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The Geo. w. Pilgrim Case.

Acting Coroner Hayden received the
following letter this morning, from Rush
Medical College in relation to the analysis
of the stomach and liver of the late Geo.
W. Pilgrim, of Moline, who, it is thought
by some people, was poisoned by his wife:
CHICAGO, April goth, 1877,
Henry Hayden, Esq:
Dear ST,-l send you to-day, by ex-
press, preliminary report of the results
of my examination of the stomach and
liver of the late 6. W. Pilgrim. Accord
ing to my usual custom, in such cases,
send MY bill with the report, which is to
be paid upon receiving the latter. Ny
charges are $500, the maximum figure
that | mentioned for searching for an indi
vidual poison-for, as my analysis is not
confined to the stomach alone, but ex
tends to three other organs, in addition
the amount OF time aud labor consumed
is very great.
My final aud complete report, which
shall be, as you desire, sworn to and brie
Il will probably not be able to send yoy
under two weeks, owing to a number o
other Important engagements.
Ut course my present bill includes al
charges in connection with the case, ex
cepting only my fees, as witness, in case
should be called into court. Yours Re
spectfully, w. s. HAINEs.
Coroner Hayden has not yet decide,
when he will call the jury together again
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Light, airy, and cheerful centrally loea.
ted, aud carefully managed, the Colonnade
Hotel offers unequalled inducements tC
PHILADELPHIA visitors.
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Gold and Silver Watches, plain and set
Gold Rings, Jewelry of all kinds and
styles, and everything in the line at Ep-
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, For RENT.-A front room suitable for
a lady without board Washing done if
desired. Apply at No. CIT 18th street
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Howe's concentrated syrup, the great
blood purifier, and ague cure aud tonic
bitters, can be had of Bengston and
Thomas.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-23

Don't forget that Epstein is selling out
his entire stock of Jewelry at net cost, to
make room for an immense invoice of
Pianos, Organs, and musical merchan-
disc, now arriving. Our goods must be
sold. sld6twlt
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STEELE 4 PRICE.-For years the firm
of Steele Il Price have had the largest
trade in their specialties of any house il
the United States. All of their prepare
tons are reliable, and unequalled in purity
and strength. Their DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder, Special Flavoring Extract.
aud Perfumes have gained a reputation fo
excellence that no articles of their kline
have ever yet acquired. The most careful
physicians and chemists use them in thei
own families.
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Additional Bonds.
JUSTICES.

Port Byron-John Mulhollen, with
George NJ. Woodward, ", H. Deyore and
Robert MuhOlen, as sureties.
Drury-L. V. Reed, with G. L. Ellis
worth and Drury Fisher as sureties.
Rural-Lewis Wilson, with H. j, Sim
mon and Charles SimmOn. as sureties.
Bowling P. johnson, with Hen.
ry Mcknight and VIM. Miller, as suretes
CONSTABLES.
Drury- G, l.. Ellsworth, with L. V
Reed and G. r. Ellsworth, as sureties.
Rural-V G. Wilson, with Enoch I
Wilson and Jacob NJ. Wilson as sureties
Port Byron-Enos Blinn, with j. "
Maxwell, George McNeal and Jesse Max
we'll as sureties.
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Solid Silver ware, and Rogers's Silver
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New York, April ga Herald re-
porter called last evening upon Senator
Blaine who said. II am not to be inter
viewed you know"
Have you no expression of opinion
with regard to the change in Louisiana, y
asked the reporter.
''None-I have nothing to say about
it."
To the query whether the leaders Of
the Republican party, had in contempla
ton any movement regarding the action
of President Hayes in Withdrawing the
troops from Louisiana, Blaine would
only say it was not fitting for him tc
answer that question At this time.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-23

1t will pay to keep your Harness in
good condition. Use Frank Miller's Pre-
pared Harness Oil.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-04-23

The sick editor. He is one who com
plains of everybody. who spends his
moments in the criticism of other papers,
who views everybody's work through his
own blue glass darby, who sings hypochon.
dria to front and rear, aud who is saddest
when thus he sings. The Rock Island
Daily Union has one of these invalids.-
Chicago Journal
The Journal was probably not aware
that the Union is edited by two Englismen
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Best gilt wall paper at so cents per roll
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Coroner Hayden has not yet decide
when he will call the jury together again

SCoTCHING MALARIA. 1t is fact wide
ly and amply attested that where the pow.
erful and pernicious drug, Guinine, and
other mineral poisons. administered as
remedies for fever and ague and bilious re-
mittents, fail to yield more than temporary
relief to the sufferer. Hostetter's Sto-
mach Bitters scotches those tremendous
epidemics most thoroughly. and by strength.
ening the system and regulating It's func
tons. protects it against malarial attacks
No resident of locality where the above
maladies prevail, or where they are likely
to break out in consequence of the poison
ing of the atmosphere by noxions exhala
tions, should fail to take practical cognl
zance of the above important truth, and b,
timely use of the Bitters avoid the rava
ges of maladies so disastrous to the physi
cal constitution. There is not in existenc
finer tonic, corrective and defensive cor
dial
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Best brown-back wall paper at cents
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Cook WANTED. Good cook, in private
family, apply to Henry Curtis, Jr., Cor.
Third avenue and 18th street. 1Sdtf
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Best tint wall paper at I23 cents per roll
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The weather--To-Day.

