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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22
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cit takes time" is the reply of the doc
tor, when his cough-conyulsed patient
COM plains that the medicine prescribed
produces no effect. Now the great merit
of "HALE's HONEY OF HoARHoUND OF
TAR" is, its curative influence is developed
after the first of second dose.
The progress of the cure is rapid as well
as certain. AS remedy for the ailments
of the wind pipe and lungs, il stands alone
and unapproached. Sold by all druggists
at SO cents and 81. Great saving by buy
ing large size.
Miller Il Hart, Malone, N. Y. writes:
Our customers say HALE's HONEY OF
HoARHoUND AND TAR is a good th,no. -
Pixies TooTHAoHE DROPS CURE IN
nrr NrhrTrTF
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22
The vo,satc aeit Co., -.arshal,. uS.c.

Printing and bindIng executed neat
duick and cheap at THE ARGUsCFFICF
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

FoR SALE-Old newspapers at so cents
per 100 at THE ARGUS Office.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

The yo1satc seit Co., -.arshall, Hich-
Will send their celebrated Electro
Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon 80 days
trial. Speedy cures guaranteed. They
mean what they say. Write to them With
out delay.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic cures dumt
s
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

cannot afford to do it. He must be
beaten.
Kerker. of Davenport. delivers Grocer.
es free. in Rock Island. IF
How GeEerous, 30 be Sure.
We do not care 6g about the politics
of the candidate "-Danforth. in his
Organ.
You don't. eh3 Then wi y did you get
up IN the convention asd warn" the
people" that you would not be satisfied
If Henry or Jarvis were nominated2 You
DON'T care anything about the politics. eh
Then why did you and cthsr Nationals get
ready to kick if Jarvis or Henry had bsen
uomiuated2 Oh, no, you "don't care fig
about the politics of the candidate"-so
lonE as he is National, but what would
you and your followers have done had
Jarvis or Henry been nomnated2 Would
you have cared as about it. then? Nc,
you woald have got your men together
and nomiussed little ticket of your OWE.
If you don't care 6g for thu politics of
the candidate Mr.. Danforth. why did you
say. You can lead horse to water
but you can't make it dviok. "
when you saw that. 10 continue 10 mass
couvention, mean. the nomination of a
Democrat You were ready to bolt
about that time. aud the poiitios oil the
Candidate .,ods of great importance-soas
all ir, partaat, 10 fact, and you knoto it,
dodge and squirm, twist and evads, dissort
or pretend as you please. Oh no. MIR.
Danforth, you don't care 6s for the poll>
tics Of the candidate, certainly not, but he
must be a National. for have you not
said openly. that you were not Democrat,
never expected to be a Dsmoorat and
aud don't want to Democrat. aud think
ing thus, it is DOT strange that you and
your followers stood ready to bolt had
Jarvis. or Henry or any other Democrat been
nominated Oh, no. you don't care fig
just noso. for the man Hauberg is a Nation.
oil. runs as National, and consequently il
not Democrat, 80 you very iDnoceDtly
say you don't care fig about his politics.
How generous p to be sure.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

Go North. young man. go north and
freeze up With the country. But don't
forget to take bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough
SlTup along.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

party preserved, il you want your organiza-
ton maintained. if you are Democrat
from principle and not merely for petty
'spoils. do not vote for Haubsrg. This
10 the alternative presented and it should
be so understood by every true Democrat.
Don's be hoodwinked by the suavs and
tricky evasions Of Danforth's organ
Don't be fooled By the false cry that
Hamburg is peoples" candidate. for be
10 no such thing-He isi National-no
more DO less He made bitter fight for
this same Office last fall. was. beaten not
withstanding the mixed tickets" and
now asks you Democrats to spay him a
premium for fighting you-by electing him
sheriff of this county. Democrats you
cannot afford to do it. He must be
beaten.
Kerker. of Davenport, delivers Grocer.
es free. in Rock Island 7tf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

Kerker. of Davenport, delivers Grocer.
es free, in Rock Island. TIFF 6
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-22

Pixies TooTHAoHE DROPS CURE IN
ONE MINUTE.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
THE DEBRIS BILL.

