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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
Erw HAEPgRIRE.

CONCORD, N. FL. Feb. "A resolution
has been introduced by the city govern
ment. instructlng the Mayor to close all
liquor saloons in the city. 1t will not be
acted on until the last of the month, when
it will probably pass, and it looks as if the
liquor crusade will be iuaugurated,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
SENATE.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.-Ths Presidents
Penca message was read, and Senator
Hoar commended the presidents desire
for full repara,ioD for the wrong done the
tribe during bis Administration, as most
manly aud magnapimous utterance.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

w. a, TITUs, 81 Asland Avenue. Tols.
do, Ohio. says;-My wife is now as strong
as evsr. her regained health being directly
due TO the use of tha Excelsior Kidney
Pad, We can heartily recon mend it to
all kidney troubled psrsons,-.See Ado.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
Old Ne5ford.

Nothing is Superior to the old genuine
Medford Rum from Daniel Lawrence h
Son, Boston. They keep only strictly
pure article. For sale by all first class
dealers in Rock Island. Inquire for
Daniel Lawrence & Sons genuine old
Nedford.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
ROSSMAN'S CURE

ITCHING PILES is generally proceeded by a
moisture like perspirstion, producing c
very disagreeable aud distressing itching,
particularly at night after getting warm in
bed. No bug as q trial will prove.
For sale by all respectable druggists. Sent
by mail for SO cents. RossMAN 4 Mo-
KINsTRY, Hudson, N, 7. Prop. W
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
Father is Getting Well.

My daughter says, How much better
father is since he used Hop Bitters." He
is getting we'll alter his long suffering
from a disease declared inourabls, and we
are so clad that he used your Bitters A
lady of Rochester. N. Y Utica Herald.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
MnRrx nARoLIHA.

RELEIGH. N. G.. Feb. 2.--The business
portion OF Plymoath which is thickly built
with stores and warehouses. a FIRE
swept away every building with its stock.
rhe losses are we'll divided up and
amount to $l2S, 900
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
II Ev YOEK

NEW YoRK City. Feb 2-Small pox
increases a!armingily. and the board OF
health is looking toward checking it and
treating infectious cases. The present
facilities are unsuitable; rivers seriously
crowded with ice.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
FIRE

PHILADELPHIA. Feb IA disastrous
fire between second and third street on
Chestnut, destroyed the block Nos. 2lO,
222. belonging TO John Romel value at
$500. 600. aud insured for $50 900. Mayer
Il Stern, shoe manufacturer. who occupi-
cd Nos. PA 2l6. loss $50 900. Other
losses not stated
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

Qua LADIES FRIEND for female com
plants. never known to fail. Only fifty
cents bottle. Sold by Q. Speidel. Rock
Island and Richardsl & Sohrbeck, Mo-
line
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
PILEs-1rCRING PILES

POSITIVELY CURED, also Blind and Bleed
Piles. Flstula. Salt Rheum, and all disea-
ses of the skin by the use of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

OUR LADIES FRIEND is the most relia-
bic of any female preparation. and only
costs fifty centls per bottle. Sold by G..
Speidel. Rock Island and Richards &
Sohrbeck, Moline.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

Printing. Binding and Blank-Book work
speciaIties at THE ARGUS OFFICE. No
pains will be spared to please customers
Satisfaction guaranteed. If
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

O9kn PER MONTH GUARANTEED. - We
" w will pay the above salary to capable
and reliable men who will permanently &C, our
local agents In each county In the United States
and Canada; or they can, II they choose, work on
commission With reliable parties we will con-
tract by the year term OF years. We will send
TO any party MEANING business samples of our reg
listers, blanks and circulars, with our rates and
terms, on the receipt OF $2 We are not selling
samples. but want active agents at once. TREAD
WILLS IMPROVED MERCANTILE AGENCY
1878 1-1sdSw1m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

''I1s beauty truly blent whose red and white
Natures own sweet and uaning hand laid ON
Pozzont's powder imparts a richness
Making the skiu as soft as down.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
Chicago MarRet.

