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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

Republicans do not claim Ohio by such
overwhelming majorities as at first, aud
from claim Of $4,000 at first have taken
a tumble to 5000 as Fosters probable
majority. The Democrats are confident
that Ewing will be elected by a good ma.
jority and that the legislature will certainly
be Democratic. The defeat in Ohio of thu
Republicans will iDjure that party greatly
but the defeat of the Democrats
will not affect Democracy one iota
The Republicans carried Ohio in 1876 anC
1878, and should they do so now, would
merely hold their ground, whereas should
the Democrats elect Ewing it will be ;
glorious victory. Democrats can afford t.
lose Ohio and not retrograde either, bu
the Republicans must carry the state tt
hold their own. In either event Demo
Gratis have nothing to lose and all to gain
be the result what it may.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

sions shall surrender their pensions to
the Soldiers Home during the time they
remain therein and voluntarily receive the
benefits"
The home is governed by three COM
missioners, the commissary general of
subsistence, the surgeon general, and the
adjutant general, The officers of the
homo ara governor, deputy COVER nor
and secretary, to be taken from the
army, and appointed or removed by the
secretary OF war, which virtually means
the president. Other offices have grad
ually grown around the institution, which
is regulated by the rules and articles of
war.
The different sources OF income have
10 twenty eight years aggregated very
large sum of money, so that the commits
sioners thave added largely by purchase
to the 'original estate. There is now a
park of some six hundred acres surround
ing the buildings appropriated to the
use of the soldiers and the residences set
aside for the officers who are quartered
at the home. These places are consid-
cred among the most desirable in the
gift of the executive, and are usually
bestowed upon personal or political
friends in the army. Mr.. Hayes and bis
secretary of war aud their families have
established themselves at the home during
this summer, without any more right to
90 there than to enter the private abode
: of any citizen.
This property belongs to the soldiers
and is sustained entirely by their contri-
buttons. 1t is now converted into a pub
lie park for the people of Washington
and is treated in every way as the persona
estateHof the governors and commission
ers. Of coursea the three or four hundred
inmates of the home are fed :nd cared fo
under the discipline that exists, but the!
are regarded rather objects of bounty thar
as the possessors of rights far superior tt
the rights of those who govern the institu
ton, or Of the appointing power tina
sends its pets to live grandly upon tn
r soldiers fund. A movement is now o.
: foot which will be apt to stop these loos
{ practices, if o proper committee be ap
pointed early In the approaching session
7. 1t is time that a full account of all tn
: receipts and expenditures should be mad
}, public, so that the country may see hoy
this sacred fund has been appropriated.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

The stalwart papers use strong language
nowadays, They say the next president
mast be Republican. Do they mean by
must that an attempt will be made to re-
peat the tactics of 1876? Easy, you stall.
wart eeches, easy. for so surely as there
is God in Israel, repetition of the rob.
berry tactics Of 1876 ,UiU not be tolerated
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
CURE YOURSELF!

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Weakness, General Debility, ImPoensy, and Ts.efe
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over thirty years. known to fail in curing even
the WORST CASES. Il gives vitality and impar energy
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
MEDICAL.


