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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27

Before Carroll had quite recovered his
senses the child had gone home breath
and worn out with her strange, swift
work, and. little woman as she was,
wound up with a good cry. The sick
woman did not waken, and So she stole
into her mothers room to tell her story,
which seemed dream, so quickly had
it all happened.
ss - - - - - :.
1t was New Years eve, and the little
group in Johns cottage welcomed
Kearney's handsome face as he came in
their midst to say,
"Now what shall it be for this brave,
little woman A silk dress, purse Of
gold ?''
John cleared his throat, and said in
his homely awkward way,
= "Master Kearney, my Annie was the
one God sent to watch you. and may be
she saved you from harm. Now we
don't want to be paid for doing the
Lords work, but when you promised
Annie to give her what she would ask,
the child thought out for herself what
to say, and wrote it down or got her
teacher to do it for her. [ hope you
will take it kindly, sir. Boy and man
| have given loving service, sir, and [
and mine say over no daily prayer that
your name out.
Carroll looked from the one to the
other wondering at their solemn faces,
and thrust the pen in the ink bottle
Annie held before he opened the paper.
He started as he saw in the we'll
known hand writing these simple words,
81 promise, by Gods help, from this
day forward, to drink nothing that can
intoxicate. 1t was dated duly, and it
only renamed for him to sign his name.
There was little pause, when each
one held their breath as he shut his
eyes and knit his brows in earnest
thought a moment, then dashed his firm
bold signature at the foot of the simple
document and gave it to Annie. saying,
ga Kearney keeps his word" and
then added softly. "God helping"
Through the open door, Aunt Ellis
had been watching all, and now faint
little piping voice quavered out,
"Prase God from whom all blessings fow,"
and sang it softly to the end.
- = - = =
That was many years ago. In the
grand old house on the hill. Carroll
Kearney and his gentle wife Lilly, kept
open house each New Years day, and
with lights and fires, and right good
cheer the mansion welcomes ALL But
all the light finds not wine cup with
its ruby lure, the fires warm no unsteady
hands, and the good cheer lacks the
subtle poison of the adder's sting.
Annie had studied we'll through her
girlish years, and in her turn is guiding
three little Kearneys through spelling
book and '.jografy.." Aunt Ellis went
to sleep before the bluebirds came back
to their haunts or the snow drops rung
their bells in the spring wind of that
bright New Year, when left-handed
man did right-handed action, and
signed Carroll Kearney's name thereto
And John and his wife lived peacefully
on, In their own cottage now, or rather
Annies, for that was her New Years
present when another year came around
and he had won his bride. A pleasant
shady spot, where the sun shone in the
morning, and the grateful shadow came
in the summer afternoon, and all the
people knew it by the pleasant name O
'Kearney's Promise" ."-Ethet Lam,
Beers, IN Christian Weekly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27

The decline in silver in London has
had an unfavorable effect upon CONNER
cial affairs in Mexico. Although doub-
lie standard of silver and gold is provided
by law, gold coinage commands consid-
erable premium over silver, varying from
IA to Is per cent. Q. S. Minister Fos-
ter writes from Mexico that the decline
in silver must be regarded as a great
national calamity to that country.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27
THE FIRST SORROW.

Beautiful boyi so still tonight;
Little pale face, twas once so bright;
Weary mother, with fearful eye,
Patiently hoping he will not die.
Oh, there is no grief so deep and clear,
None springs from the heart like mothers tear.
Why wilt thou leave the bright green earth?
When the sunshine and roses are bursting forth,
When joy and plenty are on the wing,
Away to welcome the beautiful Spring.
And clouds of light from the crystal shore
Are gliding in at the window and door?
Why wilt thou go, my own sweet child?
Is the world too cruel, and in sin defiled?
Canst thou not venture thy spotless soul
Where waves of the deepest color roll?
Nor dare to launch thy little boat,
Sweet boy, on the waters unbound and afloat?
All have watched thee with jealous care,
And waited thy name on the wings of prayer;
Have listened thy tones with earnest Joy,
And caressed thy form my angel boy,
Heaven wills it, rise this test above,
With the faith and trust of mothers love.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27

