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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-10
LUCIAN ADAMS.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
n Office in Mitchell & Lynde's block, Rock Island
Ill. Have complete set Of Books Of Abstracts Of
Title of Lands in Rock Island County.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-10

Excursions to the Rocky Mountains
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road has arranged with the various rail-
road lines in the country for special round
trip rates to the Rocky Mountains, and
has secured the following rates to Denver.
Colorado Springs. Canon City. Pueblo and
return: from Kansas City and Atchison,
S45: St, Louis. $50: Chicago, sos; Quincy,
$50; Cincinnati, sos; Buffalo. $75, and
CORRESPONDENCE low rates from all points
east. north and south. These tickets are
good for so days, and to stop at all stations
west of the Missouri river. Tickets are on
sale at all principal stations throughout
the country. This is the new route tc
| Denver through the garden of Kansas and
Colorado. Send for maps, circulars. tint
tables, etc.S to T. j. ANDERSON,
Gen. Pass. Agent.
Topeka, Kan.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-10-10
CARL KUEHL.

A TTORNEY AT LAW, (DEUTsEHER ADvoKAT,
n Second Avenue, bet. 18th and 18th Sts., (Justice
Choppers Office, Rock Island, Ill.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
Samoa Annexed to America.

The Fiji Times of June ID, says that
news has been received that the Ameri-
can flag has been hoisted at Samoa and
allegiance formally rendered to the
Uuited States. Some strange rumors
are current with respect to this move
ment, but we forbear, for the present at
least, from giving them publicity. The
Lurlin, the arrival of which may be
daily expected, will no doubt bring am
pie authentic intelligence.
The New Zealand Herald says: "The
American flag has been hoisted at
Samoa, and unless the action of the
Consul is repudiated by the authorities
at Washington, the islands of the Navi-
gators group will henceforward have to
he accounted as in the possession of the
American Government. A short time
ago we gave the particulars connected
with the visit of several Samoan chiefs
to Fiji, whittier they had gone to en-
deavor to persuade Gov Sir Arthur Cor
don to take possession of Samoa, for
Great Britain. Apparently, the Samoan
chief had not got any encouragement,
for, on their return home, the American
Consul, Mr.. Griffin, commence negOtia-
tons to have the American flag hoisted.
All the preliminaries were completed on
the night of the 23d of May, a number
of documents having been signed, and
on the morning of the Gath the Ameri-
can flag was hoisted at the Kings house
at Point MOlinu, on the west side of
Apia harbor. A salute of 21 guns was
fired from the other side of the harbor.
The American clipper bark MenshokOff
was lying at Apia at the time, and an
American man-of war is expected short
ly. A great feast was given at the
Kings house, and all the white inhabi-
tants were invited to go. ThakOmbau's
son, from Eli, and the English Consul,
Mr.. Liardet, went to where the feast
was being held, and said they would
join them if they 1vonld haul down the
American flag while they were there.
The natives, however, declined to haul
down the flag even temporarily, and
Prince Timothy and the English Consul
left. Mr. Griffin, the American Consul
has recently visited Washington, but it
was not stated that he had been COM
missioned to accept the cession of the
islands,"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

A speedy return of the good
old times Of five years ago is pre-
dicted by the Toledo Blade, which
bases its belief on the immense
crop of the year, anu the well-known
effects of prosperity among the
farmers on general business. II
appears that the crops being har-
vested are the largest the country
ever had. The acreage of wheat is
largely in excess of any since the
settlement of the country. and the
yield per acre is infinitely greater.
Hay is magnificent, and has been
secured in the very best condition.
Corn is now a certainty. Never was
the eye gladdened with sight of
such fields. The stalks tower glori-
ously. and the color is superb. Oats,
which have been failure since 1874.
will this year yield very much more
than they did then. The Blade con-
tinues: 1--WE prophesy an imme-
mediate and decided revival of bust
ness. There have been tight
times for three years The farmers
have not had money, nor have they
had any way to make it. This
enormous crop, coming in just at the
nick Of time, when the caamities
of other nations makes a good price
for it. is the let-up we have been
looking for so anxiously, and wait
ing for so impatiently. The farmer
will in few weeks from this have
money enough to pay his debts out
of his wheat alone, and he has his
enormous corn, oats and hay crop
for future needs. He will pay the
debts that have been accommodating
for three years. and he will have
plenty with which to get those sup
plies he has been compelled to do
without so long"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
The Rooks for reachers,

