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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27
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LIVER COMPLAINT.

Fu6,
Dear Sir:-Thie fs 10 certify that your Iudian
Blood Syrup has greatly benefited me for Liver
Complaint. recommend it to all similarly afiict-
ed. HAITY CLARK.
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ou1LLs AND FEVER CURED.

Truro. Knox, Co., Ills.
Dear Sir:-This Is to certify that your Indian
Blood Syrup has cured me of ChilIs and Fever.
now feel better than have for five years, and
highly recommend your medicine.
EDWIN THOLOMB.
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IT has NO EQUAL.
JOHN MoGIVERN.

Truro, knOX Co., lis
Dear Sir:-1 have used your excellent Indian
Blood Syrup for some time, and have never found
any medicine to equalit 1 can confidently re-
commend it.
John MoGTVERN.
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FOR ASTHMA.

Truro, Knox Co.. Ills,
Dear Sir:-I was afflicted with the Asthma for
forty years, and was unable to find relief until
procured some of your great Indian Blood Syrup
which has SO improved my health, that am now
able to attend to my business.
JAS. M CALDWELL.
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IRIS FEVER.

an,
Dear Sir:-A short trial of your Indian Blood
Syrup cured our little boy of aSevere Fever last
spring. Receive our thanks.
MRAND MRS DOWNER.
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Personal.

Kerker. of Davenport, delivers Grocer
e3 free, 10 Rock Island. 7tf
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DuncAn, SLArk co, Ills
Dear Sir:-I troubled with Gravel, ana
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eight times in night. I began the use OF your
In dian Blood Syrup, and now can rest well all
night. and feel better than have tor fifteen years.
j RAUSEY.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27
LIVER COMPLAINT,

Galva, Henry Co., Ill.,
Dear Sir:-This Is to certify that your Indian
BLOOD Syrup has cured me of Liver Complaint OF
Long Standing. / am now In better health than
cave beer for o long while.
SARAH NETRIQH.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27
EMELINE KING.
srcK HrADAcHE CURED.


Galya, Henry Co., lis.
Dear Sir:-1 was enfferer from Sick Headache
and Dizziness 60 that coRid not attend to my
household duties, and short trial of your Indian
Blood Syrup ehectually cured me.
MRS ELLEN ELKINS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27
ALL THAT IT IS RECOMMENDED TO BE.

Hamlet, Mercer Co., Ills.
Dear Sir:-A short trial of your Indian Blood
Syrup and can say with confidence that 1t Is val
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27
Loss OF APPETITE.

st. Paul, Carroll Co. Va.
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Hood Syrup for Shortness OF Breath, Weakness
snd Loss Of Appetite, and have received great
benefit therefrom.
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FoR SALE-Old newspapers at SO cents
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27

For those distressing Diseases peculiar
to women DAYS KIDNEY PAD is invalu-
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Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic cures dumb
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hTrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup.

PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS CURE IN
ONE MINUTE.
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LIVER COMPLAIN
P. IT. UPSON.

WATERFOWL, Rock Island Co., Ills.
Dear Sir:-I was troubled with Liver Complaint.
and the use of your Indian Blood Syrup entirely
relieved me. advise all similarly afflicted give
1t trial.
P. II. UPSON.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27
FOR COUGHS.

WatertOWn, ROck IsIanu Co lis.
Dear Sir:-I have used your excellent Indian
Blood Syrup for severe Cough, and have received
much relief therSfrom.
MRS, Fl. SNOW.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-27

WATERFOWL, Rock Island Co. Ills.
Deaf Sir:-Suffering with Loss of Appetite and
Indigestion, Yves induced 10 your Indian
Blood Syrup, q short trial of which greatly ben
edted me. -
MRS. C, D. WILSON.
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Indigestion Bilious Colo, Cramps and Pains
Rheumatism, Neuralgia. Scistica, Weak Spine,
Weak and Sore Ludgs. Coughs and Colds. Weak
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BE careful to call for Collins VoLTAIC ELECTRIC
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Who on this world OF ours their eyes
In March first open, shall be wlsei
In days OF peril firm and brave.
And wear Bloodstone to their grave
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Read the VOLUNTARY TESTING
MAILS of Persons who have been CURED
By the use of the BLOOD PURIFIER.

