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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-12

A paper mill Is soon 20 be established a.
Elhcou City.
Betsey Morris d;rd 10 Hartford coanly, en-
,he I'd Instant. &C. her H3l year
The s.eampship Sjrasbasg, from Germany.
landed 65S eEjsrAats 90 Bdumorc ON SAi1t-
DAY
-. Patrick's Day, the l-,h, viIl be eelcbra
ted IN Baltimore by Eraad par ads Of CA'h'-
lie societies.
The Washington County Mutual Fire la
sarance Company has declared dividend oi
. per cent. 10 Insurers
James :. Fraukliu, lately Clerk OF she
MARYLAND Court 81 Appeals died suddenly -
4 Annapolis on Nondas night, aged 50 years
Circuit Coart ios HuVard county eomuleg.
ees the third Monday Of March. There are
iIS removed cases 90 che foreign trial docket
VIM. II. Welsh, OF the Baltimore Gd-siie.
is 20 deliver the sHngai orAii0E before the
literary societies Of Princeton College next
Jane.
The Governor has appointed Hosea Kelly
iasliec Of Of the peace OF the seventh disirIrl
Of Baltimore eoanty, wee George u tossey,
resigned.
g. J. C. German, residing in Baltimore
county. on the Belaig road, sold al Fgblic sale
lasi week nifty one mich COWS At an average
Of sac each; a Berkshire sos aud seven pigs
brought Sos
Ga Saturday last the circuit c1ari a, To~-
sontown PASSED the death sentence on John
Go,hard. eolored convicted Of the murder 81
Joseph Woods at Pa,aPsea Neck, On she Fad
Of December last.
By landslide al Wiaans Station, on the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, Wetsnes.
day. passenger trais was BADLY wrecked, aad
b. Z. MckeeseF, the fireman, who escaped
In the collision AZ Severn Station GA Saturday
last, was instantly killed.
DIR. J. u. Fiske, member Of the First
Branch If the City Council % Baltimore, Vas
unanimously expelled from that body Monday
evening. committee Of investigation baying
reported that be attempted 10 extor, money
from George W. GratHiu for procutlng the
passage Of an ordinance permitting Grat'i'n TO
build pier in the harbor
The ceremony of LAYING the first rail of the
Washington Cny and Point Lookout Rail
road took place at noon Thursday at Brandy
vine, IS miles from Washington, IN the pres
ence of Coils 5 T. Suit. president OF the
company: W J. Warton, chief engineer;
Hector Maclean, chief Of construction, and a
number Of well known Washington citizens
and journalists. The road will be completed
from Washington 70 Point Lookout BY the
Is OF August,
The fast train north from Washington over
the Baltimore aRd Potomac Railroad colid-
ed with south bound train, consisting otiEo
engines and tender, near Severn station, hf'
teen miles from Baltimore, on Saturday after
noon. j. Wiener Young, merchant, of Sha-
mokin, Pa, and J. Oliver, Of Baltimore, were
killed, and tSsnty.sight passengers and rail
road employees injured, several Of them seri.
ously if not fatally. Tx President Hayes aud
family were on the north bound train, but
/ escaped without injury. Henry Freeburnr
one of the engineers so seriosly injured in the
fatal collision died in Washington Monday.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-12
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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-12

TnE Work OF THE LATE CONGRESS-. The
third and last session of the Forty-sixth Con
gress was remarkable rather for the work
which failed than for that which was accom-
plished Partisan journals, however, which
tlagrautly charge these laches to the fault of
the majority in Congress are not dealing fair
" with the facts. The democratic majority
could not accomplish much in the face of the
compact republican minority, resolute to OBJ
struct at every point, and to defer legislation
upon all important subjects until the incoming
OF the new Congress, in which they will have
control at least of the lower house. Three
measures, for instance, came before the House
Of the first importance. These we're the bill
for regulating the counting Of the electoral
vote, the funding bill and the apportionment
bill. The electoral count bill was fairly fill
bustered out of the House by the republicans
the apportionment bill could not be passed
except in such questionable shape that the
Seaate refused to take it up, and the funding
bill was so long delayed by their man9avers
that when it vas finally vetoed there was no
lime left ihvhich 20 introduce another. This
was the work OF the minority, k6t the maIerl-
ty, yet the latter are explicitly held response
BE for it.-Baltimore, Sun.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-12

improved by a handsome dwell
lag, a large barR, an ice house
filled with pure ice, and other
ont buildings; also eOmmo-
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-12
1875 ACRES, MORE OR LESS

