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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-30
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE
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Certificate of a Prominent Citizen
of Adrian, Mich, who had not
Walked without Clutches for
two years. He threw them away
in "a Hours after the first APP
pIication of Wizard Oil.
DR.. HAMLIN:-When I met your agent
here, in September, l had been two years suf-
fering severelywith Rheumatism, half of that
time confined to the house, and three months
at time to my bed. The balance of the
time was compelled to crawl around upon
crutches. 1 used medicines without number,
including a large quantity of morphine, all of
which proved worse than useless. As to what
| suffered, the English language cannot tell
it to any one who has not tried its realities.
The first application of Wizard Oil gave
me relief in fifteen minutes, and dispelled my
doubts in twenty-four hours. l used bottle
! day for ten days. The next morning after
the use of the first bottle,
left my Clutches at home and
walked down town without them
for the first time in two years.
Since thenI have not used them, and can now
| split cord of wood as quick as any man in
such a sudden cure would kill me, but wanted
change, though it should be death
That all who read this may know how |
nave been, | will say, when commenced
| using Wizard Oil, l could reach around nv
leg above the knee with one hand
was reduced to a mere sIselc-
ton, and most of the time
when L moved upon
clutches, or tried to stand
without them, L could not raise
either foot from the floor.
used fifteen bottles in all, but have not used
any for two months. [ now feel as we'll as
ever did in my life, and have gained thirty-five
pounds in flesh. But l must tell you it seems
almost like dream. You can refer to me as
often as you wish, and hundreds of the citi-
zens of Adrian will testify to the truth of
my statements.
JOHN ". FAIRBANKS, Adrian, Mich.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-30

our Palace Cars is a SMOKING SALOON whera
YOU enjoy your Havana at all hours of the day
Magnificent Iron Bridges span the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers at all points crossed bythis line, and
transfers avoided at Council Bluffs, Leayen-
worth and Atchison, connections being made in
Union depots.
THE PRINCIPAL r. r. CONNECTIONS OF THIS
GREAT THROUGH LINE ARE AS FOLLOWS
AtCHICAGo with all divergtng lines for the East
and South.
At ENGLEwooD with the Lake Shore Il Michigan
Southern and Pttsburg. Ft-Wayne & Chicago X. Rds.
AT WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, with PittsbErg, Gin
cinrati d st. Louis r. r.
At LA SALE, with Illinois Central Il. Il.
AtPEoRIA, with p, z. 81 p, l. d. !. b. j w.
At Rock ISLAND, with We stern Union x. X. and
Rock Island Peoria Railroads
AT DAVENPORT, with the Davenport & North
Western H. r.
AT WEST LIBERTY, With the Burlington Cedar
Rapids & Northern K. r.
AtGRISNELL. with Central r. R of Iowa
At DIES MONIES, with D. NJ. Il Fit. Dodge X. f.
At COUNCIL BLUFFS, with Union Pacific R. K.
AtCoLCMBUS JUNCTION, with Burlington, Cedar
Rapids Il Northern r. X.
At OTTUMwA, with Central X. r. Of Iowa. St.
Louis. Kan City & Northern and c., II. Il .. X Kds
AT KEoKUK, with Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw;
Wabash. and St Louis, Keokuk & NV. p Rds
At BEVERLY, with Kan. City, 81. J. & e. b. X. r.
At ATCHIsON, with Atchdson, Topeka Santa Fe;
AtchsOn e. Neb. and Cen BF. Union Pacific r. lids
AT LEAvESwoRTH, with b. r. and X. Cen. Il. Rds
oGzA, DIES MONIES, COUNCIL BLUFFS,
treat Rock Island Route" are sold by all
ada.
Onae ticket ONCE, address,
e. ST. JOHN.
lFna.s
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12
FRUITS OF MARRIAGE.

