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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
RE AID
The reeentsand substantial testimony of
MRS. KECK's Success
HOME AND ABROAD.
A COMMENDATORY LETTER.
GLAsFoRD. Peoria Co, !
January 81, 1881.

L wish to communicate through
your paper a few facts in relation to
the sickness of my wife, and her re-
markable benefit received at the hands
of Mrs. DR.. Keck, thinking that / may
in this way influence some suffering
fellow beings to seek the aid which
may restore them. Ny wife has been
laboring under chronic affections, in
ending catarrh, for II years, and has
been treated for the same most of that
time, without material benefit. until
she applied at the office of Mrs. Dr.
Keck, in Peoria, last fall She had not
then spoken loud word for nearly 5
months. having lost her voice while
under other treatment. She was tire
atened with paralysis. her entire left
side being very weak and numb. her
nervous system was completely shat>
tered, her lungs in a serious condition
and her health falling rapidly. Her
hands and feet were always cold, so
that it was almost impossible TO warm
them. showing a poor circulation and
condition of the blood.
About October 1st, 1880, she applied
at the Office of Mrs. DR.. Keck, in Pc
oria, for advice and treatment, which
she continued faithfully at home until
the middle OF December. She made
seE eral visits to Mrs DR.. Keck's office
in Peoria in the meantime, to obtain
necessary directions and medici es,
and improved very much. Her voice
was still gone, however, and [ had
very little hope that she would ever
recover it, although Mrs Dr. keck said
that her remedies were working SPLEEN
didIy on her system, and that if she
would now accompany her to Daven-
port Infirmary to receive extra treat
Sha vUnIII6 I-apavar bats aJe1
health. But still doubting, | took my
wife to several physicians OF elni-
nence for examination and opinions
They agreed with Mrs. Keck as to
what the trouble was. Some of them
said there was Cery little hope, while
others said their was none flor recov-
ery.)
So Mrs. Watson went with Mrs. Keck
and remained at her Infirmary five
weeks. She went under a vigorous.
though pleasant treatment there, and
in two weeks her voice was restored
to its Original strength AID tone. l
met her at Peoria on her return home,
and heard her speak aloud for the first
time in eight months. Her health is
very much better IN every way. There
was great astonishment among the
boarders at Mrs. Wonders boarding
house, where Mrs. Keck has her Office,
when Mrs. Watson talked aloud like
the rest, for all had heard her whisper
so long, and did not believe she could
be restored. 1t has paid US well to
follow Mrs. Keck's advice, although
we had very little faith at first. My
Wlfe's recovery Is truly remarkable
one. If any one doubts the above they
may correspond with me at Glastord,
Illinois, W. V. WATSON.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
HARD ON WOMEN.

Differences in families united in marriage
are mostly on the side of the women. Wo-
man fails in tact to preserve the amenities
of the hearth The soft answer or the re-
preston which evades an issue is more on
the part of the man than the wife. Young
women manage their lovers but lose their
skill to manage their husbands. Women
make the cliques in congregations, church
societies, family hotels, boarding houses
and wherever lovely woman predominates.
Lack of tact makes the traditional mother
in-law Fathers-in-law have too much
tact to be fussy and irritating in matters
that should be left alone. Men live har-
in clubs; women cannot live in
clubs without getting in hostile divisions.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
EDITORIAL RToGRAPHY.

A down east editor has begun to write
his autobiography. The following frag-
ment from it contains not little meat by
the way of insinuations: Il have but one
wife, one daughter, one son, and one rep
utation. None of my relations have ever
been hung, but once brother-in-law came
near going to congress. My war record is
good-as during the rebellion l did hot
have hand in the public treasury, but a
second cousin Of my wife. sent as a substi-
tute, like true patriot, who by jumping
bounties; covered the family with glory
enough to reach me-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-05-14
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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

The Turcomans have whipped the Rus
slams who lost 800 men and many arms.
All the Northern Pacific railroad bonds
| allotted to the American market have
been taken.
Arthur II. Dada, of Palmyra, N. y, a
college student. attempted suicide at the
Grand hotel, New York, last night.
Ben Harrison will get the Indiana sena :
torship and Gen. John F. Miller has been
nominated by the California Republicans.
Seven hundred and fifty thousand peas
ants are starving in SaratOff, Russian
province. Upwards of million peasants
are in absolute want in Samara.
The stcamphip Brazilian from Boston,
bound for Liverpool, with cargo of So
600 bushels of grain and 1OG cattle and 2OS
pigs, is wrecked on Burbo bank, in the
Mersey. The was no loss of human life.
The Dixon crucible company, of Jersey
City, suspended yesterday. The assets
and liabilities, which are nearly even, are
said to be in the neighborhood Of 1000,
OGO. Fowler. Cranston & Co. also failed
in New York.
Mrs. Harriet N. Cooper, colored
woman, died in Cheltenham, one of the
suburbs of St. Louis, on New Years dav.
aged 115years. She weighed 400 pounds.
Mrs. Cooper was the mother of twenty
five children, the youngest of whom is &c
years old. Her husband is 1O1 years old,
and is still living.
The thief who robbed the daughter of
VIM. H. Sheldon, in Brooklyn, Of jcwclry,
silverwarc, etc. cher welding gifts, was
found unconscious and dying next morn-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05

