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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-09
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R. Y.

BETWEEN THE EAST AZ THE WEST
Dining Cars for eating purposes only. One othe
great feature of Palace Cars is a SMOKING
SALOON where you can enjoy your Havana"
ut all hours of the DAY.
Magnificent Iron Bridges span the Mississippi
ana Missouri rivers at all points crossed oy this
line, and transfers are avoided at Council Bluffs,
Kansas City, Leavenworth, and AtchisoE. con.
THE PRINCIPAL Il. r. COME Tons OF
THIS GREAT THROUGH LINE ARE AS
Al cIIcAeo. with all divergins lines for the
At ENoLEwopD. with the L. 8. & NJ s.. and r.
At WAsHiNGToN HEIGHTS. with p, C. & 80.
At La SALE, with III. Cent. R. r.
At PEORIA. with Z. 2. Il j.; p. d. h.: ]. B.
w; II H Md is and E. r ,s w Kds Rocx
Islnnd Short Line" and Rock IsI'd & Peo. Rdss
At DAVENPORT, with the Davenport Division
st WEST LIBERTY, With the B.. c. r. MRS..
At GRINNELL. with Central Iowa r. Il.
AT DIES MONIES. with ID. NJ 81 Z. ID. r. e.
Al COUNCIL BLUFFS, with Union Pacific r. a.
AtCoLUMBUS JUNCTION, with B., X. q N. RI
At OTTUMWAs with Central Iowa II. Il. W.
St. L. Il Pac.. and C. B. & @. r. Rds.
At hEoKUK, with Toll; PEG; Z War Wan.. Svs
A. CAMERON, with H. st. J. R. r.
As ATCHIsoN. with AtcEl-, Topeka Santa Fes
At LEAvENwoRZH, with Kan. Psc.. and Kare
AtKASsAs CITY. with all lines for the wehs
and Southwest.
|. threugh 60 PEORIA, DEs AG0INE@s
TCAES0E, and LEA VENWOkTH.
Great Rock island B0uee,'s are cold h.
nd Canada.
u home ticket office, address,
e. ST. JOHN.
asR9 Ticket and PAss'gr < e.:
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-09

''Papa," said yound Diamond, what
do you mean when you say. 1t is bet
ter to give than to receiver . 1T
MEANS replied the old man, THAT I
take more pleasure in sassing your ma
than she does in hearing me.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-09

RATES REASONABLE
Furnished on Application to the Publisher.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-09
CHICAGO. RURLINGTON & QUINCY.

Local passenger makes close connection at Alpha
for points on kehs6prg branch aGd az o6a iot
hsIbne for Quincy Hannibal, st. Joe and points
in southwest.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-09
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
DAILY AND WEEKLY

ARau issued evening Sunday and the WEEKLY ARGUS
Friday a Rock Island Rock Island Co, Ill
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-09
sECURITY AND ADVANTAGES.

SECUBIT1 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The private property of the Trusteesisresponsible
the depoSitors. THE officers prohibited from
borrowing any of its moneys. Minors aad married
women protected byspecial1aw.
OFFICERS IS. W. WHEELocK, President; JoHE
Coon, Vice President; g. l.. HEMENwAY, Cashier
TRUsTEEs:-S W. Wheelock, Porter Skinner, c.
W. Lobdell, Nelson Chester, IL w. Candee, c. T.
Grant,, A. S. Wright, c. F. Hemnway, John
Good, j. NJ Christy c. II. Stoddard
eS The only chartered Savings Bank in Rock
Island County. aug2dwy
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
WIZ. TILDEN NO CANDIDATE.

