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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-05
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b, .etouu s,ontee a perfect cure In all
l.s VIII ,sssIthy restoration Of the genitO-
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17
MISCELLANEOUS,

The wrestling match at Utica, New York,
between Miller and Mclaughlin for 81 900,
was won by Miller
A New York Police Judge fined man $15
for playing the joke of leaving bundle of
dead rats with Chinaman to be washed,
The yield of petroleum in the United States
last year was 619,OO7, OO4 gallons. The
quantity exported was valued at SAG, 574, 974.
New York corporation of capitalists have
purchased the Eagle mine in Spring valley.
The consideration is 81, 100000, part cash and
part stock of the corporation
A Chinaman reports at Lewiston, Idaho,
that five of his countrymen have been killed
on the south fork of the Salmon river by Indi-
ans and their provisions stolen.
The will of William Lloyd Garrison gives
$500 to each of his grandchildren, and be-
queaths the remainder of his property to his
five children, to be equally divided
Policeman Eugent of New York, the officer
arrested on the charge of completely in the
robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank, has
been committed to the Tombs in default of
10000 bail
During the fiscal year 1873, the United
States exported to foreign countries q ,S37,-
III pounds of butter, and 245 500, 1858 pounds
of cheese. OF this England took 9,261, $50
pounds of butter, and LOG, 200, 500 pounds of
cheese.
Mrs. Matthew G. Perry, widow of Commo-
dore Perry, of the Japan treaty fame, and
mother of Mrs. August Belmont, died Satur-
day afternoon at her daughters residence, in
Newport, R. |.
The New York Horld accuses General W.
T. Sherman of aiding his brother, John Sher-
man in his Presidential aspirations, and join
ing with him to lead the Republican cam
paign against Grant.
A man living near St. Adams Bay has in
his possession one of the most curious freaks
of nature in existence. He recently captured
three frogs all fastened together like the ST.
amese twins. st. Adams Advertiser
tits stated that within the last eight months
some fourteen JOINT stock companies have
been formed in the United States and Canada
for manufacturing beet-sugar. The satisfac-
tory success of the Maine company has given
an impetus to this particular industry.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company
will construct 200 miles of road in Washing
ton Territory before July LIST. Two survey
ing parties are at work surveying the line
The town of Spokane Falls is growing rapidly
and the country is fast being settled up
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

SOUNDS PEACEFUL.-The Lea'ler says that
the male Shoshones find lucrative employment
catching trout in the Humboldt, deadheadng
from Palisade to Eureka, on the railroad, and
disposing of their catch to town epicures
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

TRADE WITH New ZEALAND-The San
Francisco Post says concerning the rights of
this Coast to a large opening for exports: sc.
W. Griffin, American consul to Auckland,
New Zealand, is in New York, and will soon
leave for his post of duty by way Of San Fran
cisco. He is endeayorjng to arrange with
New York merchants for more extensive in
PRODUCTION of American goods in New Zea-
land, and he is very sanguine of the results.
One of the main objections is said TO be the
want of a credit system, such as the English
merchants have established with New lea
land, and to which system the people are
firmly welded. A great part of this trade of
right belongs to San Francisco, and the pres
ent opportunity of securing it should not be
neglected by our business men and manufact-
urers "
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

ELEVATOR Boy Ito a woman who has ridden
three times from bottom to top of the build
ing)-''well, where do you want to get out?'
Woman-"Well, indade, DIM not quot shure,
but lave me as near the Ould Colony Depot
as ye can. = Harvard Lampoon.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

THE Pacifc Life makes the following men
ton of the coming Fourth of July races:
Wesley George, lessee of the Carson race
track, is getting up some interesting and at
tractive races for the Sd, 4th and 9TH of July,
and We hope to see good attendance of his
Virginia City and Reno friends, as well as a
liberal patronage from his fellow townsmen
Mr.. George recently returned from a visit to
California, and has succeeded in inducing a
number of owners to enter their horses in the
events on his speed programme. w L. Pritch-
ard will probably enter Evangeline and Rich
ard III; and Dick Allen may send up Nathan
Coombs and Longfellow FLY. OF the local
horses, Winston will enter Illusion; Matt. Al
len, Nadge Duke; and Mcbride Of Genoa,
Red Oak. 1t is also expected that Mollie H.
from Meadow Lake Valley, will put in an ap-
peardnce.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

JACK SILVA, better known among the sport
ing fraternity as Honest Jack" died of
pneumonia at Leadville on the goth of May.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

IT is said that only twelve members of Con
gress have committed suicide since the organ
ization of the Government.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

THE Grand Jury at Shasta have indicted
DR.. Silverthorn, the baby-killer, for murder.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

NEVER fail to say kind and encouraging
words to those whom you may meet in dis
their despair Never refuse to receive an ap-
ology. You may not receive friendship, but
courtesy will require, when an apology is of
fered, that You accent IT,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17
BSDR NJ.

