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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26
I.ihnrin ana snnth Carol,na.


JUDGE r. B. CARPENTER, of South
Carolina, a republican, has addressed to
Richard f. Wall, a colored citizen of that
state, a letter on the interests and duties
of the colored race which gives some plain
advice in a very plain form. He depre-
Gates emigration to Liberia, because the
soil Of that country is inferior to the soil
Of South Carolina "and the money requir-
ed for journey thither would buy more
land in South Carolina than one man can
cultivate" There are no social. religious,
educational aud industrial advantages 10
Liberia com parable with those offered in
South Carolina. Under our free insti-
tutions, with our delightful climate, gener.
Gus soil aud remunerative productions, the
highest possible moral and intellectual
development Of your race is attainable"-
and therefore he would have them abandon
all thoughts Of emigration and remain con-
tentedly where they are. The republican
party 10 the state, ne plainly tells them, i
dead, beyond the possibility of resurrection
and they may as well recognize and conform
to the fact. It's death absolves the colore,
people from allegiance to it and leave
them free to act as they see fit to vote o.
questions of finance, taxation, Estate credi
aud education, without regard to part
discipline, and according to convictions o
duty. Your success or failure as a race,
says Judge Carpenter, depends on your
selves; if frugal, Industrious. honest am
intelligent, you will succeed; if not, 20
will fail
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26

JONES, Of Nevada, no doubt, would like
to have an unlimited free coinage clause il
the silver bill, for then all he would have
to do (Jones owns silver mine) would be
to forward his bullion to the mint and gel
his money. The majority of Jones
colleagues on the senate hnance committee
are dull enough to imagine that the coin.
age Of between $2,OOO,OO0 and $4,000, OOC
of silver a month will meet the require
ments of the country in that direction, and
they have now modified the. house bill &C
cordingIy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26
me 81. Louis Republican SAYS:

The country will do we'll to regard the
spectacle which the republican majority in
the United States senate presents just
now. For more than four years one Of the
Louisiana seats has been vacant and il
seems absolutely impossible for that state
to secure the representation which the con.
stitution guarantees, for the simple reason
that the republican majority is in danger.
That is the case 10 plain English, and all
the quibbles and subterfuges which are re-
sorted to by the hard pressed republicans
only servo to make the truth clearer and
more distinct.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26

THE Baltimore 4 Ohio railroads report
for the year ending September 30, striking
ly exhibits the effect Of depressed trade Oh
the great trunk roads. The gross earn
ings of the main stem were $l3,2OS, 800,
and the working expenses 1926, O54
showing the net earnings to have been "a,
9S2, sos. There is decrease of gross
earnings OF $l.S29, 1916 from the previous
year. No mention of the July strikes
which began on this road, is made in thu
report.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26
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East and South
TAKE THE
|. B. & w. ROUTE.
No. OLeayyss Peoria $40 m; BLOOMINGTON
INDIANAPOLIS, IL ;35 : m; CINoTNNArI, $50 p m
DAYTON, 4:55 n; LOuIsyILLE, 7:45 pm, connecting
with trains for the East.
Ne "A Leaves Rock Island 500 m; Peoria
NO. & 1920 m; BioomingtOn, is:65 p N
IEDIAaAPoLIs, 6:6Op M; CINcTNNATi, 1920 p m;
ton II rs; m; Columbus. Il Is ia m; wheeling
N s. WAshINSToa, s:gS; p n: PaILADELPAIA,
m; Buffalo, 1f10p N Albany IL: m. But ONE
NIsHT cot 10 principal Eastern Cities one hour in
advance Of other lines.
~ lLeaves Rock Island, AZ p m Peoria
NO. % 7:2Cpm; Bloonington, $50 pm. Ar
rives INDIAEAPoLIs.4:2 10 g m; CINCINNATI. S:45 q
N LoUIsN LILLE, $50 an: Nashville, IS m; Day
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az REoIINIFe CHAIR SLEEPING CARS, with State
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THBoUaiI coAcHEs are run on ali trains nom
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with Through Sleepers 70 all Eastern cities, CIV
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Close connections made by Nos and at Dan
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The B. q w. is the only line running lie trains
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26
FARMERSi

Write Geo. Webster, Hamilton, Hancock Co.
Ills, for Maps and description of Valuable Farms
in Clark Co. Mo. For sale Low lease on long time
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-11-26
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The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
Daring Burglaries.