Upon the reports which are now
going the rounds of the press in re-
gard to the Hon. Samuel j. Tilden
being an aspirant for gubernatorial
honors this fall and for the Presi-
dency in 1881, Mr. Henry Waiter
son, editor of the COurier-J
and a personal friend of Mr.. Til
den's, and in a position to know
whereof he speaks, says:
No man ever lived who, in his
own life, was the subject of so much
misrepOrt as the person referred 10
in the foregoing.
Mr.. Tilden is in reasonable
health. This is to say, that he is
neither an athlete nor Il cripple. He
is immersed in his own private
concerns. He lives in Graystone
while his house i'll Grammarcy
Park is being enlarged and recon-
structed. When il is finished it
will be one of the two or three man.
sions in the city of New York
which can be called splendid. He
superviseS the work almost daily.
He may be seen three or four times
q week down town, either at his
offices or at board meetings, where
he is a director. He is a very rich
man, and an necessarily busy one.
He has no more idea of being the
next President of the United States
than the Chicago Times correspon-
dent has of going to heaven. He
could not be induced to accept any
nomination or public place what
ever. He loves his country, is loyal
10 his party, and takes a live inter-
est in current affairs. His counsel
and his purse are open to his party.
His Derson he has reserved to his
declining years, which he proposes
tn enjOy with his friends, his books
and nictures of which he is fond.
He enjoys society as keenly as he
ever did. and is as pungent and ep-
irrammatic rs of yore in his con-
H5ersation and repartee. No one
has ever heard murmur OF COM
niaint escape from his lips. Those
Who know him best know that he
" wi the exact opposite Of a disap;;
nointed man, and that ne regarded
his liberation from party oDilgatlons
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

1T is prophesied by some that
there will be three Presidential
tickets in the field in the next cam
paign and th..t Mr.. Blaine will
head the Independent movement.
His recent brilliant and caustic let
ter to President Arthur i'm regard to
the withdrawal of the invitations to
the American Peace Congress and
the doubtless eloquent and master
ly eulogy on Garfield which he will
deliver in the hall of the House of
Representatives on the 9th OF this
month, will bring him more prom
inently than ever before the people
and make his chances for a Pres
idential nomination very probable.
1t is hardly probable though that
he would run as an Independent
candidate.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

THE new Postmaster General
has lately ruled that post-master5
themselves, where subscribers fail
or refuse to take newspapers from
the Office, shall become responsible
for the paper, unless they notify the
publishers of the fact as required by
law. Post-masters would do well
to make a note of this, or else they
may have to pay for more reading
matter than they want.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

THE latest advices from Wash
ington report great dissatisfaction
among the Democrats and few of
the Republicans over the new Con-
gressiOnal apportionment bill as re-
ported by the Census Committee.
1t is characterized as infamous and
unjust by number of the Demo
Gratis who propose to fight it to the
bitter end. 1t is thought it will not
pass in its present shape.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
Feb. 8, 1882.
a. G. GOODLETT

Hon. JOHN +. HOUSE, House of
Representatives, Washington, D.
C.,-.Sr:-I am in receipt of your
letter of the ID inst, enclosing a
letter addressed to you by a. G..
Goodlet Esq, dated GAINESVILLE the
I4th ult.
In view of the statements made
by your correspondent, you ask if
it has not been the ruling of this
Office that man may twist, press
or put in any shape he desires, his
own tobacco for his own use.
In reply have to say that this
office has neverrequired farmer 10
pay tax, either special or specific,
on tobacco which he has produced
and has personally prepared for his
own consumption, either in the
form of chewing or smoking tobac-
co, cigars or cigarettes.
If, however, he employs other
persons to manufacture tobacco for
him, or to make or to manufacture
cigars or cigarettes, he becomes a
manufactures within the statutory
definition, (see 9th and 10th subdi-
visions of section 3244, L. S. Re-
vised Statutes) and, as such, Is liza
BILE to pay the special tax therin
imposed, and to otherwise qualify
as manufacturer; and if he sells,
or removes for sale or consumption,
tabacco, snuff or cigars, he becomes
liable to pay the specific taxes i'm
posed by law. Enclosed, 1 return
the letter of your correspondent.
Respectfully,
GREEN b. RAUM,
Commissioner.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRTCT
ING.

