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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31
FOUND.

FOUND.
EOUND-A bunch Of keys on the II. Il. track near
IL Milan. Owner can have same by calling st
this office and pa ing for notice.
EOUND-A necklace; inquire at the Gerlr
9 newspaper Office corner Of Seventeenth street l-
Second avenue.
EOUND-A bunch of keys, evidently beOHg
Il to railroad man; the owner can receive y
same by calling at the Argus counting room.
EOUND-An Amethyst Necklace. which Cs1 Z
Il found at p Fries q Co. liquor store.
LOST.
T OST-A package addressed TO r. D. Jeunilsi
IL Milwaukee. Wis. VIII finder please leave 81 n
office. II. B. butcher.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31
WORKING MEN

WILL find 10 ride tickets good between Roc
Wv Island and Moline on sale al the C. g. 4 Q
Ticket Ofice, at 50 cents each.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31
DR.. RadwaV'S
REGULATING PILLS

Perfect Purgatives, Soothing Aperients. Act
without Pain, always Reliable and Nat
ural In their Operation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31
TO LOAN.

TO You want to sell out cheap, borrow moneyo
~ collaterals or eel secured or unsecured note,
if 60 address In confidence Lock BOX No. $751; Rod
Ialand. Ills.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31

FOR SALE.
DOR SALE-Potatoes, Apples, Onions, Oats arl
II Corn by the bushel or car load. Butter BY III
frkin. Thos. O'Shaughnessy, 7th and HsHisol
streets, Davenport, Iowa
ESOR SALE.-Minnesota Flour. Fancy Patent s. 0
II Straight, s. Is; Bakers, 81 80 per sack Long,
Boat Store, LIST Avenue,
EoR SALK-oId Newspapers, 50 cent? per hun
IL bred, at ARGUS office.
EoR sALE-A foot Metal Show Case, at Argai
Il Once.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31

w or shop, knows some about painting and ~
about horses. Address, K. G. Eldridge. ARe-l
Office.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31

lARANTED-The travelling public to know tia, N
tWMeeker House ia now ready for the aecommo5,
ton OF transients. No. III, 18th street. Term.
81 90 per day.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
From Beer to y Barony.
Utica Observer

The first English beer Lord has been
created in the person of Sir Dudley
Coutts Marjoribanks, the London brew.
er, whom Gladstone has Just made
Baron. lie is not the first brewer, how
ever, to reach the peerage, since irish
Sir Arthur Guinness, Of Dublin stout
fame, was las! year made Lord Ardilawn.
Very many English brewers. notably the
Bases, have been knighted. created
Baronets, etc, but Sir Dudley is the first
to rise to the House of Lords over the
watts. The father of this new peer was a
Scotch lad who came 10 London many
years ago with letter of introduction 10
Banker Coutts, setting forth the merits
OF the bearer and urging that he be APP
pointed to place in one of the East
Indian branches of the bank The old
millionaire took a fancy to the boy and
asked him one day, What would you
say to entering my counting-room here,
instead Of being exiled away off IN lidiap"
The boys eyes glistcned with pleasure
as he heard these words. He staid in
London, rose TO be senior partner in the
bank and left fortune Il over e300D00.
For his son, Dudley Coutts named, we
need scarcely say, for the henefactor of
his youth-he bought a third interest
in Meux's brewery in London, an inter
est which has been worth for many years
quite 100000 per annum. The new
Peer has been more celebrated for the
profuseness Of his hospitality and the
aristocratic tendencies of his family than
for his abilities. His Hyde Park man
sion is one Of the finest in London, and
his eldest son married the Duke Of MARI
borourh's daughter, while his eldest
daughter is wife of the blue-blooded
John Campbell Gordon, Earl of Aber-
deen. The brewer is now ~ completely
merged into nobility as is possible, and
doubtless trusts that few generations
OF titled ease will wash away every taint
OF plebian trade from his escutcheon.
But long before the Majorbanks reach
this exotic state the plain people of Great
Britain will probably have soured upon
the whole system Of fLords.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
How q Fog whistle Works.
Hartford Times