REMEDY FOR HEADACHE.
Watertown, Rock Island Co Ills.
Dear Sir:-This fs to certify that your Indian
Blood Syrup has effectually relieved me OF Pains
in My Head. recommend Its use to suffering
humanity, MRS. r, ALLSBROW.
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~ her who in this month 10 born
No gem save Garnets should be worm
They will insure her constancy,
True friendship, and fidelity.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
The Teetotalers.
PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES DECLAR
ED AND A CONVENTION TO BE HELD.

PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES DECLAR
ED AND A CONVENTION TO BE HELD.
The committee appointed by the Will
mington Annual Conference Off the
Methodist Episcopal Church, at its ses-
SION in M arch, 1880, "to take such steps
as may be necessary to inaugurate the
the needed organization and effort to
.ecure Local Option In the State of Del
aware" In consultation with other tenn.
peraDce workers, effected temporary
organization of the Delaware State TEN
perance Alliance, in Smyrna, ON the Both
day of August last.
With this result secured the work OF
the committee " as completed.
The Delaware s ate Temperance Alli-
ance, by its cOmmIttee Of Publication,
iesles she following declaration Of prIn-
ciples and call:
First. The evils ofiDtemperance are
d tructive Of the industrial social ana
religious interests of society and the ma
ton at large. and for these reasons the
States sLould no longer license and pro-
tect the traffic In alcoholic drinks.
SECOND. The liquor traffic is the open
enemy of the Church, and the Church
ShoulI take the lead in destroying THIS
trainr and preventing the evils which
dow directly FROM it.
Third. We recognize all forms OF tenn
per.nce organizations and other moral
reform societies as valuable agencies III
the overthrow of the evils OF intenper-
ance, and We believe that, in the Provi-
dence of God, the time has fully come
when the Church and all these agencies
should unite and combine their efforts.
A meeting of the Alliance will be held
IN Dover on the first day of December
next, to effect a permanent eganization
by the election of officers, and the trans
action Of other necessary business. All
Churches, Sundoy Schools, Ministerial
Associations, Temperance and other Re-
form Societies Colleges and Academies
are invited to become members of the
Alliance by sending, as delegates, moi
more than three representatives, male or
femole, with propericredentials from each
organiZa alton.
individual friends of the cause are also
Invited to be present and to become MEM
b RS. The annual membership fee is al
least one dollar from each organization
represented and foreach Individual men,
ber not REPRESENTING an organization.
L.. @. MATLACK,
TIE. MAR RrINDALE,
VIM II. HUTCHIN,
Committee on Publication.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
LOCAL POLITICS.
A CARD FROM MIR. wARE-rHE BLACK
BIRD REPRESENTATIVES,, ETC.

CARD FROM MIR. wARE-THE BLACK
BIRD REPRESENTATIVES,, ETC.
To the Democratic Voters Of Wilmington
-GENTLEMEN IL take pleasure in
publicly expressing my sincere thanks to
all who so generously and heartily voted
for me for the nomination for Senator,
from New Castle County aC the nomina-
tion election on Saturday last, and l
would earnestly ask them all TO unite
With me by untlring efforts and hearty
support in securing the election OF the
successful nominee, Gen. j. Parke Pos
ties.
JAMES W. WARE.
The Democratic candidate for Repre-
sentative in Blackbird Hundred, nomi-
mated OH Saturday last, is Frank Col
lins.
The Fifth ward Hancock and English
Club met last night, In full strength and
full unif rm, and had very successful
drill. Only two members were absent.
The "Little Election" at VIII ch Inspec-
tors to hold the November election will
be chosen, is near at hand, and Demo
cratic voters should see to it that their
taxes are paid so they can vote. The
Maine victory should be followed by a
grand rally in Delaware.
Senator Bayard has gone to New
Hampshire, on Private business, but will
doubtless make one or two speeches be-
fore his return.
DOWN THE sTATE-A SMYRNA RALLY
Smyrna Democrats held an enthusias-
tic meeting, last night, and organized a
"Hancock and English Club of Duck
Greek Hundred" with over one hundred
members and the following officers:
Presdent-John K. Collins.
Vice Presidents-A. Lee Cummins,
Nathaniel Wilds.
Secretaries B. VoshNll, Levi An
thony.
Afterwards Harry Colclazer, of this city
was introduced and made o brilliant
speech. His illusions to the Maine vic
tory and the grand Democratic successes
it portended, elected rounds of applause
from the enthusiastic audience.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
Personal.

