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The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1877-07-21
Hollow & Will
low Ware.
Mrs. q. PERRY.
Former PrOprietress Of No. 7
CarOndelct Street

HAS removed to No. 4 Baronno Street,
Ill Corner Canal. Bong very thank
full for past favors bestowed by her
country friends, and especially those Of
the Red River parishes, she now solicits
continuance of their patronage, and
having better facilities and the finest
located house in the City, she hopes by
proper care and attention to secure the
patronage of her friends and the public.
The low rate of $3.50 per day is cllarg-
cd for Board and Lodging.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS
HAIR DYE.

BACHELORS CELEBRATED HAIR DYE.
SPLENDID Hair DYE for 81 years with benefit to the
hair and no injury to his health; proof that it i
the only true and perfect Dye, Harmless reliable
instantaneous No disappointment; no ridiculous
tints remedies the i'll effects of bad dyes leaves
the hair soft and beautiful Black or Brown Sold
and properly applied &C BATCHL0R's Wig Fac.
gists. e
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
McELHERNE O'MARA.

A TT0RNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW
n and Solicitors in Chancery Office opposite
Rock Island House, Rock Island. III. s-30dw1y
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
CHAS. FIEBIG,

IS PREPARED To DO ALL KINDS OF LOG
Work; also to repair Sewing Machines
All kinds of Safe Work Speciality.
Shop Market Square, west side, south of tn
ailey
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
BUSINESS CARDS.

AEN WORTIS 3; 6EARDSLEY
AW AND ABSTRACT OFFICE. ROOMS II
l. Court House. Jno. T. Kenworthy JAS, NJ. Boards
ey. IO-23d&wff
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
Dooley's Patent Combination
TOE-CALKS.
Put up in boxes containing e5 lbs, each.

ut
These Toe-Calks are made from Steel converted
from carefully selected brands of Norway and
Swedes Ir IL by special process which ensures the
utmost ease in welding, together with the greatest
Durability in wear.
For sale by all iron, steel and hardware dealers
throughout New England Manufactured solely
by c. F. DEWICK & Co,
800 Dorchester Ave, South Borton, Mass
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
CHARLES W. O'NEIL,

n Notary Public. Office First Nationa
Bank, Rock Island. 5.13dw6m
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25

Going North-11:l5 m 1888 p. II.
Going South-T:30 4. IL. s:2S p. N.
Palace Sleeping cars. owned and operated by this
line. accompany all night trains.
CONNECTIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
At Darlington with Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw R'y
for Peoria, Indianapolis Lafayette and Cincinnati
with Chicago, burlington / QHincy r. r., for chi
wa and points In k8nsas and Nebraska, aud with
Bloomfield and all points in Missouri ard Kansas.
At Columbus Junction with Chicago Il South
western Railroad fersHashington and LeRs en- worth.
At Nichols with MHscatine Division b G, X & b
for Muscatine.
AT West Liberty, with Chicago, Rock Island &;
Pacific Railroad, for Iowa City, Desmoines, and
Davenport.
At Cedar Rapids. with Milwaukee. Division OF r.
G r Il VI for Independence. West Union, PostviHe
anu McGregor; with Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way, for Omaha. Council Bluffs and Chicago and
with Dubuque Southwestern R'y for DnbGque
At Waterloo ard Cedar Fails VITA Illinois Cen
irai Railroad for Independence, Dubuque, Fort
Dodge and Sioux City
At Shell Rock with Stage for Wayeriy.
At Nora junction. with Milwaukee & st Paul
Railway, for Mason City and Charles City.
At Plymouth with Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
for ell points in Minnesota
At ct Paul, for all points on Northern Pacific
Railway, The great Lake Superior region. and all
points North and Northwest
e. Il WINSLOW, Gen'i Manager
G. j IVES. Gen'l Pass. & Ticket Agent,
Cedar Rapids. Iowa
NOTICE cHAssE5 - Ezza
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
HOWARD D. SWEENEY. WILLIAM JACKSON
SWEENEY & JACKSON.
G. NJ, KELLER. nj. o.