We are glad to see that at least one San
Francisco paper-the EUemng PoSt-has
given some attention to the Debris bill
which it is now sought to repeal so unrea-
sonably. Our contemporary observes
{" We oppose a repeal of this bill at the
present time, as most inopportune and
"highly injudicious. When the original
"project was before the Legislature then
"was the time to oppose its principle !;
SO but after it received legislative sanction,
and while it has only been partially APP
"plied, We hold that it would be both
wasteful and unwise to repeal it. a fair
test has not been had. Only one dam
"that across the Yuba-has been con.
structed and if the Debris bill were
"now repealed the expenditure so far
"would be little better than wasted. As
the work has been begun, and gives
promise OF success, it is better far to
test the system thoroughly, seeing that
$50 great an authority as Captain Eads
approves the plan adopted by the State
Engineer for combining the debris to the
mountain streams. The necessity for
"doing something to protect the agricult-
"ural interests of the State, without
"paralyzing mining, is admitted by all !;
land we, therefore, cannot but dis.
countenance any attempt to render the
"present experiment abortive. It is pre-.
eminently a question affecting the State
at large, and, as such, the State should
"pay the cost of the work" This is all
true. The opposition to the Drainage Act
has never been rational, or other than
narrow and short-sighted. 1t is based on
failure to perceive the absolute necessity
for mutual aid In matters of this kind, and
forgetfulness of the fact that the prin-
eiple of taxation adopted is an old and
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
NEWS OF THE MoRNINc

Ia New York Yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at ll2L for Is of 1907; lol1 for SIS OF 1881
III Tor as; sterling, 81 sOl@4 SO silver bars,
49,
silver III London yesterday, 51l consols
9s 1916; 5 per cent United States bonds, l04s As
ZIG, AS, ll5t
in San Francisco half dollars quoted at ! dis
count to par; Mexican dollars, 9o@9lc.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at9s sd
Cal0s for good TO choice California.
Mining stocks were dull and weak in San Fran
cisco Yesterday. The announcement OF an assess
ment on Utah caused a depreciation Of 81 per share
in that stock There was also decline CT SC to 75c
in most other Comstock descriptions. The sessions
were short ana uniuteresting.
The Nevada Legislature yesterday adjourned I'M
til Monday.
The itish iron snip Lupata is wrecked on the
Oregon coast.
The Captain AID crew of the abandoned ship
GIeuiruen have arrived at Victoria, B. c.
A J. Thomas, the Brumfield murderer, was
hanged at WalIa walla, W T., on the 4th inst.
Thirteen lives were lost yesterday by the burn ne
OF the Ssratiord couaty (N. H. poor house.
Ry an explosion near Newark. N. J., yesterday,
four men were killed and several others injured.
Vine deaths have resulted from the rollih& mill
disaster at Allentown Pa, and are looked for.
train jumped the track yesterday near New
port VT wecking four cars, killing an old lady and
injuring several other persons.
a schooner came ashore ON the New Jersey coast
yesterday, with the Captain dead and all hands sick
with the chills and fever.
large steamer sunk with all on board Thurs
day, ca The English co st.
Eleven persons lost their lives in a fire at Havana,
Cuba Thursday night
Bruce Of Miss ssippi (oolored) is mentioned for
position in the new Cabinet.
The Senatorial deadlock in Indiana sill continues.
Charles Comfy shot aud killed his brother John at
Eas-laul, Tex, Thursday.
Serious trouble prevailed yesterday near Peekskin,
y amo-g the ice men, and military aid was in
voked
Three hundred amnestied Communists have ar
rived at Brest from New Caledonia, twenty three
still remaining here.
Sutro has Withdrawn from the Senatorial fight in
Nevada, leaving Fair clear field.
Herman Giaf died Of apop Ky at San Jose yes
terday.
Fire at San Rafael
q. b. WILKINSON, journalist, 1lea suddehiy al
Denver, Col, last evening.
General Gof, the new Secretary, assumed charge
of the Navy Department yesterday.
During 1880 the earnings Of the Union Pacific
Railroad aggregated SIS, 49i, 600 an increase OF
1851, 900 over 1879
It is believed a, Washington that Blaine can be
Secretary of State if he so desires.
The Assembly adj armed yesterday at y o'clock
until P. NJ Monday.
The Senate will meet 10 day at 10 O'clock.
leaders of the RECORD UNION will find the inside
pages of to-days paper unusually interesting, eng
filed wish choice and valuable reading matter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
TEE CARE OF TIE INSANE.