We invite the special attention of
teachers and parents to the excellent adj
vantages being attained from J. H. But
Ter 81 Co.. s Textbooks for common
schools. They are being adopted extern
sively in the Southern schools and give
the highest satisfaction to both teacher
and pupil-in fact are preferable to all
others as they afford much easier facil-
ity for training the young idea," and
are not liable to balk the students mind,
as some irregular publications do, pre-
paratory to a higher advancement in
book learning. Their books have been
used in both the public and private
schools of Hamblen county for the past
three years and have made unobiection-
able reputation. We trust they may
circulate largely this year and not miss a
school in the State. They ought to be
adopted and received into all the South
ern schools, which we doubt not they
win, at an early day, judging from the
high encomiums heaped upon them by
thorough and experienced educators.
We annex some of Messrs. j. I'll. Butler
81 Co. s publications for common schools,
with prices opposite, that were adopted
and received in the schools of this coun-
ty in 1874, upon the recommendation of
j.. III. Trent, County Superintendent
Public instruction New American Pri-
mary Speller, per copy, 90 cents; New
American Pronouncing Speller, per
copy, 30 cents Mitchell's New First
Lessons in Geography, per copy, 90
cents Mitchell's New Primary Geogra-
ply, per copy, 8Oicents Mitchell's New
intermediate Geography per copy, 81. so;
Mitchell's Handbook of Map Drawing,
per copy, so cents Goodrich's Ameri-
can Child's United States, per copy, "a
cents; Goodrich's Pictorial o. s. His
tory, per copy, $t.75; Oxford's Junior
Speaker, per copy, rs cents; Oxford's
Senior Speaker, per copy, $3.50. The
above are retail prices, and liberal dis
count viii be made on introductories
and exchanges. We desire to see these
books progress in our schools because
we deem them the best on the market,
and better adapted to give a thorough
to the scholar at less expense
than from elsewhere. Mr.. J. w. Paw
lett, Knoxville, Tenn, has the exclusive
agency for the South and Southwest for
all the publications of the bove house
and will furnish specimens and prices to
Ieachers upon application.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
The Ba Elocutionist.

1t has been our pleasure to peruse a
copy of this recently established journal,
and we are very much delighted with
its appearance It fills a want long felt
in cultured circles, by supplying choice
selections suitable for readings at either
private or public entertainments We
find here, articles grave and gay, and
almost any reader conld find something
enjoyable between the covers of the
EgOc,stionist. The journal is ably con-
Quoted by Rice, Benson s. Co., and is
published, as its name indicates, in Bal
timore. Miss Rice, the first-named edi-
tor, is a lady of great culture, too well
known in literary circles to need any
words of mention from us. The ElocW-
tSonist is a monthly journal, published at
the low rate of 81 % per annum
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

From the San Francisco (Ca1) CtgOaa-
icle, of the Both, we learn that DR.. A. @.
Putnam, former resident of this city,
was drowned at Santa Cruz, in that
State, on the 29th of July. No par
ticnlars are gived, further than that he
was out on fishing excursion at the
time the accident occurred. The re-
mains were sent to jacksonville on the
morning of the Both ult., and there burr
ed by the Masonic fraternity, of which
the deceased was member.
DR.. Putnam was well and fayorably
known in this city, where he resided for
several years, having here married a
daughter of Mr.. John Glenn, who also
removed to California few years since.
Mr.. Will. Putnam, of the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, is
son of DIR. Putnam, whose friends will
regret to learn the sad fate of his faith
er.-Tra6tRe.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
A Singular sensation.


