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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-07-21

-DtOcktOn kCal.l ueF0td, - LIT.
Kenealy, the parliamentary and legai
champion of the Tichborne claimant ir
England, denounces ex- President Grant as
corrupt man, who amasssd immense
wealth while in the White House. Dr.
Kenealy had better Keep bis tongue 10 his
head and attend to his own business. il
is no affair of bis what General Grant did,
and if he talks 10 that way in the presence
OF an American, no matter what that
American opinion of Grant may be, Dr.
keDeaiy viii get q head put on him and
deserve it too.
Cincinnati Enquirer, July i0:-"There
was civilization two thousand years age
under which the great preacher from
Tsrsus could not get so far away from
Rome that the pane of Roman citizen
would not command respect and cause
men to tremble. Touch sthe rights of an
English subject. anywhere on earth, and
England asks why. The outrages com
mitted by the Mexicans upon citizens of
the United States upon the border cannot
longer be lightly treated, Let the army
that has been used to turn out our gov
errors and legislatures be put to useful
purpose, Let Mexico, like any other
country, be compelled to behave herself p
-Danbury News.-"Pa," observed a
Danbury boy to his father, what does
Mr.. Pitkins aud Julia find to talk about in
the parlor by themselves, four hours a
night every night in the weekY' The old
gentleman pulled splint out of the broom,
and slowly prodding his teeth with it, re-
pled-'I got hunk of meat, yesterday,
an we had it boiled for diuner, didn't
WEI" Yes" AN had it cold for sup
peri" Yes" An your ma hashed it mp
for breakfast this morning, didn't she2''
YES" IAN to-day ] got another hunk,
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play WIN the ChiIdren.

"W hen We we're all children at home"
said friend, nothing delighted us 40
much as romp with my father; the
hour of his home. coming was the hap
piest in all the .twenty-four. often
think if all parents would play with their
children, home discipline might entirely
lose Its severe aspect, and become a law
of love-" Children are not made good
by the rod of power. How many par
ents are willing to devote an hour or 90
to play with the children? As . little
kitten will stop tapping her milk to play
with the string you draw across the
door, so will the child leave almost eve.
rything for romp with his father or
mother. In these romps, and during
these moments of recreation, the great
lesson of love is learned by the child.
This companionship makes the bond
between the parents and child which re.
suits in the future acceptance of advice
and guidance Perhaps you are natu.
rally dignifed person, and unaccus-
toned to play. So when your infant
first came to you, you were not accus.
toned to its care; but you did not for
that reason allow it to 90 uncared for.
If you are harassed by worldly ankle
ties, the recreation will benefit you as IL
benefits the child, and your sleep will be
the sounder for it. The experiment is
worth trying.
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NUMBER 4.


the sheet of paper, part Of which used
in putting upsthe prescription brought
by Mr.. Edward Horton The remain
der have preserved. not knowing but
it might become important Here 1t is,
and you see how this piece and the
figures ct it,
They did Exactly; the chain of evil
dence was complete!
/ need hardly tell how the trial ended.
Charles Courtney was called by the
prosecution to prove some important
point. The counsel whom had retain-
ed for the defense asked him but three
Questions on crosssexaMination.
"Had he accompanied the prisoner
from the druggists r.,
"Had he lost an overcoat that day 2"
"Was that itp'
The questions were very simple, but
ftuC c1scs 4.Ls4s1-&.s
markable. He tremhled and turned
pale. He knew that his secret was out,
and that lying was useless. He answer
ed all three questions in tae affirmative,
but in voice scarcely audible. Before
the next witness was called he slipped
from the court, and was never heard Of
Iafterward.
With the testimony of the detective
and the druggist, not forgetting that Of
the thief who stole the overcoat, we
made short work Of wha. had promised
to be "beanliful case Of eireumstantial
evidence"
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Written for The Spirit Of Democracy
Simple Proportion.

