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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-27

A NEAT CMcuLArIoS.-Tennyson
can take a worthless sheet OF paper aud
by writing o poem on il make il worth
5000. That's genius. MIR. Wander
bit can write fewer words on similar
sheet and make il worth $50 000, geo.
That's capital. And the United States
Government can take an ounce and a
quarter OF gold and stamp upon Il an
'Eagle-bIrd and Twenty Dollars.
That's money. The mechanic can lake
the material worth $50 and make il into
a watch worth 500. That's skill.
The merchant can take an article worth
twenty-five cents and sell II TO you lor
s 100. That's business. A lady can
purchase a comfortable bonnet Tor So
but prefers TO pay 500 for one, because
ii is more stylish. That's foolishness
The ditch digger works ten hours day
and shoycls out three or four tons 81
earth for 81. That's Richmond
STATE.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-01-27
A NUMERICAL CURIOSITY. 1851
. 49,. 1919 a.. L a. - e. .-l ~ L

A NUMERICAL CURIosITY.-1s81.--
From right to left and left 10 right 1881
the present pear, reads the same
Eighteen divided by 2 gives nlne a.
quotient; 81 divided by 8 gives 0; il
divided by 8 the quotient contains s.
II multiplied BY $ The product contain,
two 9s; aud > are 8; s and | are g.
II the lS be placed under the Stand adj.
ded the sum is SO. If the figures be adj
ded, thus: i 8, 8, /, Il will give 49,
Reading from lett TO right it's is, ant
Is is two-ninths OF ST. BY adding, d.
viding and multiplying 10 s. are pro
duced, being one for each year re-
CURED complete the century.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

It 10 impossible to doubt that the outcry
raised against American meat in Germany
on the ostensible grounds of trichina,chol
era and other diseases of animals has its
real inspiration in the fear of our competi-
ton as food producers with those of the
continent. The J0aoradt des Ec0noBaistes
stated distinctly that the motive leading
the French government to prohibit the i'm
portation of American pork was protection
The German government is now being
pushed to adopt similar measures in behalf
of native industry and of home grown beet
and pork. A lecture was recently deliver
ed in Berlin by DR.. Roloff, director of the
royal veterinary school, SO sweeping in its
charges against American meat that his
hearers must have been in state of won
der that the United States have not been
depopulated long ago by the ravages OF
disease consequent upon eating their own
pork and beef. 1t is hardly doubtful that
the question of protection to home indus
try lies behind this outburst of veterinary
science Omaha Bee.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
angry

1t is sore pity how disappointments
will occur in this life, but they viii happen
in spite of us. When the news first came
of the shooting of the president, the first
reports had it that the assassin's words
were, Il am a stalwart, Garfield is deal
and Arthur is now president" and like the
old cry of le roi est mort UsUn Ee roi, it went
ringing throughout the country filling
mems souls with suspicion and their hearts
with hatred. Immediately arose the half
breed editor and with fury in his eye
and pencil in his hand, he wrote how Conk-
ling had shot the President and how the
stalwarts were to blame. But later news
is always truer news, and it now transpires
that the authority for the reported state
ment of Guiteau, was the same as that
which forced another gentleman of vivid
imagination but poor judgment, into tell
ing heroic stories of his own personal
prowess in disarming Guiteau, and fight
ing of an army of imaginary adherents.
The whole of the matter is that the story
was simply and purely lie; told for eff
feet, perhaps maliciously. At any rate il
was lie. There seems to have been a
mania among those who were present al
the shooting to lie about it, probably
through a desire to get their names mixed
up in some manner with national calami
"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
Prohibition in Kansas is AGAIN is trout

Prohibition in Kansas is again is trouble
as brough out at the recent trial of one
Law of Topeka, who had been arraigned
for selling liquor. After spending month
in securing evidence, the summoning Of
forty witnesses, and the empanelling OF !
jury of the best citizens, the prosecution
stood so barely upon nothing that the at
torney requested the judge to instruct the
jury to return verdict of not guilty.
They exhausted the first venire, composed
of the hest element, for the reason that
none could give the defendant fair trial
under the law. Liquor is sold all over the
state, and yet Iowa is going right ahead
with the same magnificent folly. 1t seems
as if some people and communities could
never learn anything.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

