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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

II have used DR.. Simmons Liver Re.
gulator myself and in my family for years
and pronounce it one of the most satisfac.
tory medicines that can be used. Nothing
would induce me TO be without it and re
commend all my friends, if they want tc
secure health. to always keep it on hand.
r, L. Mort, Columbus, Ca"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Suffering Women.

There is but very small proportion Of
the women of this nation that do not suf-
fer from some of the diseases for which
Kidney Wort is a specific. When the
bowels have become costive, headache
torments, Kidneys out of fix, or piles
distress, take package, and its wonder
full tonic and removing power will cure
you and give new life.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Climax! Climax !

Pages Climax Salve,
A Family Blessing for rs cents.
It heals without a scar. No
family should be without it.
We WARRANT it to CURE
Sores, Ulcers, ScrOfula Sores,
Fever Sores, Salt Rheum, Sore
Breasts or Nipples, Erysipelas,
Swollen Glands, Inflamed Eyes,
ScaldS, Burns, Cuts, Bruises,
Fistula, Piles, BOils, Chilblains,
Frosted Feet, COrns, and all GU
taneOuS diseases on man or beast.
1t has been used over twenty
five years, without one failure.
Tt has no parallel-having per-
fectly eradicated disease, and
healed after all other remedies
had failed. 1t is a compound of
Arnica with many other Extracts
and Balsams, and put up i'm larger
boxes for the same price than any
other Ointment.
D- Sold by Druggists everywhere.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
ASIA MIN Or.

SoUTARI. July 16.-The Albanians
slew some 20 clansmen last Sunday who,
on Monday suddenly surprised the pick
cts of Nontenegrins, all of whom were
killed or badly wounded. The clansmen
also killed number of other pickete,
This event occasioned general hostilities
and there is tremendous excitement The
Montenegins are anxious for fight and can
hardly be restrained.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

NEW YORK, July 16-Arriyed steam
ship Kolo, Bremen.
NEW YORK, July 16-Dr Tanner is
cheerful and good humored to-day, and
gained half pound in weight since
Thursday night. He has taken 283
ounces of water. When last recorded his
pulse was 80. temperature 98 25 and res
piratiun l6 The drive in Central Park
this morning was much enjoyed by the
faster.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
AIIea Samaa-

John Cinnamon adds bis testimony.
Nee likee Gil!et's Cream Tartar Baking
Powder Cream Yeast and Double Ex-
tracts. Nee no likee alum, mean Mclean
man makee alum makee Chinaman
sickee." Gillet's Double Extracts, &C.,
have been tavorably known for over Is
years, and are the finest goods in the
market.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Old Medford.

Nothing is Superior to the old genuine
MedIord Rum from Daniel Lawrence i
Son, Boston. They keep only strictly
pure article. For sale by all first class
dealers in Rock Island. Inquire for
Daniel Lawrence & Soa's genuine old
Medford.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
It viii Not Straigbten Teeth,

but sozoDoNT will vitalize and beautify
them, and impart delicious fragrance to
the breath. This preparation, in use so
long, has not one enemy. 1t is perfect
Caesar of Wash. 1t came. saw and con-
quered. It's sale is widening every year
and will continue. When introduced on
the toilet. it remains.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Rsdding's Russia Salve.

For over fifty years Redding's Russia
Salve has been acknowledged the leading
remedy for all flesh wounds and skin dis
eases. Ii. B. Clafiio. the great New York
dry goods merchant. pronounces it the
best remedy | have ever used"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
POLITICAL.

CHICAGO, July The Democrats of
the fourteenth Illinois district, renomina-
ted A. j. Sparks for Congress.
The Iowa Democratic state central COM
mittee has decided TO hold the state con-
veution September 2.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
No Hospital needed.

No palatial hospital is needed for Hop
Bitters patients. nor large-salaried talent
ed buffers to tell what Hop Bitters will do
or cure. as they tell their own story by
their certain and absolute cures at home.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Weather Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, July 16-. Indications
for upper Mississippi and lowor Missouri
valleys: Clear or parity cloudy weather,
light winds, mostly northwesterly, station
airy or higher tennerature, and nearly
stationary barometer.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Hanoook's Letter of Aocep anes.

