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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

Neutrality-suspicious. seekers to know that they
w can find Lemonade, Ice Cream, Cake, Cigars
and Refreshments, every Sunday Black Hawks
Watch Tower
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

tATANTED-Bri Layers. Apply at once 10 3.
w d. BufOrd u Cos, Pillow Works.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

WANTkD-Eyerybody to call and see the grca,
w variety Of useful articles TO be had at the Fye
and Ten Cent Store. 1920 3fd avenue, including lin
ware. wood ware, crockery, candies cigars fire.
works, crackers, glassware, fruit jars Jelly iars
baskets, ETC.. etc. Will sell very cheap. Can
speak four different languages.
CATHERINE MIraurr
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

MfANTED- Everybody to know that Gunther's
w Mead is the most cooling, refreshing and
healthy drink yet discovered. For sale at Mar
shal's, under Harper House.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06
A GRATEFUL RECOGNITION.
FALs~ AND TRUE.

We extract from r. Railways 'Trestise on DIG
ease and Its Cure" as follows:
LIST OF DIsEAsRs CURED BY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

WANTED All our reade rs to know that Henry
w Regensburger is sole Agent in Rock Island
for Wanamaker Brown, Oak Hall, Philade lphIa,
the largest custom order and retail Clothing House
in The country.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

WANTED.-A good live man to canvass for ,hs
w best and quickest selling Spring Bed in the
market. A man with team preferred Call al 40
Brady street, Davenport. Iowa
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

WANTBD-Rvery one to know that the Cash IA
neat snd noby goods -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

COUND-That Geo. A. Balm & Co.. still have
7 of their first class bnggies on hand, which
they viii sell very cheap.
EOUND.-The best dlsh OF ice cream and the
choicest cigars at Fred KreIl restaurant 1919
Second avenue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

VTANTED-Three stone -Masons, at once Good
w wages. Apply to W. H Barber, at Bufords
rEa
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

WANTED "A nurse girl. Apply at No. g2a Sec.
w ond avenue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06
BREvlTIEs.

The heated term has finally arrived.
The council will meet this evening.
Chas Kratz had his thumb badly injure'
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06
LOST.

I OST-On Tuesday night June 2Sth, one eath4r
Ia side curtain for buggy. The finder will please
return The same to W. j. Kerr's livery stable.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

MILL find 10 ride tickets good between RocI
w Island and Moline on sale at the c. B. & q
Ticket Office, at so cents each.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-07-06

MANTRD-hyeryone to know that no trotting n,
w road wagon, buggy, carriage, or express Is
complete without the 'Morey'' Anti Rattler Spring
Warranted to out-last 200 sets of rubbers CsIl
on James Willis Millers Livtry Stable, or address
Vim. Florence. p. O, City. ~.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
The Truth Pays.

A few weeks ago train over one Of the
| railroads running West ran over COW just
beyond the Grand Trunk Junction The mat
ter was reported at headquarters, but the
owner of the mangled bovine was not heard
of until Tuesday last, when he entered the
presidents Office and remarked:
81 guess we'd better settle now for that
COW"
"Ahl you owned that COW killed f---se a
our trains in November, did you?"
II expect did"
"And what did you value her at"
"Thc man scratched his head, hitched
around on his chair, and finally replied
"Well, dunno. My brother-in-law- said l
had the company tighter'n bazes, and he told
me to say she was a new mich COW, and lay
damages at seventy dollars"
"Yes."
"But my wife said I'd better say that the
cow was not worth over fifty dollars"
"Yes, well, how was it?"
That's where the stick comes in, you see
| want all she's worth, and yet / don't want
to swindle anybody. Fact is, she was m old
dollars for boarding house beef Yet, she
was took away kinder sudden, and it made
a bad muss around the place, and | reckoned
you might add little extra"
Let us say twenty five dollars"
That's plenty, 'spose might have had
fifty just as well as not, but didn't want to
lie about it,"
"No; never tell II lie"
"Oh, | wouldn't have lied, ease knew YOU
sent man out there to git all the facts in the
case" replied the man, as he received an or
der on the treasurer for that amount Free
Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
Solicitations.

