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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-28

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-28
And from the 18th OF October TO the
18th of Aprii the rate shall be:

Spencer. Robinson & Co. have run the
ferry for more than thirty yosrs.-Oac.
Democrat 9th
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loss OF APPETTE.

st. Paul, Carroll Co., Va.
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EMELINE KING
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cUEEs GRAVEL

Duncan, Stark Co, Ills
Dear Sir:-I was troubled with Gravel, and
became SO bad that had to get up from five to
eight times in night. / began the use of your
In dian Blood Syrup, and now l can rest well all
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D RAUSEY.
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LIVER COMPLAINT,

GhIva, Henry Co., Ills.
Dear Sir:-This is to certify that your Indian
BLOOD Syrup has cured me of Liver Complaint OF
Long Standing. I am now III better health than ]
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SARAH DIETRICH
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srcx usADAcH- CURED.

GaIVa, Henfy co II-e.
Dear Si-:-I was a snfferer from Sick Headache
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Blood syrup efectually cured me-
MRS ELLEN ELKINS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-28
Not Slow. Yet Sura.

"lt takes time" is the reply of tho doc
tor, when his cough-convuIsed patient
com plains that the medicine prescribed
produces no effect. Now the great merit
of "HALE's HONEY OF HoARHoUND OF
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Immediately after the first of second dose.
The progress of the cure is rapid as we'll
as certain. AS a remedy for the ailments
Of the wind pipe and lungs, it stands alone
and unapproached. Sold by all druggists
at so cents and 81. Great saving by buy
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Miller& Hart, Malone, N. Y, writes:
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Pixies TooTHACHE DROPS CURE IN
ONE MINUTE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-28
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AND COMFORT AT MODER-

AND COMFOkT At MODER-
ATE COST.
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block.
The most novel and beautiful circular In the
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Thirty Years Experience of an Old
Nurse.


Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup is the
prescription ofone of the best Female
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States and has been used for thirty
years with never failing safety and
success by millions of mothers and
children, from the feeble infant of one
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collie, regulates the bowels, and gives
rest. health and comfort to mother
and child. We believe it the best and
Surest Remedy in the world. in all
cases of Dysentery and Diarrhoea In
Children, whether 1T arises from teeth
ing or from any other cause. Full
directions for using will accompany
each bottle. None genuine unless the
fac-simile of Curtis u Perkins is on the
outside wrapper.
Sold BY all Medicine Dealers. Is
cents q bottle.
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oH1LLs 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.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-28
IT has NO EQUAL.

Truro, Knox Co., lis.
Dear Slr:-I have used your excellent Indian
Blood Syrup for some time, and have never found
any medicine to equalit. 1 can confidently re-
commend it.
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FOB ASTHMA.

Truro, Knox Co, IIIs.,
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, thatI am now
able to attend to my business,
JAS. NJ. CALDWELL.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-01-28
JOHN MoGTvERN.
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
liable medicine. 4. T. PHILLIPS.
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old by all Druggists and Fancy Goods Deale
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CURES FEVER,

DuhChH, CU.,
Dear Sir:-A short trial of your Indian BLOOD
Syrup cured our little boy OF severe Fever. Re
ceiYe thanks.
MR. AND MRS DOWNER
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Hamlet, Mercer Co Ills.
Dear Strive have been using your Indian
Blood Syrup in our family for more than two years
and find it the best medicine for worms ever saw.
ANNIE MCINTYRE.
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Mean barometer 29.7o inches Prevailing winds
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Watertown, 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 to give
it a trial.
PIT. UPSON.
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MRS, Fl. SNOW.

Wstertown, Rock Island Co., Ills.
Dear Sir:-I have used your excellent Indian
Blood Syrup for severe Cough, and have received
much relief therefrom.
MRS, Fl. SNOW.
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Read the VOLUNTARY TESTING
MAILS of Persons who have been CURED
By the use of the BLOOD PURIFIER.

REAEDT FOR HEADACHE.
WATERFOWL, Rock Island Co Ills.
Dear Sir;-This is to certify that your Indian
Blood Syrup has effectually relieved me OF Pains
In my Head. recommend its use to suffering
humanity, MRS. &, ALLSBROW
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LOSS or APPETITE.

