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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15

Having purchased the interest of C. w. Snuff
at the old stand. Thankful for past liberal pat
ronage, 1 respectfully ask a continuance of the
same. Very respectfully,
REEVES GAIT
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15
Ransom, p. q. octS-4t

hISSOLUTION OF CO.PARTNER.
L. SHIP.-The Co Partnership heretofore
existing under the style of Gait Snuff in the
conduct of the butchering business in Staun-
ton, Va. is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent.
The business of the concern will be set
tied by q. w. Shuff. Parties knowing them
selves indebted to us will please settle at once.
REEVES GAIT,
Oct LIST, 1878. G. w. SNUFF.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15

which alone has the power to confront
and destroy Radical rule. and to restore
the blessings of honest, just and benefi-
cent government to all sections of our
common country.
We are impelled to make this appeal
to all true heerted Conservatives in Vir-
glnla because there are influences at
work in your midst which serio usly
threaten the unity, efficiency and per-
manent existence of the Conservative
party. Men who call themselves Con-
seryatives are warning against your reg
ular nominees, and are appealing to Con
servatives to sustain them as Indipen-
dents upon one or other pretext of as
sumed superiority of wisdom and capa-
city to serve the public interest; and a
few newspapers, heretofore ranked as
Conservative, are upholding these Inde-
pendents in their efforts to divide and
disrupt the Conservative party These
INDEPENDENTS AND THEIR ABETTORs
well know that they have no rational
hope of success except by seducing Con-
servatives to unite with the Radical ne
groes and whites in Virginia to defeat
your chosen standard bearers I'm proof
of this it is already apparent in two con-
gressiOnal districts that Radical leaders
are invoking the negroes and white Ra-
ideals to support the Independent cap
didates for Congress, and there is salts
factory information that the Radical
managers at Washington are advising
the concentration of the Radical vote in
Virginia upon these Independents as
the best means of weakening and DIES
troying the Conservative party. We
earnestly exhort you to resist and re-
buke all such attempts to draw you
away from your allegiance and support
of your chosen standard bearers. I'm
der the Conservative organization every
man who has any claim to popular con-
tidence and favor has fair field and
full chance to submit his claims to fair
ly-chosen conventions of the party. No
man who is an intelligent and true Con.
sentative will refuse to abide by this
arbitrament. No party can maintain
its existence whose members deny the
binding authority of its fairly-constitut-
ed conventions. Boilers and Indepen-
dents. and their abettors, seek to stab
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15

THE REPUBLICANS ENDORSE GEN.
JOSEPH E. JoHNsToN.-Ata meeting OF
the colored Republican Central Com
mite of Manchester, held last week,
the following preamble and resolution
noro nJopfo1
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
The Decline Of conkling

Ex-Surveyor Cornellis reported to have
returned to Saratoga from visit to Sen
ator Conkling at Utica, and to have heard
from the lips of the silent statesman these
encouraging words: The action of the
administration will intensity the feelings
of nv friends" Surely in this the
sphynx-like senator does not speak from
the experience of political history, which
shows how power" is the lever for the
popular public man, as place" is his full
crum. But has not the senator suffered
some loss in his personal resources from
the timidity and silence that have
characterized his political course since his
| senatorial fight for Collector Arthur of six
months ago? He may find some personal
friendships behind him, but even bis own
adherents admit that losses IN money as
we'll as power and place confront him, and
every politician knows the influence OF
money in the republican politics of this
state. Then some Of his soldiers are
paralyzed. Each rural postmaster and
revenue officer who may have been the
senator's friend heretofore will feel that
he is watched by some Hayes man who
wishes his place. Senator Conkling's best
weapon has been prestige. There is now a
wide difference between Senator Conkling
firm in his seat with the New York
appointments at his back, and the possibly
ex-senator Conkling with the sword Of
| Damocles- Evarts hanging over the heads
of thousand of his old official retainers
from Neversink lighthouse to Dunkirk
pier. His lately potent State Committee
chairman is now only smoked brand
plucked from democratic burning. AT
least twenty of his party newspapers are
now remorselessly critieising him. So
that altogether, while he may congratulate
Brother Cornell and himself that the re-
cent war declaration from Washington
will intensity the feelings of my friends,
Senator Conkling cannot as prudent pol
litician forget that there may be also the
feeling of enemies to be intensified by this
apparent Endorsement of them from a
lpresident and cabinet who have yet
nearly three years to serve. Nor should
our silent statesman omit from his calcula
tons the factor OF the democratic party
and the position to which it will be entitled
10 his triangular partisan duel. The only
CLEAN of new light for him is the appoint
ment of OBrien to be the chief of th'
election bureau in this city. But we ad
wise the senator to wait until the opinion
of the honest voters of this city upon tina
subject have been expressed before scoring
it as clear advantage. T. World.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
and the allegiance Of their old party faithg