OHIcNNo. Esb
Flour-Unchaneed.
Wheat-Stsady; No .. 994 cash; 1oOx01 oolI
March; 01x april; U54 al O58 May
CoIn-Dull and lower; 36H0S7& cash; 3?15A
S7A March 41K642 May.
May
Rye-S9 cash
Barley-Lower; 92IS April.
Pork-Active and steady; IA 6aM Ola IS cash
Lard-Demand good; &c higher 0 SO 40 rs cash
o eas March.
Whisky 07.
LIVE 2ItlCh.
HoSs-Receipts SO, 600; 1O115c advance: mixed
packing 1905 IS; light 3015 Is; ch oice ht avy
6o05 IS
Cattle-Receipts 340o; good to choice shipping
S005 80; common to far; 00014 55; butchers 3
3013 30; stoekers AMI feeders 2 50ll3 as
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02

To GIVE tone to the stomach and
stimulate digestion there is nothing like
Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
OHIO.

CINoINNBTI. Feb. 2.-Archbishop' Pur-
cell 10 paralyxed. and at Martins convent,
Brown county. but in mentally clear. Ii
may terminate fatally.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
weather rronanalittes.

WASHINGTON: Feb. 2 Cloudy weather
with rain or snow, warm southeriy winds,
falling barometer. generally followed by
rising barometer and by colder northwest
winds,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
PENNSYLVANIA.

HARRISBURG. Feb 2.-Ths 18th ballot
for senator wss Wallace 50. Oliver so,
Grow 81. Adjourned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
HOUSE.

The House met at II O'Clock this morn
ing, and Immediately went into a commit
tee on the district of Columbia bill. Vari-
GUS items in this bill gave rise to several
long and unintsrestins discussions, but
the com nmittee finally arose without having
completed its consideration.
Adjourned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
COMMERCIAL.

Wheat-Heavy: x0xc lower; rejected spring
s6097; No do 0e4G1 0s1a No do 10; un-
graded red 1901 1S; No 8 do 10; Ne2. 1915 :
mixed western 1875.
Corn-Lower; ungraded 54155lz steamer $40
554; No white bSQ59
Oats-Easier; mixed western 41H0i3H; white
western 4314SH
Pork-Higher; old mess Il O0a14 90; new Is so
Lard-liigher; eteam OK
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
Legislative.
SENATE.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. Feb. IA bill was
introduced 10 prevent the consolidation of
telegraph and other similar companies,
the dividing of their earnings, and to pro
vide penalties therefor, 1t prohibits Joint
management. pooling or dividing of earn
ings under penalty of fine of 500 for
each day that the violation continues. A
bill to enable local collectors to make
speedy settlements with couHty collectors
passed. with the emergency clause The
bill TO prohibit the selling of pools or the
keeping of pool rooms passed by a vote of
90 to 10, and goes to the House. The
penalty for violation is a fine of from $i2
to 5000. for which the owners of the
premises in which the pools are sold are
made reliable.
HOUSE
The usual grist of biils were introduced,
but the number at this time is not as great
az for the corresponding period last sea-
son. Among the bills introduced was one
to abolish capital punishment; ;
TO fix reasonable maximum
| rates on railroads, The rates
for carrying wheat. corn. barley, rye and
other gram. -four, starch. meal. pork and
| meats per ton per mile is fixed at one hall
cent, and the passenger rate two cents
per mile; to prohibit saloon keepers from
allowing vocal or Instrumental music on
their premises. Speaker Thomas anuounc
ed the com nittee to investigate the com-
plants made to railroad and warehouse
com missioners against railroads as follows:
Nc W iliams, Struckmau. Sumner. CHS
| hem. Peterson, Durfee, Murphy. Niehaus
Teppey Mr. Mitchell introd ucsd reso-
luton eulogistic of Gen. Grant Tor civil
and military services. and recommending
the passage by congress OF the bill to
place him on the retired list. Harrington
| suggested that the resolution be amended
so as to strike out that part relating TO
Gen. Grants civil career and it was done
Consideration of the resolution was 10 ade
HARRISBURG, Feb. -Fourtsenth
ballot: Wallace 7S, Oliver 16, Grow So
Adjourned.
DIsAsTER.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 1.-On account of the
| binding snow the steamer Roraima, from
London. came ashore on the ocean beach.
The crew and four passsngersl-efussd { be
landed. The mate. John Pepper, was
subsequently, brought ashore by the crew
and reports % persoas au board the
steamer, which is fifteen usntns old. and
owned by Steele. Young IL Co.. of Landou.
Valued at $50 900; insured in England.
She will probably be wrecked.
| SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. LII began
raining in the central and northern. parts
of the State again to-day. The foods in
the rivers are abating slowly. At Shasta,
up to this afternoon. there has fallen this
season the enormous quantity OF 81 4l-l00
inches Of rain. and the damage in that
sec ios, III the s eacfas :. :. ae.4I-
mated. In Kiama.... -, : ~, trinity
/ and Siskiyon. counties the rainfall is very
heavy. All streams in those counties
] are eyer their banks. flooding the valleys,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
New York Market.