About SO acres in valuable Timber ~.
Hickory and White Oak; the arabic -
land is in excellent condition There
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-03-12

mar i2,5 tp'' Faux 7. SHAW, Clerk.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
CAPTURING MONKEYS.

The monkeys are frequently captured in
nooses and traps built in the shape OF
houses. The only entrance is a trap door
in the roof, which communicates with q
trigger set upon the ground. Food is
spread about inside the monkeys enter,
and diminishing around disturb the trig-
ger, and the trap shuts them in. The third
method for capturing them is a most ludi-
crous one. An old, hard cocoanut is taken,
and very small hole made in the shell
Furnished with this and poeketful of
boiled rice, the sportsman sallies into the
forest, and stops beneath q tree tenanted
by monkeys. Within full sight of these
inquisitive spectators he first eats a little
rice, and then puts quantity into the CO.
coannt with all the ostentation possible
The nut is then laid upon the ground and
the hunter retires to a convenient ambush
The reader may be sure that no sooner is
the man out of sight than the
monkeys race helter-s SHELTER for the
cocoanut. The first arrival peeps
into it, and, seeing the plentiful
store of rice inside, squeezes his hand in
through the tiny hole, and clutches a hand
full. Now, SO paramount is greed over
every other feeling connected with monk
ey nature, that nothing will induce the
creature to rehnquish his hold With his
Ilslnu illus CidSpcu ne CdnHOt possibly eA-
tract it, hut the thought that if he leaves
go one of his brethren will obtain the feast
is overpowering. The sportsman soon APP
pears upon the scene; the unincumbered
monkeys fly in all directions, but the I'M
fortunate brute; who will not let the rice
go, is thereby handicapped beyond hope
with a cocoa-n nut as large as himself "a
state of affairs quite fatal to rapid locomo-
ton, either terrestrial or arboreal. The
sequel is that he falls an easy capture to
the hunter, victim to his own greed. Ev-
en- when caught he reads in the actions of
his captor design to rob him of his rice,
and he clutches it all the harder; and the
very first thing he does when the nut is
cracked and the hand released is to cram
its contents into his mouth. Thoughts of
escape come afterward London Field.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
THE THUGS PECuLIARITIEs.

PromiscuOus murder, says an East lndi-
an correspondent of the Boston C0naDeref-
al Bulletin. is by no means INDUCED in by
the followers of Thuggee; there are certain
classes who may trust themselves alone
with these people and feel perfectly secure,
viz: oil-venders and musicians, washermen
and poets blackSmiths and carpenters.
Ganges water-carriers and cripples are
among the protected ones. AS rule they
will not take the life of a woman, though
the temptation of possessing great booty
will draw them into it; but even then it IS
a Mohammedan who is chosen to commit
the deed; for the Mohammedans as a
people have less repugnance to
shedding blood than the Hindoos.
In committing their murders strang-
ulatiOn is the method praeticed.
This mode of causing death has become a
part of their religion for two reasons, APP
parently; first, it is the most silent manner,
and second, it leaves no blood stain to tell
the tale.
As have said before, the son generally
adopts the business and religion of his
father, and is trained by the father to fill a
position of equal importance to his own,
but with the Thugs it is a little different as
far as the religious teacher is concerned,
as the parent seldom initiates his child into
the most abhonent practices of their
creed. The child at first is taken out by
the gang, being led to suppose that the
party is simply upon trading expedition.
After a few months It is admitted to him
that their object is robbery; share of the
booty being allowed him quickly overcomes
the. boys scruples, If he has any, which is
very rarely the case.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
THE ROWLING OF a DOG.