With us the usual modes of salutation con.
sist in shaking hands, removing the hat or
courtesying, accompanying the action with
the words "How do you do?" or"How are
you y Hand shaking takes its rise in the an
clent custom OF enemies selling each other
by the right or weapon hand to guard against
trenchery while treating of a truce The re-
moval of the hat is relic of the old custom
of putting by the helmet when no danger
was apprehended, as if one would say: II
dare stand unprotected in your presence
Women formerly knelt before men of rank
to plead for mercy, and later to acknowledge
interior.ty. From this we get the courtesy.
The kings on the African coasts salute each
other by swapping the middle finger times
In Otaheite they rub noses, custom com,
mon with many savages. The inhabitants
of Carmine, when they show particular at
tachment, open vein and present their blood
to their friend to drink. The Japanese re-
move slipper, and the natives of Arracan
their sandals in the street and their stockings
in the house. PHILIPPINE islanders take
persons hand or his foot and rub 1t over their
faces. Laplanders smell of the persons they
salute In the Straits of the Sound they raise
the left foot of the person addressed and pass
it over the right leg and then to the face
The usual words of salutation in Cairo are
Glow do you sweat?" an absence of perspi-
ration being in that climate, an indication of
fever. The Dutch say MAY you eat hear.
ty dinner" or "How do you sail"
Greenlanders use no salutations, believing
all men equal, and none deserving of any es-
pecial mark of respect. The Spaniards say
"How do you stand ?" and the French How
do you carry YOURSELF"
And most absurd of all, young ladies kiss
in public and private, in the parlor, in church,
and at home; no place is too sacred, no street
too public But while osculatory refresh
ment INDUCED in by two ofthe fair sex seems
sweetness wasted on the desert air, he is a
hardened wretch who can witness the opera
ton and not have his heart filled with the most
wicked envy
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
A Modern EnOch Arden, and how he
WAS COnsOled,

He said that being in the city he would
like to take in the City Hall, and after he had
tired himself out in climbing stairs and walk
ing corridors, he came back to the ground
floor and remarked to the policeman on duty
there:
Its seventeen years since | saw this town
before"
"Is it,"
Seventeen long years-long years. Die
you ever hear anything in particular about /;
man named Philo Brace?"
Cant remember that did"
Ever see anything in the papers about hii
mysterious disappearance
Guess not"
"Well, you were too young. | am PhilC
Brace, and seventeen years ago this month
disappeared from my home in Oakland coun
ty in mysterious manner, and I've never
been heard of since. | am now on my way
home, and shall be there tonight"
why, that's quite a romance"
"Reckon 1t is. I'm sort of Enoch Arden
you see. left wife and two children, and
have never sent them word or line Nc
doubt they have long mourned me as dead
"You may find your wife married to an.
other, as Enoch did" suggested the officer
"Say, I've thought of that " replied the
stranger, land | know exactly what I'll do
I'm going to reach the old place soon after
dark and peep into the windows. If the old
gal sits there thinking of me and wiping away
the tears of grief, it will be all o. X. If / see
man bossing around in my place III rush in
and knock down and drag out"
well, hope you'll find things all right"
$50 do /, and i'll ever see you again I'll
tell you how came out"
The stranger went away, but in the course
Ofan hour he returned in considerable excite
ment and said
"Great snakes But | ran across the old
gal out here on the street, and she's got q
man with her; l knew her in minute, but
she didn't give me a second look. They are
coming right into the hall p
The couple entered and made for the Off
Ger, and after the usual inquiries passed up
stairs.
married again, by lingo" whispered Mr..
Brace to the officer.
"Yes"
"Well, what do you think? That's my
old Maria Jane, to dot; and she's got new
husband. Now, what would you do if you
were me?"
Shes fat and squatty," unused the officer
"She never was good-looking."
Never! She was as homely as II lamar
ack swamp the day l married her, and she's
run down hill every year since"
81 don't see how you could make anything
by raising row."
"Nor l, either Say, guess I'll let her
slide and go back to New Jersey"
81 would"
II will, sure pop! I'd like to knock that
second husband into cataplasm, just to let
him know that was on earth, but I'll hold
my muscle. She used to fret and whine from
dawn till dark, and l don't believe she's
mended her temper any He walks lame and
looks glum, and won't add to his sorrows.
Goodbye, old brass buttons. Enoch Arden
sneaked off and died, you know, but Pm not
that kind of clothes-pin. If don't marry
a widow who owns a red clay farm of ninety
acres before Pm ten days older, you may Dor
row my boots for stone-boats y
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
A Cunning Fox.

