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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-02
Cured. Cured. Cured. Cured.

G G PREsBURY, Prop. West End Hotel, Long
Branch, cured OF % years Chronic Catarrh.
s BENEDICT, JR., Jeweler, 697 Broadway, N. Y.
{memb. of fanny (cured of Chronic Catarrh.
E Il BROWN, 339 Canal st n. Y, cured of II years
Chronic Catsrrh.
j D MCDONALD, T10 Broadway, N. Y, (Sister-in-
Law cured of DO years Chronic Catarrh.
MRS JOHN DOUGHTY, Fishkil, N. Y, cured Of
years Chronic Catarrh
MRs JACOB SwARTz, DR., 900 Warren St, Jersey
City, cured of IS years Chronic Catarrh.
THORN, 1S3 Montague St., Brooklyn, (self and
son,) cured of Catarrh.
Rev VIM ANDERSON. Fordham, N. Z, cured Of 20
years Chronic Catarrh.
MILE AIMEE, Opera Prima Donna, Il have received
very great benefit from it."
A; MCKINNEY, r Pres, 50 Broad St, n: Y.
My family experienced immediate relief. D"
&C., &C., &C., &C.. &C.
Wei De Meyers Catarrh Cure lie the
most important medical discovery since
vaccination. 1t is sold by all Druggists, or
delivered by D. 3. DEWEY & Co., 46 Dey St,
N. Y, a. $3.50 package. To clubs, six pack
ages for $3.50. DR.. Wei De Meyers
Treatise, is sent free to anybody.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-02
Children Cry for Petcher's Castoria.

Centaur Liniments. the worlds great
Pain-re1ieving agents for Nan and Beast
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GERMANY,
ITALY

BERLIN, Dec. 2.-Prince Hohenlole will
will come back from Paris 10 time for the
next session of the Reichstag.
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IL / e.. i & I sA.lP. 4. &c.
t7e,sgraphsa totAe Rocszsland Argus. |
To-Dav's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS
TRANCE.

FRANCE.
PARIS, Dec. 2.-BaDks tbaTance de-
crease ten.million francs. gold and silver.
IRELAND
DUBLIN, Dec. 2.-Parnell has suddenly
returned here on important political busi-
ness.
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~ sw York Market.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2
FINANCIAL,

FINANLIAL.
cold 90
Aoney-4G5
GovernmentA- Strong.
q. Bonds SO ceut r .g's 1881. 1O4l4
11S i IL "a
NOW D i. VI q
COMMERCIAL.
Wheat-Fairly active: A0Hc higher; No 1
white Dec 201a Jan 23I; No 1 red Dec a461
24A Jan 1 270I1 271s.
Corn-Moderately active; shade lower; mixed
ha: western spot 571 1G1A DO futures 61Q62x.
Oats-Firmer; western 1891.
Pork-Nominal.
Lard99 05,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-02

NAPLES, Dec. 2-Oae hundred persons
are thrown out of employment By the
burning of a tobacco factory, yesterday.
NAPLES Dec, 2.-There is a fresh issue
of lava from Vesuyius descending to the
base of tho cone.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-02
BUSINESS CARDS.
JOHN VOLK 81 CO.,

CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Manufac-
L. turers of Doors, Sash and Blinds
Novelty Works. Rock Island, Ill.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-02
Swallowing
POI s ON

Spurts Of disgusting mucous from the
nostrils or upon the tonsi1s, Watery Eyes, Snuff
Hes, Buzzing in the Ears, Deafness, Cracking
sensations in the Head, Intermittent Pains over
the Eyes, Fptid Breath, Nasal Twang, scabs
L the Nostriis, and Tickling in the Throat are
SIGNS OF CATARRH
No other such 1oathsome, treachcrous
and undermining maiady curses mankind. One
hfth of our Children die of diseases generated
by its Infectious Poison, and one-fourth OF
living men and women drag out miserable exist
snees from the csuse. While asleep
the impurities in the nostrils are necessarily
swallowed into the Estomach and in
hailed into the lungs to poison every part
Of the system.
DR.. Wei De Meyers Catarrh Cure
sbsorbs the purulent virus and kills theEseeds
Of poison in the farthest parts of the system.
1t viii not only relieve, but certais ly cure
Catarrh at any stage. 1t is the only remedy
which in judgment, has ever yet really
cured case of Chronic Catarrh.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
The National C0lOrs in Birds.

