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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21

You deserve to suffer, and if you
lead miserable unsatisfactory life in
this beautiful world, it is entirely your
own fault and there is only one excuse
for you,-your unreasonable perjudice
and skepticism, which has killed thou
sands, Person knowledge and common
sense reasoning will soon show you
that Green's August Flower will cure
you of Liver Complaint. or Dyspepsia.
with all it's miserable effects, such as
sick headach. palpitation of the heart,
sour stomach, habitual costiveness,
dizziness of the head, nervous prostrat-
ion, low spirits, sc. Its sales now
reach every town on the Western Con.
tinent and not druggist but will tell
you of its wonderful cures. You can
buy a Sample Bottle for 10 cents
Three doses will relieve you.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21
Democratic Central Committee.

HEADQUARTERS STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
SPRINGFIELD, June !, 1878.
The Democratic State Central Committee have
secured permanent rooms In the building formerly
occupied by the State Law Library on Fifth street
and competent clerk will be in attendance 1t II
suggested that the Democratic newspapers of the
state forward to the secretary copy OF their issues
to be kept on file for information OF committee ant
isitors. The county central committees OF thu
state are requested to at place themselves il
communication with the committee.
Address correspondence to
A. ORENDORFF, Secretary,
Springfield, Illinois.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21
TWELVE GOOD REASONS
WHY THE
Wonan's Suffrage Stove Polish
IS PREFERRED TO ALL OTHERS,
TWELVE GOOD REASONS

First-It is the LARGEST package of Stove Polish
in the world.
Second-It is the NPATRsT.
Third-Tt is composed entirely OF PURE EAST IN
Ola PLUMBAGo.
Fourth-1t WILL cover more surface, and is con-
sequently CHEAPER than any other kind.
Fifth-It is NOT ADULTERATED with cheap Amer
can or German lead or other worthless substance
to give it weight.
Sixth-u lie FREE from OBJECTIONABLE sILvRRY
LUsTRE such as s easily furnished by greese dirt
SEVENTH produces the MOST ENDURING set
BLACK GLOSS of any polish ever offered to the public
Eighth 1t makes NO DUST and requires LESS
LABOR In polishing.
Ninth-It will polish any stove, HOT OR COLD, as
soon as applied, and requires no mixing with var
nish or naptha, nor does any such deletenous in
gredient enter into its composition
Tenth-It DOES NOT BURN upon the stove, and is
free from all Objectionable smell
Eleventh--It WILL POLISH SHEET IRON, and pre-
serve 1t from rust
TWELFTH is the HANDsoMEsT POLISH In the
world.
Hence. every Woman wants it.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY TaE
Phoenix Manufactu'g Co..
TAUNTON, .................... MASS.
FOR THE PROPRIETOR.
eW For sale by all Druggists and. Grocers.
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Sensible and to the Point.


In answer TO the arguments of those
who are trying to persuade both the dem
ocrats and republicans that are DESTROYS OF
beating Ford, that the best wsy to do so
is TO vote for DR.. McKinnie, there is but
one statement to be made. Even If all
questions of principle are left out of view
as between Wilson and McKinnie, it is,
TO our mind, absolutely certain that MIR.
Wilson will poll more votes than DIR. Nc
Kinnie, and is therefore the hardest club
TO strike Ford with. In Rock Island
county the farmer candidate for the senate
is bound to run ahead of his greenback
competitor, while in Henry county some
of the leading nationalists only count up
on 200 votes for their ticket. That the
democracy who polled over l, 900 votes fol
Tilden two years ago will do better thar
that there is no reason to doubt. Demo
Gratis have nothing to gain and much 4
lose by deserving their candidates at thi
time. Rock Island county very eheerfullS
conceded to the Henry county democracy
the candidate for representative, abou
whose election there was no doubt, ant
Henry county democrats can do no les
than cast their votes for the chosen candi
date Of the Rock Island democracy for al
Concluded on next page.)
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ROCK ISLAND 3 rrosIA hallway.

