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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-14
MEDICAL.
Public Notice.

JOHN BANNAs, being Blacksmith by
IL trade, had often felt the want of some means
whereby could soften iron at the forge, 60 that
could work 1t at a better advantage. THIS induced
me to make many experiments with different sub
stanceswhich offered the best prospect Of success
Ii was one of these occasions that discovered
the wonderful effects of Electro Silicon on the
Human System.
/ had a defect in three OF my fingers, which were
bent or ehnt ap in my hand In such manner by
the CoNTRAcTIoN OF THE CORDS. that they were
very troublesome TO me in my dairy ayocatlon:
could OF handle my tools as l wished. and often
thought would have my fingers cut of to get
them out of the way, 1haye used everything that
Well, say. was working with Electro Silicon at
the forge, and of could not prevent its COM
took no notice of the effect 1t had produced,
until one day, wishing 10 use heavy hammer, L
surprise | found my crooked fingers straignten
out. and / had much use OF them ae ever
hands to mV wife fs's sna Family and general
joicing was the result.
had neighbor living about mile from my
shop who had a lame knee, caused by the cords
being contracted by rheumatism. / sent him
bottle OF Electro Silicon Liniment 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.
1t had worked just as it did in my case producing
perfect cure. gave it to Others of my neigh bors
and friends. for miles around. who were suffering
from Swelled Limbs, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Stiff
JOINTS Burns, rtc., all of which it cured without
any trouble. Finding that the Electro Silicon Lin
iment would penetrate the skin of man further
than any other substance, it occurred to me that
| it must be good for the horse. and it has proved
itself one OF the very best applications in all ex-
ternal diseases occurring to the noble animal,
Prepared by the
Electro Silicon Liniment Co, ,
ELMIRA, ....................NEW YORK
~ Price, SO cents per Large Bottle
! Sold Wholesale:
FARRAND. WILLIAMS q CO. Detroit Mich,
j ID PARK q SON, Cincinnati, o.
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For Member Of Congress,
BERNARD H. TRUESBALL, OF Lee.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET

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PATRICK O,MARA, of Rock Island
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THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Two Junctures When Hancock swas
s@as to be Placed im Command,

A Statement IF Facts By One Who is in a
Position to haoao- Why the Promotion
soGs not Finally Made Grants Aue9a-
ton Contradicted IN Aaofher Coaspi-
cfoas Feature.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03
THE MISSOURI MASTODON.

Several years ago. a Dr. Koch placed
on exhibition the bones of large ami
NAL he found in Gasconade county, Mis-
souri. He had arranged the bones with
but little idea of their proper relation
ship, turned the head upside down, and
represented it as having canine teeth
adapted to carnivore, tusks, in
reality-alleging that the animal fed
himself with his fore feet J. d. Dana,
the geologist, and 0. G. Marsh, the pale
ontologist, went into an examination of
the relics, effectually scalping the doctor,
and, while crediting him with being an
assiduous collector of bones, dubbed him
an as ass and falsifer. The doctor
claimed he had found arrow-heads with
the bones which would make it appear
that man was contemporaneous with
these mammals on this continent. How
ever willing scientists might have been
to accept any proofs of such a statement
DR.. Kochs unsupported claim of the ar
row-head find was. too much for them to
swallow in the absence of indications in
any other part of the country that man
existed previous to the last end of the
tertiary formation or just before the post
tertiary. Marsh says there is consider
able evidence of mans existing on this
continent during our pliecene, and DR..
Koch's arrows would have added to the
evidence had not the falsehood's in which
he was detected discredited all he might
say b4ond the mere undisputed bone
discovery Koch described the several
layers through which he dug to examine
the mammoth's remains, stopping only
short of the old red sandstone; when the
facts were proven that the mammoth was
found in peat-bog, the bones being pull
ed up from the muck by reaching down
poles and arms.
We thought these matters were settled
long ago; but to our surprise, here ap-
pears Bryant's History of the United
States, with the capture of the Missouri
Mastodon depicted on page IL. Bryant
does not tell us the names of the savages
exactly, but he represents them surround
ing the dying nondescript,-all of them
like the Cupids in Biddy's valentine, with
more bows and arrows than breeches,
striving to fill his hide with paleolithic
memorials of their existence, evidently
fully conscious that millions of years
afterward DR.. Koch was the beguile Bry
ant into recording their arrowheads
along with Washington's hatchet and the
nickle-plated spade with which Grant
planted the tree in South Park, as among
the utensils worthy of being embalmed
in the American recollection.
In literature pretending to exactness,
no greater disservice can be rendered
truth-seekers than committing just such
blunders. Partisanship may be useful
in these fields, but enabling the judge to
discriminate between assertion and coun-
ter-assertion. Histories claiming to be
exact should have such matter carefully
sifted before introducing it to readers as
a fact.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03
TO SOUTHERN RE-
PUBLTCANS.

