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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
sBrain q n erve

Nervous Prostration, Brain Weakness, Sexual
Debility, Loss of Manhood, Weakness, Discharges,
General of Special Debility resulting from early
youthful ndscretiOns, excesses vices or irregular
tiles (0ften continued to more mature years), cured
By Wells Health Renewer.n greatest remedy on
earth for Impotence, Premature Decline Sperma-
torrhpa and all forms of debility. 81; six bottles
s., at Druggists. Advice free Depot. So Barclay
ST., New York, and for Rock Island at Bengston's
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
MATNE ..

PORTLAND. Nov. 7.-The house and
outbuildings of Isaac Spafford, of Brown
field. burned Spafford perished in the
flames
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
MEDICAL.
wA sUEE THING I

Itnever fails, Cure yourself for 81 Prof. Cha
pins Buchu paiba-a quick, complete for al
Urinary, Kidney, Bladder ana Genital Diseases,
male or female. 81 at Druggists. Advice free.
Depot IS Barclay St., New York, and for Rock ISL
and at Bengston's.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07

OHICAGo, NOV.
Wheat Unsettled and higher; 1871 bid cash ;
14s bid Dec; 1914 Jan.
Confirm and higher: 421z cash ; 39s{ Dec: AZ
May.
Rye-71H.
Barley-S4.
Pork-strong and higher; Q 1910 90 cash; 80
bid Dec; 20 55 Jan.
Lard-stropg and higher; 40 cash; so bid
Dec; 655s Jan.
Whiaky--1 0s.
LIVE STOCK.
Hogs-Receipts 30 900; lIfeless and 5a1Oc lower
nominal !: light 4O83 60: packing 35d3 go; ship
ping 5C(d3 SO.
c ttle-Receipts $500; very dull really no
market
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07

To all persons residing in paludal dis
tricts. DR.. f. WiIhoft's Anti Periodic or
Fever and Ague Tonic, cannot be too
highly recommended 1t has been for
years a specific in malarial diseases. but
now that the proprietors, Wheelock, Fin
lay & Co, of New Orleans, give its com
position to the public, it should be PREFER
ed to any other proprietary medicine. All
Druggists keep it for sale.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07

Frank Miller's Harness Oil and Backing
is pronounced by the trade generally to be
the best manufactured. The grade of
these goods is always standard and their
reputation unsurpassed anywhere. The
firm is one of the Oldest in the country and
has the largest trade in It's line. diff
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
To-DAYS' ADVERTISEMENTS,
THE JOHN D. BILLINGS
Patent Steel and Iron Horseshoe,

Made complete, with Lever
Spring Platform-Continu-
Gus Calk. The best for
Horee-Itailroads, Farm and
Carriage Horses in the
world. Cures Tender and
Contracted Feet, Corns, In
terrier ng, Quarter crack,
Lam ness and all evils re-
surfing from the use OF the
common shoe. Trial Set,
With Nails 81 To measure
] place the loot on paper and
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
soSnaon. and Bismarck.

Looking at Bismarck one would not
suppose that he sways such almost omni-
potence, He is calm and cheerful, wary
and watching, SoZoDoNT don't look dit
ferent ffoul other preparations. But 1t
never fails in what it undertakes. Calm
and agreeable, it is death to parasites
which attack the teeth
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
st. Louis Market.

ST. LOUIS, Nov. Z.
Wheat-Opened higher. declined and then ad-
vanced; No red 205s al 81 cash; 2301 24lz
Dec; 21G31 2s2s Jan; 30%01 311 Feb; No 3, ]
1914 al 122l
Corn-Higher; 351s cash; a5s6 Dec; S61s Jan.
Oats-96H
Rye-6Sh.
Barley-S5.
whisky co.
Pork-l0 25
L4rd-6 80.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
LIVE STOCK

Hogs-Slow and lower: Workers and Baltimore
; 2503 40; packing 351S so; butchers to selec
8 40lD3 SIS; receipts I0,tOJ.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07

put on cold No heating Of foot Send for free H.
lustrated Pamphlet THE JOHN d. BILLINGS
PATENT HORSE SHOE COMPANY, 16I and 16s
Bank street Now York
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
ENGLAND.

