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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-06
German Syrup."

No other medicine in the world was eve,
gwen such a test of its curative qualities
as Boschee's German Syrup. In three
years two million four hundred thousand
small bottles of this medicine were dis
tnbuted free of charge by druggists in this
country to those afflicted with consumption
asthma, Group, severe coughs, pneumonis
and other diseases of the throat and lungs
giving the American undeniable proof tina,
German Syrup will cure them. The re-
suit has been that druggists in every towr
and village in the United States are re.
commencing them to their customers. &c
to your druggist, and ask what they know
about it. Sample bottles 10 cents
Regular size IS cents. Three doses viii
relieve any case.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-06
"a WIDOW AND HER Chin ;:

A singular instance of superstition came
to light not long since. which is thus re-
lated Going into neighbours house, one
day last week, | found one of the children
suffering from severe cough,and expressed
my opinion that it was case in which
medical assistance should be obtained
The mother of the boy agreed that 1t was
very bad, but said that before calling in a
doctor she intended to try cure that she
bad long used in similar eases, and never
found to-fail. On being pressed to COM
munlcate the prescription, she gravely in
,ormed me that the charm consisted 10
HALEs HONEY OF HoREHoUND AND TAR,
aud that it could be obtained OF all the
druggists. Price so cents. and 81. Great
saving by purchasing large size Depot,
CrlttentoD, Sixth avenue, New York
City.
PIXIES TooTHACHE Drops cure in one
minute.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-06
The Daily Argns.
ROCK rsLAHD,........xLLrnoIs
HERE AND THERE.

MOTIFS HERE AND THERE.
Medical students fear that the agita-
ton of the cremation question may raise
the price of skeletons.
The Illinois State Board of Health
is In session at Du Quoin. Fifty appli-
eants for certificates are in attendance.
The st. Stephens Church Literary
Society of London, Ont. has decided
that machinery is not beneficial to the
workingman.
Anderson is only one of the small
| fishes, Justice demands that, sooner or
| later, there should be draught of the
whales. NJ r San.
Col. Dement, is to be the citizens ma vor
of Dixon. 1t seems the citizens OF
other places besides Rock Island want
their best men at the head of municipal
affairs.
The Sheriff of Knoxville, Tenn. sum-
mons white juries and black iuries but
never mixed juries. The colored people
OF the city insist that the law commands
the latter. - - = -
1t is said that minister's son of
Waterloo. N. Y. sent a gloom over an
entire church fair by walking up to the
.grab,bag and prize-cake table, and de-
manding that the game be explained to
him before he bought his chips.
The Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune de-
scrlbes the late Mormon prophet
widows as very old, very fat, sand not
very beautiful, and says that, almost
without exception, they manifest an
earnest desire to get married again,
"A machine that will knit stockings in
one .pelce at the rate of one a minute. is
the invention of Swede of Rockford, IN
Twelve amchines can be operated by one
boy. whoes wages, $45 per week, make
the cost OF knitting zone cent for sixty
stockings.
The warden of prison in Norris
town. Pr, did not cut down the body
OF prisoner who had hanged himself
although it was not ceartain that life was
extinct, because he thought that the law
forbade anybody but Coroner to do so.
AT meeting of the Quincy Com
mercial Travellers. held on the 25th, it
was resolved to join the Western Com
meFcial Travellers Association. headquar-
tiers at st. Louis. Twenty-Five tourists
signed the roll. j. Schrarr and S. Sill.
Verman were appointed a committee to
see the traeVlers not present and have
them ioin,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-06
]. Dr.. JAMES,

71.-7-I--
RO4Washington St,
Cor. Franklin, CHICAGO.
ChhFtared by che State OF
Illinois for theexpress purpose
Of giving immediate RELIEF In
aticasesof private, chronic and
urinary diseases In al their
complicated forms. It's web
known DR.. James has stood at
the head OF the profession for
the past thirty years. age
and experience are ali irApor-
tant. Seminal Weakness.
night losses by dreams, pin.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-06