WASHINGTON, February 23.--The
Executive Committee of the Southern
Republican Associstion in this city has
issued an address to be circulated as
broadly as possible in the South,i in which
it appeals for hearty cooperation and
says:
Located at the national capital, the
official and political center Of our coun-
try, we hope to be able to render sub
stantial and efficient aid in the restora-
ton of Republican Governments and
constitutional liberty in the Southern
States.
"Admonished by the sad experience
of the past, we conjure you to inculcate
peace, harmony and unity among South
ern Republicans. Let there be no dis
sension in your ranks no division in your
councils. A National Convention OF our
party will assemble on the second day of
June, at Chicago The Southern States
are entitled to 276 delegates, which is
more than one third of the entire conven-
ton. While we decline all purpose of
debating a policy, we counsel united and
harmonious action, coupled with a re-
spectful demand for a hearing and re-
cognition of our rights. Reconstruction
was an invention of Northern statesmen
In the blood of heroes and martyrs it was
executed The verdict of impartial his
tory will pronounce upon its wisdom or
unwisdom. The past, with its errors and
sorrows, is unalterable Let its exper-
ience guide our present and future ac-
tons. Select your truest, ablest and
bravest men, honest representatives of
the peoples will for your delegates. Let
them come untrammeled, unfettered and
uninstructed, free to act for the rights and
liberties of the people, for the triumph of
our party and the safety and supremacy
of the nation. To this end we suggest a
council of the Southern delegates at Chi
cago on the 31st day of May, upon which
we respectfully invite your views"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

How ILLINOIS WAS BoUGHT.-In the
year 1928 the state of Illinois was bought
of ten Indian chiefs representing ten
tribes, by twenty-five white men in Penn
sylvania and England. The Territory
was in two tracks, one called Southern
Illinois, and the other the balance of the
State and a portion of Southern Wiscon-
sin. The consideration was $3.50 strouds
26O blankets, $50 shirts, $50 pair of stroud
and half thick stocking, $50 stroud breech-
cloths, 500 pounds of gun-powder, 1000
pounds of lead, l gross of knives, 80 lbs.
of vermillion, 1000 gun fints, 200 pounds
of brass kettles, 200 pounds of tobacco 2
dozen gilt looking-glasses, l gross of fire
steels, 16 dozen gatherings, 10000 pounds
of flour; 500 bushels of Indian corn, II
horses, II horned cattle, 20 bushels of
salt and 20 guns the receipt whereof we
do hereby acknowledge. These articles
have been paid and delivered in full
counsil" The deed was signed and exc
cuted before a French Notary Public at
Kaskaskia village
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

A DOOMED TowN-The town of Gov
ington, Iowa, is literally a doomed city.
Situated on the bend of the Missouri
river, the banks are gradually being
eaten away, and the ground On which the
Court House stood a year ago, is now
covered by many feet of fast-fowing
water. The cutting away is done by
fits and starts. A week ago Sunday, says
The Sioux City Journal, the current set
inshore and took off a strip of land thirty
feet wide in few hours. No invasions
were made for another week, when an
other slice was cut off, Then about half
a dozen buildings were moved back some
thirty feet, and the next day the land on
which they had stood was all gone. The
citizens have tried to moor trees and
logs to the bank in the hope of forming a
barrier for the food, but the current is so
swift and the water so deep that these
attempts have failed. To give an idea of
what the town of Covington has suffered
in the past five years, the case of the fer
ry house and principal hotel may be in
stanced. Two years ago there were 600
feet of land between the buildings and
the river bank; now you can toss stone
out of the hotel window into the river,
and the buildings are now beings put on
rollers for removal.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