The New York Sun brings out, in
a double-Ieaded editorial in its
issue Of the 4th. an important his
torical fact. which may occupy an
important place in future political
discussions between the Republican
party. under charges, and the Dem
ocraey. The Sam asserts positively.
without giving any authority for the
assertion, that Judge Bradley had
written his opinion and read it to
Justices Clifford and Field, of the
Electoral Commission. concluding
that the votes OF the TiIden electors
were the only ones which ought to
be counted from Florida.
During that night the Sun asserts
that his house was crowded, and
next day he voted the other way,
and enrolled himself as one of the
immortal eight. He did not deliv-
er the argument at the time and
when it was printed it was found to
be the same argument on which he
had before based the opposite con
clusion
Thi; is late as election news. 1t
is an extraordinary statement. 1t
is based upon no evidence. No au
thority is given or referred to, and
no document is published, and yet
the inference is that Justices Clifford
a'7 Field will corporate the state
Ment We suppose the Sun intends
to convey that impression; but then
we can only conceive of one reason
why it fails to strengthen the state
ment by referring directly, and that
| is that it knows the fact, but did not
procure it from those gentlemen, and
that is difficult to understand, for il
could only have come from them di
rectly or remotely.
In the celebrated Tennessee fran
chise case, decided in 1869, it has
been frequently asserted that one OF
the Judges had written an opinion
deciding the unconstitutionality oil
the law, afterward rendered q differ
ent opinion. We give the Suns SEN
sation for what it is worth, in the
absence Of the proof we suppose it
holds back for the present.-NdSh.
UuIe american.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
Died.

In Morristown, August 9TH and sth,
1877, Minnie and Matte Boyd, aged
respectively years, 8 months and "a
days, and year. months and 8 days.
This disease is fearfully rapid in its
progress and awfully fatal in its conse-
quences. These little sufferers could
only endure its ravages for the short
space of four and five days, when it had
finished its work, and they were remov-
ed from their earthly fathers house be-
low to their heavenly Fathers above.
Like the buds of a beautiful flower that
are nipped by the frost and perish in an
hour, SO fades away these precious little
ones in the early morning of life's day.
We deeply sympathizc with the bereav-
ed parents and friends who have been 50
sorely and suddenly bereft of their low
ing little ones, and we pray God that he
would sanctify these heavy Affections,
to the good of their never dying souls.
Therefore be yc also ready; for IN such
an hour as We think not, the Son OF man
cometh.e >.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
THE RIGHTS OF LABOR.

The real rights of labor, as view
ed from a legal standpoint, were
thus defined by United States Judge
Drummond, before sentencing Gig ht
rioters for obstructing the opera
tions of the Toledo, Peoria and
Warsaw railroad. The Court held :
The rights of labor result from an
agreement made among men, not by a
statement, or an order, or a dictation
from one man to another. The rights
Of labor, as thus understood, we all adj
nit, and it is not improper, perhaps, to
call those rights sacred But when the
right of labor consists in the claim Of
not only refusing to labor, but interfer
ing in the labor of others-in other
words, trampling upon the rights of
abor-we of course can have no feeling
of respect for any such right as that.
1t is criminal; lit is unlawful; it puts an
end to all the relations of life and strikes
at the root of everything in which the
right of labor consists. l suppose that
it was under the claim Of protecting the
rights of labor that these men interferred
with the rights to labor Of the employees
of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw
Railroad Company. This was the pre-
text. But how absurd and unreasona-
BILE it was we all must now acknowl-
edge. 1t is impossible for the Court to
lose sight of the consequences of the
acts of these defendants. 1t was not in
terfcrence merely with private property,
held by an individual, which had sim
ply private object to accomplish, but
it was interference with property which
had public object to accomplish as
a private one. 1t was employed in
transporting property from point to
point, persons, and the mail. 1t was at
once a means of communicating intelIi-
gence and carrying on the business of !
the country. These railroads are among /
the principal means of modern civiliza-
tion by which the business of a country |
is carried on. Their commerce accom- /
plishes its principal object Therefore, I
when man interferes with a property
whose object is so important, which
affects SO much all the relations of soeie-
ty, he commits as great an offense
against the arghts of individuals.
against the rights of the public, as can
well be imagined. 1t is impossible to
estimate in dollars and cents the damage
which has been done to this country by
Just such acts as these defendants have
performed within the last ten or fifteen
days"
Preventing one unlawfully from
using his own property, like unlaw-
fully seizing ones property, is
crime before the law, as such must
be punished by the courts. The le-
gal rights of property and labor are
too well defined to be misunderstood.
IL requires only to keep s'hands
off" what belongs to others.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
DiptIleria Cure.

