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you will save money and get the most
stylish, fresh aud becoming hat 10 the
trade. Mr.. Leidy has made arrange.
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turing hat house, and is able to sell for
cash ine and reliable goods at iobbers'
prices.
From February LIST Mr.. Leidy will re-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-01

MICE rooms, with board, at us Second
IN street. References required. l27-lb2
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THE CASH HAT STORE.
Where You Save MOney-AOW Prices
are Reduced by Leidy.


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Q. AMD I. ~AssooIATIoMs.
EUREKA
Building & Loan Assn
Capital, 100000
OFFIeRRs

JOHN w. COCHRAN, : President
O. Fl. p. PIPER, Vice President
WIN. GAY, ::;;: secretary
W. D. BEARD, :::; Attorney
JOHN A. HOLT, S.: treasurer
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Fresh Friday Farrell oysters 25c oAa
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FOR RENT.

NICELY furnished rooms, s. to SIS per
IN month, at Whitemore House, Ill Adams.
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A 7 98 Madison street. two desirable rooms
n and beard. The rooms are on first floor.
l26-132
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hls prioes so as 10 eeII Q

John Walsh, Undertaken,
'4l Second st., next postofice. ll51
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DART OF McCALLUM EGYPT FARM, IL
from 30 to 800 acres; good improvements.
Mules, corn and cattle can be had on liberal
terms. Will lease from one to ten years.
Apply to John D. Oglesby on the premises, or
20 W. d. MCCALLUM. Agent,
118-l43 10 Madison street.
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IN IMPROVED PLACE, 70 acres, 4 miles
"A OUT on fernando road; cheap to a good
tenant, Apply at this Office. l09-t
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oIOnn of Bluff City Cotton Mills stock,
OIUUU at Mechanics and Traders Bank,
No. 8 Madison street. 81
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DRIMR mess beef to the trade. In whole
ii2-iS7 ii. sEEssEL. sR., g SON.
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TIOUSE No. S7e Vance street, six rooms, in
Al frst.class order. Apply to Marx q Bens-
dorf. No. 7 Madison street, lC04
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

1t is to be hoped that Congress will de-
eide whether the United States Govern
ment is merely tender to the national
banks.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06
Ths 99ailg Atsas.
Illinois Patents.


List of patents, granted to the inventors
of Illinois for the week ending Nov. 10Th,
1878, each patent in the list bearing that
date. Reported by f. A Lehman, solic-
itor of patents, Washington, D. c., ex-
pressly for the Rock ISLAND ARGUS:
G. Rettig-Chicago IlI-Devices for
Closing the End Flaps of Coin Wrappers.
+ Yeoman-Chicago Ill-Spring Bed
Bottoms.
Nj Norgren-Chicago Ill-Adding Ma
chimes.
GF Card-Guthrie Ill-Cartridge Load
ing Devices.
A acknowledgement Tll-Bag Ties
and Address Holders.
G E Doty & q. w. Flint-Rock Falls
nl-Extension Step Ladders.
G Galigher-Cairo IIl-Millstone Curbs
and Chop Conveyers.
P Schultes & @ Walter-Meudota III
Folding Legs for Sofa Bedsteads.
r Nj Wieder- Carthage Ill-Washing
Machines.
E Herriott Brimfeld & G s Smith
Elmwood Ill-Corn Shelter Separators.
J W Sursa-Venice Ill~-Cigar Presses
20 & 0 R Adams-Marseilles Ill
Corn Shelters
| E Ferguson-Cresent City nl-Checl
Rowers.
SR Hawley-Odin Ill-Seed Planters
A MISUNDERSTANDING 1Il-Ent
Gates for Wagons.
| OS Misunderstanding Ill-Whee
Flows,
| s w Perkius-Cambridge 1ll-Checl
lRowers for Corn Planters.
| G Marshall, T Ibbotson & Bale.
l-BelleYille Iii Sectional steam Genera
tors.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

Congressman Hewitt thinks the natio-
nal banks have gone too far, and he has q
little bill prepared with view of bring,
ing them back to their senses But should
it pass, John Sherman will veto it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

The excess of exports over imports dur
ing the past ten months toots up the enor'
NOUS sum of more than 1927 900, 900.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