A Hindoo died; happy thing to do,
When fifty years united to shrew,
Released, he hopefully for entrance cries
Before the gates of Brahma's paradise.
"Hast been through Purgatory? Brahmn
said.
az have been married" and he hung his
head.
"Come in. come in! and welcome, too, my
sOni
Marriage and Purgatory are as one."
In bliss extreme he entered Heavens door,
And knew the peace he ne'er had known
before.
He scarce had entered in the gardens fair
Another Hindoo asked admission there.
The self same question Brahma asked
again:
" Has been through Purgatory?" "No. What
then?'
"Thou canst not enterr" did the god reply
&" He that went in was there no more than l.
" All that is true, but he has married been,
And so on earth has suffered for all sim"
married? IT'S well, for I've been married
twice.
Begone! Wen have no fools In Paradise
London FIGARO.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12
Spirit Photographs in Court

A singular suit at law has JUS -
commenced in Dansville, 4. L. "
having begun proceedings agsina W.,
Lee, a photographer of that Piaoa /. |.
appears that Dorr came to kocnsaa
short time ago and hearing that tns =: =
called spirit photographs were y n
taken at a certain place, went 70 2! =
success in securing upon the SAM
alive with his own the faces o. ~ n
acquaintance. He succeeded Y
own satisfaction, which we will PIE
was the more easily obtained becsas I.
the fact that he was before urn
lever in Spiritualisn. On RETURNS y
Dansville he became involved u -
troversy with Lee regarding the ~. -
and the latter volunteered the opl,,
that the whole business was lu ~
and that he could demonstrate I'D
ton to the others satisfaction. a.
stated that Lee made trial, ana n,
ward abandoned further attempt
sues for this breach OF contaes -
claims that he does not care -
for the value of the picture - y ~
establish the fact that photCg N
spirits are actually being tak en- y
trial will take place on the ~ 100
and it is expected that . large nI ILL., &
witnesses from the photogrspes.1s r
clergy, and the medical professor s,ss... !
be called. The Dansville ssg s.ar1
commenting upon the alleged PR sss
non, says: :" 10 produce upon W. ! 3
negative plate at the same nm ! n j
ting of familiar faces other tn ma. an
ter, involves a mystery not 70. -
by the knowing ones, and We =. ...iijjs
ing expectantly to know wns !. r rssudb
tations are to come next" ~ ssrsdy
to be seen what the legal trisi rs sd 81
will develop. but it is to be nop sud 3
it will be sufficiently thorougn. 1 rsst d
ia, stive to set many MINDS :.
this question.-Rochesser O'''o"'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12
SUMMER AND WINTER.

In the mellow month OF June
When the tawny thrushes sing,
And the yellow cowslips spring
From the meadows by the brooks,
When in dusky forest nooKs,
Elfin huntsmen wind the norm
And the clover scented morn
Ripens into cloudless noon
Then love to lie alone
In the grass on some cool hill,
While the meadow larks all shrll
life is music" Care and pain
Fare but ill in Summers reign,
When the hills are wrapped IN sheets,
When the snow whirls on the leas,
And the icy fingered trees
Sparkle in the moons cold hght,
When the clouds in the long n1ght
Weave pail for the dead year,
And the keen wind hurls its spear
Right at every one it meets
Then my heart Is never SAD.
For think of breezy Spring,
And the joys that it will bring
OF the robins on the lawns
Piping in the dewy dawns.
-Scribner for June
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12
Bees on the Wing.

When swarm leaves for the woods
they are off before you fairly know it.
They drift away from the hive in q
widespread and apparently aimless
concourse, then suddenly gather up
their skirts, draw to gather their forces,
and away they 60, humming, flying
vortex of bees, the Queen apparently
in the center and the mass revolving
about her as a pivot, over orchards and
meadows, across creeks and swamps,
or woods and deep valleys, straight
for the appointed tree, slow at first,
so that you can keep up with them,
but presently with speed that would
tire fox-hound. In this flight the in .
dividual bees do not move in right
lines, or straight forward like a flobk
OF birds, but round and round like
chat in a whirlwind; unitedly they
form whirling, revolving, nebulous
mass fifteen or twenty feet across, that
goes as straight as projectile to its
mark. They are not partial as to the
kind of tree-pine, hemlock, elm,
birch, maple, hickory-any tree with
good cavity high up or low down.
A swarm OF mine ran away from the
new patent hive I gave them, and took
up their quarters in the hollow trunk
OF an old apple-trce across an adioin.
ing field. The entrance was a mouse
hole near the ground. Another swarm
in the neighborhood deserted their
keeper and went into the cornice of an
clubhouse that stood amidst evergreens
in the rear of large mansion. But
there is no accounting for the taste OF
bees, as Samson found when he dis
covered the swarm in the carcass Tor
more probably the skeleton) of the lion
he had slain.-John Burroughs, in
Scribner for May ~,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12
Babyl0nian Tablets.