Yesterday the county commissioners
visited Mercer's Ford, to meet the COM
missioners of Chester county and the in.
spectOrs appointed to inspectthe new inter-
county bridge at that place. Commission
ers Coblc and Bushong went to Christiana
in the cars, and Commissioner Montgomery
took sleigh ride from his own home to
the same point, and thence the party drove
to the bridge some two miles distant.
Only two of the Chester county commits
sioners were present-Messrs. Elliot and
Otley. The inspectors, w. NJ. Cooper, D.
3. Quigley. Patrick Swishcr, w. w. With
ers, F. N. Scott and A. B. Worth, of Lar
caster county, and Messrs. Geo. Richmond,
Peter Shoemaker and Thomas Hope, Of
Chester county. after inspecting the bridge
made report that it was substantial! struc-
ture, built in workman like manner,
substantially in accordance with the speci-
fications furnished the builder, and recon-
mended that the bridge be accepted from
the contractor. The report will he pre-
sented for confirmation to the courts Of
Lancaster and Chester counties.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
MICROSCOrICAL SOCIETY.
The Microscope In the study Of E.ocl

The Microscope In the Study Of Rocks.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Lancaster micrOscopical society, last evcn-
ING, paper was read ON the use Of the
compound microscope in the study of
rocks, by DR.. Crumbaugh, the president Of
the society, of which we present a brief
abstract. Petrology is tho name given to
this branch of science.
The application of microscope in this
special department has of late years afford
ed more precise information concerning
the mineral constitution and minute struc-
ture of rocks than IL was possible to ac-
quire by the older method Of research.
The means ut the disposal of the older
petrolosists for identifying the mineral
components of fine-grained OF minutely
crystalline rocks were so prim-
tive that VIC wonder not so much
at the little that was known about them,
as ut the amount of information amassed
by such simple methods, and at the truth
| or comparative accuracy of many Of their
statements. Tho pocket lens was their
most important instrument in their work,
and was indeed the only means they pos
sessed for distinguishing minute structure.
For though the compound microscope was
known and used in physical work, still the
idea Of slicing and grinding rock sections
was not thought Of. The great advantage
derived from the examination of these sec
tiOns lies in the circumstance that in many
cases a mineral which, in ordinary hand
specimens, would look to be opaque is
rendered more or less translucent, so that
many structures that would be totally un-
distinguishable by reflected light and
rendered apparent when the section is
thin enough to be seen by transmitted
light, while in conjunction with the micro
scope, tho polariscope, the spectroscopc
and gOniOmeter may be used, and addi-
tional facilities are thus given for examin-
ing the optical properties of the mineral.
Although in the present state Of our
knowledge but little practical use has yet
been made Of the recorded observations
which now constitute merely small nu-
clcus of what will, no doubt, eventually be-
come a vast fund of information, still we
may look forward to the time when
knowledge of the minute structure of rocks
will be recognized rs indispensable to the
right understanding of tho changes which
building stones undergo, and when not
merely the few, but tho many, will be
benefited by this branch of scientific
inquiry. A general knowledge of
Petrology will always be found useful
by those who may have to deal with ar
chitecture or with mining enterprises.
Then followed description somewhat at
length of the preparation Of rock sections,
one of the most difficult operations in mi
croscopical work.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
STATE ITEMS.

Howard +. Boyer has been reelected
chief and Geo. W. Miller and Joseph d.
Fox have been elected assistant engineers
of the Readingti re department..
The brewery of Lober s Bros, in ALE.
gheny City, having capacity Of Il, 900 bar
rels of beer annually, was destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss, s45, 900 no insurance.
In the organization of the House yester-
day Mr.. Wolfe, did not vote for Harry
HUM for chief clerk. His ballot was cast
for Kirk, the Democratic candidate, but 4
Philadelphia Democrat voted for HUM to
even it up.
The House st tlte committee had pro-
tracted session last evening to appOrtiOn
the minor offices of the House. Charles
H. White, of Chester, was stated for ser
geant-at-arms, Raymond, of Venango for
postmaster, and Baul, Of Allegheny. for
transcribing clerk. Whites selection over
Potter is another black eye for grow.
Mr.. and Mrs. John BabO, a young couple
of Erie county, have got into financial diff
ficulties. Their little house has been seized
and sold. The prospects of the county
home for themselves and children so work.
ed upon the minds Of tho parents that they
were discovered to be violently insane.
They will be taken to the insane asylum.
A committee of the law association in
Philadelphia has been appointed 70 take
such action as may he necessary to pre-
vent the passage Of hasty and injurious
measures by the state Legislature. The
committee consists OF Richard Vaux,
chairman, P. Pemberton Norris, Richard
McNlurtrie, Pierce Archer, Wayne Mac
Veagh, George NJ. Dallas, Lewis VAIN
Smith, and Francis Rawle, secretary.
II the appointment of Albert A. Outer.
bridge, esq, as state reporter, Governor
Hoyt has recognized his duty as a lawyer
to his profession by the selection of one
who has shown himself thoroughly capa-
bic. In the position of editor Of the
Weekly Notes, Mr.. Outerbridgc has done
most excellent work, and his appoint.
mcnt was asked for with great unanimity
by judges and lawyers from all parts OF
the state.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
The Swath OF Death.

