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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30
MEDICAL.
Public Notice.

JOHN HANNAS, being Blacksmith by
la trade, had often felt the want of some means
whereby could soften iron at the forge so that l
could work it at better advantage. This induced
me 10 make many experiments with different SUB
stances which offered the best prospect of success.
1t was or one of these occasions that discovered
the wonderful effects of Electro Silicon on the
Human System.
had defect In three of my fingers, which were
bent or shnt up IN my hand IN such manner. by
very troublesome to me in my daily avocation. l
could not handle my tools as / wished, and often
thought would have my fingers cut off to get
them out of the way, have used everything that
offered any hope of relief, but all TO no effect.
Well, | say. was working with Electro Silicon at
ing in contact with my HANDS.
took notice of the effect 1t had produced,
until one day, wishing to use q heavy hammer,
grasped with my crooked hand, and much to my
surprise | found my crooked fingers straighten
ont and had much use of them as ever.
could hardly believe my eyes. l showed my
hands to my wife and family, and general re-
ioicing was the result
had neighbor living about mile from my
shop who had lame knee, caused by the cords
bottle of Electro Silicon Lniment and told him to
use it thoroughly. He did so, and at the end OF
three months he was able to throw aside his cane
and walk to my shop apparently as well as ever.
II had worked JUST it did in my case pr ducing
a perfect cure. gave it to others of my neighbo
from Swelled Limbs, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Stiff
Joints Burns, etc. all of which ii cured without
any trouble. Finding that the Electro silicon Lin
iment would penetrate the skin OF man further
than any other substance, 1t occurred to me that
II must be good for the horse, and it has proved
jtsaf one Of the very best applications in all ex-
ternal diseases occurring to the noble animal,
Prepared by the
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30
CONSTIPATION

SHOULD not be REGARDED as
a tridlng ailment-in fact ma
ture demands the utmost regu-
larity of the bowels, and any de-
Walton from this demand payes
the way often to serious danger
1t Is quite as necessary to re-
move impure Accommodations
from the bowels as ii is to eat
or sleep. and no health can &c
expected where eostive habit
of body prevails.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30
HEADACHE :

This distressingIaflfcto u occurs most frequently
The disturbance of the stomach, arising from the
imperfecty digested contents, causes severe cain
In the head accompanied with disagreeable nau-
sea, and this constitutes what is popuIarly known
as Sick Headache; cor the relief of which, TAKE
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR OR MEDICINE.
MANUFACTURED BY
J. II. ZEILIN u CO..
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.
drice. 81. Sold by all Druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30

Passengers carried on Freight trains as follows:
EAST --..-....4 AS p m WEST. 10 80 a N
GRO. NJ Loosely, Agent, Rock Island.
A. KIMBALL, K. ST. JOHN,
Genl Sup't Gen. Tiki & Pass. Agt |
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30

t. H-1 YEAR g expenses to ag'ts. Outfit
~ q 8 free. Address P. .. NICkEkY,
Augnsta. Maine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30
EocE ISLAND 3 sEoz1A EAI1wA7.

SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE EAsT AND SOUTH.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
40 m Way Freight $40 m F'ht s. Accom'on
9:1O - Fast Express. / 30 p m Mail and Express
2:21 p Mail and Exp's. $50 = Fact Express.
6:25 = F'ht 81 Accom'n 4:45 Way Ere ght.
The 2:25 D train makes close connection at
Galva with & q FOR points wet: arriving at
Galesburg 5 200 M at Burlington : rs IN; al
Keokuk 9:25 . m; and at Quincy 9;40 m; also
making close connection at Peor with I 3 Il W
and T ? & W roads tor all points east and south.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30

fsAET . REMEDY CO. MFG. CHEMISTS
Ms~.ea and 9th SITS. ST, LOUIS. HO
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30
: ct - AIVERTISEl.EN

OFT a Month aud expenses guaranteed to Ag'ts
ID Outfit free. SHAW i Co. Augusta, Maine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-30

Sccg ISLAND Il MERCER CO.. E.
Leave Rock Island at G:55 g.. m, II 80 m. and
$3.50
Arriving at Gable at HOO a M, 1850 N. and
AS m.
leave Cable at $50 m, 100 y and 3:45 m
Ar at Rock Island at 8 rs q. IN 8 05 m. & 35 pm
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
Railway Employees.

