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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05
THE JOHN d. BILLINGs
Patent Steel and Iron Horseshoe.

Made complete, with Lever
Spri p Platform Continu-
Gus Calk. The best for
HOrse-ltailroade. Farm and
Carriage iIOrsee in the
world. Cnrcs Tender and
Contracted Feet, Cornr, In
terferlnR, Quarter crack,
LameneFs and all evils re-
Fulting from the use Of the
common shoe. Trial Set,
With Nails 81 To mchrurc,
place the foot on paper and
draw pencil arOuad. Shoes
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05

our Palace Cars 10 a SMOKING SALOON whore
You enjoy your "Havann at all hours OF the day.
Magnificent Iron Bridges span tho Mississippi and
Missouri rivers all points crossed hythia line and
transfers arc avoided at Council Bluns, LenVOn-
worth and AtchisOn, connections being made In
Union dapots.
TIIE PRINCIPAL, r.. r. CONNECTIONS OF THIS
GREAT THROUGH LINE ARE AS FOLLOWS
AtCHIcAGo with all diVerRing lines for the EaHt
and South.
Al ENGLKwooD with the Lake Shore A Michigan
Southern and Ptttsburg, ~. Wayne Chicago X. Rda
At WAsHINGTok HEIGHTS, with PittsburR Gin
cinnati A. st. Louis II. r.
Alta SALE, with Illinois Central II. Il.
AtPEoRIA, with p +. 81. Pr L. ID. l. b. Wi
III. Mdlandi and r., p. d w. Railroads.
AZ ROCK ISLAM, with We gtgrn Union Il. Il. ana
Rock Island Peoria Railroads.
AT DAyENPoRT with the Davenport North
At WEST. LIBERTY, with the Burlington Cedar
Rapids 81 Northern X. r.
AtGRTNNELI- with Central II. r. Of lows.
At DES MONIES, with ID. NJ. Il IT. Dodge II. II.
At COUNCIL BLUFFS, with Union Pacific r. H.
At OMAHA, with b. A Mo. X. X. X. Din Nob.D
AtCOLUMBUS JUNCTION, with Burlington, Cedar
Rapids Northern r. X.
At OTrUMwA, with Central T. r. OF Iowa; st.
Louis. Kan. City Northern and G.. Is. a o. X. hda.
At KEoKUK, with Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw
Wabash, and st. Louis, keokuk Il NV. X. lids.
AZ BEVERLY. with Kan. city, 81 j. a &. -. X. H.
Al ATCHIsON, with AtchisOn, Topeka A Santa Fgi
Atchson Il Neb and Cen. Br Union Pacific a. Rdn
At LEAvESwoRTH, with X. 4. and X. Cen. X. itdA
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05

ermanently located at 317 Perry Street, DAVEN
ORT, IOWA, where he has been for eight years.
The Doctor has practiced medicine twenty years,
and is regular graduate of British and American
institutions. His treatment is inyariHble attend co
with well established success Persons coming
under treatment may rest assured of recovering
every benefit guaranteed by science, skin and a
comprehensive experience
FEMALE COMPLAINTS this department
OF medicine the Doctor is prepared to treat in the
most scientific manner. He earnestly eoi1cits the
attention of the afflicted this notice. feeling per-
fectly confident that his medicines give the most
speedy relief. Then do not delay, as a complaint
which is durable to-day may become incurable in
nhnrf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05
7 CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC 3. 3.

Its main line runs from Chicago to Council Bluffs
and Omaha passing through Joliet Ottawa, La
Sale, Geneseo, Moline, Rock Island, Davenport,
West Liberty, Iowa City Marengo,, Brooklyn,
GrinneI and Des Moincs, che capitol OF Iowa
with branches from Bureau Junction To Peoria;
field Eldon BelkBap, Centreviiio, Princeton, Iren-
ton, Galatin, Cameron. Beavenwortn and Atchisoni
Washington 10 Sigourney, CskalOOsa md knoXvtllei
KeOkuk Pennington, BOnap3rte, BentonspOrt,
independent. Eidon, Ottumwa, Eodyylc, OskR-
loosa. Pella. Monroe, and Des MOine8 Des Moines,
and Av0ca to Earisn. This is positively the only
Railroad which owns. controls and operates a
through line between Chicago and Kansas
This Company own and control their Sleeping cars,
which are inferior 10 none, ana give you double
berth between Chicago and Council Bluffs, Leaven-
worth. or htchisun for Two Dollars and Fifty Cents;
and for Five Dollars, while ali other lines
n berth. and SIX Dollars for n section.
What W please most will be the pleasure or
en- toying your eGls while passing over the beauti-
full praries of Illinois and Iowa. in ono or our mag
uifcent Dining and Restaurant Cars that accompany
ali through Express Trains You get an entire meal,
seventy-fiye cents or you order what you like,
ana pay FOR what you SET. ..,.,
Appraciatfng the fact that jOrity Of the people
prcier separate apartments for different purposes,
land the enormous passenger business OF tins line
warTanfing IT, are pleased TO announce that tins
Company runs its PALACE SLEEPING CARS Tor
Sleeping purposes, and its PALACE DINING CGL-sg
Tor iatIns purposes. one other great feature OF
PALACE CARS are run through to II.
ATs.5EESON and LEAVEN WORTHE .
Tickets via this Line, known as the
For information not obtaInsabie at Yo'Sr
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05