a. TIE little town of Astoria, on Long
Island, just across from New York
city, is terribly excited over two very
daring and successful robberies, COM
mitted by five or six professional burg
lars Friday night. These men marched
through the streets in a thickly-settled
neighborhood, and were no way inter-
rupted or interfered with in their
operations. The first visit was paid to
the Sanswick House, where Mr.. Green,
the proprietor, was asleep. When he
woke up he saw four men, with the
lower portion of their faces masked with
handkerchiefs, standing near the bed.
They were armed with revolvers, and
ordered Green to surrender instantly,
or they would blow his brains out.
Not caring to risk struggle with
such formidable assailants, Mr.. Green
told the men to proceed with their
plundering operations, but to spare
the lives of his family and the other
inmates of the house. The ruf1ians
told him they knew he had revolver,
because they found cartridges in the
bar-room below, and demanded its
surrender. The revolver, which Green
had under his pillow, was handed tC
them, and then, after stationing a mar
over the frightened householder and
his wife, with cooked pistol and in
structions to shoot them If they
moved. the others proceeded to ran.
sack the apartment. They took every.
4hing within their reach, including
one or two coats, pantaloons, and
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
A Buddhist Island.

THE Island of Pooto, off the China
coast, is entirely inhabited by Budd-
hists. AS it is a law of Buddhism that
animal life shall in no case be de-
stroyed, neither flesh nor fish is con-
sumed upon the island, nor are they
suffered to be landed on it's shores.
Everywhere within its precincts tenn
pies occupy the most beautiful sites,
and shrines are built by the wayside,
while images Of Buddha are Gu upon
the face of the rocks. A traveller who
has recently visited the spot states that
few graves are to be seen, and that the
dead are probably subjected to crema-
tion.. Near the largest temple was a
furnace, consisting of small room in
the hillside. arched above, and with
an excavation in the rocky floor forthe
fuel, or to create a draught. The pro
cess of cremation was thus described
by priest: TThree days after death,
the. body, seated cross-legged, and in
closed in a box, is taken to the furnace.
Fuel is placed around it, and. after a
suitable religious ceremony, the torch
is applied, and the whole pile Is soon
wrapped in fame. 1t requires several
hours and 400 pounds of wood to com.
plete the process"
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
Had Business Ideas.

YESTERDAY, when a lame beggar
halted man on Woodward avenue,
and asked for aims, the pedestrian
seemed to look kindly on him, and
asked him to step upstairs into his
office, and he would see about it. The
beggar followed him up to the top
story of the block, into an office, took
seat by the stove, and when the
gentleman had hung up his overcoat,
and poked up the fire, he said:
$50 you want aims, do you?"
"Please Heaven, I dc" was the
reply. ..,. r-
"What claim have you on my
charity2'
"Well, 1 dunno, only I'm awful
poor" ....-.
81 can give you a cent, said the
| gentleman. "You haven't made out
a clear case, and therefore you will
get nothing from me"
"Why didn't you say so at the foot
of the stairs? ?" asked the beggar, re-
membering it was three pairs up, and
three down.
81 am a business man. have
| business hours and a business office.
If l could do business at the foot of
the stairs, 1 shouldn't pay rent for this
Office. And now, you climbp-Detrott
| Free Press.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04

nesses, white and colored, testified to her
no'oriously bad conduct, being charged
with infanticide, and leaving another child
in fence-corner to die; also that she had
been discharged from two plantations be-
cause all the colored women refused to stay
unless she was sent away; that she was
notoriously bad woman, and unwor-
thy of belief. Several witnesses testi-
fed to Alexander Brooks having threatened
to kill Pinkstop, last May, for beating him
and biting his finger off. The Senate Sub
Committee went to the residence OF Eliza
Pinkston at noon 10 fake her testimony, but
found her laboring under such intense nerv-
GUS excitement that it was abandoned for
the present. The people with whom she lived
said person had called there in the morn
ing and excited her by telling her that the
people from Ouachita were coming to testify
numerous things against her in reference to
her children. Thecommittee return ed to the
Custom House, and examined number of
witnesses relative to the breaking up of the
Union Rights Stop Club in East Baton
Rouge, and intimidation of negroes. Three
witnesses swore to the. Intimidation and
bull-dosing Of the colorcd people, and to the
unfairncss Of the election. Two witnesses,
who worked for Cobb Theobold, testified
that Theobold was at home on the night
Pinkston was killed. They slept in adjoin-
ing rooms. W. II. Baker testified he was
not at Plnkston s, as cnarSeu Dy EilZa, Oh
the night of the murder. .a-,
The House Sub Committee examined
three witnesses in reference to Lafourche
Parish, who testified to intimidation of col
ored Democrats by colored women and
preachers. The committee also examined
seven Witnesses from Plaquemine Parish,
who testified to many Irregularities and con-
siderable crookedness on the part of officials
who conducted the election. Lawrence
King (colored) testified that he had heard
Judge Dibble tell negroes to detain voters at
the white polls, and for them TO vote in the
black polls, and the officers to count white
polls slowly as possible.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04