In his sermon to railroad men at
Rochester, Rev. c. p Colt reviewed the
history of railroading. The first train,
he said, made the astonishing speed of
twelve miles an hour. In 1929 the di-
rectors of the Manchester and Liver
pool railway offered a prize to any en-
CINE that would draw train three times
its weight at a speed of ten miles an
hour. Three engines competed for the
prize, the winning one making fourteen
miles an hour, which was considered at
that time quite remarkable speed. He
spoke of the first locomotive in America,
made by Peter Cooper, which made but
ten miles an hour The speaker con-
sidered the locomotive as one of the
main forces in advancing civilization.
1t was also one of the chief instruments
for spreading the gospel. According to
a late report there were $4,000 miles of
railway in the United States, valued at
four and one half billion dollars, whose
gross receipts last year were five hun
bred million dollars. One road en-
ployed fourteen thousand men, and many
of them live in this city. Many more
of them would live in this city if the
common council were not SO foolish.
He referred to the many hardships en-
dured by railroad men, and said We owe
them debt of gratitude for carrying on
so large and safe passenger traffic
These men are subjected to temptation
more than most other men. We used
to think that man that returned from
the army without any bad habits de-
served great credit, but he thought
when railroad man resisted tempta-
ton, profanity and evil associates, he
had piety of the right kind. He
knew,the severity of their temptations
when far from home and among strang
ers. Yet some of the best Christians
were to be found among the railroad
men. Rochester Herald
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
legislative Facetl8.
The Sacramento Bee has the follow

The Sacramento Bee has the follow
ing:
Preparations for the assembly mas
querade, to be rendered in honor of the
final passage of Stephen Maybell's first
bill, are progressing as rapidly as the
three readings will allow. The charcc-
tiers are to be assumed by the legislators
and the costumes to be worn are to be
unique beyond comparison and elegant
in the extreme.
The author Of the bill will appear as
the youth who fired the Ephesian dome,
bearing IN his right hand lighted pitch
pine fambeau, his left hand contain
ing a copy of "Erskine on the gag law"
and his classic brow crowned with a
chaplet of lmmorteles.
Adams, as the ''previous question"
will wear a costume somewhat similar to
that worn by Justice. A flowing robe
will conceal his shapely limbs and in
one hand he will carry pair of scales
with which to weigh argument; the
other hand will hold sword with which
to cut off debates.
York will originate the character of
"The Man who was Stung by the
Newspapers" and will embody in his
representation the fact that he never
asked for retraction that he never
desired one that he would not have &C
copied one if it had leen offered, and
that, strange as it may appear, he still
lives.
Finlayson, as Faith, Hope and
Charity" will personify the three car
dinal virtues by proclaiming his faith in
the destiny of the Republican party, his
hope that it may emerge from its pres
ent onerous responsibilities as pure as a
white winged angel of peace, and his
charity for those who may disagree with
him politically or otherwise.
The other participants will assume
such characters as are best suited to
their natural tastes and dispositions.
Some of them will represent points of
order, acrobatic legislation, the Chinese
question, mileage, constitutional ex-
Founders and questions of privilege.
The entire affair promises to be utterly
gorgeous, rivaling in the intensity of its
brilliancy an eighteen candle power of
Edisonian electric light Music will be
furnished by the Lobby Brass Band. A
sumptuous repast will be spread by the
individual who is to be affected by AS
sembly bill No. SO, to prohibit the sale
of liquors in the State Capitol. The
unqualified consent of Mr.. Tyler having
been obtained, the masquerade will be
held in the Assembly Chamber.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
Kentucky Killing her Convicts.

