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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
COLLAPSE OF COAL MINES.

WILKEsBARRE, Sept. 25.-This morning
a cave-in took place in the Dodson mine of
the Plymouth Coal Co. The squeeze caused
an explosion of fire damp. instantly killing
one fire boss and seriously burning for
miners. The main track of the LackawanRa
road settled three feet for several hundred
yards, caused by the cave-in and all trains
stopped running.
CUMBERLAND, Sept. 25.-A heavy fall of
coal occurred this morning in the Kingsland
mine of the Maryland Coal Mine Co., at
Lonaconing, Four miners, including the
mine boss Byers, are known to be under the
coal The dead body of Jas. Brehaney has
been brought out. Louis Cook. another
miner has been brought up in a dying
condition
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
SELLS CIRCUS DITCHED.

LANCASTER, KY, 25.-About $50 this
morning as the first of three special trains
conveying Sells Bros show from Rich
mond was coming around curve three
hundred yards from Point Leon, the fourth
car from the engine, from some unknown
cause, jumped the track and rolled down
an embankment, followed by the balance
of the train in its rear, consisting of fifteen
cars. The cars were loaded principally
with the baggage of the company, tab
leaux wagons electric light machine and a
cage containing tigers Several attaches
of the circus were scattered along on the
train and the destruction to both life and
property was fearful. Three men were
instantly killed, three probably fatally in
jured and seven or eight wounded. Two
of the killed were attaches of the circus
and the third, boy from Mount Vernon,
Ky, who was stealing a ride on the train.
The electric light and tableaux wagons
were completely destroyed and the track
was torn up over one hundred yards. The
engine with three front cars which escaped
uninjured were Immediately dispatched to
Lancaster for surgeons and coffins. The
exact cause of the accident is unknown,
there being several reports about it. An
official investigation will be necessary to
arrive at the truth
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
LIVE STOCK.
st. Louis Market.

ST. LOUIS. Sept. p.
FLOUR-Weak, unchanged; Xxx 8 95a4 10;
family 30a4 So; choice 70a4 So; fancy 90a5 .5.
WHEAT-Cash lower; options opened lower, but
advanced closed pretty firm; No. red, 931s0t94
cash; 931sD94 September; 92z@93 October; 9316Q
9414 November; 941zGl94z december: 93h year
94b@951s January. No red. S7190DS9 bid; No
red "a bid.
CORN-Some condition wheat, except more
active; 666p66H cash; 661z September; 63sS0641S
October; 567s056h November; 1875 December:
4s1S@49ss year; 461s@479s January; 471@4S11
May.
OATS-Better, slow; 31ss@314 cash; 30Z@30g
Oct; 301z Nov; 332s033H Dec; 29s a30 year.
RYE-Dull 55A ass bid.
BARLEY.-Quiet; 70llS0.
BUTTER-Steady; dairy, f5a22; creamery, 22a35.
EGGS-Steady: 151za16
WHISKEY-1 10.
PORK-Firm, higher; Jobbing 20 10.
DRY SALT MEATS-Loose lots, bacon scarce,
firm; shoulders 111s sides 15z@l61z.
BAC0N-Scarce, strong; shoulders, II 25; SIDES.
IS S71k6016 so.
LARD-Nominaly higher.
LIVE STOCK.
HOGS-Steady; light to fair Workers 5 60Ggs so;
butchers pigs 00DS 40; heavy butchers 10 fancy
5009 Is. Receipts $50
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
A SMEET FIRE-