If Young LADIES WITH BLoTCHEs on
their skin, which are enormously attributed
to irregularities Of the liver, would discard
cosmetics and mecurials, and would adopt
the practice of taking a warm bath every
day with a cake of GLENN's SULPAUR
SOAP as companion, the unsightly bem-
Ishes would soon disappear and the lily
and the rose would take their place. This
IS secret which the fashionable are fast
beginning to find out to their decided ad-
vantage. Sold by druggists. Price Csc.
per cake. Box 3 cakes 75c., send by
mail. prepaid on receipt of price. C. n.
Crittenton, proprietor, 7 Sixth avenue,
New York.
Hills HAIR AND WHIsKER DYE, Black
or Brown Soc
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-06
DR.. BONAPARTE & co.

Great combinations of pro-
W@HAk m SaAsaAIlalaa fessional talent and exper-
kAENYsaglTA fence Of Europe and America,
EI5t EAxMkI& are the men to consult This
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ssSM ~zB~ VIII re permanent cure of PR.
vate Diseases can be obtained without the use of
Mercury change of diet or business.
We guarantee to cure gon0rrhea, gleet, syphilis
impotency, nocturnal emissions, female complaints
In short every possible form and variety of Sexnai
Disease, Cures rapid thorough and permanent, and
fees moderate. We will admit ali persons to our
museum free who purchase either of our books.
Medical Treatise. price SO cents; the Vado Meeum
Of Nature, price 81. Pocket Guide sent for tive
three cent stamps Call or address
Drs. BONAPAkTE & REYNOLDS,
1872 Sycamore St, CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

The Boston Cbnmsercial and N1ipp;no
Lix OF Saturday, in its general remarks
on the business Of thet' city, zhss the
following. The cool weather had : de-
pressing effect on most branches of
business, and operations have been con-
fined to small proportions. But, on the
whole, trade Is as good - can be ex-
pected under the circumstances, and
We DO not expect any improvement this
month, Buyers adhere strictly to legiti-
mate transactions, and only take such
quantities AZ are wanted for immediate
use. The law Of supply and demand
never was rigidly enforced, and Fl an
adherence to the accepted maxims of
political economists will do any good,
we are certainly on the road TO COM
mercial health and prosperity. But it
Is unreasonable to expect sudden re-
vlval. Five years may seem . long
time to suffer under depression. but
those who remember the panic of 1887
and its consequences, know that it was
nearly ten years before there was any
substantial relief, ..tf..
The dry goods trade was unusually
quiet the past week, the cold weather
here and throughout the country inter-
fering materially with the distributiye
movement, and there is very little
chance for much improvement this
season. 1t may seem strange to some
that slight changes in the weather have
such an influence on trade, but it must
DO remembered that the mode of doing
business has changed materially from
few years ago. Jobbers and retailers
now operate from hand to mouth, and
buy only what they think they can sell
from day to day or week to week. Any
check in their business keeps them out
OF the market and the current Of trade
is blocked up until the outlet is cleared
again. syis. -DI.,
Shipments of produce from this port
continue on liberal scale. In our ex-
port column are the cargoes of FIVE
ocean steamers, and there we're in port
yesterday three others loading for liv-
erpool. Among the exports this week
are 734 head OF beef cattle, go head
Of sheep and lambs and 1876 head of
live hogs. The export of live animals
promises to be An important business.
We understand that the steamer City Of
Bristol, which arrived here early In the
week, was chartered by certain provi-
sion men in Liverpool and fitted up ut
an expense of Isl, 900, expressly for
the carrying of live cattle. She is now
loading at the Grand Junction wharf by
the Albany railroad company.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29
A Mountain Bursting.

