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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
Friday. March 2e. 1878.
Democratic County Convention

The democratic electors Of the several townships
OF the county Of Rock Island requested to meet
at such times and places in their townships and
wards as their local committees may designate for
the purpose of appointing six delegates to represent
said townships in q county convention, to
be holden at the court house in Rock Island, on
Thursday, April 4th at two O'Clock P. NJ. The
duty OF which convention will be to appoint dele
gates 70 the democratic state convention
to be holden in Springfield, on the 18th day of
April, for the nomination of democratic state
ticket, to be voted for at the coming November
election. The representation in said county con-
vention will be based upon the democratic vote
of the county for governor in 1S76and apportioned
among the several townships and wards in the
ratio OF one delegate to every fifty votes, and one
delegate for every fraction Of twenty-five votes and
h. Anhl L. hnlo....
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
Ben Butler ON the Currency.

Recently Ben Butler delivered himself in
the House on the.currency question. of that
which was highly pertinent to the issues
nov before the people. He said
I'VE want the greenback for our curren-
cy and mean TO have it; butt do not de-
sire that the greenback currency should be
made to serve the country as it has done
villi6ed, insulted. deprecated by the act
of the Government itself-being refused
not only to be received for all the debts due
the Government, but not even paid for all
demands due from the Government, The
American system of finance which will OBJ
tain 10 the near future and [ hope at
once, which desire is. first, dollar that
shall have at all times certain fixed and
stated value below which it cannot 60
Second, | demand that that dollar shall be
issued by the Government alone ia the
exercise of its high prerogative and con.
stitution al power, and that that power,
shall not be delegated to any corporation
or individual"
Who objects to that platform?
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

Scratch No More--"Itchirg Piles"
symptoms of which are moisture. like per
SEPARATION. intepse itching, particularly
when undressing, or after getting warm in
bed, increased by scratching, might think
pin worms were crawling in and about the
rectum, oftentimes shows itself around the
private parts. A pleasant and safe cure
in every case is "Swsyne's Ointment.
If allowed to continue, very serious results
may follow. 1t also cures letter, BARRIERS
itch, scald head, ring worm, blotches. al
scaly, crusty. itchy skin eruptions. SEM
by mail to any address on receipt of price
so cents box, or three boxes for $l.25
by DR.. Swayue & Son, Philadelphia. Sole
by all leading druggists At wholesale anG
retail by John Bengston, Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

Deacon Wilder, want you to tell me
how you kept your self and family so well
the past season when all the rest of us
have been sick 50 much, and have had the
doctors running to us so long"
BRO. Taylor, the answer is very easy,
used Hop Bitters in time and kept my
family we'll and saved large doctor bills
Three dollars worth of it kept US all vel
and able to work all the time, and ! viii
warrant it has cost you and most of thu
neighbors one to two hundred dollars
apiece to keep sick the same time.
guess you'll take my medicine hereafter. ;
See other coulmn.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
Extracts from Various Letters |

81 had no appetite; Holloway's Pills gave me
hearty one"
"Your Pills are marvellous.
al send fors another box. and keep them in the
house,
'sDr. Holloway has cured my headache that was
chronic"
81 gave one Of your Pills to my babe for cholera
morbns. The dear little thing got well In day
my nausea of a morning is now cured
"Your box Of Holloway's Ointment cured me of
noises in the head. rubbed come OF your ONT
ment behind the ears, and the noise has left"
''Send me boxes, 1 want one for poor family
II enclose dollar, your price lie IS cents, but the
medicine to me Is worth q dollar"
"Send me five boxes Of your Pills"
"Let me have three boxes Of your Pills by return
mail, for Chills and Fever"
have over 200 such testimonials 90 these, but
want Of space compels me to conclude.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

the partition between the factory and store
may be Of glass or wire cloth.
Collectors and all other revenue officers
are enjoined to see that these instructions
are strictly enforced on and after May /, |
1878. GREEN B. BAUM,
l. Commissioner.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

wLet the Suffering and diseased read the fol-
owing: EF lIH f's
eE-Let all who have been given mp by Doctors,
and spoken Of es incurable, read the following.
eY-Let all who can believe facts, and can have
faith In evidence. read the following.
Know ALL MEN BIZ THESE PRESENTS, That, Oh
this the twentieth day Of June, the year Of Our
Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty six,
personal came Joseph Haydeck 10 me known as
That he is the sole general agent for the United
States and dependencies thereof for preparations
or medicines known as DIR. Hollowey's Pills and
Ointment, and that the following certificates are
yerbafum copies to the best Of his knowledge and
belief JAMES sMEITRE,
[Ls1 Notary Public,
II Wall street, New York. "
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