When George W. Parhall was in
Ph;ladelphia attending the centennial
exhibition he had a conversation with
one OF the United States commissioners.
Mr.. Parhall being a great bird %fancier,
the conversation naturally turned to
birds. The commissioner informed our
townsmac that he had endeavored to
secure three birds who would live to.
gether in one cage, and who represented
rhe national colors. He said he had
offered a large sum for such q curiosity,
but he had some doubts about it being
accomplished. MIR. Parhall has quietly
been endeavoring to collect together
birds of a size, who would represent the
nstional colors, and vino would dwell
together in n cage. II was a long time
before he accomplished his desire, but
he was successful. ard last week placed
on exhibition in Powers block the de-
sired curiosity. The red bird was a
spccics known as the Napoleon, which
he procured from South America; the
blue war TN lndigo bird from the same
country. and the whitc-tllc rnrcst OF
the three war Il nphrrOW from the isle
Of Java. They were Nil Df Il niZn, fed
upon the am kind Of esrd, md lived
together in II small cngn very peacefully.
They nttrip:nsd II pr"nt dcni ii attention.
especially from The Indy visitors To the
building, many Of whom would witch
them lor IN hour nj II Tins. The white
Java hphrr0w appeared 10 be- tin one
attraction, and to those Interested In
birds he was indeed Il curiosity. Iic
was pure white from the bill To his ,njI.
and appeared To take pride in kmpiny
himself in this condition. being IL fro
quent visitor to the bath dish R9chcs-
ter Democrat.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
A Small Couple.

Germany can justiiably boast of hav-
ing produced the smallest married
couple that ever stood before an altar in
the persons of a miniature Marquis and
M%archioness, who have for some time
past been exhibited on the Place du The
alter, at Odessa. The Marquis, a native
OF Kiel. is thirty years old, and weighs
only Nineteen pounds, while his fairy
like consort, a young lady born in Neu-
munster some twenty-five years ago,
just turns the scale at thirteen pounCs.
At a first glance this tiny pair, it is said,
might be taken for o couple of scarcely
weaned babies, dressed up for joke in
the garb of adults. but on a closer ex-
animation, the genuiness Of their ma
turity becomes Enthusiastically appar.
emit. A certain pleasant flavor of ro-
name runs through the story of the
circumstances that led to their union.
Although they are both German-born
wonders, leased by their parents to trav-
cling showmen at an early age, they
never happened to meet at the fairs and
Kermessen of their native land; but a
year ago, the Marquis being on cxhibi-
ton at Moscow. while Fraulein Lilli
was starring at st. Petersburg, they be-
came aware of one another's existence
through reading the newspaper notices
Of their respective characteristics, and
entered into a correspondence which
soon led to q rendezvous, and ulti-
mately to the contraction of a matrimo-
NAL engagement. Now they take their
professional rounds together, and are
saving up their earnings with the object
Of retiring into private life in til? father
land. Nuremberg could, dol btless,
supply them with the most charming of
dolls houses. eminently suited to their
minute domestic requirements. London
Telegraph.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
Words of Wisdom.

Calamity is mans true tombstone.
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of
absence, else who could bear 1t?
Recommend to your children virtue;
that alone a make happiness.
Life, like the water of the sea, frcshens
only as it ascends toward heaven.
Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for granted, nor
to find talk and discourse, but to weigh
and consider.
If the soul be happily disposed every
thing becomes capable of afordlng en-
tertainment, and distress will almost
want q name.
NY advice is to consult the lives of
| other men as we would a looking-glass,
and from thence fetch examples for our
own imitation.
More heats pine away in secret an
guish, for the want of kindness from
those who should be their comforters,
than for any other calamity in life.
There scarce can be named one quality
that is amiable in q woman which is not
becoming in a man, not excepting even
modesty and gentleness of nature.
To spend too much time in studies is
| sloth; to use them too much for orna.
m~entation is ~affectation; to make judy
ment wholly by their rules is the humor
of scholars.
What madness it is for a man to starve
himself to enrich his heir, ard so turn a
friend into an enemy for his JOY at your
death will be proportional to what you
leave him.
Afectation is the seeming of con-
straint and of falsehood; fidelity is only
arespect for our engagements; in6delity
a degradation; pertdy an open and
criminal infidelity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
II Hits q Big Crowd.

