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The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-04
A WONDERFUL MEDICINE


Certificate of a Prominent Citizen
of Adrian, Mich, who had not
Walked without Clutches for
two oyears. He threw them away
in "a Hours after the first ap-
piication of Wizard Oil.
DR.. HAMLIN:-WFen I met your agent
here, in September, had been two years suf-
fering severelywith Rheumatism, half of that
time confined to the house, and three months
at time to my bed. The balance of the
time was compelled to crawl around upon
crutches. [ used medicines without number,
including large quantity of morphine, all of
which proved worse than useless. AS to what
| suffered, the English language cannot tell
it to any one who has not tried its realities
The first application of Wizard Oil gave
me relief IN fifteen minutes, and dispelled my
doubts In twenty-four hours. used bottle
a day for ten days. The next morning after
the use of the first bottle,
left my Clutches at home and
walked down town without them
for the first time in two years.
Since thenI have not used them, and can now
split cord of wood as quick as any man in
Adrian. Some of my friends at first thought
such sudden cure would kill me- but wanted
That all who read this may know how I
have been, I will say, when I commenced
using Wizard Oil, could reach around nv
leg above the knee with one hand.
Il was reduced to a mere skeIe-
ton, and most of the time
when L moved upon
crutches, or tried to stand
without them, L could not raise
either foot from the floor.
used fifteen bottles in all, but have not used
any for two months. | now feel as we'll as
ever did in my life, and have gained thirty-five
pounds in flesh. But must tell you it seems
almost like dream. You can refer to me as
often as you wish, and hundreds of the citi-
Eens OF Adrian will testify to the truth of
NY statements.
JOHN W. FAIRBANKS, Adrian, Mich.
The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-04
SKIN DISEASE.
Great Suffering for Sixteen Years. A
Wonderful Cure by the Cuticura

Remedies.
meesrs. WEEKS & POTTER: Gentlemen.-CUTI
CURA REMEDIES have done me power of good.
have been afflicted with ekin disease for sixteen
years. Some days it troubled me more than others
but at night the Itching nearly drove me wild.
would scratch until the blood would run down
my limbs.
l have had several physicians. Some said they
cou1d cure me, but others said rot.
will say that before | used the CnTTCUBA RRMT-
DIES was in fearful state, and had given up all
hope of ever having any relief.
But. ike drowning man grasping at q straw. l
thought would try the CUnCURA REMEDIES,
about which had read go much.
They have performed wonderful cure for me,
and of my own free viii and accord I recommend
them Yours truly,
s. A. STEELE.
68 ". VAN BUREE Sr., CHICAGO, ILL,
March Z, 1879.
The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-04

The CTUIcURA REMEDIES are prepared by Weeks
6 Potter, Chemists and Druggists, SO Washington
St, Boston, and for sale by al druggists
Price of CUTICURA, small boxes 80 cents; large
boxes containing two and half times the guam
TIcURA SOAR, % cents per cake; by mail 80 cents
3 cakes, IS GEMS.
The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-04

In Three Years of Treatment.
Gentlemen.-Plea find so cents to pay for
small box of CUTECURA and direct it to me. The
dollar box you sent me has done more good
than all the doctors in three years. The doctors
have done good My feet and legs heal
ing fast. 1t is indeed CUTIcURA.
Yours truly,
EVAN MORGAN, P. II.
Moscow MIEN, June 25, 1878.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.