LONDON. Nov. 7.-George Montague
| alias John Henderson. who was rearrested
after term of imprisonment and held to
| await action of American authorities on
bis confession of numbering a fellow SOL
dier in Baltimore, has been discharged,
The American consul stated that no eyi-
dence could be secured to substantiate his
prior assertion and the prisoner expressed
regret at making his utterly false state
ment.
Attempts are being made through mu-
tual friends TO settle the dispute between
Lawson aud Labouchere,
There was cabinet council yesterday
and another will be held day,
Private letters from Constantinople con-
firm the report of the extremity of distress
in financial matters of Turkey. Even the
pilgrimage to Mecca, which has hitherto
been provisioned at the expense of the
government is unable to get anv assistance
an event which has never before occurred
since the establishment Of the Ottoman
empire.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07

Why is Bismarck ike SPALDING g
GLUE? He sticks and holds on forever,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07
TELEGR.APlHIC.
r7s,eGraDhed totae Rock ekzssana argus. !
To-Dav's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Pr AECE.


FRANCE, Nov, Sat the opening ol
the bourse there was much fear of a catas
trophe, but later the feeling was rsassur-
ed. The Bank Eufopienne, will intervene
TO settle difficulties resulting from Phillip
parts speculations PhilIippart has
resigned the Craftsmanship of the bank.
He sprang like a meteor upon Paris about
the close of the year IA but was soon
declared bankrupt in all enterprises for
2s million francs in four years. He set
tied with his creditors by convincing them
that be had failed honesty, and reappear-
ed In theafnancial world He took up the
enterprise of the Banque Europienne with
a capital of one hundred million francs and
began race against the bourse specula-
ton. He bought largely OF Credit Mobi-
Iier shares, and with other schemes he
shone more brilliantly than ever, Four
days ago he toldithe directors of the bank
that coming settlements would be difficult.
and went to Liege, Belgium, to raise
money, Since then be has been anxiously
awaited, bat nothing has been heard from
him
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-07

Barley. ........................... 4O0sO
pats, .................... ............. 30
;ofn .... ............. -.............. 30
fye. ............. ....-................ 90
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
A Faithful Woman.

A correspondent writing from Philip
popoli, SAYS: Gas I was hurrying through
the streets of Philippopli, the day be-
fore yesterday, an hour or two atterward
we occupied the town, l saw a little
printed Am, tican flag stuck in the
corner Of'a building away up on top OF
the rocky hill that is piled up with
houses, jumbled together at all angles
and in every conceivable form of arChi-
lecture. Nothing could have been more
than the sight of this little
flag, and my first impulse was to rush
into the house and investigate the mat
ter, but l was unable 10 do so for the
moment, being on a mission which re-
Quired haste-tO put a stop TO plunder-
ing in a quarter Of the city not yet Oc-
cupied by trOops-and consequently did
not get an occasion to visit the owner
of the flag until the next day. ! met at
the door a very easily recognizable type
of an American woman, and she asked
me into a room which was so strangely
furnished that / could not believe my
eyes. American painted furniture.
American ChrOmOs in black walnut
frames; God bless our Home worked
in worsted; Scratch my Back on per
forated cardboard; a little vase on
even rocking chairs to sit in.
It was like making single stride from
ROumelia to America to cross the thresh-
old. I found I was in the home of
Mrs. MumfOrd, who has been in this
country, with the exception of a recent
trip to America, the past seven years
first in the American board of foreign
and later acting independently
in the interests of education. She had
arrived from her trip home shortly be
fore Gen. GOurke crossed the mountains
in summer, and reached PhilipoppOli
Just in time TO open a hospital for the
wounded who came in from Eski lara
and to give shelter aud protection to
numbers of Bulgarians. All through
the horrible scenes of the succeeding
days, weeks and months Bulgarians
were hanged in the streets here, she re-
mained at her work. The panic which
started here when Suleiman Pasha an
his intention of burning the
town on the approach of the Russians,
did not affect her any, as I can find out,
and I believe she IS about the only
in the town who did not
pack up the furniture to escape. Ger
tainlv her devotion to the work she has
undertaken solely in the cause of hu-
manity deserves every praise
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
Paine,s Confession Of Faith.