How the American heart beat with joy,
and the American bosom with pride,
when the members of the Cornell college
announced that they would send q crew to
England and wipe out those bloody
Britishers. But it seems as if the students
at Cornell must pay too much attention to
Latin, Greek and mathematics for they
will come home shorn. There was a great
flourish of trumpets when they went, but
they win probably come home
singly and silently, with no
noise and no eclat It seemed to us a great
shame that the stewards of the Henley re-
gatta refused at first to allow them to row,
but the country is now rather of the opin-
ion that it would have been better to have
been kept out altogether, and then come
home and brag about what they would have
done II they had been allowed to row. The
moral of the matter is that it don't pay tc
send any but our best material when we
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
Part of the Republican agonysat Albany

Part of the Republican agony at Albany
is over and the half breeds have succeeded
in eleeting one candidate. Mr.. Warner
Miller has been chosen to succeed Thos.
Plat and for many reasons the choice is q
good one. Mr.. Miller can be said to be in
full accord with the administration; or per
haps the statement had better be made
with reservation; he win be in accord
with the administration as long as the adj
ministration is in accord with him.
So long as the administration rec
ognizes that the first principle of our
pulp factories, MIR Miller will be for the
administration; but should the administra-
ton ever be so unguarded as to conceive
that the United States government was not
especially formed for the express purpose
of protecting Mr.. Millers manufactures in
their monopolies, there is apt to be trouble
Mr. Millers public life has probably been
more consistent than any other statesman
since VIM Tweed's time
Tweed never hesitated or faltered in his
course, the only thing he ever had in
view was the amount of money he could
steal and he never allowed his object in
life to escape his view. So with Miller, his
one ideaof duty to his constituents has
been his duty to himself, namely, the keep
ing up of the duty on pulp, and he has
never shirked it. In all times and at all
seasons has he been true to that one object,
the duty on pulp. No such considerations
as the good of his constituents or the
wishes of the people has ever caused him.
to waver for an instant; he looked not up
on such trifing things as the country's
good or the nations welfare His object
in life was ever before him,-the duty on
pulp must and shall be maintained. His
constancy was wonderful; it was beautiful;
it was unyielding; it was impregnable; it
was selfish.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
Notice of Final settlement.

ESTATE OF HANNAH BATTLES, Deceased
III Public Notice il hereby given that the undev-
signed. Administrator of said estate has this day
filed his final report and settlement as such II, the
County Court of Rock Island County, and that an
order has been entered by said Court approving
the said report, unless objections thereto cause
to the contrary be shown before the goth day
of July. A d 1881. and upon the final approval 81
said report the said Administ- ator will ask for an
ord Of distribution. and will also ask to be dis
charged All persons interested notified 10
attend.
Rock Island, H., July Tth, 1881.
BENJAMIN LOMBARD, JR.
Admin of estate of Hannah Battles, deceased.
SxuRaKoN s. OLSEN,
Attorneys for Estate. 7-adaw
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

believe in God and firmly trust in His overrulinE
er.-Fresident GARFIELD
II God can not put President Garfield his fee
at five minutes notice, He is no great shakes of
God after all-about as much good, should say, a
last years mullen stalk.-Bob bagsrsoH.
These sentiments are perfectly character
istic of the men who uttered them; the first
a man of elevated thought, and the other q
man of gross and groveling conceptions.
We are told that nature never produces a
poison for which it does not produce an
antidote; and the Almighty seems to have
ordained that certain infidels shall furnish
in their own persons sufficient antidote
for their atheistic mouthings. The quality
of IngersollPs infidelity is happily too course
to be contagious.-Q Quincy Wig
All of which is very orthodox and conse-
quently very true, the only trouble being
that for some reason or other, probably
from pure malignity and innate cussedness
-1ngerson persists in leading q pure and
unspotted life, and in enunciating doctrines
as to mans treatment of man that most
people are fain to confess should be carried
out 1t is another unfortunate fact
that the average unprecedented citizen
would prefer to believe IngersoH rather
than Garfield, in any conflict of veracity,
and the life of the preacher turned poli-
tician" has been far from coming up to the
standard of the ''infidel of gross and grow
cling conceptions" Ingerson is very
thoughtless of others feelings and very in
considerate in his actions; if he would on.
ly consent to be public thief and political
liar, all would be well but he insists on
pursuing course of life which is far more
spotless than that of many christians. Per-
haps that is what make so many of them
angry
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

want toIcon.pete ii fofeign markets, and
allowing Cornell to send a crew, when
either Yale. Harvard. or Columbia, could
have sent far better one with some show
of winning race, was nonsense.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

