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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-05-02
EDITORIAL Trials.

We have alluded 10 the editors
trials--the strain upon his sympa-
thies. Suppose we present few
of them. A young man with little
experience OF life, high ambitions,
great expectations, thorough In
dustry, sends manuscript and sc-
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-05-02

companies IL with letter, in which
he says that ell the hopes Of his
life are hanging upon the fate Of
his paper-that the editor has q
destiny in his hands-that the writ
er is waiting to hear his fate, ETC.,
etc. A woman writes that the
living Of herself and her children.
who have been left without a pro.
tector and provider, depends upon
the editors decision, and that il
her manuscript is not accepted, she
and her little ones must become
beggars. A young girl, just from
school, wishes to earn her own liv-
ing, and relieve q father who has
failed In business. Another girl
desires bravely to educate her
brothers and sisters, who have
been left without the requisite
means. A woman is possessed by
an overmastering desire to do good
with her pen. Hundreds write
that they are poor, and that they
have no recourse but their power
to write.
To man who carries q heart,
such appeals are painful beyond
expression. He has no right to
yield the slightest consideration to
them, and be must not do it. They
have no right to distress him in
this way, but they do not know
that The resort is so desperate
that they are really untitled by it
for doing their best work. The
presumption always is that,the lit
erary part of the case Is conscious
ly weak one. The urging of an
illegitimate consideration would
hardly be INDUCED in by one who
felt strong in his literary claim
When q man is large enough to
write for the public, he is usually
large enough to see that an illegiti-
mate claim to attention aegrades
him; indeed he is large enough
not to think of making it.
After ell, the mistake of the no
vice begins in his incompetent idea
of literature. No man thinks Of
putting his first picture in the ex-
hibition; but the moment q man
begins to write, he wants to print,
forgetting that there Is no art that
demands more study and practice
than the literary, aud that he has
no special training for 1t. With.
out experience in life, without
training In art, md with only q
natural facility for expression, he
has fancy that If he could only
get a publisher ne could succeed at
once. Our painters, sculptors,
our singers, our architects, are OBJ
liged to go through long courses of
instruction and practice; but our
essayists, our poets, our novelists,
seem to think that they must ay
when they tumble from their nests,
or 1t is all up--or down With them.
-Scribner's Monthly.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1877-05-02
VICK'S
illustrated Priced Catalogue

Fifty pagcs--300 Illustrations. with descriptions
OF thousands of the best Flowers and Vegetables
in the world, and tho way 10 grow them-all for
two cent postage stamp. Printed in German and
English.
Vick's Floral Guide Quarterly, IS cents year.
vick's Flower and Vegetable Garden, so cents
in paper in elegant cloth covers sl.O0.
Address, JAMES WICK, Rochester, n. Y.
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VICK'S
Flower and Vegetable Seeds

are planted by million people IN America. Sec
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Vick's Floral Guide

a beautiful Quarterly Jeurpal, finely illustrated,
and containing an elegant colored flower Plate
with the first number. Prize only ?5cents for the
year. The first No. for 1877 sust issued N German
and English.
vick's Flower & Vegetable Garden, Ia paper so
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Vick's Catalogue Illustrations. only cents.
Address, JAMES WICK, Rochester, n. Y
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The Shardest up" church ga
America Is located in Now Jersey.
The congregation held a festival
TO raise money for the purpose Of
paying the interest on It's lightning
rod.
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VICK'S
Flower And Vegetable Seeds

IA the most beautiful work Of the kind in tho
world IL contains nearly $50 pages, hundreds OF
hne illustrations. and SIX chrome plates OF flowers
beautifully drawn and oolored nom nature, Prtce
SO cents w paper covers tl:Vo IN elegant cioth
Printed IN German and English
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Address, JAMES WICK, Rochester N. y.
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There e new engine in opcr-
alton at the Calumet and Hecls
mine that rirds the big Centennial
engine.
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Young Men.

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lows, on the Mississippi. Nineteenth year.
\ boat sixty dollars pay al expenses, for Mem
berskap, board and ttatiJnary. Book-keepers,
Pens,en, Reporters Operators, Architects, Sur
veyors and TEACHERS thoroughly fitted. Railroad
fare reduced. Good situations. No vaca Ion.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
vics-Presiasnt wheeler.