EaSA Solid South is the cornerstone
of Democratic hope. After election it
will be the grave-stone.
R6yThe sober second thought of the
American people is fatal to Hancock's
prospects. Albany Journal.
HS~The election of Hancock involves
all sorts of ks-fnancial industrial,
commercial and Constitutional. The
election of Garfield involves no risk of
any kind, but is a guarantee of stabil-
ity and continued prosperity. That is
why Garfield will be elected
BG~The solid South is making des-
perate effort to retain its hold on the
Government. If successful now it hopes
so to use its influence as to gain a long
lease of power. But if defeated this
year it knows that the scepter will pass
from it never to return. The new CEN
sus will leave it in hopeless minority
unless it can get control of the new APP
portionment of members of the lower
house of Congress. That is why the
South is fighting so desperately, and
was willing to accept any candidate at
Cincinnati that would aid tin the North.
M Y. Tribune.
R9~Wallace has reached his home in
Pennsylvania. and having set guard
with instructions to watch day and night
for the possible approach of Davenport
with more testimony, he is gradually
becoming calm. He was so off his bal
ance when a Philadelphia Press. report
er encountered him on Sunday that he
predicted that Hancock would carry
Pennsylvania in November. Nobody
knows better than the great coifee-pot
operator that prediction of that kind
would be declared ample proof of men,
tai alteration in any court in Christen-
dom.-N. Y. Tribune.
BGs~ After enumerating the principal
points of Hancock letter of acceptance
the Cincinnati Gazette says: "He re-
marks that the bayonet is not a fit in
strument for collecting the votes of
freemen.' This is a great concession
for soldier whose favorite weapon is
said to be the bayonet. But he does
not say that the shotgun is not fit in
strument to suppress the votes of free
men. He remarks that only by full
vote, free ballot and fair count can
the people rule, which is a declaration
that the people do not rule in that sec
ton whose solid vote will be for him."
R6y- A letter signed Southern Dem
ocrat," and. published conspicuously in
the Memphis AvaLdnobe, contains these
approved Southern declarations "White
men who dare to avow themselves here
as Republicans should be promptly
branded as the bitter and malignant
enemies of the South. The name of
every Northern man who presumes in
this community to aspire to office
through Republican votes should be
saturated with stencil. AS for the ne
groes, let them amuse themselves, if
they will, by voting the radical ticket.
We have the count. We have thou
sand good and true men whose brave
ballots will be found equal to those of
five thousand vile radicals"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
LATER NEWS.

In row near Bethel Church, Kv., on
the Sth, Felix Carlisle killed Jack Gowdy
Gowdy's friends in turn shot Carlisle in two
places aud stabbed him twice. He was not ex-
pected to live. All were colored.
AN Oswego, Kan, dispatch, on the
9Th, stated that the odd couple supposed to be
Bender and wife arrived there from Nebraska
that morning and were exposed in the Court
House for some hours. Many persons went
to see them and dozens who knew the real
Blenders pronounced these people impostors.
The Sheriff thought they would be discharged.
AT Jacksonville, H., on the 9th,
Tom Beckett somewhat notorious character,
shot and severely wounded two officers who
were attempting to arrest him. Beckett was
shot In the leg before he surrendered.
JAMES NELSON PHELPS shot and
killed Sadie A. Grover near Shutesbury Cen
ter, Mass, on the night of the Sth, d nd then
attempted to kill himself Phelps, who has
Wue living, formerly lived with the Grover
girl until he was arrested for bigamy and
sent to the Greenfield Jail for a year. After
his sentence was completed he endeayored to
get her to live with him again, and her CON
tinued refusal Is supposed to have excited
him to commit the crime.
OVER twenty villages in the district
Of RatHbor, Germany, have been DESTROYED by
floods. Four hundred and eighty square miles
were under water in Siesia on the 9th The
crops have been totally destroyed, causing a
loss of many millions Of marks
EX-GovERNoR BIGLER died in Clear
field, Pa, on the 9th, f
PILOT BUFF and Captain George d.
Horn, of the steamer Garland, which ran
down the steam yacht Mamie on the Detroit
river, drowning a number of persons were ar
rested for manslaughter at the conclusion of
the inquest on the 9th They were promptly
baied - .......
NEAR New Ross, Ireland, on the night
of the Sth, Thomas Boyd, crown solicitor for
County Tipperary, and his two sons were fired
at by masked assassns armed with guns and
bayonets. Boyd was seriously wounded In
the arm. One son was shot through the lungs
and the otherson received slight wound In
the leg Three men have been arrested on
suspicion OF committing the outrage
AT the suggestion of England, France
has been entrusted with the task of drawing
up a collective note rejecting upon the
Porle's reply to the previous note.
SIR PETER GEORGE FITZGERALD,
Knight OF Kerry, has died at Valencia. He
was especially renowned for the interest he
took in the success Of the Atlantic cables.
AT Lakeland, Mimi, on the 9th, the
engine of a threshing machine on the farm of
Elias Nc Cam, exploded it's boiler killing the
foreman and two men, and wounding six or
seven Others, some Of them seriously.
AT Newburgh, Preston County, w.
Va, on the 9th, Mrs Halbritter and Miss Hal
britter, who were walking on the railroad
track, were struck by an engine. Mrs. Hal
bHtter was Instantly killed and Miss HAlbrit-
ter lived but q few hours
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCK.