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 25-The franklin
sugar refinery of Harrison, Haemeyer &
Co. an immense brick structure on Front
and Almond streets was partly destroyed
by fire this morning. Although three
alarms wore sent out, the fire was not got
ten under control until the block bounded
by Delaware avenue, Swanson, Almond
and Bainbridge streets had burned. The
block contained two large buildings. The
one facing on Delaware avenue being the
mould house, nine stories high and that
in the rear of the mould house, extending
to Swanson street, being new building
called the filter house. These buildings
were filed with sugar in process of manu-
facture and ready for delivery Both the
structures and their contents are in ruins.
The loss will probably reach $500, 900.
The centrifugal house and boiler house in
the block from Swanson to Penn streets.
and Almond to Bainbridge streets were
burned
One thousand men are out of employ
ment. 1t is not known that any one was
killed although two persons are missing.
Nothing is known as to the origin of the
hre During nearly an hour before the
alarm was given, workmen trained to the
use of fire apparatus tried to subdue the
names, but without aid from the fire de-
partment. 1t is now believed that the loss
VIII be one million dollars. Insurance
$575 tt00
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
THE DAYS NEWS.
FOREIGN.
Khedive Tenfik the Principal
Toad in the Puddle.
CAPTURED Rebel Chiefs sent
to Cairo under Guard.
European Officers desirous of
getting into the Last
Ditch with Arab
Pasha.
Sells Circus Succumbs to a
Railroad Smash-up.
Burning of an immense Su-
gar Refinery in Phila-
delphia.
Shocking Coal Mining fatal
;.i+iao detailed in to-dav's
Shocking Coal Mining fatal
titles detailed in to-day's
Report.
Mexican Greasers will Plant
Expositions in European
Cities.

LONDON. Sept 25.--G1adstone in reply
inc to a correspondent reiterates the de
claration that he is unable to interfere
with the operations of the Mormens in
England as he presumes their converts go
with them willingly.
CAIRO, Sept. 25.-Among Arab Pasha' 5
papers are written offers of service from
French, German and Russian officers which
were all declined.
ALEXANDRIA. Sept 25.-The Khedive
and Sir Edward Malet, British consul
general departed for Cairo this morning,
The Bengal Lancers escorted them to the
railway station. The route was lined
with troops and the station was decorated
An English band played the Egyptian
national anthem. Members of the
ministry went to Cairo on the same train.
DAMIETvrA. Sept. 25.-Abdellah Pasha,
Sulirman Bey and a number of their as
SOciates have been sent to Cairo as prison
ers under military guard.
DUBLIN, Sept. 25.-Dillen will retire
from parliament on account of Ill health.
The military and police of County Mayo
have evicted fifty families in the last few
days in the barony of Erris and the peo-
pie have been ordered not to shelter them.
LoNDoN, Cept 80 "A Duodh paper du
thoritatively denies that there has been
any large failure there recently. 1t is be-
lieved that the firm of George Roe & Co.,
distillers, reported failed, is solvent.
RAILWAY, N j.. Sept. 25.-The flood is
particularly severe in this city and county.
Thirty-two bridges cross the Railway
river within the city limits. Sixteen of
these were destroyed. 1t will cost one
hundred thousand dollars to rebuild and
repair them. At Monroe stood stone
bridge and while crowd was upon it one
of the arches gave way and John Wilson,
a prominent citizen, was carried under and
drowned.
PATERSON, n. j., Sept. 25-Rain is fall
ing again but the river is subsiding
rapidly The loss in this vicinity is as vet
beyond calculation.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
DISASTROUS RAINFALL.

PLAINFIELD, N. J.. Sept. 25.-Rain is
falling heavily again to day, causing ad-
dit onal damage A half million dollars
will not repair the damage done in the
counties of Union, Somerset and Middle
sex, to say nothing of the losses of rail
road and canal companies which are enor-
nous.
New YORK. Sept. 25. The storm which
abated Sunday resumed this morning, but
this afternoon the rain closed and clearing
weather seems at hand
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
POLITICAL PLUMS.

CHICAGO, Sept 25-The Democratic
third congressional district convention,
west division of Chicago, nominated Hon.
Carter H. Harrison, mayor of the city, by
acclamation. and adjourned for ten days
pending his acceptance.
In an interview, Harrison expressed
doubts whether he would accept. The
nomination was made outside the regular
machinery it being the duty of the county
central committee to call the convention,
and somg feeling has been aroused.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
THE DELUGE.

PoUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, Sept 24.-fne
storm is the heaviest known here for years
and is still. raging. Reports from along
the Hudson and from the interior tell of
roads cut and washed away in every direc-
ton by the flood. Tides IN the Hudson
are remarkably high, and the wind is ris
ing and the rain falling in torrents. In
MANY places both tracks of the Hudson
river railroad are flooded, and there are
washouts near New Hamburg and below
Duchess Junction. Orders have been Is
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
EXPOSITION OF MEXICAN RESOURCES.

CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 25.-The Mexi-
can government has ordered the estab-
ishment of permanent exposition of
Mexican products in Berlin and similar
expositions are to be established in other
European cities and in the United States.
French influence is actively opposing
reciprocity treaty between Mexico and the
limited States
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
JACK FROST AETER TIE CORN.

CHICAGO. Sept 25.-A Peoria special to
the Journal says that reports from the Hi
nois river valley and other sections of the
great corn belt of Central Illinois indicate
damage from frost to corn, especially in
the low land regions. The damage is es-
timated at ten per cent.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
STOCKS-Trrecular.
GRAIN.
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. sept. %
With fair weather. there general tendency
TO advance drices at II O'Clock. Advance wheat.
compared with Saturdays closing, &c; corn ranged
from 4 lower options to u higher on seller
year; pork 1O@221z higher; lard 5GS15 higher.
WHEAT-Firmer, regular; O310D1 O4 Sept
944 oct; 9345 Nov; 937s@93lz year; spring 03l4 ::
winter 035z.
coRN-ssA@64 cash; 6s14 Sept; 63as Oct; 61h
Nov; Sd year; 51A May.
OATs-si cash s1ss oct; s11s Nov; 1885 May.
RYE.-59H.
BARLEY.-S5.
WHISKEY.-$1 90
PORK.-Lower; 20 AZ cash. Oct 20 % Nov; 1s 30
Year.
LARD.-Lower; II 81 cash Oct: ~ % Nov; II so
Jan.
LIVE STOCK.
HOGS-Receipts 7,OC0; quality better. active:
light. 75(DS 25 mixed packing. : 9016 So; heavy
packing. 50@s 5o09 90; shipping, 5o@e 10.
CA1TLE-Receipts 7,400, demand weak, slow:
exports 6ol57 90: good to choice shipping 60
as 40; common to fair, 0O05 DO; butchers, , 400
1O stockers and feeders. 3014 45; Texans
6OEn4 20: half breeds and Americans 0OEn50O
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
DROWNED ON A PLEASURE TRIP.

BUFFALO, Sept. 25.-James Wall, James
Conway and VIM. Dugan, all of this city,
were drowned by the upsetting of sail
boat ten miles off this port Jas. Stewart,
the sole survivor, paddl ed the boat ashore
in II hours AGAINST a very strong wind.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
FATAL RESULT OF A SALUTE.

New YORK, Sept. 25.-Two men were
killed and several wounded at Governors
Island this morning by the explosion of
a cannon on Castle William, which was
being used to fire salute in honor of
French ne0-Of-wAr
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
THE WEATHER.

n WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Indications:
Sor the upper Mississippi and lower Mis-
souri valleys, fair weather. easterly to
southerly !. winds, stationary or higher baron
eter and temperature.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
A s1a.OOO HAIL.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 25.-This morning
two sneak thieves stole $12, 900 in Column
bia and Greenyille railway bonds from the
cashiers room of the Bank of Baltimore.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
RTMORED RESIGNATION.

LANCASTER, Sept. 25.-Private advices
say that Dr. Wickersham, minister to
Denmark, has resigned.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25

PEORIA. sept. %.
CORN-63h064; mixed. 63A@63A.
OATS-No. white, 3514a35a.
RYE-66a67.
WHISKY IS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
TEN CENT COLUMN.

Advertisements of three lines in this column costs
but ten cents for insertion and twenty-five
for one week For each line over three, five cents
per line viii be charged.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
70 r RENT.

ship, about mile southwest of the county house
and mile east of the Knoxville road. Apply to
David Brown, on the premises. aug2Stf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-25
New York Market.