None are genuine unless the signature OF J.
HAYDocK, agent for the United States, surrounds
each box of Pills, and Ointment, handsome re
ward will be given TO any one rendering such IN
formation as may lead to the detection OF any
vending the same, knowing them 10 be spurious.
sstSold ct the Mandatory of Professor HoL-
LowAY d Co.. New York, and by all Respectable
Druggists and Dealers in Medicine throughout the
civilized world in boxes at IS cents, 90 cents and
81 each.
~ There ls considerable saying By taking the
larger sizes.
N, B. Directions for the guidance patients IN
every disorder are afaxed to each hox,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
II dAS n y GX JAIL
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
LIVER DISEASE and In
n q digestion prevail to a great
"a cIAH m n m O. 81 err extent than probably
M OlmM UWS 81 any other malady, and re-
u .-..s .-.-1-r- lief Is always anxiUusly
he offa

IL ReguA ed in It's action health is almost inyrra-
bly, secured Indigestion or want Of action in the
Liver Headache, Constipation, Jaundice,
Pain in the Shoulder, Cough, Dizziness. Sour Stom-
aCh, bad taste in the mouth, bilious attacks palpi
tatiOn Of the heart depression of spirits the blues
and hundred other symptoms Simmons Liver
Regulator is the best remedy that has ever been
discovered for these ailments. 1t acts mildly, eff
lectually, and being simple vegetable compound,
can do no injury in any quantities that 1t may be
taken 1t IL harmless in every way; it has been
used for forty years. and hundreds from all parts of
tue country will vouch for Its virtues. viz: Hon
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
The ''MHITE''

Sewing Machine Is the easiest selling ana Dess
fyime in the market. 1t has very large ehn.tie |:
makes the lock stitch; is simple In construction
yery lieht-running, and almost noiseless ~ -
almost impossible for other machines 10 se. r
1;rect comDetition with the WHITE. AGENTS
WANTED, Apply for terms to WHITE SEWING MA
CHINE Co., Cleveland, y.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

Printing, Binding and Blank Book work
specalties at The ARGUS OFFICE. Nc
pains will be spared to please customers
Satisfaction guaranteed. tt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
Who objects to that platform ?

DIR. Bells Fit Cure, will cure every case
of Fits and Epilepsy, no matter of how
long standing. Try it, it is guaranteed to
cure. Price So. Specific Medicine Com.
pany, 904 Washington avenue, St Louis,
Mo.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
CUTADBOUS DISORDERS,

In all diseases affecting these organs, whether
they eecrete too much too little water; or wheth
er they be afflicted with stone or gravel or with
aches and pains settled In the loins over the re-
gions of the kidneys, these Pills should be taken
according to the printed directions, and the 0int
ment should be well rubbed into the small OF the
back at bed time, This treatment will give almost
immediate relief when all other means have failed
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

The following ia an interesting case Of man EN-
ployed In an Iron Foundry, who, in pouring melted
IRON into flask that was damp and wet, caused an
explosion. The melted iron was thrown around
and on him in perfect shower, and he was burned
dreadfully. The following certificate was given to
me, by him, about eight weeks after the accident:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

Our complete Catalogue of Books on Private
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Books, Trappers Guides, Letter Writers, Gourtsnlp
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Hoyles' Games. Checkers and Chess, Gardening,
Fortune Tellers, Dream Books, Song Books, Ready
made Speeches, Dancing and Calling Figures, pe-
batting, Banjo Instructions, Masonic BOOKS, &C.
The BEST catalogue on these subjects. MAILED
FREE. Send address to DICK & FITZGERALD,
PUBLISHERS, IS Ann street, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
Railroad Time Table.


