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The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16
SPECIAL NOTICES.
S25. SEQ, SiOO, $500. $500.

The reliable house of ALEX FROThINGHAM
& CO, No II Wall ST, New York publish hand
some eight-page weekly paper, called the Weekly
Financial Report which they send free to any ad-
dress In addition to q large number of editorials
on financial and other topics, il contains very full
and accurate reports Of the sales ana andlng OF
every stock bond and security dealt in at the Stock
Exchange. Messrs. FROTHINGHAM q % are
extensive brokers of large experience ana tr1ed IN
teority In addition to their stock brokerage buei
ness they sell what is termed 'Prlvilegss' or Puts
and Calls now one of the favorte methods OF lie.
ritimate speculation Their advice is valuable and
| Bv following it many haYe made foTtunes.-LNew
York Metropolis
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16

RENNE'S MAGIC OIL cures CONC,
RENNE'S MAGIC OIL cures Cholera Morbus,
RENNE'S -,AGIC OIL cures Coughs.
RENNES MAGIC OIL cures Sore Throat.
1T WORKS LIKE A CAARM.
DAYTON, ONO, August q, 1878.
MEssRs. WIN. RENNE & Sons
GENTs-Please send me ut once by express one
dozen bottles large size Magic Oil. The Magic Oil
does indeed work like q charm. Six years ago
mother had fall which came very near r, sulting
fatally. She recovered her health in some degree
during the year following, but she sustained suCh
severe injuries, especially in her spine and left arm
nd shoulder, that she almost helpless. Ho-
ping a change of climate might be beneficial, the
spring of the second year after her fall she went to
Utica, N. y. to visit some relatives. While there
she obtained and used some of your Magic Oil; ii
relieved her almost Immediately, so much So tn I
she came home very much improved III health and
strength, and by the free of the Magic Oil she
is now enjoying better health than she has known
Tor ten years. aud has recovered entirely from her
injuries Mother has SO much confidence i'll your
Magic Oil that she will not be without it.
Respectfully yours, JOsEPH Z. DIXsoN.
Some folks seem 10 be prond OF telling how lame
their shoulders arc'-of my CriCk in the back
II have cot the SCiatiCa and delight in Dragging
that nothing can cure mei''-hut when we such
lawful folks" TO use RENNES PAIN-klLLlNG
MAGIC OIL, faithfully, not only cure then
| lameness and charm away their pains, but we ac
tualy take all teat kind of brag out Of them " and
| they frankly Cwn up and say, lit works like
| charm. - Sold by all Druggists, Merchants and
| Grocers. Call for Renne's Magic Oil where yor
usually trade.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16
Boilor Explosion and Death in Paris
Liberty of the Press in France.

PARIS, Feb. 1.-two persons wer
killed by a boiler explosion at Stetienne.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16
An Appointment in the Chicago Custom


CHICAGO, Feb. l6.-Chas H. Ham has
been nominated appraiser Of merchandise
at Chicago. 1t will be remembered that
Mr.. Ham formerly occupied this position,
and was an efficient aud thoroughly com
petent office. His appointment gives
GREAT satisfaction.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16

For Sale !
cFVERAL WELI-BRED DURHAM BULL
= Calves, at my stock farm, at Longview, on Rock
aver, 4 miles above Milan, and IL miles from
Coal Valley. Will be sold low.
. 5wtf w. ID. CBOCAEIT.
The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-16

EIFThe Lenteu SEASON has come and
with it the price Of eggs and fish will adj
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
Nitrate Of Soda on wheat.