and the allegiance Of their old party faithl
and in reverential humility and hearts
burning with sweetest charity, with love
unspeakable, and with noble disdain Of
place or power, they have chosen to pro-
claim the dispensation Of new light, and
to call upon the poor despised and ignorant
democrats to vote the preacher into con-
gress. Was there ever before such
union, and for such work such absolute
negation of self, and such disinterested la
Dor for the interests of humanity-sueh
utter disdain of Office seeking, and such
humble and martyr-like acceptance oil
worldly honors. Preacher and Veteran,
veteran and preacher; cash and congress,
congress and cash. If the righteous are
scarcely saved, where shall the democrats
and republicans appear?
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
An Undeniable Truth.

You deserve to suffer, and if you
lead a 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 yon
that Green's August Flower will cure
you of Liver Complaint. or Dyspepsia
with all its miserable effects, such as
sick headach. palpita ion Of the heart.
soar stomach, habitual costiveness,
dizziness of the head. nervous prostrat
ion, low spirits &c. It's sales now
reach every town on the Western Con.
tinent and not druggist but will ell
you of its wonderful cures. You can
buy Sample Bottle for 10 cents
Three doses will relieve you.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31

constipated bowels, inward piles, cos
tiveness, fevers, torpid liver, yellow
ness ofthe skin and eyes, indigestion,
dyspepsia, and all arrangements of the
internal viscera, are cured by'FSwayne's
Tar and Sarsaparilla pills" Unlike
many other purgatives, they do not il.
ritate the stomach and bowels by fire.
qgent use. They keep the system in
the healthy condition by arousing the
torpid liver to healthy action and ex'
pelling by the bowels and kidneys the
matter that poisons the foundation OF
life. Be particular to obtain" Swayne,
pills" price Is cents q box, at all lea.
dings druggists, and in Rock Island by
John BeDpstOn.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
REV. ]. II. WIGGIN SAYS:

One of the best remedies for Catarrh, nay. the
best remedy we have found In lifetime OF suffer.
ing Is SANFORDtS RADICAL CURE. It to not
unpleasant to take through the nostfls. and there
in Inhalation. 1t clears the head and throat so
thoroughly that, taken each morning on rising,
there are no and no disagree.
able hacking during the entire day, but an unpre-
cedented clcarness ofvofce and respiratory org
Rev. IL Il. IFtggf1a, IN Dorchester (Qss.l Beacon.
Each package confirms DR. sanford's Improved
Inhaling Tube with full directions for use In all
cases. Price ST. 90 For sale by MI Wholesale ana
Retail Druggists and Dealers the nited
Agents aud Wholesale Druggists. Boston, Mass.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
2ocH ISLAND 3 PEoE1A RAILWAY.
sHoRTEsr ROUTE TO THE EAST AND aonrr

SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAsT AND SOUTH.
LEAVE .n.xvv
Throh F'ht 30 a. m. Galva Ac. a:3(l a. m
Mail q Ex. 1.50 Up. IN. Mail g Ex lis 81 m
Galva Ac. $3.50 p. IN. Throh F'ht 4:45 e m
The 1 80 m train makes close connection =
aalva with Q B 81 @ for points west; ARRIVING d
Gaiesburg at 800 p m; at Burlington F:I5 D m 4
Keokuk 1925 m; and at Quincy $40 D m: ala,
making close connection at Peoria with | 81 q
and p & w roads for all points east and south.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
GREATLY AFFLICTED.