1t is said that necessity knows no law.
This accounts for people making such a
virtue of necessity.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27

The oldest inhabitants in Texas and
Louisiana do not recollect winter in
which such an amount of snow has fall
en- as during the present. There have
been several weeks of skating around
Dallas. Texas, and sleighs have been
run for the accommodation of the public
at Shreveport, La; while the telegraph
wires have been down for a week near
Galveston under loads of sleet.
Can harbor buoy be called child
oe &bo sao
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
BARTON, VT.

a a n a week in your own town. IS outfit free
INGkONo risk. Reader. If you want business at
persons OF either can make great
pay all the time they work, write for partic-
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
Thursday, September 10. 1879.
Consistent, Very.

THE truth is, that the less public ofi-
GERS have to do with partisan political
management the better it is for the public
service and for the party. A public OH
Ger can best promote the interests of his
party by rendering faithful and efficient
service in performing the duties Of his
Office, - Letter of r. B. Hayes. Aug, 10,
1879.
And yet R. B. Hayes, who by the per-
fdy of 10 Bradley and by the grace OF
the electoral commission, occupies the
White House, did, on yesterday, at Youngs-
town, Ohio, indulge in political speech.
With singular want Of appropriateness
he chose a military reunion as the occasion
of this political speech, strikingly in con-
trast with the good taste of Gen. Ewing
who, at the recent soldiers meeting in
Steubonville, carefully avoided all partisan
illusions. His speech as forwarded to the
press of the country in pamphlet form,
days before its delivery, is mainly devoted
to the questions Of states rights and negro
disfranchisement-in other words, to the
best plan for revivinR old sectional quarrels
aud arraying solid North against solid
South. In the light of the above extract
from his letter what must be an honest
opinion of Hayes?
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
The Ohio Campaign.

Anyone who imagines that the political
contest in Ohio is not being desperately
waged is mistaken. Unlike the democrats
Of New York our friends in that state
realize the Importance of united opposi-
tion to the republican party and are just
getting down to their work. The cam
paign committees have made arrange
meuts to increase the vigor of the Ewing
campaign by a large number OF meetings
to be held every night from the 25th inst.
until the eve of the election in October.
1t is said that as many as two hundred
effective speakers have been engaged to
cheer up the democratic masses, and that
among the number are all the powerful
greenback orators 10 the country who
realize the fact that they can accomplish
nothing outside of the regular democratic
organization.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

The New York FcpresS. John Kelly'S
paper. says, "aDyoneis apt to be mistaken,
but boy never pats short horned bull
on the head but once" John Kelly knows
that the strength and prestige of Tam
many consists in it's invarlable support of
the regular democratic nomination, yet
here he is for a second time in his political
history fooling around the short horns of
democracy. He will never outgrow the
humping he will get this time. IF Robin
son is elected Kelly will never again come
to the surface, and if defeated the odium
of defeating the party will forever attach
itself to MIR. Kelly aud destroy whatever
OF Influence he might have had in future
national party conventions or conventions
of his own state.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
The Man with a Grievance.

We we'll remember how John Kelly, the
boiler of Tammany, opposed Tiiden at st.
Louis, saying from the balcony Of the
Lindel Hotel that he could not carry New
York, yet what was the result? He now
fights Robinson under the pretext of his
being Tilden's friend. The real secret
is probably because Gov. Robinson has
removed some of Kelly's friends from Of
fee We do not believe the democracy of
the Empire state will be so foolish as to make
Mr.. Kolly's grievances their own as the
republicans have done with ConkIing. and
his grievance against Hayes. Mr.. Kelly
has furthermore made the mistake of
thinking that Tilden will have the same
support from other states outside of New
York that he had in the st. Louis conven.
ton.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
Masters Sale.