BY an accident on the line of the Sioux
City l. Omaha division of the Chicago,
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad
six men were killed outright and seventh
man lost a leg. Tho men were engaged
in cut north of Bancroft shoveling snow.
The working train, anticipating the com.
ing Of the SOUTH bound passenger, had
side tracked, and the men, eleven in all,
had stepped from the track to allow th:
passenger train to pass. Some trouble in
getting through had been experienced tho
day before, and tho engineer, approaching
the cut, which is long one and on
curve, put on steam and rushed in. The
train consisted of q locomotive and tender,
two box cars and ono passenger car. The
train with the exception Of the latter
car, passed the men in safety, but the
steps of the passenger coach caught them
and moved them down like grass under
the wheels, only four escaping without
serious injury.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
MINOR TOPICS.


THE opinions Of congressman differ 4!
to how the members should be apportionet
under the new census. Cox has bill
ready placing the future membership n
800. Springer, Of Illinois, has another
the same IS the present strength of tho
Housc-293-but there is a very strong
feeling in favor of still further reducing
the size of the House to $50. 2:5 and
even rs low as 200 members.
IT is now taken for granted that Blairt
will be secretary of state and Conklina
"conscnts because he has been told
that, at Chicago, when Blaine's case be-
came hopeless his friends made known tC
the Grant managers that, while Senator
Blaine was unalterably opposed to General
Grant, lie would be willing to support
Senator Conkling as 4 compromise candi
date. The proposition could not he Ell
tertained: but it was conveyed to Senator
Conkling, and, very naturally, had ten.
dency to place tho two senators in amica
bic relations politically, not personally.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Philadelphia
Ecening Bulletin seriously urges the fol.
lowing reasons for divers senatorial elec.
ton: "To carry on and complete the
great and decisive campaign in Indiana
'thc sinews of war; were sorely needed,
for the other side were flush and conf
dent. All the weapons of civilized politi-
cal warfare were furnished from Penn
sylvania, and, with the aid Of the state,
local and township committees, match
less political organization was speedily
effected in Indiana. Much OF the credit
Of outllankins the common enemy in the
West is due to the tircless energy of
Henry w. Oliver
THE editor Of Truth in letter to Gar
field says: eve have traced the Morey
letter to its origin, and have ascertained
that it is a forgery. This acknowledges
mcnt is made voluntarily, and as an act of
simple justice. Truth published the let
ter in good faith, believing that you were
its author. While We SO believed neither
temptation, threats nor force could in
fluencc us to repudiate it. Likewise, hav-
ing now satisfied ourselves of its spurious
character, no false pride nor selfish motive
of any kind can restrain us from announc-
ing our conclusion, and thereby allaying
the doubt that now exists respecting its
althenti CITY,"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
the Happy Homo {" Wrecked.

The bark Happy Home, of Hantsport,
n. s.. struck Trinity Ledge. twelve miles
from Yarmouth and capsizei. The cap
tain's wife, daughter and one man perished
Boats went off and rescued tie remainder
Of the crew, all of whom were frozen, the
captain and mate seriously. The wreck is
less than two miles from the shore. The
carpenters wife was lashed to the quarter
and heavily covered with clOaks and other
clothing. She had seemingly lately died,
as her body was warm. A girl about
seven years old was embraced in Eer
mothers arms.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-05
The kloefel yylfe-Murdcr.

1t IS now believed by large number of
people in the community that Anton
kloefel killed his wife, Maria, near Weiss
port, Carbon county, accidentally, or at
least unintentiOnally. Kloefel did not
know the gun with which he killed his
wife was loaded, He cleaned the gun and
set it away. intending to return it to a
person in Mauch Chunk Of whom he had
borrowed it. During his absence from
the room a younger brother Of Mrs.
kloefel loaded the gun. Kloofel is still in
Jail at Mauch Chunk, and is said to be al
most crazy with grief.