Messre. j. o. Bos,corth Do Co., Deacer: Gentlemen,
II take pleasure IN recoInlne nding sANFoRDB
RADICAL CURE FOR CATARRH to all who are
afflicted with this disease. i was greatly afflicted
with It for long time, and cured 1t with two bot.
ties Of the above CURE. About year afterwards
was again taken with Catarrh QUITE severely. and
Immediately a&nt for another bottle, which fixed
me ali right Rying ms relief from the first dose.
am confident that this remedy win do all that Ia
claimed for 1t, and more too. wishing you success
49, A. W. SMITH,
Denver Oct a. 1879 of Smith & Doll
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31

THE ARGUS JOB PRINTING Rooms
turn out Cards, Circulars, Note Heads
Bill Heads, Law Briefs, and all Other
kinds of Printing, in the highest style OF
the art, aDd on the most reasonable terms.
And THE ARGUS Book BINDERY is doing
all kinds of work in that line, neat, quick
and cheap. The friends of the paper and
the public generally are invited to give our
work trial. dMt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
TRIED EVERYTHING.

t,s msss1s I haye nsed sANFoRD's RADICAL
CURE FOR CATARRH, and 1t has given perfect
satisfaction. have tried almost everything an q
it is the only thing that has given me relief.
therefore take pleasure in recolntne Us use
to all afflicted with Catarrh OF any Kind ana oner
this rs my testimony to It's dement's. -u---s
Very truly, w. + DECKER
INnrnr G.at-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
Railroad Time Table.
CHICAGO. aocE rs1AND PAcIFIuss.
FOR RACINE 8 MTLWAUKEE.

LEAvE ARRIVE
Day II press and Mai s: 40 A 600 AN
Night Express. .......---..10:I5 Pm 5:45 Pm
The night express leaving Rock Island every
Sunday night at To- rs connects with the train ART
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock
stand to Chicago. Through tickets only good on
this train. S#
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
Democratic Legislative and Senatorial
Convention.

Democrats and all Others who subscribe 70 the
principles as expressed IL the Democratic State
platform adopted by the last Democratic State
Convention held at Springfield on the llth day Of
April last are requested 10 send delegates TO
Legislative and senatorial convention to be held al
n V.I,s HnNR
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31

Leave Rock Island at 900 q m, and 80 D. m Ar
irving at Cable at II 10 a. m, and 600 D. m
Leave Cable at $50 g. m and IL: rs D. m. Arriving
ct Rock Island at $50 Q. m, and 500 D. m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
sOREIY AFFLICTED.

j. o. Bostcorsh 6 Co. Denpe7s Col. Gentlemen,
Prompted by feiIow-feeling for these afflicted
with Gatarrh wish 70 ADD ny ssstimony In oehaf
Ihave been sorey afflicted with this fearful disease
for four years, and have tried every known remedy
without avail, until bought bottle of the above
CURE from You, which gave me almost instant re.
lief. Tt being constitutional as we'll as q local
remedy believe 1t to be all that is claimed for lie
O Radical Cure for Catarrh. -.
Very truly yours. WIN. AMETTVE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
Sufferers from Headache,

Use Elixir of Honey for Asthma and
Bronchitis iyld&w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31

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.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
HARRISON PAINTER,

Price $500 Address Specific Medicine
Co., St. Louis, Mo.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
Thursday August LIST, 1878,

at O'Clock r. M. for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for senator and candidates for represent
atves for the 2lst senatorial district of Illinois,
composed OF Rock Island and Henry counties, and
20 transact such other business as shall properly
come before said committee.
The basis for representation will be one delegate
for every $50 votes and one additional delegate fol
fractional vote over 100 votes cast for Samuel j
Tilden for President in 1875, In acc ord with this
basis the representation in ead convention will be
as follows:
Rock Island county, Delegates
nehry county ........'........s--.....
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET,

For State Treasurer,
,N EDWARD L. CRONKRITRJ
OF Stephenson.
For superintendent OF Public Instruction,
SAMUEL M. ETTER,
OF Mclean.
For Clerk Supreme Court-NorthCrn Grand
Division.
HIRAM r. ENoCH.
OF Winnebago.
For Clerk Appellate Court--second District,
JAMES R. WASH,
OF Livingston.
COUNTY TICKET.
Sheriff,
GEORGE M. LUKEN,
Coroner,
WILLIAM BEARDSLEE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
MEDICAL.
sANF0RD'S
RADICAL CURE
For CATARRH
INSTANTLY RELIEVES.
INSTANTLY RELIEvES
. ana rrrT ABOVE THE SEA

The following testimonials are from MISSES, ].
entail druggists. They report anprecedentedlY
large sales and universal satisfaction. No other
They speak Of the following gentlemen as among
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-07-31
G.. 3. q Q. z. Z.