WATERFOWL, Rock Island Co. Ills.
DeaI Sir:-Sufering with Loss OF Appetite and
Indigestion, ives induced to use POUR Indian
Blood Syrup, q short trial of which greatly ben
efLed me.
MRS. G. D. WILSON.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

TYNER first became connected
with the postoffice department in
1861 as a special agent and remain
ed in that position until 1866. He
was then elected to the forty-first con-
gress, re elected to the forty-second
and then to the forty-third con-
gress. He served on the appropria-
ton committee, and especially inter
ested himself in all postoffice appro-
priations. In February of 1875 he
was appointed second assistant post
master general, and held the office
until July, 1866, when he became
postmaster general. 1t was during
his incumbency of this Office that he
solicited and obtained the appoint
ment of Brady, an old-time Indiana
friend, to the position of second as
sistant postmaster general. In 1877
Judge Key, of Tennessee, was ap-
pointed postmaster general by
Hayes, and Tyner resumed duty as
first assistant postmaster general.
Key was only a figure-head, and
Tyner virtually controlled the post
Office department. 1t was during
Hayes administration. and at the
time Tyner and Brady had the man
sgement of the postofice depart
ment, that the star route conspiracy
was conceived, put in operation, and
allowed to flourish as q green bay
tree.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03
.. j. JENNINGS. London CORES

l.. j. JENNINGS. London CORES
pondent of the New York World,
attempts to throw some light on
the present demand for confederate
bonds. Some of the spectators in
these bonds lave lately been active
in securing a newspaper boom re-
garding the ultimate value of these
securities, the effort being to induce
the credulous to believe that the
United States government has the
power to force The southern states
to provide payment for the confed-
crate loans. If this belief finds
lodgment in the popular mind
great many people may
be induced TO place few dol
lars in a magnificent prospect, aud
so the spectators will reap harvests
and English innocents be gulled.
Uncle Sam is regarded abroad as a
good debtor, and his power to CO.
cree the south is appreciated, and
when these English people begin to
regard the government at Washing
ton in the light of guardian for the
southern states, they can readily
be made to accept the fall
lacy that southern claims can be made
good by pro rata apportionmen
of the debt to the seeding states
The speculation is absurd, but spec
ulators have made millions out OF
things equally as absurd.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

THE existing gaps on the line OF
the New Orleans and Pacific rail-
road are being filed in with rails as
rapidly as possible. Four gangs OF
track-layers are employed in the
work. Between Shreveport and
Alexandria there remains less than
twenty miles of track to be laid be-
tween Cheyneyville and Alexandria
only few miles, and between the
Atchafalaya and Cheyneyville less
than forty miles. The two gaps
first mentioned will, it is thought,
be completed about the same time
November 9th, and the whole re.
naming distance by the latter part
of December, when the New Or.
leans Pacific will be open. General
Manager Hoxie and Vice President
Hayes, of the Gould combinations
went down to New Orleans only 9
few days ago to look after this in
terest.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

AND now ex-Postmaster General
Key has been heard from. He says
that Tyner reported the existence
offraud in the star routes on the Pa
clfic coast to him in 1879, but, rather
than "raise q row." this high official,
the postmaster general, was willing
to see the government robbed OF
millions of dollars, and he ord cred
his subordinates, Tyner and Brady,
to say nothing. They, the two next
in rank in the postoffice, obeyed
and quietly allowed the stealing to
go on. Now let the exposures and
the Acknowledgements go on,
Drag them out, no matter how near
home it comes.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

CONTRARY 10 the report, that we
print elsewhere, that Peirce and
Huntington are going ahead to wards
connection of the Sunset and
Southern Pacific roads, rumor has
it that they will stop build
ing, and that Huntington will at once
make friendly connection with
Gould. In other words, the South
ern Pacific and the Texas Pacific are
to be worked in harmony, and Mr.
Peirce is to be left to seek some
other connection IN the west than
the Southern Pacific.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03
News By Mail.