"Pll bet you've got a pound of as
sorted candies in your clothes this
minute for FAM"
This came so directly in the form of
an Interrogation, that Mr.. Crawford
unhesitatingly nodded. ,al..
$50 thought" pursued Fanny's
brother. "Now I want to tell you
that if this fire business is to be car
ried on by me, there's got to be a diff
ferent arrangement of awards. fnot
you can come up here and cut your
own wood. VIII you divy on them
candies P'
"Why-why-I-I hardly would
like to do that, Tommy. got these
for Fanny. you know"
Eyes, l know" said Tommy, grim
ly. "When see you come up here
again l shall expect to see you Juggling
an ak over your shoulder"
Mr.. Crawford looked aghast.
"But, Tommy" he expostulated.
"You won't come back on me like
that? I'll pay you for doing it. -
ooh! What will you pay?' -.-.-.,..
"FH give you fifty cents a week.
-r Hope to die?' .... .
"Yes,' said Mr.. Crawford, eagerly.
"Then I am just your cheese said
the youth, the hard lines melting en-
tirely out of his face. There's moth
ing mean about me, but don't want
to go along in the dark. This thing
had to be settled some way or another,
for it was eating the life out of me.
But now that it is fixed you'll find me
up to the mark every time, and if |
don't make that stove rare right up on
it's hind legs, l am a bald-headedleper
without pedigree"
And with a flourish expressive of the
deepest earnestness, he stalked out of
the room.-Danb,try Ne,rs.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
" Mamma, l Hear!

AN affecting incident occurred at
the Academy of Music lately. Among
the audience was a wealthy family,
one of the members of which has for
years been in delicate health, and was
born deaf and dumb. 1t has been the
custom of the family to take their
afflicted daughter with them to the
theater, and even to concerts, as she
experienced acute nervous pain when
left alone, and seemed to enjoy the ex-
citement and action of even musical
entertainments, although she could
not hear sound. 1t was observed
that she seemed very much amused at
the comicalities of Mr.. Sol Smith
Russell, and enjoyed the changes of
his facial expression as much as any of
the audience. When Signor Taglia-
pietra came out to sing it was noticed
that curious light came into her eyes,
and stretching out her arms to her
mother. she spelled on her fingers, with
the greatest excitement, the words,
mamma, | hear" The next piece
was an orchestral arrangement of
"Trovatore, played by the COM
bination of the Berger Family
and the Vienna Ladies' Orches-
ira. AS the composition proceeded
the tears flowed down the poor child's
cheeks, and her excitement became so
great that it was deemed prudent to
leave the theater. On reaching home
the exhaustion produced by the events
of the evening was such that the fam
lily physician was summoned. AS she
lay on her maiden couch she reached
for her slate and wrote: " Mamma, |
think heaven must be music The
next day, in accordance with her re-
quest, Mr. Russell was sent for, and
he kindly came and sang for the little
sufferer his famous song relating to a
goose stuffed with sage and ingins. 1t
was too late. Death had long marked
the child for his own, and she could
not even smile. The little lips are
cold now, and there is vacant chair
in the family circle. The joy of that
one evening was too much for the deli
cate nervous system, now happily at
rest,-San Francisco Neacs Letter.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
The Famine in India.

IT now seems beyond doubt that the
area of the Indian famine Of 1S76@77
will greatly exceed that of the really
afflicted districts of Bengal three years
ago. Excluding Madras and Mysore,
there are eight Bombay districts for
which the calculation ranges from
"great scarcity to actual famine.
Among them is Poonah, whose
wretched condition led to the g Ryots'
Commission of 1S74'75.
The supreme Government will grant
heavy remissions of land revenue and
authorize relief works-itself expeHd-
ing an indefinite sum, 100000 at the
lowest estimate-on the Delhi fire.
works and festivities. This sum, it
must be borne in mind, is exclusive
of the expenditure of the native
Princes, and the money spent by little
potentates like the Duke of Bucking-
ham. who is said to have ordered a
silver howdah, and TO be making grand
preparations for a royal progress from
Madras to the Mogul capital. 1t is
said that one chief has offered 10000
rupees for a fortnight's use of house
| in Delhi. Other charges will be ir
| proportion. ..
1t is unfortunate that all this fuss
and waste about title, for which moi
one native in thousand cares any
thing, should occur at time when The
starving cultivators of Poonah ard thu
other districts are selling their cattle
for four annas (sixpence) a head
| London Examiner.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
The Popular Vote.