The excellence of the Cremona yiolins
as musical instruments and their fine
finish as specimens of working in wood
gave them early high reputation, which
they richly deserved. Undoubtedly they
were the best and the handsomest vioIins
that had been made They had also this
advantage, that as years went on their
positive excellence became greater. The
oluer they grew anu the more tuey were
used-caretul use being assumed--the
finer, richer, sweeter, mellower became
their tone. Therefore it was that toward
the end of ,he last century there began
in the musical world of Europe "craze"
for Cremona violins. The demand was
at first for the Amatis, SO great WAS the
positive merit Of the instrument made by
that family and so had it's members
through generations and centuries inn
pressed themselves upon the musical
world as the leading lutanists Of Cremona.
Such was the supremacy Of the Amati
name and so comparatively underrated,
If not unknown, was that of Stradivari,
that it is recorded that Cervetto took to
England, about 1775, instruments by the
latter maker, and being unable to sell a
violincello for G5, ne took them back
again to Italy They would now if they
were good specimens of Stradivari's s WORT
and in good condition, easily be sold for
$500, and if Of unusual excellence for
G700 or 9800 In 1876 I saw in London
three violincellos by Stradivari, for which
the prices were severally $3.50, e750
and G1,000; and the possessor, although
he was dealer, was not at ali eager to
sell them at those prices True, they
were instruments of uncommon excel
lence and character, and were in per-
feet condition; but SO rapidly has the re-
putation of Stradivari increased during
the last seventy-fve years that it is now
impossible to buy any sound instrument
made by him for less than 9500. The
influence of fashion could not be more
strongly exemplifed. If violins are
bought for the beauty Of their tone, what
was the matter with the ears of the violin
players in England in the last century
that they could not discover the positive
merit Of Stradivari's instruments, and
their superiority to those made by the
Amati family? For ",Strad'' is now
worth as merchandise at least twice as
much, and generally three times as much
as any Amati instrument in equally good
condition.-Richara Grant White in the
atlantic.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

TERRIBLE PICTURES OF DISTRESS IN
IRELAND.-NEW YORK HERALD BUREAU
DUBLIN, February 25.-Galway now
heads the list of distressed counties, and
countless are the unhappy stories that
come from within its borders. A cor
respondent Of her Majesty's gunboat Cos
hawk, which is distributing meal among
the Western Islands, writes from Innis-
hara, off Galway:
''It is terrible state of affairs. Fifty
families here exc out miserable exist
ence. Their houses are small heaps of
dirty stones. Their land is rock and
soft bog. Hunger and want are in every
place possible. The people go naked
and without food. Many are slowly
starving to death. Such scenes .of apall-
ing destitution I never before witnessed.
Every step we took brought before our
view new and more fearful pictures Of
destitution and suffering. The more we
saw the more certain did death from star
walton appear the inevitable fate of near
ly every man, woman and child on the
island. GauEt, thin and pale were the
faces of men who were naturally of her
culean build. The features of the women
and children were overspread by the
CHASTITY pallor of hunger In many ca
bins children crouched shivering and al
most naked around the fire. When enter
edlthey sprang behind their mother whose
single garment or thin dress was but the
slightest protection against the wind
which blew through the broken roof. On
the fire was the dinner, pot of brown,
green seaweed 1t is certain that unless
they are we'll cared for dozens will die of
starvation"
The same correspondent writes from
Inniscoffin, concerning the shocking mis-
administration on the part of the off,
cials there: The Government dispensa-
ry officer had no drugs; the relieving
officer no food One woman at least had
died in consequence. The Poor-Law
Inspector had not visited the island for
three years.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03
MAINE.

If Garcelon is wise he will follow Pills
bury's example and leave Maine. The
first glance at those recently-discovered
election returns reveals one case of fraud
sufficient to ruin what little reputation
the baffied conspirators have left. The
Legislative investigating committee, with
Eugene Hale at its head, began work on
Tuesday, and proved a case of forgery at
its first meeting. The republican candi-
date for senator in Lincoln county, An
drew r. G. Smith, was counted out on
the familiar ground of defective ballots.
He had clear majority of 1853. Garcelon
threw out the entire vote of the town of
Nobleboro, 140, because the ballots were
printed Andrew r. G. Smith. But this
left % majority to be got rid of, and to
accomplish this fraud the vote of another
town had to be wiped out The town
clerk of Somerville testified that he sent a
certificate, made up in open town meet
ing, giving Smith u votes, legally cast
for him; that he received from Augusta,
about the middle of December, a letter
written on the official paper of the secre-
tary of states Office, inclosing a blank
certificate and instructing him to fill it
out, giving the seventy two votes to An
drew A. R. Smith, instead of to Andrew
r. G. Smith, as in the first certificate.
He confessed that he had made out this
false certificate and signed the names of
all the select men to it, though none of
them were present to know Of the trans
action. On this false certificate Smith
was deprived of his seat, and a fusion
senator put in. The forging clerk says
he has "mislaid" the letter of instruction
but the forged certificate is among the
papers, and in the tabulated returns the
seventy-two votes of Somerville were first
put down to Smith, and afterward eras-
ed.
This is revelation No. /. More are to
follow, and by the time the committee is
through with its labors the country will
have an edifying list of the things Garce-
Ion was SO proud of when he retired from
Office. There is no possible defense for
him and his council to make. They can
not plead ignorance for they tabulated
the returns and they made the erasure
which they bear to-day. They made up
the tabulation first, giving the vote Of
Somerville to Smith, and they were the
guilty persons who, carrying out
the conspiracy, altered them on the
strength of the forged certificate which
they alone could inspire, since no one
else knew the number of votes necessary
to defeat Smith. They held the forged
certificate and destroyed the original one,
of whose existence there are several wit
nesses. 1t is announced in Augusta that
this is only beginning of the disclos-
ures which are to come.-Nem York
Tribune.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03
New REMEDY.-Mr. G.. E. Wright. O