Under the new appOrtiOnment bill
the congressional districts of this
State will either have to be rear
ranged or the prensent arrangement
confirmed by a called session of the
General Assembly. The press and
the people are decidedly in favor of
letting the present arrangement re-
main as it is. We can see no good
reason for changing the districts.
On this question the Jackson Trib-
une and Sun express our opinion
exactly:
The new appOrtiOnment bill recon-
mended by the census committee,
leaves Tennessee as she is, with ten
representatives in the lower house of
congress. 1t will probably become
the law, and the Tennessee legisla-
ture called some timein this or next
month to redistrict the State or con-
firm the present arrangement. We
most decidedly favor letting the dis
tricts remain as they are, Neither
party can gain anything by
ClldllSc anu III DINoClil tAAA1AuuC
of parties gerrymandering is impos-
sible. The present districts are as
homogeneous, as shapely and as
convenient las they can well be
made, and we see no good reason
for changing them. Possibly some
minor arrangement, here and
there, is desirable, but we are conf
dent that material or general change
is undesirable and wholly unneceS-
Sary. As the matter stands the
Democrats have seven and the Re
publicanS two congressman reason
ably certain, with one in doubt.
No change in their attitude is prac-
ticable or possible and hence no
party interest can be served by any
change whatever. Then, the coun-
ties as now combined, have pulled
together so long, have grown accus-
toned and acquainted with each
other and their public men, and
been so closely identified in political
methods and action, that a change
would be, for time at least, emf
barrassing. Ii is as wise in pOliti-
cal as social relations to maintain
old associations as long as they are
agreeable and beneficial. Therefore
we are decidedly in favor of MAIN
tanning the congressional districts in
Tennessee as they are now organ
lied.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
Tile Nashville 1uorld n,

THE Nashville World now comes
out and says that it "never sought
to make anybody believe any such
childish stuff as that the $50, 200
which goes into the pockets of the
Funding Board is to be paid by the
people," Whether you sought to
make anybody 6eiiece it or not, you
said it all the same. However, we
are not surprised that a journal
which lives by specious and unfair
arguments should assert what it
knows is not the truth. That il
should quote from Guiteau is not at
all surprising. A journal that is
daily trying to murder the honor,
credit and prosperity of its own
State naturally finds something
worthy of repetition in the language
of such character.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
Free Vaccination.

Under the laws of this State per.
tanning to the spread of smallpox
or other contagious diseases, it be-
comes the duty of the County court
to take the matter in hand and take
such precautionary measures as
may be necessary to prevent the in
crease and spread of the disease.
In view of the fact that smallpox
has been declared an epidemic by
the National Board of Health and
also by the State Board, and is al
ready spreading in this State,
County Judge, c. w. Tyler, has APP
pointed DIR. n. l.. Carney, county
physician, to furnish pure vaccine
virus and vaccinate, free of charge
to the applicant, all persons who
may apply to him for tits purpose.
DIR. Carney's Office is with DIR. G..
w. Bailey, on Franklin street this
city, where he will always be found
ready to vaccinate all who will APP
ply to him.
Although we have not, as yet,
had any case of smallpox in this
city or county so far as heard from,
still reports from various other
parts of the State state that the dis
ease is on the increase, and there is
no good reason to suppose that we
will pass though the epidemic with
immunity. Let everybody apply
to Dr. Carney and be vaccinated
Immediately.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
soUrnERN CONSERVATISM.

The Washington Capital in COM
menting on the reelection of Sena-
tor Lamar to the United States Sem
ate takes occasion to say that, to
rejecting men, his reelection is
one of the most grateful signs of
the times. In going further and
speaking of his manly and liberal
course in endeavOring to re-estab-
lish The then almost forgotten and
dead idea that there should be no
sectional feeling in the bosom of a
representative of the Southern peo-
pie that there should be no states
manship but that of the union and
for the good of the whole country,
it also classes our own distinguished
representative, Hon. John f.
House, as one of the representatives
of the South who aided aud upheld
Senator Lamar in maintaining and
establishing this grand, progressive
idea. 1t says:
With two or three companions,
Lamar came here to represent the
South in the Union. His philoso-
ply was that nothing had happened
except the extinction of Slaveryand
the Acknowledgement of the negro.
He had forgotten that there had
been lighting, and thought of the
State he represented, not as a part
Of tho Iafa Tnn fas1a,.anxr nno
of the United States. In short,
when Lamar came to Congress he
dated the spirit of his endeavor
from the day on which he took his
oath, and proceeded from that mo-
ment on the theory that there could
be in this county no citizenship but
American, and no Craftsmanship
but that of the Union.
We said he had two or three COM
paniOns. These were John Ellis, and
John F. House among the represen-
tatives, and Charles Jones in the
Senate. One of these days the his
tOrian of the Restoration of the
UniOn-and we say Restoration in
careful and contradistictiOn to Re-
conStructiOn-will set these four
names, beginning with Lamar, at
the head of the list of restOrers. 1t
required not only sagacity but
courage in a Southern representa-
tive at that time to announce him
self not only an acquieScent in but
an adherent of the results of the
war. Such an attitude was bound
to lead to collision with the public
sentiment of his locality, and this
was an early experience with La
mar. He soon felt the effects of it.
Touching the gratitude of the North
with his frank eulogy upon Charles
Sumner, he aroused in the South
all the hates that had clustered for
a generation around the memory of
Preston s. Brooks.
Upon the heels of this perform
ance he evoked the censure of his
State by voting against even the
flavor of repudiation-which his
state had been the first in the Union
to make an example of.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
THE 1908 DECISION.