fox often outwits a pack of hounds, but
when his cunning is matched with human
shrewdness it is generally unwilling. 1t was
cruel for n man to take advantage of his su-
perior brain to catch so adroit fox as in this
story: On the banks of the Kentucky River
rise huge rocky bluffs many feet in height -
A fox that lived near this river was constantly
hunted, and as regularly lost over the bluff.
Nothing but wings would enable the ami.
nal to escape with life down that cliff. At
last hunter, determining to learn how the
animal batiied them, concealed himself near
the bluff In due time the fox came to the
cliff as usual and looked over He then let
himself down the face of the cliff by q move
ment between leap and slide, and landed
on n shelf few inches wide about 10 feet
down, and then disappeared in hole above
the shelf On examination the shelf was
found to be wide fissure in the rock, into
which the fox always escaped But how
was he to get out again? He might slide
down ten feet hut he could never leap ten
feet from such n narrow shelf up the perpen-
dicular rock. The impossibility struck the
hunters mind, so he instituted search and at
length discovered an easier entrance into the
cave from the level ground The fox was too
wise to use that entrance when the hounds
were behind him; so he was accustomed to
cut short the sent by dropping down the
bank and then when all the dogs were at
the edge of the cliff he walked out at his lei
sure by the other entrance.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
VARIETIES.

"A gentleman who married widow COM
planned to her that he liked his beef well done.
"Ah, | thought | was cooking fOr Mr.
Brown" said She "he liked his rare But,
darling, will try and forget the poor dear"
-"Do you pretend to have as good iudg-
mcnt as have 2" exclaimed an enraged wife
to her husband. We'll, no." he replied,
slowly; "our choice of partners for life shows
that my Judgment is not to be compared with
yours
"A transcendental preacher took for his
text, Feed my lambs" As he came out of
the church plain farmer said to him, THAT
was very good text but you placed the hay
so high in the rack that the lambs couldn't
reach it, nor the old sheep either"
"A Uticaclergyman, in lecture on "How
to get Married. said, Every man wants u
wife, and every woman wants a husband
But the great difficulty, Mr. Clergyman, is
that the woman the man wants won't have
him, and the man the woman wants wants
some other woman. Or somehow that way.
--"Good.morning, Jones'" said Deacon
Gilpin the other morning, do you think you
could fill vacant position in my store, with
credit 2"
wall, | rather guess So" wss the reply
"what is it,"
ooh there's vacant position on one side
of your account in my ledger; the debtor
side is full, and if you could fill the other side
with credit shall he pleased to have you
try.-Marothon independent
Plague take il = exclaimed Henderson,
scowling ut the dictionary; "taint here"
what isn't there 2"
"Why, Philosophy"
And no wonderf' said Fogg, looking over
Fenderson's shoulder. ut doesn't begin
with I'M f; look under p, and you'll find it,
You must learn to spell ifyou would find u
word in the dictionary.
Learn to spell!' yelled Henderson; do
you suppose I'd hunt the dictionary for a
word IL knew how to spell il What are
dictionaries for, should like to know"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
Pnetical.