43-A wheel has 35 cogs; a smaller
wheel working in it 26 cogs; in how ma
ny revolutions Of the larger wheel will
the smaller gain 10 revolutions 81 Ans
% 8-9.-Ray's Sd Book, p. 205.
CogsiCogs. Rev's. Revolutions
Statement, g: 26 =: 10: Answer
My attention was first called to this
incorrect, false statement, few weeks
since, when my advanced class, (by tht
way very excellent one) placed it or
the blackboard at one of our regular re
citations. If q poor scholar coming te
the question the first time had stumbled
onto this statement, perhaps ] should
have thought but little Of it; but the fac
| that q good class, reviewing the book
Fall agreed in the statement. set me t
thinking I inquired of more than /,
dozen teachers, many of them holding
first class certificates, and more thar
three foarths of them had been working
this false statement and teaching thei
classes to do the same; and thai, too
when the true statement is SO obvious
If any teacher can give good reason
for preferring the above statement. O.
make good defense of it, let him speal
while the rest of US listen. ~ .
e. D. JOHNSON.
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Written for The Spirit of Democracy
From Switzerland Township.
.ssssz.a..asses sMARcHs3 8, 1877. -
Ed. SPIRIT: The spelling match held
at links School House, in Switzerland
township, on the 18th ult, was an inter-
esting one The following persons were
some of the excellent spoilers:
George Nippert, Henry link, Norman
Lehman, Charles Gutyard, Christian
Seller, Paulina Nippert. Emma Fank-
hauser, Lizzie Lade, Lucinda Mangold,
Louisa link, Amelia Lehman, Caroline
Nippert, Paulina Fankhauser, Amelia
Ramser, Roza M. link and Caroline
Bandi.
After the close of spelling, the fol-
lowing young ladies and gentlemen made
speeches:
H. j. link, George Nippert, John
Ramser, August Nippert, Fred Walter
Charles Fankhauser, Hannah Mangold
Paulina Nippert, Amelia Ramser and
Rosa NJ. link.
j. A. WIcHTERMAN, Teacher.
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Mr.. Calling, inventor of the gun Of
that name, has brought out new mitr4il-
lsass from which 300 rounds minute
can be fred.
Prot. Tyndall's check for 800 to the
relatives Of those who perished by the
Brooklyn FIRE is the work of an honest
Englishmsn.
Frelinghuysen can not accept foreign
mission as sea-sickness is nearly fatal to
him. A man who can swallow all the
corruption in Florida and Louisiana
without qualm ought to be equal to any
thing.
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reported for The Spirit of Democrscy.]
Report

reported for The Spirit of Democracy.]
Report
or the Fox School, Sub-district No. s.
Green Township, Monroe County
Ohio, for the month ending Friday
March 2, 1877:
No. of pupils enrolled-Males "a, fe
males 27, total 81. Daily attendance
Males l6, females "a, total 40. PEI
cent Of attendance, 80.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Glass A-Males-Jacob NJ. Clegg, ia
cob Imhoff, Albert e Imhoff, John An
shutz, Charles Bsrtels, Charles Bondi.--
Females-Caroline E. Imhoff, Josephin,
Imhoff, Emma Alemann, Louisa Ale
mann, Sarah j. Clegg, Nancy Clegg.
Glass B-Males-Jaceb Ischy, Johl
Rothaker, Henry L. Bsrtels, Franklil
Anshutz, Henry Bondi. Females-Hes
ter A. Clegg, Barbara Lehman, Berth
Ischy, Amelia D. Bartels, Hester Edgar
Caroline Alemann.
We think that our school is in YER
Aourishing condition, and earnestly &c
sire the parents of the district to visi
us often. w. M. WILLIAMS, Teacher
Round Bottom, Ohio, March 5, 1877
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L. p. FARQUHAR. M. ID,
FORMERLY of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,)