The fog whistle, heard afar for ten
miles, consists of two distinct whistles,
operated by two engines in building
separate from the lighthouse. Fifty
pounds of steam is the force carried
while at work. Every blast lowers the
mark four pounds Shavings and kin
ding wood are laid all ready to start up
steam when fog comes OH, and the
engineer can heat up for work in thirty
five minutes.
The whistle gives blast Of eight sec
onds duration every minute--a doleful
sound, but invaluable to steamers and
passing sailing vessels. We could hear
1t the other night booming dismally
through fog, five miles of. The cap
tain starts it when the fog is such that
he can't see Goose Island, one mile dis
cant.
The whistle is produced by wheel
with q cam affixed; the wheel, solid
piece Of work, regulated by governor,
revolves once a minute; the cam fixed at
one point on its periphery, opens a pipe,
which lets off steam in the prolonged
booming wall we had heard.
To supply water, for steam, big tank
unde' the same roof, and supplied by
the rain from it. is kept pretty full. For.
ty feet long by eighteen wide and six
deep; it is not likely to run dry in any
fog; but q caloric engine and pump at
the well will supply water in case of
emergency.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Capital Going south.
Atlanta Constitution.

Touching the enormous amount of
money now seeking Southern invest
ment Gen. Logan, of Virginia, whe was
one of the pioneers in attracting capital
southwark, said;
About three years ago | went into the
first railroad movement with which /
was ever connected ! had for years
been paying especial attention TO rail-
road law, and was called on for an opin-
ION concerning some bonds of the Peters.
burg and Weldon Road little branch
enterprise in which some Richmond
men had invested. | soon saw that the
safest course Of procedure was to buy up
certain bonds, and ! thought could
raise the money to do 80. 1t only re-
quired about $50 900. and | went to New
York to see about it. The bonds were
offered for sl5 on the sl00 and yet
found more trouble in getting the money
TO buy them, 80 great was the fear and
distrust that Northern capital had of
Southern investment, than | found few
weeks ago in raising millions of dollars
in New York with which TO organize the
extension company that has the contract
for building the Georgia Pacific. II is
very much easier now to raise million
dollars in New York for Southern in
vestment than it was three years ago to
raise fifty thousand dollars. Instead Of
the distrust and fear that formerly ex-
listed there is now actual eagerness to
get Southern investment, the eagerness
being based on the belief that there is a
great margin for development in the
South, and on the success that has at
tended investments already made there
To show you to what low pitch South
ern securities were reduced through lack
of confidence among Northern capitalists
and lack of money in the South, the very
bonds that went begging for SIS three
years ago. and that could hardly raise
money to buy at that figure, have since
sold at $3.50. The South has needed
capital wofully, aud has been calling for
it for years. At last it is coming, and
coming in millions. IF the Southern
people will only meet it in spirit of
fairness, give it hearty welcome rather
than distrust and suspicion, and offer it
a fair chance rather than prescribe and
outlaw it, there is decade of develop
ment and prosperity ahead of the South
that she little dreams of. Capital has
been all that she needed, and this she is
now getting"
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
The Fate of Genius.

That often ii is the fate of worth 10
struggle in poverty against numberless
obstacles, and to not unfrequently die Of
virtual hunger and in absolute beggary,
is no better illu trated than in the case
of Robert Burns, and yet for nearly a
hundred years have Numerous publish
ers been enriched by the fruits of his
genius. Recently collection of eight of
his manuscript poems and letters were
sold in Edinburgh for f2l0 los cd, some.
thing over thousand dollars. An origi-
nal copy of Holy Willie's Prayer" on
three pages of foolscap D, brought e3l los,
or one hundred and fifty dollars, and yet
we find him on his death bed, writing
imploring letters, beseeching the loan of
five pounds TO save him fr ON the hor-
rors of Jail. Is it not a shame that
genius must starve to death before our
eyes, to win an Immortality which prin-
cipally enriches others? Why is it that
toll. fast and privation, the vigil Of the
soul cannot have its reward? If those
departed can look down upon the
narrow sowls who thrive by their loss
and can leok back to the past, and
work their own struggles against an
unappreciative world must it not seem
a mockery TO them how they, who strove
in beggary, woe and sorrow against fate,
are now idolized and cheated by those
who cared not for them when living, and
are apparently glad that they are dead.
What is it to unhappy Poe that Boston
and New York build monuments to his
memory? he virtually died in the streets.
What is il to Keats, in his long sleep
under the soft skies of Italy, that new
edition of his poems is coming out in
London? Whilst he lived that same
London made his name reproach. Did
il profit Chatterton, that marvellous
boy," that the world sang his praises
after he had killed himself at nineteen,
TO escape ridicule and starvation? Henry
kirke White died young, having had
nothing bat apples of Sodom wherewith
TO support life, and won an Immortality
TO enrich yulture public. Is it indeed
forever true that loss of one is another's
gainp" Whilst these lived they could
barely exc out miserable existence, but
dead. they are immortalized Would it
not have been better to have assisted
them while living than to deplore them
dead What is it to them, under the
sod, that their memory lives when they
perished mserably Correggio, the
painter, died of hunger, yet his work ex-
lists, and is worth thousands 10 Others.
What does it profit him? Are his bones
the happier
1t is also the fate, not only Of those
who posses the divine soul" but Of all
who toll earnestly and steadfastly, TO
have their motive misconceived, names,
traduced, and holiest aspirations mock
ed. 1t would seem that we should be
first and constantly appreciated at home,
by the freside circle, but who Of all
great geniuses has ever found 1t so ?
Those Of our immediate acquaintance
can it seems appreciate worth from afar
of. since II costs them nothing, but to
those at home they say naught unless it
be 10 mock. They expect sympathy for
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Kepl.vining u wife.
Saginaw News