The unusual and lamentablc spectacle
Of public man. occupying distinguished
position, stultilyiug himself by acts utterly
at variance with previous professions, is
seldom exhibited more plainly, and we may
add more painfully, than by the present
vice president whose name appears at the
head OF this article. 1t was sincerely
hoped that theiniquites aud crookeduess Of
the Louisiana muddle and the outrages
Of the returning board Of that state HAD
eliminated, when the eight to seven com
mission perpstrated the fraud Of giving
the electoral vote of that state to Mr..
Hayes But such expectations were not
destined to be realized, and Mr.. Vice
President Wheeler has carried his party
zeal to that full extreme which betokens
devotion to party as being in his estimation
vastly above justice or constitutional
rights. We have nowhere seen 8 better
or more striking portrayal Of the vice
presidents political tsrgivrsations than the
following, taken from leading journal Of
his own state, the World.
The fact that the vice president has
awaited himself Of an opportunity to cast
deciding vote in the senate has brought
him tor the moment into some prominence.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04

From the obscutity to which his official
position condemns him be has stepped
forward into the light Of public observa-
ton; and people who had almost forgot
ten his existenee are ransacking their
memories to find out what manner of man
he may be. The only notable event Of his
career is that he was the author of what
is known as "The Wheeler Compromise"
and those who remember this have been
inclined, whenever they thought of him at
all, to suppose that he must be a person
of rather just and judicial habits of
thought and action. This has arisen from
the misnomer attached, luckily for him, to
q transaction which was in truth COM
promise after the pattern that Scud East
said Tom Brown so much affected, where
in the other fellow had to give up pretty
much everything he claimed. Mr.. Wheel
er by his recent vote has made il difficult
for impartial people hereafter to regard
him as a conservative or non-partisan,
10 spite of his having made what the
country took for a compromise once upon
time. The truth is that Mr.. Wheeler
has been a most intense partisan through
out his public career, and that while in
Congress he chiefly distinguished himself
by his bitter enmity towards the south.
The late speaker Kerr, who served with
him on one of the earlier investigating
COMMITTEES in Louisiana, described him as
a fanatic. and charitably compared the
speech which he made in the house when
presenting the report of his committee to
the raving mailman. The circumstances
which led to the so- called compromise
which Mr., Wheeler formed in the winter
of 1875 were such as to force even Taving
lmadman into some measure Of sanity in
his dealings with southern affairs. The
rebellion in New Orleans under Penn, the
restoration of the u5urper Kellogg by
General Grant, the defeat of the republi
leans throughout the country in the fall OF
1874, the interference of the military 10
the organization of the Louisiana legisla-
ture in January of the following year-all
these events had brought public sentiment
to such point that old fashioned partisan
Investigations had become simply impossi
BILE. The congressional committee ap-
pointed to deal with southern affairs upon
which Mn. Wheeler figured was further
more precluded from making a full defense
of the republican policy by the fact that
the sub committee sent to Louisiana, which
consisted of Mr.. Phelps, Mr.. Foster, and
Mr.. Potter, took strong ground against the
Kellogg government and in favor of the
Louisiana democracy. The only thiEG
possible for the less liberal minded
members of the committee-Wheeler
Hoar and Frye-to do was to follow the
subcommittee, and if the recusant repup.
licans, with their democratic colleague,
persisted in telling the unvarnished truth
TO submit minority report which might
4 (Concluded on next page.l
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
Chancery Notice.

STATE OF ILLINOIS.
COUNTY OF Rock ISLAND
In the Circuit Court of Rock Island County, to the
January term, A. D. 1873.
Andreas Hoffman, Complainant, VS. Julia A. Walter
George Walter, and the unknown heirs at law Of
George Walter. deceased, Defendants.-In Chan
Gerry.
Affidavit Of the non-residence Of all OF the above
named defendants having been fled in the Office Of
the Clerk Of said Court notice is h reby given to
each OF the above named defendants, that the said
comp lanant has filed bis bill of complaint against
them in said Court. on the ehancery side thereof,
ana that q summons In ehancery has been Issued
out OF said Court AGAINST sill Of said defendants,
turnable on the fret day of the next term Of said
Court. which is to be begun and holden OF the
Eourt House, in the city Of Rock Island, In said
county, on the first Monday of January. A. D. 1878,
at which time and place you and each OF you will
appear.
Dated this slth day Of November, A. D. 1877
LEVI F HARRISON,
OLIVER OLSEN, Clerk of said Court.
Solicitor for Complainant. 11-27d4w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
PURELY VEGETABIE

Containing those Southern Roots and Herbs which
an all.wise Providence has placed in countries
where Liver Diseases most prevail II will cure all
Diseases caused by BEREAVEMENT OF THE LIVER
AND BOWELS.
The SYMPTOMS Of Liver Complaint are bitter
or bad taste in the mouth Pain in the Back Sides
or Joints, often mistaken for Rheumatism; Sour
Stomach; Loss OF Appetite; Bowels alternately
cosive and lax; Headache; Loss Of Memory with
painful sensation Of having failed to do something
which ought to have been done; DEBILITY, Low
SPIRITS, thick yellow appearance of the Skin and
Eyes, a Dry Cough often mistaken forConsumption
Sometimes many Of these symptoms attend the
disease at others very few; but the LIVER the lar
gest organ In the body, s generally the seat OF the
disease and II not Regulated in time, great suffer
ing, wretchedness and DEATH win ensue.
can recommend as an eficacious remedy for dis
ease of the Liver, Heartburn and Dyspepsia, SIM
MONS LIVER REGULATOR. L. G. WUNDER,
1925 Master Street
Assistant Post Master, Philadelphia.
"We have tested its virtues, personally, and know
that for Dyspepsia, Biliousness, and Throbbinp
Headache, It is the best medicine the world ever
saw We have tried forty other remedies before
Simmons Liver Regulator, but none of them gave
ms more than temporary relief; but the Regulator
not only relieved, but cured SD. Telegraph
and Messenger. Macon, Ga.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
THE ELECTRIC PEN,