CHICAGO, socx ISLAND 3 PAciTlots. =
GOING EAST TRAINS LEAVE
at 90 q. m. 4:30 p, m. and 9.S5 p. N. ITaine
arrive from west as shove.
GOING WEST TRAINS LHAvE
At o:40 Q. M; 1910 q. m. and 500 p. NJ Tfalh
arrive from the east as above.
wEsTERE UNION RAILROAD.
FOR RACINE q MILWAUKEE,.
LEAVE ARRIVE
Oay Express and Mail. .9:05 An 0!U An
Night Express ............10:16 p o:5o Pm
The night express leaving Rock leland every
Sunday night at 10 rs connects with the train arri
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Roek
sland to chicago. Through tickets only gcoo on
this tam.
ST. LOUIS i RocK ISLAND 3. 3.
GoIHG SOUTH TRAIFs LEAVE
Ats 90 .. m. and 6:45 p. m. daily,
ARRIVE FROM sr. LOUIS
at 10 90 . m. daily, and Q: 40 p. m.
STERLING TRAINS LEAVE
at 4:3O p. m.
ARRIVE PROM STERLING
at f0:4o q. m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
LIVER REGULATOR

II you feel drowsy, debilitated, have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly, poor appetite and
tongue coated, You are suffering from torpid liver
or "biioushessn and nothing will cure you so
speedily and permantly as to
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
A Wise Deacon

Elixir of Honey cures Asthma and Con
INN nfion
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

A n Mixed Cards, with name, 10 cts. Agents
4fu outfit SOC L. JOINS & Co., Nassau, N. 7.
ar Fancy Cards, Snowflake, Damash, etc., no .
70 slike with name, 10c. Nassau Card Co., mas
Y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

Jane 1st, 1856.
DR. HoLLowAY:-I take my pen to write you OF
my great relief and that the awful pain In my aide
has left me OF last-thanks to you Pills. oh, Doc
tor, how thankful am that can get some sleep.
can never write 1t enough. thank you again and
again. and am sure that you are really the friend Of
all sufferers. ! could not help writing to you, and
hope you will not take 1t amiss.
JAMES MYERS, 116 Ave. D.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
wrsrrse ONION RAILROAD.
ST. LOUIS b ROCK ISLAND 3. 3.
ROCK ISLAND 3 PEORIA RAILWAY.

kVGk ISLANU q EGV6IA hA44WAxs
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
Thro'h F'ht 3oam. Galva Ac $50 a, m.
Mail q Ex. 1907 m. Mail q Ex. rs p. N.
Galva Ac. $50 D. m. Throh F'ht 4:45 p. m.
The 1:50 p m train makes close connection at
Galva with c q Q for points west; arriving at
Galesburg at 500 p m; at Burlington T:15 p m; at
Keokuk 9:25 m; and at Quincy $40 p m also
making close connection at Peoria with b W
and P & w roads for all points east and south.
ROCK ISLAND q MERCER CO.. 3. 3.
Leave Rock Island at 30 q. m. and $50 p. m. Ar
irving at Cable at II 10 q. m, and 800 p. m.
leave Gable at $50 q. m, and 1915 p m. Arriving
at Rock Island at $40 a. m, and 800 p. m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

NEW YORK, Jan. II, 1886
Ny name is Jacob Hardy; i am an Iron Founder.
was badly burned by hon iron In November last;
nv burns healed, but had 8 running sore on my
leg that would not heal. tried Holoway's ONT.
ment and it cured me in q few weeks. This is all
true and anybody can see me at Jacksons Iron
Works, I'd Avenue.
J. HARDY, 11s Goerch Street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29
WE SEND FREE!!

z Elegant Cards, rs styles, with name, 10 cts,
IL or Chrome 20cts. j. X. HARDER, Maiden v
Rridoe W
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

This ia to certify that was discharged from the
army with Chronic Diarrhoea, and have been cured
by Dr. Holloway's Pills. WILSON HARVEY,
New York, April z, 1855. II Pit gtreet.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-03-29

/ Alexander IL. Ste
1 phens, of Georgia ;
4 Bishop Pierce of
n Georgia; John Gill
Shorter,Of Alabama
4 Gen. John B. Cor
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-03
Bny q Farm,

There are great many men in our large
cities and manufacturing villages who are
now out of steady employment, but who have
few hundred dollars laid up. They are not
farmers, and can never expect any great Pc
cuniary success in agricultural pursuits, but
they long for home where they can obtain a
portion of their living from the soil. Such
men may do well to buy these small farms at
the low prices asked. They can pay for
them without running in debt, and by their
industry and no greater economy than they
are now compelled to practice, they can, af-
ter few years, have comfortable homes on
farms which will yield them good living.
Of course it will be necessary to read good
books and papers, and to observe the practice
of successful farmers in the vicinity. We
know of men who have taken such course,
and have succeeded well. They grow more
young man with good health, and training
for agricultural pursuits, is ambitious to Sc
cure large and productive farm from which
to make money, and is clear headed enough
to see where he can make speculation, by
buying good and large farm, he need have
no fears about running in debt for portion
of it. Although we claim that man cannot,
ordinarily, make money at farming in New
England wholly on borrowed capital, for
which he must pay, besides taxes, six per
cent. interest, yet there are often farms Of
fered in market for so much less than their
actual value, that shrewd man need have
no hesitation about buying and owing for
portion OF it until such time as he can turn
the property into cash. A great many farms
are being sold in Ncw England for about
what the wood is worth, thus leaving home
free of cost.-Nelp England Farmer.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-03