JOHN HANNAS, being a Blacksmith by
Ls trade had often felt the want of some means
could work it at a better advantage. This induced
me to make many experiments with different sub
stances which offered the best prospect OF success
1t was OF one of these occasions that discovered
the wonderful effects of Electro Silicon on the
Human System.
had a defect in three of nv fingers which were
| bent shnt up in my hand In such manner, by
the CONTRACTION OF THE CORDS, that they were
| very troublesome to me In my daily avocaton. l
could not handle my tools as wished, and often
| thought would have my fingers cut off to get
| them out of the way, have used everything that
Well, say. was working with Electro Silicon at
the forge, and of course could not prevent its COM
| ing in contact with my hands.
! / took notice of the effect 1t had produced.
until one day, wishing to use a heavy hammer,
| grasped with my crooked hand, and much TO my
surprise | found my crooked fingers straignten
out and had as much use OF them as ever.
l could hardly believe my eyes. l showed my
hands to my wife and family, and general re-
jocing was the result.
| had neighbor living about mile from my
shop who had lame knee, caused by the cords
being contracted by rheumatism. l sent him
bottle of Electro Silicon Liniment, and told him 10
use it thoroughly. He did so. and at the end OF
three months he was able to throw aside his cane
and walk to my shop apparently as we'll as ever.
1t had worked just it did in my case producing
perfect cure / gave it to others of my neighbors
and friends, for miles around, who were suffering
from swelled Limbs, Rheumatism, Neuralgla, SUN
Joints, Burns, etc, all of which 1t cured without
any trouble. Finding that the Electro Silicon Lin
iment would penetrate the skin of man further
than any other substance, it occurred to me that
it must be good for the horse, and it has proved
itself one OF the very best applications in all ex-
ternal diseases occurring to the noble animal,
:, Prepared by the
Electro Silicon Liniment Co. f,
ELMIRA, ................. NEW YORK
wP Price, so cents per Large Bottle.-S
| Sold Wholesale:
FARRAND, WILLIAMS & CO., Detroit, Mich
Z. ID PARK & son, Cincinnati, o.
I FULLER & FULLER, Wholesale Agents, Chicago
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

General Hancock thought the war
ought to end when the confederate army
surrendered and the people Of the south
returned to their allegiance; but George
William Curtis and the other shotgun
radicals want it to continue to the end of
time. This is the difference.-N, T. Er-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
WOMEN

LeuCorrhea. Excessive FLOWING, Painful
Monthly Periods, Suppressions when from I'M
natural causes Irregularities, Weak Back, Prolap-
sus or Falling of the Uterus Anteryersion ano
Retroversion, Bearing down Sensations, Interna
Heat, Nervous Depression, Debility, Dependency
Threatened Miscarriage, Chrome Congestion, lnha-
nation and liberation of the Uterus, lmpo-
tency, Barrenness, Sterility, and Female, Weak
ness.
Added to these are the psngs, the troubles, the
wearing strain of maternity, and which often do
more toward breaking her constitution and weak
ening her for other efforts than all else of her labor
and duties 1t is in this direction that
one often discovers that which it most pit1ful in
the life of such a woman. She labors on through
the period of CESSATION TO the last possible moment
often over exerting herself, and often doing het
and her offspring irreparable injury The result OF
all this is that the mother at that period of life
when she sh ould pess the threshold of vigorous
and cheerful old age, is often broken down and
after year two of intolerabe suffering Is hur
ried of 10 the nearest churchyard
A bottle or two of ShoreV's Investigator taker
during the year, Will not only make Woman's
| life light and happy, but will cure permanently
| most OF her complaints. Sold by all druggists a
one dollar per large package. Sold in Des Nome:
wholesale and retail by
| C. II. WARD & CO. and by druggists generally
| FULLER 8 FULLER,
| Wholesale Agents, Chicago.
Depot, h5 Cedar St, New York. 6-26nWf&V
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
RAILROAD.
MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO
Freeport, Clinton junction, Beloit, Racine
Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay,
Lacrosse, Prairie du Chen,
st. Paul. Minneapolis,
NORTT1WEsT.