Mr.. Joel Cook, of the firm of Cook Il
Brother, importers of hosiery good, Phil
adelphia, and for the past twelve years
associate editor Of the Philadelphia
Ledger, will be the Republican nominee
for Controller of Philadelphia at the
November election. TIE nomination
has been rendered him because of his
undoubted integrity and emident busi-
ness ability, and because his Democratic
competitor, Controller Robert Pattison
has performed the duties of the office
during the past term with such ability
and strict integrity that his reelection
was regarded as a feregone conclusion
and the Radical ring dared not nominate
one OF their puppets against him. Hence
the selection of Mr.. Cook as their candi-
date, but the Democratic Controller has
been such faithful guardian of the best
interests of Republican Philadelphia that
it Is very doubtful he will be beaten,
even by such respectable candidate as
Mr.. Cook.
The Tallahassee Norididll, of the 10th
inst, has following:-Dr. Il. Treup Max
well, formerly of this State, bat now
resident In Delaware, is on brief visit
to his numerous friends in Tallahasse,
who have greeted and welcomed him
with utmost cordiality, and who would
give him a big barbecue if he would re-
turn for good. The DR.. is in the best OF
health, as Doctors ought always to be,
and as fine specimen OF the race, mentally
and physically, as will be met with any,
where.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
Il Successful, Business House

On the first of April 1880, the ground
was broken for the building which stands
on the n. w. corner 9th and Market Sts
aud on Sept. 18th of the same year-just
fifty years to-day--Edw. Bringhurst, ST.,
opened drug store which from that day
until now has been supplying suffering
mankind with reliable medicines. Mr.
Bringhurst continued in business until
1859, when Edw. Bfinghurst, Jr., H..
James Belt and Ferris Bringhurst sue
ceeded him under the name of E. Bring
hurst IL Co. 1t continued under this
name until 1877, when E. Bringhurst,
Jr., withdrew, (Ferris Bringhurst having
been fatally injured by an explosion in
lS7I) leaving Il. James Belt to conduct
the extensive business which years OF
the closest mercantile integrity has built
Hp. Mr.. Belt came as an apprentice in
January, 1S47, and ever since that time
his close application to business and his
polite and agreeable attention to Gus
toners, has done much toward achiey-
ing the success of this well known
house. 1t has for many years been one
of the leading stores of its kind in the
country. Its several proprietors have
all been noted for their strict business
dealings. For years the name of this
house has been the synonym of accur-
acY and reliability. Their inyariable
motto has been, ain medicine quality is
of the first Importance"
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
General NetUs.

George C. Ludlow formally accepted
the Democratic nomination for Governor
of New Jersey yesterday.
The laborers in the mills on both
sides of the Chaudiere Falls, at Ottawa,
have struck for higher wages.
Hon. John r. Mcpherson, U. S. SEN
ator, has been chosen chairman of the
Democratic State Committee of New
Jersey.
A despatch from Mobile says tone of
the two Republican Conventions for
this district" has nominated James Gil
lette for Congress.
The Legislature of Oregon organized
Yesterday by electing Solomon Hirscb
President of the Senate and FL. F.
Moody Speaker of the House.
The striking 'ongshoremen on the
Hamburg docks at Hoboken, N. j., re-
sumed work yesterday morning, their
demands for increased wages being agreed
to.
The committee ap pointed by the
Board of Trade of Fall River, Mass, to
consider the question of wages, has de-
cded to recommend reduction Of 10
per cent. from October 1st.
The Working Men of San Fran
cisco have nominated Mayor Kali
loch for reelection.
A salute of 100 guns was fired in
CITY Hall Park, New York, last
night, in honor of the defeat of the
Re publicans in Maine.
General Bushrod Johnson, a we'll
known ex-C Confederate brigadler, died at
his residence, in Ma'ou .Iin, ILL.,, last Sat-
urday.
John w. Bond, the oldest book
merchant of Baltimore, died in that
city yesterday, in the Slst year of
his age.
First Lieutenant Uelry P. Walk
er, of the Seventeen Infantry died
at Fort Pembina a few days ago of
paralysis.
Fourteen female missionaries of the
Presbyterian Board of Missions passed
through Cheyenne yesterday on their
way to the Mormon settlements in Utah,
Idaho and Western Wyoming.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
General TOrbert.
ARRANGEMENT FOR THE RECEPTION
OF HIS REMAINS AND THEIR CON-
VEYANCE TO DELAWARE.