EIGHT men were killed in colliery
explosion near Wexham, Wales, on the 4th.
THE Russian Government has decided
to construct ten clippers, five of which will be
built in the United States.
OVER 100000 of japanese gold coin
was purchased in London ON the 3lst ult. for
export to the United States.
THE British loss in the fight with
Ayoob Khan was about ], ZOO killed and miss
ing out of $500.
THE murder of DR.. Parsons, Ameri-
can missionary in Turkey, is attributed to
Circassians and Lazes, large ship loads of
these lawlcss immigrants having been landed
in the Gulf OF Ismid near the spot where the
doctor was killed. Other cases Of robbery and
murder are expected.
AT Toronto, on the night of the 9th,
about six hundred Catholics aud Orangemen
met on street and fought fercely with stones
and sticks. Some Of the rioters were badly
beaten by the police.
HERR HAssELMAN, the Socialist Ger
man Deputy, has written letter denying that
he has left the country for America. He says
he is making political tour of Germany in
consequence of the suppression under the
Socialist law of the paper which he edits.
AMERICAN beef and live stock have
found their way into the markets of Switzer-
land
RUSSIA denies the existence of the
alleged Russian agitation in Bulgaria and
Roumelia, and asserts that there are fewer
Russian officers and men in the Bulgarian
army now than at the close of the war, and
that none have gone there since the evacua-
tiOn,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13

lence which for several years has denied
to large bodies of citizens the right and
privilege of voting at either State or
National elections, will doubtless be ex-
planned hereafter. As he writes this
letter with full knowledge that in five
large and populous States large por-
tion of the people--in some States a
large majority-dare not 90 to the polls
to vote for fear OF violence, and that in
the few places where they do vote their
votes are not counted or returned, the
country, while agreeing with General
Hancock, that the bayonet is not be-
coming instrument for collecting votes,
will insist that the duty of the National
Government is to secure, at whatever
cost and with whatever instruments
may be necessary, to every citizen in
the broad land the right and the oppor-
tunity to vote, and to have his vote fair
ly counted and returned at every cleo
tion for National officers.
His final declaration that, if elected,
he will perform his duty to the best of
his ability, according to his own CON
victions of law and the Constitution,
will, of course, be accepted by his
Southern followers as a grand saving
clause. In New Orleans he violated
and disregarded the law because his
convictions were opposed to the law,
and eventually, when compelled to obey
the law against his own convictions, he
asked to be relieved from the duty of
executing the law.
The letter of General Hancock is not
candid; it is evasive and obscure. I'm
der the pretense of being an outspoken
and frank declaration of principles, no
principles are avowed, but between the
lines may be discovered the odor if not
the form of the most malignant of all
the devices of disunion, strife and civil
war, the demon of State supremacy
Chicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Gathered from All ouorters.
WASHINGTON.

GENERAL WEAVER, Presidential NOM
inee Of the National Greenback Labor party,
has issued a circular TO the members Of the
party appealing for contributions Of one dol
lar and upward to aid in defraying the ex-
penses Of the campaign from now until No
vember.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says it is
the Intention Of Captain Kimball, chief Of the
life saving service, to expend upon the lakes
the entire appropriation Of $4,000 made by
Congress last winter for the establishment of
new l''e saving stations.
COMM ssIONER RAUM officially in
forms the Secretary of the Treasury that dur
ing the pI.st fiscal year Sl23, ,9S1, ,9lG internal
revenue taxes were collected and the entire
sum paid into the Treasury During the past
Tour fiscal years the total amount OF taxes re-
cetved by the collectors of internal revenue
was S467, ,0S0, SIS, and the entire sum has been
paid into the Treasury. The salaries and ex-
penses OF the bureau were about $40 929, 900,
or little more than three and half per cent.
upon the amount collected.
IHE proposals to sell bonds to the
Government, on the 4th, aggregated $685.
9OO. The Secretary Of the Treasury accepted
S9,5OO,O00.
SECRETARY EvARTs has addressed a
letter to all powers owning ports likely to be
injected with yellow fever cholera, or other
contagious diseases asking for an international
sanitary conference, with the view of estab-
fishing an international system of notification
as to the actual sanitary condition of ports
and places The conference is to be held
January l, 1881
The money transactions of the Navy
Department from July /, 1875 10 June 30,
1879, amounted TO S70,541,7 no In disbursng
this large amount not single official de-
faulted nor was dollar lost by the Govern
meut.
GENERAL SHERMAN says the project
TO invade Mexico from Texas will not
amount to anything as the neutrality laws
between the United States and Mexico will
OF course have TO be maintained by the Uni
ted States Army II necessary, hence If
Dalrymple, who is lesder of the project, at
tempts an invasion he will in all probability
be whipped by both the United States and
Mexican forces.
The first stone in the work of COM
pleting the shaft of the Washington National
monument was laid on the 7th
IT is estimated that it will take three
years to complete the entire compilation of
the census.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13