A writer in the London agricultural
Gazette says: "My " experience this
year, from the use Of IL cwt. per acre of
nitrate Of soda, used alone, was, | might
say marvellous. / took in hand a small
farm of seventy-five acres, which had
been in bad hands for some years-two
fields of respectively fourteen and thir-
teen acres, one all wheat, the other half
wheat and half winter oats. Nothing
could have looked much worse than the
wheat during the winter, so in the spring
sowed the nitrate on both fields, with
the exception of about three acres of
wheat, on which | put soda, which is
greatly used in this part of the country
West Herts). He had some refreshing
rain shortly after the nitrate was put on,
and in about a month the crops sprang
up, and there were no crops in part
Of the country, which looked better
about the beginning of July. The straw
was long, and the ears long and full; and
l hope to get a good crop of both grair
and straw from these twenty-five acres
which have scarcely had any manur OF
for some years, except this dressing o
nitrate, at the cost of about thirty shill
ings per acre. With regard to the ques
tion Of nitrate destroying white clover,
can only say that saw a farm in Lanca
shire the other day where a top dressin
Of one cwt. of nitrate and three cwt. 0
bones had been used as a top-dressing o.
oats and permanent grass seeds, and
never saw a greater promise of whit
clover seed than was spring up. | shout
like to have some ones experience of toy
dressing Of the above mixtns~~-~--"-~
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
A Live Man with Stone Legs.

On November 4, 1867, James Feather
stone, a harnessmaker, Of No. "a Wash
ington street, was compelled to take his
bed by a "crick" in his back, and has
never risen from it. In June, 1869, the
terrible disease of e~lephantiasis arabum
developed itself in the hardening of the
soles Of the feet. 1t rapidly spread up
WARD, and his legs swelled and became
like petrifactions. 1t is believed that
the legs at the calves will measure thirty
five inches in circumference and weigh
eighty pounds each. A rope and pulley
had to be used to elevate the sufferer 50
that his bed could be changed. He died
Saturday morning at the age of seventy
one years. There have been cass of
elephantiasis arabum in this country,
but none so serious az this. Generally
the disease has settled in the leg only.
The peculiar affection is known in the
West India islands, in Brazil and other
South American countries, also in Japan
and Egypt. Physicians from various
sections of the country have visited Mr..
Featherstone to witness the peculiar
characteristics of the disease.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
Osman the Idol Of His Soldiers.

Osman is the idol of his soldiers. A
Turkish captain, who was captured be-
fore Plcvna and taken to the Russian
headquarters, refused to reveal the plans
of his commander. When he was asked
if there were any English officers in the
garrison he replied s%cornfully: "What
do we want with Englishmen? We
have Osman Pasha, who alone is worth
100000 Englishmen. He looks after
everything personally. He rides round
the lines, visits the intrenchments, goes
to the forepoets and to the rear guard,
questions the spies-th;s latter business
being entirely reserved for him. He is
q man above price," "When the COM
mander is good" he continued, "the sol
diers are good, and when the command
er is bad the soldiers are bad" He spoke
contemptuously Of the Russian generals.
The only M whom he would consent tn
call a soldier wa the younger Skobelef,
who was often seen near the Turkish
lines, clad in white and mounted on a
white charger, and who had been repeat.
eddy fired ut but seemed to have 8
charmed life.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
A Kentucky Love Story.

From the Springfield Mass Republican.
A very sweet story of love comes from
Cincinnati, whence very few sweet
things ever come, and probably we never
should have had this enchanting tale
had not the hero and the heroine been
imported for the occasion from Kentucky.
Prof. Pie has taught school across the
river from Cincinnati for many years,
.ssd lesssa<~l L.is anA SAs..saoxs
and Sundays, and much other time to
Huldah, who was a school marin, and
this pleasant thing vent on till the
After ten or eleven years, Huldah's folks,
beginning to think they were going to
altogether too much expense for fire.
wood and coal-oil and extra dinners for
the professor, and feeling that there
would never Ike any wedding after all,
began to tell naughty stories about the
professor. This made Huldah cry and
love him the more, and the strategy fail
ing, he was forbidden the house. Then
he climbed in the parlor windows, and
the boys pounded him with fence boards
as he went through. And then they
fred blank cartridges at him in the still
darkness of the night, and finally loaded
their guns with beans and atterward
with bird-shot. The professor endured
this exciting amusement a few weeks
and then he got mad, stole Huldah out
of the house, ran away with her to Gin
c%innati, and they were married! Young
Kentucky strategy has succeeded with
the invaluable aid of fence boards and
shot guns in bringing a prolonged and
weary courtship 10 a happy termination.
The professor was forgiven and invited
back with his bride. The affair was a
little novel and sensational, even for
Kentucky, but in spite Of its pronounced
success, it would hardly be desirable,
perhaps, for every lady with a hesitating
lover to start a lot of untamed nephews
on the war.path with shot guns and
fence boards.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
Amer Twenty Years.