An Asheville, North Carolina dispatch
of May 21st says, great excitement pre-
walls throughout the western portion of
this state, particularly along the ridge
of Bald Mountain. About two years
ago, it will be remembered. great excite
ment was created on account of the
wonderful and inexplicable noises heard
in the bowels of Bald Mountains. Sci
entists from all sections of the country
visited the neighborhood where these
strange sounds were heard, but never
gave any intelligent reasons for the
strange phenomena. On Saturday these
rumbling sounds in the bowels of the
mountain were again heard, and the
people living along the mountain-side
and in the villages became excited,
hundreds of them seeking places Of
safety. These sounds, like muttered
thunder, apparently proceed from the
Utmost depths of the mountain. On
yesterday the mountain range began to
yield, and to-day it was literally split
in twain, leaving chasm of 800 feet
in length and 20 in depth, the depth Of
which seems a bottomless abyss. No
smoke or lava has yet been thrown
from the crater. Bald Mountain bids
fair to become the American Vesuvius.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29
Sale OF the Penebscot Mine.
Helena MONTY Herald. April "a

Helena MONTY Herald, April 70.
We think it not premature to an
nouce the sale to William Bell Frue, of
Detroit, Mich, and his associates, of the
Penobscot Mine, owned by Mr.. N. s.
Vestel. The preliminaries to the sale,
we are informed, have al been COM
piled with, and the parties to the taans-
action, now at the mine, IRE expected
in Helena tomorrow, when the neces.
sary papers will be drawn. The price
paid, or, to be paid, cash down, for the
mine is variously reported, but as We
cannot to-day learn the exact sum, we
refrain from any statement on this
point. That the amount is large-larg-
or than ever before paid for any piece
OF mining property in Montana--we
know. Mr.. Vestel, a. every one is
aware, only short time ago refused for
the mine $500, 900, paying forfeit in the
sum of 5000 and the property, in his
estimation and that Of every one who
has lately inspected it, has since under
gone in value large enhancement. 1t
is probably safe to say that the price
agreed upon is not less than 4400, 900,
and may exceed that sum by q round
figure. The particulars we shall soon
learn, and in day or two be permitted
to lay them before the public in full.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29
Dare to do Right.

Yesterday afternoon boy went down
Fifth street singing, Dare to do right !!
Dare to be truew so loud that he
worked up all the babies in the block,
and the switchman at Market street
crossing couldn't hear the engine bells,
and while this enthusiastic young
Moody was going from Division Street
Church down to Glazeby's, he broke
two windows in the parsonage, sassed a
woman in the next house, hit dog q
whack with a Skinny club that made
him howl till his back ached, broke a
chickens leg with stone, shot farmer
in the cheek with niger shooter"
slapped little boy and took his cooky
away from him, and pulled two pickets
off fence. 1t takes an awful sight OF
religion to go around a boy. Burlington
HnWkeN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29
The Study Of Botany In Berlin.

The educational authorities Of Berlin
possess an enormous garden in one OF
the suburbs of the city for the purpose
of supplying all the schools with fresh
botanical specimens. The distribution
takes place regularly after April LIST, and
over A. 900. 900 plants are required for
botanical instruction during the course
of the year. This example could be
profitably followed by the Botanical
Society of New York, to which has been
assigned one Of the public parks of the
city. There would be less objection to
giving up portions of the parks if the
parks of the city were to gain instruc-
ton in 50 important branch rs botany.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

SAYS London Truth: Each Mother
who thinks on the matter at all be-
lieves her own daughter absolutely safe
and trustworthy, and we may be sure
that the girl does not undeceive her.
Whatever others may do, thinks the
matron sitting quietly at home while
her child is rambling alone across the
park to college or is inspecting her male
classmates drawings in the art school,
she is to be trusted to take care of her
self. But men could tell strange stories
if they would, and in the next genera
ton Of mothers will be many women
who, taking to heart the risky lessons of
their own experience, will keep sharp
er watch over their girls than was kept
over them, and will distrust the youth
full assurance of safety which brings
back those glowing cheeks and spark
ling eyes,"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29
"Llttle Classics."