NEW YoRIz- Sept. p
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-23

tanning twenty-four very small rose dia-
monds. Above the arch stands the
mound, containing in the lower hemi-
sphere 304 brilljants and in the upper
224 brilliants, the zone and arc being
composed of thirty-three rose diamonds.
The cross on the summit has q rose-cut
sapphire in the center, surrounded by
four large brilliants and 108 smaller
brilliants.
The summary of the brilliants COM
prised-is as follows: One large ruby, ir-
regularly polished; l large broad spread
sapphire. 16 sapphires, IL emeralds, 4
rub,es, 1868 brilliant diamonds, 1878
rose diamonds, LAT table diamonds, 4
drop-shaped pearls, and 273 pearls. One
estimate in detail mades the value of the
precious stones almost 9112, 900 without
taking into account the gold in which
they are set. The Agincourt ruby is
popularity supposed to be worth "e50O,-
600 sterling," but apart from its historic
value it would not bring more than one
tenth of that sum. A few years ago,
however, it and two other stones in the
Queens possession were valued at f100,-
600, SO that the detailed estimate already
given is perhaps under the mark. The
Ampulla is an eagle shaped receptacle of
chased gold, weighing about ten ounces,
with an accessory gold spoon, orna-
mented with four pearls. The corona
ton ring is large table ruby engraved
with st. Georges cross and set in plain
gold. The regalia, it may be said, came
near being destroyed at the fire in the
Tower, October 80, 1841. They would
have been sacrificed but for the pluck of
a police officer, Superintendent Pierce,
and he didn't even get royal warrant
negotiable at 30 per cent. discount.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-23

She fairly shrieked, and exclaimed
against those horrible classics, asking
me if saw anything of the blue stocking
about her.
She seemed anxious to draw me into
conversation, and asked me if had ever
been to Niagara
"What a bridge~ said I, in an under
tone.
II don't like the bridge at all, said
she, pettishly.
Pardon me, miss" said I, coloring,
II have said, perhaps, too much.''
She seemed to think 1 had said too
little.
Not knowing exactly the etiquette of
courtship, I supposed the best way to
conciliate my Dulcinea would be to
purchase her some presents. I armed
myself with beautiful bouquet Il pre-
fer the country name, .'nosegay," and
a dozen fine handkerchief, and started
for her house again. With some hesita
ton presented my gifts. She seemed
little surprised at the hsndkerchiefs,
but smiled graciously at the bouquet,
and held it to her nose. trembled with
delight and admiration. began to feel
queer. experienced an irresistible
desire to pull that beautiful little nose to
see how it was fixed on. In the midst
of my trepidation, scarcely knowing
what did. fell upon my knees.
MY dearest Helen," said I, catching
hold of her hands and looking into her
eyes, or inst little below them, while
Miss Helen blushed deeply, 81 am fran
tically, madly. devotedly in love-" I
thought felt a slight pressure of the
hand, which encouraged me, ''with-with
an object that has not the power to re-
ciprocate."
"Who told you, sir" said she, blush
ing more deeply than before, that that
object was engaged and had not the
power to recip, ocate?"
"All-everybody, my dear Helen" /
cried; every acknowledgements that
knows anything about nose is aware
that il does not possess one tender feel
ing, except when you pull it, or have
very bad cold"
Sir" said she, rising in evident an
ger, and turning up her nose, ''do you
mean to insult me?" She seemed to choke
for words. Can you see no other quail
ity to admire than my nose?"
mo, my dear MISS" said /, frankly.
81 can see no further than you nose"
'Allow me to say, sir" she said
highly excited, ''that have been in
suited, and that I re quest you to leave
the house, and never let me see that nose
again.
1 went home rather detected, and lit
my cigar with couple of leaves from
my treaties on Noseology and then went
to bed.
The next day learned from my ply
stefan that Miss S-had fallen on the
ice and broken her nose. SO as to spoil
that feature completely. Never was
general SO overjoyed at the winning of
a battle as I was on hearing this news.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-23
A Female Barber.

There is but one female barber in St.
Louis, and she is the wife of the pro-
prietor of one of the best shops in the
town. Her husband having been in.
terviewed as to the expediency of young
pressed himself with decided emphasis,
thus:
Don't the public appreciate them?"
"Oh, the public is all right, but it
amt one woman in ten that makes a
good barber. A year or two ago three
right smart girls started in the business
down in st. Charles street, but they
didn't last long, and one or two others,
I think, have gone the same way"
"Brt woman's fingers are sensitive,
and she carries light hand; what is
there to prevent her becoming success
full barber?"
Eyes, that's all right" said he, "but
most of the time it needs something be-
sides tender fingers and gauzy hand.
These men that get shaved only once q
week have boards that you can't tackle
with anything but elbow grease, and
most women amt got that to great ex-
tent"
"But aside from their strength, how
does the female barber take?"
"Oh, well enough, if she's bang-up,
good looking girl-thst is, with the
young chaps; but then, she don't pay.
The chances are that she'll get stuck on
some fellow. or one will get mashed on
her, and that settles the whole business.
And when it gets that way he'll sit
around for half day with half dozen
empty chairs in sight rather than to let
any one but her shave him, and she, il
she's spoony on him, will be the other
half day getting away with beard that
you can't see and waxing q mustache
that's Just started. A girl is all right in
her place, but her place amt in barber
shop, in my opinion"
"But your wife?"
''She'll do" and the man of the razor
glanced composedly at the dark robed
figure, and nodded approvingly at the
unimpassioned manner in which she ap-
piled the lather. shrewdly ferreted ont
the stray tufts of hair, or dextrously
lodged the cutaneous eruptions. Eyes,
she'll do, he repeated, and then the
next man came in and the reporter went
out.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-23
JnWESS.
JOAQUIN MILLER.