1t is stated that the Supreme
court will deliver its discussion in
the celebrated 1908 State debt suit
to-day. Many rumors are rife in
Nashville as to what the decision
will be, but it issafeto assert that no
power on earth knows what the de-
cisiOn will be until it is delivered.
Some excitement was created in
Nashville last Thursday on account
of a rapid decline of Tennessee
bonds which sold at one time as
low as 90! cents, a reaction soon
took place, however, and they arose
again to -604 cents. The whole af-
fair is simply the wild manipula-
tions of spectators. 1t is not
known as yet, which one of the
Judges will deliver the opinion of
the court.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
Columbia, Tenn, Feb. 6, 1882.
Frank LesIie's Sunday Magazin

Frank LesIie's Sunday Magazine,
The March number opens with
No. 3 of DR.. Talmage's interesting
papers, "People l Have Met" de-
scriptive of Henry Wilson, ex-Vice-
President of the United States,
with his latest public address, and
Dean Stanley. There IS also an
article by him on "Guiteauism,"
and a sermon "Thumbscrews." w.
C. Gray has an admirable article,
"The True Doctrine of Fairyland" /;
and among the other illustrated
articles of great merit are "The
Church of the Holy Sepulchre,"
"Reminiscences of an Old New
Yorker" "Rome, the City of Sur
prises," "The Feast of the Annun-
ciation," etc., etc. The serials
prudence Winterburn" and "Mar-
garet's Enemy" are continued,
and there are several highly inter-
esting short stories, sketches and
essays by distinguished writers.
The lovers of poetry will be de-
lighted with the variety and unu-
suaI excellence of the poems Au-
gusta Browne Garrett contributes
two which will not fail to be par
ticularly noted-"The Heart and
the World" and "An Artists Fare
well to Time" "The Mother with
Nine Tons" from the Rolnaic, by
III. F. BramweIl, is quaint and
original. Besides the usual album
dance of entertaining and instruc-
tive miscellany, there is "The Col
lection Basket" "Wit, Wisdom
and Pathos of Childhood" ETC., etc.
A single copy is furnished for %
cents, and the subscription for
year 50, postpaid. Address, FRANK
LESLIE, SO, 30 and 81 Park Place,
New York City.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
THE Gibson County mirror saw

THE Gibson County Mirror says {:
There never was a people more
heartily sick of public question
than the people of Tennessee with
regard to this State debt. And the
sensible, practical, business men of
the State will abide by and MAIN
tain the settlement as a finality, if
the Supreme court affirms the
1908. All the inference of COM
ment that can legitimately proceed
from the corruption in the passage
of the 1908, is, that such source of
corruption and venality should be
removed from our State politics as
soon as possible and on the best
terms that are practical. The terms
of the 50-4 measure were once de-
feated. Is there any reason to be-
lieve that settlement could now be
made? We think not. What can
we do? Submit to the irrevocable
like sensible men !; satisfy ourselves
not to resist an irrepealable law be-
cause it is irrepealable. Make the
best of it, and thus avoid making
the worst of it. 1t were a crime to
mutiIate ones self, wantonly, or to
despoil ones own interests. 1t
were "a crime to cut off the nose to
spite the face. -
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