Guitteau ascribes the Presidents recov
cry to God, and says he will never try to
shoot him again. There is prevailing inn
preston abroad iu the country that he will
never get another chance; although God
would probably not interfere if he used a
better pistol.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

The Chicago papers are commenting on
the influence of heat on ST. Louis editorial
articles. It is an unfortunate fact, but hot
weather has depressing effect on both
editors and editorial articles
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
GRIEF.

EXCESSIVE ANXIETY, or PROLONGED Study
IL will will produce infirmity in the Nervous Sys-
tem In proportion as the strength of that system
expended upon the mind IN troubled thought. SO
are the organs Ct digest, n, assimilation and nu
triton render. d Inactive and sluggish in propor-
ton the system becomes infrm. Every indiYid .
ual has some one organ weaker than the rest, and
this Is always the first to suffer during nervous
prostrasioG; for example. affecting Gews some
Times causes total suspension of the muscular ac-
tiop OF the heart, producing sudden hemorrhage
and death. No doubt any longer remains of the
pract bfiify of resto ing the nervous system. and
through the nerves the muscles of the impaired
PHosPBIrEs has been proved to possess such power
in numerous instances. II will impart strength to
overcome trouble and affliction. Persons who
accustomed to look upon the dark side, and who
no pleasure In living, on using this Syrup soon
ltarn to Yalue and enjoy life, and those who study
deeply during long hours, will find in the Syrup q
lromott r Of the power of endurance in the brain.
There is no doubt OF this fact, that impai. ed
Nervous system causes Consumption. Neuralgia,
Bronchitis. Dyspepsia. Asthma, Whoopipg Cough.
Heart Disease, and host of others. FELLOWS
HYPoPHosPHIFEs, hich enectually cures Nervous
Debility. should these diseases also, IRE
move the cause aud the complaint will cease -
Hot SPRINGS, ARK. Feb. 23d, 1880.
JAMES I. FELLOWS. ST. JOHN, N B.
Dear Sir:-I have been prescribing your HYPo-
PHosPHITEs for several years, both in Canada and
the United States, but more particularly at this
famous resort for Invalids, where thousands annu-
ally congFegate, FOR those in whom the Brain and
Nervous System has been exhausted from excuses
overwofk, have found no combination of rem
tai forces hop. that every person needing relief
will ava themselves of go valuable preparation
Respectfully. ALEX. MCMAS1ER, M nj.
For eale at Harper House Drug Store.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

Our LADIES FRIEND is che most relia-
bic OF any female preparation, and only
costs City CENTS per bottle Sold by G.,
Speidel. Rock Island and Richards K
Sohrbeck, Moline.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
Read A FEW UNSOLICITED TESTTMoNIALs:

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
PEERLESS CORN STARCH.

For Ice Cream, Puddings, Blanc Mango, Etc. Il
Is the most delicious of all preparations, On ac-
count OF Its purity, eminent physicians consider Il
preferable to Bermuda Arrow Root for Chi dreI
and invalids Sold by all grocers. Samples cent
free to all.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
INFIRM RT
Permanently Established since 1885,
Home Tn5titut1on

Largest Medical institute
o1 N nedek But lin order to show the
remarkable success of her medicines, give the following
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18

- IN ID ssse lost positively be Ladies
cali wr;.e, Pleasant
sse ser ratieas book fer the nai'onNsrTage Guide
disease why
not pasare Ds James has MY and
no tho fecter Office
o M, SUNDAY ~. Dr. Janss - 60 years OF
sTAirEr2NG AND SUFFERING CURED
OH No PAY.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
MALTBY HOUSE.