The following shows the temperature
at THE ARGUS OFFICE to-day as in
Dictated bv thermometer:
IA. NJ 6s above EeroI IL rae above zero
GA M Tie " " SIN. no Z"
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Pictures, picture frames, brackets. wall
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For Rent---LOW.
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CHAs. REsN1ER,-[ClerksI-- ". SwoPE
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ANNOUNCEMENTS,

Fluid lightning Seures nervous head
ache.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
q Is TiIden TO be President ?

a correspondent of the New York
Herald interviewed Hon. Samuel j
Tilden a few days ago, and among
other things asked.
"Do Nou purpose prose 'uting
your right to the Presidential
chair ~
Certainly / do" answered Mr..
Tilden, spiritually. "The country
knows that [ was legally elected
President, and this American peO-
pie is too Intelligent to forget that
one glaring aud paramount fact.
On that one fact the very founda-r
tions OF the Republic rest. If the
voice of the nation be not recog-
nized in the serious question OF
electing its supreme ruler, then you
may calculate on bitterness of feel
ing that will not be assuaged until
the wrong is righted. The people
who elected mt feel to-day that their
votes were given i'll vain. TREY feel
that they might as ell have cast
their SURFACES for a dummy and
they number such a large portion
of the population of the whole con :
Try that it is an unwiSe experiment
10 tritFe with their rights. As far as
AN .:aTe sru<-t, IL il ot H,tie @osIse-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
vieksluro Herald. 8th inst.l

From two gentlemen, passengers
on the John b. Maude, from Greens
Vile, we learn that between Ii and
II o'clock last Wednesday night,
Mr.. Joseph Wilder, formerly of this
city but who is now employed in a
saloon at Greenviile. shot aud fatally
wounded two men, strangers in that
town. Six men, who are reported
to us as rowdies and tramps, aud
who had been very disorderly on the
streets for day or two. came into
the saloon at the time mentioned,
ordered drinks and refused to pay
for them. One of them swept off all
the glasses on the counter with his
hand, while others threw a couple of
bottles at Mr.. Wilder. Finally they
began to help themselves to the
liquors behind the counter, when
MIR. Wilder opened FIRE on them
with revolver, shooting one in the
head and another in the neck, and
the remainder took to flight. When
our informants lett Greenville, the
two wounded men were lying on the
in front ct the saloon, one
to be dead and the other
dying. Nr.. wilder j. III Very feeble
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

health. being a consVn p i've. T. d
from the ne Igre "details given Us,
we presume he acted in Self-defence.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

Quence, but | tell YOU one of the
81 vest principles i'll representative
government is involved, and if the
people do not zee to it, the matter
will be subject Tor deep regret to
coming eenerations.7
"What do you think of the action
tf the senate i'll the case Of the
Southern senate ?"
{" Well, as | said before, the Adj
minisiration and The Republican,
party are going to pieces, Mr.. u lyes
has no color, and the Republican
party no -poiicr."
"Gath," a Washington corresron
dent, tells how Mr.. THdep will prob
ably become President. He says
that the rupture between Hayes and
the Republicans is so complete that
one senator Offers to bet that Within
tour months Samuel j. TIloen will
be Preai lent of the United States.
When asked how such a thing ecu d
be accomplished, the senator. said &.
The Last House of Representa- =
tives, az er accepting the electoral
tribunals report, passed an over
Hhefming resolution that Tilden had
been elected President Of the United
States. We also know that TIlden
took the oath of Office before a q1al-
flied magistrate in New York. Now,
suppose the senate passes Il reso'u>
ton aecordant with that of the
House, acknowledging Tilden to be
President, then We go into executive
session and confirm Thden'S cabinet.
Won't that te arevo!uiien, complete
and silent %
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

GEN. EscoBEDo, the recent prom
1uent adherent of the Lerdo faction
in Mexico. arrived in New Orleans
last tuesday. In conversation. the.
Genera. ~ttterly d:sc1ahned the
Charge that IFS recent visit to the
Rio Grande was for thebhrpose of
OF ganlzing an exdedition against
Dias, and '1enles that Eerdo and
his adhere-its are secretly encour>
aging conflict between the United
States and the Diaz Government.
lie does not apprehend any danger
of war between the two Govern
a,feuts.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
Am eriean Citizen.
Official Journal City of Canton
~iANTO N. NJ rs s.
SATURDAY, BKC. %, 1877.