The New York Tribune publishes a re-
cipe for the cure of diptheria from a
physician who says that of one thousand
cases in which it has been used, not a
single patient has been lost. The treat
ment consists in thoroughly swaDbing
the back of the mouth and throat with a
wash made thus Table salt, two
drachms; black pepper, golden seal, nj
trate of potash, alum, one drachm each.
Mix and pulverize, put into a tea cup
half full of boiling water, and then fill
up with good vinegar. Use every half
hour, one, two and four hours as recov-
cry progresses. The patient may swal-
low little each time. Apply one ounce
each of spirits of turpentine, sweet oil
and aqua ammonia mixed every hour to
the whole of the throat, and to the bTest
bones every four hours, keeping flannel
to the part.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

"a The New York World very
truthfully remarks that if one TWEEN.
tieth part of the uproar and lawless-
ness which have lately disgraced the
great State of New York and Penn
sylvania had occurred in Virginia
and North Carolina every Radical
newspaper and spouter in the North
would have united in clamoring that
the Southern policy" Of President
Hayes was disastrous failure, and
insisting that those ancient Common
wealths should be reduced to the
condition again of military provinces.
While New York has :eas serted her
authority within her own border,
Pennsylvania is largely depending
upon the Federal army for the restor-
alton of law. Yet the Blaines and
have raised no voice to ask
that she should be- male a military
province.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

~ 1t seems as If the railroad
building business in this country has
been carried trif1e too far. Ever
since 1873 roads have been going
into bankruptcy, and is now going on
at rate which few people suspect.
The New York Herald states that
during the six months ending the
1st Of this month, foreclosure sales
have been ordered of fifteen roads,
with capital stock Of over forty
seven millions. During that time
thirty-two roads, representing near
ly fifty millions of stock and over
seventy-five millions Of debt, have
been sold and receivers have been
appointed for sixteen roads, with
stock and debt amounting to over
one hundred and fifty millions.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

~ The corn crop of Georgia is
very good. the yield of which was
fair. but just now there is an excite.
ment over the Immense yield of fruit.
1t is said TO have paid already as
much as the wheat crop Such ship
ping points for instance as Barns.
vile and Forsyth are sending away
daily from $4,000 to $4,000 lbs Of
dried peaches, the price ranging
from s cts. TO cts per Id.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
AN ORDINANCE,

Be it ordained by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen of the town of Morris
town, That no person shall permit his
horse or mule to run at large within the
corporate limits. or shall turn such
stock loose or at large therein for any
purpose whatever; and that any viola
ton of this Ordinance shall be misde-
meanor, and the party found guilty
thereof shall be fined not less than two,
NOR more than ten dollars.
Be it further ordained by the authori
ty aforesaid, That it shall be the duty
of the town Constable of the town of
Morristown, to take up any horse or
mule found at large or loose, within the
corporate limits, notify the owner
thereof and deliver the same to him on
payment of necessary charges. Passed
July Both, 1877.
w. D. CANNON, Mayor.
A. J. DONALDSON, Recorder.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

Ia The Turks seem to be getting
away with the Russians, in every
important battle. They fight as if
inspired by a sense of selfpreserva-
ton. Their cavalry plunges into the
conflict. shouting death and destruc-
tion to the invaders. aud their sharp.
bright scymeters do fearful work.
The Gear will in all likelihood be
brought, at last, to a somewhat hui
initiating compromise with the Sub
lime Porte.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15
The Party.