In this city June 49, 1879, to the wifet of Edward Nc
Fadden, daughter.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-06-17

THE scholars in a Bin9hamton school hav-
ing been given the dangerous privilege of
writing about any person in the room, one
teacher in behalf of his fellows, in this wise
Miss -- is small woman, about half as
tall as Barnum's giant She jerks the boys
around, and thinks she's smart, but she don't
get there" The privilege has been rescinded.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-05-26
ID. N. HASKELL,
OWNSITE AGENT, G. p. II. X.
TOWN LOTS FOR SALE OR LEASE.

PARTIES WISHING IrO LEASE OR PUR-
chase Lots in the town of Winnemucca, are
hereby notified that all applications for the same
or on business relating thereto, snould be ad-
dressed TO the undersigned at San Francisco,
at the C. p. II. r. office where they will receive
prompt attention.
Those occupying lands belonging to the com
pany, without having bought or leased the same.
are also notified to attend to the matter without
delay and avoid trouble.
kNno19. u HAShELl-
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-05-26
LOTS! LOTSa: LOTS!::
SPRING CITY, NEVADA.

lots can now bo procured in the fourishing
mining camp OF Spring City, Mount Rose Mining
District, Paradise mines by applying TO the un-
dersigned, the regularly authorized agent for
the sale OF the same, by letter or in person.
HARRY WARREN.
Nov. %, 1878. Spring City. Nevada.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06
The Advantages Of Winter Rest.

TIE fact is understood that eiviliza-
ton has generally reached its highest
state in northern temperate latitudes
rather than in the tropics. This has
been Ysriously accounted for. La-
Dor is the basis of ali civilization,
and the latitude induced by in
tense heat makes laziness common, if
not justiiable. But I have begun to
suspect that this is not the only cause
that our long winters, necessitating
rest, may be quite as important an ele-
ment in social progress as the Sc
we're toll needed in summer. Important
as labor is, ''all work and no play" is
as bad for grown men and women as
for Jack in the nursery rhyme. It is
nearly three thousand years since the
wise man remarked that ''the wisdom
of the wise man cOmeth by opportunity
of leisure; and he that hath little busi-
ness shall become wise, and in the same
connection, chow can he get wisdom
that holdeth the plow, and whose
talk is of bullocks?" So here we have
alternate work and rest recommended
as the best possible condition for social
progress. For the large class of our
farming population northern winters
afford the best condition of success,
and small as has been the progress in
agricultural arts and sciences until
within few years, believe that it is
demonstrable that the basis of the
superiority of northern civilizations is
found in the advantages of our winters
in furnishing needed rest and opportu-
nifty for study. The fact is too often
overlooked that not only many of the
wealthy merchants, bankers and busi
ness men Of the great cities spend their
bcyhood on the farm, but many leading
scientists, scholars and statesmen were
brought up under like conditions. !
Healthful outdoor work in summer IN
vigorates the body and mind alike, and
prepares for equally healthful study
when summer work is ended. It is a
fact of much significance that all really
great men have learned the habit Of
hard work in early life, and that this
habit has had probably more to do
with their success than the advenGtious
circumstances commonly called ''good
luck" There is no doubt also that
winters rest is an advantage to the
soil. The disintegration by frost
makes latent fertility available, while
the covering of snow prevents evapora-
ton and waste. In very warm coun-
tries the scorching sun burns out the
carbon in the soil, and very few crops
exhaust its fertility. Something Of the
difficulty of restoring exhausted soils
in the south may be due to the lack of
stock; but something more is also at
tributable to the continuous drain made
by crops growing nearly the year
round. While we think with feelings
of envy of pleasant summer breezes in |
southern elimes, it is only fair that we
should also consider the advantages
which northern winters confer. ''Thou
hast made winter" I" was the declaration
of the inspired Psalmist, Of One who
has made nothing in vain.-W J p,
in COatltT1f Gentleman.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06
LAKE SHORE E4mICHIGAN SOUTH
RRN n r.
GOING WEsT.

