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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-08-19
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
CHESS BY CABLE.

The Philadelphia Chess Club has recent
ly received a challenge from the Union
Club of Havana for a matched game to be
played by cable. The conditions of the
match are that two games shall be played
simultaneously; that the answers to each
others moves shall be given within twenty
four hours following the receipt of the tel
egram; the expenses of kilograms to be
paid for by the losing side, and the losing
side to present to the winners symbolic
object of art worth at least 800 in gold.
The match must be played accord
ing to the rules usual in match
games. Although the challenge has
not yet been officially submitted to the
club by its president, Mr.. d. NJ. Martinez,
to whom it was addressed, yet there is no
doubt that the arrangements for the match
will be completed as soon as the pending
engagements by cable with the St George's
Club, of London, shall have been played
and completed. The St. Georges, it is
said, have favorably received the aviation
to match game sent some weeks ago by
the Philadelphia club. The Philadelphia
Chess Club vanquished every other club
with which it has had a contest in this
country, and in the coming contest with
the St. Georges it will aspire to the cham
pionship of England and America.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
FRESH FASHION MOTIFS.

Tussore silks command good price anG
find a ready market.
Worth is still using MAY" velvet for his
summer nantes.
Ladies that can afford it are wearing
white satin morning robes.
The sagging Louis XIV. puffs are seen
Cd imported grenadine toilets.
Awning striped skirts are worn under
tunics of blue and olive green flannel.
White costumes are worn upon the street
and in all public places in the country.
The latest poke bonnets show signs Of
assuming the proportions of the towering
scoops of 1895.
New French costumes show combina-
ton of pale mauve silk and sage green sat-
in Merveilleux, brocaded with gold
A new Jersey" is imported made of
chenille network, with fine rubber in the
meshes, causing it to fit the figure as close
y as the silk webbing used to last win
ter.
Immense Vatican fans made of cretonne
are now exhibited in the shop windows,
and are made to match in colers and de-
signs the bright cretonnes, foulards, Pom
padour cambrics and other gay summer
dress fabrics.
A lady artist IN New York is painting
some exquisitly beautiful pinafores, tab
Tiers and panels of white, tinted and black
satin, with shoulder capes and satin round
hats to match for the especial use of some
of New York's society" ladies who are to
give garden parties at Newport.
Pretty hats for the country are made in
the ''Niniche" shape-slantfng down in
front over the face. They are fashionably
made of the coarse porcupine straw in car
dinal or gold, and are trimmed with an
enormous Alsacian bow of surah placed on
the crown toward the front of the hat
The brim is lined with a shirred trimming
to match
A stylish hat in the modified Marie
Stuart shape is made of maroon straw,
a fine English braid, lined with shirred sat
in of darker color, and bordered with a
tiny gold passementerie. The outside is
trimmed with satin scarf of the deep ma
room color shot with gold, and wreath
of gold-hearted peoples. shading from a
deep crimson to a pale flesh tint.
The costliness and variety of ladies' hose
is daily becoming more marked. The very
last thing in this direction is to wear a
stocking of one color on one foot, and a
contrasting one on the other-for instance,
black silk stocking on the right foot and
cardinal one on the left; or one of pale
blue with another of gold color. This
fashion seems to be more suggestive of
gaudy clown at a circus performance than
anything else
With high bodices this season, tulle
ruches or null puffs are more fashionable
than crepe lisse ruffies. If slightly opened
the bodice is accompanied by a deep Stuart
collar edged with lace, and cuffs to match
put on over the sleeve. If cut Pompadour
the open square is filed up with finely
shirred chemisette of French null finished
with full ruche. A great deal of lace is
worn about the throat and wrists, and the
corsage boquet is still the favorite adjunct
Of all summer toilets, however simple.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

The State Of Maine lately had sincere
and devoted temperance man who like his
Incorporate neighbors has gone the way OF
all flesh. Before relinquising his hold upon
temporal affairs the man, Elliot by name,
managed to accumulate a goodly portion
of this worlds goods which he found could
not be carried with him ON his last jour
ney. He consequently made a last will
and testiment that shows him to be unwil-
ling to assist any after him who did not
follow in his temperate footsteps.
He left a large estate to his several sons,
but coupled the legacy with the provision
that any one of the legatees would be de-
barred from taking possession of the prop
erty if he either drank liquor Of any de-
scription, or chewed or smoked tobacco.
1t is needless to remark that there was no
wake" at his funeral, nor do the heirs en-
JOY the pleasures of the injurious and ban
ished weed
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
MIDNIGHT SUN.