New YORK, July 16.-General Han
cock says his letter of acceptauce will not
be ready for fortnight. He has not be
gun writing it yet, visitors and business
taxing up his time.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUkEB, July 10
Wheat-MQ1c higher; hard nominal; No cash
and July 974 Aug "a; Sept s9A No g. SO; reiee-
ted nominal,
Corn-37.
Oats-25.
Rye-79.
Barley-74. --=
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

Our LADIES FRIEND is the most relia-
BILE of any female preparation, and only
costs fifty centls per bottle. Sold by q.
Speidel. Rock Island. and Richards u
Sohrbeck, Moline.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
STOCK SPECULATION,

JOHN A. DODGE & Co., Bankers and Brokers, "a
Wall Street, Now York, buy stocks on reasonable
margin, and, when desired, will advise when and
what TO buy. Also Stock Privileges in which 925
to 800 can be probably invested. Opportunities
for good prOhls are constantly occurring. Full in
formation application, and Weekly Report sent
free
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

And as good as lost. is seldom or never found
AS fading glass. no rubbing will refresh;
As flowers dead, lie withered on the ground;
As broken glass no cement will refresh
50 beautiful blemished once forever lost
In spite of pbysic, pin aud COST
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

SPALDING's GLUE is a Caesar and a
Holder wherever it comes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

Unless you use Pozzoni's medicated
powder, which restores fresh,
ness to the skin. and imparts a durable
softness equalled by none other.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

New York Market.
NEW York. July 10.
FINANCIAL.
Gold 0n
Money!
0overnments-Higher.
o. 8. Bonds 60 cent s0's 1881.
9Me $50 ..'..s...s...,............ Il .U9x
ANoW .U31A
COMMERCIAL.
Wheat-Shade hrmer; moderately active. No 9
red 15h cash: do Aug 1 09K.
Corn-AQ1hc better; mixed western 46X 449;
do futures 49A
Oats-Dull; western 33034
Pork-Stronger; new mess 13 so.
Lard-Ffrmer: steam rendered 12M,
Whisky-Nominal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

Gu r G n
DHEUMATISM. NEURALGIA. MALARIA, DIPH
u liberia, Pneumonia, Sore Throat, Inflammation
of the Lungs. &C, Lame Back, Inflammation OF the
Kidneys, Backache. Piles, Bunions or Soreness OF
the Feet from whatever cause, Burns or scalds nd
ali Inhammatory Diseases, Prickly Heat, HumOrs
aud all diseases OF the skin. For all female com
plants and weaknesses IL has no equal. Thousands
have been saved from untimely death by its use.
Do not delay, but try It.
1t is household necessity. Full particulars In
our Illuminated Cards and Circulars, sent Free up
on application by mail.
A trial will benefit you. We guarantee Hatisfac-
tion, money refunded. so cents and 81 a bottle.
Trial Bottles, 25c. Sold by all Druggists.
SAMUEL GERRY % COMPANY,
Proprietors, 237 Broadway, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

ENGLAND.

LONDON. July l6-At public meet
ing last night protest was entered against
the erection in Westminster Abbey OF a
statue to the Prince Imperial.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

:. ersons suffering from corns, bunions and Chi
9 blains
only need to use Ponds Extract to get relief.
Nose bleed has been cured by use of Ponds Ex-
IN tract
nental operations made easy by the usS Of Pond
~ Extract.
iCore gums. jaw lipslbIuised, immediate relief
= afforded,
ars, it has great reputation for the of
= ache.
Ncellentfor Quinsy, throat, used'as gargle.
Take Ponds Extract for every pain and ache.
Delef for boiie, carbuncles other hot swellngs.
A fter severe and fatiguing labor take Ponds Ex
Nhafng Immediately relieved by bathing with the
~ Extract
To be obtained from Druggists all the world.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

CABUL. July 16.-Abdurraham Khan
has crossed Hindoo Kosh with small
following, and arrived at Tutondarrah.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16
ED. SWEENEY. WIN. JAoKsoE. oHAs. L. WALKER.
SWEENEY JACKSON & WALKER
A rrORNEYs AND CoUNsELLoRs AT LAW
n Ofice-Bcngstor,s Block. Rock Tsland. Ill.

III RE. CORBETT.
ATTORNEY At Law, SOLICITOR IN CHAN
~ Gerry and Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and
Collects. ONCE and Avenue, 3rd Goor east of
Bengston's Drug Store, Rock Island. ills
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-16

U- Sold by Druggists every where
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02
Hotel Bills in France.