GOING WEST.
Michigan Express leaves Buffalo az p. NJ,
Erie 1880 8. m, Conneaut &ie a. m. Ashta-
bula 2.53 q. m. Geneva sis a. m, PaineS-
willie Aus q. m, Cleveland 5>30a- M
Special Chicago Express leaves Buffalo At
fls5 a. m, Erie $50 a. M, Ashtabuia 4s5s,
Palnesyllle $50, and arrives at Cleveland az
Gsj5 a. N. lat s4t
Csu1neaut Accommodation leaves Conneaut
at6,05 q. m. Amboy gil, KingsVille tszlt Ash
fabula 6s33, Say ybnosk e:48, Geneva os55, Paines-
VILE 7:a8 and arrives at Cleveland S:45 A. m.
Toledo Express leaves Buffalo At tet5 q. In.p
Erie l0s05. COnneaut l0:5I kingsville ll:li
AshtabulH Ii:3 a. m, SaybrOOk ll;95 tfe-
neva H.Es, gainesville I2lS. and arrives
at Cleveland az rs p. m.
Special St Louis Express leaves Buffalo
SOS a m. Erie 19s57, AshtRbula l2O3 y. m,
Painesville I&45. and arrives az Cleveland
Paciho Express leaves Buffalo I2.s8 p m,
Erie $50. Ashtabula 5sl2, Painesyille 6:Oi, and
arrives At Cleveland At 7:t5 p. m.
CONG EASE.
Atlantic Express leaves Cleveland 80 3. m,
PafnesVille SsdD, AShtabula ssg9, Conneauts.zS,
Toledo and Buffalo Accommodation leaves
Cleveland at Il:l5 a. m, Palnesville lES5, Se-
neva Ill a. m, SaybroOk i.2A Ashtabula l:5z
Kingsyille LIS, AmbOy ~. Conneaut zOz,
Erie s:lo, Budalo 100 p. m.
Chicago and st. Louis Express leaves CieVe-
land At 80 b. m, Painesvillei 3.36, Ashtabule
4:Is. Erie SIS. and arrives At Buffalo at sos
COnneaut Aceommodatie On leaves Cleveland
at $50 p. m. Painesville6 6:O9, Geneva 6:i5, Say
brook 6s55, Ashtabula 7:0l, kingsville 5sl5, AM
boy ia. and arrives at COnneaut at $50 D. m.
special New York Express leaves Cleveland
at l0s39 p m, Painesville ll:20, Ashiabula 1900
m, Erie LAD and arrives at Buffalo at 200 a.
m.
ra-Trsins run by Columbus time.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06
New Order.

THE other day, after a strapping
young man had sold a load Of corn and
potatoes on the market and had taken
his team to hotel barn to feed" it
became known to the men around the
barn that he was very desirous of join
ing some secret society in town. When
questioned he admitted that such was
the case, and the boys at once offered
tC initiate him into a new order, called
''The Cavaliers of Coveo." He was
told that it was twice as secret as Free
Masonry, much nicer than Odd Fellow
ship, and the cost was only two dollars.
In case he had the tOothachs he could
draw five dollars per week from the
relief fund, and he was entitled to re-
ceive ten dollars for every headache,
and twenty-five dollars for q sore throat.
The young man thought he had
struck big thing, and after eating a
hearty dinner hewas taken into astore
room above the barn to be initiated
The boys poured cold water down his
back, put flour on his hair, sWore him
to kill his mother, if commanded, and
rushed him around for an hour without
a single complaint from his lips. When
they had finished he inquired:
Now 1 am one of the Cavaliers Of
Coveo, am / P''
"You are, they answered.
Nothing more to learn, is therep
Nothing"
"Wen, then, I'm going to lick the
whole crowdr' continued the candi
date, and he went at it, and before he
got through he had his two dollars ini-
tiation fee back, and three more to
boot, and had knocked everybody down
two or three times apiece. He didn't
seem greatly disturbed in mind as he
drove out of the barn. On the con-
trary, his hat was slsnted over, he had
a fresh fiVe-cent cigar in his teeth, and
he mildly said to one of the barn boys:
Say, boy, if you hear of any CaYa'
liers asking for CoYeO about my size,
tell 'em III be in on the full of the
moon to take the Royal Skyfugle De-
grees. ."-DetT0it Free Press.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06