The Hon. S. S. Cox has been away up to
the North Cape, Lapland and saw the sun
shining at 2 o'clock in the morning-in
fact, all night long if such a term as
night can be applied to period when the
sun Is shining. He writes thus of his eX-
perience:
We have made many sacrifices to see this
remarkable performance of our luminary.
Not that either of us was over-anxious to
find land where sunset did not occur.
We had hoped that there was no realm in
this or the future existence where
Sunset might not come. But /
may be allowed to remark that have borne
the sobriquet of 'tSunset" for SO many
years, and it has sounded with such sweet
sibilation, that had come to believe that
had sort of fee simple in its foeric land
with its gorgeous palaces and Handicapped
towers. And must l now be disenchanted?
Do live, and is sunset no more? Do l
see country where the sun is going
going down amid mise en- scene equal. if
not superior, to that Ohio evening, years
ago, which l tried to portray with my poor
men-and yet it does not go down?
Was it not enough that for ten
long days, or day, there was no night TO
us, and that the sun, by gliding and glow
ing in the north without a respite had dis
tubed our customary experiences? The re-
action might be too sudden. The failure
of our old orb to set might-well, there is
no telling the cataleptic and other dire
But here was the patent
fact ! Here was clouds and lights, all the
hues of the prism in splendid display, and
yet no sunset after all The setting and
unsuitable sum- Midnight, and yet light
all aglow! No gas, no candles, no stars,
no moon-only the fiery orb and his "trail
ing clouds of glory
The sensation was as new as it was hui
initiating to my amour propre. recalled
the words of Yankee character:
Its reilly affectin' to think how little
these ere folks is missed that's Sc much sot
by. There amt nobody, eff they's ever so
important, but what the world gets to GO
in on without 'em, pretty much as it did
with 'em, though there's some little furry
at first"
How much can be done, after all, in
nature and in science art, and government,
without US. Governments will run, men
and women dance, trade proceed, without
sunset
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

The telegraph companies are enjoying
little municial authority. The city coun'
Gil of Chicago has ordered the telegraph
companies to carry their wires underground
instead of allowing the wires to be suspen-
ded above the streets. The date for such
change is September list, and in case the
companies refuse to obey the order, the city
authorities viii declare the poles and con-
comitant wires nuisance and proceed to
abate the same.
In a large city the wires are more or less
of nuisance which could readily be avoided
by running them beneath the surface.
The public viii watch the contest in
Chicago with great interest.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
Saturday. August 40. 1851

The late census report on the fuel of the
country states that four fifths of the fuel is
wood and one fifth coal, with small guam
titles of hay, cornstalks and corn used in
some regions Since 1912 the production
of coal has risen from 100000 tons to
100000 tons, and from producing then
one twenty-fifth of the entire quantity
mined in the world, the United States now
turn out nearly one fourth. Of the coal
mined, 2e, 4O0,000 tons are anthracite and
1O,000,0 900 tons are bituminous. The
chief consumption of coal lies in the large
cities, in the coal regions of Pennsylvania
and Ohio and in northern Indiana. In the
rest of the country the use of wood pre-
ponderates. In New England, wood is
found to be almost entirely used in north
ern Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire
Coal is in use on the coast of Maine, and
in Connecticut the use of the two fuels is
about equally divided.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