put on cold. No heating OF foot Send for free IL
Illustrated Pamphlet THE JOHN ID. BILLINGS
PATENT HORSE SHOE COMPANY, 1Ol and 1863
Bank street New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05

THE CUTIcURA REMEDIES are prepared by Weeks
81 Potter, Chemist and Druggists, Boston, and sold
by all Druggists Price of CUTICURA, small boxes
so cents; large boxes containing two and one half
tunes the quantity of small, 81. REsoLvKNT, 81
per bottle. CUTICURA SOAP, 25 cents per cake; by
mall 80 cents; 3 cakes, 70 cents.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05
MEDICAL
(4ticura
REMEDIES.

The success attending the use OF these great rem
edies in the treatment Of affections OF the Skin and
Scalp with Loss af Hair is astonishing From every
part of the country comes the most grateful &C
nowledgements of what might be called miracu-
lous cures Messrs, Weeks & Potter extend their
thanks to all who have spoken good word Tor
VENT and will thankfully receive reports of new
coeoo ,rharever they occur.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-05
Young Men

Who suffering from thu effects of youthful fol-
lies or indiscretions, should avail themselves of
this the greatest boon laid at the alter of sur
fering humanity. DR.. McAffee will guarantee to
orfeit One Hundred Dollars for every case OF semi
nal weakness private disease of any kind or
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, May 12.-Flour-Dull and nominal
Wheat-Quet but firm; No. red winter, Ill
No. Chicago spring, 1.l7H0l.141 for seller
cash; 1.17A hid for seller May; 1.l1h@a.l2A
for seller June; 1O6 for seller July; 93H for sell
ler August; No. 3 Chicago spring, So; rejected,
S2@ST. Corn oderately active and higher; 81
for seller cash: 81 bid for seller May; 36A Q36x
for seller June; S69s@364 for seller July; re
jected, 34h. Oats-Steady and in fair demand
sOA a 3Ox for seller cash; 2sA for seller June
27A for seller July. Rye-Stronger at SO. Bay.
l.y-Easy at 7S. Pork Active, firm and higher,
unsettled; lO.15D1O17h for seller cash; l015Q
10l7n for seller June; 1Q.25110 2:h for seller
July; 10.37X for seller August. Lard-Steacy
and in fair demand; firm; $50 for seller cash
500 bid for seller juno; SOS for seller July
Close: Wheat-Steady and unchanged. Corn
Stronger; advanced u. Oats-Firmer; advanced
y. Provisions-Firmer but not quotably higher
The "Drovers' Journal" " reports: Hogs-Re-
ceipts, l5,COO; shipments, 1000; strcng, excep,
liaht, and nigh heavy; others higher; rough tc
good mixed, 4.OO04.40, chiefly 4.3O1 44O; York
ers, 4.45 Baltimores, 4 5O@4.55; common light,
4.O5@4 30; choice heavy, 4.50@4.6o. Cattle--Re'
ceipts, 5, 500; shipments, a., 900; dull and Glow
rough and medium, 1Oc lower; shipping, at 4.10Q
4s5, chiefly 4.3094.45; butchers, steady at 80
400; stockers', 2 9Oa350; feeders, 35O04.D
corn fed Colorados, 4.10@4.25. SAeep-Re-
ceipts, 1000, shipments, 200; firm: common
lambs, per head, $50; choice, per hundred. 63s
@6 5O clipped, 40,@500; woolsd, 5.50G6.95.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
Chinese Arbitration.
Nevada lCAl.l Transcript.