SHORTEST ROUTE TO The EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
Thro'h Fht 90 O. m. Galva Ac. S:55 a, m.
Mail q Ex 1852. m. Mail 6Rx. 1900 p. M
Galva Ac. sos p. m. Thro'h F'ht 4:45 p. M
The 1:5O D m train makes close connection ri
Galya with q & @ for points west; arriving al
Galesburg at 500 p m at Burlington 7:l5 m; al
Keokuk GAS m; and at Quincy 9:4O p m; also
and T & W roads for all points east and south.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21

leave Rock Island at 90 O. m, and $40 p. m Ar
irving at Cable at 1U:50 q. M, and $3.50 p. m.
leave Cable at $50 g. m, and 1918 p. Arriving
at Rock Island at S:I5 a. M, and AGO p. m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21
Railroad Time Table.
wrsTnRI UNION RAILROAD.

FOR RACINE q MILWAUKEE,.
LEAVE ARRIVE
DAY Express and Mail. ..-..s:55 An 6:50PM
Night Express .05 Pm SOS An
The night express leaving Rock Island every
Sunday night at :O5 connects with the train arri
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock
sland to Chicago. Through tickets only good on
thist1Aln.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21

My wife has had no attacks since taking
DR.. Bells Fit Cure. She Is recovering
under his treatment advise all the
afflicted to try it.
HAppTcoN DATNrrp
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21
THE ONLY AGENCY DOING EXCLUSIVELY INSURANCE.
ALL LOSSES PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. POLL
oIEs ISSUED IN THE FOLLOWING OLD
AND TRIED COMPANIES.
PRE-,

Old New p orksUnde5writers Agency Is 3,5O0000
Old Continental ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3,0400O0
Old Phoenix. 2,79s 600
Old Howard. organized 1926 ...... 100000
German A merican ........,..... 2,250000
Liverpool & London & Globe .......... $4,000, 900
Royal, of London &c, 900 900
Imperial, of London. ............... -. 100000
Northern, of LoudcD .............. 100000
Girard, of PHILADELPHIA ........... 100000
st. Paul Fire and Marine. 1000 900
Traders of Chicago. $4,000
Atlantic, of Brooklyn. ....... -......... 457 900
Amazon Of Cincinnati, Ohio. $4,000
Rhode Island Association. ....... ...... 100000
Western, of Toronto ................... 1,5O0 600
Fairfield, Of Connecticut. 305315
Commonwealth, of Boston ............... 435, 1874
Revere, OF Boston. ............. a6ss75
ACCIDENT.
Travellers Accident, of Hartford. 100000
LIFE,
Washington Life. ............ 5,500O00
Total Assets. .......-......-.... $119,933,5 2a
OFFICE, BENGSToN'S BLOCK,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-10-21
HARRISON FAINTER,

Price $500. Address Specific Medicine
Co., St, Louis, Mo.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-11
Divorce in Othei, Lanas

An Arab may divorce his wife on the
slightest occasion. So easy and so COM
mon is the practice that Burckhardt as.
sures us that he has seen Arabs not
more than forty-fve years of age who
were known to have had fifty wives, yet
they rarely have more than one at a
time.
By the Mohammedan law man may
divorce his wife orally and without any
ceremony he pays her portion. gener-
ally one-third of her dowry. He may
divorce her twice and take her again
without her consent, but if he put her
away by triple divorce conveyed in the
same sentence, he cannot receive her
again until she has been married and
divorced by another husband.
By the Jewish law it appears that q
wife could not divorce her husband !;
but under the Mohammedan code, for
cruelty and some other causes she may
divorce him.
Among the Hindoos, and also among
the Chinese, a husband may divorce his
wife upon the slightest ground, or even,
without assigning any reason. She is
under the absolute control of her hus-
band.
The law OF France, before the revolu.
ton, following the judgment of the
Catholic church, made marriage indis-
soluble, but during the early revolution
ary period divorce was permitted at the
pleasure of the parties when incompati-
bility of temper was alleged. The Code
Napoleon restricted this liberty. On the
restoration of the Bourbons law was
promulgated, May 8, 1916, declaring
divorce to be abolished that all suits
then pending for divorce by mutual con-
sent should be void, and such is now the
law of France.-Al6any La,o Journal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-11