Trains leave Rock Island as follows: Day Ex.
press at s: 55 m arriving at Racine $50 m, and
Milwaukee 6:I5 H.; Night Express at 80 p m,
arriving at Racine 900 II, and Milwaukee 9:l5
m, connecting at Fulton with Chicago & North
western Railroad for Morrison, Sterling and Dixon.
At Freeport with Illinois Central Railroad for Du-
buque, Lacrosse, and all points North. At Beloit
with the Madison Division of the Chicago & North
western Railway for Madison. At Clinton juno
ton with the Western Division of the Chicago q
Northwestern Railway for GAINESVILLE, Oshkosh and
Green Bay At Western Union junction with the
Chicago Division of the NJ. & st. p. Ry for Chi
cago and all Eastern points. At Milwaukee with
Northern Divisions Of the c, NJ. u st. ?. Ry Tor
| Waukesha, GAINESVILLE, Madison, Watertown, Por-
tage City, Kilbourn, Lacrosse. Oshkosh, Minneap-
oils and ST. Paul Also with the Wisconsin Central
Railroad for Plymouth, Green Bay, Menasha, Ste
vens' Point and Ashland, And with the Milwaukee
| Lake Shore Il Western Railroad for Sheboygan,
| ManitowOe, New nndOn and Cllntonville.
| West bound trains leave Milwaukee at T:l5 m
and 6:16 m, making close connections for all
points in the West and Southwest
This is the only line running through
Day Coaches and Sleeping Cars between
Milwaukee and Rock Island.
| Passengers wishing to take the sleeper leaving
Rock Island at 80 p can do any time after
I7pm. Passengers for Dubuque can tb1s secure
| rest from m until 400 m.
Be sure that your tickets read via Western UnioI
| Railroad.
Tickets on sale at al principal ticket offices.
| For information regarding rates routes, etc, ad
dress
D. A. OLIN, A.V. II. CARPENTER,
| Superintendent, Gen1 Pass. Ticket AIT,
| Racine, Wis. Milwaukee, Wis.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
DIR. sHOREY'S
Kidney investigator.

A SPECIFIC in the CURE CT ALL DISEASES
n of the Kidneys, Bladder, PROSTATE Portion
of the Urinary Organs, Irritation of the neck Of
the Bladder, Burning Urine Bright's Disease Disease
Discharges, Night Emissions, Congestion of the
Kidneys, brick Dust, Deposit, Diabetes Inaam-
alton of the Kidneys and Bladder, Dropsy OF the
Kidneys Acid Urine, Bloody Urine, Pam in the
Region of the BLADDER. Pain in the Back, Urinary
Calculus, Renal Collie, Retention of Urine. Ere
Quent Urination, Gravel in all its Forms, Inability
to Retain the Water particularly in persons adYan
oed in life. The INVESTIGATOR restores th{
Urine to its natural color, removes the acid and
burning and the effect Of the excessive use OF lntox
icating Drink.
The following are anQng those diseases IN which
| the INVESTIGATOR has worked cures in disea
SEES of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, 3 ST, PAUL.

RACINE q SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION.
LEAyB ARRTVE
Oay Express and NajIS;55 SAN 6:05 Pm
Night Express. ............10:3 sc Pm $3.50 Az
The night express leaving Rock Island every
Sunday night at 10 05 connects with the train arr1
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. NO lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock
sland to Chicago. Through tickets only good on
thietrAln.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

Passengers carried on Freight trains as follows
EAST ....,.....4:45 p m WEST. 49,. O:3O m
GEO. NJ. LOOSELY, Agent, Rock Island.
A. KIMBALL, E. ST. JOHN,
Gen1 Sup't. Gen. Tiki u Pass. Agt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

zocx ISLAND 3 PEORIA RAILWAY.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAST AND soUrl

sHORTRsT ROUTE TO THK EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAyE ARRIVE.
40 a m Way Freight. 2:30 m F'ht & Accom'on
$40 Fast Express. I :19 D m Mail and Express
$50 D m Mail and Exp's. $50 " Fast Express.
$50 " F'ht & Accom'n 4:45 Way Ere ght.
The 1:50 p m train makes close connection st
GAlva with c & @ for points west arriving at
Gsesburg at 500 p m at Burlington 7:l5 m; at
KeOkuk 9:25 p m; and at Quincy $40 p m; also
making close connection at Peoria with l b u W
and T P s. w roads for all points east and south.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

M2g ADVERTISEMENTS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29
RooK ISLAND Z NERcER 90, 3. 3.

Leave Rock Island at :55 q. m, and 80 p m.
Arriving at Gable at 11:10 m, and sos p m.
Leave Gable at $50 NJ and AS N.
Arriving at Rock Island at 9:15 q. m, 90 D. m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-29

HARR1S REMEDY COMIC CHEMISTS
Market and 9th SITS. ST. LOUIS, MO.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11
A Marvellous Pistol l-ShOt.