The large find of contract tablets
which was made by the Arabs in 1874,
and which furnished to the British Mu-
scum the splendid series of Egibi tab
lets, has now practically come to an end,
not, however, without the elimination
of more than 5000 tablets dealing with
the commercial transactions of this large
firm of bankers from the commence
ment of the late Babylonian Empire I'M
til the fall of the Persian. Stimulated
by the ready sale which they found for
these antiques in the European markets,
the Arab dealers have continued their
explorations in other parts of the
mounds of Babylon, and have unearthed
quantity of inscribed tablets of class
hitherto but scantily represented in the
European museums. These tablets,
some of which bear dates and dockets,
belong to the period of the Parthian
Empire and the dynasty of Arsaces, and
relate to abstruse mathematical calcula-
tons as to the relationships of the sun,
moon, and stars. They are extremely
difficult to, read, as they are evidently
written in an enigmatical manner, and
the key to the theory of numbers can
not as yet be found. However, when
this shall be solved, there is little doubt
we shall find that they throw some light
on the Cabalistic philosophy. The as
tronomy and astrology of the Babylon
ians appear from these tablets to have
taken new lease of life, and to have
borrowed some Western theories. A
collection of more than thousand of
these tablets, some perfect, some very
fragmentary, has arrived in England,
and it is to be hoped they may soon be
translated or examined, so as to solve
some of the theories of the later Babylon
ian philosophy.-London Athengum.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12

A COMICAL trait of Russian manners
is sketched in a Russian journal called
the Molca. In some parts of Russia it is
the custom to ornament wedding fes-
tivities with retired Generals in full
parade uniform. This custom is par
ticularly favored by the bourgeoise, who
like to make display of their relations
with high dignitaries. The retired
Generals are paid for their attendance a
sum ranging from five silver roubles
upward, according to the number of
decorations they wear. The hired Cen
eral comes early and stays late, and ap-
pears to be on terms of intimacy with
the family. At the close of the fete he
receives his fee and usually goes home
in state of advanced intoxication, if,
indeed, he is able to get home at all.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12

= An Irish Judge said to condemned
prisoner: "You are to be hanged, and
l hope it will prove a warning to you. {"
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

THE LARGEST INFANT ON RECORD
The largest infant at birth, Of which
there is any authenticated record, was born
in Ohio. The newborn boy was twenty
three and three-quarters pounds in weight
1.-THE ordinary weight being about six
pounds), and thirty inches in height (the
ordinary height being about twenty
inches). The circumference of the head
was nineteen inches, and the foot was
five and half inches in length. Six years
ago the same woman became the mother
of child eighteen pounds in weight and
twenty-four inches In height. THE size
AID weight Of the babe, though e1traor-
binary, are proportionate to the size of the
parents. The mother, Mrs. M. ". Bates,
Of Nova Scotia. is seven feet and nine
inches high; and the father, a Ken
tuckian, is seven feet and seven inches
high.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

The Richmond dispatch" says the new
bonds of Virginia will be ready by the 1st
Of June anil adds That great many people
are funding their old bonds into ''pePlers.'
so as to be prompt to avail themselves of
tie new funding. One party offered, Fri
day. about 100000 for funding; another
offered $4,000.
The New York Tribune of Monday,
saws Francis o. French has returned
from Winchester, Va, where he completed
the details for exchanging the present is
sue of Virginia bonds for the new issue
authorized by the last Legislature. The
-xchange of bonds will formally begin this
morning by the Council of Foreign Bond
holders at London, and in behalf OF the
Funding Association of the United States,
at the Bank of New YORK, in this city
The Planters National and First Nation
al Banks of Richm nd have also been des-
ignated as repositories for the State Of
Virginia. The new bonds are being pre-
pared by the American Bank Note Com
pany, and are to lie ready for delivery on
June l.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