Recently Dell Wright, Of Otscg,
county, married young daughter of A..
NJ. Randolph. She claimed to have
Wright and his Friends, and in less than
an hour after the ceremony was per-
formed the young bride struck out for
her fathers house, declaring that she
would never live with him.
The husband sought legal advice from
an attorney at Gaylord, who advised the
husband to replevin the wayward wife
Accordingly the two men proceeded TO a
justice of the peace, where Andrews I'LL
ed ont the necessary blanks. The hus-
band made oath TO them, swearing,
among other things, that the young wo
man was Of the value of 800, and did
not exceed that value, the proper goods
chattles and property of Dell Wright,
the plaintiff in the suit that she was
unlawfully detained from his possession
by A. NJ. Randolph, her father, and that
said Dell Wright was then entitled to
the possession OF her; that the said wo-
man had not been taken for any tax,
assessment or fine, etc, according to the
usual form OF afiidayits in the replevin
of property. fa
The Justice issued the writ, and it was
delivered to the under sheriff of the
county, who at once proceeded to the
fathers house, where he found the
''chattel" described in his writ of re-
plevin. The officer commanded Mr..
Randolph in the "name Of the County
Of Otsepo, Mich, by virtue of the Office
of under sheriff thereof, TO surrender
the wife of Dell Wright" After con-
siderable remonstrance on the part of
the young wife and her father, the officer
seized "the property named" and duly
delivered it TO Mr.. Wright, 20 miles dis
tant from where he made the seizure.
and received his fees, amounting TO SIS.
Whereupon Mrs. Wright informed her
better half that she was free born and
half white, and was going home, and
started again for her fathers house on
foot. She was recaptured on the way by
the officer, but managed again TO escape,
and finally reached her1father's house
once more. Not eontented with her
escape, she has employed Messrs. Holden
q Kendrick, Of this city, to sue the un.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
The Production of Cotton.
New York Times.