Almost any evening may be seen, at
the gallery of Jas. S. Conlin, 1922
Broadway, feats of pistol marksmau-
style off-hand shooters stand in wonder
The marksman is Mr.. Frank H. Lord.
the most expert and finished pistol-shot
in the country. He is a young man
of thirty-two, the youngest son of the
late Thomas Lord. He is an athlete
and a gymnast and about 1867 began
to try his skill as a shot at the old Con-
lin gallery. The feats of Capt. John
Travers, now of Cleveland, had become
a tradition, though when Sandy Law
renee kept ten-pin alley on the site of
the present Astor House, Travers' gal
lery attached to it, saw some wonderful
exhibitions of steadiness and skill with
small arms. One of Captain Travers'
feats was to shoot away silver three
cent bit placed between his toes, and
when BlOndin crossed the Niagara he
allowed Captain Travers to put a ball
through his hat. From a doubling
friend Captain Travers won a diamond
ring by putting shot through the
ring, and his feat of picking an orange
from his sons head was tried again
and again. Since Captain Travers'
time billiards has driven out ten-pins
and rfle-shooting ri at long distances has
crowded pistol-shooting at twelve PAGES
into disuse. Mr.. Lord, however, CON
fines his sport almost entirely TO the
smaller weapon, though he is fine
rifle shot. He is member of the New
York Club and his bachelor chambers
are adorned with a curious stock of
pistols. In Paris he has met Paul de
Cassagnao and others of the French
duelling clique and astonished them by
the certainty of his aim. The Forest
and Stream, in an article enriched with
drawings of Mr.. Lords targets, says;
For ten seasons past he has been
chosen by the English-speaking res
idents of Paris rs their champion, and
well-chosen representative has he
proven. On one occasion he performed
among other feats of accurate marks
manship the following; A cap Of an
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11
Shearing Lambs.

A correspondent of the Country Cen
tLemGn writes: Il have been breed
ing, for several years past, grade
sheep-a cross between the SouthdOwn
and Cotswold-for the Cincinnati mar
ket. Having the lambs to come early
in the spring, their wool grows to be
three or four inches long before shear
ing time; and, having noticed, by leav-
ing this on that it grew to be very long
during the summer months, and they
would lie in the shade and pant on ac-
count of the excess of wool, while their
dams were out grazing, l came to the
conclusion to try an experiment, by
shearing some, and leaving some un-
shorn, to see if there would be any
difference when spring came. In the
spring of 1876 | sheared two, and left
the rest Cfrom which l received little
over one pound per head, and sold il
at twenty-six cents per pound.) Well,
the result was simply wonderful. Those
two that sheared came up in the fall
and looked like my yearlings. They
were fat, and while their wool was not
quite so long as the rest, it was much
thicker, and seemed to grow much
faster during the winter than those
did not shear. They stood the winter
much better, and by shearing time in
1877, they sheared more wool (being
very near as long as the others and
much thicker), and were much largeI
and better every way. l was simply
surprised. The experiment induced me
to try again in 1877, by shearing one
half OF my flock of lambs, and the re,
suit was about the same, and the next
spring (187S) l sheared all but two,
they being thoroughbred, out of Canada
ewes, and thinking that by leaving the
wool on could sell them better in the
fall for breeders, but found this to be
a mistake, for in the fall showed these
two at the Fair, and also some of those
that had sheared, with some that haC
just been brought from Canada on pur
pose to show (they not being shearec
either), and the result was that those
that had been sheared were given the
| first premium"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11
A Great Invasion.