The report of the prison sanitary
committee was made to the Kentucky
Legislature, on the condition Of the pen
itentiary. 1t describes a deplorsble
state of affairs The committee finds
that there are eight convicts confined
there who positively cannot live longer
than few months. There are at least
so others, some OF whom are confined to
their beds, who, in all probability, can
not live longer than the latter part of
this Spring, and about two hundred
others who are in state of debility and
weakness practically uniting them for
duty or work. The remainder OF the
convicts do not present healthy ap'
pearance and seem affected by the in
furious influences which have Frustrated
the others. The causes Of this state of
affairs are found by the committee to be
numerous. The penitentiary grounds
are badly drained and the sewerage is so
defective that in damp weather water
stands in portions of the enclosure from
which arises malaria, rendering the air
impure. The yards, cells and workshops
are overcrowded and the accumulation
of filth and general lack of cleanliness
within the prison contribute to the gen
Grafton of disease There is q general
lack of ventilation in the system and
construction of the houses and cells.
The committee expresses the opinion
that one of the direct causes of the I'M
healthiness of the convicts is due to their
not being supplied with a sufficient va
riety of wholesome food.-N' Y. Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
A Monster Ship.

A new steamship, which, when corr
pleted, will be the largest and finest
merchant vessel in the world, is now
being built at Barrow, England, for the
Inman line. She will be ready for use
in the Spring of 1881, and then will
begin making regular trips between this
port and Liverpool. The City of Rome
was regarded as the most appropriate
name which could be given to this addi-
ton to the Inman fleet. Her dimensions
are to be as follows Length of keel,
SAG feet; length over all, 500 feet;
breadth of beam, SO feet; depth of hold,
SO feet 8 inches, and depth from top of
deck houses to keel, 50 feet. Her
measurement will be $500 tons, or over
1000 tons larger than either the City OF
Berlin or the Arizona, and 800 tons
larger than the Servia, the new Cunard
steamship, which will be completed this
FALL She will be over four-ffths the
size of the Great Eastern.
The engines of the City of Rome,
will be of 1900 horse power, with six
cylinders, three of which will be high
pressure and three low pressure. There
will be eight boilers, heated by As furn-
aces, and the vessel can be propelled at
the rate of lSl knots an hour. She will
carry four large masts and three
smoke tunnels A large spread of
canvas can be set, which will en-
able the steamship to make good time, if
necessary, without the aid of the engines.
The saloon and state rooms will
be placed amidships, and will contain
every facility for comfort and luxury.
All the latest improvements are to be
added, and the entire cabin will be
splendidly furnished and upholstered.
There will be 275 revolving chairs at the
saloon tables, and the state-rooms will
easily accommodate 800 frst-class pas
sengers A drawing-room, which can be
occupied by 100 ladies at once, will be
placed on the deck Immediately over the
saloon. The smoking room will be above
the drawing-room, and will accommo-
date 100 smokers at once. The saloon
will contain six bathrooms. There will
be room on board for almost any number
of steerage passengers, and space tor an
enormous amount of freight in the hold.
The City of Rome is to be built of
steel, with double bottom, and eleven
bulkheads. Two longitudinal bulkheads
are to run through the engines and
boilers space. These will greatly de-
crease the danger of the vessel sinking
in case of collision. The top decks are
to be of the best teak. No expense is
to be spared in making this magnificent
steamship perfect in every respect She
will have the highest classification OF
any vessel in the Liverpool Red-book
and in the British Lloyds. The Inman
people expect that, so far as the trans
portation of passengers and freight goes,
the City of Rome will prove the mon
arch of the seas-N. Y. Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
The iHunts,nen a Hunting.

Three remarkable incidents, if they
may be so called, OF somewhat similar
character, are worthy of being cata-
logued together. A gunner in the
neighborhood of San Francisco fred into
a clump of bushes at what he supposed
to be a wildcat, and fetched down lit
tie girl and wounded hs older sister.
In Rhode Island two huhtsmen fired at
a covey of cartridges; they did not get
a bird, but they fatally wounded their
horse which was hitched to barn in the
vicinity. In Louisiana two New Or
leans editors went out on the sanguinary
field, their eyes glistening with deadly
fire, to shoot one another in the old
fashioned French manner. Each fired
two shots, neither was harmed, but, ac-
cording to the official protocol drawn up
on the field of conflict, it appears that
CATER the second shot, in consequence
Of representations and expostulations
made by mutual friends present, and in
a parley called by the seconds of Major
Hearsey, it was proposed by them and
agreed to by the seconds Of Major
Burke, that the latter, on behalf Of
their principal, should express their re-
cognition of Major Hearsey as gentle
man of honor and courage; upon which
Major Hearsey's friends declared them
selves satisfied, and hostilities were by
general consent Terminated, and the
seconds hereby take pleasure in testify
ing to the brave and honorable deport-
ment of both Major Burke and Major
Hearsey."
Affairs of this kind might be encour-
aged with beneficial results, and sensi-
tive people can no longer object to the
operations of the code duello as an ale
viative of suspected wounded honor. A
large circle of friends will be glad to
know that by either the providentially
distracted bullets, or bad craftsmanship
the lives of these two brave journalists
of the crescent city have been preserved
for further encounters with the pen, and
perhaps the pistol.-Rochester Herald.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
The Prosperity OF British Liter
allure.