The freight houses of the Indianapo-
lis & St. Louis Railroad, at East st. Louis, to-
gether with some fifty cars, most Of them la
den with general merchandise, were burned
on the 9th. The loss of railroad property and
freight In cars is roughly estimated at $780,
OOO' Ihe value OF the merchandise In the
freight houses is not known. .'...a.a,.r-
THREE passenger cars in an excursion
train returning from Niagara Falls TO Jack
son, Ohio via the Springfield Southern Rail-
road, went through bridge and into the canal
at Waverly, Ohio, on the 9th One hundred
and fifty passengers, residents ofJackson and
vicinity, were on the train. One passenger
was killed, ten severely and five slightly in
jured' The accident was caused by the front
car jumping the track and dragging the other
cars down an embankment.
X. l.. EDWARDS, q Christian preacher
at Ennis, Texas, was called out on the night
oil the 9TH and shot by unknown parties.
AN Omaha special to the Chicago
Tribune, on the 9th, stated that former res
ident OF Jacksonville, ILL.,, had identified the
two prisoners at Fremont, Neb., supposed to
be the Benders, as the MeGregors, of Jack
sonville., The man says he knew them there
as hard characters and he left Illinois for Kan
sas with them in wagon train, and that Nc
Gregor, who is thought to be identical with
Bender, went to Labette County. Old Bender
made confession, believing that his wife had
escaped from prison. His story tallies with
his wifes exactly
In Webster County, Ca, on the 5th,
Mrs Woodson l.. Gunnells, wife of well-to-
do farmer, poisoned herself four Of her chill
dren and five of her step-children. Mrs. Gun
nells died, and no hopes of recovery were en-
tertained for three of the children The Others
were believed TO be out of danger. A note in
the handwriting of Mrs. Gunnells was found
under some morphia on the table, in which
she stated that she had deliberately admins
tered morphia to the children and herself
with the intention Of destroying them all.
and that she was not actuated by any domes-
tic trouble.
RECENT rains have done much damage
to the cotton crop in Alabama.
JOHN BALI, who murdered his wife
in May, 1879, was taken from the Athens,
Alabama, Jail on the night of the 7th by a
mob and hanged. Bailz had been twice sem
fenced to death and each time granted new
trial
The movements of the filibusters
styled the "Army of Occupation" in Texas,
are being closely watched by General Ord.
In the COroner's inquest over the
body Of the wife of the engineer of the yacht
Mamie, killed in the late collision on the De-
troit River, the jury, on the 7th returned
verdict that the collision was caused by the
gross carelessness or criminal negligence of
George II. Horn, master, and Henry w. Buff,
pilot, of the steamer Garland, which ran down
the yacht
CONTINUOUS rains have caused
freshet in Cape Fear River, North Carolina.
Immense damage has been done to corn and
cotton in the low lands.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
WEST Ann sNI1TH