" DEEM IT MY DUTY TO TELL THE
WORLD what "Dr. Ss0ayme's COMPOUND
Syrup of Wild Cherry, has done for me.
| had a violent cough, night sweats,
sore throat. great weakness, with severe
attacks of hemorrhage; gave up all
hope of recovery. am now cured, a
sound and hearty man. Edward H.
Hanson, engineer atSweeny's pottery,
1884 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia. Over
twenty-five years have elapsed, and |
still remain a healthy man. In order
that all may test the great virtues of
DIR. Swayne's Coumpound Syrup OF
Wild Cherry we have issued trial bot
ties at 25 cents. No family should be
without this valuable medicine, rs
oftentimes single Is cent bottle will
cure a recent cough or cold, and thus
prevent much suffering and risk. II
also cures asthma, bronchitis. liver
conn plant, and enriches and purifes
the blood, giving tone and strength tc
the entire system. Trial bottles 2s
cents; large size, 81. Sold at wholesale
and retail by John Bengston, Rock Is
land.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

The Dallas Commercial claims that
Texas exports this year will bring back
$50, 100000.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06
Attachment Notice.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, lss
ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, %
In the Circuit Court of Rock IslaTd County. ILL.,,
January term. 1879
Topeka National Bank Robert |. Lee.-ln at
tachment-Demand, s., 2S5 T6.
Notice is hereby gwen to yeu4 the SAID hoDert j.
Lee that writ of attachment has been sued out O
the Office of the Clerk Of the Circuit Coult OF sale
county of Rock Island ut the suit OF the said To
peka National Bank, and against the estate OF you
the said Robert |. Lee, for three thousand twt
hundred and eighty i've T6.100 dollars. besides IN
terest directed to the Sheriff of said county TO exc
cute which said writ has been returned by SAT-
Sheriff executed. Now, unless you, the saio ROD
ert /, Lee shall personally be and appear Defor'
the Circuit Court of said county on the first day
the next term thereof, to be holden st Rock lsan.
| in said county, on the first Monday in the montl
of January next give special bail and plead 70 sal
| action, Judgment will be entered against you
favor of the said plaintiff and the property attacne
sold to satisfy the same with costs. -
| L. f. HARSON, Clerk.
/ Rock Island, Ills. Nov. 14th, 1873.
CoNNELLy @ McNEAL, PLAINTIFFS Attys.
l 11.14d0W
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06
HI Schmid-Olney Ill-Egg Peaches

The Charleston Ne,cs and Courier calls
upon those who are charging that frauds
were committed by the democrats at the
late election to submit their accusations to
ajudicial test. It says:
'The courts are open in South Carolina.
All the officers are republicans, and the
assistant district-attorney is as bitter as
gall. They can arrest whom they please,
for they can get what afhdavits they want
The accused are ready to stand their trial
They rely On their innocence and an
impartial jury. What we demand fl
them is that, when they shall have beer
tried and acquitted in the courts. they
shall not be arraigned again at the bar o.
Northern public opinion, shaped by a sen
sational and prejudiced press"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

When board of eminent physicians and
chemist announced the discovery that by
combining some well known valuable rem
edies, the most wonderful medicine was
produced, which would cure such wide
range of diseases that most all other rem
edies could be dispenses with, many were
sceptical; but proof OF its merits by actual
trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day
the discovers of that great medicine. HoI
Bitters, are honored and blessed by all al
benefactors.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06
Assignee's Notice.

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY NOTIFIES
| ali persons that William Fl Lundy, lately doing
business in this city, has made an assignment to
the undersigned of all his real and personal estate,
in trust for the benefit OF his creditors.
All the creditors of the said William 81. Lundy
are hereby notified TO present their claims under
oath or affirmation to me within three months from
date.
Ali persons indebted TO the said Lundy are re-
quested TO call Immediately anG settle such indebt-
edness with me.
Rock Island, Ills, Nov. 5th, 1878.
CHARLES A, JARVIS,
E5eu Aasipnep
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

One hundred and ninety-six million, four
hundred and twenty-four thousand eight
hundred acres of public lands were given
away TO railroad corporations by the repub-
licaa Darty
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-12-06

The amount of corn exported 10 the
season 1S68-69 was 7.0l7. 900 bushels, and
the following year but l, $4,000 bushels
The export tor 1877-7S will probably rise
above IS ,461 900 bushels.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17
JOHN HANCOCK THR NEXT
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.