It is often useful to have few ap-
proximate data to deduce weights and
measures from. Here is corrected
table, which, however, does not aim at
great accuracy, but may serve to make
a rough estimate when it is necessary to
reduce measures: A pint of water weighs
nearly q pound, and is equal to about
twenty.seven cubic inches, or square
box three inches long, three inches wide
and three inches deep. A quart OF water
weighs nearly two pounds, and is equal
to q square box of about four by four
inches and three and half inches deep.
A gallon of water weighs from eight to
ten pounds, according to the size of the
gallon, and is equal to box six by six
inches square, and six, seven or seven
and half inches deep. A cubic foot of
water weighs nearly sixty.si1 pounds
(more correctly si1ty-two and half
pounds), and contains from seven to
eight gallons, according to the kind of
gallons used. A peck is equal to box
eight by eight inches square and eight
inches deep. A bushel almost fills box
twelve by twelve inches square and
twenty. four inches deep, or two cubic
feet. A barrel OF water almost fills o
box two by two feet square and one and
half feet deep, or five cubic feet.
Petroleum barrels contain forty gallons.
or nearly five cubic teet,-Aanssfac'
Eturer and Builder. q
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-11
A Story of the Times.

In the court Of quarter sessions, in
Newark, N. J., Henry Busy was ar
raigned for breaking into the freight
house of the Newark and New York rail-
road and stealing q canvas wagon cover.
he pleaded guilty, and said that he
committed the theft because his wife and
children were without food. Mrs.
Busy was in the court with babe in
her arms. She wept bitterly while her
husband was on the stand, and, as he
was being led away, she cried out:
"Judge, in the name OF God have
mercy on my husband, our children are
starving"
The Spectators were affected by the
womans grief, and Judge !itsworth
called her to the bar and questioned her
closely for several minutes. She SAID
that her husband was stage carpenter,
and that he had worked in theJ Jersey City
opera house until it closed, since which
time he has been out of work. They
have four children, two OF whom are Ill:
The rent was due, and the children had
nothing to eat, and her husband started
ont in the hope of earning little
money with which to buy bread for his
little ones. Mrs. Bussy said that she
had not seen her husband since that
time until she met him in the court
room. Judge Ellsworth said he would
make the punishment light in view OF
the circumstances. Busy was sent to
Jail for ten days.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-11
A Canine Actor Raises q Row.

A big dog is one of the performers in
"Tina, the Milk Vender," play in
which Lima Tetterhom is starring
through the country. he draws a milk
cart, and is 80 we'll trained that his in.
telligent acting is considered an attrac-
tive feature of the entertainment. When
the comedian enters and says, Hartina,
are you here?" the dog understands
that he is to stand still until Hartina
and her lover embrace and sing duet;
then he follows Hartina off the stage.
In Milwaukee, Wis, where there is a
large German element, the play was per-
formed one evening in the German Ian
guage. "The dog" according to q
writer whose veracity We have no right
to question, understands English
thoroughly, but having had only the
advantage OF single rehearsal in Ger
man, he became somewhat mixed as to
his business, not understanding the Ian.
guage, and, of course, mistaking his
cue. So when, instead of the familiar
words, Hartina, are you here ?" he
heard, Hartina, bist du hier?" he
sprang for the comedian, who took
fright and ran. The dog spying the
prompter seated in his half moon, made
a plunge for him. The prompter dived
through the trap door. The dog went
after him, followed by the milk wagon
and what was left of the cans. Selling
the tailboard of the cart, some of the
persons on the stage gave strong pull,
and pull altogether, when up came the
wagon, then the dog, and finally the
prompter, the latter with the fangs OF
the infuriated animal fastened to his
clothes
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-11
Indian Spiritualists:

The natives of the Marqnesa islands
are reported to be spiritualists OF the
most incorporating sort. They think
that they are always surrounded by
spiri is, which, or whom, they do not
fear so long as it is daylight. As soon
as it is dark, however, they are in NOR
tai dread of ghosts, never venturing out
alone. Then they go in pairs, or by
fours, fves or skies, imagining that, If
alone, bad spirits may seize upon and
carry them off easily and suddenly. 1t
is supposed that such spirits are in
search of human sacrifices which they
were unable to procure Whit: IN the
flesh. When q native dies, his spirit
turns into ghost, it is thought: and re-
turns to. the place where he has lived.
If he-or it-can find no human sacri-
fee, he is obliged to depart to Domi-
nique, the widest and most sterile of all
the islands, and from there leap into the
sea. As he can never come back to earth,
this is the close of his ghostly career.
The natives also have mediums who
claim to have power to summon and con-
troll spirits, and as they are intensely
superstitious, the mediums there, as
here, do good business. The priests
are usually tho mediums, and they inter-
pref all the mysteries of the invisible
world to the ignorant laity. They make
great professions Of sanctity, manage
the poor savages exactly as they choose,
and are never exposed as arrant i'm
posters.
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Alfred's Chilling Reception,