Nzw YoRK, Feb Q.
FINANCIAL.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
TELEGRAPH.EIC.

C7sEsg-Gphsd totAs RocETs1cnd Argue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-02-02
BUSINESS CARDS.

M M. CORBETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW SOLICITOR IN CHAN
n Gerry and Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and
Collects. Once 9nd Avenue, 3rd door east OF
Bengston . Drug Store. Rock Island IIls
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
The Colored Voter.

The colored people of the South have a
hard row to hoe. They have everything
against them, and little but their strong
faith and stolid endurance in their favor
We are by no means disposed to over
look their shortcomings. The powerful
influences about them have undoubtedly
the effect to limit their knowledge and
their aspirations and to depress their
moral tendencies. But, considering all
the circumstances of the case, it is doubt
full if any people have ever made
greater advancement in all the
essentials than have the colored peo-
pie of the South. The close of the
war left them free from mastership, but
with ignorance and poverty as their por
ton. But the often-condemned event of
their habilitation as citizens at this
juncture gave them the first draught
from the fountain which made them men.
Heneeforth, though ignorant, degraded,
poor, almost powerless. they were slaves
no more But the task before them was
one of unparalleled hardship. Thrown
upon their own resources, with inhences
about them all against their interests as citi-
zens, surrounded by people accustomed to
rulership over them and bitterly jealous
and hostile to the idea of their
political advancement, they suffered not
only from their own inherent weakness,
but in an unparalleled degree from the
oppression of those who were determined
by all means fair or foul, to keep them
down. How they have struggled into
any better condition is a wonder to man
kind. But they have. Through sea of
slaughter they have kept steadfastly on
toward such light as they could see. In
spite of foes and feebleness they have
gained something. 1t is not much. Their
right to express their own convictions by
their own votes is practically denied to
the majority of them. Their industry
and frugality have improved their
outward surroundings. Here and there
some of the race have gained some indie
pendence, owning their own property
and working steadily on toward educa-
ton and enlightenment. Here and there
are others, and this class is large, who
"know their rights, and, knowing, dare
maintain" in argument, by tact, by sub
mission, by speaking at the right mo-
ment and in admirable moderation, have
won the endurance, if not the respect, of
the whites. This class is power, grow
ing slowly. but day by day. 1t is hard,
hard streggle, but it is onward and up
ward. The class who have just come
into some respectable representation by
the action of the Senator from Virginia
are the advanced guard of the intelligent
negro voter of the future. They come
by the way of Cancellation, not asking
too much, but asking enough to insure
them voice in respect to their own
rights Perhaps it is not by the path
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
ThiE,gs Are Changed.

When Secretary Blaine went to the
White House with General Garfield on inaugura-
ton day it was just three years and seven months
to day since he had visited the presidential man.
sion. When Senator Conkling went there ON the
same occasion it was his first visit for four years.
to the day, as the last time he passed the White
House gates was the morning President Hayes was
inaugurated. when he drove away with Mrs.
Conkling and his daughter, who had been Mrs.
Grants guests for several weeks in the winter of
1867. Senator Hamlin last visited the White
House in March, 1877, when he went to protest
against the sacrifice of the Republican party in
the South, and. as he afterward described it, was
treated like pickpocket. Things are changed
now, and it is happy condition that allows all
public men, conservative or stalwart, to come and
60 at the Executive Mansion, feeling that they
Irpinnma there
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
FOR 1881.
Pro sP e ctus-