Disastrous as the year 1879 was to
many trades, publishers were more &C.
tive, and issued $40 more works than in
the previous year. Theology heads the
list with 1876 works, one-third of
which consisted of new editions, and
two-thirds were new books. Novels
rank next, with 1913 works, and class
ifcation thereafter is: Educational,
classical and pathological works. S2S /;
miscellaneous, including pamphlets, not
sermons, SIG; history and biography,
403, arts, sciences and illustrated
works, So; voyages, travels and ge-
ographical research, 29S; year-books
and serials, in volumes, 2S6 /; juvenile
works and tales, pa; poetry and
dramr, l9l ; medicine and surgery, l79;
belles-lettres, essays, monographs, III;
law and jurisprudence, l57, and political
and social economy, trade and COM
merce, l2l. The theologians were most
active in November, and like the law
yers and doctors, gave little to the pub
lie as soon as the long vacation com
menced. Writers upon medicine
adroitly aimed at issuing their works
timely for the opening of the medical
schools in October Although the law
courts open in November, SO many
Judges 60 at once upon the circuit that
the writers upon law, wise in their gen
Grafton, issue most of their works in
January, when the business of the legal
year commences in earnest Novelists
reckon upon their market in the Winter
months, and send forth their productions
chiefly from October to the end of Jan
usry. Politicians appear to be In
greatest force in May, when the session
Of Parliament is busiest. and in August,
when, il their last words are not
spoken, they will fail to influence the
Legislature for another year. The total
number of works published last year
was 5,S34.-London Echo
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
The Pioneers Of Oregon.

line winter or lS50-6 was q time to
be remembered by the settlers of South
ern Oregon. They had long been &C.
customed to the ordinary hardships of
frontier life. They had learned to dis
pense with all luxuries, and with some
of the comforts of civilization, and to
wrest from the situation such pleasures
as are born of activity and hope. But
this season brought to their doors the
terrors of savage warfare, and merged
all minor considerations in the immi-
nent peril which surrounded them.
The Indians of the upper Rogue
River Valley had been on the war-path
for some time, but those Of the lower
river and the coast protested friendship
for the whites, and asked to be protected
from the hostiles of the interior.
Though hoping by conciliatory course
towards the savages to avert the calamity
which had visited their friends up the
river, the settlers resorted to such pre-
cautionary measuresas ordinary prudence
would suggest. They built kind of
fort at the mouth of Rogue river, on the
north side, on an elevated point in the
open prairie, just back of where Mr..
Mccormick now lives, and also organ
lied company of volunteers.
Ben Wright was the name of the
agent in charge of the Indians in this
region. He was man whose natural
shrewdness and consumate knowledge Of
Indian character well qualified him for
the duties of that position. He kept an
intelligent squaw who passed as his Off
cial interpreter, and for whom he drew
salary of $500 per annum He had
led the Indians to believe that he was
endowed with supernatural powers of
selfprotection, and that he could not be
killed by being shot. But his squaw, al
though protesting great affection for her
white spouse, secretly told the Indians
that they could kill Wright with a
Ratchet or knife and with the treach-
cry which is the leading characteristic of
the race, she helped to betray him to his
death, and afterwards boosted that she
ate piece of his heart.
On the morning of February 23d, he
was near the Tootootan ranch on Rogue
river, when he was told by an Indian
messenger that a sea otter had come
ashore G short distance away, and that
the Indians and white men were fight
ing over it. He went to the place indi-
Gated and was surrounded and cut to
pieces by the Indians.
A man named Seaman, who had in
spired the Indians with awe by his SUI
perior Workmanship, was enticed into
ambush by similar means, and killed,
and another named Smith, in the vicin-
ity, made his way to the woods aid es-
capped. He knew the danger of at
tempting to go to the coast, and wan
dered northward through the woods to
Port Oxford, where he arrived half
famished some days after.-Corr Coos
Bay Mail
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
The Sphere of Women.