In his recent message Governor Perkins
calls attention to the rapidity with which
the State Insane Asylums are being filed
up, and suggests several methods for
checking this increase of the insane class.
He expresses the opinion that large num-
Der of persons are now habitually sent to
the asylums who ought to be either kept
by their friends or sent to the county hos
pitfalls and almshouses, since they are alike
incurable and harmless. He also points
out that far too many patients are fastened
upon the State by neighboring countries and
territories, which send these persons to
San Francisco and abandon them there.
OF course this latter point should be at
tended to at once, for the public cannot
aferd to keep insane asylums for all the
world. As to the first suggestion, it is not
so simple a matter as the Governor seems
to think. There are many cases of in
becility in which danger OF violence may
Turk, to be called out with disastrous re-
suits if the surroundings of the patient
are not such as to be prepared for such
outbreaks 1t is impossible to diagnose
cases of mental alteration with absolute
certainty, and therefore it is always best
to be on the safe side. We believe, how
ever, that 1t is possible to relieve the insane
asylums sensibly. In the first place no
patients should be admitted to the present
institutions who are able to pay for their
treatment, A new building should be
erected for the special use of paying pa
tents, and their payments should be en-
ployed in meeting the expenses of the In
stitution, and in establishing sinking
fund to pay for its construction. In many
cases the relatives OF patients affect an
unreal poverty. In all such cases the
relations should be compelled to contribute
to the support of the patient according to
their means. Such an arrangement as
this would at once relieve both the Asy lums,
but it would still be necessary to adopt
Governor Perkins suggestion, and care
fully weed out of the applicants for adj
mission all who could be equally we'll
maintained elsewhere. The increase of the
insane dependents upon State bounty is
becoming so rapid that the present Legs
lature ought to deal with the question. DIR.
Wilkins, of the Napa Asylum, believes
that new building will be required in two
years. That it will be required in less than
three if no steps are taken to relieve the
present pressure, is indubitable.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08

50 of travel, curiosity or pleasure. This
arrangement would appear to leave the
door much wider open than was antici-
pated, but would probably enable Con-
gress to put stop to the importation OF
Chinese laborers. The most remarkable
feature in the treaty, however, appears to
be that relating to the opium trade. 1t is
said to be stipulated that Americans shall
not import or sell opium in the United
States. The purpose Of this stipulation is
reported 70 be the establishment of a
moral pressure upon England, to induce her
to abandon the opium trade. It is argued
that if the United States and other
countries consent to the insertion of such a
provision in commercial treaties with
China, England will hardly be able to re-
fuse her consent to the same provision. The
argument is plausible, but it has some
grave defects In the first place, it
ignores the circumstance that England has
already demonstrated her entire indiffer
ence to the opinion of the world in the
premises, first, by forcing opium upon Chi
ma at the lannon's, mouth. and second,
by continuing that traffic for a full genera
ton despite all the protests and censures
of Christendom. If, therefore, we are to
Judge Of the future by the past, we must
conclude that the probability of her being
shamed out of the opium trade Is not
great. But here comes in another eonsid-
Grafton If she does not care anything for
the opinion of the world, the course pur-
sued by China and the other Powers in this
matter is calculated to give her precisely
what would be most profitable to her,
namely, a close monopoly Of the opium
trade. She may therefore turn round and
say to the United States " You engage
mot to sell opium to China So much the
- better for me. I shall sell her all the
"more - It must be admitted that this
would be rather disastrous outcome for
Chinese diplomacy, and it must also be
admitted that such an outcome is far more
accordant with English practice on this
head than that which the Chinese Govern
ment is said to anticipate. 1t would ia
fact be an agreeable surprise if the English
Government were to reform its policy in
this regard, but we are afraid that it is, as
things stand, too good a result to hope for
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08