Physician and Surgeon,
Office and residence in the Kirkbride property,
WOOD SFIEL D, U 81 l o.
Having located at the above place, offers his
Professional services, where he hopes by
close attention to business. to merit public
confidence and patronage.
Chronic Diseases will receive special
attention. maya, ''5T.
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From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Now that the deed is done; now that
by the answering fidelity to their
pledged faith of the leaders of the Dem
ocratic party it has been made possible,
as by nothing else 1t could have been
made possible, for the deadly covenants
of the Electoral eight with the Return
ing Board of Louisiana to be carried
into effect, it is striking and q signifi.
cant thing that no exultations are heard
on any side from any but the hottest
and least considerate Of partisans The
President whom Packard has made, has
passed from Ohio to Washington
through kind of ominous silence
Even those who most earnestly conten-
ded against the crowning of this great
fraud seem 10 be moved to o kind of
pity for the man upon whom so awful
burden had been SO lightly laid, and
who is taking it up so blindly. No man
6t to be the ruler of great people can
ever assume such trust without GER
tain feeling of awe and almost of alarm.
There is no figure in contemporary his
tory so pitiable as that of Emile Oni-
vier, the ephemeral Premier of falling
empire, who rose in his place at the
outbreak of the tremendous war Of 1870,
and announced that he accepted the
dread ordeal with "gayety OF heart. -
Governor Hayes is beginning q task, in
which no man can possibly hope for any,
the least measure of success without
the most thorough sense of the unchal-
tieaged legitimacy Of his functions, I'M
| der cloud of doubt and of reproach
which might benumb the energies of the
ablest and the most experienced states
man that America has ever produced
This cloud cannot be conjured away
Though all the voices of all the Legis-
latures in the land should acclaim him
to morrow, they could not undo what
has been done in putting him where he
is. He must begin, continue and end
his Presidential career on sufferance.-
Not only on sufferance from his polite.
al enemies, but on sufferance in the
depths of his own consciousness. He
knows, and he never will be able to for
get, that his title to the Presidency has
not been sifted, has not been sounded,
has not been purged, has not been made
clear. Were he the basest of men, the
story of all usurpations under all forms
of government proves that be can never
hope quite to rid himself of this haun-
ting consciousness. II he be in any de-
gree such man as his friends, and bis
partisans, whom 1t would be cruel
mockery to call his friends, would have
us believe him to be, this haunting coz
sciousness will never for moment leave
him. It will look out at him from the
eyes of his counsellors. 1t will unnerve
him against the exigences Of those who,
having aided in his elevation, may
choose to bend his authority to their
own ends. 1t is not thing which he
can divide with others like his patron
age. 1t is not disability which laws
or shouting populace can remove
Not even the purest intentions, not even
the most brilliant successes in bis ad-
ministration of power can ever free him
of this original taint upon it's acquisi-
ton. The damning spot will not out.
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ROLL OF HONOR.
Instpofted Tor ths-sfiFst OF s'ain
Report
Of Center School, Sub-District No. 2
Adams township, for the term of
months, ending in February:
Enrolment, 30
Daily average, q
Per cent, 90
ROLL OF HONOR.


Cora Blowers, Allie Taylor, Matte
Bracy, Caroline Csstellow, Emet Tay
lor, r. C. Hobbs, Addison Bracy, Forest
Blowers, Willie Hobbs, Lucy Berry, AL
vern Mobly, Maud Blowers, Thos Tay
lor, Birden Melotte. Nelson Alexander
Ella Taylor, Izora Castellow, John Tay
lor, Wesley Casserman, John Ebberly
Willie Casserman, Mary Eberly, Rhodes
Hobbs, Lewis Ebberly, Wesley Melotte
Allie Andrews, Ephraim Trembly.
This school is equal to any in obedi
epce. Great interest is taken in theil
studies; their lessons always completely
mastered, however hard. Parents know
and do their duty.
LEFTY BRACY, Teacher.
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PnNsIoNs.
PAINTING AND PAPER HANGING


H,HE undersigned Is prepared to do all man
j nsr Of house painting at low rates. Hs
has had ten years experience in the business
and solicits the patronage Of the public gen.
orally. WILLIAM &. SLOAN,
jan4Tsr. Antioch O., Monroe Co., 0,
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NOTARY PUBLIC.

THN undersigned, having been appointed
i Notary Public, would inform his
friends, and the public generally, that he is
prepared to fll Pensioners Blanks. admin
lister Oaths, take Dispositions, acknowledge
Deeds. Mortgages, and other instruments Of
writing. JOHN JbtfkkS.
aprl8,'76Y. Beallsville. Monroe Co., Ohio.
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County Correspondence.

reported for The Spirit of Democracy
Answer to the egg problem of Feb
ruary Of:
c first sells II eggs for 2 cents.
B next 33 :" 6
A +" d" II IA
c next sells his remaining 9 for Is cents
B Z for IA
A 8 for 6
Each one sold at the same rate, ant
each one got 20 cents for their number
w. S. BRACY.
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ARCHITECTS.
Mill Building and Mill Machinery