St. Louis Mail :00A S.45 A. NJ.
81. Louis Express $500. 100 p. NJ. $40 p. NJ.
5terHng accommodation 3:20 p. NJ. 800 A. NJ.
MENDOZA Accomon. :45 A. NJ. 500 p. NJ
LEAVE. ARRIVE
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
HAsH.-The following ia a good and

HAsH.-The following is a good and
economical way for preparing hash ;
Take cold roast lamb or mutton; throw
away the fat portions; chop very fine,
and add water enough to made it quite
thin; boil in frying pan; and add but
ter, salt and bepper to suit taste; have
ready hot toast which has been we'll but
tered and dipped into cream or rich
milk, and spread the hash over the toast,
and serve Immediately.
SPONGE GINGERBREAD.-Melt a piece
of butter of the size at hens egg, mix
it with pint of nice molasses, a table,
spoonful of ginger and quart of -four;
dissolve heaping tablespoonful of sal
eratus in half a pint of milk and mix it
with the rest of the ingredients; add
sufficient fl our to enable you to roll it
out easily; roll it out about an inch
thick, and bake it on fat tins in quick
oven.
DUCHEssE POTAToEs-Mash one q uart
of hot boiled potatoes through a fine col.
ander with a potato-masher; mix with
them one ounce of butter, one scant tea.
spoonful of salt, half teaspoonful of
white pepper, a pinch of grated nutmeg,
and the yolks of two raw eggs, pour the
potato out on plate, and then form it
with knife into small cakes two inches
long and one wide, lay them on the but
tered tin, brush them over the top v it'll
an egg beaten up with a teaspoonful of
cold water, and color them golden brown
in moderate oven.-Mss Corson's Cook
ina Manual.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
A Princelv Offender.

The Grand Duke Nicholas Constanti-
novitch, who has been travelling about
in the interior of Russia, at the govern
ments expense, ever since he stole his
mammals diamonds and gave them to an
American adventures known by the
soubriquet of Fanny Lear, the son of
the grand admiral of Russia, has put his
light out forever. He has not broken
any commandment of the decalogne this
time, but he has been guilty of a fault,
which, in Russia, is infinitely more
heinous than a crime. Orenburg is a
stupid place, it seems, and the prince.
firing of his duties in the civil admins.
tration, incontinent1y fell in love with
and married-there was the wickedness
OF the deed-the daughter of the city
chief of police. He was under strict
surveillance, and how he managed to do
it, where he found a priest willing to
brave the anger of the car, no one can
imagine. But the punishment has been
prompt and exemplary, by the with
drawal of his name from the regiment.
which, since his birth, has borne his in
sigma on their colors, and by his degra-
dation from all the rights and privileges
belonging to his station. The marriage
is, of course, illegal, as it was contracted
clandestinely, but to break the knot tied
by Muscovite ecclesiastic, and not at
the same time, offend the clergy or
weaken the prestige orthodoxy requires
strict Observance of Formally.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
Sensations Under Chloroform.