The truth is that the whole system of
law making requires to be reformed. Our
constant tinkering with the Codes, our
constant introduction of crude and foolish
changes, mostly drafted by half-fedged
lawyerlings who have no real knowledge of
jurisprudence, tends to make the practice of
the Courts more uncertain every year, and
thus renders litigation more and more a
lottery. 1t is notorious that our State laws
have never been in such state of confusion
as at present. Between the amendments
TO the Codes and the new Constitution and
the statutes enacted under it, everything is
perplexed and entangled, and no Judge or
lawyer feels sure what the law really is
Yet we 90 on blindIy adding confusion to
confusion, piling up more weak and foolish
statutes, crowding the already overbur-
dened Codes with fresh patches of wholly
unnecessary amendments, and in these
ways surrounding the path of the suitor
with distinctions and making the pro
curemept of justice infinitely hard, under
the pretense OF facilitatingit. There is in all
this dIffuseness, a want of definite and III
telligent policy, which are in effect impeach.
ments OF our governmental system. A dem
ocratic government which tends to mere
chaos is not success and it is to
mere chaos that our legislative efforts
seem conducting US. Our attempts at sys-
tenn only lead us further away from all
system Oar efforts at simpliication only
result IN more complexity. Seeking
directness, economy, certainty, we succeed
in finding only indirectness, extravaganza
and uncertainty. Our Qualifications are made
ridiculous through our refusal to abide by
them. We first carefully build up sym.
metrical legal edifce, and then we invite
every school-boy in the State to deface it
by adding his crude inventions to the orig.
inal plan. Every year our Courts become
less aole to expound the law it is so OBJ
scure and involved but every two years
the Legislature thinks itself under obliga.
tions to add to its obscurity and complica-
ton by enacting three or four hundred new
laws. In fact legislation has become a
positive curse to the State, and not the
least among the evils it entails is this
that when really important questions come
up for discussion and treatment, it is i'm
possible TO obtain intelligent and just
reception for them because so much pre-
cious time is wasted in fumbling among
the heaps of worthless bills which blockade
every committee room, and which prevent
really necessary and beneficial legislation.
Decidedly reform is needed, both in law
and lawmaking.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08

familiar one. Two ostensibly reasonable
propositions have been made by the oppo-
nents of the bill, however, which it
is necessary to notice One is to
the effect that the State ought to
rely upon the General Government
for the solution OF the debris problem. The
other is to the effect that hydraulic mining
should be stopped. Now reliance upon
the General Government in a case of this
kind is not TO be seriously thought of, for
several reasons. In the frst place the
claims upon the General Government are
so numerous that it could not afford to do
more than assist State remedial scheme.
In the second place California cuts so in
significant figure at Washington that it
might take years to obtain even this
partial aid and meantime our valleys are
being destroyed. There is no reason why
Congress should not be applied to for help,
but it viii not do to rely upon the willing
ness of Congress to undertake the whole
work. The State must devise the scheme
restoration, and then Congress may be IN
duced to give us an appropriation in aid of
it. In regard to the second sug-
gestion, that hydraulic mining should
be stopped, the answer to it is
that if hydraulic mining was stopped
tomorrow the danger would not be
averted. The surveys OF The engineers
have shown that there is enough mining
debris now stored in the mountains, and
liable to be washed down With every food,
TO complete the destruction Of the Sacra-
mento Valley, to render the Sacramento
river unnayigable, to bury Marysville and
menace Sacramento, and to ruin the har-
Dor OF San Francisco. Ii hydraulic mining
was stopped, and nothing else was done,
all this debris would in time be washed
down, with the results indicated. 1t is,
therefore, evident that the stoppage Of
mining cannot be regarded as a possible
solution OF the question, but that it is
absolutely necessary to proceed with
remedial works under any circumstances,
unless it is thought desirable that the Sac
ramento Valley should be abandoned.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
MUTUAL REORGANIZATION.

Everybody implicated in the Morey
forgery is Just now accusing every body
else OF being the guilty party. The pub
fishers of Truth exonerate General Gar
field at the expense of the Democratic
National Committee The Democratic
National Committee exculpates itself at the
expense of the publishers of Truth. The
detectives say that Stilson Hutchins Is
one of the leading scoundreIs. Stilson
Hutcnins retorts that all and sundry who
say anything about him are liars. He ap.
pears to think this sufficient to acquit him.
The people who are supposed to be at work
ferreting out the forgers declare loudly at
brief intervals that tremendous surprise
is IN store for the public. Meantime the
facts are as obscure as ever.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08