II Az PREPARED TO FURNISH PLANS
j and sRscIRlcArIoHs of steam FIGURING
Mills, Grist Mills, Saw Mills and Factories
will take contracts for the erection of all
kinds Of mills, aud to furnish the latest i'm
proved machinery for them, Have had 2s
years experience in the business. Address
\. GEORGE RICHNBR,
Jerusalem. Monroe Co., Ohio.
mchl4,'76Y.
naFh
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Reported for The Spirit of Democracy

Reported for The Spirit of Demooracy.l
Report
Of Calais School for the menth Of Feb.
ruary:
Department No. Miss L. NJ. YoCKEY
Z" "A. w. GRIsELL.
No mo. enrolled: Girls d, boys
81, total Is; average daily attendance
Girls 10, boys II, total So; per cen, OF
attendance so.
ROLL OF HONOR.
Willie Eberle, Willie Hannahs, Elmer
Hannahs, Charlie Yockev, Hugh Mckee,
Charlie Tuttle, Maud Mckee, Mary Hodge
Gussie Yockey, Margaret Loper, Della
Cline. Mary Daily.
No. mo. enrolled: Girls 10, boys
II. total 81; average daily attendance :
Girls 8, boys Is, total %; per cent of
attendance s..
ROLL OF HONOR.
Abel Carpenter, Samuel Hannah, Sam
uel Logan, Richard Wehr, Frank Wehr,
Charlie Wehr, Clement Yockey. Sarah
Hannah, Alice Walters.
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Written for The Spirit of Democracy
From Switzerland Township,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

LeVerrier, the French astronomer, is
dead, aged sixty-siX years. His most re-
markabe work was the calculation by
which he determined from the movements
OF Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus that there
must be IL planet beyond the latter; and
the consequent discovery of the planet
Neptune on y two degrees from the place
where Leverrier had calculated it OUGHT
to be- This planet for few years bore
The name OF the French astronomer but is
now better known as Neptune. This is as
well tor it is pretty certain that young
English astronomer, John C. Adams had
discovered it independently of Leverrier's
work as early mt least as his French rival
Leverrier has been for several years drec-
tor of the observatory in Paris. lie was
withal very uncomfortable sort of man
Tor his fellow workmen to get along with !;
and no doubt his great " find" of a
planet, thirty years ago, did not make it
any easier for them-though it is said on
the other hand that he was modest, and
that he refused to have the new planet
called by his name.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

The Smith sisters, of Glastonbury. are
again under the yoke of the tax collector
Three COWS have again gone to the auction
block
The 18th Annual Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association o.
Vermont will be held at Cambridge. Oct
9th, 10th and l1th.
The yellow fever is still spreading rapid.
ly at Frrdinanda. and the colored people
generally less subject to it than the whites,
are fast falling sick. There have been
seven deaths since the last report, includ-
ing two Sisters of Mercy, and forty-two
very critical cases remain.
The Ohio campaign does not have much
money or enthusiasm in it, and the work
lngmen's movement helps to make the re-
suit very uncertain. The indications are
that democratic discussions will at any
rate give the republicans the legislature
in which case Gen. CART lis chances for
the senatorship will be better than those
of Stanley Mathews.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

With all Tweed's loathsomeness as \
thief, he has kind of perception of the
philosophy of things, which makes him
interesting as an object. He takes a kind
OF imantile delight in capering about with
his moral clothes off from him and dis.
playing all the deceits of his. corrupt ma
ture. Speaking of Barnard, the other
day, the boy judge" who was driven off
the bench for his corruption, Tweed, after
telling how he got Barnard to grant the
Erie injunction, said he turned him over to
FISK. " Fisk had more time to waste on
him than | had. Barnard required a
good deal of time to attend to him. You
had to be around him great deal, make
him think he was a great man,-pat him
on his back" The portrait is severe,
cruel perhaps, but nearly every one will
public men who have the same
dangerous weakness, and who, if they Can
De patted on the back, are not very partic.
liar who boes it or what Interior and
lnlster purposes are served incidentally.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