The following extract from a sermon
delivered recently in o church in New
Orleans will apply with equal .:,rce to
the grand army of starers' VII. rs.
scmble about some of our churches,
much to the disgust of many: last
Sunday" said the minister, II was at
my window, and looking down the
street saw a row of straw hats in
front of the church. They were all in
single file. And l said to myself, I'm
der these hats can there be nothing p
and on echo answered Nothing !!
Surely. I unused there must be some
thingiunder these hats--heads, I suppose.
Then Eop's fable of the fox admiring
a mask and exclaiming, "A beautiful
head, but there is nothing in it., was re-
membercd, and I went away. 1t is
wrong for those who call and think
themselves gentlemen to stand in front
of the places OF worship for the purpose
of staring at the ladies coming out of
church. True, the ladies like to be adj
mired, but this ordeal through which
they have to pass of being subjected to
the chances Of regiment Of men in sin
Gle fle Is despicable."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
A Natural Ice House.

In the Blue mountains. on tho farm
of Samuel Thompson, near Swartswood
Pond, in Sussex county, New jersey, Is
a crevice or canon several hundred
yards in length and from ten TO thirty
feet deep. The bottom is covered with
ice. and the caves and crevices are flied
with it. In fact it is q natural ice house.
where many tons of ice can be taken out
without apparently decreasing the sup
ply. The greater part of it has been
there for many years, the mass slowly
melting in summer and increasing in
winter, until it has become several feet
thick. During the past warm weather,
when the thermometer registered in the
nineties only a mile from the gorge, at
tue bottom of it it marked only thirty
eight degrees. A few feet from one end
of the gorge q spring of sparkling water
bubbles up. This water stands at thirty.
four degrees during winter and summer.
Mr.. Thompson says that the farmers
for miles around take3Tte lfS2m this
place.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
A R%eYengeful Camel.

We find this Eastern story illustrating
the camel's malignity and passion-not-
outstanding his patience and good
service when well treated: On one oc.
casion q camel-driver had insulted the
animal in his charge. The driver, from
the expression of its eye, saw that there
was mischief in it, and kept q sharp
watch for some days. One night before
he retired to lest, he left his cloak.
spread over the wooden saddle of the
camel outside the tent. During the
night the camel approached the cloak,
and, believing that its master was fast
asleep under it, lay down and rolled it.
self backward and forward over the
cloak; the saddle broke under its
weight. and the animal was evidently
much pIeased at what it thought WAS
the cracking and breaking of its masters
bones. After a time it rose. and look
ing with contentment on the havoc it
had caused, retired from the spot. Next
morning, the driver, who had heard all
that the camel had done, presented HIM
self to the animal. The disappointed
camel was in such a rage at seeing it's
master safe and we'll that it died.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
Inherited ~Antfpathies.

Cows hate dogs instinctively, from
their earliest calfhood upward. I used
to doubt once upon a time whether the
hatred was not of artificial origin and
wholly induced by the inv eterate human
habit of egging on every dog to worry
every other animal that comes in its
way. But I tried a mild experiment
one day by putting a half grown
town-bred puppy into a small Enclosure
with some hitherto unworried calves,
and they all turned to make a common
Roadway against the intruder with the
same striking unanimity as the most
ancient and experienced COWS. Hence l
I'M inclined to suspect that the a%ntipathy
does actually result from a vaguely in
herited instinct derived from the days
when. the ancestor of our kline was a
wild urus, and the ancestor OF our dogs
a wolf, on the wild forest clad plains OF
Central Europe. When a COW puts up
it's tail at sight of q dog entering it's pad
dock at the present day it has probably
some din instructive consciousness that
it stands in the presence of a dangerous
hereditary foe; and as the wolves could
only seize with safety a single isolated
uTuS SO U1c COWS INV oooUAy "HhS
common cause against the intruding
dog, turning their heads in one direction
with very unwonted unanimity till his
tail finally disappears underline opposite
gate.
Such inherited antipathies seem COM
mon and natural enough. Every species
knows and breads the ordinary enemies
of its race. Mice scamper away from
the very smell of a cat. Young chickens
run to the shelter of their mothers
wings when the shadow of q hawk
passes over their heads. Mr.. Darwin
put a small snake into a paper bag,
which he gave to the monkeys at the
Zoo; and one monkey after another
opened the bag, looked in upon the
deadly foe of the quadrumanous kind,
and promptly dropped the whole pack;
age with every gesture of horror and
dismay. Even nan himself though
his instincts have all weakened SO
greatly with the growth of his more
plastic intelligence, adapted to a wider
and more modiiable set of external cir.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES to retain a vague
and original terror of the serpentine
form.-&. James Gazette.
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Vegetine
L
Purlfes the Blood, Renoyates and
.I~nvigorates the Whole System.
IT'S MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alternative, Tonic, Solvent
and DiuretIc.