photographs &C., and also seeds, cuttings, bulbs and
roots and merchandise not exceeding four pounds in
weight 1 cent for each ounce or fraction thereof.
The following are the postal rates with Europe:
The rates for letters are for the hafounce or frac
ton thereof, and those for newspapers for four
ounces or fraction thereof
To Great Britain and Ireland, letters cent
newspapers cents; France, letters cents, news
papers cents; Spain, letters cents, newspapers
cents; all parts of Germany, including Austria,
letters 5 cents, newspapers 2 cents; Denmark,
letters cents, newspapers cents; Switzerland,
letters cents, newspapers cents Italy, letters
cents, newspapers cents; Russia, letters cents,
newspapers cents; Norway, letters cents, news
papers cents; Sweden, letters cents, newspapers
2 cents; Turkey. European and Asiatic, letters B
cents, newspapers cents; Egypt, letters 5 cents,
newspapers cents.
For Asiatic countries the half-ounce limit for
letters, and the four for newspapers, still
holding good, the rates are:-
To Australia, letters via San Francisco Except to
New South Wales cents via Southampton 10 cents,
via Brindsi 10 cents, newspapers, via San Francisco
cents,v Southampton cents,v Brindsi cents,
China letters via San Francisco 10 CENTS via South
ampton Is cents, via Brindisi 10 CENTS newspapers
2, and cents, by the respective routes; British
India, Italian mail. letters, 10 cents, newspapers
cents; Japan letters, via San Francisco cents, via
England 10 cents, via Brndis 81 cents, newspapers,
via San Francisco cents, via South upton cents,
vi. Brindisi cents.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-03
AGRICULTURAL.


Different waters, like different diseases.
require different treatment to purify them !;
and all waters, no matter how impure they
may be, can be made quite pure for drinking
or other domestic purposes without distila-
ton, providing the proper materials be used,
and sufficient time allowed the agents to act !;
bat in many samples of water have found
distillation to be the quickest and cheapest
mode of purifying them. All filters in use
from solid impurities mechanically suspended
in the water. The following is description
of a filter that have often used, which puri-
fies foul water from impurities held in solu-
ton as well as from suspended solids. Take
any suitable vessel with perforated false
bottom, and cover it with layer of animal
charcoal; on the top of that spread layer
OF iron filings, borings or turnings, the finer
the better, mixed with charcoal dust; on the
top of the filings place layer OF fine clean
silicious sand. and you will have perfect
filter. Allow the foul water to filter slowly
through the above filter, and you will pro-
duce remarkably pure drinking water.
Before placing the iron filings in the filter
they must be well washed in a hot solution
OF soda or potash, to remove oil or other
impurities, then rinse them with clean water :;
the filings should be mixed with an equal
measure of fine charcoal. If the water is
very foul it must be allowed to filter very
slowly. The deeper the bed of iron filings
is the quicker they will act.
The above is simple, cheap and very
efficient filter, superior to any other l know
of, and it has the advantage of being free to
every one who chooses to make it. have
not taken out a patent for it and am not
aware of any other person having done so !;
think am the only person who has used it.
The foulest ditch water, treated as above,
is rendered. quite pure and fit for drinking. 1
may mention that have made it a practice
during the last twenty-seven years to boil all
my drinking water. 1t is the safest plan for
man moving from place to place. You can
not always carry filter and chemicals
about with you, but you can always manage
to get boiled water; people talk about it being
vapid and tasteess. but am used to it and
like it.-Ehgtish Mechanic.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-03
Saving Seed Corn.