FHB NATIONAL REPUBLICAN begins the
ner year asader ne,V management and aUith
aesp material.
II wiH be a stalaUdrt Republican journal.
Il lOiA be the best newspaper IN the District
g Columbia.
Il sUiH furnish during the sessions Of Con-
sress satisfactory report Of the proceedings,
and sUiH at all times giUe complete Information
eftbe official doiags in all Departments of the
GOUcr7amert.
u sCiN give all interesting Information that
cam be legitimately obtained concerning the
i,atentions and policies Of the ruling pOtcer.
In District affairs 1t aciU kIaOU only the best
isstereSts of the people upon rrhose fGvOr 1t re-
lies, and ,oiU at all times cooperate 10ith pro
sressiUe citizens, avitboot regard to their poIit-
icaI predictions, achO hare measures to pro-
pose and GdUa'ace for the improvement Of the
National Capital
II siH furnish daily record Of all the in
ierssins social eUents of the city, making its
society department special feature.
It ariH giue teIegraphic nears from all parts
Of the acorId reached By the aires, and ia its
editorials and foreign, domestic, and city 'ears
will keep pace acith the times.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
An Hnnnred Lot

In Newburyport, Mass, there stands a
vacant lot in the heart of the city, and on that spot
it is proposed to erect statue of William Lloyd
Garrison. Over fifty years ago the great abolition
is then printers apprentice, undertook 20 deliver
a speech against slavery on the public square, but
the authorities of the town would not permit him
to speak. The owner of vacant lot in the neighbor
hood invited the young agitatOr on to his ground,
and there the harangue was delivered. The story
goes that the owner Of the lot was so indignant
over the affair that he vowed to keep his ground
unimproYed as long as he could, and tied it up in
such way by settlement that it is not yet free.
When it becomes available it will be devoted to
mem orial I1ses
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
The Bible and the San.-'

A young man writes to the New York
Sun to ask if the revisers of the translation of the
King James version of the Bible "have duly con-
sidered the fearful curse pronounced in Revela-
tions xxi, Is and 19 on any who shall add or
take away from the words of that book? Evidently
the curse must fall on some one, either on the re-
visors or on King James translatOrs, or on both"
This person wants to know, further, what guarar-
tee he can have that the new translation will be
the right one. But he appears TO be worrying
himself unnecessarily. From any translation of
the Bible he can learn enough to be good and
honest man. What he wants is to read the Bible
more and the New York Sun less.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
Another Rim Van Wrinkle.

The old adage, at is a wise child that
knows its own father" has a singular in
stance in its support in the case of The
ophilus Youngs. He is Washington
claimant as heir at-law to certain prop
erty, having turned up in that capacity
after an absence of many years, to the
CONSERVATION of other heirs. And now
he is trying to prove his identity His
own wife, if he is the genuine Theophi-
lus, asserts she never knew him, and
yesterday his presumptive child, Alice,
said rather saucily in the courtroom that
that man was not her father. Like Rip
Van Wrinkle, Theophilus might have re-
Piled, Then who the devil am y" But
he has many things i'll support of his
claim, prominent among which is the
minute detail of domestic affairs of twenty
years ago, which his family cannot deny.
But he viii not tell where he has been
siEce then. Probably in jail, on may be
Ill the Catskill Mountains.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
Mr.. Micawber's Condition.

Mr.. Micawber has not been heard from
for some days. But he has not been idle
He has been making personal examina-
ton of the various situations to which
fate, or the President, might have called
him, for he believed to the last that some
thing would turn up. But, copying his
illustrious predecessor, he has now writ
ten to his young friend Copperield as
follows:
Ny DEAR YOUNG FRIEND: The die is cast. All
is over. Hiding the ravages of care with a sickly
mask of mirth have not informed you that there
is no hope. Under these circumstances,
alike humliating to endure humiliating to con-
template, and humiliating to relate, / have dis
charged the pecuniary liability contracted at this
establishment by giving note of hand, made
payable fourteen days after date at my resi-
dence : When it becomes due it
will not be taken up. The result is destruction.
The bolt is impending, and the tree must fall. Let
the wretched man who now addresses you be a
beacon to you through life. He writes with that
intention and in that hope. If he could think
himself of so much use, one gleam of day might by
possibility penetrate into the cherries dungeon of
his remaining existence-though his longevity is
at present to say the least of it) extremely prob
lematical This is the last communication, my
dear Copperfeld, you will ever receive
From
"The
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
"Tought lie Was a Wasp.-

