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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-11-04
STATIONS
EASTWARD. "

Passengers carried on Freight trains follows:
EAST ....4:45 p m WEST. $500. 10 80 m
GEO. M LOOSELY, Agent, Rock Island.
A. KIMBALL, L. ST. JOHN,
Gen1 Sup't. Gen. Tiki & Pass. Agt.
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MASSAsoIT HOUSE.

NJ q &. s. CHAPLIN, SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
The Msssasoit House, near the Railroad Stations,
established in 1S43. 1t has been twice en-
larged making it three times its original size. and
thoroughly remodeled and refurniehed. The large
airy sleeping rooms, furnished with hot and cold
water. are excelled by none in the country. Spec
ial attention paid to ventilation and all sanitary
improvements The propretors determined
that the world wide reputation of the Massasoit
shall be Maintained in oil respects
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ROCK ISLAND & PEORIA hallway.

SHORTEST RoUTE 70 The EAST AND SOUTH.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
8 40 a m Way Freight. $50 F'ht & Accom'on
9:10 5 Fast Express. /; 10 IN Mail and Express
2 80 D m Mail and Exp's. $50 . Fast Express.
$50 " F'ht & Accom'n 4:45 Way Ere ght.
The 80 p IN train makes close connection at
Galva with G & @ for points west: arriving at
Gaesburg at 100 m at Burlington 7:15 m; at
Keokuk 9:25 m; and at Quincy 40 m also
and T & W roads for all points east and south.
RocK ISLAND d MERCER CO.. 3. 3.
Leave Rock Island at s:k5 a. m. and 4:k0 pm.
Arriving at Gable at II 10 m, and sos
leave Gable at $50 m, and As
Arriving at Rock Island at 8:15 a. m. 4 100 D. m
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NORTTAWEST.

Trains leave Rock Island as follows Day Elk
press at 55 M arriving at Racine $50 m and
Milwaukee 615 H.; Night Express at 10 80 m
m, connecting at Fulton with Chicago 81 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 u Worth
western Railway for Madison At Clinton juno
ton with the Western Division of the Chicago q
Northwestern Railway for Janesville, Oshkosh and
Green Bay At Western Union junction with the
Chicago Division of the NJ. & st. Ry for Chi
cago and all Eastern points. At Milwaukee with
Northern Divisions of the G. M. & St p. Ry for
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 q Western Railroad for Sheboygan,
Manitowoc, New L ndon and Clntonville.
West bound trains leave Milwaukee ct 7:15 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 10 80 N can do so any time after
Ppm Passengers for Dubuque can thus secure q
Be sure that your tickets read via Western Union
Railroad.
Tickets sale at all principal tic ket Offices
For Information regarding rates, routes, ETC., ad-
D. A. oLIN, AVN. CARPENTER,
Superintendent. GENT Pass. Ticket Ae't,
Racfne,Wis Milwaukee. Wis.
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Untn benefit 10 received will be demanded II ,rr
DIR. JACQUES s sog Chestnut rsa;, S. s.,
Regular education. experience, ana hnovsdge CT f
old established Office. Spe- n1atorrhga s4nIps " W
aud Impotency. all forms Of syptiiis gono,",
elect. Recent cases cured In q few DAYS Aa A.. ~
resulting from seif-abuse excuses ar .Sss nv.
radically cured for life with mei-iue
Charges low. Call and the neIke aaaiopisi -, 10
mems OF disease free ofsIi eharge. 'tssf
Symptom Beck fer tive stamcs postage. Esrz
4. 4. 70 7r. Y. Sunday. from lsHi.
Medicines sent everywhere by Mail or Express
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socy ISLAND 3 MERCER CO., R.R.

.%E7T ADVERTISEMENTS
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CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE, b ST. PAUL.