We have sometimes had no little difficulty
procuring seed corn that would terminate.
Some seasons the corn is not sufficiently ri
pened before the FROST On this subject the
Cincinnati Grange Bulletin tells why these
failures occur, and adds few seasonable
hints on the saving of tomato seed.
The perfecting of seed is the whole end and
aim OF all annual plants; the whole energies
OF the plant, from termination of the seed
down to the frost that kills the plant and
stops the flow of sap. are absolutely required.
The immature sap of a young plant never
could produce mature seed; it requires all
the whole volume from infancy to maturity,
the weak and the strong life-blood of the
plant, to give the seed its full power OF
transmission. Especially it is necessary that
the last remaining flow of sap from the stalk
matured by age, the season and the approach
of winter should enter the seed. Hence to
deprive seed of this final act is to weaken it;
it may have vitality enough without it to
grow and produce other seed, but it is itself
immature, and must produce immature seed.
To gather corn in the glazed state, and
hang it up in the shade. is to deprive it OF
all the mature sap of the plant, and also of
the ripening influence of the sun.
Nature never ripens seed in that manner.
She gives it every chance, every influence,
every particle of nourshment from the plant
tseli, iTom Tie SUI SrayS, Iue nlSnI'S Jews,
and the perfecting influence of the waning
season. This much for corn especially, but
also for all others.
Tomato seeds require little different man.
agement, because they are more tender. In
this case leave the earliest, finest, smoothest,
largest fruit on the vines till slight frost
admonishes us Of winters approach. Then
gather them, lay them on a board in the sun
during the day, but in the house at night, for
three or four days, then cut the tomato in
half across the stem way. Scoop out the core.
seeds and all, throw them into bucket till
they sour and ferment, wash out the seeds,
dry perfectly in the sun, not in the oven, and
put away in a dry place.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-03

OmCe kR0uFss
From 7.30 m to $50 M Sundays excepted,
Sundays open for Carriers and General Delivery
from to 10 a m, and 1.30 to 2.30 p. m.
PORTLAND, ME-, July /, 1873.
Arrival aud Departure of Mails.
Boston and intermediate Offices. Arrive at Il. 40
and TAO p m. Close at SIS m, and 1890, 500 and
800 p. m.
Boston and the West. Arrive at 5.2Opm.
intermediate or Way Mails via Boston and Maine
Railway. Arrive at 12.40 and $40 Close at 8.15
Great Southern and Western. Arrive at 40, 40
and 10 p. m. Close at s15 a. M. 1880, 500 and
800 p. m.
Bangor and connecting routes. Arrive at 1.1o p.
Augusta and connecting routes. Arrive at $50 a.
m. and LILO p. m. Close at 1145 a. m. and 445 D. M
Morning Northwestern by G. T. R. Arrive at e.35
Lewiston and Auburn. Arrive at 2.2o and $50
a. M, and LILO p. m. Close at 5.45 and 11.45 a. m.
and 4.45 p. m.
Castine, Deer Isle, Sedgwick, S. W. Harbor, Mt,
Desert, Jonespert, Machas Machiasport, East Ma
chias, Millbridge and Bar Harbor, via each steam
er. Arrive at a. m. Close at p. m.
Close at AS p. m.
Foreign Mails. via New York, day prevlousro sail
ing OF steamers. Close at s.15 a. m.
Express, Augusta, Bangor and the East. Arrive
at 2.20 m. Close at 900 D m.
Skowhegan intermediate offices and the north.
Arrive at LILO M. Close at 11.45
Skownegan also closes at 900 D IN.
Canada and intermediate offices, via G. T. r. Ar
rive at 2.45 p. IN. Close at 12.45 o. m.
Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island. Close
Swanton, VT, and intermediate offices. via P. &
o. R, r. Arrive $40 p. m. Close 6.45 a. m.
Fryebufg, Me- and intermediate offices, via p &
0. r. R Arrive $50 a. m. Close 10. 05 D. m
Worcester, Mass and intei mediate offices, via p.
&:R. Z. X. Arrive 1.20 p. m. Close II. 30 o. ms
Rochester, n. H., and intermediate offices, via P.
Boston and the South and West. Sunday oralu,
Arrive l2.45 p. m. Close p. M.
The Portland daily press., 1878-10-03
The Rates of Postage.

POSTAL cards, one cent each, go without further
charge to all parts of the United States and Canadas
with an additional onecent stamp they 60 to all parts
DfEurope.
All letters, to all parts of the United States and
Canada, three cents per half-ounce.
local, or "drop" letters, that is, for the city or
town where deposited, cents if delivered by car
riers and cent where there is no carrier system.
Newspapers, daily, semi weekly, tri weekly and
weekes, regularly issued and sent to regular sub
scribers, cents per pound, payable at the Office OF
publication, newspapers and magazines published
less frequently than once week, cents per pound.
transient newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, books
and handbills cent tor each two fraction
thereof. All other miscellaneous NATTER including
unsealed circulars, book manuscripts proofsheets,