Mr.. Alfred Ethelridge is bashful he
does not deny it. He wishes he WASH I
sometimes, but wishing doesn't seem tc
help the case much. Everybody ir
Burlington likes him, except the father
of young lady out on Pond street
With an instructive knowledge of thit
old gentleman's feelings, Alfred had for
borne to aggravate them and kept out o.
the fathers way as much as possible
atoning for this apparent neglect BY
seeing the daughter twice as often. The
other afternoon, Alfred went up the
steps and rang the bell. The door
opened and
Papa stood glaring at him, looking
thousand things and saying nothing.
Alfred Ethelridge had never felt quite
so lost for language in his life. Pres
emily he stood on one foot and re-
marked
"Good afternoon !"
Gooftnoon," grunted papa, which
is, by Interpretation, also good alter
noon.
s-ah-is-er-er-er-Mis' Lalli.
pop-is your daughter at home ?" asked
Alfred, standing on the other foot.
eyes, SIR" said papa, rather more
shortly than Alfred thought was abso.
lutely necessary. Then nobody said
anything for long time. Presently
Alfred Ethelridge stood on both feet,
and asked:
"Is she I'M"
"Yes, sir" said papa, not budging o
step from his position in the door, and
looking as though he was dealing with
a book agent instead of one of the incest
young men in Burlington. Then Alfred
Ethelridge stood on his right foot, and
"Does she-can she receive COM
pany ?"
eyes, SIR" papa said, savagely, not
at all melted BY the pleading intonation
of Alfred's voice, which everybody else
thought was 80 irrisistably sweet. Then
Alfred Ethelridge stood on his left foot,
and said:
els she at home9"
eyes, sir" papa said, kind of coldly.
Alfred Ethelridge looked down the
street and sighed, then he stood on
the right foot again, and said
&C. Is she ina"
eyes, SIR" papa said, grimly, and
never taking his eyes off the young
mans uneasy face.
Alfred Ethelridge sighed and looked
up the street, then he stood on his left
foot and looked at papa's knees and said,
timidly, and in tremulous tones:
"Can she see me?"
"Yes, SIR" papa said, but he never
moved, and he never looked pleasant.
He only stood still, and repeated Sec
ond time, Yes, sir.
Alfred EtheIridge began to feel it. He
looked up and down the street, and final
ly pinned his wandering gaze to the
bald spot on the top of papa's head, then
he said
"Will you please tell her that Mr..
Alfred Ethelridge called ?"
"Yes, sir, said papa, and he didn't
say anything more. And some how or
other Alfred Ethelridge kind of sort of
got down off the porch, and went kind
OF out of the gate, like. He discontin-
ued his visits there, and explained to a
friend that the old man didn't say any
thing that wasn't all right and cordial
enough, but the manner of him was
rather ormal.-B,ulington Ha"keye.
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Hunting with the Nizam's Cheetah.