RACINE q SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION.
ARRIVE
DAY Eek press and Mail An sos Pm
Night Express. .10:3e PM 5:55 Az
The night express leaving hock Island every
Sunday night at 1905 connects with the train arr
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
sland to Chicago. Through tickets only good on
thistIaln.
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iARFI.s Kennedy CO. MFG. CHEMISTS
~ a: ard 9th SITS. ST.LoUIS, MO-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

the party by RELOCATING them to the
rear;
R-epudiate the public debt, unless it
is paid in paper;
Stand by the Right of Secession at
whatever risk;
Teach in school, college and unyer-
slty, through press and on the forum.
that the Union is simply partnership.
that can be constitutionally dissolved
whenever one or more of the States
shall so demand;
U-nfurl the State flag high over the
paltry Stars and Stripes;
Vow to prevent, by rope and re-
volver, the introduction of an Imperial
Government and golden crown:
York for the restoration of the
Planter Republic of 1783-1S61:
'X-tirpate the mud-sucking policy
bummers from the party camp and
councils;
Yield never truth or teaching of
the past;
jealousy fulfill the duties herein
laid down,
& all will yet be well.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18
Chicago Ahead Again.

An ingenious but not over-honest
street urchin of the tender age of 5 has
taken his first step in crime in a highly
original manner. Between 5 and 6
o'clock, when the throngs of people are
passing homeward in the early dark
ness, he stoops down on the sidewalk
on Washington, La Sale, or some other
poorly illuminated street, and gropes
around in the mud for an imaginary
coin which he claims to have lost. The
Unsuitable curiosity of the ordinary
passer-by is soon excited by this unusual
and interesting financial problem, and
some one lends the boy couple of
matches to aid in the search, which is,
of course, fruitless. He doesn't have
to wait long before some philanthropic
person sympathizes with the poor little
fellows misfortune, which must be so
great to him, and. feeling so much
wealthier himself by contrast, gives the
impostor or 10 cents or more, when
he gets up and skedaddles with thank
full haste. The reporter saw him play
the trick twice, at different places,
within five minutes. Judging from the
expression of the infantile prodigy of
imposture as he was subsequently seen
with other "kids," it must be profita-
BILE business. The urchin in question
is an exceedingly bright-looking speci-
men, and will make a fine scientific
burglar. Chicago is ahead again
Chicago Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

A GENUINE curiosity in the way of
chirography has been sent to the Chi
cago Tribune in the shape of postal
card, upon which is written with an or
binary steel pen, and without the aid
of any magnifying power whatever, the
whole of the sixth and seventh chapters
of the Gospel of st. Matthew and the
first thirty eight verses of the first chap
ter OF st. John, besides some remarks
of the writer at the bottom of the card.
In this little space of about four by two
inches there are no less than 2,180
words, clearly and legibly written. The
work was done by W. d. Wilson,
printer in Ottawa, I'll. AS the postal
card contains more matter than is
usually written on twenty sheets of
note-paper, there ought to be no COM
plant hereafter that the postal-card is
not large enough for letter purposes.
Certainly Mr.. Wilson himself ought to
show at the end of the year very
handsome saving in postage.
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immensely of the Stars.

1t is known that the stars are true
suns, that some of them are larger than
our own sun, and that around these
enormous centers of heat and light re-
yolve planets on which life certainly ex-
lists. Our sun is distant from us 49,
100000 leagues, but these stars are dis
tant at least 100000 times as far-a dis
lance that, in fact, is incommensurable
and unimaginable for us. Viewed with
the unaided eye, the stars and the
planets look alike; that is, appear to
have the same diameter. But, viewed
through the telescope, while the planets
are seen to possess clearly appreciable
diameters, the stars are still only mere
luminous points. The most powerful
OF existing telescopes, that of Mel
bourne, which magnifes 5000 times,
gives us an image of one of our planets
possessing an apparent diameter of sew
eral degrees. Jupiter, for instance,
which, seen with the naked eye ap-
pears as star of the first magnitude,
with diameter of forty five degrees at
the most, will in the telescope have it's
diameter multiplied 5000 times, and
will be seen as if itoccupiedin the heay-
ems an angle of 100 degrees. Mean
while, star alongside of Jupiter, and
which to the eye is as bright as that plan
ct, will still be simple dimensionless
point. Nevertheless, that star is thou
sands OF times more voluminous than
the planet. Divide the distance be-
tween us and that planet by 5000, and
you have for result distance relatively
very small; but divide by 5000 the
enormous number of leagues which
represents the distance of star, and
there remain number of leagues too
great to permit of the stars being seen
by us In perceptible form. In con-
sidering Jupiter, or any of the planets,
we are filled with wonder at the thought
that this little luminous point might
hide not only all the visible stars, but
number 5000 fold greater of stars
visible to our eyes there are only about
5,OOO. All the stars of these many con-
stellations, as the Great Bear, Cassi-
opela, Orion, Andromeda, all the stars
of the zodiac, even all the stars which
are visible only from the earth's south
Elm hemisphere, might be set in one
plane, side by side, with no one over
tapping another, even without the
slightest contact between star and star,
and yet they would occupy so small
space that, were it to be multiplied 5000
fold, that space would be entirely COW
cred by the disk of Jupiter, albeit that
disk to us seems to be an inappreciable
point Prof j. Vi9aot.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18
OUR LITTLE FOLKS.
Daisy's Letter.