The "MALTBY,'' is the only Hotel In Baltimore
conducted on both the
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLANS,
And the only Hotel in the City at popular prices
possessing all the modern improvements Including
FIRsT.cIAss PASSENGER ELEVATOR.
which will be in constant operation, making al
parts Of the house equally desirable and easy o.
access. Its location, in the commercial centre OF
the city, commends ii alike to the Commercial
Traveller the Tourist and Business men generally
RATES-&2 on and a. so per Day on the american
Plan and 81 co to 50 90 on the European.
~ Liberal deduction TO the Clergy.
3idtf e. X. HOGAN, Proprietor.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
DR.. JAMES,

2o4Washington ST.,
Cor. franklin, CHICAGO.
Chartered by the State %
Hliunis for the ex press purpose
of giving inastaesisate relief in
ziieaseso of private, chronic aud
urinary diseases in nil their
complicated forms. 1t Is well
known DR.. flames has stood at
the head Of the profession for
the past thirty years. Age
and experience are all impor-
taut. Seminal Weakness,
atghl fna~as f.s- s5-a.svt,x t.s....
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-18
aocz ISLAND Z pnoRiA RAILWAY

SHORTEST ROUTE THE AND SOUTH.
ARRIVE
100 m Way Freight
$50 : Fast Express. i2:45 m Mail and Express
lisp m Mail and Exps. 500 :. Fast Express.
$50 :" F'ht 81 Accom'n
The I 80 p m train makes close connection at
Galva with C q @ for points west: arriving at
Gaiesburg at 4:25.p m at Burlington 6 40 m at
Keokuk 1925 p In and at Quincy 0:05 m also
making close connection at Poor with B 4 W
and Il p q w roads for all points east and south.
ROCK leland D nERcER CO.. z. 4.
Leave Rock Island at 900 E. m, and 400 o m
Arriving at Gable ct II 10 o m, and 6 :15 m
leave Cable at $50 a NJ. and 80 p
Ar. at Rock Island at S:15 M, and 3:15p m
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22
Sentence of the Woman at Ga
lena who Killed Her Sedecer.

Mrs. Coleman, who has been on
trial at Galena for the murder of
George Coles at Miners theatre, in
the Bowery some months ago, was
braught before the court last week
for sentence. She has been adjudg-
ed guilty OF man slaughter in the
third degree, and ii was believed by
many that her sentence would be
made light. The court room was
filed with spectators, and there were
present the prisoners three children
and her mother. Judge Davis, in
passing sentence, said in the course
OF his remarks, after steadiastly re-
garding the prisoner for fully five
minutes alt was when your hus-
band relied upon you to guard his
health from stain and his name
from dishonor, while he was threat
ened with dangers seaman alone
can understand, that you did vii
ially become attached to a stranger
by ties which belong to your hus-
band alone. II is true, temptations
had pressed around you; that yon
had not seen your husband for some
time, but your children were suf-
ficient to restrain the animal in YOU
from revolt. Iocr case should show
how dangerous 1t is for mothers and
daughters to frequent any place OF
amusement without proper escort.
1t should warn them that at every
corner there is one individual ia the
class OF libertines who make virtue
mockery and honor by word.
Their business is to prey upon wo-
mans virtue and destroy the happi-
meas OF a life. You are now con-
Wet and your husband is heart
broken. You have had the benefit
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22

CHRISTMAS TEEEs.--In the cities
these trees can be purchased already
planted in bit of plank, and partly
decorated or entirely filed with toys,
and ready to be brilliantly lighted
at any moment. Yet in the country,
where one mast contriye, and save,
and make many of the gifts OF the
tree, and make cakes covered with
frosting and sugarplums, and drive
ont into the woods and select u suit
able tree, cnt it down and bring it
home, there is quite as much enjoy
ment in the preparation and quite IA
much real satisfaction as IN cities,
la our little city the amount of
pleasure derived from Christmas
trees, by old and young, is beyond
our telling. The preparations each
yesi by the members of the several
Sunday Schools, are extensive, and
the comfort and enjoyment it affords
those performing the task is quite
marked. This year, as usual, all the
schools will have their Christmas
trees, and the indications are that
they viii be more attractive, if pos
sible, than ever before. On Satur-
day theP NJ, NJ f., Episcopal
and Presbyterian schools will expose
Their trees and unload them of their
valuable gifts. A general invitation
is extended by each school to the
public to attend, and it is surely the
duty of every citizen, who is able, to
go, both for their own good and tho
qualification of others.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22