"Andromache,' said the godlike
Hector, who was sitting on the floor in
Priam's palace, tying a cranberry on
his bunion and swearing vengeance on
the man who invented box-toed sandals,
"Andromache."
Andromache, who was getting ready
for the bawl that was to come Oft as
soon as the Greeks got inside of Troy,
tried to say, What do you want" but
as her mouth was full of hair-pins she
only said:
"Wup poo You wup? .....
The godlike Hector understood her
all the same, and with a terrible grim
ace as he drew the bandage little too
light, he said:
Why is Hawkeye Creek like Hell
Gate Rock?'
Andromache, who knew Hector was
going out to fight that morning, was
wondering how she would look in black,
and didn't understand Just what he
said.
Il didn't know" she remarked, in a
tone Of surprise, "that Hawk Krick
did like Helga Trock."
Hector ceased to pet his bunion for a
moment, and looked up, with an ex-
preston Of business. Then with the
explicit information OF man who has
good thing and isn't going to be triAed
with, he repeated his question.
oh" exclaimed Andromache, with
matter.of-fact air; II suppose because
its blasted nuisance"
Aud Hector, who had sat up half the
night fixing the thing up, kicked his
sandal clear across the room in supreme
disgust, and said testify:
Jaw, shaw =? somebody told you !"
And then he gathered his two-handed
sword with the terrible name and went
out and chased Greeks up and down
the sand, and pounded some, and talked
the hardest kind OF Latin, that no fel-
low could scan, to many others for two
mortal hours, and when he came back
he said he'd like to bet somebody fifty
dollars there were some people about
Troy that had little courteous respect
for original conundrums, anyhow.
But Andromache only said g Construe,
construe I" and that made him 50 mad
he borrowed an opera-glass and went to
see the female Observation-Disclosures
HusOkeye. F#t 47lh
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29
Sherman to Potter.

An associated press dispatch from
Washington dated May 22nd, gives the
following Letter of Secretary John Sher
man TO Clarkson N. Potter in relation
to the electoral investigation. The let-
ter explains itself: a4
Hon. Ct,rksom N. Potter, Chairman, etc.,,
etc.,:
Fl SUI observe that the resolution of
the house under which your committee
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

A PHILOSOPHICAL PAsHA.-Some of
the French jokes connected with the
Russo Turkish war are not Dad-these,
for example:
A Russian general rides forward to
the Grand Duke: II have the honor,
your Imperial Highness, to announce
great victory"
"Very well. Go and congratulate
your troops" ~
"There are none left"
Another:
A Turkish pasha is surveying the field
with his glass. An aid-de-camp rides
up:
"All our artillery has been cap
tured."
The Pasha strokes his beard philoso-
phically, and says, Fortunately it was
not paid for."-Eiitors Druwev, in Har-
pers Magazine for June. ,..
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

the ingrAtitude ovincod by the
representatives of the south to the
man who shove I'll others has had their
welfare and happiness in common with
the rest of the union sincerely 1t heart.
With reference to his title the president
conceded that it could be contested but
there was only one way to test the
question, and that was by writ quo
scarrunto which was the only
remedy provided by law. When
he became president the act Gre
ating the electoral commission speci-
ally declared that nothing therein
was to be construed - impairing or At
fecting any right then existing under the
constitution and laws to question by
proceedings in the judicial courts of the
United States the right or title Of him.
self and Mr.. Wheeler if any such right
at that time existed. The president ad-
mitted that Mr.. Tilden's only remedy
at present is by writ of qxo cavranto
and such writ or prerogative writs are not
obtainable as matter of right but only
in the discretion of the court and he
doubted whether any court would grant
it. The president also comedies the
power of congress TO pass retroactive
law to provide other means Of testing the
title to the presidency, rs the Office can
never be said to be in the past but is al
ways in the present. As to his impeach-
ment being ordered by the house, he
said he had not the remotest idea
that such an occurrence is among pos
sibilities; but he is alive to the exigen-
cies that may arise, and he says he will
see to it that the public peace is main
tanned and laws enforced at whatever
cost. He proposed to follow the policy
already marked out by his administra-
ton and will take no backward step.
LERDO ADHERENTS.
Washington advices of the 10th say
information has reached this city
that the adherents of Lerdo, in Mexico,
have abandoned efforts to incite revo-
luton. Our government has commu-
nicated to Minister Foster the facts con-
corning the depreciation on American
territory by Indians who cross the Dor.
der from Mexico, and Foster will in
form President Diaz.
RECEIPTS OF THE PATENT OFFICE
from January LIST to May LIST, 1873, were
$263, 1868. The expenditures for the
same time, exclusive of $4,000 fol
repairing of models injured by
the fire, were , $18S,577 - an
excess of receipts over expenditures OF
$75,5S5. At this rate the surplus for
the year would be $266, 755; much
larger amount than has ever been de-
rived in a single year. Last year there
was 81, 900 surplus. The amount in
the treasury to the credit of the patent
office is 81, 189, 1907.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