ALL the big Partisan hotels give a
sumptuous table d'hote dinner for
about five shillings head, wine includ-
ed, which is not dear; but they recoup
themselves by their rextravagant charges
for what is eaten in private rooms or
ordered in the dining-room la carte.
Thus plain breakfast of tea or coffee
and bread and butter served in sit
ting-room is charged forty cents for one
person; but if there be two persons the
charge is doubled, and family of five
persons are made to pay two dollars,
which is absurd. Add eggs and bacon
to the feast and the bill reckons not for
the dish of these delicacies which is
actually consumed, but for Z" five break
fasts of bacon and eggs, at eighty cents
per head d''-tota. four dollars. In most
Of the big hotels the charges for a
siphon of seltzer water is forty cents,
though its trade cost is no more than
three sous a glass; a glass of sherry is
charged thirty cents; four sandwiches,
fifty cents; pint bottle of beer, thirty
cents, and plate of biscuits, sixty
cents.
1t may be alleged that attendance
has to be included in these items; but
attendance, after having been amply
charged for in the bill, has again to be
paid under the form of tips to the SER
wants. If a traveller, after settling his
weekly account, neglected to add five
franc piece for the waiter, he would find
himself condemned to a good deal of
exercise with his electric bell during the
ensuing seven days and get weak tea
and cold eggs for breakfast into the
bargain. There is an astute freemason-
ny among hotel servants, and if the
waiter be dissatisfied with particular
set of travellers, the porter and cham
bermaid take care to make their dis
pleasure felt also. All of them expect
to be literally paid when a traveller
leaves the hotel.
Now, consider what hotel company
really makes by charging attendance
for these persons who have to be paid
for by travellers twice and thrice over.
As rule, one waiter, a chambermaid
and a porter are allowed for every
twelve rooms or sets of rooms on first
and second tloor; and the charge for at
tendance on these floors being at the
rate of fifty cents day, we have Sc a
day, or $3.50 a month, for service. But
the wages of hotel waiter are but 80
month; those of chaimbermaid SO, and
of q porter S4; and if to these sums one
adds $40 a month for the keep of the
three servants, one finds that the hotel
clears more than 1928 monthly by the
single item of attendance. 1t was
thought step in the right direction
when some twenty years ago hotels
were induced TO charge separately for
attendance, in order that travellers
might no longer be put to the trouble
of giving tips; but nowadays tips and
the extortion for attendance flourish
amicably together hand in hand. d.--RaU
Mall Gazette.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02
Furnish Your Boys with Tools.

PROF. JOHN f. SWEET, in an ad-
dress before the Onondaga County
Farmers Club, said: 1.-The farmer
who provides himself with the neoes-
sary tools to do the repairing of the
farm not only makes a paying invest
ment but does for his sons, in another
way, just exactly what he does for
them at school. He gives tn am a
chance TO learn something; he does
even mOre-he gives them chance to
do something From among those boys
will be found the mechanical engineers
of the future.
1t would be difficult to crowd more
truth and common sense into this short
space. 1t is well known among me-
chanics that when an apprentice
learns TO handle his tools y his trade
is half learned. No man can even saw
of fence board as it should be done
without considerable practice. He
must first learn TO handle his saw. Not
half of mankind--tO say nothing of
woman kindLcan drive nail without
either splitting the board or pounding
their fingers, and perhaps they will do
both. Not one man in twenty can
nhpN0 q lNNh lAAAAN WIN any AOanOuuDlb
hopes of success, and the like awkward
ness extends to the use of all manner
of tools. If farmers will furnish their
boys with tools, and teach them how
to keep them in order, the next genera
tion will not be so helpless, when any
thing is broken, as is the present one.
With few dollars invested in tools,
many journeys to town may be
avoided. Moreover, by the use of tools
one may learn something of mechanics,
and is a much better Judge when called
upon to select any machinery or tools.
L remember an instance, when a boy,
of a neighbor who had small work
shop, with an assortment Of tools,
which his boys were allowed to use,
and the consequences were, his five
boys, every one of them, became in
time tirst-class mechanics. Other boys
in the same neighborhood, apparently
equally intelligent, almost without an
exception, grew up to be bunglers,
some of them without sufficient skin to
sharpen sled-stake. 81. Rural Nelg
Yorker.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02

AN Indiana farmer asks this pertinent
question; 4" Is it not better to feed corn
to my cows, every bushel of which will
make three pounds of butter, worth
from eighteen to twenty cents per
pound, giving fifty-four cents per bushel
for my corn at the door, with the
manure left on the farm, rather than
to sell it at thirty to thirty-fve cents
and impoYensh my farmPn l
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02
MARY AND HER LITTLE BEAU