All Gee, who halls from the classic
confines OF Grass Valley Chinatown, ar.
rived in the city day before yesterday
and instituted a vigorous search for
one Hop Sing, of Commercial street,
who he stated owed him $50 that had
been due for over two months past, and
was likely to remain unpaid for all
time to- come unless stern measures
were taken to collect it. The Grass
Valleyan without much trouble found
the object of his search, made the de-
mand for the money, and was startled
at the reply of the latter, which was to
the effect that it had already been paid.
The two had some frece words, ending
in q threat by the alleged creditor that
he would take the matter into court.
The other expressed satisfaction at such
course, when mutual friends of the two
interfered and prevailed on them to
submit the settlement to a committee
of their countrymen. Five Mongolians,
including the Joss-house keeper, were
chosen as arbitrators. These exam
ined several witnesses on either sides
and found the testimony about evenly
balanced. They were unable to decide
upon the merits of the case. 1t was
therefore agreed that a strip of "holy
paper" be laid on fiat surface and
ligh.ed at one corner. If it was all con.
sumed without further human inter.
ference the debt was to be declared not
due; otherwise, it was to be paid. The
test followed. The fire went out when
about three-fourths of the pa.
per was burned. All Gee got his SIC
and went home happy. Hop Sing &C.
cepted the result with comparatively
good grace.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
A Big Book.

The Chinese encyclore liza, recently
purchased for the British Museum at a
cost of 81 800, is voluminous indeed.
There are 5000 volumes all told, the
emperor Kang was a great admirer
of ancient literature, and was deeply
grieved to perceive that extensive cor
ruptions were everywhere creeping in
to the texts that were reproduced. To
put stop to this he determined to
gather together in one authoritative
work the entire mass of Chinese litera-
ture from the earliest times until his
own day. A learned commission was
appointed to collate and verify all Chi
nese works, and the Jesuit missionaries
we're simultaneously employed IN cast
ing vast amount ofcopper type. The
collection and examination occupied
the commission for forty years, and be.
fore it was fully completed the wise old
monarch died, leaving the execution of
his great design to Young Ching, his
successor, who signalized his accession
by dismissing the missionaries as q
dangerous and traitorous set. He
seems to have taken up the great liter
ary scheme with keen interest, and it
was at length published. The COM
missioners professed to have taken all
works from about ], 100 B. G. to LOO A.
D., and 1t is supposed that the whole
Chinese literature of any importance
between those dates is to be found em.
bodied in these 5000 volumes. The
subjects are classified under six head
mos t,pder which are ARRANGED WI it.
ings relating to the heavens, the earth,
mankind, inanimate nature, philosophy
and political economy.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

which the Confederates were marching
as they went into actlon.or changed DO
sitions. Shot and shell could be seen to
strike, and outside of tearing a cover
OF an army wagon, and the killing of q
horse or two, no damage was done.
At Fair Oaks the artillery fire was
fierce, and seemingly destructive. Trees
were rent and shivered, great burrows
plowed in the ground, and shells scream.
ed everywhere over The battlefield
Yet the less of life by musketry was in
the proportion Of twenty to one. The
Third Michigan infantry lost more
men in five minutes by infantry fire
than any brigade lost in all day shot or
shell.
The daily papers used to make a
great ado over artillery duels, which
were pronounced fiendish, blood. thirsty,
& c. At Antietam Union and a Con-
federate battery, not over half mile
apart, and in plain sight of each other,
had one of these duels, lasting forty
minutes. The guns were worked for
all they We're worth, and when the duel
ended the Union loss was horse killed,
the wheel of, caisson shattered, and
two infantry men, lying in support, kill
ed. A change Of position sent the
Writer'S regiment over the ground occu-
pied by the Confederate battery, and
here was found two disabled horses, q
dead artillerist, and the wreck of cais-
son. During the forty minutes that
these twelve guns were banging away
with such little result, four or five sharp
shooters just to the right killed more
than dozen men, and made no fuss
over it.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
A Rare Day for Alligators.
Orlando (Fla.) Reporter.