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELDORs AT LAW
: OIice-Cor. Eagle snd Illinois streets, Rock Is
and. Illinois. l1-I8d1y
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
WATCH BUYERS ATTENTION

VII CT 10 INV O kbNA
the purchase q
Watches to the gu
periority OF the
Nickel Movement
Watches, made BY
the Messrs. PoBEl
& CoTRvoIsTER, Of
Switzerland. Gentl
and Ladies' sizes
in Stem and Key
Winders.
Those Watcher
have Equilibrium
Escapem'ts. Chro
nometer balance
Ruby Pallet, TEN
pered and harde~
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
THOMAS YATES.

rs PREPARED To Do PLUMBING IN ALL ITS
branches, also, Gas and Steam Fitting.
Call and have estimates made before ordering
work dure by other parties.
THOMAS VAT rs. (IIevee )Rock Island
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
Orleans Street Livery,

HENRY, LIVERY FEED, SALE AND
n. Boarding Stable. Parties and Funerals Spe-
cialny. Orleans Street, between Buffalo and IA
charges reasonable. % t5dt3
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Residence cor.
! Orleans and Ohio streets next door to Kdehler's
Drug Store. Office over Benser & Thomas Drug
tore, Market Square, office hours 10 to Il a. NJ to
P. g-l4d&wfy
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
STURGEON & ADAMS.

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW
~ Office in Mitchell & Lynde's block, Rock Island
Ill Have complete set of Books If Abstracts
Title Of Lands in Rock Island County.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-01-25
EnameIled Pine.

TRY THE ENAMELLED PIPE, IT WILL Non
! Rust or crack and costs only trife more than
common iron pipe. Is positively THE BEST thing
for water service pipe. have the exclusive agency
for Rock Island. FRED HASS.
Store in Star Block
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13
The War Department.

The annual report of the Secretary of
War opens with an account of the work
ing of the act of August Is, 1876, by
which the army was reduced to a max
imum of $4,000 men. As the cavalry
was specially excluded from reduction,
the diminution in the other branches of
the service was large. The maximum of
engineers was reduced to 200 men; that
of ordnance men to 35G; ordnance ser
geants at posts to ia; commissary SER
geants at posts, 14S; hospital stewards,
200; West Point detachments, 200; re-
cruiting parties, 800; Indian scouts,
900; guard at military prison, seventy
four; sixty-fve enlisted men per battery
for five batteries of artillery; forty
eight men per battery for five batteries
at the Artillery School; thirty-eight en-
listed men per battery for fifty batteries
of artillery, and five enlisted men for
non-commissioned staff, at each of five
regimental headquarters of artillery !;
thirty-seven enlisted men per company
for $50 companies of infantry, and five
for non-commissioned staff, at each of
twenty-five regimental headquarters of
infantry. This made a total of 1915
infantry and 1925 artillery men in the
field. In order to effect these reduc-
tions recruiting was suspended, and all
the soldiers whose terms would expire
before October 81, 1877, were discharged.
Recruiting on limited scale has been
recommended, but the numbers still in
service are much below what they would
seem from the above figures.
The Secretary dwells on the fact that
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

viz: Convict d, 157; acquitted, 16; not yet
tried, 19S. In addition, 172 persons, whose
ofienses it was deemed advisable to prosecute
in the State Courts, such as burglaries of
post-offices, highway robberies, murder of
ail-riders, etc, have been surrendered to
the State authorities for trial.
The total number of complaints was
7,039, of which 2,2s9 were for registered
letters, of the reported value of S54, ,419.S2
ordinary letters, 1928, reported to contain
in money, drafts, ETC., S25S, ,072.7S; max ing
an aggregate of losses amounting to SS12,-
1880, and miscellaneous cases numbering
$40. OF the registered letters, ia were re-
valued at S10,510.60, were made good and
500, of the reported value of SAB, ,s0O.22
were irrecoverably lost, leaving 40 still
under investigation. This statement in
eiudes the destruction of registered letters
by railroad accidents, etc, except these
destroyed in March, 1877, by the burning of
the postal car at Sedan, Indiana.
The percentage of actual losses, compared
with the number of letters reported regis
tered during the year,, ,3iS, ,127-is about
one-fftieth of one per cent, or one in five
thousand sent through the mails.
The total weights of the mails dispatched
from the United States to postal-union
countries during the year were as follows:
Letters, 81 ,401 ,230 grams, equal to 3 3,224 ,427
260,364 grams, equal to 13,30S,SS ounces,
being an increased weight over 1876 of
74,51S ounces of letters, and ,2S9, ,205 ounces
of printed matter and samples. A state
lneht is appended of the weight of mails
dispatched to each postal-union country.
The cost of the United states transatlantic
mail steamship service for the year 1877 was
$159, ,742.4S, being q reduction of S12, ,600.61
from the cost Of the same service for the
tear 1876.
The United States postages on mails con-
veyed to and from the West Indies, Panama,
Central America, Brazil, Mexico, Bermuda,
Nova Scotia, New Granada, Venezuela,
Honolulu, the Australian Colonies, Japan
and China amounted to S107 ,363.55, and the
cost of the sea conveyance thereof was
4f,3404g.
The total cost of the United States Ocean
Mail Steamship Service for the year 1877
tineluding $250,000 paid from special appro-
priation for steamship service to Japan and
China) was S457 1868. In addition to this
the sum of S11, ,36S.30 was paid on account
of foreign closed mails transported from
New York to Europe, and reimbursed to
this department in the settlement of the
quarterly accounts with the British and
French post departments.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13
When Was Christ Born!