Il To hear dog howl in the night has been
regarded of old with the same dislike as in
modern times, and arises from the belief
that the dog can see things which are not
visible to other eyes. In the Odyssey"
when the dogs knew Athene, they ''tled to
the stalls far side" and the dogs of the
North were conscious ''wenn Helumgeht."
Rabbi Bechai, in his Exposition of the
Five Books of Moses" says: "Our Rabbins
of blessed memory have said when the dogs
howl then cometh the angel of death into
the city; but when the dogs are at play
then cometh Elias into the city,
and in the exposition of another Rab
hi: 'EOur Rabbins of blessed memory have
said, when the angel of death enters into a
city the dogs do howl And have seen it
written by one of the disciples of Rab
hi Jehudo the Just, that upon time
dog did howl and clapt his tail be-
tween his legs, and went aside for fear
of the angel of death, and somebody
coming and kicking the dog to the place
from which he had fled, the dog presently
died" German peasants believe that if a
dog barks looking upward, recovery may
be expected but If he looks toward the
earth death is certain. In Cornwall the
bowling of dog is always a sad sign, but
eff repeated for three nights, the house
against which it howled will soon be in
mourning" In Lancashire, where the
death-tick is still feared it is reported as
''curious circumstance" that the real death
tick must only tick three times on each oc-
easion. When We remember that Mr.. Oar
win says that death ticks (-An0bina tesselta-
tun3) are known to answer to each others
ticking, or, as he has personally observed,
a tapping noise artifcially made, it is evil
dent that if Lancashire maid is disturbed
by the three dread ticks, she should wait
for answering ticks, or stimulate them by
an artificial tick, before allowing her SUI
perstitious fears to get the better of her
reason BeZqrdeia
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
TELEPHONE TNFELIcTrrFs

Hello, exchange, please give we Jones;
Hello, hello-o, hello-o-oi
On! there you are, these telephones
Do bother people so.
III call, my dear; hello, hello-o,
say I'll call at nine; 500
I'm SO In haste, sweet one-hello,
HeAo-o-o--to call you mine
L wait-hello-impatiently,
Hello, hello-o-the day
When our fond souls will melt in one
Hello! what's that you say?
What crack brained fool ist telephones? 2
Why, precious, I am Dan
Hello-you say you're Deacon Smith?
Good Lordi not Mary Ann?
Times Star.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
NaTUzE'S TRIUMPH.
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If you are weak, or languid, use
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If your flesh IS fiabby and your COM
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If YOU live in malafial district, use
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If worn down with the care of chill
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If you have got the blues, use FraZ
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If you kept late hours and lived con-
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If you need toning up. take Frazer's
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IF you have abused instead of used
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If YOU feel old before your time, use
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IfIife has become burden and you
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Ifyour hands tremble and 20 eyes
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Sold by al druggists everywhere at
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Henry Co, Sole Proprietos, Cleveland
Ohio.
For sale by McCabe & Wheaton.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16