Boru houses. of Congress ad-
journea on the 18th inst, to meet
on Wednesday, January 9, 1873. .
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
LEGAL.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

No. 1908. In the mat Before the Clerk of
ter of the final az the Chanccf'y Court
count of + l.. Hargon, OF Madison County,
Executor of j olnIIar- Mississippi, in his
gor, deceased. office, at
Monthly Rules, on the second Monday in
December, lc17.
1T appearing from the affidavit of i. l.
L Hargon, this day filed, that Vim. H.
Bently and IL. f. Bently, his wife; j NJ
Hargon, and p IL. Hargon, are non
residents of the state of Mississippi; ana
that VIM. II. Bently and IL. +. Bently, his
wife, and j NJ. Hafgon have their residence
and post Office in Marion, in Williamson
county, i'll tie state of Illinois and that
the residence and post Office of p. II. IIar-
gOn Is in Weimar, in Caldwell county, in
the state of Texas. 1t is therefore ordered
that publication be made in the AMERICAN
CITIZEN, a public newspaper printed and
published in the county of Madison, for
follr consecutive weeks, commencing with
in twenty days from the date of this order,
notifying said VIM. H. Rently. II. Il. Bently
j. NJ. Hargon, and p. IL. Hargon to appear
before the Chancery Count OF Madison
county. Mississippi. on the 4th MONDAY
IN JANUARY, A. d., 1873, to show cause,
if any they can, why the final account of
said executor should not be allowed as the
same stands on file. 1t is further ordered,
that a copy of this order be forwards by
mail, postage paid, to eacl, OF the above
parties to their address; as above stated in
this order.
Done at Monthly Rules in the Clerks
office this 11tl day uf December, AID. 1877.
4. S. JEFFREY, Clerk.
J. W. Downs, S0l'r for ENt'r. diets
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

ELSEWHERE we publish graph
&c account of an exciting passage at
arms between Senators Gordon and
AOontiing, which occurred m the
senate last week A Washington
telegram of last Monday says :
- Excitement over the ttordon
Comkling afflir' HAS entirely 'subsld>
ed. Tie 'forbearahce Of Southern
senators meets general commenda.
zion, and Senator Gordon's conduct
in the matter has universal APPROX
snI
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

THE st. Louis Globe Democrat
I Republican, dominates U. S. Grant
Tor President and Roscoe Conkling
for Vice President, in 1880. These
names probably represent tire full
strength of the Republican party,
hut they will never be found on the
same ticket. Conkling would not
accept the second place, and of
course Ulysses would not. However,
We think one or thu other will have
the arSt place on the Republican
ticket in 1880. And whichever it
is, he will be badly beaten, by a
Demoerat; aud no more eight to-
seven missions to change the
result.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

TEE Turkish disaster at Plevna
has stirred up those lesser efiemies
of the Sultan's empire whose action
has been dependent upon the turn
things might take in course of the
war. The Servain Government has
ordered his ARMY to croos the Tur-
kisS frontier on march of invasion
and instruction against tue Turks
has broken out in Crete, and there
are signs of disturbance in Albania.
The Ssryian Government and army
have, during the last two years, dis
played such hypocrisy and cowardIce
AS to make Them objects of universal
scorn. They were abject in their
humiliation last year after they had
been whipped by the Turks, who
had it in their power Co take Bel
grade and efethtone Prince Milan !;
and they were glad to obtain even
hnn4ilia ting terms from the Turks,
hnder the promise that they would
thereafter keep the peace. When
the Russian army invaded Turkey
fhis year, tEe Servfans- attempted
to strike profitable Bargain with
fhe Car and Prince Milan has
sesa aa -eiing over Russian money
1or rifle months. Now that he
thinks there is prospect Of Rus
star 5tianlph, lie sends his army INTO
Ftiriey 10 see ifhe cannot secure a
rfiea Of the 5rOlls. from first to
-. .e6srt q tl,e Servians-
ALAS Seen dishonorable, co~ardly,
ihd ceIt@nptIllie.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

Six YEARS ago the senate of the
United States was Republican by a
majority of just fifty. In single
senatorial Term this majority has
melted down TO too, counting with
the Republicans Sharon, who is
never in his seat, Patterson, who
belongs in the South Carolina pen
itentlary, and Conover, who puts
his vote where it will do himself the
most good. The decline of Repu5-
aican power has been sudden and
startling; bnt it is not hard to ex>
plain. Grantism did much of it,
and the cheating of Tilden out of
the Presidency has done the rest.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
No ice to the Public.