Dionysius Exiguus mistook the year,
and probably the day and the month.
AS to the year, Christ was certainly born
before the death of Herod the Great
(see Matthew. Now Herod the Great
died in the year of Rome 749 or $50.
Some chronologists have attempted to
make nearer approximation to the
year of Christ's birth by the help of
Luke's remark Gii 2-2S) that Jesus was
about thirty years old in the fifteenth
year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar.
Tiberius became sole emperor in August,
in the year of Rome 767. Add the
fourteen years of Tiberius's reign, and it
appears that Christ was about thirty
years of age in the year of Rome Isl.
But there is some reason to think that
Augustus made Tiberius partner in the
government two years before; that is, in
765 plus IA. In this case Tberius's fif-
teenth year would be 779 of the year of
Rome. Now if our Savior was about
thirty years old in the year of Rome,
ISL, he was born about the year of
Rome 751. If in the year of Rome 779,
then he was born about the year of
Rome 749.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13
Funny Tragedy.

There was fun as well as good acting
in Chicago theater during Lawrence
Barrett's week of Shakespeare. Will
you permit me to descend, my friendsP
said " Marc Antony" Just then he
stepped inadvertently on the frail can
vas-covered frame workrepresenting the
marble platform at the head of the
steps, and down came the whole con-
cern, "Marc Antony" and all. Julius
Caesar" who had been dead several
hours, and who was lying stiff and cold
on a bier at the foot of the steps, threw
up an arm in terror when the platform
cracked, and kicked around very liVely
as the stuff tumbled about his ears. " If
YOU have tears" continued "Marc An
tonv," "prepare to shed them now"
and they were shed literally by the au-
dience in the convulsive laughter that
followed
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13
Mr.. Sbane's Little Affair with an Amer.
lean Lion.
kansas City Times.I

There is now on exhibition in the Lin
dell Hotel the rudely stuffed hide of a
very large and Notwithstanding noun
tain lion, which was killed few weeks
ago in Hensdale County, southwest of
Pueblo, Col. Mr.. III. ]. Minor and
partner named Henry Shane were en-
gagged in running pack train OF bIrros,
or small Mexican asses, over the noun
tains to the mines in San Juan County.
They had Just gone into camp one night
in Antelope Park when the lion made its
appearance. 1t appears that one of the
burros had given out from exhaustion
and had been left standing alone in the
snow short distance from camp. The
animal, although almost unable to move,
suddenly gave evidence of great terror
and alarm and commenced to bray. MIR.
Shane started out of camp to see what
the trouble was. As soon as he left the
circle of the campfire large mountain
lion sprang upon him from projecting
rock abovehim and bore him to the earth:
His partner Mr.. Minor, saw the animal
spring and called at once to Shane to
keep still. The lion stood growing over
the prostate man, with its two fore feet
Oh his breast. Minor dropped the ropes
he was engaged in coiling and seized a
Winchester rifle and fired. The animal
dropped and Shane scrambled to his feet
and assisted in dispatching .the ferocious
beast. He was hurt slightly about the
breast where the claws had penetrated
the clothing. The lion is but poorly
stuffed, but it is quite curiosity. 1t re-
sembles a very large cat, and would
measure perhaps seven feet from the
nose to the tip of the tail. 1t is the lar
gest and best specimen of the Rocky
Mountain lion species ever brought to
this city.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