had no means of knowing it to be true, but
every reason TO believe that it was untrue,
Mr.. Arthur is a Republican,; no one has
ever questioned his devotion to Republic
can doctrines, and that he will carry out
the Republican principles of his predeces-
sor il he should be called to the head of
affairs, no one can fairly doubt. The sus-
picion that one worthy of this high office,
as we believe General Arthur is worthy, is
engaged in specializing upon what he will
do with few petty offices in case great
misfortune should befall his chief is wor-
thy only Of very small head and heart.
We venture to say, if General Arthur had
done precisely what the paper which thus
assails him denounces him for not doing
that paper would have been among the
first to declare that he was trying to rob
the President of his prerogative, and as
sumo powers which did not belong to him.
Certainly no one could have behaved with
more dehcaey than has the Vice President
so far. Why not treat him with common
courtesy which should prevail among gen
tlemen, and which is characteristic of fair
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

laugh III the United States language and
passed on to an elderly. man, thinking the
boy lied. Another robber asked the boy
the same question; and receiving the same
answer, laughed as did his eofIlrade. FL
nally the chief called Malek to him and
asked what he had. The boy replied:
II have already told two of your people
that ! have ten dinars sewed up in my
gray clothes"
The chief ordered his clothes to be rip
ped open and found the money.
and how" he asked, 'came you to tell
this %
Because" replied the boy, II would
not be false to my mother. whom solemn
ly promised to never tell lie"
law, cheese that I" the robber chief re-
piled; that's too diaphanous, STRIPPING; it
won't laundry. Stand him on his head,
fellows, and tap him for all he's worth
So the robbers stood Malek on his head,
and pounded the soles of his feet with the
bastiHados until he disgorged from various
secret pockets, belts, double soies, and
from the straw and cushions of the coach,
125 dinars, gold watch, lot of Erie
stock, seven railroad passes, some promis-
sorry notes, new derringer, photographs
of Mrud Granger and Sarah Bernhardt, a
marked poker deck. flask of Old Cabinet
whisky, some chewing tobacco, diamond
pin and blood-stone ring. package of
counterfeit los, and slug-shot. They
then cut off his neck and tossed him over
into the canyon.
THAT" said the robber chief, as he
pocketed the bulk of the swag, will teach
him to keep his promise to his mother the
next time. Always play awful close on a
man who tries the honesty lay on a road
agent. - Burlington Hdsokeye.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
Vice President Arthur certainly is not i

Vice President Arthur certainly is not in
a position to give general satisfaction, even
to his party, for it is well known that he
represents one faction of the republican
party and not the whole organization.
His conduct has been severely censured
by some of the administration papers who
claim that it is his duty to be at the execu-
tive mansion, ready and willing to assist
the president in fact as well as in theory
A New York paper takes him to task for
not being at the bedside of the President
discharging the duties that devolve upon
him. Instead of being there" says the
newspaper, ready to assist him in the
duties of his office, anxious to relieve him
of every care and responsibility, he has
gone a-fishIng, with list in his pocket OF
the office holders he intends to decapitate
as soon as the telegraph informs him that
the President has breathed his last IF a
public document has to be signed, the Pres
ident is lifted up from his dying couch, a
doctor reads over the paper to him, and
his scrawling signature is with difficulty
affixed, the effort bringing on another
attack of fever.
The Chicago Inter Ocean thus replies:
The talk about list of oflice-holders in
the pocket of the Vice President is a shame
ful and malicious fling at General Arthur,
which his quiet and modest bearing have
not deserved. The newspaper making it
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
Gath is authority for the subjoin

Gath is authority for the subjoined
statement, which shows on the face of it
that there is some truth in his conclusions !:
"The United States has been a vast
Credit Mobilier for the construction of
everything without the least regard to
perinanence of ownership or control /
was told yesterday that the new telegraph
company which Jim Keene has put out as
construction company, has been leased,
the right of building the telegraph at $500
per mile, whereas it cost only 800 per
mile to put up poles and wires. There is
a job of $500 per mile at the outset. On
the other hand, Keene's supporters say
that Jay Gould's different railroads and
other enterprises cost him only $780,,
900, 000 and he now has them capitalized
at S500,000,000, putting at par stocks
which he bought at five cents on the
dollar"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
A PERSIAN LEGEND-REvIsED VERSION