Colonel Lewis V. Bogy, U. S. senator
from Missouri, who died in St. Louis, the
18th of malarial fever, was born in ST.
Genevieve, April 0, 1918, son of Josepb
Bogy, who had been territorial secretary
under the Spanish dominion. He read law
in the office of Judge Pope, at Kaskaskia.
Ill.,, and in the same yearQ832) was out
in the Black Hawk war. In 1885 he set-
and in the practice of law at st. Louis.
In 1847 he purchased an interest in Pilot
Knob, and this interest he afterward in.
creased to one-half, and was for some
years president of thePilot Knob iron COM
pany. The war destroyed his Pilot Knob
property, and he sold out. He could NOT,
however, resume the practice of law be.
cause of the Missouri ''test oath," but he
did not fail to make his influence felt as an
aVowed hard-shell democrat. He was a
candidate for Congress in 1852 and 1862.
1873. l'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

BUSINESS TRoUBLTs.-The following
petitions in bankruptcy have recently been
filed in the United States District Court
Mpol'"tary: Geo. o. Boyce, farmer, Fay
Ston; Charles F. Hale, Stowe; Hiram E.
Adams' merchant, Rutland; Norman F.
Rider, druggist, Middebury. Voluntary
-Chauncey Williamson, farmer, Hub
bardton; Geo. Fasset and son, Enosburgh
James Warden & Co., manufacturers,
Peacham; William Douglas, farmer, Maid
s'onei i. & r. Young, carriage makers,
have compromised with their creditors at
u cents on 81. Henry D. Chamberlain,
mill and general store, Jay, has gone into
bankruptcy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

The burial question in England is still
an Al absorbing one; A clergyman of the
Established Church writes to the London
Times of August 80 that it would be worse
than merely to waste time were he and his
brethren to pretend TO defend what will
certainly be wrested from them by Parlia-
ment. LET there be free trade in burials
Let all the burying- grounds, dissenting as
well us church, be thrown open. Let the
friends of the dead, Or the persons interest
ed in the burial, provide in any way. with
any religious service or none for the inter
ment, only observing the ordinary regula-
tons now in force"
The writer asserts, however, with evil
dent melancholy, that the clergy of the
Established Church will in that case have
an increased grievance. "They are now
to bury every corpse, even that
Of the most profigate offender, with the
same words of hope aud joy. How much
worse will this be when these offenders
are Tie refuse left behind by dissenting
and other preachers. :"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

AT an interview with Herald cores.
pondent at Edinburgh, Gen. Grant is re-
ported as follows:
Il have thoroughly recuperated, and am
In excellent health and ENJOYING myself
Immensely. would like to see ali Eurone
but propose to stay away till after the
exciting scenes that will surround the test
OF Hayes's policy, for the reason that if |
were at home | would be charged with
having "a hand in every kind of political
rflan@uvring whether | had or not. and |
want to Danish politics from my mind un-
til everything settles down. can saw for
one thing however, that if were at home
l should exert my influence, as far as /
could exert it. in aid of Mr.. Hayes's plan
of reconciliation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

A fire broke out in the upper story of the
Interior Department building at Washing.
ton about noon Monday, 1t made swift
Roadway and was extinguished only after
the arrival of iire-engne from Baltimore.
A good many old models of the patent
office were destroyed but there was loss
OF but few records and the clerks succeed.
ed in removing many of the more curious
of the original. models and curiosities.
Secretary Schurz was on the ground and
the fight against the fire seemed to have
been well managed. The loss is about
half a million dollars and the first reports
as to the destruction of great amount of
records of the land and patent offices
prove to be untrue SO that the money loss
is perhsps as important after all as the
damage to documents.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

The President, in his speeches at differ
ont points, drops many a wholesome sug
gestion. AT Nashville in speaking of the
Importance of immigration to the South
and the attractions of that section for en-.
terprsing young men, he said that the
most effective way to bring the best class
of immigrants there was to plant school
house on the shady side of every hill and
have good teacher in it nine months in
The year. That would be better adver,
tisement of the country than could be
obtained at the same cost in any other
way. There is no doubt about it whatever.
School-houses and all that they imulv are
what make a place attractive to live in.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-09-26

The Boston North Baptist Association
has been taking the Warren Avenue
Church to do for not adhering to close
communion doctrines The Association
met at Winchester last week and deter
mined to appoint committee to labor
during the coming year with the erring
brethren. The Warren Avenue Church
claimed that they had merely gone back
to their ancient landmarks and Rev.
George F. Penteeost, pastor of the church.
resigned Sunday evening that his parish.
toner's might not be embarrassed in dealing
with the Association. Whatever his church
may do he proposes to stick to the doctrine
that " the essential terms of communion
run parallel with the terms of salvation"