A SPECIAL to the Cincinnati Com.
mercial foreshadows the end oil
Guiteau as follows: "NO one need
imagine" said District Attorney
Corkhill tonight, ''that Guiteau
will not hang on the Both of June.
He will. The anniversary of that
Hateful Saturday will find him under
the dissecting knife. / hear that
Scoville has deserted the case and
will file no bill of exceptions.
Whether he does or not is a matter
of no moment at all. The court in
banc will grant no new trial. 1t
has practically passed already on
every point that could be presented
in any possible bill Of exceptions.
Every word and every act of Judge
Cox during the trial was the result
of conference with all his brethren
of the bench. There is nothing to
be decided now, and the assassin
will never appear in court room
again. His next appearance will
be on the scafTold."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

and services as an act of emancipa-
ton. We speak advisedly, there
fore, when say that under no cir
cumstances, could he be induced
again to enter, personally, into the
struggles of political life. a. more
tranquil, more happy and a more
agreeable philosopher is not to be
found, and, being such, people need
give themselves no concern about
his future, either as it relates to
himself or the plans, schemes and
aspirations of other men.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

REPUTATION can't win. Every
time it appeals to the courts of the
country another nail is driven into
the coffin which is to hold its de-
funct carcass. An application for
an injunction to restrain the State
Treasurer of Minnesota from pay
ing interest on the new State bonds,
was denied on last Tuesday.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

DURING the consideration by the
Senate of the arrears OF pensions
resolutions, Mr.. Vest OF Missouri
said he had been ga Confederate
honestly and earnestly, with his
whole soul devoted to the success of
that cause, which surrendered at
Appomattox, and had accepted the
full, legitimate results Of that sur
render, without qualification, eva
sion or limitation. All he had ever
asked, all the people of the South
ask, is that they might be believed
to have been honest in their devo-
ton to the Confederate cause and
honest in their statement that they
accept all the legitimate consequent
ces OF its defeat" Mr.. Vest cOnclu-
died by saying that "the confeder-
ates accept cheerfully the result
which leaves to them only the
conscientIOusness ofhonest motives,
only the history of unqualified
heroism, and they accept, at the
same time, the further result which
gives TO the soldiers of the Union
what will be awarded them by
grateful country"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

THE recent great floods in the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers
were not only attended by great
loss of property, but also by great
delay of business and loss of time to
business men and workmen. We
learn that the people of Erin and
Benton Sta, were greatly inconve-
nienced and in some cases greatly
troubled for the want of supplies
and other necessary articles which
they could not procure at these pla-
ces and which could not reach them
on account of the water blockade.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

Concerning "applied science, "
Prof. Huxley remarked: 81 often
wish that this phrase had never
been invented, for it suggests that
there is a sort of scientific knowl-
edge of direct practical use which
can be studied apart from another
sortOf scientific knowledge which is
Of no practical utility, and which is
termed pure science But there -
no more complete fallacy. What
people call applied science is moth
mo but the application OF pure
science to particular classes OF PROD
lens,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
The Tobacco Pix.

EDITOR :-Inasmuch
as some excitement has recently
been created in our midst by the
arrest of persons charged with max
ing cigars and manufacturing to-
bacco, in violation of the Internal
Revenue law, the inclosed letter
from the Commissioner to our rep
resentative in Congress, will be of
interest. Yours truly,
L. EnnnI I,rr,r
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

Mr.. THURMAN, of Ohio, is begin
ming to be mentioned as the prob
able Democratic nominee for Pres
ident in 1884. No man would make
a better President than ex-senator
Thurman and then he may have
the result of Ohio luck.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

II is said that Mormon missiOna-
ries Are hard at work in Union and
other counties in East Tennessee
and have secured quite a number
of converts, notably among the ne
grOes. The community is wrought
up against them and there is threats
of lynching them if they do not
leave.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11
The DrouIIlard Iron Company

J. p. Drouillard, r. b. Stone,
VIM. A. GOODWIN, Edgar Jones
and V. l.. Kirkman applied to the
County Court Clerk yesterday for a
charter of the "DrOuillard Iron
Company" The object of the in
corporation is to greatly enlarge the
facilities for turning out iron at Mr..
Drouillard's furnace on the Cumber-
land river.-NashUiHe american,
Epb @
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-02-11

THE Princeton Banner of recent
date, says: sour engineer and
architect, MIR. John E. McElfatrick,
has just finished SPLENDID map of
the new railroad from GAINESVILLE
to Princeton, showing the route and
the surroundings beautifully and
accurately. The road will be one
of the straightest in the state, and
will give this county full scope TO
be benefited by it, since it extends
the entire length of the county,"