According to the census bulletin COW
ering that subject, Mississippi, with 9j5.-
sos bales, stands at the head Of the cot
ton States in respect to quantity of cot
ton grown, the figures obtained in June
of last year, OF course, referring TO the
crop OF 1879. Georgia stands next, with
Sl4 AL bales; then Texas. Alabama and
Arkansas; 1900 bales were grown in In
dian Territory. In area cultivated Geor-
sia leads, Alabama and Texas following
In production per acre Missouri leads
then cyme Louisiana, Arkansas and Ken.
tucky. In Mississippi. which leads as
to quantity produced, the colored popu-
lation is to the white, roughly speaking,
as 10 65 to AZ; in Georgia, which ranks
second. il il a. ~ TO 81; bpt this appar-
ent ratio between cotton product and
colored population fails in case of ether
States, for South Carolina. where the coll
ored is as 80 to 80, ranks sixth as 10 pro-
duct, and Texas, where it is as 80 to 10,
ranks third. In all bnt two cases-these
being Mississippi and Arkansas, where
the ratio is two thirds to three-fourths of
a bale per head-the production through
the cotton belt proper approximates half
bale ,of AIS pounds each per head Of
total population; but, as is indicated by
the statement made Just above, no obvi-
GUS deduction can be drawn by compar-
ing through all the States, the total pro-
duct with the number of colored popula-
ton or with their ratio to the total, al
though detailed comparisons by counties
may perhaps show some conclusions
hereafter. Mississippi, sixth in popula-
ton and first in quantity Of product,
shows 81 Of bale per head, being frst
in this respect AZ well, although eighth
in quantity per acre. Georgia is behind
her neighbor on either hand, yet her re-
lative position is made high by thrift and
better cultivation. TexaS stands elev-
enth in point Of product per acre, but
this is attributed to the special dryness
ofthe season of 1879, by which the back
uplands soil in that State is particularly
affected. In the Carolinas the product
per acre is very high, and the increased
use of fertilizers goes far TO account for
it, these two States having been the first
to place cotton growing upon perma-
nent foundation by adopting system Of
regular returns to the soil. Missouri
stands first in point Of product per acre,
but her small crop Of less than 10000
bales per acre is grown on picked soil,
being almost exclusively on the lowlands
in the southeastern corner Of the State.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
Amovicnn sardiues.

The transformation of the menhaden
into American sardines, which at one
time was carr ed on the shores OF New
York Bay, does not seem TO have proved
a commercial success. But Mr.. {. Ii q.
Hovey describes in the Scientific 4meri-
can some sardine factories on the coast
of Maine, where the young Of the herring
is likely to meet with more popular IA
vor than fell to the lot of the common
moss bunker. The process Of manufac-
turing these American sardines is as fol-
lows.
The small herring are caught in weirs
built among the small islands and in es-
tuaries, and it is Of the first importance
TO get the fish 10 the factories in the
quickest time possible. For this reason,
and also because Of the large number of
boats employed, steam tugs are used for
towing the dories in. On arriving at the
works the boats are unloaded, the fish
are thoroughly washed in pure spring
water and carefully sorted. All that are
bruised or injured in any way are thrown
out, the larger herring are packed in
barrels for other purposes, while the
smallest only are placed on long tables,
where their heads and tails are cut of
and they are properly cleaned. All the
refuse is ground up for pomace and used
for fertilizing; hence nothing goes to
waste.
From the cutting sheds the herring are
passed into the fake room, where they
are salted and laid singly on wooden
flakes, and after dripping they are passed
into the drying room, where they are
dried on racks, along which the flakes
are arranged, machinery being used ad.
mitting hot and cold air. These flakes
covered with the dry fish next go to the
drying room, where they are placed in
large shallow pans of boiling oil. Again
they are assorted, and only such as are
properly cooked are kept and carefully
laid in cans and scaled, small orifice is
made to let cut superhuous steam, and
then, thus prepared, they go into the
bath room, where large tank filed with
boiling water receives them. On being
removed the orifce is soldered, and each
can is critically examined for leaks, the
rejected cans being returned for proper
treatment, while the perfect ones are
sent to the cleaning room, where, upon
large box-like tables covered with saw
dust, the cans are cleansed and polished.
Having undergone final inspection,
they are sent TO the packing room, where
they are packed, 100 boxes in each case,
and thence shipped to market.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08

themselves, but have none for others,
regarding them geherally as mechanics
wherewith 10 obtain money TO CRAFTY
their own selfish and dnarrow-minded pur-
poses Should, however, worth triumph
at last, they are the first to claim the
honor for the family" and congratulate
themselves that such and such a great
man, or woman was, or is, as the case
may be, related to them. Shame upon
such, and cling TO them for ever like the
Old Man Of the Sea! II earnest, untir-
ing merit does not deserve encourage
ment at first, it has little need Of idola-
try when the heart that beat in sorrow
Is still, the mind that struggled in dark
ness against despair, quenched, and the
soul that wept with sighs that never
found the lips in its lifelong vigil passed
out into the light or shadow Of the un-
fathomed evermore.
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
A Japanese Probl' m.
New York Tribune.