When Malek ell Abb left the home of his
childhood that he might go West and salt
a mine and grow up with the country af-
ter unloading upon some smart fellows
down in the provinces, his mother gave
him for pieces of silver, and made him
promise never to tell a lie. go, my son, .
she said in voice husky with hairpins;
.'go; we may never met again. and if we
do, | win probably be married before you
come back and it wouldn't be pleasant for
you to live at home and have to call some
square headed old multi Pa
The youth went, and the party he trav-
eled with was assaulted by road agents.
who shot the driver, cut open the mail
bags, blew open the express box, and went
through the passengers, When one of the
robbers asked the boy how much he had,
he replied with surprising candor:
Il have ten dinars sewed up in my gar
ments"
The robber laughed hoarse gutteral
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
Chancery Notice.
sI Rocs f HE an5t oouSrr. IS

STATE OF ILLINOIS. "a
Rock ISLAND COUNTY,
In the Circuit Court, to the September term, 1851
John B. Smith, We. Mary A. SIN thin Chancery.
Affieayit of the non residence of Mar A. Smith
the above defendant. having been filed in the
Clerks Office of the Circuit Court OF said County
notice is therefore hereby given TO the said nom
resident defendant that the complainant filed his
bill of complaint in said Court, on the char Gerry
side thereof. en- the 2and day of July, 1851. and
that thereupon Summons issued out of said Court
wherein said suit is now pending. retarnable
the first Monday 10 the month of September next.
a. is by law required. Now, unless you. tue said
non-resident defendant above named. shall per
soaally be and appear before said Circuit Court on
the first day of the next term thereof, TO be holden
at the Court House, in and for the sald county.
the first Monday in the month of Sep ember next.
and plead, answer demur TO the said complain-
ants bill Of complaint. the same and the matters
and things therein cha. sed and stated will be ta-
ken confessed, and decree entered agafnst ron
according to the prayer Of said bill
Z. f. HARSoN. Clerk
Rock Island. Ills, JuIy z2nd, 1881.
II. II. CoRRx7. Comps Sol. 7-a7d4w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
WOMEN GAMBLING AT SARATOGA,

A letter in the New York World from
Saratoga says: One of the recent amuse-
ments of a group of ladies at the Grand
Union has been buying French pools on
the daily races. They do not go to the
track, but meet in the reception room and
agree on the horse They admit they
starcely know horse from a mule,
but are governed by their intuition.
Rather, this secret power resides in
one little lady who takes the
days programme and selects the horse
She does not select the favorite. That
she says, would be using her judgement,
and she has creates faith in her intuition.
She selects the horse and the other ladies
buy, and the ticker sends them the results
while they nurse their excitement in the
reception room during the races The
strangest part is that SO far she has not
made any mistakes, and the ladies are
radiant over their successes. The ladies
who do not buy amuse themselves by pick
ing out the winners aud choosing the COM
bination. One of these the other day
chose a successful combination, which, if
see had bought would have brought her
81, 500, Naturally she can but regard
it as the lost opportunity of her
life. Others are governed by signs and
omens. One lady rose disheartened be-
cause she dreamed she was going to be
surprised. Another, having bought pool
on Saunterer, grieved that she could see
no malformed person to touch, as that
would surely bring luck, and insists now
that the omission caused her to lose her
money. The prospect of seeing Hindoo
running filed the stand with a fiuttering
crowd, and the ladies were catching at
every familiar face for points. The result
has been amusing, and somewhat dampen-
ed their confidence in the judgment of their
male friends, as in the first race the dark
horse came in with high-paying pools that
would have bought a summer dress, and
their money is on the fayorite.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