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that
l. sealed proposals will he received by
the Board of Supervisors of MadisoH county
Mississippi, on the
FIRST MONDAY OF JANU AIRY, 1878,
for the care, maintenance and clothing of
the paiIpers. at the Poor House of Madison
county, for the year 1873. The Board re-
serves the right to reject any or all bids.
BY order of the Board of Supervisors.
declw:3t4 Z. s. JEFFREY, Clerk.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

THE WomaD's Rights League are
gathering their forces for a grand
attack on the Congress of the United
States, on the ninth of January, in
an attempt to carry that body by
storm for a 10Th amendment, grant
ing to women the right of suffrage.
1t is said that during the past six
months these females having been
busily circulating Petition which
is to be unrolled in the Senate
chamber on the day of its recon
vening. The petition is already
over three hundred feet in length.
The leaders of the movement have
employed canvassers in almost ev-
cry state and county In The country
obtain signatures. Thnscanvassers
were paid ten dollars: per hundred
Tor the signatures secured. The
~oman's Fighters have shown more
zeal than discretion in their cause,
and their scheme is likely TO be
entirely ignored by Congress-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

lNSURREcTIoN At FL PAso, TEXAS
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22

WE learn with deep regret OF the
death Of ex~Uov. Charles Clarke.
He died at GreenviIle, Washington
county, last Tuesday.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-03
Henry County Items.

"A vein of good coal has been struck
at Woodruff l30 feet below the surface
Miss Phoebe Couzins will lecture in
Galva on the l4th. Subject:-'Portia at
the Bar"
The Republicans of Geneseo are
qua1reling over who shall have the post
Office there
S. G. Boyd's tailor shop IN Cambridge
was entered by burglars few nights ago
and a pair OF pants taken.
Ed. Everett, an enterprising young
business man at Atkinson, will build fine
brick block there this spring. Ed is goa
head young man.
"A farmer living near Geneseo didn't
believe in banks, and he hid $500 about
his premises. He killed one Of the rats
aud saved about $3.50 Of his money.
The people of Cambridge want tht
court house there to catch fire and burr
down-as the supervisors won't tear the
old one down and build suitable ediice
Mr.. Evans, the proprietor of tht
Galva coal mines, heretofore believed to b.
making money, has filed voluntary peti
ton of bankruptcy at Chicago. His LA
bilities are said to be about Sc, l25, Will,
his assets will reach $1,000. The failur
will cause considerable suffering anon.
the poor, as the miners will either loos,
two months pay or will have to wal
several months for it, An unproftabl
speculation at Coulterville is said to b.
! the cause of the failure.
AT meeting Of the Henry Count
Grange, held at Cambridge few day
age, the following officers were elected
n. B. Potter, Master; J, X. Richard
Overseer; Austin Sykes, Lecturer; j. W
Turner, Steward; VIM. Fergey, Chaplin
}. NJ. A. Miller, Treasurer; John Plat
Jr., Secretary; james Thompson, Cat
Keeper; Mrs. A. Forgey, Ceres; Mrs. j
4. Turner, Pomona; Mrs. F. W. Jones
Flora; Mrs. s. NJ. Brown, Stewardess
Grange adjourned to meet on third Wee
nesday in March at one o'clock P. NJ.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-03
The London Times on Hayes.

LONDON, March 3.-The Times praises
the Democratic leaders for their moder-
alton and thinks their conduct will secure
the entire sympthy of the law abiding
American people who are well able to ap-
preciate moderation and respect for con
stitutiOnal restraints among public men,
Hayes election cannot excite genuine
enthusiasm except in those who regard
politics as a gambling, tricky game. 1t IS
viewed with moderate satisfaction as an
escape from worse evils OF proongation of
the excitement on a conflict of titles.
but Hayes has not, ,unfortunately,th the moral
weight necessary to ballast a Republican
ad Iinistration situated Gas his must be,
With the best intentions, he will probably
be unable to carry into effect many OF the
pledges of his letter to the Cincinnati con-
vention. We trust our anticipations are
wrong and that Hayes may show unex-
pected force OF character and conquer the
sympathies of the nation by an honest
fearless reform policy.
The Times then discussas the claims oi
various politicians upon the new president
for cabinet offices, showing the Difficult
| ties he must encounter at the very outset
| Hayes has now only few hours to adOpt
resolutions upon which the future of hi,
party depends and which must influence
the political history Of the country for tn,
next generation. Reform means renewed
life for the Republican party and rapic
progress for the United States; obstruc
tiveuess means the fatal opposites 0
these.