Monday proved field day for the al
ligators. They came cut in large num-
bers to blsk in the warm sunlight after
the rain. Fatal recreation! Every
body on board went to shooting them.
Even the scullion would leave the dish
pan to take shot. and it seemed hard
TO mics them. The champion slayer
was an old hunter from the Grant State.
Whenever he raised his rifle death was
in the air, and its sharp report was the
crack of doom for some cousin of the
crocodile. The gator slayer expended
his last cartridge in the evening, but
not until he had scored his sixty-fifth
alligator. Their vitality is remarkable.
I chopped off the head of one few
minutes after the head was served com.
pIetely from the body, thrust an oar
at it. The jaws opened and snapped
to again, like huge steeI-trap, driv-
ing the teeth, three-fourths of an inch
into the hard wood and splitting the
oar-handle. Even twenty minutes late,
the 'gater-head would not have been
a safe toy for children.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20

i Mr.. STEvENsoN's bill to provide for
lhe survey and disposal of mineral
Rnds of the United States was agreed
% by the house committee on mines
Ind mining. 1t simply restores the
common law with reference to location
pf mining claims. Under the present
aw, when a man locates claim he
ban follow the lead or vein in whatever
direction it may run. The bill provides
'hat all mining claims located after the
krst day of September, 1880, shall be
bounded as to surface by straight lines,
IND all right to minerals contained
Therein shall be confined within vertical
planes passing downward through
btraight boundary lines. Such mining
claim shall not exceed square of 1.32C
feet on side. 1t may be any shape sc
chat neither length nor breath shall ex'
|ceed fifteen hundred feet, nor the aggre'
gate area exceed that of the square
above described. Another important
Feature of the bill provides that all fu.
|ture occupation, location, or purchase
Eof public mineral lands shall be govern
ed by laws of congress, to the exclusion
Eof all local customs and regulations
md state or territorial laws. Other
portions of the bill relate to minutin IL
regard to survey and location of min
eral lands.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
/. THE good people of Panama who or

THE good people of Panama who on
more than on occasion have owed the
pafety OF lie and property within their
borders to the prompt appearance in
eheir harbor of American men-of-war
1eenl to be somewhat unnecessarily ex-
ercised in their minds over the estab-
lishment by the United States Govern
ment of coaling stations for tne Ameri-
can navy on the shores of Cen!l al AM er-
ica. 1t is amusing to be told that they
look upon the presence of an American
man-of-war in harbor selected as an
american naval station with alarm and
consider it to be inconsistent with
pacific designs on the part of the United
States. By what sort of vessels an
american naval station ought to be es.
tablished if not by vessels Of the Amer
ican navy it is not easy to understand.
The truth undoubtedly is that every
step which the United States may take
toward carry ing out on the isthmus any
policy which will enforce respect for
the rights and Interests of this country,
must be expected to arouse the oppcsi-
ton OF all people in that section of the
world who either have or fancy them
selves to have anything to gain by keep
ing the isthmus and the regions adjoin-
ing the isthmus in condition of virtual
! exemption from the restraints and the
responsibilities of civilization.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
The Colonel,s Coffee Mill.

Yesterday old Joe Hemlock one of
the blacklist colored men in Detroit,
was promenading through the editorial
rooms of the free Press, in search of
money enough to buy new pair of
boots, and the sight of him revived an
old recollection.
In 1861, after the retreat from Bull
Run, the Third Michigan Infantry went
into camp at Hunters place, and old
Joe then middle-aged darkey, came
into camp as a runaway. Col. McCon-
mel seized upon him for cook and
after instructions Joe was given charge
of the Colonels kitchen. His first meal
was dinner, and about time for it to ap-
pear he walked in on the Colonel, made
a very low bow and said:
"Kernel, Ize not quite up to the stu
alton jist yit. You tole me to bake
beans, didn't yon?"
"I did,"
"Werry well, sab, de beans am
baked. You tole me to fly ham didn't
your"
"We1ry well. sab, the ham am fried.
Now, did you say l war to bile de coffee
in de kernel, or, Or"
"No-no-who ever heard of making
coffee that way?"
"Well, dat's what I fought, but,
Kernel, it am an awful slow job for
one nigger to crack all dat coffee
tween his teeth, an dinners gwine
to be halt an hour late, suah's yer
bnrnD
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
FOREIGN.

A wELL-INFoRMED st. Petersburg COR
respondent writes that war between
Russia and China is nearly certain.
PRl>CEss KoNTCHoUBEY, Lady Presi-
dent OF the Red Cross Society. has re-
ceived an order directing her to cause to
be prepared a large supply Of lint band
ages, which are probably intended for
the troops on the Chinese frontier
LONDON dispatches says that new
rupee loan is the most likely mode Of
meeting the deficiency in the budget
estimates. 1t is proposed to send com.
mission to investigate the financial
condition of India.
VIENNA advices say that four thousand
horses 5000 Martini rifles and 10000
cartridges have arrived at Scutari for
the Albanians, who occupy the whole
territory from Scutari and Prisrend to
Kanaja. The Turkish officers and
men everywhere are fraternizing with
them.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
CRIME.