A FEW sentences from Swift's famous
letter "To Young Lady en- her Mar
riage" will indicate to what stage the
education of woman had advanced
in the age of Queen Anne. He says:
" 1t is little hard that not one gentle
mans daughter in a thousand should be
brought up to read or understand her
own natural tongue or to judge of the
easiest books that are written in it, as
any one may find who can have the
patience to hear them when they are
disposed to mangle play or novel,
where the least word out of the common
run is sure to disconcert them, and it is
no wonder when they are not so much
as taught to spell in their childhood,
nor can they ever attain it in their
whole lives. / advise you therefore to
read aloud more or less every day to
your husband. if he will permit, or to
any other friend who is able to set you
right, and as for spelling, you may COM
pass it in time by making collections
from the books you read. Your sex en-
ploy more thought and application to
be fools than to be useful. When re-
feet on this, / cannot conceive you to
be human creatures but a certain sort of
species hardly degree above monkey,
who has more diverting tricks than any
of YOU, is an animal less mischievous
and expensive, and might in time be
tolerable critic in velvet and brocade
for aught | know"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

States is now reported 10000 men, and
If it be the purpose of Congress to en-
courage the increase and efficiency of
this force, much larger sum than is
now provided will be necessary. The
armament of our sea coast Notifications
is progressing very slowly.
ESTIMATES.
The estimates for this department for
the fiscal year ending June so, 1877, as
revised, amount, in the aggregate, to the
sum of S43,115, ,443 "a, as follows:
SAlari contingent expenses. and post
NJ litary es ... sl'Fe7 go 6s
IuoiG Nerks sos,, ~ ~
u.s. 1924
The estimates for the support of the
military establishment are for an army
of twenty-five thousand enlisted men,
and the aggregate thereof may be in
creased or diminished in proportion as
the strength of the army is finally fixed
at larger or smaller number. The
estimates submitted by the chiefs of
bureaus have, in some instances, been
considerably reduced, and it is believed
that the several sums now asked are the
lowest that can be appropriated con-
sistently with just regard for the pub
lie interests. The aggregate estimates
for rivers and harbors have been re-
duced to $5,015,000, and Notifications
to S920,C00.
THE MISSISSIPPI.
In conclusion the Secretary refers to
the work of constructing ietties at the
mouth of the Mississippi River, and
quotes from the report of an engineer
officer detailed to inspect the work as
follows: at is probable that the aid of
the new 'dredge-boat,' if it be moderately
successful. tnay soon enable Mr.. Eads to
gain a channel of % feet deep for
width of 200 feet throughout tile jetties,
and the chances are quite favorable for
the attainment of such channel in the
early stages of low river by the help,
possibly, of only an ordinary dredging
machine, and later, perhaps, even with
out such aid. These statements are
made because the law (act approved
March 8, 1875, requires tnat the honora-
BILE Secretary of War shall embody in
his annual reports the probable time
when other payments will lbecome due
Provision for this payment is made
in the sundry civil act of March 8, 1877,
vol. 10. page S5S, provided it becomes
due prior to the 1st of February, 1878.
Should the contingency arise subsequent
to that date, it would appear that
further provision must be made by Con-
gress for the payment. 1t having been
officially reported to me that there was
an open channel of greater depth than
eighteen feet at mean tide. to and from
the sea through South Pass to the Port
of New Orleans, directed, August IS,
1877, the suspension of the operations
for the deepening of the Southwest Pass
under the appropriat on of August IA,
1876, in compliance with the provisions
of that act.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13
Kero.scenes.
IRichmond Independent. ]