Thomas Paine is generally held to
have been an atheist, without the
slightest veneratiOn or regard for re-
HgiOn. To those who hold this belief
it may be of interest to learn what his
real opinions were on this subject. The
following is his confession of faith: 81
believe in one God and no more, and I
hope for happiness beyond this life. I
believe in the equality of man, and
believe that religious duties consist in
doing justice, loving mercy and en-
deavOrlng to make our fellow creatures
happy. But some, perhaps, will say,
Are we 10 have 10 word of G0d-no
revelation? / answer yes; there is a
word Of GOd-theTe is a revelation.
The word Of God is the creation we be-
hold; and it Is in this word, which no
human invention can counterfeit or alter,
that God speaketh universally to man.
1t breaches to all nations and TO all
worlds; and this word Of God reveals
TO man all that is necessary for man to
know Of God. Do we want to cOntem-
plate His power? We see it in the i'm
mensity Of the creation. Do we want to
contemplate His wisdom? We see it
in the Interchangeable order by which the
incomprehensible whole is governed.
Do We want TO contemplate His munifc-
euce? We see it in the abundance with
which He fills the earth. Do we want
to contemplate His mercy? We see it
in His not Withholding that abundance
even from the unthankful In fine, do
we want to know what God is? Search
not the book called the Scriptures, which
any human hand might make, but the
called the Creation"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
The Gardens Of Nassau.

A lady gives this incident of her visit
TO Nassau, in the West Indies group;
Besides the surf and the shells, and
the lighthouse and the blockade run
ner. and the bathing, there is not much
to be seen at Hog Island, and visitors
are soon ready to re-embark and skim
along the bright waters of the "Sea
Garden" where the boat is mOOred, and
if the waters are calm enough the white
sand of the sea-bed may be seen glim-
mering up through the waves. But
presently Sampson produces his water
glass"-a square box, one end open, the
other fitted with common window glass ;
this end is thrust into the water for a
few inches, and the observer looking
into the open end is disposed to think
SIMPSONS simple-looking apparatus is
the veritable magic glass Of the old
stories, for through it a new world
opened.
Upon the white sand of the sea-bed
there grew as in a garden such marvel
Gus shapes of form and beauty as one
never sees in the upper air, for, like
many another lovely thing to pluck the
flowers of the garden is to destroy them
to make them ones own is to lose
them forever. Sea-furnS or Sea-tanS
wave their delicate foliage, tinted of
every shade of yellow and orange from
white to the deepest of gold, of dusky-
red and brown, and all but black the
sea-anemone, that wonderful hybrid of
flower and animal life, blooms or
breathes in evervarying tints F.; seaweed
of every shape and color floats idly in
the marvellous water; coral and sponge
grow year by year into forms of beauty
and use, and in and out of the subter
ranean grove glide the birds of this fair
garden, the dainty shining blue-fsh, and
many another fnny aristOCrat who seems
to find this his fitting home.
The boatmen always carry, among
other furniture of the boat, a boy or
two, dressed in diving trowsers and not
much else, who is here ready, for a
modest compensation, to dive and bring
up any special specimen ofsponge, coral
or sea-fan which the yoyager may point
out, and it is rather a peculiar sight to
watch one of these sable mermen tug
ging with both hands at a toughiy rooted
specimen, his feet waving fn-like above,
and presently returning breathless to
the surface bringing his spoil in tri-
umDh,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
4 Mnrk Of Art in Six Minutes.

We were at the Cafe Chautant the
other night. il is Il building somewhat
larger than the COrcoran Gallery of Art
in Washington. It is q great place for
music, songs and dances. There was one
very amusing feature. During one of
the e1ltr'dcicS they brought on an artist
who was billed TO paint marine view
in six minutes, all finished for hanging
(the picture not the artist)
The canvas was brought OH.
Out came the artist, a quiet, nervous
looking young man, about thirty years
of age.
His colors were all upon the palette,
and his brushes were in his hand.
Attention % cried out the director.
The artist seized a huge brush.
At a signal the orchestral band struck
up a clashing, maddeningly nervous
waltz.
As the first stroke was struck the artist
dashed a mass of yellow upon the upper
part of the canvas. Then a bit of blue,
then white; dash Of purple shadow,
and then with a quick twirl of 4 clean
brush, a dark blue sea is dashed in
against the horizon.
Two minutes gone.
The waltz goes OH faster and faster.
The brush keeps time. A huge rock is
sketched in with burnt sienna and black
A lighthouse Win a vermilIion range
lights dropped upon thetOpO of the rock.
Clash, crash, one, two, three, a boat
under full sail is thrown into the dim
distance. Clash, crash, one, two, three,
and another boat is dashed in. Light
upon the waters is thrown i'll with free,
steady hand. A huge brush then care
fully blends the edge of the masses, and
with a profound bow the artist turns TO
the cheering audience, gratihed that he
is through on time.
And the wonder is that the picture
is tolerably good in its broad effect II
is strong and clear. The cOlors are good,
and not muddily mixed. It was as good
a novelty as ! ever saw at any show, and
ii beats all how it amused the French
people.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
1 Remarkable Adrentnre.