sensations Under Chloroform.
l began to be terrified to such a WON
derful extent as I would never before
have guessed possible. I made an in
voluntary effort to get out of the chair,
and then-suddenly became aware that
l was looking at nothing; while taken
up by the confusion in nay lungs, the
outward things in the room had gone,
and 1 was "aIone in the dark" 1 felt a
force on my arm which did not strike
me as the surgeons "hand," but merely
as an external restraint) keeping me
down, and this was the last straw which
made me give in, the last definite thing
(smell, sound, sight or touch) remem-
bered outside of my own body. Instant.
ly was seized and overwhelmed by the
panic inside. I could feel every air: cell
struggling spasmodically against all aw-
full pressure. In their struggle they
seemed to tear away from one another in
all directions, and there was universal
racking torture, while meantime the
common foe, in the shape of this iron
pressure kept settling down with
more aud more irresistible might
into every nook and crevice of the
scene. My consciousness was now about
this: l was not aware of anything but
an isolated scene of torture, pervaded
bya hitherto unknown sense of terror
land by what I have since learned is call
ed "the unity of conscience" this never
deserted the scene, even down to the
very last inaudible heart-beat). Yet I
call it a "scene," because recognized
some different parts of my body, and
felt that the pain in one part was not
the same as that in another. Meanwhile,
along with the increased intensity of
convulsion In my lungs, an element of
noise had sprung up. A chaotic roaring
ran through my brain, innumerable
drums began to beat far inside my ear,
till the confusion presently came to q
monstrous thudding, every thud of
which wounded me like a club falling
repeatedly on the same spot.-Popuiar
Science Monthlv.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
Partisan Suicides.

There have been some queer suicides
in Paris lately, but none stranger, nor to
certain degree more touching, than that
of an old woman, a lace member. who
hanged herself the other day because her
dog, beautiful little spaniel, who had
been her constant companion for over
twelve years, had fallen sick and died.
She was alone in the world, she had
neither child nor grandchild, nor any
near relative, and her DOG had been the
only companion of her loneliness, and 80
when the little creature died her courage
and her spirits failed her, and she slipped
out of the world to which she was linked
by no single tie of affection. Next we
have the story of married man, M
x, who was living with certain
Nine. R., on the Rue des Martyrs.
The peace Of this irregular menage was
sorel y troubled by Nine. x, who
fancied she had some claim on her law.
full husband, and threatened to resort to
legal proceedings, so the tender lovers
determined to die together after the
usual French manner, namely, by
asphyxiating themselves with the fumes
of charcoal. M. persuaded Nine.
R. to take a dose of decoction of
poppies before lighting the furnaces, and
as soon as he saw her stupefed by the
effects of the narcotic, he slipped quietly
out, locked the door on the outside, and
suffered his dearly-loved companion to
die alone. But the law objected to such
vigorous demonstration of common
sense on his part, and he has been arrest
ed for completely in the unhappy wo-
mans death. Talking of suicides, I
wonder that no Partisan has as yet
thought of making way with him or her
self by jumping out of the great captive
balloon during one of its ascensions. The
feat would be an extremely easy one to
accomplish, and the effect would be sen.
sational in the extreme, result which
your Partisan suicide dearly loves to
bring about. Perhaps the hi gh price of
the tickets may have something to do
with the neglect of this very striking
method OF self-destruction, for French
man is apt to study economy even at
such moment.-Paris Letter.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
Arc Fat People Healthy?

Why are fat people always complain
Ing? asks some one who entertains the pop.
ular though erroneous notion that health is
synonymous with fat. Fat people complain
because they are diseased. Obesity is an
abnormal condition of the system, in which
the saccharine and oleaginous elements of
the food are assimilated to the partial ex-
clusion of the muscle-forming and brain.
producing elements. In proof of this, it is
only necessary to assert the well-known fact
that excessively fat people are never strong,
and seldom Distinguished for mental powers
or activity. Besides, they are the easy prey
of acute and, epidemic diseases, and they
are the frequent victims of govt heart dis
ease, apoplexy. Allan's Anti. Fat is the
only known remedy for this disease. It
contains no acid, is absolutely. harmless, and
is warranted to remedy the most confirmed
case of obesity or corpulencY.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-10-31
An Adventure in the Alps.

In the Alps recently Mr.. and Mrs.
Wainwright, and Christian Grass, the
guide, fell down a precipice. Hans
Grass, the other guide, was man of gi-
gantic strength, and the rope by which
the four were corded together was stout,
and thowing himself backward by sheer
force OF muscle he held them suspended
and cried to his brother to cut steps in
the ice and mount, and be quick about
it for he could not sustain them for
more than half an hour. MI. VAIN
wright had not dropped his Ratchet,
which he handed to the guide, who soon
reached the edge of the crevasse; his
brother, still sustaining the Wainwrights,
gave him hand and drew him up. then
they hauled up the tourists, and all re-
turned little the worse for their frightful
adventure.