Tile Democratic party is stronger to-
day than at any former period of its his
tory, and is becoming more united and
compact every day.
q No doubt of Democratic victory
in Ohio in October" are the cheering
words sent forth by Hon. John G.
Thompson, Chairman of the Ohio DEM
cratic State Committee.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention, which meets August %,
will follow the financial lead of Ohio
and declare for the repeal of the resump
ton law
President Hayes Southern policy has
demonstrated one thing beyond contro-
versy-that the Republican party in the
South was only held together by the
cohesive power of plumber. AS soon as
it was deprived of office it fell to pieces
like a rope of sand.
Gen. Grant will remain at Ragotz
some time, as his physicians have order
ed. After a cure he viii accompany
Mr.. Cramer to Copenhagen. He will
visit Berlin in October, probably acc ept-
ing the Emperor Williams invitation to
attend the autumn maeuvers.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is out
| in letter III which he says that he pre-
dicted the present trouble as the logical
result of the contraction policy some
time ago. He says that now it is plain
that Congress must repeal the resumption
act
Representative Goode, of Virginia,
has announced serious intentions to be-
come candidate for the Speakership of
| the United States House of Representa-
tives. He expects to get The plum that
Randall, Cox and Sayler are fighting
over.
Notwithstanding the denial on the
part of ex-Gov. Dennison that he is not
anxious to receive the Gubernatorial
nomination at the hands of the Ohio Re-
publicans, there is the best authority for
the statement that not only will he
| gladly accept the nomination il made,
but that both himself and friends have
been for the past ten days actively put
ting up the wires to bring his nomina-
ton about.
A dispatch from Columbia, South
| Carolina, says: The trial of Agnew,
the Radical Mayor of this city, who was
charged with assaulting a helpless and
confirmed inebriate, but recently out
of Iunatic asylum, lasted all day. The
defendant was found guilty, and the
Trial Justice who heard the case, sen
fenced him to pay fine of 81, 800, or be
confined in jail for twenty-five days.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

v The New York Times says
that President Hayes mas concluded
to make trip through the Southern
States during the Christmas recess
of Congress. He will go as far as
New Orleans. and will travel by way
of Richmond, Charleston, Atlanta
aud Mobile. He will return by way
of jackson, Nashville and Memphis.
Postmaster-Genera Key and two or
three other members OF the Cabinet
will accompany him.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

ma The following is the full
ticket nominated by the Ohio State
Republican convention: Governor,
W. H. West; Lieutenant governor,
Fred Voegler; Supreme Judge, w.
w. johnson; Attorney-general,
George K. Nash Clerk of the Su.
preme Court, Dwight Crowell !
School Commissioner, J. T. Lukens
Members of the Board of Public
Works, A. w. Luckey.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

The miners in the Pennsylvania coal
regions are still on strike, but no out
break of serious character has yet been
committed by them. A meeting of l.
600 men was held recently near Phila-
delphia, and demand made for an in
crease of wages to the extent of twenty
five per cent
The proceedings of the Seventh An
nnual Meeting of the Tennessee Press
Association is before us in pamphlet
form. The work is neatly executed by
the Lebanon Herald Printery.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

~ 1t is stated that j. B. McCul-
Tough has sold his interest in the st.
SLouis Globe Democrat, and about
concluded the purchase of the EUe''-
ing Dispatch. This is the result of
the rupture between Mccullough and
Mckee, who believes that the recent
whisky ring suits against him were
caused by the Glo5e-Democrat's at
tacks on the Administration.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

II Postmaster General Key says
that Edward H, East, Chancellor of
Tennessee. a Union man during the
war, will be appointed Judge of the
Sixth Circuit, embracing Michigan,
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

e The q. S. Economist, of a
recent date says: with all the
wheels OF commerce again in opera
ton. we may very soon look for in
creased activity in business, and for
a good fall if not a prosperous
trade"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-08-15

The New York Herald estimates
the number Of strikers at not to ex-
coed ten thousand. The Baltimore
& Ohio railway officials say that not
more than one-ninth Of their hands
were engaged in the strike.