ARRANGEMENT FOR THE RECEPTION
OF HIS REMAINS AND THEIR CON-
VEYANCE TO DELAWARE.
TIE remains of General Torbert are ex-
peeted to arrive in New York September
Fl, from Jacksonville, Fla, OH the steam
ship Cily of Dallas. The funeral services
are expected to be held in Trinity
Church OH the following day, and the
pall-bearers selected are Generals W. B.
Franklin, Alexander ). Webb, Alexander
Shaler, Anson G. McCook, William F.
Smith, j. B. Mcintosh, John Nj. Schofield
George b. Mcclellan and James b. Fry,
most Of whom were classmates of Gener-
al Torbert at West Point. As General
Torbert was Knight Templar, the order
OF Free Masons will be largely represent
ed, especially by those of higher degrees
A special train will carryy the remains
to Milford, and they will be accompanied
by Major Wharton,o of General Hancock s
staff, and Colonels Chas. Trichel and
G. l.. Wilson. General Lloyd Aspin-
wall, who is chairman of a committee,
appointed by the Army and Navy Club:
to take charge Of the remains of the late
General Torbert when they shall be
brought TO New York, has been offered
an escort TO Philadelphia by the Ninth
Regiment. General Fitzpatrick has con-
sented to accompany the remains of
General Torbert TO Milford as pail
bearer.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
How 1T Strikes the Repub-
licans.
COLD COMFORT.

(From the New York Tribune (Rep.),
Sept. 14th, $780,
Maine is one of the few states in the
Union, if not the only state, which the
return of prosperity has not fully reach
ed. The hard times still exist IN some
portions of that state in grim shape, and
the arguments of resumption, unans-
werable elsewhere, have been useless in
the presence of hardship and want,
growing partly out of the decline of
shipbuilding and partly out Of general
stasnation which the revival of trade in
other regions has not entirely removed.
1t will not be difficult, either, to believe
that those Democrats who predicted
that they would get help from reserve
vote were wise in their generation.
There has been no inducement for a
generation for Maine Democrats to 60
out to the polls, and it Is not improba-
BILE that part of the Fusion gains on
the vote of last year will be found to
have come from the stay-at-home Dem
ocrats of past years.
1t is not too early, however, to draw
an excellent moral. The Republican
party has been growing too confident of
late, and has been enjoying its victories
in advance. Work, and not confidence,
wins elections. If this disappointment
should excite the party to greater exer-
ton, it will be piece of good fortune.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
Maine.
From the World:

As the Republican organs have all
agreed to treat the result in Maine AZ
decisive of the hopes of their party I'm
the Presidential campaign, the work
done yesterday by the Democrats Of that
State assumes an importance which no
Democrat would otherwise have been In
clined to attribute to it. Returns from
considerably more than half the constit-
uencies of Name suffice to show vote
largely increased over the phenomenal
vote of 1879. 1t will probably reach
$4,000. The returns also show con-
siderable gain in the Democratic and
Greenback strength over the allied vote
Of last year, when the Republicans were
left in the minority, and give Q reasona-
BILE color, therefore, to the claim that
Plaisted has been elected by from 1900
to 5000 votes. The Republicans them
selves admit the reelection Of Congress-
men Ladd and Murch, and the Opposi-
tion claim with apparent reason the elec-
tion also of General Anderson in the
Portland district. As to the Legislature,
while full returns are lacking large Flu
sion gains have certainly been made,
and it is possible that the Republican
majority has vanished. The state of the
case, indeed, cannot be better summon
ed up than in the words Of Mr.. Blaine,
"There 10 still a chance of hope for
Davis, but it is great defeat neverthe-
less.n
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
HOW THE HANCOCK BOOM
ISLANDS STILS.n