Yet our State is, at the present time,
filled throughout its entire length and
breadth by horde of impudent tramps,
soliciting emigrants for every sort of
purpose to arid, mountainous and bar
rem Territories, where, if they do not
die of starvation, they certainly will of
disease, engendered by poverty and
want of employment.
1t is actually the fact that these
tramping solicitors-with their maps,
their advertisements and their epgrav-
ings of so-called Western homes, with
ladies to be seen playing on pianos in
beautiful villas, and gentlemen farm
ers" riding upon blooded horses who
are also supposed to be herding "the
cattle upon thousand hills" or SOW
ing grain with "sulky drills" drawn
by housekeeping horses at a 2:40 gate
are depopulating the smiling towns
and villages of our State of their young
men, and sending them to destruction
and death in search after veritable
tgnis tatuuS.
Many an Illinois mother is to-day
mourning in her desolate home the loss
of her favorite son, enticed from an
honorable and useful occupation to be-
come vagabond, gambler, and a
tramp in the streets of Denver, of
Georgetown, of Leadville, or of Vir-
ginia City. Many an honest and honor
able Illinois farmer is to-day compelled
to hire some other tramp in place of
the son who had been the pride and
stay of his age, but who, after being
enticed into emigrating to Colorado,
Nevada, or Arizona, died on the road
side on his homeward route, a poor,
diseased, and death-struck tramp.
The above, we assure our readers, is
no overdrawn picture. This State has
been deprived of thousands of able and
intelligent citizens, of some of its best
working capital, and its noblest mental
and moral material, solely for the pur-
pose of putting money into tho pockets
of railway companies and spectators
in Western mining and other lands, and
in the town lots of hundreds of paper
cities, which will never be beard of ex-
cept in the trap-clap circulars and So
called newspapers which are being now
sown broadcast from one end of this
State to the other. Chicago NelOs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-07-11

ordinary musket was placed upon the
neck of a champagBe-bottle, and Mr..
Lord standing at thirty-six feet, or
twelve PAGES, with an ordinary duel
ling-pistol picked off the cap without
scratching the glass. The same feat
was repeated, but with the pistol trans
ferred from the right to the left hand.
Two more caps were picked off with
right and left hand firing respectively,
but in these instances the pistol was
held in O reverse position, with the line
of sight below instead of above the line
of fire. The next shot was fancy one,
Mr. Lord standing with back to the OBJ
ject fired at, leaning far forward, and
then with pistol pointed back between
his legs picking off the cap as before.
The last of the six shots was made sit
ting in chair, again with back to
target and leaning back until the target
could be seen by the head and eyes
bent back. It is a favorite feat to
suspend his watch--a fine imported
piece, costing $250-and put shot after
shot through the loop at thirty-six feet.
A match or wooden tooth-pick laid
across the opening of the golden loop
is cut cleanly through, and though the
watch has been under fire scores and
hundreds of times, it still ticks on to.
wards the day which may come when a
bullet fraction of an inch out of the
way may scatter the works in a shower
of wheels and pinions.
In shooting at the word of command,
as in duelling, where the seconds cry
out, care you readyP" Readyp'
" "Fire!--one-twO-three," the shooter
being required to shoot between the
words "Fire' and " three" Mr.. Lord
with duelling pistol at twelve PAGES
struck down six three-quarter-inch
bullets hung up by threads. Such an
adversary on the field of honor would
satisfy the chivalric yearnings of about
any mortal. At the word one" Mr.
Lord fired ten consecutive shots into 9
one and one-eighth-inch circle, same
distance.
In Paris, where fantastic shooting i;
very much in vogue, he is known a:
"Le diable Americain." He has time
and again at fifteen PAGES put 100 shots
consecutively into a space of an ordi
nary playing card. On a recent date
as showing his ability for long range
firing with the pistol, he struck two
caps out of three shots at distance o
sixty feet. AS the ordinary musket car
is about one-eighth of an inch across
the mere seeing of the mark was some
what of feat, but to see and hit a.
well was something entirely beyond
the common. Yet it was done at {
certain hour previously agreed upor
before large number of marksmen
including many members of the New
York and Zettler Rifle Clubs. With {
Stevens twelve-inch barrel pistol, dis
tance 125 feet, Mr.. Lord picked off 1
couple of three-quarter-inch bullets
using right and left hand in turn
Three consecutive three-quarter-incl
bullets fell at forty-fve feet before shot
from large-sized Smith & Wesson re
volver, Russian model, heavy trigge
pull.-N. Y. World.