The House Friday, with great unani-
nifty, says the Washington correspondent
of the Richmond "Dispatch," passed the
bill of Hon. Jno. L. Harris to amend sec
ton 6SS of the Revised Statutes OF the
United States SO that it will read: The Su-
preme Court shall have power to issue
writs of mondamus, in cases warranted by
the principles and usages of law, to any
courts appointed under the authority CT
the United States, or to persons holding
Office under the authority of the United
States where State, or an ambassador or
other public minister or consul or vice
consul. is party. A correspondent of
tim Alexa dria .'Gazette'' adds:
The neat way in which Mr.. Harris, of
Virginia, got bis bill for settling Judge
Rives through both the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House, and the House itself.
last Saturday, before the Radicals had
sssnaelt the MICE" is commented upon
generally and favorably.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16
FUNNY DIVORCE CASE. Washington

FUNNY DIVORCE CASE. Washington
probably has as many curious phases ofthe
divorce of husband and wife as any city in
the country. Every day brings something
new. The last is a somewhat notable fami-
ly we see together daily, apparently in har-
mony. They consist of husband, wife and
two little babies. who lived together at the
home Of the husbands parents until the
wife's certificate of divorce came along
some weeks ago, from Indiana. Grounds,
''incompatibility of temper" y and thereup-
on the wife packed up her trunks, gather
ed up one Of the children and moved over
to the home of her own parents, who are
Well-to-do people. II was all very pleasant
the ex-husbaud, with his one-half of the
progeny. politely accompanied the ex-wife
and her division of offspring, and had her
baggage slowed away in her new home;
after little family chat all round the ia
BILE the male division withdrew with his
baby. At the door: "Ta-ta, come and see
me when you CAM quoth she. II will,
my dear: you must come around and see
US when you can,'' quoth he. The babies
| were kissed by the several parties in inter-
est. and the ex-husband and his half of the
nuptlal issue went off cheerily homeward.
And SO they kept it up; daily visits. The
wife was born in this city, and never has
been dozen miles away from it Neither
of the parties has ever seen the Hoosier
State. But an Indiana court decreed them
divorced. - Washington Capital.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16
The suit AGAINST Bradley Johnson and his

The suit against Bradley Johnson and his
associates, brought by authority Of an act
of the Legislature to recover from them
s1S2, O00, the excess alleged to have been
retained by them in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal settlement, has been dismissed
by Judge Wexford CT the Richmond Gil
cult court for three reasons:
1st. The contract made by the Public
Works was authorized. legal, and binding
2nd. Because no charge or imputatlon OF
fraud against defendants has been sustain
ed or proved; and
3rd. Because this suit was improperly
brought, and the bringing of it was ultra
vireS, either the Governor who ordered IL.
or the House of Delegates WHO directed
it, or the counsel who brought the suit.
The bill must be dismissed.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16
1,dge Hughes Of the U. s. District

Judge Hughes Of the U. S. District
Court on Wednesday refused the applica-
ton for writ of habeds corpus on behalf
of Ed. Kinney, colored and Martha Hall,
white, now held in the Virginia peniten-
tiary under five years sentence for living
as man and wife. This was case where
the pasties went to Washington and were
married and then returned to live in Han
over county. Yhe court held that the law
to prohibit mixed marriages was within
the unrestrained legislative power OF Yir-
ginia to enact it is not prohibited BY
any provision of the National Constitu-
ton. ana therefore a Federal court has no
jurisdiction to -e|lieye against conviction
under it, by habeas eefpas.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

FASHION IN BOOTS AND SHOES. -In til con
hon o struetlon OF the hsman foot twenty
size, and their artculations union form series
OF arches and springs, and thereby constitute an
admirable elastic foundation base, upon which,
mans superstructure, or the human pedestal CON-
fortably rests.
That the natural and unrestraned freedom of
motion and action of these various bones and spring.
shall not be interfered with is in all importa t
many instances of vital consideration. and in the
construction OF any covering or protection to the
and conformity employs in his stock of boots and
shoes manufactured on these principles, in a bene-
factor to his
1t is no exaggeraton to say that noe orly the COM
fort OF individuals is destroyed by un'cientfcally
constructed boots and Shoes but the lives Of
are materially shortened and undoubte div imperiled
ana Il wisdom upon the that
such annoyances and injury, in the articles he dis
penses for the public utility and necessities.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