Miss Lucy Wilkinson, of Covingson,
Kentucky, went to the kitchen the other
day to make a cup of tea for her sick
mother. In order to hum up the kettle
she poured little coal oil from a can
upon the Goals. A terrible confagration
ensued, burning her body to a crisp.
Her father rushed in and burnt his
hands to a blister in trying to extinguisll
the fire, and the sick woman leaped out
of bed, and is now at the point of death,
in consequence of her fright and ex-
citement. The girl died in great agony
the day after.
The very next day woman in Cincin-
matt, Mrs. Wuest, got up to prepare
breakfast and enacted precisely the
same scene with similar results She
lived a few hours and died in fearful
agony.
Other women will go off in just the
same blaze and get their names in
the papers Unexpectedly, just so long as
there is no law to prevent the use of
burning fluid and coal oil. 1t would be
better to go back to tallow dips where
gas is not to be had, than to run the
risks which must be run in using the in
hammable stuffin families where thought
less women and servants can get hold of
it. Why don't we have printed in
structions tackled up in every kitchen in
the land as they do in hotel bed rooms9
If Bridget couldn't read, let it be done
pictorially; representative of a burst
ing can, woman in flames, and a gen.
eral appearance of the crack OF doom
would be constant and wholesome re-
minder to even the most ignorant ser
want. If printed it should give full di-
rections. "Have your burial suit al
ways ready in your trunk, leave trink-
cts and corsets off, they stick to the
burned flesh. Fasten your garments
loosely, that they may be jerked off in
hurry" and other cheerful but simple
instructions. 1t would save many lives
in the course of year.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

News from Wamego, on the line OF
the Kansas and Pacific Railroad, report
a horrible murder recently committed In
that locality. A preacher named Wool
fert was murdered in cold blood by one
True, who went about Wamego trying
to dispose of the dead mans proper ty
The body of Woolfert was found In a
ravine. 1t had almost been deyoured
by wolves and buzzards. The alleged
murderer is in Jail, and the dispatch
say he will be probably lynched, as the
people are fearfully excited.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

WHILE a train WAS temporarily snow
bound the other day, in Omaha, an in
eonsiderate elocutionist began reading
" Beautiful Snow" The outraged pas
sengers yanked him across telegraph
wire and cut him in two.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

THE deaf man continues to seek the
railroad track for his daily constitu-
tional;" the swift and economical hired
girl persists in pouring kerosene on the
kindfing woodland the number OF fools
is growing smaller by degrees.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

"SILENCE in the courtw thundered q
Kentucky Judge the other morning.
" Half dozen men have been convicted
already without the Courts having been
able to hear word of testimony"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

ROBERT CLARK has presented the
University of Cincinnati a collection of
three thousand species of fine and rare
land, fresh water and marine sheiis-a
generous and acceptable donation.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13

TIE man who desires to know his
weight and goes to the scales to ascertain
generally gives himself away"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-12-13
Postoffice Department.

The Postmaster General reports that
The total expenditures of this depart
rnent during the fiscal year ended
Juue 90 1s77, were 1922 "A
The revenues we're as follows:
Ordinary receipts........- s26, ,9SS, ,444 "a
Receipts from money Or
der business. ................ 172, 400 IS
Receipts for official stamps
and stamped envelopes. 80, ,730 A 1854 ,4S5 26
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-07
4 MEETING or MINERS.
An Abortive Attempt to Cause n strike In
the Mahanoy valley.

SHENANDOAH, Aug G.-This morning at
about O'clock crowds of mon could hc seen
going toward Smiths farm. adjacent To- Mahanoy
city. By 10 oclo X almost two hundred men
had collected there. They were all strikers
from the vicinity They waited until II o'clock.
expecting an acquisition from the Mahanoy dis
trct but they were disappointed The Mahanoy
men were AT work. and said they had no time to
attend meetings. and they didn't propose 10
strike. The meeting was for the express pur
pose Of getting them to strike. At about l2h
L. NJ those who had congregated on
the farm borrowed a flag and formed
procession and marched through the Mahanoy
Wiley but they lid not attempt to stop any VI
the collieries. They arrived. here in the after,
noon. disgusted with the Mahanoy men. and
denornced them as " blacklegs.' This evening
20 To- work IN Monday morning. That the sus-
unusiNu is ili advised j. not questioned by any
n.rsons The ministers bcsueched those IN
ihrir CONGREGATIONS who Were SIR rlk,'rS on sun
dny morning to 10 To- work. The Cah9hc ,lersy
we're unanimous in denouncing the leaders 81
the affair. and almost ordered the men hclrnEhs
| 10 That denomination togo to work. thereby 7hN'
| inr their children from the pangs oi munger.
| might say that the backbone of the strike -
broken and that every rulllnry IN inns NlelhlN
| Will resume operations 10y Wednesday