New York city has eight illegal
associations for procuring divorces
speedily and without publicity"
At the late Tallahassee fila state
fair a premium of Sc was offered for
the best darned stocking.
Senator Lamar has paired with
Senator Teller and gone to his state
20 speak every day until the coming
election.
Enoch Megrue, for twenty years
chief Of the Cincinnati fire depart
ment, and widely known through
out the country, is dead.
The Chicago Times speaks of the
yorktown centennial" as "the cele-
bration of a prodigious military ex-
ploit-of the capture of British
mouse in the bottom ofa bag by the
combined efforts Of six cats"
A census bulletin just issued gives
the population of New Mexico as
lis, 9,565, of which number 8,051 are OF
foreign birth, and 1884 colored,
the latter including Sc Chinese and
$3.50 Indians and half breeds. OF
the total population "a, ,496 are males
and $1,000 females.
Ex-Secretary Thompson reports
progress from the Panama canal
project. The company has employed
an average of $50 men per day for
six months past, and the force is to
be increased. He says but thirty
have died on the line during that
time. The company's purchases in
this country will amount to many
millions of dollars. d
Col. Higginson says that the late
F. Durant once said to him: Law
is the most narrowing and the most
degrading of all professions. All
human law is a system of fossilized
injustice, and the babitual study OF
it only demoralizes." Probably this
was Mr.. Ourant's individual exper-
fence.
An exchange says: 1t can no
longer be denied that the south is
preparing for another war. All the
young people are getting married
which in itself is ominous; but the
evidence is made strong as proof of
holy writ by the display at the mar.
riage of Raphael Senmes, at Clarks-
vile, Tennessee, of O floral ship in
miniature OF the rebel privateer AL.
ALBANIA, bearing the confederate bat.
tie flag and pendant. The bloody
Banks should fire the heart of the
senate with an illuminated descrip-
tion of this latest and 'boldest south.
ern outrage. Mr.. and Mrs. Semmes
will doubtless set about raising 9
crew fer their ship. ii sp'S
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

TYNER says Key suppressed his
report exposing the star route thiev-
cry. Key was not the mere figure
head that he has been represented.
What he did not know about the
rascally business was not worth
knowing. he was pushed for post
master general by Dorsey and his
gang. They knew their man, and
he nobly did his duty.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

THE people of Louisiana are go
ing to raise a fund for the family of
the lamented Governor Wilt. He
devoted his life to their service, and
provision for his destitute family
would be but a fit recognition of the
service of the brilliant young states
man, who passed away at the early
age of thirty-eight, after giving his
entire manhood to Louisiana.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

TOUCHING the proposition to i'm
prove the mouth of the Brazos river
the LAGRANGE Journal says:
Messrs. Kanters & Son, the con-
tractors for the work on the mouth
of the river last year, proposed to
put twenty-five and half feet OF
water on the bar, and guarantee
that it will remain for ten years, for
the sum of S350,0OO, and not dollar
to be paid until the work was finish
ed. A memorial to congress was
numerously signed, setting forth
this offer, and also the advantages
that would accrue to the commerce
and the shipping of the United
States in having land-locked har-
Dor on the guilt such as the Brazos
would afford. We can not now see
why this proposition of the Messrs
Kanters will not be accepted. 1t is
too fair, and the advantages from
having such a harbor on our gull
coast, which is badly needed for our
marine, are too great to stop for q
moment at the sum of $3.50, 900, when
many times that amount has been
spent on other places and no good
or but little, accomplished.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

THE police at Frankfort-on-the-
Main have seized and confiscated all
posters and bills la restaurants
which give information to those in
tending to emigrate to America. In
spite of such injustice, the Germans
will continue to cross the waters,
and Bismarck's conscript band will
fall short OF anticipation.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

THE Washington correspondent OF
the Kansas City Times expresses the
opinion that there will be no convic-
ton in any of the cases against the
star route thieves. The impression,
he says, is growing in Washington
that the ring will prove itself too
big for the government, and that all
the leading spirits in the great con-
spiracy to defraud the government
will escape punishment. 1t really
does look as though this is 10 be the
end of it all.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

IT does begin to appear, at last,
that that puritanical gentleman,
Mr.. Hayes, and his model postmas-
ter general, Key, permitted the star
route frauds to proceed with their
eyes widely opened to the subject.
Tyner and Brady were ordered to
shut up and 60 ahead, and Dorsey
was the big manipulation, and he had
Key made postmaster general.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