vIer11xz d made e1c,unvsly from he Juices Of care
fully selected bark, roots and herbs, and % strongly con
eentrated that It Will e~nectnily eradicate from The Vstsm
every faint Of Scrofula, korofulous am
Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous HunaOf, Ery-
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Canker, Faintness at the Stomach. and al
diseases that arise from impure blood. Sciadca,
Infammatory and Chronic Rheumatism,
Neuralsta, Gout and Spinal Complaints'e can
only DO ~efectually cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptivo Diseases OF me
Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Dlotches, BoiIs,
letter. Scaldhead and RlnRworm, YEorf1Hx
has never failed TO effect q permanent cure.
For Pains In tho Back. Kidney Conn
plants, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leu
corrhea, artrtng from internal liberation, and
uterine diseases and General Debility, VEerTISl
acts directly upon the causes Of these complaints fn'
vigorates and strengthens the whole gstem, acts upon tne
seqetive organs, allays Inflammation, cu1es liberation ano
regulates the bowelh
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Co.'S
tiveness, Palpitation OF the Heart, Head
ache, Pilcs, Nervousness, and Genera
P~rostration Of tho Nervous System, ~
medicins has ever given such perfect satisfaction - TIL
vEerrIxx. It purnes the blood, ceanses al OF TIT
organs and possesses q controlling power over tho nervous
Ggem.
The remarkable cures Effected BY vrer,n1 hav'
induced many physicians and apothecaries whom VI
know to prescribe and NE II In their own families.
In TACT YIor,rxr d the best remedy yet discovered 10
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11

Trckett, the ~well.known Australian cars.
man, has arrived in London and will ut once
20 into training for his race with Hanlsn next
November.
Latest advioes from South America declare
that Lima, the capital OF Peru, Is to DO bonn
barded by the Chilians, and the city's destruo'
ton Is believed to % a matter OF time only.
The volcano Fuego, near the city OF An.
tigua, Guatemala, has, alter many years OF
silence and apparent rest, in which there was
little to determine It's character as . volcano
except occasional emissions OF smoke and odd
rumbling noises from within, burst ont in an
angry and terrific eruption. The surrounding
country for many miles was illuminated BY
great columns of flame, which darted upward
from the volcano q distance OF 900 feet.
The Transportation of silver Is becoming a
serious question in the treasury department.
The mint and sub-treasury In San FRANCISCO
are overlooking with silver coin, and an appll-
cation is made Tor the transfer East OF 81 00o,-
900. The cos. OF transporting this sum at the
rates charged by express companies and rail.
roads would be $40. 900, or one per cent.
than in Philadelphia, and yet the silver dollar
can only be used for circulation in the Middle
and Eastern States. The question OF the mode
in which this silver can be transported, and
where it can be most easily stored, without
exceeding the amount OF the $4,000 appro-
priated Tor vault room, are now being con-
sidered by the treasury Department.
The Bri,is1 army in Aighanistan has met
with a terrible disaster in the almost complete
annihilation of a who Q brigade. From the
meager dispatches at hrst received it appears
that General Burrows' brigade, consisting OF
about 2 700 men, while operating against
Ayoop Knan's force OF Afghans in the vicinity
OF Candahar was surprised by the enemy and
| routed. The British troops were dispersed
and pursued for three miles, and those who
were not killed or captured made their way IN
small squads to Candahar. General Pr.m.
rose, in command at Candahar, retired with
his whole force into the city's citadel.
A London dispatch says that a return pub:
lished in connection with the bill introduced
by Mr.. Plimsoll, before quitting parliament
Tor the better security OF vessels with grain
cargoes, shows that between the years 1879
anu 1880 twenty.six steamships laden wholly
or partially with grain fouudered at sea ano
twenty-lour were reported as missi1 6, ane
during the same period 100 grain laden sail.ni
vessels foundered and Ill were reported al
missing.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11