We move forward, bound for some
knolls and rocks which command an un-
interrupted view of the whole plain.
Herds of deer ore scattered about, ]azi.
ly crouching under the trees, or feeding
upon the finer heritage on the margin Of
the pools. Two cradle-like native carts
(hackeries), made of sticks and ropes,
each drawn by a small bullock, are how
ering about in the distance, and each
has lying down on its floor hunting
cheetah, hooded, fastened and dinner
less. The chase begins. From our
vantage ground we see one cart slowly
and cautiously driven toward herd Of
antelopes, and approaching them unseen
and unnoticed. When within some
forty or fifty yards the cart stops, a
keeper jumps into it and slips and un-
hoods the cheetah, who is down on the
turf in the twinkling of IN eye.
He sees the grazing animals, and
forthwith he begins to work toward
them. Step by step stealthily he ad-
vances, stalking every inch with meas
ured, cat-like football and taking
advantage OF every inequality of the
ground, every tilft OF grass, and every
little bowlder of rock, to cover his ap-
proach. Pace by pace onwards-now
dead stop and nearer, behind granite
bowlder he lays crouched for an instant,
then on to it's crest he crawls, and now
with an overwhelming leap, tremen-
dous bound, and he is flying through b
the air, into the very midst of the herd.
A large fat buck-the consort of many
does, the paterfamilias Of many fawns,
and who has been browsing little
apart from his household, has attracted
the cheetah's attention, but the buck
has seen his dread enemy just in time,
and flies for dear life over the scrub,
over the turf, among the palms. The
cheetah follows close, now gaining, now
losing ground. The chase is most e1-
citing, and from our elephants backs
we see every yard Of it.
Now it seems certain that the deer,
fleeter of foot, will escape his springs
and bounds are telling on the heavier
and slower cheetah. But no; the
"stay" of that animal is greater, and
his thirst for blood Unsuitable. For
some minutes more the hunt continues |;
the deer doubles back from tope of
trees, and comes into the open "a fall
in the lay of the land gives the cheetah
momentary advantage he sees it
one, two leaps, and he is on the deer's
back and pins him fastly down. There
is cry, a struggle, an endeavor to bring
the sharp horns into action +; but the
weight and strength of Jubata is over.
powering, and it is all up with the lord
of that herd-the kinds are widows, and
the fawns fatherless. The keepers come
up; they cut the throat of the dying
stay, they feed with his life's blood
Jubata aforesaid, who now releases his
hold, and suffers himself to be detached
from his quarry.-&. James Magazine.
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Lombardy Poplars for Lightning. Rods.

The reason which lies at the bottom
of the general belief, on the continent of
Europe, that lightning strikes the Lom-
hardy poplar trees in preference to
others, is coming to light. Green herb
age, and green wood-sappy wood
are excellent conductors of electricity.
A tree is shattered by lightning only
when the discharge reaches the naked
trunk or naked branches, which are
poorer conductors. An old-fashioned
Lombardy poplar, by it's height, by it's
complete covering of twigs and small
branches and their foliage, down almost
to the ground, and by its sappy wood,
makes a capital lightning-rod and a
cheap one. Happily no one can patent
it, and bring it round in a wagon, and
insist upon trying it on. To make it
surer, the tree should stand in moist
ground, or near water for wet ground
is good conductor, and dry soil poor
one. It is recommended to plant q
Lombardy poplar near the house, and
another close to the barn. IF the ground
is dry, the nearer the well the better
except for the nuisance Of the roots that
will get into it.-ProE Asn Gray, .S,1
| Ar1a,innn AnrlnaiL Lttl1.iRfs - ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1878-12-11
Thanksgiving.

The beaded frost at early morn
Cleans Whitley DER the stubble,
And past the caves at night is borne
The north winds wall Of trouble;
But shines the earth with rudy light,
The board is gay and CHEEKY,
And household mirth is flowing bright
Round hearts forlorn and weary.
How dark soccer the world path be,
How vexing earthly clamor,
To-day the sunbeams goldenly
Ponr down a heavenly glamour.
The warring voices cease, or blend
In chords Of solemn sweetness,
While harvest anthems seek the friend
Who gives the year completeness.
For tender spring, for summers wealth
For sutumn's royal splendor,
For homes Of peace, for Joy and health,
Thanksgivings full We render;
And age with winters sifted snow
Meets childhood's sunny weather:
The seasons come, the seasons 90,
And all are glad together.
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Sicilian Brigands.

The Sicilian authorities have no easy
task in attempting to suppress brigand'
age, even after they have caught their
brigands. At Palermo recently twenty.
three bandits we're put upon trial, being
cooped up i'll m iron cage. So frightened
were the people of the neighborhood
that only twenty jurors out of panel
of fifty appeared, and when eight of the
convicted prisoners were being removed
in van. tho van by remarkable coin
cidence broke down at a lonely place on
the road, and the three most formidable
rufians escaped, two of whom had been
sentenced for fourteen crimes, including
murders and kidnapping. .