Mary futile, a colored woman, aged
Fifty years, who was arrested in June,
1858, for child murder, has been pardon.
ed by GOV. Robinson. She was found
Of the the crime on Jan. Is, 1857,
and ri sentenced to imprisonment for
life in Sing Sing. Mary .Tuttle was
transferred from the latter prison to the
Kings county p~enitentiary in May last.
While there a number Of phiianthropic
lxdies took an interest in her and through
their kindly efforts she has been pardoned
When informed Of the fact that she was
70 obtain her freedom once more, the
poor old creature was greatly overcome.
and when she could collect her senses in.
voked the choicest blessing that Heaven
could send upon the heads of the "kind
ladies and gentlemen" who had brought
about that event.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05

II n an crroncuus OPINION, ~%nrtfIouglY
usually considered otherwise, that roots
for winter keeping, as beets, turnips,
parsnips, carrots, satisfy, etc, are better
to have the crowns and a portion of the
leaves left adhering. In just proportion
a. these are left, will the juices of the
bulbs or roots be dissipated. As they
begin to grow, which they will under
ordinary Conditions in the winter. the
succulence of the root will be impaired,
until at last they become pithy, and
utterly worthless for household use. To
obviate this, the crowns should be rev.
cred a closely as possible. In preparing
beets for pitting, in the manufacture Of
sugar, the entire crown is cut away be-
low the leaves, since this portion con-
tains no saccharine, and the growth of
leaves from the dormant eyes changes
the saccharine Juice Of the beets, thus
impairing the yield of sugar. Never
theless the beets 80 cut, are preserved in.
tact, a callous quickly forming over the
cut surface. From this an important
lesson is taught the farmer and gardener.
Bulbs and roots intended for long keep
ing, should Ike cut below the crown. in
the case Of fiat turnips the eye may be
scooped out. Then If packed in dry
sand or road dust, and kept nearly at the
freezing point, they remain intact until
late in the season, even well into May.
VI course this il not practicable when
large quantities are kept for market use.
Gardeners have other means that answer
the purpose measurably. For family
use however, it will be found to succeed
admirably, and is comparatively little
trouble.-Prdiyie Farmer.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05

Four hundred and fifty pounds OF
poultry are eaten by the Harvard stu
dents on "turkey day At Memorial hall,
and a barrel of fruit is used for dessert.
The daily consumption Of -four is about
two and one-half barrels, and of meat
thousand pounds; n hundred and
twenty gallons of milk are used each day.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
Corn and Corn Cribs.

SSAAA eASA SVAA
The severe and prolonged rains over
q large area of the corn zone of the west
is very seriously injuring the crop stand.
ing in the fields. The excessive and con-
tinued saturation of the soil, together
with the sweeping wind storms that have
prevailed, have caused much corn to fall.
1t has also prevented its drying off prop
erly, 50 that the corn already cribbed re-
mains damp, and unless hard freezing
weather occurs todry it out, very serious
loss will ensue.
As a means OF cheapening the cost of
storing corn on the large farms, it is
usual in the west to make cribs s, 10 and
even II wide. When corn is put in such
cribs thoroughly dry, and well covered
from rain, it keeps well enough. Many
who have smaller areas to gather, store
IT in square cribs. made of 10 or IL feet
broadening the crib at the top, 20 that
the entire length of the rails are used.
II we'll covered, these pens will keep
corn intact, unless the season be very I'M
favorable, or unless the corn is put in
early and wet. The ~dificultyis, not one
farmer in ten properly cover these cribs.
Many leave them entirely exposed to the
weather at the top, c~ontenting themselves
with rounding the corn up more or less.
In such temporary cribs the corn should
be piled on as long rs it will lie, being
brought to as sharp a cone as possible.
Then, beginning at the sides, lay straight
corn stalks all around; over these lay
others, as in placing shingles. When
covered to the top tie securely, and no
rain will enter.
II is objected that this will form a
harbor for rats and mice. Rats, how
ever, are seldom found permanently in
the body Of a crib. and the mice may ~
we'll be in thdtop as through the body
the corn.
To save corn in the most perfect man.
ner in such cribs, set rails endwise in the
middle Of each crib, in the shape OF a
sharp cone, tying at the top, and you
have n Of the most perfect v~entilators
known. A better way is to slit 8 inch
boards, leaving each piece running to a
point, then by reversing alternately, a,
they are set W, and bracing at the mid.
die, leaving the spaces Close enough &c
the corn will not pass through, you have
. perfect vcntilator to each crib.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05