ONE hundred und sixty sewing girls
in Paris are working upon the balloon
which is to make frequent ascents dur
ing the Exposition. y 80. 10
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

NEAL Dow says of Maine: "Liquor
has absolutely vanished from three
fourths Of the state, in the country dis
tricts. 1t fingers a little in the dark
places of the city among the foreign
population. Maine, before the law,
consumed annually $l3, 00O, 900 worth
of liquor. The sixty-eight distilleries
no longer exist. The effects can be
seen in better homes, better farms and
better living" - ~
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29

" TREASURY BTATEMENT.
U. =. bonds to secure national bank
circulation ................. "a, $50, go
Bonds to secure public deposits 80. 43,6lS, 700
U. 8. bonds deposited for circulation
week ending to-day. ~, 700
National bank circulation outstand.
ing-currency notee ............... 80, AS, 81
Gold notes.. ........ ............... l,432, 40
Internal receipts to-day. ............. 4O6. Vol
Customs. ....... .................... SD, b6S
Bank notes received for rede mptiOn
FOR week ending to day............ 1850, 900
Corresponding week Of 1677..... =. 6,2l9, 900
Receipts TO- day.. :. ...... 70O, 600
loan to-day. :. ....... ........... 400, 900
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-29


and his tribe of Nez Perces Indians,
now prisoners of war at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, have sent to the president,
through General Saxton, of the army.
an application to be released and trans
ferred back to their old agency in Ore
gon. They claim that their war against
the United States was provoked; and
that it was conducted on their part &C
cording to the rules of civilized warfare.
They recall the fact that they took no
scalps, that they buried the dead that
fell into their hands according to civ
ilized mode, that they treated
their prisoners with generosity. and that
they did nothing, except defend them
selves against the military, and when
they surrendered it was unconditional,
and with the intention of remaining for
ever the peaceful subjects of their con-
querors. This petition was discussed
at the cabinet meeting to-day and
favorably considered. 1t was the
original intention to locate Chief Joseph
and his men in the Indian Territory,
but the senate struck out of the Indian
appropi iatiOn bill the provision of their
removal. Secretary McCrary intends
to tempt some of the Nez Perces young
men away from their tribes by offering
TO educate them at Hampton Univer-
sity, Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-09

So it did; much more good than his
mother guessed. @
The words which Charles Norman
and his mother had used rang in Johns
ear as he walked: Conscientiousness
Conscientiousnessr'
"Ahr' said John, " that is what |
lack. If not, | should never have acted
as have done.''
He walked fast to try to shut out the
thought that came next, but it forced
itself into his mind, and he could not
get away from it: g have been rob-
bling my employer, both of his time
and his property"
r" L will never, never do it again as
long as | live he said, presently. 81
did not know how wicked | had been
until Charles Norman words told me-"
The next morning John went to his
work, and there was no lettering all
that day.
In the evening, when he went as
usual to the managers room, he made
a confessions:
g feel that l have not been con-
scientious, sir, and l want you to know
all about it, ..
"Tell me, then, John"
How he managed it John never knew,
but with pain and shame he told the
whole story, and gave up the money.
g am very sorry for you, John"
said the manager, g because you will
not find it easy to forgive yourself, even
If forgive you. | will hope, however,
that from to-day you will begin new
life, and never do such mean and wicked
things again
He never did; but he grew up dill
gent, honest, conscientious man, and
won the respect of all who knew him.
He prospered, and became rich man;
but the pleasure that he felt in his
riches was not spoiled by the thought
that he had gained them by uni Just
means.
No one was more glad of his pros
perity than his friend, Charles Norman,
and John frequently thanked Charles
for being real friend, and telling him
the real truth about himself at that
critical time in his life.-Early DAYS.