STATE OF ILLINOIS,
ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, %
In he Crcnit Cont, to the January term, A. D.
lSI9.-In Chancery.
William McNutt, vs.. William w. Armstrong and
Mary Armstrong.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue OF decree
of said Court, entered in the above entitled cause
on the 22d day OF January. A. y. 1879, shall, on
saturday, the 4th day of October A. D. 1879 at the
hour of two O'Clock in the afternoon, at the north
door of the Court House, III the city OF Rock ISL
and, in said county Of Rock Island to satisfy said
decree, sell at public vendue, to the highest and
best bidder for cash III hand those certain parcels
Of land, sit"ate the county Of Rock Island and
state Of Illinois, known and described as follows,
to wit:
The east half % of lot eight ~, and lots nine
(9) and ten 0 in block eighty 1907, in the town OF
Andausia.
Dated at Rock Island, IL, this Sd daysof Sep
TENDER, a. D. 1879.
HENRY CURTIS, JR.,
Master in Chancery, Rock Island County, II.
CONNELLY Il MCNEAL.
COmprts Solicitors. 9-3dtd
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

In his report to the Grand Lodge. pow
IN session at Baltimore, the Grand Sire of
the Order of Odd Fellows favors a repeal
OF the constitutional provision restricting
membership to white men only. Certainly
Il th7 uegro, no matter how scliom, were
to meet white men on an equal footing in
such an Order the effect upon his race
would be excellent-N. Y. Herald
The negro can be made the equal of all
men before the law, but when this order
undertakes to do what the creator never
intended and what never can be done
that OF making the negro socially the equal
OF all men-it will have passed its day of
usefulness, for the Order of ODD Fellows
is prominently social order.
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reemlnently a social order.

THE HeJreV Leader: III the Republi-
cans had taken counsel of the Democrats
before they went to Saratoga and asked
their opponents what to do, the Demo
cratic advice would have been nominate
Cornell on a solid North platform Such
platform ought to be abhorreut to every
good citizen, as it will certainly be spurned
by every business man who really desires
the return of national prosperity"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Capt Morris was nominated for coroner
ol course That was the intention-thaI
was wnat they went down there for-apd
nobody seemed to have any other idea
The same Is true Of Mr.. Gordon. for sur-
VeyOr. Moline Dispatch. ~ ''
The same is true Of Davie' brother Bob
VI course it was the intention; the mana.
gers of the machine SO ordered, and it wa.
waste of time for any other candidates &c
put In claims for nomination.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

The indianapolis Sentinel: The re-
cent elections in California and Maine are
suggestive. If they do not teach the Dem
ocratic party the absolute Importance of
thorough organization, of dismissing every
element of discord, of unifying, solidifying,
and harmonizing, then, indeed, is the
Democratic party in fair way TO throw
to The dogs all Of its triumphs over con-
spIrators and conspiracies since 1874"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Norfork IVA Ldndneark::-"The RENE
dy for this tthe New York democratic spltl
will be for the South to go into the next
Convention and name some good and true
man Of the North, unspotted by profess
sioual politics. and make an appeal to the
country to put him in Office, not as par,
tisap, but as a patrlotn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

A college professor said that she who
erp ectS to rate high 10 his class, must
not erpectorate on the floor" Much OF
hawking and splitting was, no doubt,
caused by catarrh. which the professor
knew could be readily cured by the use OF
few bottles of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
adu
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

THE ARGUS JOB PRINTING Rooms
turn out Cards, Circulars, Note Heads
Bill Heads, Law Briefs, and all Other
kinds of Printing, in the highest style of
the art, apd on the most reasopableterms.
And THE ARGUS Book BNDERY is doing
all kinds of work in that line, neat, quick
and cheap. The friends of the paper and
the public generally are invited to give our
work trial, dwt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

Of Louis is to have grand military
tournament, Oct. lst. at which there will
be offered prizes of $1,000, $1,000 and
$500. Companies will DO there from New
York, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Cincinnati,
Memphis, Nashville, Chicago and Rock.
ford.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
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,
NORTBEwE@ EST.