THE question was put to us the
other day, "What right have Brewer
& Penhallegon to go iato the barber
ing business?" The fellow has seen
the mammoth stick Of candy in the
window Of the above named firm
and mistook it for barber pole.
The matter was explained and his
mind set at ease. This wonderful
club of candy is three feet long,
twelve inches in circumference, and
weighs fifteen pounds. No wonder
a fellow would think a tonsorial de.
partment had been added to the
establishment. All the little folks
are anxious for chance to gum il,
and the proprietors have under con
sideration tho problem of how TO
dispose of it so that every child can
have g taste, aud would be pleased
TO receive solutions.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22

OF a learned counsel and the at.
tendance Of kind friends. Yon have
the fact of your sex in your favor
You have bad macy chances, and
the jury have desS. leniently with
you. Had YOU been man that
killed woman uatier the same cir-
cumstances which You murdered
George Coles, ! should have recon-
mended the severest punishment OF
the law. A citizen Of this country.
and who is amenable to the laws Of
the iaud, has no wight under any cir
cumstanues or SURROUNDINGS to a.
venge himself o, herself upon their
cause OF aggriesance." The Judge
then sentenced tha woman to four
years Imprisonment in the state
prison.
AT these words the prisoner, who
had cried as she judge addressed
her, uttered shrek, and eyc.aim-
ing, 80 my God = fell hack iu her
chair and would have fallen to the
floor had Sue not been supported.
She was carried from the room seem
ipglv iusensible The sentence was
the extreme penalty possible under
the verdict.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22
Santa Claus Cause.

G. X. MorrETr still has few
Christmas goods though they are
going very fast
A BENEPir--Thu immense stock
Of Holiday Goods 10 be found at
Hanscom's Book Store.
TOYS! TOYS, ~ fine assortment,
all new. No old sruck left from
last year. Cheaper than ever, at
kinno's.
OVER one hundred different styles
Of Christmas Cards varying in price
from two cents TO. two dollars each !;
at the Post Office Book Store.
SOMETHING NRw--Patent hair
crimpers, pompadour wool and de-
calcamanie pictures at Mis-. CAMP
pEIi's fancy store,
TOYS ToNS Santa Claus ar
rivod safe with large assortment of
toys and Christmas presents, which
will be sold cheap at Teasdale g.
Coad's
A FINE selection of juvenile books,
also the latest productions of popu-
lar authors, Cor Christmas presents,
at the Pest Office Book Store.
WuI.Y WELt.', exclaim both old
aud young, did you ever see such a
magnificent display Of holiday goods
as there il ut Hanscom's Book
Storef
JusT Tu1NN or IT Sheet music
that we have been paying froui
twenty five cents to one dollar for
can now be bad at the Post Office
Book Store for fee cents.
Holiday Presents. Go before the
rush commences and secure pres.
ents, At Hanscom's they have
time, il you come now, to show you
what u beautiful line Of goods they
have on hand.
/ CANDY. CANDY Choice can
dies just arrived at ] s. Spratler.
TuosE steel ongravings OF oul
Martyred Presidents, Lincoln ans
Garfield, ut the Pos. Office Bool
Store are fine and remarkably cheap
They would make nice holiday
present
! HOLIDAY GooDs. - The choices
lot of Holiday Goods TO be found il
the city, is at The book store OF j. J
llanscom d Go. Albums, Stere
oscopcs, Stereoscopic Views, Photo
graphs, Fine Chromos, Fancy Boxes
Fine Stationery, Gift Books, Brack
ct Work, and about every article us
ually kept in "A general variety store
for either use or ornament. A larg,
stock of picture frames and picture,
framed to order. All the lates
papers aud magazines.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-22
Christmas Goods Il CuIcry.

Caryers, table knives and forks,
Rogers plated knives, spoons and
forks, elegant pocket knives, nickle
plated ahears and scissors, Barnard
d Sons solid steel blade shears,
plated table castors, butter dishes
and pickle castors, also n complete
line Of granite iron mounted tea
and coffee pots. Our stock in all Of
the above will be complete during
the holidays.
5lw2 MARTIN 81 ToAY.