AS republican institutions continue
to gain ground, women appear more CON
spicuous in the remodeling influences of
civilization.
She, whose presence in this briery
world is as lily among thorns, whose
smile is pleasant, like the light of morn
ing, and whose eye is the gate of heav-
en-; she whom Nature so reveres that
the lovely vale of her spirit is the best
terrestrial emblem of beauty, ceases to
command armies or sit upon imperial
thrones. But the world bows in HON
age to her sceptre of forbearance and
love.
The progress OF liberty owes much to
her self-sacrifce and devotion. 1t has
also redeemed her into the possession of
her nature, has made her not mans
slave, but his companion, his counselor
and fellow martyr; has lifted her to do
nestle equality, and demands for her the
same privileges in political affairs.
Although many of the avenues of
public life are closed against her, she is
demonstrating her worthiness to fill a
wider sphere OF usefulness than she has
ever occupied. Truth in its purity
finds no more honest or industrious in
terpreter Bancroft.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-02-26
OVERRIDING the Pension Business.

Unless some Of our patriotic senators
and representatives are more discreet in
their appropriations of the public money
the pension business seems likely. to
break down of it's own weight. The
rate of appropriations for pensions is
sufficiently onerous already, and yet is
rapidly increasing every year. The in
crease in the amount appropriated for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1881, is
$3,O3S,O0) over that for the present
year. Al the end of the present fiscal
year the commissioner of pensions esti-
mates that there will be 250,00s appli-
cs.tions for pensions pending and Enacted
upon. The pensioners upon the rolls
to-day number 24l, 1855, SO that the APP
plicants even yet outnumber the actual
benefciaries. The pension roll was in
creased by 1887 names during the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, and at
the same rate for next year it will be
increased between 10000 and 10000
names, even without new legislation to
increase it. AS Senator Davis of West
Virginia has said, "Within the next de-
cade, if the same rate of increase con-
tinues, the pension roll will be doubled,
and il will require from S60,000,O00 to
$S0,000,000 annually to be appropri-
ated for pensions. 1t is submitted that
this is offering to large a premium for
fighting. We now spend more money
for pensions every year than we spent
for the entire annual expenses Of the
government during the first fifty years of
our existence, including the cost Of the
war of 1912. The appropriation for
pensions for the single year 1881 covers
more money than the entire revolution
airy pension roll from first to last Be-
tween 1871 and 1860 the total approprl-
ations for pension account were $751;
6O2,925 OIL. Between 1871 and 1888
the same appropriations aggregated
227,6S9,134 81. In the last eight
years we have paid 1924, 1882 AZ for
pensions, being more by $l3,O00,000
than was paid in all the previous years
in our history up to 1870. The pay
ments for pensions now amount to 10
per cent. of the entire revenue of the
Government, and the rate must nccessa-
rily increase as the roll does. 1t is the
duty of every such Government as ours
to be fair and liberal to it's citizen sol
diers, to reward them handsomely, and
to see thai no one disabled III any way
in its service suffers any privations in
consequence. But at the same time the
desire to Go full justice to our pension
ers should not lead legislators into there
by doing injustice to the body of the
people, the taxpayers and breadwin-
ners of the country. These must be
considered in any event, since their prof
it's and industries furnish the revenues
from which alone the dues to the pen
sion rolls can be met. The United
States now pay more annually on pen
sion account than all the rest of the
world, the British pension list being
$l1,795,O0O, that of France $l2,600,-
900, that of Germany $4,236, S55, that
of Austria Hungary S627,6l0, and Bel
GUM S742,000-a total of S3l 900, 900,
against S32, 100000 just appropriated
by our Government for lSSl.-Balti-
more Sun.