The new faces in the next Congress
will outnumber, as two or three to one,
those that haYe been seen there in for
mer years. There are more than eight
hundred candidates for seats in the
lower house now soliciting popular fa-
vor, and it's great pity they cannot
all be elected. Then the people, hay
ing tested the worth and Virtues Of ell
these, would be prepared to retain the
services Of those who have intellectual
and moral fitness for the Office. There
would be no terrible contest, after this
test session, between Hancock and
Wash Jones. Plain as are the facts
and differences, the people would dis
cern the peculiar intellectual and moral
traits of Hancock even more clearly
than to-day. His resoluteness, fixedness
of purpose, strong will, stern self
reliance and lofty courage, illustrated
when he even separated himself from
. majority of the people of Texas and
persisted in adhesion TO the Union.
There was in this action 9 degree of
moral heroism infinitely more admirs-
bic than that of the noisiest leader of
the multitude who drifted with the
current and went ont to sea and was
hopelessly lost OF the 500 cAndi-
dates for Congress in the United
States. only s7e can be elected, and Of
these 500 only 16l were eyer before in
the House. OF the 1s1, perhaps two
thirds viii be elected, and these, being
old, experienced members. win be
pl2ced At the heads Of committees, and
these committees make al the laws ard
build railways and open harbon and
augment OF lessen the volume Of cur
rsncy. Committees do the work and
make the lava which the psoale .acribs
to Congressional action. e r.
po-ts Of committees are IN.
chairmen Of these bodies; 4 John
Hancock be : member he win haTe his
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

MANY disgraceful facts and much
coarseness and brutality of speech have
now and then distinguished the con-
duct of candidates for Office; but the
lowest depths of infamous demagog-
ism are reached in Missouri, where a
weaker candidate for Congress causes
the stronger to be indicted, by q
backwoods grand jury, for some i'm
aginary offense against the coun-
try's laws. The indictment appear
ing just before the election, the
unfortunate sspirant for political hon
ors could make no defense or proper
correction. But peoples wits have
been greatly sharpeu.d by the events
of the past fifteen years. Poverty it.
self is skillful schoolmaster and dem
agogues no longer appeal, with any
degree OF success as IN former years,
to prejudices and passions that once
plunged the country into sea of blood.
Equally unsuccessful are they who
would base triumphs upon prejudices
of exploded partisanship, and few peo-
pie were not cutfed about enough over
the continent during the war to learn
invaluable lessons not only in geogra-
ply but in men and government. The
wisest, most discreet and prudent are
the best lawglvers, and of all things
the country most needs conservative
and just legislation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

The disease is dying out in Mem
phis. There are doctors who say 1t
can only exist through fixed period.
They declare that 1t can only prevail
in defined locality for sixty days,
and that within two weeks the plague
will have disappeared as mysteriously
as it came. 1t gives way in Memphis,
and not for want of material to prey
upon. The city itself begins to wear
something of its accustomed busy as
pect, and though people returning ask
"who are left9" and not "who IS
dead" the old habitues of the busy
streets rcappear one by one, and cot
ton, dethroning Yellow Yack, will soon
be king again.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17
ELECTIONS OF TUESDAY -ssDIES
IRE'' FOR HAMMAN AND DAVIS
AND WASH JONES.

In Cincinnati, where National Green
back fiat moneyism has its greatest
orators, where it is noisiest and most
demonstrative, it receives, of more
than 40, 900 votes cast, abont 4GO. 1t
must be encouraging to Hamman and
f&aa2GGfg49r ia dEia Rfgs IRa hGEzon of the
we can't help congratulating them
and then, too, these dispatches, con-
tanning these encouraging facts for
Hamman and his windy, excitable fol-
lowers, reach US on the very day that
Governor Davis, of Texas, issues his
pronunciamiento squelching Marshal
S. H. Russell. 1t is Davis
that is squelched. This Ohio
election is the final overthrow of
of the whole Brick Pomeroy, Davis,
Hamman "layout." They are all laid
out. Hayes and conservatism and hon
est money have dug their graves. DEM
ocracJ, it seems, has Jared badly, but
even If it be the loser 1t is only
weakened to the extent that il
has been contaminated by the poison
Of a suspected alliance with the repu-
diators and conductors of the fiat
money fissco. In the presence of such
events as these in Ohio, Hamman
should withdraw. Texas, like the
States beyond the Ohio, will declare
unanimously for just and honest
and conservative government. Of
course the result of the con-
test in Ohio leads to the fixed
conclusion that Hancock will defeat
the gusty Mr.. Jones. Honest, sturdy,
thinking people are moved blythe same
instincts North and South, and Texas,
as well as Ohio, prefers honesty and
honest money to the proposed ballow-
ing paper schemes of Pomeroy, Ham
man and Ex-Governor Davis.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