IsHOM CApPEN (colored) was hanged
at Galveston on the 9Th for outraging a
white woman.
A READING Pa, special says Brandt
and Hummel, the Raber murderers, who
are to be hanged here on the 18th inst,
! made an attempt to escape. -Four knives
and a bottle of ether were found upon
Brandt.
CLARENCE E. DAVIS, the Chicago
bigamist who is supposed to have COM
mitted more than twenty alleged crimes,
was convicted of bigamy on Saturday,
and promptly sentenced TO five years in
the state prison at Joliet, and to ray a
fine of $1,000; the full extent of the law.
A DRUNKEN brute named Tobin, re-
siding in Chicago, returned home on
Sunday morning after nights carousal,
and kicked and beat his own daughter,
II years old, so badly that she died in
half an hour. Tobin is in Jail and his
worthless life is the only recompence
he can offer the hangman for his crime.
ALEX BARTH travelling man went to
work for Schloss Brothers, clothing
firm ct Detroit, as travelling salesman
three weeks ago, they furnishing him
with $3.50 worth Of samples, which he
sold and spent the proceeds. He was
arrested at Grand Rapids, and is now in
Jail
THREE prisoners attempted to escape
from the penitent1ary, at Frankford KY.
on the 9Th inst. two white and one black.
The white men had scaled, but the negro
was on top when discovered by the
guard, who fired, and the convict was
instantly killed He was under life
sentence. The other two were recap
tured.
AN Elmira, N. Y, dispatch Of May
7th, states that while McKelvey, chief
keeper OF the Reformatory, was endeav-
oring to punish an insubordinatc con-
vict, Edward Symonds, from New York,
Symonds suddenly turned upon Nickel
vey and plunged a sharply pointed case
knife into his stomach. McKelvey reel
ed from the cell into the corridor and
fell dead. Symonds then handed the
knife to an assistant keeper, and was
locked up in dark cell. McKelvey
was from Detroit, and an old officer of
the Michigan state prison. He leaves e
wife and three children.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-20
WOman's True Source OF Strength.

The strength of women lies in their
hearts. 1t shows itself in their strong
love and instructive perception of right
and wrong. Intellectual courage is
rarely one of their virtues. AS a rule,
they are inclined to be restless and ex-
citable, allowing their judgment and
actions to be swayed by quick emotions
Of all kinds, but, above all, it is in their
hopefulness and their endurance that
they find their chief power. Who is
the last person to give up hope in the
case of member Of the family who
has apparently gone altogether to the
bad? What mother or sister with deep
and ardent love for such will ever cease
to cherish hope or to endure suffering
on their account! The patience of wo-
men is proverbial, and their whole lives
are bound up in their affections. Few
people will deny that love in one form
or another makes up the beauty of life
to women. It enters into all she does.
Any work outside her immediate circle
is undertaken most often from pure de-.
sire to hel p some one else to know
something Of the mysterious happiness
of love: Unlike men, women chiefly
look for personal intercourse with those
for whom they are working. If their
interest lies among the poor, they are
desirous of sympathetic personal ac-
quaintance with them, and very little
good work of lasting kind has been
done by women without their own in
Buence of love being brought to bear
on the individual case. Without dwell
ing on the greater physical weakness of
women in general, it is fact that their
brains are more easily deraneed, and
unless they change greatly they are apt
to deteriorate in essential womanly
qualities if thrown much or prominent
ly before the world. They are seldom
fitted to rule, emulation and jealousy
being strong in their character, while
their feelings and judgments are often
rapid in the extreme. 1t js in the heart,
therefore, that woman will more es-
pecially feel the effects of agnosticism,
whether those effects be for good or for
evil. Her head may gain in grasp of
logic and in clearness of view; but if
her heart, with all its powers for good,
is weakened and discouraged, she will
gain little ultimately by the spread
of the new views. When the heart
is dispirited, or thrown back upon it.
self, the action that springs from it
tends inevitably to fall lifeless to the
ground.-Miss Lathbury in Ninetee,lth
Century.