sion of fate had cometo the Feldings a.
well as to herself, and that Lance, the
| elegant, was working at the same bust
ness as herself, bookkeeping, only for a
salary three times as large as her own.
"He is wellp" she ventured to ask, her
face flushing.
"Yes, in body" Mrs. Fielding an
swered, gravely. but I think he has
never been quite the same since you
treated him 50 cruelty, Miss Steele. He
loved you so-he will never love a
woman again. I know that"
The flush died out of Genevieve's
cheeks, and o curious, solemn look crept
into her beautiful eyes.
Mrs. Fielding" she said, gently, dep
recatingly. will you please tell your
son it was not because I did not love
himP Tell him-I-wish he would ask
me %again-now. May I send him such
a m~essagep"
God bless you for it" she an
swered. .
Then they parted, and Genevieve went
home as she never had gone home in her
life before.
And before twenty-four hours had
passed, Lance Fielding "asked her
again." and took her in his arms and
kissed her-his betrothed wife;
They were so happy. They all lived
together-Lance and mis- wife and their
two mothers-all that lovely spring.
time, when the husband went out every
morning and returned every night, and
Genevieve did her tidy, frugal little
housekeeping Until the hot June days
came, and then, one day, Lance declared
he intended to pack them all off to the
seaside for a couple of months.
Genevieve laughed-a delicious, con,
tented little laugh-as she remembered
the last hot June days at the seaside. -,
"You prefer last season to this, then"
she said, responsibility, while her eyes
shone their love.
"As far as temperature is concerned,
very decidedly" he said, as he smiled.
Don't you long for the drives on Ocean
avenue, and the plunges in the surf, and
the Saturday night hops, and the moon.
light tete-a-tetes in the summer houses!
Seriously, my darling, it is high time
tie farce should end. Listen, Gene
We've, while 1 tell you I am not poor
man, nor are you a poor mans wife. l
have played the part to win you, my
precious, and I thank God for my wife
every day! Don't look so surprised. !!
am going to telegraph for my old suit OF
rooms to-day, and I want you to take
this check for u thousand dollars, and
buy your summer outfit and Mother
Steele's. Genevieve, darling, you are
not angryw
So, although love was lord of all,
Genevieve made the grand match, after
all!
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11
Protection Against Files and M0squf.
toes.

A correspondent of Nature makes
known what he calls ian absolute pre-
ventive of the bites of mosquitoes, gnats,
of green fly in the winery, blight in the
garden, and a protection to animals
from these insect pests" 1t is simply a
weak solution of quassia. He applied
it to a peach tree growing upon q wall,
exposed to drought and which blighted,
and blight was prevented. In the winery
it succeeded equally well. Instead oil
lime washing The wall to get rid of the
green fly, one watered with quassia dis
missed them in q day. His head gar
dener, who had previously much expert.
ence in nursery grounds, wondered that
re had never heard of that before. He
now uses it in all things as a protection
from flies and blight. The dilution goes
a long way; one pound of chips Of
quassia wood, boiled and rebsiled in
other water until he has eight gallons Of
the extract for his garden engine. He
finds it inadvisable to use it stronger fol
some plant. This boiling makes the
quassia adhesive, and being principally
applied to the underleaf, because most
blight settles there, it is not readily
washed off by rain And now IS to
gna 3 and mosquitoes: A young friend
OF the gentleman was severely bitten by
mosquitoes, and unwilling to be seen sc
disfigured, sent for quassia chips and
had boiling water poured upon them
At night, after washing, she dipped he1
hands into the quassia water and lett il
to dry on her face. This was a perfect
protection. and continued to be SC
whenever applied. At the approach OF
winter, when flies and gnats get into
houses and sometimes bite venomously,
a grandchild eighteen months old was
attacked. The nurse wa given some
of a weak solution OF quassia 10 be left
to dry on his face, and he was not bitten
again. 1t is innocuOus to children, and
it may be also a protection against bed
insects. But this has not been tried
When the solution Of quassia is strong
it is we'll known to be an active fly poi.
son. and is mixed with sugar to attract
flies, but this is not strong enough to
kill at ace
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-08-11

A New York ex-soldier says thu a.
the second battle of Bull Run, during
the very heat of the engagement, wher
the enemy's bullets were singing
through the air like hail in q summer
shower, two New York city boys fel
out about something, and, while mer
were dropping dead and wounded al
about them, they coolly laid down theil
muskets and had it out with their fists
Finally one of. them cried "enough,'
and then both picked up their guns ant
resumed their target practice on tn
pnemV.