THE telegraph operator and doctors
in Grenada say the plague was brought
in the air and not in a lady's clothing.
Grenada was most Vigorously quaran-
antined, as were Jackson, Memphis
and Vicksburg. The poison in the
wind preyed upon the filth it found in
the open sewer and filthy river OF
Grenada, and in the horrible bayou
and 5000 undrained vaults 1sed to- lay
and 10, 600 filled with filth and cover
cd with thin layer of earth. Exhal-
atoms from these attracted the spores
in the air. They alIghted like
grasshoppers and preyed upon
the helpless people absolutely
put to death by incapable, ignor-
ant idiots who have rule and
rayaged these towns, through the in
tervention OF universal savage suffrage,
for fourteen years past. Providence had
nothing to do with it, and they who
would make people believe it only reI-
der reformation in municipal systems
and in hygienic regulations impossible.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

THE Mutual Life Insurance Compa-
ny of New Yoik, which determined to
lower its rates some FIVE years ago and
desisted on account of the opposition
of its own policy-holders and of the
life insurance profession generally.
now reduces the rates on all new poll
cies 80 per cent. for the first two years.
This step Is necessitated, it it said, by
the competition Of other companies, the
company preferring to attract in this
way than by increased commissions to
sgents. The cost will be met out Of q
fund which has accrued from the pur-
chase of policiss still in force, and
which has been set apart for the pur-
pose of getting a new policy holder for
every one thus extinguished. This
move occasions considerable and d.
verse comment in insurance circles.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

THE organ of Episcopalianism at
Houston, edited by an accomplished
priest of that CITY, says:--
Prayer and fasting are congfuoGs
SUBJECTS the3XH thbe3XHGh Gihfenld MI always go to-
soenS-, 1-.I9 vrS uue day of the seven
when all men are commanded to re-
joice, because "the Lord is risen %
Thanksgiving is the great duty for the
first day of the week, and therefore
the Holy Eucharist is celebrated, as
the earnest of the Church's risen joy.
And never since the first Easter Day,
more than 1900 years ago, has the Holy
Catholic Church made Sunday day
of fasting.
We have been trying to hammer cor
rect conceptions of these questions
into the heads of the politicians and
newspapers, and now surrender the
task to our religious brethren of the
press. Very certainly if future Gov
ernors of Texas don't know any
more about religious facts and the re-
quirements of the good book than to
order the people to fast and pray and
weep on Sundays, the people will be
compelled to appoint spiritual Adju.
tant General to run the department oi
piety for Governor Hubbard and his
successors.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

SRvEN hundred and five miles. of
narrow gauge railway lines were con-
structed last year, There is now little
attention given to the construction of
broad gauge roads save as these coz sti-
tute necessary extensions of old high
ways. In nsparsely populated countries,
having few great cities or small towns,
the common railway costs too much to
return profits and cheaper roads alone
pay the shareholders. These newest
roads, where population is sparse, are
made cheap and light. Austin is
especially interested in the speedy con-
struction Of narrow gauge from this
point towards Denver, whence road,
three feet wide, is making its way TO
the Gulf. This road will pass through
81 Psso or Santa Fe or both cities, and
Austin should be the point at which
the two systems of roads, broad and
narrow, meet and interchange freights
and passengers. Within five years
after Austin becomes such a point of
consequence of the two systems of
highways the city's population will ex-
ceed 100, 900. Therefore the earnest
ness aud persistency with which the
STATESMAN has urged the people Of
Austin to build twenty-five miles of
this road. Thenceforward it will pre-
vide for its own progress. Let
the people not be diverted from this
purpose by the agents and mouthpieces
Of these roads They and the friends
Of Galveston and Houston all oppose
the narrow gauge scheme. and it is the
secret whispered influence Of these
corporstions, public and private, that
restrsins the energies Of the people Of
the capital Another effort will be
made 10 induce property owners and
others 70 invest Eve per cent. of their
wealth in tins scheme. Il will give en-
ployuent 70 the idle, enrich the rich,
give occupation to many, trade 70
merchants and dnplcate propertT val
ues, and surely there can be 10 failure.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