Nearly complete returns have been re-
ceived of the actual vote cast for Presi.
dent in all the States of the Union at the
late election, and the results are enumer.
ated in the table given below. One coun-
ty is lacking in the returns from Missis-
sippi, and from one county in Alabama,
only the majority declared for Tilden has
been reported. In the case of Colorado,
where the people did not vote directly for
President, the vote cast for Governor at
the election in October is given in the ta-
bic. 1t will be seen that no returns are
made of the vote for Peter Cooper. the
Greenback candidate, and Green Clay
Smith, Prohibitionist, in a large number
Of States. The votes in Florida, Louis
lana and South Carolina are given as de-
clared by the Returning Boards of those
States:
The total vote is s,425, ,977, against
6 6,457 ,315 in 1872, and 5, ZIG, ,7SS in 1868,
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
LOUISIANA.

WHEN the hour arrived for the meeting
of the Louisiana Legislature, on the lst,
the State House was found to be guarded
bv United States troops and occupied by
a battalion of State police. The
Democratic members, accompanied by
about 500 persons, demanded admis-
sion. The officer on duty rpiled
that the members could enter, but the
crowd could not. Col Bush, the spokes-
man, then called upon Clerk Tresayant to
clear the distractions, the barricades, po-
lice, ETC., which prevented ingress o mem
bers. A formal demand was then made
by T'revasant upon Gen. Badger and other
officials for their removal, whicl, being
declined, Col. Bush read taea following
protest, and retired: S
We, the Democratic. .Censervatta mem
bers Of the House of xepgsseDtatifsV " the
State of ioAisiaua, presenting ouEer res 81
the doors Of the State House for the pr.
pose of rs-nstring to the hall Of the House at
Represen Syes, find tie State Hoise oqaa-
ed by a ${itagy force consistmglf United
States sofkers and metropelita! police,
having fuljAcontrol of said tbuilisg, I'M
der the SorGSrs and direction ~ the
Executive of this State. Tie right
to enter the Stase-House is de-
MED to such OF the members aelhegs not
certificates Of election from The 3<1etary OF
State, although duly eaeeted andFsurned by
the Commissioners of Eeetion; hside, the
right of ingress is denied to consgtants Tor
seats in this body and to thc puJNA general.
", and The State House is barricded and
fortified as in time OF war, notwfts tanding
the patent fact of general peace and ran4uili-
ty prevailing in the State and in thiicomrhu'
nifty. We therefore protest most plemnlvs
first, against the invasion by the kecutive
OF the rights and privileges OF thtLegisla-
ture, co-ordinate branch of thtGoyein-
mcnt: and, second, against the Yftary oc,
cupation of the State House Wy United
States troops and metropolitan psice.A -
A copy of this protest was prsented by
the committee to Gov. Kellogg, who re.
piled: 80 sssg asf'
In receiving this protest, I havgpst these
few words to say: As chief maglsrate and
conservator Of the peace of thaStste, IN
the exercise of sound discretion, nd In the
belief that there WAS danger OF ~ organ
zation of the General Assembly bsnG inter,
fered with by violent and illegalmeans, !
have thought 1t best to station In nd aboIt
the state-House portion OF thenetropoi-
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-01-04
SOUTH CAROLINA.

A special to the New York Times says
United States District Attorney Corbin
appeared before the South Carolina Su-
preme Court, ON the 9th, in accordance
with the decision of the Court, denying
the motion TO remove the quo a0a1Taat0
proceedings against Hayes Electors from
the Supreme to the United States Court,
and requiring defendants to amend
their answer Mr.. Corbin denied that
he had made any answer. He had made
motion to dismiss for want OF jurisdic-
ton. A heated discussion followed, dur
ing which Judge Willard stated that the
whole course of the respondents in all the
cases against the Board of Canvassers had
been calculated to bring the Court and its
decisions into contempt. Chief Justice
Moses was quite i'll from congestion Of the
lungs