From the New York Times (Rep.) Sept.
18th, $780, . =.
The coalition between the Democrats
and the Greenbackers In Maine has
achieved degree of success which will
surprise even Its friends in other states.
AS there was no separate Democratic
candidate in the field, it is impossible
to measure accurately the relative
strength of the two parties to the contract.
The Democrats will very naturally claim
that the advantage is substantially theirs,
and will make the most of it in reviving
the Hancock boom, which came to %
abrupt stand-still shortly after the
Cincinnati Convention. They will be
enabled to do this the more plausibly
because the Republican managers in
Maine have given out from time to
time that the Greenbackers who were
formerly Republican were returning to
their party. If they were really doing
SO, the Democratic gain is obvious. ,y :.
The daily gazette., 1880-09-15
FIRST EDITION.
FOUR lNQUEsTs.
CORONER BUTz ATING SEVER
AL UNNATURAL DEATHS,

CORONER BUTz zINVESTIGATING SEVER
AL UNNATURAL DEATHS.
The Coroner settled down to work
yesterday afternoon, and inquested the
four cases OF unnatural death claimii o.
his attention, all OF which have been
fully detailed III the GAZETTE. The
old lady whose body was found in the
Christiana near the Delaware Western
Railroad bridge, was recognized by Mr..
VIM. Watson, of No. 219 Tatnall street.
as his wife, Mrs. Fanny Watson.
Mr.. Watson was before the iury and
testified that his wife left the house
about O'Clock Monday evening without
mentioning that she was going anywhere
in particular, and that when she did not
return In few hours search was insti-
tuted for her, but she could not be found
ana nothing further was learned of her
until her drowned body was recognized
at Undertaken Palmer's office. Mr.. Wat
son testified that his wife was about OF
years OF age, and that for years she had
suffered from complaint in her head
that frequently caused her much trouble
and bewildered her mind. 1t is sup
posed that while suffering from one of
these attacks on Monday evening, she
wandered down TO the Chrstiana aud
fell into the water. She was the mother
in-law of Chief of Police. Maxwell.
In regard to the case OF old John Kel-
lerman, who died in Chas. Specht's
kitchen, Sixth and DUPONT streets Mon
day night, the jury rendered verdict of
death from heart disease.
The little baby that Michael Tucker
found in the sand lot, Thirteenth and
Tatnall streets, early Monday morning
was the next subject. Michael told the
jury how he found the box containing
the dead baby, aud said for all he knew
to the contrary it might been placed
there any time since the month OF June
ast. The jury finally decided to render
verdict that the child came to its death
from unknown causes.
The last case the jury wrestled with
was that of the dead tramp found in a
Wilmington Northern freight car,
Monday evening, by two other tramps.
The latter, George Russell, colored, and
William Smith, testified that they went
into the car for the purpose of sleeping,
| and stumbled over body, which they
soon learned to be that of dead man,
whereupon they gave the alarm. Rus
previous to last week he had been for
about six months in the employ of DR..
Wharton, at No. 80 South Tenth street,
Philadelphia, but when asked if he knew
Smith before they arrived in Whining
ton answered in the affirmative, saying
he met with him in Illinois, last June.
As the man could not be in Philadelphia
and Illinoio at tho oamo time, this discre-
pancy aroused the suspicious of the Jury,
and the Coroner was asked to hold The
witnesses for awhile. DIR. Ogle then
| testified in relation to the bruises found
on the deceased mans person, but said
he could not tell without post mortem
examination, whether or not they had
| produced death.
The jury ordered tho Coroner TO have
the post mortem examination made, and
| to hold the two witnesses, Smith and
Russell, in custody until the jury further
deliberated. The inquest was then ad-
journed until two clock this afternoon.