Although it is not Of the custom Of
our fellow-countrymen of the present
day to tattoo their faces, yet it is not
an uncommon thing to find that sol
diers, and sailors, and travellers bear
pictorial Illustrations on their arms.
examined the forearm of sailor not
very long since; omit was really work
of art Britannia, trident, helmet and
and all, g Ruling the Waves'-an tie-
giant design. An ornamental wreath
of flowers encircled g Britannia and
her AnchCr." On the other arm was a
picture of a three-mssted ship at sea,
in full sail. The eoloring of these skin
pictures was light blue and red. l
once, when Assistant Surgeon Of the
Second Life Guards, passed recruit
who was perfect walking illustrated
London Rel0S.. do not recoleet the
details; all remember is that the
whole of his breast was completely
covered with illustrations representing
the royal arms of England, picture
worthy Of the A. r.
Ibelieve tits the custom of gentle
men who visit Jerusalem the first time
to have certain mark put upon their
arm Just on the spot. where people are
generally Taccinated. If the mark is
not placed on this spot, it is tattooed
on the wrist. have read somewhere
that many-eurved and fieXuous lines as
tattOoed by the New Zealanders on the
faces Of themselves and relatives were
atfirst suggested by the peculiar mark
ings made between the bark and the
E,g,I,- f eov,, q Ay.soc Fbaeo ~, q rl-;v,or. he,
ing produced by q boring beetle. s.
The Notwithstanding insect is the
iScogytlls destruet0r. This is ''a beetle
which deposits its eggs in a group in
hole or creYice of a bark; when the
young are hatehed, they begin their
operations, each taking its own course
from the common starting point, and
gnaWs its way as it proceeds, without
interfering with the run of its neighbor;
for, as the lsTva increases in the diam
eter of the excavation, the galleries di-
verge until they ultimately Terminate" "
Thepractice Of tattooing is sometimes
adopted by the fair sex Of the present
day. Ladies who are about to have the
initials of their rsweethearts permanently
engraved on their arms should be care
full to make up their minds not to change
their sweethearts, unless the same ini-
tials viii suit. When House Surgeon
at st. Georges, charming creature
came to me in great distress. She said
there was nothing the matter with her,
but she was in great trouble, because her
young man had been faithless. He had
persuaded her to allow his initials, with
"a 1~rrov.i .ieT F-,,0N 10 ha tofEnnoA IN
her arm. She had .quarreled with him
and was now anxious to erase all traces
of their attachment.
The design on the arm was too big
for any operation, and the girl, for
aught know, still continues to carry
about fine specimen of the art Of tat
toOing now in our own time.-FrGnk
BueklGnd. in Land and Water.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06
Fleet MarrIages in England.


" a MULTITUDE of clergymen," Mr..
. Leeky adds, g usually; prisoners for
debt, and almost always men of notori-
ously infamous lives, maize it their busi-
ness to celebrate clandcstine marriages
in or near the Fleet. They performed
the ceremony without license or ques-
ton, sometimes without even knowing
the names of the persons they united,
and in the most disreputable places.
Almost every tavern or brandy shop in
the neigbborhood," we are told, -" had
Fleet parson in its pay. Notices were
placed in the windows, and agents
went out in every direction to solicit
the passers- -by.o One clergyman, who
ofliciate,l in a chapel in May Fair, is
said To have married on an average
5000 couples every year; amt, accord
ing to his own admission, he married
many thousands, most of whom were
strangers 10 each other the week be-
fore. and many had been acquainted
only day or half day. Young
and inexperienced heirs" to quote Mr..
Lecky's significant words, fresh from
college or even from school, were thus
continually entrapped. A passing
frolic, the excitement of drink, an al
most momentary passion, the deoep-
ton or intimidation of a few unprinci-
pied confederates, were often sufficient
to drive or inveigle them into sudden
marriages. which blasted all the pros
poets Of their lives. In some cases,
when men slept OIL drunken fit, they
heard, to their astonishment, that dur
ing its continuance they had gone
through the oeremony.'' Finally, 1T
was proved before Parliament,H says
Mr.. Lecly, "thato on one occasion there
had been 1884 Fleet marriages in four
months, and It appeared from the
memOrandum- books Of Fleet parsons
that one Of them made e57in marriage
fees in single month; that another
had married rs couples in single
day." Such were the abuses possible
under the Marriage law at the begin
ming Of the century, the history of
which Mr.. Leoky has undertaken to
write. They no longer exist; and it is
impossible TO overestimate the moral
or the political Importance of their ex-
tinelion. - Unitarian ReUieI0.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06
The Discounted Barber.