Trains leave Rock Island follows: Day Ex
Milwaukee 6:15 M; Night Express at 10: 80 o IN,
arriving at Racine 900 q m, and Milwaukee 9:l5 q
m, connecting at Fulton with Chicago q North
western Railroad for Morrison, Sterling and Dixon
AT Freeport with Illinois Central Railroad for Du-
buques Lacrosse. and all points North. At Befoit
with the Madison Division OF the Chicago h North
western Railway for Madison. At Clinton juno
ton with the Western Division of the Chicago 81
Northwestern Railway for Janesvilie, Oshkosh and
Green Bay. AT Western Union junction with the
Chicago Division of the M. s. st. r. BY for Chi
cago and all Eastern points. At Milwaukee with
Northern Divisions OF the G. ID. 81 St. p. Ry for
tage City, Kilbourn, Lacrosse, Oshkosh, Minneap-
oils and st. Paul Also with the Wisconsin Central
Railroad for Plymouth. Green Bay, Menasha, Ste
vens' Point and Ashland, And with the Milwaukee
Lake Shore q Western Railroad for Sheboygan,
Manitowoc, New London and Clintonville.
West bound trains leave Milwaukee at 7:15 N,
and 6:16 p m, making close connections for ali
poiRts in the West and Southwest. ~
This is the only line running through
Day Coaches and Sleeping Cars between
Milwaukee and Rock Island.
Passengers wishing to take the sleeper leaving
Rock Island at 1O:30 N can do SO any time after
p m. Passengers for Dubuque thas secure q
rest from until 400 a n.
Be sure that your tickets read via Western Union
Railroad. "s
Tickets on sale at all principal ticket Offices.
For information regarding rates, routes, etc., ad
dress
D. A. OLIN, a Y. Fl. CARPENTER,
superintendent, GenI Pass. Ticket Ag't,
Racine. Wis. Milwaukee, Wis.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
STACK SpEcUlkTI0N.

JoHR A. DoDGE % Co.. Bankers and Brokers, IL
Wall Street, New York, buy stocks reasonable
what to buy. Also Stock Privileges in. which SIS
to 800 can be probably invested Opportunities
for good profls constantly occurring. Full in
formation on application, and Weekly Report cent
free. s ssA@ sH3a sses@4
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
Moffat's Life Pills,
and
Phoenix BItters,

me HOST = ucceSS1uiM euIcEneS
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MOffat's Phoenix Bitters S1.O0 bottle.
U Sold by Druggists everywhere
]. P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor,
So Liberty Street New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16

THE EAST g. THE WESTG
Dlnt,l2 Care for eating purposes only. one o{theF
SALOON where you can anioT yoer Havana
Magiiicout Iron f3riaes sran the Mississippi
anu Missouri Ttyais At All points crossed BY this
Inc. ard transfers cre avoided az Council Biuifs,
ucc..CIls being made IN Union DcPcts.
THE PEINtipAIi II. x. CONN EDITIONS OF
THIS sitLAp THROUGH LINE AXE as
Al cnieAeo with oil divoreias Iacs for tho
Il EzGLEsgooo, with the L. S & 81 g.. ard r.
1t " SsuiSdTox HEIGHTS. With p. c. & Sc.
ALA SALLY, Vlth III Cent r.
PEORIA. with Z y. - j. +. - / L, Z. u. =
At ROCK ISLAND. with att!wSukcc e N1CE
Island Sbor. Lime" H.la Rock Iai'd s PEG. ild5.
1T DhvCNroIt, With The Davenport Division
II WEST LInERiy. y7ith the B.. c. r. Z ERR
At GRTHSELL, with central Iowa r. II.
~ DIS MONIES, with D. d, = r. ID. Il. Il.
~ COUNCIL BLUFFS, With Union Pacific Il. q.
AtCOLUMBUS : UeteTIoS with y. C Il. 4 \. RI.
a. OTTUMWA, with Central IoTa r. r. We
st; l. e Pace and e. p. & q; Il. kda. ..
Louis { Pas and Nit g. To- se eo NV h. les. ct
4: CAMERON with IL. St J, h X.
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Atc!i & Neo li1a Cen. Br, y; !. X hda. ~.
-, ~ 4SEAvkN~oRrH, WITH Kan. rae ana KAN
AtEANsAs CITY, with all lines for the wssa
and Southwest.
n through to PEORIA, DIES MONIES,
T ss2is pl Ega III oLsEa;
=: homo SsciEcs ONCE, n.sdreas.
H. ST. JOHN,
oen1 F1ckst and PassgT Agt,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16