Come, gentle spring ethereal mildness come
Long have waited the return of Sping,
That ], once more. her genial reign might sing
| wait In vain No genial Spring Is here:
}ut w interS sceptre rules the circling year!
variation, hence, To Goldsmith's tune.
For winter, lingering, chils the lap Of June.
See Its effects. The harblnger of Spring.
J on pretty blue bird-gladly would She sing:
But vain tn attempt she strives to ope her
How her teeth chatter! Lo, what accents shrill,
A doleful shrek, indicative of pain!
The lovely red-breast, too with fearful eyes,
Holds up one foot-instead of singing, signs.
Was wont to make, the groves and wales rejoice,
nat can he, no%f-nO concord marks his tune,
While winters rigor chills the heart of June
And even yon raven whose sonorous throat.
When free from frost, pours one harmonious
note,
No longer chanting his mellifuous "caw"
with pain parturient, only brings forth-Awe!
On yonder side-hill. that regards the south,
See the poor thrush-her toes within her mouth !.
She tries in vain to wake her feeble note,
As her chilled digts occupy her throat!
What woes, alas the feathered tribe attend!
When, when, . Hersche! shall their miseries
end?
Pardon, dear readers these my swan-lke lays;
Too geld still. l seek no poets lays
lndulging my propensity to rhyme,
hail not Spring, ds TdctO-but the time
The date by which we note times onward way,
Would seem to insure us from drear Winters
sway.
The preeept, cdipe dien then, I'll heed;
And while rhymer vanity feed.
| yield my labours TO your 1ust assiZe
AS not despairing yet to win the poets prize.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04

A FROZEN CREw.-Ia 1885 the captain of
II Greenland whaer found himself at night
surrounded by icebergs and lay-to until
morning. He then saw n ship near by and
hailed it, but got no answer. He took boat
and pushed off to the craft. Coming along
side he saw through portfolio man at a
table, as through keeping logbook, frozen
to death. The last date in the logbook was
1772. The sailors were found frozen among
the hammocks and in the cabin. For IL
years this ship had deem carrying its burden
of corpses-a drifting sepulchre manned by n
frozen crew.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04

when was a young man. says Bill
ings, II was always in hurry to hold the
big end ofthe log and do all the lifting now
| am older, | seize hold of the small end and
do all the granting"
"A man who bought box of cigars,
when asked what they were, replied Tickets
for course of lectures from my wife
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04

"A good story is just now told of the
deacon of the colored churches in Virginia.
He was asking man to tell him where they
could find "a fuss-rate new minister
"Why, said the man, 81 thought you had a
minister" $50 we have" replied the colored
deacon, "but you see we've just sent him In
his resignation" We have known white con
gregations to do the same, but they didn't
call it by that name exactly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
.uondo"i, Wis Budalo Co. Herald I


Mr. w. II. II. Amidon, one of the first set
tiers in the town of chinatown, Wis and
one of the most industrious and hard work
ing men in the county, has been very severe
ly troubled with rheumatic pains during the
past few years, so much at times that he was
disabled from performing manual labor.
Learning of the wonderful cures effected by
the use of st. Jacobs Oil he procured few
bottles and experienced immediate relief
Many other of our acquaintance have used
it and express themselves as highly gratifled
with the relief it has afforded them This
king of medicines can be bought every where.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
The Egis and Intelligencer
IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
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TRANSIENT ADvERTIsEMENTs-- One Square, |
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% cents. Longer advertisements In the same pro-
portion. space equal to six lines makes square.
Figure-work double price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications will
be inserted at ten cents per line
~ Yearly advertisements at special rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
I Tiacia,lii Irish Titizeu. |

Mr. John Miller of "a West Fifth street,
tells us that he was cured by the use of St.
Jacobs Oil ola complicated case of rheuma-
tism of ten years standing.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1881-03-04
TRANSPORTATION COMPAN,

THIS IS To GIVE NOTICE-THAT THE
j. subscriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Nd letters testamenta-
ry on the personal estate of
SAMUEL X. FAMOUS,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
claims against said deceased are hereby notified to
exhibit the same, with the legal vouchers thereof
On or 6efo1S the 5h day Of February, 1892
or they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand and seal this 9th day of
February, 1881.
JOSEPH NJ. FAMOUS,
leD-llOt Executor.
THIS ~ TO GIVE NOTICE-THAT THE
i subscriber has obtained from the Register of
Wills of Hartford county, Md, Letters Testament
airy on the personal estate of
HENRY b. RAMSAY.
late of said county, deceased. Al persons having
claims against said deceased are hereby notified to
exhibit the same, with the legal vouchers thereof
On or 6ef0re The SM ddy Of FtbrUdIy, 1899,
or they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make immediate payment
Given under my hand and seal, this Sth day Of
February, 1881.
CHARLES X. MCCONKEY,
febll-6t Executor.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-09
a HoTrid Brute.