Ny dark Drowned daughter Of the sun,
Dear Bedouin of the desert sands,
Sad daughter of the ravished lands,
OF savage Sinai, Babylon
o Egypt-eyed, thou art to me
A God-encompassed mystery
l see sad Hager in thine eyes.
The obelisks, the pyramids,
Lie hidden beneath thy dropping lids,
The tawny Nile of Moses lies
Portrayed in thy strange peoples force,
And solemn mystery of source.
The black abundance of thy hair
Falls like some sad twilight of June
Above the dying afternoon,
And mourns thy peoples mute despair.
The large solemity of night,
o Israel, is in thy sight
Then come where stars offreedom spill
Their splendor, Jewess. In this land
The same broad hollow Of Gods hand.
That held you eyer, outholds still,
And whether you may be right or nay,
IT'S Gods not Russia's, here to say.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-11-23

The journey over the Union Pacific
railroad is not filed with novelty ester il
has been repeated fifteen or twenty times
and vet when you consider the new PEG.
pie, and the shifting incidents PECULIAR
to each trip, it is always new. On board
our train, and occupying one section of
the Ogallalla, was the Oriental gentle
man with the self cooking name who had
been sent to Washington by the Chinese
government on special business connect
ed with the affairs of State. He wore a
long brocade, old-gold gown, with en-
broidered purple overskirt, cut plain and
tied together with silk cord and unique
buttons. He wore his hair plain and
braided down the back, and his silk
boots with cork soles looked like plug
hat in gale of wind.
Everybody of course eyed him with
curiosity, and sighed to have some fun
whiskers under her jaw, sided up to him
at last and began to ladle out to him a
lot of choice pigeon English that at
tracted the attention of everybody in the
car and broke up two we'll established
games of whist. After. opening up with
girlish earnestness, and shouting at the
Celestial so that it ratified the ventilators
over her head, she began to enlarge
upon the beauties of the Rocky Noun
tain country.
"Chinaman John, you sabbee heap
high mountains. All same Bunker Hill.
Heap snow, belly cold July: all samee
January. Mclean man no likee. Too
cold. Make 'em chilblain all samee.
Fleece nose off. No good. You sabee
me chin chin?'
Everybody waited with good deal of
anxiety to see how the Chinaman would
take it. He didn't move muscle of his
face till she got through, and he seemed
to be in doubt whether she had made
herself clear. She ran her tongue out
two or three trips and began to moisten
her lips, so As to begin again and go over
the same trail, but the member of the
Chinese embassy motioned to her to
desist.
eyes," said he. 81 understand you,
think, as well as any maniac that have
ever listened to. hope you will have
a pleasant trip to the asylum, and that
they will be more patient with you than
1 am. I am little irritable with luna
tics, and 1 am prone to lose my t. mper
and throw them off the train, and jam
them under the wood-box, or knock
them into the aisle and walk over their
remains. Do not try to tell me about
your misfortunes, or explain how they
came on you, for do not feel any inter-
est in it. and it only infames and en-
RACES me-"
Then he took cigarette and fan,
and went into the smoking-room There
was a little hush for moment, then the
whist games were resumed, and the wo-
man with the chin whisxers opened her
valise and took out pint bottle that had
some kind Of cordial in it, and taking q
large dose even for an adult, she ate
few kernels OF burnt coffee and sabsided,
Il Laramie Boomerang.