MARY had little beau
As sweet as he could be;
But every night he wouldn't 70, -ar-
And that made misery.
For Mary's ma, she mover slept
But listened full OF fears;
And whom, 80 late, poor Mary orept
To bed, she'd box her ears
And pa said gas bills all were high
And that tho coal was low,
And swore he'd murder by and by
That chap who wouldn't CO.
,o And Nary she grew thin and pale;
90 81 Herl0Ver he grew Stout
Hcr parents threats had no await,
He would not be put out
And spite of SIary's voful gaze
.|ftl He'd shovel on the coal,
And poke the FIRE TO a blaze
- And on the sofa lon.
At length the pa and ma, both grave
-IHI. Said things had reached pass
fr When something must be done to save
.t. Their winters coal and gus.
1oi'g The Youths aeontentions" they must know
1And Marys ma said she IH
Would question Mary's little beau,
And pa said 80 would he.
Miss MARY wept, but ali in vain; Fl.
That very night her pa BOZ
Walked in the parlor with bis cane
.It Behind him came her ma f'
And then poor Niary's little beau lp
stopped poking at the CRATE, u
q. Ahd,turninR PALE said be must go
..l i hotOr8 u was too late n
hut ma backed up against the door
900 .iIii And pa Upheld the cane, .
H-. Aud a. the frightened youth he swOre
. 11aai now be must renain
. Until he settled for the gas
And coal that he had scored;
But 81 marriage came TO pass
pod. He'd take It for the board.
f.I. Alasl poor Mays little beau,
.H Hn1 not Wherewith TO pay,
And begged If they would let him go
s HedBettle up next day,
.. " No trustl" the angry parent cried,
And then he took the lad
Across his knee and swiftly piled
The cane for he was mad M
a.f Then tassed him out upon the snow,
r. And double locked the door, .
Which settled Mary's little beau,
w Who never came there more. ..,| u
lI Boo If.s. i-Wkteldu M " Times
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-02

THE Boston Globe notices that King
Alfonso wears necklace of black
beans as a charm. Boston papers al
ways did speak well of Alfonso. and
they have stood by him faithfully in two
marriages and other troubles. 1t was
the bean. ~ o. Picdyune.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
THE HEAT OF THE SUN.

Since astronomers have computed the
amount of heat radiated by the sun into
space, they have been puzzled to account
for its unfailing supply. Whatever be
the nature of the heat, or however
boundless the capacity of the sun to fur
nish it, exhaustion is inevitable, unless
sources of supply exist outside Of the
sun.
A there has been no perceptible di.
minution of heat since the time of the
Baby bylonian and Greek astronomers, it is
evident such source of supply must ex-
list, and it is for science to find it out.
Prof. PeirCe of Harvard University,
who stands at the head of American
mathematicans, has no doubt that me
teorites are an unfailing fountain of sup
ply. He thinks our system is crowded
with them, and they are perpetually
falling upon the suns surface, and the
arrested motion is converted into heat.
The theory is plausible, and in har
monY with what we know of the vast
number of meteorites that haye their
orbits within our system, as shown by
the meteoric showers of August and
November. But it would seem that
there must be slow aCcretion in the
mass Of the sun in the course of Centur.
les, disturbing the order of the system
by the inevitable laws of gravity. If
there is substance enough in the meteor
ties to develop heat, there must be sub
stance enough to increase weight.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

One hundred years ago wedding tours
were not fashionable.
One hundred years ago farmers didnot
cut their legs off with moving machines,
One hundred years ago our mothers
did not worry oyer disordered sewing
machines.
One hundred years ago every young
man was not an applicant for position
as clerk or book.keeper.
One hundred years ago men did not
commit suicide by going up in balloons
and coming down without them.
One hundred years ago young
woman did not lose caste by wetting her
hands in dish water or rubbing the skin
off her knuckles on wash board.
One hundred years ago physician
who could not draw every form of dis.
ease from the system by tapping large
vein in the arm was not much of q doc.
tor.
One hundred years ago people did not
worry about rapid transit and cheap
transportation, but threw their grain
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06

the zenith of its advancement and power.
In the articles which enter into the pro-
duct there are new discoveries every
few days. Formerly it was believed that
only rags could be used as the chief body
of the material, but now straw and wood
largely take their place, and hence re-
duCtion in price and consequent more
useful factor is obtained in the dissemi-
nation of intelligence among the masses.
Boston Herald.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
TUFTS PILLS
1 CURE PILES.
BOOKS.

EBERT CLARKB& CO., @"eI%"a''' siy: '5s"is 81; O.
ON TO MAIL ORDERS for books and stationery. Their
alalogues and MOnShy Bulletin Of New Books viii
found very convenient 10 selecting books 10 puT'
.Tpn hnnkslnFpa
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06

across the backs of their horses and un.
complainingly "went to mill"
0ne hundred years ago every man cut
his coat according to his cloth; every
man was estimated at bis real value;
shoddy was not knowu; nobody had
struck "ile", and true merit and honest
worth were the only grounds for pro-
mntlon.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06

alalOgueB and Monthly Bulletin OF New Books vii
q found very convenient in selecting books to pur.
lase especially to persons living at distance from
Ige honkstOres
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06
The following conundrum puzzles tn

The following conundrum puzzles the
New York Sun:
Let an honest man jump from an ex.
press train going at full speed, and the
odds ale a hundred to one that he breaks
his neck. Let handcuffed murderer or
burglar or counterfeiter take the same
perilous leapand in four cases out of five
he will get off with a few trih!ng bruises,
or at worst, a sprained ankle. What
is the reason2
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-05-06

1t is difficult for man to start out
with a middle name and succeed in
building .up.a reputation on both sides
of it.