! O "A Barnhart and two children, Cincinnati !;
Can,sin A. i. Stubbles and wife, Augusta,
/ Me; G. w. Watt, Camden, n. ~ Mrs. M
HALEY and son. Brooklyn; g. L. Holman
aud A. g. Wiibert, Louis River, N. D.; r.
Il. Fox and daughter, San Diego; DE- H. L.
Mulligan, Brooklyn. 49,
Forty through emigrants left on last
NIGHTS emigrant train, to arrive IN oac-
ramento January 14th.
E.iOtous Ice BEeD,
PFEKsKILL N. W, January 7th.-Ihere
are serious troubles az Nerplancks POINT
among ice men. The authorities have tele-
graphed TO YunkeIs for the military.
PEEksK1LL IN. ". January 7th.-The ice
men are parading the streets with band'
and have driven from the lake those Wiling
to work. They DEFY the Sheriff.
PouGHKEEPsIE, January 7th.-A number
of the striking ce men went to WORK tnis ar
ternoon under the protection OF the nAitary'
All qulet new.
The Indiana Struggle.
INDIANAPOLIS, January 7th.-The Sena-
torial deadlock continues A Democrat shls
morning offered a compromise IN the shape
cf q resolution declaring in favor Of the eiec-
lion OF d. Fl Rice, Democrat, Principal See
retarv; Monroe and Sears, Republicans,
Assistant Secretary and Bookkeeper lht3
was Lost by a lie vote, the Republicans ana
Poindexter opposing 1t.
Unanimous Nomination.
AUGUSTA tMe.), January 7Jh,-Lhe lie
publican caucus to nominate a United states
Senator was largely attended. Eugene Hale
received the unaGimous nomination.
fratricide.
GALVESTON. January 7th.-At Eastiand'
Yesterday. john Comfy was shot dead by his
brother Charles.
Earnings aG the Union Facific Railroad
New York. January 7th.-The official
earnings of the y MON Pacific Railroad tor
1880 are So. f9l, 000-an increase over 1873
OF 81, SS4 600 Bus this includes the aces
sion of traffic from III Kansas Pacific and
Denver Pacific, consolidated as part OF the
Union Pacific system last summer.
snddcn fseaiis of sn Edisor.
DENVER Coli January 7th.-C. B vii
kiusnn, the wetl-kuown editorOf the late Den
yer Republican, died suddenly in this city To-
night OF heart disease.
The Cola Wave Aaain.
CHICAGO, January 7th.-The cold wave
has Appeared liz this vicinity again, The
mercury stood about zero ali day, and Is
few degrees below to night. Reports IRON
points west and north of here show that 1t
has changed IN different localities from zero
70 20' below Al Fort Garry this morning
it STOOD al 2S' below.
silver and stock.
New YoRK, January 7tb.-Silver bars,
1105.; money easy, 4; Governments firm;
stocks closed sHong; Western Unior, 90t;
Quicksilver, -. Pacific, 505 Mariposa, u;
Wells Fargo, I13; New York Central, 1915;
Erie, 49, Panama, 2l93 Union Pacinc
1ll3; bonds, 1144; Central Pacific, 9l.;
bonds, 114l Sutro, Is
Prospect % a StOppase OF the Railroad
war.
CHICAGO, January 7.b.-It is stated on
credi5sble authority that the Watssh viii
shortly abandon it's claim for difereRtial
rate. This would stop the war.
Deafh.
NV YoBS, January 7jb.-Dr. Taimage's
son died tonight aged % years.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
THE RIVAL CANkLS.

There is one public benefit to be ex-
peeted from the present rivalry between
lhe interoceanic canal projects, namely that
the actual defects of all of them will be
thoroughly ventilated. Perhaps it would
net be safe to predict the same candid
statement of their merits, since none Of
them will be likely to admit the excellence
OF the others, and since puffs Of such enter
prises proceeding from their projectors are
not always reliable. As regards the ques-
ton of salubritY, it is already certain that
the Panama Canal cannot be constructed
without a considerable sacrifice of life.
It is perfectly true, as recently stated, that
the Panama railroad cost great number Of
lives. Not only laborers but engineers fell
victims to the deadly climate; and there
is no reason to expect that the digging
of canal will be any healthier than the
building of a railroad. Whether the Mica
ragua route has any advantages in this re-
spect, however, we think uncertain. 1t is
perhaps not exposed to quite as much
malaria as the Panama line, bnt probably
thedifference would be found inconsiderable
ia practice 1t must be anticipated that
if an attempt is made to employ white
men on works of this character they will
be exposed to a heavy mortality, and that
even if natives or Chinese are employed,
~
climate, the engineers and superintendents
will be decimated. These are among the
unavoidable penalties of engineering enter
prises in tropical regions, but when all is
said they do not constitute valid objections
to any of the schemes.