The Democratic majority in Alabama
will probably reach 6O,lO0 Congressman
Lowe, Greenbacker, was defeated for re-elec-
ton.
AT an election in Utah on the 2d the
Liberals carrihd part of their ticket in two
counties. There was no opposition to the
church ticket in Salt Lake.
A FIRE in Benson, Minnesota, on the
9th, burned a block of buildings, including
several stores and offices.
The National reunion of soldiers
takes place at Columbus, Ohio on the 10th.
11th and 18th Of August. President HAYES.
Generals Sherman and Logan and other prom
inent men will be present.
THE Democrats of the Third Ohio
District, on the 5th nominated General ].
Durbin Ward for Congress,
THE Michigan Republican State Con-
ventlon was held at jackson on the 5th. The
following nominations were made For Gov
ernor, D. IL. Jerome Lieutenant-Goyer
Morelu S. Crosby; Secretary of State, win.
lam Jenny (renominated); Treasurer, Ben
jamin d. Pritchard; Auditor General, w. j.
Latimer; Commissioner Of Land Office, j. NJ.
Neasmith.
The population of ST. Louis accord
Ing to the revised censusretuns will be about
100000.
The total payment to army and navy
pensioners in Ohio during the last fiscal year
was $5,537 540.SS There are %, 1865 Ohio pen
sioners ON the rolls. There ,re 1883 in
valids, 1875 widows, minors and dependent
relatives, s64 widows with children, and 7Ss
widows without children. There are 7l8 sur
vivors of the war of 1872 and 2,026 widows Of
soldiers ofthat war.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch says informa-
tion comes from Texas that what is known
down there as the Grand Army Of Occupa-
tion, an organization whose object seems to
be the invasion of Mexico is assuming con-
siderable proportions. The movement is at
tracing good deal of attention aud the be-
lief is expressed that If the Government docs
not interfere serious trouble will result.
PERRY JEFFERSON was fatally shot
by two negroes at Mayslick, KY, on the Sd.
The negroes were lynched.'
STANBREY @. ANGELO, correspondent
Of the Liverpool Courier, who was with Prince
Napoleon in Zululand when the latter was
killed, was found dead beside the track ofthe
Union Pacific Railroad near Cheyenne, on the
morning Of the 5th, lie had been run over by
the cars and ended his life by shooting him
self through the heart. Angelo had been
writing up the West for his paper and left
Cheyenne on the 4th for Yellowstone Park to
Join Secretary sohurhs party,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
What it Cost to Suppress the Late
Democratic RebelliOn.

Toward the close of the late session
of Congress the Senate passed resolu-
ton directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to communicate to that body
the amount of money expended by the
United States for all purposes necessa-
rily growing out of the war of the re-
belllon. The response to this resolu-
tion has just been printed. 1t shows
that the gross expenditure from July l,
1861, to June so, 1879, inclusive, was
1854, ,57l, ,43l. Expenditures other
than for war during the same time were
1854, ,641,522 leaving the expenditure
growing out OF the war So, lS9, 929, 90S.
At the end of this time the entire debt
was reduced to 1896. .il4, 905. When
the total debt, less cash in the Treasury,
was highest Gin August, 1869 it was
S2,756, 43l, ,57l, or S7S.25 per capita.
AT the end of this time it was $40 AZ
per capita, little more than half what
it was in 1865, The interest pei capita
in 1865 was 1929; in 1879 it was Sl.G9,
not one-third what it was per capita in
1865. Thus it will be seen that the
ratio of reduction of interest has been
considerably greater than the ratio of
reduction of the debt. The first year
of the war the total debt, less cash in
the Treasury, was SS7, 7lS, 660; in 1862
it was $505, 312, 1852; in 1868 it was ST.
Ill, $50, 7S7; in 1864 it was 81, 700, 4j2.-
277; in 1865, as stated, it was highest
From this on it has steadily diminished
at an average rate of sos, 900, 600 year
ly. The rate OF reduction per capita
was S2,70. During the first Years alter
the war this rate was much greater than :
during recent years. for the last year it
was only one-fourth what it was during
the second year after the war - Hasa
ingtOn Dispatch to The Chicago Times
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
THE NEXT DAY.

AUGUST C
DR.. Tanner spent very quiet day to-
day, and saw very few visitors. His
physicians say he is improving as well
as could be expected after such a long
fast. During the early part of the
morning he chewed half a pound of
beefsteak, only retaining the juice, and
part of some milk-toast and wine.
Shortly before noon he ate half a
pound of beefsteak and some pota-
toes which had been stewed in
milk. He was then weighed and
turned the scales at 1876 pounds. About
every hour he partook of some nourish-
ing food or drink, which included wa
termelon, milk, potatoes stewed in
milk, ale, beef tea, bread and wine.
About six O'Clock his weight was again
taken, and was found to be l30 pounds.
He was quite lively to-day, and frisked
about his room like a schoolboy. His
physicians say his rapid recovery from
the effects of his long fast is something
remarkable.