GOVERNOR ROBERTS book is GER
tainly an unpretending, but, at the
same time, a valuable and philo-
sophical work. 1t is dedicated to
the farmers of Texas, being referred
to in the dedication as "this little
work." and, though it is highly
proper, under the circumstances,
that this compliment should be paid
the farmers, who have been the
governors earnest friends, the fact
gives reason for much adverse COM
ment upon the Alcalde and his
"little work" Among all this criti-
cism, however, there is significant
absence of adverse comment on the
part of any farmer, and it may be
assumed that the "mud-sills of soci-
ETY." are as warm admirers
of the book as they have been and
are of their staunch old governor.
The book is a volume of over one
hundred pages, devoted to a de-
scription of Texas, its advantages
and its resources. 1t has not been
written, as many suppose, during
his term of Office as governor, but
many years ago, the papers which
it contains were read at Gilmer,
Texas-in 1867-in a series of lee
lures to law class, being changed
only so far as to suit the present de-
velopment of the state. The
first edition has been ex-
hausted, and it is still sought for by
thousands in and out of the state.
People want something besides the
railroad literature intended to en-
courage immigrants, to read con-
cerning Texas, and a work like this,
intended to give truthful idea of
the state, was the need of the
hour, and it is strange
that there should be found
among Texans those SO torgetful OF
our true interests as to cheaper the
value of work intended to do good
to the state. Will it never be under
stood that Governor Roberts, after
a residence of forty years in Texas
may possibly be as patriotic as those
who asperse his virtue? Will
the politicians never understand
that the people think they know
their plain old governor better than
they do +? Will the enemies of Gov
ernor Roberts never find out that
they cannot injure him by laughing
at his dedicating the book to the
farmers of the state? Those same
farmers nominated and elected him
twice against q combination, espe-
cially of the press, and it is rather
short-slghted policy to laugh at Gov
ernor Roberts for dedicating his
work to them, for, as he has said, sc
he believes, that civilization begins
and ends with the plow-" The book
bears evidence of much thought, and
it is filed with philosophic reflec-
tions, not found in any other work
Plain people are prone to believe
that all this fault-finding with the
book Is born of an apprehension
that the people might conclude to
make him governor again. They
might do a great deal worse.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

There are politicians who do not
like Governor Roberts; but, with
the sturdy yeomenry, the men who
WELD the plane, the hammer, the
saw, the plow and the hoe, he is
very popular. The politicians who
do not like the old gentleman tried
last year to retire him from the
race for governor. But the yeomenry
took the matter out of the hands of
the politicians, and put him on the
track and carried him triumphantly
through. 1t is not at all unlikely
that the lesson of last year viii be
repeated next year.-Age.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

Col. A. M. KELLY, chairman of the
Democratic state committee, of Vir-
ginia, made speech few days ago
before the Manhattan club, of New
York city, in which he demonstrat-
ed the position assumed by the con-
tending political parties of his state.
He said, that on one side stands the
bulk of intelligence, character and
property OF the state, the men who
make commonwealth mighty and
enduring, contending for the privi-
lege of paying the honest debts of
their mother state; on the other
side those who remain in a COM
munity when the class 1 have de-
scribed is withdrawn. "You ma
turally ask" he said, chow can the
issue of such a conflict be in doubt ?
1t would not be in doubt but for the
fact that a Republican administration
has thrown in the scale CT repudia-
ton the heavy sword of patronage.
No man can now hold any Office In
Virginia under the control of the
federal administration who is not
a known partisan of reputation.
Scores of men have been turned out
of office within the last sixty days in
Virginia against whom no charge
has been preferred except that they
favor an honest settlement of the
debt" Referring to the open at
tempts of federal Office holders to
raise corruption fund for the repu-
diationists, Colonel Kelley said that
the most violent and wholesale pro-
scription for the crime of honesty
exhibited in any department of the
federal administration in Virginia
is found in that under the control OF
Postmaster General James.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

If the present administration mus
ters up enough courage to go for
the big "Tycoons of the easury,
the country viii bless the day that
Arthur was kicked out of the New
York custom house. We are bank
ing a good deal on tho presidents
memory.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

No WONDER the emigration from
the Dominion to the United States
Is large. For the past thirteen years
taxation in Canada has increased
enormously. The rate per capita in
1868 was $2.62 and 1881 $4.S2. 1t is
estimated tn the rate for 1882 will
be $5.1O per capita.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-11-03

THE protectionists are commenc-
ing an agitation for the repeal OF
the international revenue laws and
the total abolition of the tax Oh
whisky and tobacco, in order that
there may be an excuse to keep up
the high protective tariff duties
They propose to meet the free trade
movement by making import duties
more necessary than before. They
insist that the public debt is being
paid off too rapidly.