THIS year the fashionable wooden goods
for women's dresses is drugget cloth.
Last year it was ingram carpet and next
it may be cocoa mating.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
Mrs.. (Ieueral sherman,

Wife of the General of the United
states Army, says: II have frequently puur'
chased Dmrang's Rheumatic remedy for
friends suffering with Rheumatism, and In
every instance it worked like magic" SEM
circular to Helphenstine & Bentley,
Druggists, Washington, d. c.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05

YOUNG men and women can have
nothing that will be Of more practical use
to them in life than q course of business
study and training at the Spencerian Bush
ness College, Milwaukee, Wis. Students are
received ut any time and circulars are mailed
free to any address.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
The MANY Thousands

who are constantly using DooLEY'ss
YEAST POWDER all speak in u~nbounded
praise of its reliability, uniform strength,
and merits in producing excellent rolls, BIS
cults, bread, &c.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
FARM AND HONE


Says the indianapolis Sentinei: A
pork packer of this city % entitled 70
credit for the discovery OF a new swindie.
While bartering for q carload Of hogs
recently be noticed that the backs OF hia
fsvofite staple were covered with ~
and "a examination OF the floor Of the
car revealed TO him the fact that the
alluvial accumulation was not q matter
Of accident, but Of design, several hun
dred pounds Of clay of wonderful adhes-
i've properties having been systematically
thrown upon the floor and dashed with
water, to which the bsgs with their well
known ~propensities for wallowing had
gone with q relish. He did mot buy, but
latter in the day heard that the drover
had sold to another packer, and was
Dragging loudly that he not only saved
shrihnkage, but received more than $37
for the mud that incrusted the backs OF
his porkers.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05

BURNETT's COLOGNE received the
highest award at the Centennial Exhibition.
1t is filled in elegant botttes-ghss and cork
stoppered, and basket covered-and is for
sale BY all first-class Grocers and Druggists.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05

AVER & Sons MANUAL contains in
formation Of grea I value to advertisers
Sent free by N. W. Aver 4 Son, Adv. Agts.
Philadelphia.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-05
Keeping Poultry in Orchards.

This is q matter that should be prac-
tised when possible. We believe that if
farmers and fruit raisers knew the bene-
fits arising from such management they
would at once adopt it. Last fall we
visited an orchard in which fowls were
kept; the owner of which told us that
before the fowls were confined in it the
trees made little or no growth, and only
. corresponding amount OF fruit was
obtained. But what a change was evi-
dent now. The grass WAS kept down,
the weeds killed, and the trees presented
an appearance Of thrift, which the most
enthusiastic horticultural could not but
admire and envy. The growth Of the
trees was most rigorous, and their foliage
remarkably luxuriant. The fruit was
abundant, of large size and free from
worm and other imperfections. This
excellence was accounted for by the pro-
prietor, who remarked that the hens ate
all the worms and curculio in their reach,
even the canker worm. He found less
with their roosting in trees than
he expected, and that a picket fence six
feet high kept them within bounds. His
orchard was divided into three sections,
and the fowls were changed from n to
another, OK the condition of the fowls or
the orchard section seemed to require
POultru World.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-16
THE STATE OVER.