Christmas day just after dinner, eighteen hundred
seventy nine,
Dear Old Santa: Papa says that maybe if drop a
line
To you down in Santa Claus land you will get il
safe and sound,
And perhaps you bring an answer when you fetch
the presents round.
We are perfectly ciscouraged-little Paul and
Prink and me.
We're just poori What we shall do for New
Years don'tsee.
Where we used to have whole dollars we have hard
work coaxing dimes.
It's hard times. papa tells us. Now, Santa what's
hard times?
One day when we were asking what he hoped old
Santa'd bring,
He kissed us three times round and then he sighed
like anything;
little Pink was on his shoulder where she always
clmbs),
Christmas won't bring much to papa, I'm afraid,
except hard times"
Now want lot of money because-why, just
because!
The shops are 6eautsf1l-you've no idea, Santa
Claus
We've speaked and speaked about it, just as sweet
as peppermint,
But it amt bit of use they don't know how to
take hint.
So, Santa, when we're sleeping, and you're creep
ing all about,
Remember put pas presents in, but leave the hard
times out;
Please to excuse this letter tour first with pen and
ink,
And keep lot and lots of lore from me and Paul
and Prink,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

The words of the little beggar girl kept
ringing in PhiPs heart and ears. and he
and Charlie were two very happy little
fellows, as, after they had emptied their
baskets, they came out upon the broad.
pleasant street fronting the park again.
Such new, sweet lessons of charity
and the b1essedness of doing good they
had learned on this glad New Years
morning!
II say, Phil" said Charlie, his blue
eyes sparkling and his face rosy with
excitement, II never knew before what
jolly fun it is to giDe things; it makes
you have nice feeling, specially when
you know you don't stand any chance
OF getting anything back, you know"
"That's SO" said Phil; "it's forty
times nicer than when we get things,
isn't it? [ say, Charlie, let's do this
kind of thing real often, will we?"
Charles usual reply to any suggestion
of Phils was, "All right" and it rang
out with will this time, as the BOYS
parted.
Good things are apt to leak out, and,
although | cannot say just how it was
discovered by the parents of our boys
that there had been Flower mission"
started on New Years morn, vet it was
discovered, and one night when the two
started for bed with the kiss given by
each mother, the words of love and
praise were very sweet and precious to
each boy.
Begin the hours of the New Year with
loving, kindly deeds, words and
thoughts, and blessing will surely fol-
low from the grateful and loving Father
of all. MARY D. BRINE.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18
A--.B--C.

The Alpha and Omega of Democratic DUTY.
From the Okolona Southern states.l
Abolish the Amendments;
Danish the blacks from the jury
box;
Compel the Radical minority to
surrender to the Democratic majority,
without reference to the negro race of
voters;
Destroy the demoralzing free-school
system;
Enter an oath EFF eternal hostility to
the Stalwarts, until that partyis purged
of it's reasonable heresies;
Fling policy to the winds whenever
it conflicts with principle;
G-lorify the doctrines of Presidents
Jefferson and Davis;
H-urrah for the Bonnie Blue;
I-nculcate in the minds of your chill
dren that the South was right, right,
and forever right, in its conflict with
the murderous moss-troopers of Yam
keedom;
J-eopardize no idea or interest of the
party by temporary policies;
Keep the military in complete sub
lection to the civil power:
Let liberty of speech, press, and
thought be preserved at whatever haz-
ard;
Make treason odious. by making the
memory of the Linkhorns, Stantons
and John Browns forever infamous;
N-ullify the war legislation of Loyal
dom;
Obey no law that usurps a single
power or prerogative of State;
Preserve State Sovereignty at the
cost of the General Government itself,
if need be;
| Q-ueu the turbulent time trimmers In
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Do YOU think we shall have a stor