On the occasion of the debut of the
new Senator from Virginia, an old colored woman
who had strayed into the Capitol and Senate gal
leries, from of the adjoining counties of Mary
land, accompanied by one of her ebony progeny
in an after description of the scene exclaimed
" Fore God, honey, when l seed him fought he
was wasp, and when one of the gemen get stung
and cry out in pain and wraf, What is he? What
is he? oh ! oh honey 1 knowed he was hornet
an jest says to Abrum Lincum, Look out, chile
maybe dar's hole mess of 'em in hayr.'"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
I Beggared
"OutcaSt
Does the President appreciate Mr.. Mi
cawber's condition?
The "sun" and ex-senator Dorsey.
WILKINS MICAWBER."


The editor of the New York San should
have been invited to the Dorsey banquet
at Delmonico's last month. We thought
at the time the slight would be revenged.
1t is awful how the Sun does 60 on about
the secretary of the Republican National
Committee. He refuses to be comforted.
He began by saying that Mr.. Astor,
Pierpont Morgan, and others had swim
died Delnlonico ont of the amount of the
bill. This lie was served overuntil it be-
came threadbare, and now Mr.. Dor
sey is advertised as an Office
seeker. For the information of all
concerned we will say that Mr.. Dorsey
has refused high Office from President
Garfield, and that no place in the Execu-
tive gift would induce him to quit his
business life. The simple truth is, that
gentleman devoted last summer and
autumn to the generous and patri-
otic service of the country and the
party without hope, desire, or willingness
to receive reward. But of course the
SuR cannot understand why man should
do decent thing without pay. By the
way, why don't the editor of that lumi-
nary address to General Garfield that
old, self-eulogistic, begging letter to Andy
johnson, asking to be made collector of
New York city?
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
Casey Young. Opinion.

Ex-Congressman Casey Young, of Mem
phis, thinks the defeat of the Democrats dates
back to the Potter resolution. On the inaugura-
ton of Mr.. Hayes the Democratic party had
grand opportunity. Mr.. Hayes adopted concilia-
tory policy toward the South. which made breach
in the Republican ranks. If the Democrats, in
stead of fighting him, had supported him in his
plans, it would have made division among the
Republicans that could not have been healed. But
they fought him at every turn, and thus defeated
his plans and lost the country"
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH IS, 1881.
Population Of the National Capital. 100000.

To-MoRRow's issue of THE REPUBLICAN
will include its usual interesting supple
ment, filled with original and choice
selected matter, with notes on religion,
music, art, science. the drama, sporting
events, &c, &c.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
The Oyster as a "Thing OF Beauty"

A Baltimore paper has discovered why
the girls of that city enchanting. Ohio girls
it says, eat pork and sauerkraut. Massachusetts,
girls eat Goldfish balls. Virginia girls eat bacon and
greens, the Gulf States girls eat gumbo New Hamp-
shire girls eat pie and doughnuts, and Kentucky
girls eat blue grass beef and yet all these pref
tier than the girls of Europe But the Baltimore
girl eats oysters, terrapin, anvas-back duck bay
mackerel, and soft-shell crabs, all productive of
beauty. Not only has the Baltimore girl become
beautiful but the canned oysters of Baltimore have
begun to make beautiful the girls of the Mississippi
Vallev-L0pisyile Commercial
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18

that visionary reformers would choose for
them, but it is by a safe way, and should
they succeed next fall, in conjunction
with their former political opponents, in
carrying the elections in Virginia, the
political status of one section OF the col
ored vote will have fair and honest ex-
preston. In this way there is hope for
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-03-18
CopkI5up and yTaboue.

Senator Conkling, according to the
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
RerciGl. shook hands heartily with Senator Malone
at the close of the dramatic in the Senate on
Monday, and said: AZ believe / have not the
pleasure of your acquaintance. but 1 am anxious
to know you better. am proud of you-proud to
know you, strand to congratulate you. You are
impregnable. am proud to see yOu stand for the
honor and independence on this floor of your
State against such unparalleled insolence."