Grcy Co,ntH-Iocal option was bad
ly beaten in the county at the election
held on the 18th instant.
Tom Green C6mty.-Sheriff Whit,
was shot and killed at Fort Conch,
on Wednesday, the 18th, by mel chant
Trails Comty-Maior Walton ha,
been engaged to defend John Wesle,
Hardin,--The ordinance donating
$500 to the Paris sufferers has passed
the first reading The Gazette think.
it will reach final passage before the
present aldermen's term of office ex-
pres. The Capitol City is to have a
hospital. DR.. lladra will be the princi
pal--There are no prospects of the
marrow gauge railroad being built to
Lampasas. Some hopes are enter
tanned that the international road will
be extended to the Rio Grande
Starr Comty.--A telegram announces
that the most important persons Ell,
gagged in the Jail breaking have been
extradited. Colonel Schweitzer tele.
graphed: Three Of the parties concern
ed in the Rio Grande city Jail breaking
were delivered last Tuesday night to
the United States authorities at Browns.
vile. under the extradition treaty.
They are Rudolph Esponseda, one of
the escaped prisoners, and Pubic Para
and Brigjdo Oliveras. engaged in breaks
ing the Jail. 1t is to be hoped that this
is the beginning of respect for law and
order on the frontier"
HcLehdn ColmtH-Mr. Graves has
invented cotton condenser, which is
reported as working very satisfactorily
1t takes the cotton direct from the
gin, and turns it out like bolt of
muslin ready to handle.-The Exam
liner learns that the report of James
Hicks being murdered in Comanche is
likely false ---Teachers have been ap-
pointed for the public schools. Prot.
Malone is the principal, his salary be-
ing 500 per month. The mayor refuses
to approve the appointment.-A thea.
ter room has been prepared. II will be
ready the LIST of October The re.
ligious fanatic Oldham has been cap
tured in Waco.
Harris County.-The enterprising
young men of Houston propose to build |
md operate yarn mandatory and
'eed oil mill. They propose to build 1t
On the share plan. The shares will be
put in the reach Of all par value ten
dollars and payable as follows First
when taken, two dollars
and hity cents. Second installment
when the walls OF the building are up.
TWO dollars and fifty cents. Third i'm
'tallment when machinery is Skinned
wo dollars and fifty cents. Fourth ms
tallment when the factory Commences
operations, two dollars and fifty cents
he Age says Of it: There Is enough
mixed packed bales damaged, ordinary
rades, and sample cotton on and
round this market to run factory of
wo thousand spindles, though we
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-16

fHE Fort Worth SiaildHd should res
member that the papers in the state
are all perfectly conversant with the
Coke Ireland Cancy- Barnard matter,
and that is why they were enabled to
speak out promptly when Judge Ire,
land to cover up his own sins, made
fierce counter>nttack on Governor
Coke. The predcament OF the Macs is;
1t hates both gentlemen cordially, and
strikes only double blows when it
touches the matter, The NewS would
pull Coke down if that were possible
but it would never build John ireland
up if it could help it, Of the two. how
ever Coke is the heaviest and the most
to be feared by reason of his unpurcha-
sable hard>headed honesty, and per-
haps for this reason the NpS would
put few more grains of heft into any
lick it might be disposed to make at him,
Neither as governor nor senator, did,
or can Richard Coke hope to enjoy the
friendship or even escape the bitter en-,
nifty of that paper. Nor do we believe
he cares a fig for it, because he has
learned, long since that tho Neps is
powerless to injure him with the people
of Texas. Four years of wasted effort
ought also to convince that paper of the
futility of the thing.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-16

Tm WaXahachio Enterprise does not
favor Hubbard for governor. 1t brings
up the old international railroad matter
when Hubbard gave the casting vote
against the ever memorable amendment
Ex-senator Bradshaw. Does the Enterprise
forget that the people of Texas with the
full history of that act freshly before
them, have since elected Hubbard to
one of the highest positions within their
gift, and it would not very greatly sur
prise us il they were to repeat little OF
that sort Of history. Hubbard has been
30 far, q fearless, able and impartial
officer, and has made us one of the
most energetic and watchful officers the
state has ever had, and the spirit of
fairness which so much distinguishes
the democracy of Texas, will almost
insure him denomination.