1000 to $500 copies from SINGLE WRITTEN
STENCIL. The CHEAPEST and QUICKEST method
OF producing CIRCULARS, PRICE LISTS, MAPS,
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5 900 IN USE. Send for circulars and samples.
ENERGETIC AGENTS WANTED
GEO. II. BLISS, Gen'l Manager.
40 to 232 Kinzie ST. Chicago. Ill.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
J. Fl. zETLTN & Co.

ALAOO4Nf I'M nIlu InIlhUbLTHlA.
Your valuable medicine SIMMONS LIVER REGu-
LAToR has saved me many Doctors bills, use L
for everything it is recommended, and never knew
It to fail, have used it in Colo and Grubbs, with
my mules and horses, giving them about half q
bottle at time. have not lost ono thst gave it
TO, you can recommend it to every one that has
took as being the best medicine known for all
complaints that horse-hesh is heir to-
E.T. TAYLOR, Ag't for Changers of Ga.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
EFFk CTUAL SPEOIF7C
IT HAS NO RQUAL
CAUTION.

As there are number Of limitations offered to the
public, we would caution the community to buy no
powders or Prepared SIMMONS LIVER REGU-
LATOR, unless in our engraved wrapper, with the
trade mark, stamp and signature unbroken. None
other ia genuine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
Cure of all Female Weaknesses

This Compound, which is purely vegetable, hal
entirely cured the most stubborn cases that have
bafied the skill of our best physicians, and thous
ands of persons who were considered as incurablt
before this remedy was discovered have been re
stored 20 perfect health by its use.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04

n
SUNDAY EXCRPTED)
Going North-11:1 rs a. m; 1898 p. m.
Going South-7:3O a. m; s:2s p. m.
Palace Sleeping cars owned and operated by ,s
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At Burlington with Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw R'y
for Peoria, Indianapolis, Lafayette and Cincinnati;
with Chicago, Burlington Quincy r. R., for Chi
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wa and all points in Kansas and Nebraska, and with
Burlington b Southwestern R'y, for Pennington,
Bloomfield and all points in Missouri and Kansas
At Columbus Junction, with Chicago Il South
western Railroad forIWashington andLeaNenworth,
At Nichols.wlth Muscatine Division c, k &
for Muscatine. g.
At West Liberty, with Chicago. Rock Island q
Pacific Railroad, for Iowa City, Desmoines, and
Davenport =
At Iedar Rapids. with Milwaukee Division Of B.
Z r & for Independence. West Union, POstyillG
ano McGregor; with Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way, TOR Omaha. Council Bluffs and Chicago, an6
with Dubuque e. Southwestern R'y for Dubuque.
At aterloo and Cedar Falls, wiz Illinois Cel
raj Railroad for Independence, Dubuque Fol
Dodge and Sioux City.
At Shell Rock with Stage for Waverly.
Al Nora Junction, with Milwaukee & ST Pau
Railway, for Mason City and Charles City.
At Plymouth with Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
for all points in Minnesota.
At ST Paul, for all points on Northern Pacific
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points North and Northwest.
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c. ] IVES, Gen'l Pass. 4 Ticket Agent,
Cedar Rapids, lows
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
Assistant Post Master, Philadelphia.
]. 81. ZEILTN g. co.
MACON, GA, and PHILAD.

MhOOANl T1IIIAADELPhIA.
1t contains four medical elements, never united
in the same happy proportion in any other prepare
ton, viz: gentle Csthsrtic, wonderful Tonic al
unexceptionable Alternative and certain Corrective
Of all Impurities OF the body Such signal success
has attended its use, that it s regarded as the
Eff CTUAL SPECIFIC
For all diseases of the Liver, Stomach and Spleen
IA a Remedy in
MALAREOUS FEVERS, BOWEL COMPLAINTS
DYSPEPSIA.M MENTAL DEPRESSION. RESTLESS
NESS, JAUNDICE, NAUSEA, SICK HEADACHE
COLO, CONSTIPATION and BILIoUSNESS
TT HAS NO EQUAL
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
Worth 200 in a Single Case.