A MuTToN-LovINa HoRsE'-Mrs. M.
G.. barrow has, among other DOMESTIC AMI
mails on her farm at Brady Mill, Md,
soout seventeen miles below Keyser, on
che Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a horse
that EXHIBITS the traits of a sheep killing
dog. When he can get at the44 he will run
down small sheep or lamb, kill 1T and
drink its blood, and then eat the raw flesh.
The hofse has frequently been caught in
the act Of shees-kllling and beaten as
punishment, but its appetite for raw NUT
ION is not abated. The pecrniafisy is said
to be = very rare ones-Keyser Ky, Ya.,,
Echo.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

A corresp n lent asks if we recolleci
log ans speech before the war to the ef-
f,ct that .'before Lincoln's hirelings can
pass through Our country to invade our
Southern brethren, they must pass over
the dead bodies Of the sons of Egypt
Perhaps the Washington POST" can hunt
up the record.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

The T. S. Circuit in its decree for the
sale Of The Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio
Railroad gives the road until next Janua-
ry to settle its past due interest. after
which time 80 days viii be given before the
sale takes place. it is settled that the
load is not to be dismembefed, pnt to he
sold as an entirety.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

The constitution just adopted by Cali
fornia promises to drive all the capital out
of the state. The savings banks OF San
Francisco last year paid SO, 195 taxes; un
der the new constitutio thes will have t.
pay over $6000 900 per annum. The rail
roads in the State will have to pay abo'
$500. 900 per annum, and yet they ar
prohibited by the new constitution from
e,argi ng increased rates for transporta-
tion
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

A JOKE ON THE CANDIDATEs.-A wag
collected the candidates together in the
front court room last Monday. After he
had collected respectable number and
every one was anxious to learn the object
of tha meeting, he very grave
ly informed them, that he was commits
stoned to ascertain who was the ugliest
man. After laugh at their own expense
they dispersed and resumed work.
Woodstock Herald.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16
The statement that Marshall Hange

The statement that Marshall Hangern
the former Speaker of the House Of Dele
Gates in the last House, refused to take
sigO of pay brought within reach of the
members BY the call Of the Governor iof
nn extra session, would lead to the i'm
preston that he was the emily member who
declined to accept the extra pay, but such
is not the fact, five members of the Sen
ate, including Gen. Lee, Of Fairfax, and
Mai. Daniel, Of Lynchburg, and severa,,
members of the House Of Delegates. hay-
ing likewise declined to ACCEPT the addi-
tionai pay.-Alepqm1raa Gdzelts,
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

One Of the largest iron mines on the
canal below Lynchburg has just been sold
to parties who contemplate working it at
once.
There was freeze at Govington Allie
ghany county, Friday night which DAM
aged the fruit.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16
A SuccEssruL OPERATION

alton for the removal of cataract upon
Congressman Tucker, which was preform-
ed by DIR. Chisholm one week ago, has
been followed with entire success. The
bandages were yesterday removed, and Mr..
Tucker sight in the operated eve is clear
and good. 1t is further learned that Mr..
Tucker has suffered no pain whatever dur
ing the treatment, and expresses quite as
much surprise and qualification as do his
friends who have visited him at the almost
magic transformation which few days has
brought about. -Baltinaorc American We'd
nesday.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

If the Cincinnati, Chesapeake & Ohio"
road has no better prospects of being built
than those set forth by Mr.. J. D. Watson
in Cincinnati interview, it's chances are
slim indeed.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

Senators Massey and Paul were announ-
ced to speak at Wytheyille last Monday. At
Bedford court, May 9th, Gen. Malone,
Senator Massey, Maj. Jno. ". Daniel,
Gen. Jno, Echols and Mr.. r. A. Coghill
have been invited to speak.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

The most charming reading in the Vir-
ginia papers at this time are the letters
of DR.. Geo. W. Bagby, describing his
travels through the State. Their humor,
originality, philosophical serenity, and
touching home pictures of old-time life in
Virginia, keep us on the look out for
their appearance in the Richmond
sState."
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-05-16

There will be two monuments unveiled
az Winchester on the 9th of June. Gen.
Joe Johnston is TO be Chief Marshal and
Senator Morgan, OF Alabama, is to deliver
cshe oratibn.