Do YOU think we shall have storm,
s. Goodington?" asked the young
son, politely uncovering his brain
<. well, I don't know, Mr.. Proof
t" replied the old lady; 81 don't
ow. Darniel was just saying that
I'm circus clouds looked rather ON
5erous. Darniel, you know, has just
ayitated at the Universalist, where he
ldied astronomy and all about the
avenly considerations. Why, Parson
ooftext, if you could hear that boy
k-jest like reading, too-about ap-
> trees and Pericles, and them roly-
ly-aliases, you would only have to
~ your eyes to think you was in a
TT of visionary" And the good old
IL closed her eyes and seemed to have
lilly gone off in Stupid" as she
4uld call it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

tANNAH DUSTIN lives in colonial his
as the heroine of Contoocook
ad. She was native of Haverhill
49,, and stands prominent in the
] annals for her bold and daring act
he Staying of her murderous oaptors
jontoocook and her escape-"an act
urpassed in intrepidity and heroism
my age of the world" Through the
nifcence of E. J. III. Hale the cit
as of Haverhill have just been en-
ed to unveil monument and statue
Hannah Dustin's memory. The
Tue cost about $4,000. It stands with
) foot shoeless, just as history repre-
is her when taken captive. There
four bas-relief tablets, represent
, incidents in the history of the tragic
lir.
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Lost on the Banks.

A carefully prepared report from
Gloucester, Mass, gives a fearful record
of men lost in the fisheries from that
port and the vessels wrecked the past
year The statement, so far as the loss
of life is concerned, is entirely unpre-
cedented in the history of the business.
Scarcely week during the past year
but has witnessed some destruction.
Thirteen vessels went down, 143 men
were drowned, fifty-six women made
widows, and $50 children made father
less by a single February gale. So
overwhelming calamity could not fail
to awaken generous sympathy, and
$28,216 was contributed to feed, clothe,
and shelter the survivors of the lost
mariners. The February gale, how
ever, furnishes but part of the direful
history of the Gloucester fisheries OF
1879. In all thirty vessels, aggregating
1880 tons, comprising over one-tenth
part of the fishing tonnage of the port
valued at $118,789, sailed to return nc
more, and 240 lives were lost, leaving
Lightweight widows and 219 fatherless
children. There are also two vessels
now absent, and grave fears are enter
tanned of their safety the Andrew
Leighton and Harry c. Mackey. L
these do not soon return, it will ado
twenty two more to the number, swell
ing the fearful aggregate to 264 lives
Since 1880, when the Georges fisher,
first commenced, there have been los
from Gloucester, 2,118 men, and 40!
vessels, valued at 81 1896, 399.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

THAT the confagration that is to con-
sumo the world has begun is believed
by many residents Of Reading, Pa.
While some gentlemen were shooting
on the farm-of Henry Miller, near that
city, one OF the party killed partridge,
which fell in an adjacent field. To the
surprise of the gentleman his dog re-
fused to fetch the bird, and he went for
it himself, but at the spot where the
bird had fallen ne suddenly sank several
feet in bed of fire and ashes. The
burning track is square in length and
half square in width. Miller says the
fire began burning several weeks ago,
and travels several feet day. It emits
no smoke excepting now and then when
a tuft of grass is being consumed, Or
when trees are burning, but the heat is
intense. The fire has extended into a
green wheat field, which is gradually
being destroyed. The roots of oak
trees burn off, and some trees two feet
and a half in diameter have fallen over.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