New REMEDY.-Mr. G. E. Wright, of
this city, has been experimenting with
carbolic acid as prophylactic of scarlet
fever, and is favorably impressed with it's
efficacy. 1t seems to abort the disease
In numerous cases persons in an infected
household who took the acid have every
one escaped infectien, while all who fail
ed to take it were attacked. In the fami-
ly of Mr.. G. L. Divine, foreman of the
journal composing room, all who took it
escaped, while the servant girl, who re-
fused to take it, is now down with the
disease. The subject is one worthy the
study of every physician, and, if the
theory is established, the discovery is one
of the most important ever made in medi-
cine. The doctor puts five drops of acid
in half pint of water, and gives a tea
spoonful four or five times a day.-In.
dianopolis Journal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

Bayard, who has been the favorite of
many moderate democrats as a presiden-
tial candidate may now be regarded as
out of the question. His record has been
looked into lately, and the result is fatal
to him. 1t has been ascertained that he
openly advocated secession during the
war. He delivered speech in Dover,
in June, 1861, which was published in
The Delaware Gazette at that time, in
which he declared himself in favor of the
"new confederacy." This revelation has
opened the eyes of northern "war demo
crats," who could not support Bayard
without surrendering to the enemy that
which they fought for during the war.
They could as consistently vote for Jeff.
Davis
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03
ANoTHERN ELOPEMENT SCANDAL

ANoTHERN ELoPEMENT SCANDAL
Ex-county clerk Orlando Russell of
Paulding, Ohio, has suddenly disappear
ed, leaving behind him beautiful and
charming wife and two children aged re-
spectively eleven and thirteen years. He
wrote his wife letter dated at this city,
stating he had gone west to remain a
year, and perhaps forever. He left his
financial affairs in good shape He had
always lived happily with his family, and
bore an excellent reputation. About the
same time he left married woman OF
Paulding, known as Ella Clark, who also
disappeared, leaving her husband behind.
AS Russel's attention to this woman had
previously been matter of public gossip
and as she is known to have come tc Ft.
Wayne, it is supposed that she had join
ed Russell here and went west with him.
Her reputation has, it appears, been
tainted before. This scandal following
so closely upon the disappearance of ex-
sheriff Ferguson, has produced great
sensation at Paulding.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-03

REFORM IN LOVE LETTERS.-This Gus
tom that the papers have of printing the
love letters that are produced in court as
evidence in breach-of-promise cases would
be bad enough if they would only correct
the orthography, but they don't. The
editor seems to take fendish delight in
reproducing such amatory and damaging
epistles just as they were written, with
all their imperfections on their head. II
the infatuated lover tells his inamorata
that she ''is his dear luv," and he
"kneeds her evry our" that is the way it
goes into the paper. If he pronounces
her ''fr cloake," fir cloake it is. And
if in hurried and, as it often proves, an
unguarded moment, he alluded to her as
his "betrauthed," the pitiless proof read
er couldn't be induced to substitute the
conventional way of spelling that word
for mint of money. These things are
particularly narrowing to the father of the
incomplete letter writer, whose shame at
the publication of the correspondence is
swallowed up in his modification that he
has squandered so much money on the
young mans education. The safest way
is not to write any love letters, but if you
do, it would be advisable to have them
revised and corrected by some expert in
grammar, photography and punctuation
before passing out of your hands, so that
in case they get into the newspapers, you
will not be set down as illiterate, however
much you may be suspected of being
fool.-Boston Courier,