A Amountain-climber, I. G. Thompson,
describes III q letter to the London Times
a remarkable adventure in the Alps.
One day he missed his way on the
Rothorn, and climbed up to a point on
the rocks from which he dared not at
tempt to descend. That is to say, he
shrank for more than five days from
making the attempt, and submitted to
the agOnies of starvation for that period.
q drank water at a brook" he writes,
"on Monday, about p. NJ, and again
about sunset on Saturday. In the inter
val had only Tainwater i could collect
from nv umbrella and my hat. 1 had
nothing Of any kind to eat and only
earth to suck. That delicious air was
food to me-" Yet during all this time
Mr.. Thompson retained compOsure
enough to write to his wife two or
three times a day, telling her how he
Jared and how he felt;" and he finished
the story after his escape, which, singu-
larly enough, he achieved virtually with
out assistance. "Ulrich Gertsch found
me by his house, tottering down in the
dark to the unfenced plank bridge Of
the Alpbach, about an hours walk from
Grindelwald." By this man he was
taken in and given food, and was helped
back the same night to his hotel.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
How 4 Man Feels when he is Hung.

One would naturally suppose that a
man who had suffered all the hOrl OTs
of hanging, Just short of actual death,
would never risk the gallOWs again; but
such, in one case at least, was not the
result. A hOusebreaker, named Smith,
was hanged at Tyburn, Dec. "a, 17O5, and
when he had hung nearly fifteen minutes
the people shouted, "A reprieve" He
was cut down, bled, and recovered. When
asked what his feelings had been, he
replied, in substance, that when lie
was turned of, he for some time was
sensible of very great pain, OccasiOned
by the weight of his body, and felt his
spirits in a strange cOmmOtiOn, violently
pressing upwards; that having forced
their way to his head, he, as it were, saw
a great blaze, or glaring light, which
seemed TO 60 out Of his eyes with flash,
when he lost all pain. That after he was
cut down, and began 10 come to himself,
the blood and spirits forcing themselves
into their former channels, put him, by
a sort of pricking or shooting, to such
intOlerable pain that lie could have
wished those hanged who cut him down.
Ever afterward he went by the name of
"half hanged Smith" This fellow soon
returned TO his former evil habits, and
was again tried at the Old Bailey for
hOuse-breaking, and the jury brought
in a special verdict, leaving the affair
to the decision of the twelve judges,
who decided in favor of the prisoner.
Even this second wonderful escape did
not deter him from resuming his NAL
practice, and third time he was to have
been brought to trial, but the prosecutor
died before the day appointed, and thus
he once more got free.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23

To MANAGE MEN.-To use men, to
manage men, to reap a golden harvest
through their learning, culture, wisdom,
genius and experience, one must know
what stuff they are made Of. Napoleon
knew men, and his presence in a large
French army was equal to forty thousand
soldiers. No man can get very much
from his own labor alone; he must
know how to employ other men.
Emerson says, "a man who knows men
can talk well onpolitics, trade, law, war,
and religion, for everywhere men are
led in the same manner" Again: "The
merchant works by the bookkeepers
and cashiers; the geologist reports the
surveys of subalterns." As beasts help
man when tanned and trained, so men
help men; but the better you under
stand the animal, and the more wisely
he is managed, the more you can get out
of him, and the better for all concerned.
To be a manager Of men is more than
wealth.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
TRUE LOGIC.