The New York San claims to have
authority for the statement that Conkling
will attend the forth coming republican
state convention of New York as delegate
and will lead the stalwart faction to victory
or to death
1t is also stated that an effort will be
made to have as many stalwarts delegates
as possible, as in case of a vote, numeri-
cal strength is very useful.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
The republican papers of New York are

The republican papers of New York are
all bowling themselves hoarse to the effect
that the Hon.S.J Tilden is about to capture
the state democracy. Admitting such to be
the case, which is, not at all probable, the
republicans will then have to compete
against perfect organization and the bari
in addition to the disaffection which already
marks their own party.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

Senator Dawes gives it as his opinion that
the spoils and degenerate public office
system can not be abolished by statue
of Congress. Yet, this is the same person
who, when officiating as a member of the
lower house, was an enthusiast over the
plan of reconstructing the south by the
same process, a statute.
Dawes gathers experience as he. increases
in wears
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
Chancery Notice.

| STATE OF ILLINOIS, a.
Rock ISLAND COUNTY,
In the Circuit Court. to the September term, A. d.
1881.
Christine Naramore, W. Henry Naramore.-In
Chancery. @ tr
The above named defendant, Henry Haramore,
will take notice that the above named complainant
Christine Naramore, has flied in said Court her bill
OF complaint against you for divorce. that the
above entitled cause Ii now pending In ssid Court
that summons In chancery has been Issued In
ssid cause against you, returnable on the FIRST day
OF the next term Of said Court, TO be begun and
holden at the Court House. in the city of Rock Isl
and, In said county, on the first Monday Of Sep
TENDER, A. d. 1881, at which time and place you
will appear.
Dated at Rock Island. Ills July 81, 1881.
LEVI r.. HARSON,
STURGEON q OLSEN, Clerk of said Court
Compi'ts Solicitors. 2ad4W
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

Bradlaugh, the Englishman, about whose
expulsion from the House of Commons so
much has been said, is not an ATHEIST in
the ordinary acceptation of that term.
His theology is: 81 neither assert nor de-
ny that there is God, but simply suspend
nv Judgment"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

A new religious sect has been discoV
cred in the suburbs Of Chicago. They call
themselves the tout Corners and believe
in personal inspiration, direct communi-
cation with the Supreme Being, literal
translation of the Scripture as applied to
earthly affairs and the universal salvation
of all, including the devil himself.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20

Sixty four brass bands will compete for
prizes at Hartford next week. The proba-
bilities are that the Atlantic States will
suffer from wiadstorms, and even lorna
do may make itself felt in the land
The originator of the contest probably
has some old grudge against Hartford, else
why should he have selected that city.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-20
Chancery Notice.
sTATR OF ILLINOIS,

CIAIE OF 1LL1NOlS,
Rock Island COUNTY. (ss
In the Circuit Court, September term, 1881.
Hattie 5. Slaughter, We. Ernest @. Slaughter-in
ChaDcery
Affidavit of the nou-residencc OF Ernest G.
slaughter, the above defendant, having been hle9
in the CLERKS Office Of the Circuit Court OF sald
county, notice Is therefore hereby given 10 the
said non resident defendant that the complainant
FLED her bill of complaint in said Court, on IIe
ehancery side thereof the 26th day OF July lo5li
and that thereupon summons issued out Of snIo
Court, wherein said snit liz now pending, retur1a
BILE the hrst Monday In the month OF Septenl4ges
next, ie by law required Now, unless you, lI9 nj
eaid nonresident defendant above named, sDsn
personally be and appear before said Circuit Cou,.
on the first day Of the next term thereof, 70 "
holden at Rock Island in and for The said co1n q
on the frst Monday in September next, and plSA ~
anawer or demur TO the said comDainants oli! 0s
complaint, the same and the matters ana tnl nng
therein charged and stated will be taken as SD
Tessed. and deere entered against you accoroiHs
to the prayer Of said bill ,,,..L
Rock Island. Ill. July 20, 1881. o..,,.
3. y, BRILL, Compgs Sol. f-~oO1"