have
each of these influences been at work,
u4til it seems as if the wEole people Of
down East were catching the Texas
fever. Not county in the East, hard
" town, bat has one or more colonies
organizing.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

The President owes it to decency
and to common sense of justice and
right to give Federal offices to those
Republicans who invest money where
they receive it. 1t is bad enough to
pay the cost of the tariff system und
of most burdensome Federal courts
which expend fifty dollars for each one
they collect and pay over to plain
tiffs, and are thus forty nine dollars
worse than nothing to those who main
tain them. Surely the people that
must sustain these incidents of the
Federal government should have the
small sums doled out by the courts and
tariffs and postoffices distributed
among the taxpayers from whom the
"fees" and "costs" and salaries are
wrested by the arm of Federal power
Twenty millions or more gathered in
as salaries and percentages and steal.
ages in the South are annually trans
mitted and invested in the North by
Federal placeholders. They were sent
into the South by some magnate OF the
Senate or House whom they had
served. They were not deemed worthy
of Office in the civilized and refined
North, hut sent into honorable and
profitable exile as reward for dirty
work as partisans. The reformation of
this state of facts should engage the
early attention of an honest admins
tration at Washington.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

A CORRESPONDENT writing from r aR-
min county says: "The thieves m ust
be stopped. Can't we make Texas toe
hot for them2 Our present laws are
not sufficient, for horse stealing is on
the increase. We have good officers,
and the law is carried out. A horsA|
thief was caught in our county a short
time since, and within ten days was iRl
Huntsville. Another stole q horse in|
BOnham, was caught by Mr.. Lipscomb,
the sheriff, and went straightway TO
The penit0ntiary. Does such dispatch
check thievlIg2 Saturday night
horse was stolen near Mr.. Allen Ag-
news; Sunday night two were stoleH'
near DIR. Smiths and four on the same
night near Denison. The sosthern
part of the county is yet 10 be heard
from. What are we to dot The peni-
tentiary is but q college in which the
thieves are educated and hardened.
An innocent man sent TO the peniten-l
.iary would come out thief. Then
what must the original thief be whom
ne comes outl We must have somo-
thing more effective. Lst Nc tive
thieves be allowed to keep company .
day. Let the trial be speedy, and no
incarceration for months and feed at
the expense OF the county. The most
1f them would ask nothing better.
Let the penalty for the first ohsnse be
the whip; for the second the branding
iron, and for the third emasculation.
A man caught stealing in any part Of
the State with the brand on him could
expect nothing but emasculation. Such
law as this will make Texas toe
not for them. Then can the
farmer lie down a. night with
the assurance that an effective Law
protects his property. one-balf the
knaves would quit with the first de-
gree, and nineteenth would quit with
the second, thus leaving not more than
one in twenty on whom the State would
expend money as surgeons fees. The
| SrATEsMAN was right in advocating
smascalation. The wheat prospect 10
ine, the weather favorable, and farm-
ers are in good spirits. The local op-
ton election comes off on the thirty
first instant. The STATESMAN is right
again on this question. and is praised
throughout the land for Its able ana
untir!ng support of the prohibition law.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
PRESIDENT HAYES AND LOU.
ISIANA ARPAIRS.

Though, within eight days, every
car and loo motive that could be spared
on railways trayersipg Mississippi; were
ordered to be gathered, that Federal
regiments in New Orleans might be re-
moved and Packard suffered to provide
for himself, it seems that the President
has retraced his steps and yielded to
the suggestions Of . majority of his
Cabinet. He proposes, however terri
BILE delays may be to South Carolina and
Louisiana, to hasten slowly. The end
will probably be the same. There can
be but one of two solutions of troubles
iu Louisiana: Nichols will be the
Governor and Hayes knows it or the
President must set MP in the unhappy
State barbaric military despotism.
The North. It seems from the conduc.
of the Cabinet, does not yet oompre=
hend the facts. Civilized men will
never tolerate the black autocracy si
an adssntprer who gathers about hin
. horrible crew in Louisiana to rob and
degrade and destroy through the inter
vention Of universal suffrage. No hon
est Northern citizen Who has seen hon
New Orleans has been destroyed and
how utterly valueless property AID
homes have become, wherever Kellogg
minions are dominant, and how tn,
civilized Inhabitants are degraded ant
the uncivilized seat downward ints
deeper bsrbansm-no such NortherI
patriot would object, even II Packarc
were chosen Governor, to the instslls
tion Of Nichols. The President,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29

EACH of the four negroes hanged
hEs days ago for most heinous crimes
in Soath Carolina died in the usual
way, relying on the Being whose every
law they had outraged. Bach OF the
bloody ViIlsinh when looking into his
CONN, ascribed his deeds OF infamy
and shameful and proper end to "whis'
KY and bad company The New York
Herald says that
"In these last earthly words and scti
these nagroes preached . sermon which
is worth being listened to. Like cause:
produce like results, and there are mer
who wear fne clothing. carry univei
sity diplomas and drink only the bes
of liquors, who are a. thoroughly
curses 10 humanity ss the South Caro-
Ina murderers. and are preparing fo
the same coEardly ending, even il th'
method Of their taking OF be NOR.
fashionable and less public"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
NO. 33

THE intense negrophilist, William
Lloyd Garrison, concurs with the hot.
test of the Presidents assailants in the
South, and depounces his conduct in
appointing Key to the Postmaster Gen
eraiship as bitterly as they do whose
invectives make. men shudder while
the Presidents Louisiana policy is con.
templated by the chivalTous Chinese
demonstrating politicians. Mr.. Gar
nson, in denounciIg the President,
uses better English than most writers
for the press who cooperate with the
New England philanthropist in seeking
TO destroy popular confidence in
the new administration. Seeing
how these extreme eXponents OF sec
tional violence concur, sane, sensible
people will be induced 10 practice moi
Grafton and reflect that the President
sees facts from very different stand
point from that which We occupy. He
coDtemplates the rights and relations
of the States more justly than we can.
Elevated as he is, he SURVEYS the whole
feld of moral and political results of
any action he may take, and when
events of to-day become part of the
country's political history, we may have
iess reason than now to complain or
criticIse or condemn.