"CUT your hairP Yes, sir" said the
barber, affably, as he enveloped his
customer in shroud of calico and adj
justed him in a chair. 'eQuite chill
-" he began, intending to beguile
the time by assorted conversation on
meteorology and other subjects, but
Z before he could complete the word
''chilly," the customer said, ayes; for
these latitudes, though make no doubt
that much more severe weather, even
at this season of the year, has been
chroniclsd in the records of the United
States Signal-Service observer sta
toned here, to say nothing of the
greater extremes of temperature expe-
rienced by those in more northerly lat
titudes. Then the customer went on
and told about what herecollectedo of the
cold winter of 1859, and recited few
interesting episodes cUlled from the
travels of Hayes, Kane, Back, Behring,
Sir John Franklin, MeClintock and
others, and the barber gnashed his
teeth in ilnpotent rage, and seized
an opportunity, while he jammed his
customers chin down on his breast, in
order to coast round his back hair, to
begin: % Politics pretty lively, eh? The
ciph -" But it was no go. The
customer blew few hairs of and ge-
nially replied, s' thazzor' and there.
upon treated the barber to q eompre-
hensiVe but by no means brief expo
sition of the American political situa-
ton from every standpoint, dwelling
particularly on the Returning Boards,
the proceedings of the Electoral Com
mission, the Potter Committee, the
Teller Committee, etc., etc. The
maddened barber thought of cut
ting off the customers right ear
with his shears, but resolved
70 make one more attempt, and
blandly remarked in q stenOgraphie
manner, Hair-thin-resto -H
(" Yes; hal har' cheerfully remarked
the customer; shoemakers always
wear badly-ftting boots, you know.
My hair is thin, but III tell you what,
you ought to try my patent Crinodo-
nosterephalus that's the thing to
bring out the hair" and he launched
forth into tireless panegyric of the
virtues of this singular compound, and
the advantages accruing from the pur-
chase of the larger-siZed bottles, until
the barber had no excuse for dallying
longer with him, and in voice of con-
eentrated rage hissed, ''Nextr' and
whispered in his late customers ear,
elf you'rea man-Oh, if you're man
come round here tonight after the
shop closes and meet me with your own
weepinsm Chicago Tribune.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-06
Ladies, shoes.

Among the multiplicity of articles in
the British Museum are some well-pre-
served examples of Egyptian sandals
made of palm leaves. In one of these,
slices of palm leaves overlapping each
other form the sole; these being bound
securely together by double band of
twisted leaves round the edge. As a
pad TO the feet these sandals must have
been exceedingly pleasant and grateful
in g hot climate. Ladies' of rank in
Egypt paid then, as now, great atten-
ton to the beauty Of their sandals. In
Western Asia, slippers left at the door
of an apartment signify that the master
or mistress, whoever may be therein, is
engaged, and no one thinks of intrud-
ing, not even a husband, though the
apartment be his wife's. A writer,
speaking of the termagants of Benares,
saws: g If domestic or other business
calls off one of the combatants before
the affair is settled, she coolly thrusts
her shoe beneath her basket and leaves
both upon the spot, to signify that she
is not satisfied" In this way she indi-
Gates that she keeps possession Of the
ground and argument during her una
voidable absence. A blow from a slip
per was more dreaded by Mussulmans
than a stroke from a pOgniard. The
latter might bring death, it is true, but
the former brought dishonor. Some of
the earliest and most distinctive exam
Piles of adorning pretty feet are found
in Jewish records. Thus in SOlomon's
Song (vii:2), the bride is thus ad-
dressed: "HOw beautiful are thy feet
with shoes (sandals), y Princes
daughterP In the case of Judith, of
the ApOorypha, although her personal
attractions, the splendor of her attire
and other ornaments may have attract
ed the attention of the fierce Holo-
fernes, the Assyrian General, it was her
sandals that chiefly charmed him
Public Opinion.