The Japanese authorities have a
troublesome question to face. II is the
custom in kuikui to disinter and wash
the skeletons of the dead on the third
anniversary of their decease, but Kuikui
was decimated Ey the cholera in 1879,
and il is feared that opening the graves
of the victims will produce another epi-
demic Yet" says the Japan Mail, "to
forbid the thing by edict would have
pretty much the same effect as to make
waking corpses a criminal act in Ire
land" Oddly enough, the steamer
bringing the issue of the Japan NAL in
which this observation is made also
brought late number OF the St James
Gazette, containing the following para
graph: "a statement made at the meet
ing OF the Toxteth Board of Guardians
the other day once more shows how de.
sirable il is that some steps should be
taken to put a stop deciseively to the
very Objectionable gatherings among the
Irish known as wakes The clerk to
the guardians reported that one of the
parish officers, while searching for man
who had deserted his wife and family,
went 10 house where wake was GO
ing on. On opening the door of room
only six feet by twelve in size, a horri-
BILE spectacle met his eyes. A number of
persons were lying on the floor Of the
gloomy and narrow den dead drunk,
while others not yet reduced TO this con-
dition were waking the body, which
was propped upright between two chairs
The spectacle. said the officer, was one
of the most dreadful he had ever wit
messed. Such scenes are. however, it is
10 be feared, but too common in the dis
tricts inhabited by the Irish poorer
classes, and the sooner wakes with ia sir
attendant horrors, are suppressed the
better"
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
A ROMANCE.

A calm. delightful autumn night,
A moons mysterious golden light
A maiden at her window height
lnrobes ofpure and ieecy white.
The little wicket gate ajar,
lover tripping from afar.
With tuneflil voice and light guitar.
To WOO his radiant guiding star.
A lutte with son. insidi9us twang-
Obi but how the doting lover sang
A bull dog, with q remorseless fang,
A nip. q grip, q deadly rang.
A maiden with a startled glance.
A shrieking for deliyerance;
A kind OF weird, hilarious dance.
A pair Of riven dosskln pants
A maiden fasniing with alright,
A lover In a sickening plight
A bulldog chnckling with delight
A wild. deliri0us autumn night,
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
der sheriff, justice and attorney for
SIS, 900 damages.
The Use Of Cosmetics.
ST Louis spectator.


IL is the rule to decry the use of cos
me tics and to make sweeping condem.
nation of their use, but anything which
has had such continued and universal
practice as the enhancement of female
charms by this means, must have the
germ of good in it somewhere. OF course
no one denies that it is stupid and
shortsighted policy TO eat arsenic in or.
der to improve the eomplexion-that is,
if the person possesses the natural de-
sire to enjoy the good things Of life until
the allotted three-score years and ten
but it, being convinced that woman,
once her beauty has taken unto itself
wings, no longer has mission to fulfil,
and she would be wise TO develop angel
pinions, and soar away after her depart.
ed charms, then fail to perceive any
special improperly in the hazardous
practice, and the fair lady has the COM
fort of knowing that if by chance che
should swallow grain or two too much
she will at least make handsome corpse.
and make her exit from the stage the
envy of all her dear female friends.
As a pretty woman, slightly ON the
wane, it must be admitted, remarked to
me not long since, what are We to do?
We must get the best of these audacious
wears somehow 1t is all very well to
say. Don't use cosmetic, they will ruin
your complexion What il your COM
plexion is already ruined by Times mer-
ciless claw, and horrid, sooty, dirty at
mosphereg Must not one repair the
ravages? Must one sit hopelessly by and
because of possible consequences which
exist doubtless only in some croaking
doctors imagination, see bevy Of litter
ing, but satin-skinned girls of sixteen,
appropriate the compliments and ad-
miring glances which erstwhile were
yours? Never, as am woman New
er, so long as box of pearl powder and
bit of chamois skin remain in the landl
IL is only the weak minded and tactess
members of our sex, who, in their ambi-
tious efforts to rival the lily and rose
combined, o'erleap themselves and ap.
pear as in plaster of Paris mask the
ridcule of their own sex as well as Of
the other"
The Osceola times., 1881-10-08
A Goosi Houssuiie.

The good housewife, when she is giving
her house its spring renovating, should
bear in mind that the dear inmates Of her
house are more precious than many houses,
and that their systems need cleansing by
purifying the blood, regulating the stom.
ach and bowels to prevent and cure the dis
eases arising from spring malaria and
mssma, and she must know that there is
nothing that will do 1t so perfectly and
surely as Hop Bitters, the purest and best
Of medicines. s.-ConoOrd ". n. Patriot.