IS THE GREAT CONNECTING LINK
Its main line runs from Chicago to Council
Bluffs passins Through Joliet Sttawa. La seize sale
LtbeTty, Iowa City, MarenGo, Brooklyn. Grfnnell.
Dgs Moines (the capital OF Iowa). Stuart, Allan
tic, and Avoca with branches from Bureau
tine Washington. Fairfield. Eldop. Belknap.
(entrevilie. Princeton. Trenton. Gallatin. Came
ron, Jeavenworth, AeehiseH and Kansas CITY;
Washington TO Sig0Grney, Oskaloosa and Knox
tonsport, Independent, Eldon, Ottumwa, Eddy
vile, CskaloosHi, PeIia, Monroe and Dcs Moiues;
Newton to Monroe: Des Moines 10 lndigrola and
Wiaterset; Atlantic TO Lewis and Auduboni and
Railroad, which owns md operates q through
line from Chicago into the state OF kansas.
Through Express Passenger Trains, With Pull
man Falace Cars attached. are run each Yey daily
between CHICAGO and PEORIA, KANSAS CITY,
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IEArgSUORTH and ATCiiI-
son. Through cars aFGalso run between Nil sss-li-
kee and Kansas CITY. via the milwaukee, anc
Tie ''tireat Rock IsiandD IS rnarnincently
equipped. It's road bed is simply por4eet, and its
track is laid with steel rails.
of enjoying your meals. while passing over the
beautiful prairies Of Illinois and Iowa. in one OF
our magntleent Dining Cars that accompany all
Through Express Trains. You get an entire
meal. good as Ia served in any EEat-claSr Eotol
for soventy-five cents.
Approaching the fact that a majority OF the
people prefer separate apartments Tor dlEerent
purposes tand the immense passenger business
nouRce that this Company rnas Pullman l'etGes
SltsplH1 Cars for sleeping purposes, and Palace
PULLMAN PALACE CARS are III
COUNCIL BLUFFS. A14FESAS CIT n .
Tickets via this Line. knovyn a. the
For information not obtaiaG5ie at -
Il. r. GABLE,
Vice President end Conn Manages
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16
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Pages Climax Salye,
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-16

Between
MINNESOTA territory Dakota
Northwest.
Chicago Milwaukee Rao Oshkosh Rock Island Davenport Cedar Rapids Sc
Fau1 MirnSioux City,
Mitchell, Flandreau, Sioux Falls and Yankton ..
IMPROVEMENTS
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o re COnlpan
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-06-16

Mr.. Il. II. Nicoll, late clerk at head
quarters, and who came here from Port
Townsend, sailed on Sunday Ell route to his
home in New York. He says he will not
return to this coast.
DR.. Randolph Smiths father, Capt. John
Smith, Indian agent of the Warm Spring
reservation, is at present lying quite i'll at
the residence of his son.in-law, DR.. c. II.
Rafety, in East Portland.
Capt. Chas. 7. Troup, of the steamer
Washington, went up the river Monday, on
leave of absence, j. H. Burgy, mate, run
ming the boat while he is gone. The report
that Capt. Troup had resigned is not true.
Johnny Ben, Vancouver three year old
youngster, went up the steps crying the
other day, and in answer to the usual ques-
ton in such cases of whats the natter
replied, 81 hurt me on bee" That is just
the way Mark Twain would have said it.
Last Thursday evening the Fleetwood
brought private excursion party from Port
land. AFTER arriving here the party con-
sisting of about 30 couples, proceeded to
Brant's hall, where dancing was INDUCED IN
up to late hour, when they returned to
Portland.
A young man who had sold his place at
Battle Ground about a year ago and went to
the upper country, came down again Tues
day. His legs were ornamented with brace
lets, and his address for four years will be
Salem, Or. He had borrowed another mans
team without permission.
The performance of the Pacific Minstrels
at the garrison theatre on Monday night was
success. The programme was good, and
was rendered in an excellent manner, and
the house was brought down many times
by the comicalities produced, especially the
''orator" of the evening. They had 4 good
house, as they well deserved.