Astoria was yesterday treated 10 one
Of those most horrid, unnatural SEN
sations. of which our people have
received SO much m teiegraphic dis
patches from almost every part Of the
continent, but which we hoped would
never fall to our lot 10 report IN
return. This crime, committed here
In Astoria, is undoubtedly the most
horrid and Disgusting one of them all.
AnInhuman wretch. by name +. HoW,
a longshoreman whose british pro-
pensities have made him an obnoxious
resident in every locality he has lived
since he came here, night before last
committed rape upon a little girl
scarcely seven years Of age, step
daughter of Mr. :. T. Cooke. the
details of which are too disgraceful for
publication. lie was arrested 10y the
police surrounding the house where
he lived, on the beach above West
fifth street, at two o'clock a. 81. yes
terday. He waived examination he
fore Justice Fox and was reIaanded to
Jail at two o'clock p NJ, in default OF
50, 900 bonds. Enough Of the facts
are known to entitle US to remark that
the brute deserves to be hung. If he
lives to stand trial at the approaching
term Of the Circuit-couTt next month
he viii probably get the full extent o.
the law in expiation of his great crime
He is one of the very lowest, and vile
of all Gods creation, and with th,
public pulse beating as it did yester
day, 1t would not have been safe t.
attempt to take the prisoner to tht
/ County court house for examination
from the city jail where be is confined
as there would have been most Ger
tainly an attempt TO execute HIM ol
the spot. At least five hundred per
sons were in the vicinity Of the cit!
Jail, and in attendance at the cour
room, at the hour set for the examina
tion. but the beast waived examina
tion. His personal appearance indi
Gated that he felt that his days wer
numbered if that crowd got a holc
upon him.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-09
Clatsop County Jail.

The Clatsop county Jail has been
indicted 10y every Grand Jury that
has been empanneled in this county
for the past several years. We have
never felt Ike going through this Jail
personally, being perfectly willing to
take the words of juries for facts; but
yesterday Sheriff Twombly insisted,
as We happened to be at the Court
house on other business; that We
visit the Jail. Now that We have
seen it we are astonished at the reports
Of those juries. They certainly have
no regard for antiquity. Ghosts Of
Cicero, Look upon those various in
dictments aud weep. The very smell
Of that jail suggests something Old.
Chinese stinkpots, such as the pirates
used last month tn capture the
German bark Occident, IN the
China seas, are nothing To compare
to IL and as for ventilation. IL IS as full
Of holes as a Kansas corncrib. That Jail
should be picked, canned or preserved
IN some manner. Il it conid only
he planted Just as it is, in the corner
Of some park Ia populous city, de-
voted to ancient architectural struc-
lures aud superanuated links con
Meeting the dark ages with civilization,
it would certainly be considered very
remarkable: and would no doubt com
maud as much notice as the granite
moDolith brought over from Egypt
last year and set up il Central Park
as a tsample Of Cleopatras needles.
The interior reminds us Of something
we have read of the bastiles belonging
to the French in the 18th century. by
a stretch Of the truth and a contraction
of the fancy, We might imagine such
thing as this in use in Oregon la the
days of the Hudson bay company.
But VIC have too much respect Tor the
memory of those people to think for
one moment that they would be guilty
of such a thing as To conhne even a
drunken Indian in such an outrageous,
disgraceful, nasty hole; As the present
Jail in Clatsop county.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-09
To Live Men.

TnE ASTOEIAN has now reached i
circulation which places II at the head
0f the list Of Oregon dailicS. and inSurcS
to advertisers thereof moro benefit for
the amount paid than may hc secured
elsewhere. To those who wish la reach
the largest number of readers at the
smallest expense. We nifcT the columns
Of an attractive daily. the success Oi
which from the very start has been far
beyond the expectations 0f the most
SanguiUr.
The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1881-07-09

--Carbolic acid, a popular perfume
which can be obtained at Astoria
drug stores. prevented what threat
ened Ia be a serious riot ON the y.
Boynton. The Oregonian says: A
general row occurred among the Chi
nese passengers ON this vessel which,
for time, looked serious. The row was
queIled by the crew throwing a guam
tity Of carbohc acid over the China
men, which restored peace.