One of the saddest and most inexpli-
Ole cases. Of suicide that have been
corded in long time is that of young
tsh, of Milwaukee. He was the son
one of the richest men in Wiscon-
l, was about % years of age, of fine
rsonal appearance, popular manners,
perior intellectual attainments, and
Q prospective heir to large fortune.
} those who do not know the hidden
rings Of human nature, but Judge of
ppiness from its apparent environ
emit, it is hard to conceive of condi-
IN in life more desirable and pros
,cts more brilliant than were those OF
)ung Nash. And yet, at this early
;e, life was too much Of burden to
cry, and he voluntarily laid it down
, thing not worth the having
hus-
ne wretch survives the fortunate,
nd weeping parents build their children's tombs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18


A NEWSPAPER correspondent in
Alaska has been making note of the
temperature. During June, July, and
August of the present summer the
average at Z a. m. was between SO and
So deg; at noon, 81 to So deg. The
highest temperature observed during
the summer was rs deg. The most re-
markable characteristic of this summer
weather is the palpable velvet softness
of the atmosphere. During winter
there are storms at temperature of IS
to 40 deg, and strong winds sweep the
channels along the coast, lash them into
waves, and carry salt scud far into the
woods. In the long nights the value of
a snug home, with blazing, cracking,
yellow cedar fire and book-covered ia
bic is then appreciated. Snow falls
frequently, but never to any great
depth, and never lies long. The mer-
curry seldom falls below 90 deg. on the
coast. It is different in the interior,
beyond the mountains, where 40 deg.
below zero is not uncommon.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

+? was asserted by many persons that
axe off the duty on quinine would
raise it's price. In the face of this
ry, however, the drug has fallen ST.
ounce. Notwithstanding this de-
,, the profits Of the manufacturers
till immense; but as they are now
innate no one will begrudge them to
. wealthy firms who have made large
ines in the manipulation of this
ly useful drug.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18
Hunting Wild Geese with Oxen.

Shooting wild geese was, in the early
days of California, an important indus
try with those men who hunted for the
market. and was very attractive to the
few amateurs that INDUCED in the sport
In those days goose shooting was
profitable business for the hunter, and
it was no uncommon thing for a skill
full one to make from 800 to $3.50 a
day, even when he obtained but four or
five shots Ga shot in hunters parlance
meaning the discharge of both barrels)
The system pursued by the market
hunters in shooting the geese was as
follows: A docile OK was generally Sc
lected by the hunter for his attendant
Then the geese were sought on the
large open plains, where they fed all
through the day, going to water and
returning morning and evening. The
hunter marked a flock a half or three
quarters Of a mile away, and then put
his OK IN motion, allowing him to
feed as he went along, in order to
make the geese remain unconscious
Of the lurking figure that moved behind
the ox'a body. Old goose-huntersa affirm
that these oxen seemed to take de-
light in assisting the shooter to work
up to his game. They would approach
the geese in an indirect way, never
going straight toward them, apparently
feeding as they went along. It is also
asserted that the geese used actually to
know, after being shot at once or twice,
the hunters oxen. AS soon as the
hunter got within shot, he discharged
both barrels, one at the geese on the
ground and the other as they rose,
bagging from thirty to sixty geese. He
either rested the gun on the ox's back,
or allowed him to pass on, and then
raked them in with his small cannon.
The gun used was generally four bore,
and never less than six, weighing from
fourteen to sixteen pounds, and the
charge was from eight to ten drachms
of powder, an two or three ounces of
shot. There were at least half adozen
engaged in this business, VIII Sc wealth
might be computed at from $4,000 to
800, 1000, altogether the result of goose
hunting.
/ GEN GRANTS father dind ar the 400
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

1E Governmental reforms which
Gar proposes to introduce in Rus
ill consist simply of the formation
Council, to be made up of mobiles
)inted by the Emperor, and mem
of the middle and peasant classes
en- by ballot. The body thus con-
ted will have advisory powers only,
as a matter of course, will be I'M
the control and subject to the
MS of the Gar, registering his
Is III silence. 1t may, however,
70 the foundation on which, some
or other, genuine Legislature
arise.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-12-18

The night before last Thanksgiving
n old couple in Midway, Mass, were
listed by stranger, whom the mother
nally recognized as herso More than
fteen years before he was with Gushing
n the exploit against the ram Abe
marie, and, never being heard of after
yard, was supposed to have been killed.
de was struck by piece Of the torpedo
md was taken ashore in the Confeder-
Ito boats. After his wound healed he