BURLINGTON, VT Dec. 18th, 1876.
MRS. LYDIA E. PINKaAM;- 1t is with pleasure
that able to say that in every case reported
to US your VEGETABLE COMPOUND has given uni
versal satisfaction. One gentleman told us to-day
that 1t had done his wife Thousand dollars worth
of good, as he expressed it. Our customers with
out a single exception speak of it in the highest
terms OF praise. You are at liberty TO make use of
this In advertising If you choose. Yours very re-
spectfully. ii. B. STEABNS q CO., Druggists.
~ The Pamphlet "Guide to Women" will be
sent free to any address by enclosing stamp to
LYDIA E. PINKHAM, Lynn, Mass.
Lydia E. Pimkham's Vegetable Compound
Is sold by all Druggists at 81 per bottle. Whole
sale Agents-George g. Goodwin & Co., No 3S
Hanover street, and Carter, Harris \ HRwley, No.
1856 Washington street. Boston.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-12-04
LIVER REGULATOR

The Cheapest rnrsss and Best Family Medicine in the wsd
For DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice
Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Collie Depres
sion Of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart Burn, &C
This unrivalled Southern Remedy is warranted
not to contain single particle of MERCURY or anS
lnin Einna mineral anhsiance Int ia
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-08-09
ARKANSAS.
THE STATE JUST AS TT IS.
From an Official Report of Jas. $. Wilson, late United States
 Land Commissioners.

The newspapers of Arkansas have said so much about this State, that no doubt some who do not know the facts just as they exist, think that the picture given in such glowing colors has been over done. Such, however, is not the case, and all that has ever been put on record by dis interested and competent writers, fully corrobcrates all that we clam for Arkansas.
 James $. Wilson, late U. $. Com missioner of public lands, in his an nual report to the Secretary of the interior gives statement which we append hereto. It must be borne in mind in reading what Mr. Wilson says that he was enabled by his po- sition to acquire full and correct in formation, and what he says must be received as perfectly trustworthy and correct. No statement would be permitted to issue from his office on Iy as a truthful and reliable record, and the charge often brought against newspaper articles in favor of Ar kansas, that they are made from in terested motives, cannot attach to what Mir. Wilson says. Reminding those who wish to come to Arkansas that the state is very large, compris- ing an area of 52, ,l9S square miles, or 33,406, ,720 acres, and that there is room for all and a cordial welcome to all who may come, we extract from Mir. Wilson's report as follows:
 "Arkansas was carved out of the vast region acquired by purchase from France in 1903, and erected into Territory by act of March }, 1919. It extends through nearly three and half degrees of latitude, and occupiesa most advantageous location in the temperate zone. The chemical characteristics of the soil, the chorography and vegetable products, are similar to those of the Northern and Southern States. The physical conformation of the coun- try is very advantageous, largely enhancing the value of its geograph- ical position.
 "In the southeast corner of the State the altitude of the surface does not exceed two hundred feet above tide water. From this point the country rises to the Northwest, and in the interior attains an extensive plateau, while mountains reach an
The Russellville Democrat., 1877-08-09

the extravagant, the monopolist, the speculator, the men of all interests who sought undue profit without labor, seized the party and the party seized the government. Corruption ran riot, monopoly flourished, and extravaganza destroyed our resonrc- es and enfeebled government and society. We had carnival of riot ous living, and corrupt expenditure and now we are enjoying a carnival of misery and reaping the bitter fruits of misrule.
 The Republican party established protection and extended it to the iarthcst limit, with the worst possi- ble discriminations. Under it's dom ination the patent system has grown to a fragrant abuse. It has deliber- ately favored spectators in bonds instead of making the debt a con venient investment for the great mass of the people, like the English securities, and it has both wantonly and ignorantly mismanagcd the fi- nances. 1t has fostered and favored the growth of railway rings and monopolies, and by example stimu- lated tLc enormous extension of credit and creation of bonded debt. It has destroyed the industry and enterprise of the one-half the coun- try by oppression, corruption and mismanagement, and of the other half by corruption and mismanage- ment. It has accomplished all this by political policy, radically wrong and wllliully corrupt; by an econom- ic policy, false in principle and wholly corrupt in it's ann, by an in fluence on society which has been wholly evil. The corrupt elements and the wrong elements of society and the party had remarkable affin- ity and worked wonderfully we'll to- gether.
 Society has been fatally diseased, but It has found that out and fatal collapse of a fictitious prosperity has brought the remedy. The party which was the means of evil still ex- ists, hopelessly incompetent to find remedy or even to seek change of system. It is still under the fatal spell Of those who want no change. It will be compelled to cobhle and patch. The people of this country must place the responsibility where it belongs and discover that patch ing the system we have is no reme- dy. We must have complete and thorough change of system, so that industry and enterprise, labor and capital, together may work out an enduring prosperity, untrammelled by corrupt politics, false financial policies, and a radically wrong eco homie system.