a CINCINNATI press dispatch, sent
over the country everywhere, stated
that malignant yellow fever prevailed
in Louisville. Towns that quarantined
against helpless fugitives, providing
for them no hospital or soup houses OF
other place of refuge, have FASTENED
to assert the folly of Louisville. But
Cincinnati's self.hness and meanness
wins nothing. Louisville has secured
monopoly of the good will of the
South even as st. Louis, Cincinnati
and Chicago have lost it. These
places would combine with all inhu-
man kind to build up q wall of fire
about plague stricken town or CITY.
They would force every man, woman
and child who happened to be in Mem
phis, when smitten, to remain there
and rot and die. They would add q
thousand fold to the horrors of the
plague. Louisville, conscious that these
internal quarantines have commonly
avalled nothing, as at Memphis, Gren-
ada, Vicksburg and other places, and
thinking the city secure even if the
plague were not confined to the hospi-
tails, incurred the risks when no re-
strictions upon travellers were imposed.
Generosity to the unfortunate and help
less outstripped terror and selfshness,
and thus far Louisville has been blest.
When the end comes and prosperity
and trade are reproduced the South
should not forget the splendid unselfish
devotion of Louisville or this hideous
baseness of Cincinnati.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

choice of places and no single Cor
gresham will WELD greater paliticA
power or personal influence in tn
House than John Hancock. In tn
estimation of the President and head
of departments no man occupies a NOR,
enviable position and most fortunate
for Texas will the end be if, as al
old and experienced and able member
he may be assigned the chalrmanshiE
of the Committee of Ways and Means,
or, more fortunate still for this com.
monweslth and for the South, if he
supplant Randall. Northern newsps.
pers constantly say-that Hancock's in
tellectual habits, his resoluteness and
his political history will make him g
most formidable if not the successful
candidate for the speakership. A more
logical thinker, or one of quicker,
keener apprehension of the right
will not aspire to the position next
in honor and power to that of the
President of the United States. Texas
would gladly have representative
citizen occupying this lofty place
and nobody ever dreamed of Wash
Jones reaching it, and yet there are
light-headed people incapable of think
ing or Of comprehendlng the country's
necessities, or measuring the qualifica-
tions of men for Office, who propose to
vote for Wash Jones. They surely
know not what they do.
The intelligence and honest patriot
ism of Texas should exert itself that
the election of John Hancock may be
assured. The best interests of the
State and of the whole South demand
his election. There is no other South
ern man having a ghost of a chance for
the speakership, and there was never a
Congress chosen whose acts will exer-
ercise more potent and lasting
influence than this upon the
fortunes of the country. The
next President will probably be chosen
by the Houss, and in shaping results
and guiding the country's destinies
with nerves and courage that never
quailed, and clearness of intellect never
beclouded by fear or passion or drink,
Hancock would be peerless speaker
of the House. And are there sane
men who would impose upon Jones
such responsibilities? Would he have
votes for the speakership? VIII he be
made chairman even of the meanest
committed Will his political and
personal history give him power or
weakness at Washington? 1t will be
a great misfortune to Texas and the
South If Hancock be defeated, and
Texas and the South will surely win
no great prize in the lottery of politics
If Jones be elected.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-17

We say ''psr cent, meaning '.per
oentwm,n by the hundred; but.
Strangely enough, We say '.Per e.pita, y
meaning BY the heads, when we mean
to say s.per esput"-by the head, or for
each head. should we not always
write it s.per osputsn But law books
are fun Of errors and habit makes them
incorrigibls. But more eomnon sr-
ror Is thar involved in the expression,
q merchant sells calico at four cents
a yard. We mean 70 say "by the
yard. Is Ne say ''per bushel." tsPerH
and s.Ar ere botk Latin particles trans
ferrsd into the midst OF English sen
tences, and 80, " When meaning ''by, =
ana prefxed 70 = word dsnoting nsss-
uransnt, should have the broad, Latin
sound. Itis q '.prep0sitOn, : and nos
an article