~ 1bkG e s 4 w a. So i
Trains leave Rock Island as follows: Dav Elk.
press at 1856 m, arriving at Racine $50 N, and
arriving at Racine 900 m, and Milwaukee 9:l5 a
m, connecting at Fulton with Chicago a North
western Railroad for Morrison, Sterling and Dixon
At FreepOrs with Illinois Central Railroad for Du
buque, Lacrosse, and all points North. At Beloit
with the Madison Division of the Chicago 81 North
western Railway for Madison At Clinton juno
ton with the Western Division of the Chicago s.
Northwestern Railway for GAINESVILLE, Oshkosh and
Green Bay AT Western Union Junction with the
cago and all Eastern points. At Milwaukee with
Northern Divisions of the c. NJ. 81 st. P. Ry for
Waukesha Janesville, 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 & Western Railroad for Sheboygan,
ManitowOc, New L }ndon and Clintonville.
West bound trains leave Milwaukee at 7:15 m,
and SIG p m, making close connections for all
pORts III 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 1920 m can do so any time after
Z p m. Passengers for Dubuque can tkGs secure a
rest from p until 100 m.
Be cure that your tickets read via Western Union
Railroad.
Tickets on sale at all principal ticket Offices
For information regarding rates, routes, etc., ad
D. A. OLTN, Avn CARPENTER,
Superintendent, GenI Pass. Ticket AIT,
Racine, Wis. Milwaukee, Wis
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, & ST, PAUL.

RACINE & SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION.
LEAVE ARRIVE
Oay Express and Mail S:55A An sos Pm
Night Express. ......,.... .10:3C sos An
The night express leaving Rock leland every
Sunday night at 10:05 connects with the train arrl
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. Nolay
over checks gfveu on through tickets from Rock
slsnd to Chicago. Through tickets only good on
thistrsln.
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WESTWARD.
Eastward. II STATIONS. \ W

Passengers carried on Freight trains as follows:
EAST ..........4:45 p m WEST. :lO:3o m
GEO. NJ. LOOSELY, Agent, Rock Island.
A. KIMBALL, L. ST. JOHN,
GenI Sup't Gen. Tiki & Pass. Agt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
SIMMONS
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Is emIuently a Family Medicine; and by being
kept ready for immediate resort will save many
hour Of suffering and many dollar in time and
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After over Forty Years trial it is still receiving
the most unqualified testimonials 10 its virtues
from persons Of the highest character and respOn
sibiiity. Eminent physicians commend it for all
diseases of the Liver.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18

socE ISLAND 5 rEosIA hallway.

SHORTEST ROUTE TO The EAST AND SOUTH.
IEAyE ARRIVE.
$40 a m WAY Freight. $50 m F'ht & Accom- on
$40 - Fast Express. 1910 p m Mail and Express
2 80 p m Mail and Exp's. $50 = Fast Express.
$3.50 " F'ht & AccOm'n 4:45 Way Ere ght.
The so D In train makes close connection at
Galva with c & Q for points west; arriving at
Galesburg at 200 m; at Burlington 7:15 p m; al
Keokuk 9:25 p m; and at Quincy $40 p m also
and P & W roads for all points east and south.
RocK ISLAND & MERCER CO., 8. 3.
Leave Rock Island at s :55 a m, and 4:50 p m.
Arriving at Gable at 1910 m, and sos p IN.
Leave Gable at $50 m, and AS p m.
Arriving at Rock Island at SIS 8. m, 4: 200 D. m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
MASsASoIT ROusE.

NJ. Il &. S. CHAPLIN, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
The Massssoit House, near the Railroad Stations,
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ial attention paid To ventilation and all sanitary
improvements. The projectors determined
that the world wide reputation Of the Massasoit
shall be maintained in all respects
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-09-18
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