One Deacon Jones was heard to say
He doubted the title of the zone hoss shay"
NO deacon said he, was ever known
SIch q thing es a one hOss shay 70 own.
"Au' even admittin' the shay part true.
Wat would a nag like that'n do
To'rd drawing a shay an deacon, too?
For don the rel!er es good es own
The Critter was nOthin but skin an bOne2
"Ef the yarn he'd bin Of a rickety sleigh,
Made OF a box IN the plainest way,
Stead OF han some one hoss shay,
Then d endorse il with all my might,
But es It IS can l. anne dom right
San what II the wheel was jist thesame
As the author SCI was the deacon ain,
An not whit difference between the sIlIs,
But all alike ez was the thills?
What has this 10 do with a sldlin' road
When the shay has on a purity fair load?
An theine Of gravity tangIes the wheels
The lowern's, 1 mcan-tIII the veIckIe reels,
An the whole lets down fat as a toad?
mo. sir logic is logic. say what you will,
Whether applied 10 a Snay or a mill.
But when you come TO n drive on a hill
Il loses It's virt er, though logic still.
But the part TO which most object
In that er y0ru-ci / TecOneCt-
Is the fact the who,e is IncOrrect,
A serious thing when you Come-tO reflect
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23
so LIKE a FLOWER.


A lily grew by the River Of Life
Tender and meek, and fair.
Ont over the waves of the troubled tide,
That tossed themselves by the lily's side,
She breathed a perfume rare;
And vuya-eTs drifting down in the sea
Weary with labor and strife, maybe
Were cheered by the fragrant air.
swee.;y the sunshine. and softly the rain.
Fell where the lily grew:
And the wind that heaI on the rivers breast
scarce touched the leaves OF the Ily's crest
AS o er her head il flew:
And when night cluuded the strand and stream,
serene and Eu'y the golden gleam
or welcoming stars broke through.
But Time stood thoushtuIly whetting his scythe,
Close 10y the bank one day,
Where a flood Of glory. vapor fair
As If an angel were brOOdlng there
Over the lily lay:
And ever the fragrance pure and sweet.
Rose from The gloom that grew at his feet
Seeming the son breath OF May.
Then long o er the blossom with tender eyes
Time bowed his wlinklcd head;
Christ blesses the flowers that the earth doth mis-
What If send 10 the Savior this!
That aged reaper SAID.
He turned the glass IN his trembling hand;
Silently. swinly the shifting sand
Ran through in a silver thread.
BE Eazed down the river-the crimson bars
OF sunset filled the West:
The beautiful gates-they are open wide;
] II lay the lily afoat the tide
On some warm wave al rest
And gently then as a mother would,
He knelt where meekIy the sweet flower stood.
And gathered her 10 his breast.
And he placed her rondly anoat the stream;
Peacefully there she lay,
As a chld1n its cradle sinks TO sleen
When evening s earliest shadow creep,
SHINING as still al play:
And while Time stood IN the twilight there.
The sweet wind kissing his snOw-white hair
She passed from his sight away,
The lily grows by the River Of God
Tender, and meek. and fairl
Out over the waves Of the peaceful tide.
That ripple soft by the lilys side
She DreaIhed a perfume rare!
Ana vOyagers passing the pearly gates
Find rest. at last. where the loved one waits
With Chrst-her Christ over thereI
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Squibbles and the Wis
itoTs were sitting in the parlOr, and the
olive branch was sleeping quietly in an
inner room, from which the door opened
into the parlor. "Yes, ma'am," said
Squibbles, "there is something about
babies that appeals to the finer feelings
Of our nature; an indefnable presence
which sOltens and makes our hearts 60
out toward them; a subtle influence
which recalls-for Gods sake, Maria, go
in there and strangle that brat, or 90
something to make it shut up, so that a
man can hear himself talk in his OVID
house"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-01-23

A CHATIN A BARRIERS SHoP.-Barber-
"How long ago did you have your hair
cut?7
Customer-"AbOut three months age" +"
Barber-"Awful bad cut. Who cut it?'
Customer-"YoU did" Silence Of a
few minutes.
rber-(having somewhat recovered
his nerve)-'I see that your chin has
been cut by the last barber that shaved
you"
Customer-"Yes."
Barber-"YOu ought to have built a
head on him bigger'n a mule"
Customer did" Barber continues
to shave with great care
In the case of a broken phOnograph
the least said is soonest mended,