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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

cans here have been somewhat de
pressed is correct. They have been decid-
edly depressed, and are still depressed.
The whisky interest is not divided, or il
divided, the fact has not come to the ears
of those most interested. The whisky in
terest, as tits called, and especially the
distillers. have for years been in the inter
est of the republican party, and since that
interest has been betrayed and sold out by
the republican party, no surprise is created
that we now find the distillers allied with
the democrats"
In 1870 Senator Grimes, of Iowa, wing
and a republican, wrote to Mr.. Jacob Rich
1T is enough to make the devil laugh
with glee to see the farmers of Iowa voting
to support high tariff, which doubles
the cost of railroad iron, spikes, chairs,
locomotives, cars, etc. the effect of which
is to double the cost of transportation of
all they produce and all that they con-
sumo, and then hear them growl about
the high rates of passenger snd freight
not for moment rejecting that they by
their votes impose these high rates of
freight on themselves"
1t took a long time TO open the eyes of
the Iowa farmers, but they appear now to
be getting them opened more widely daily,
to the beauties of protective tariff.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES. I

Pinchback, of Louisiana, is endeavoring
to rival Web. Flanagan in candor. He
says; THE officers are our sole great is
sue.y In some places they try to disguise the
real issue, but we don't down south. y
The New York World wen says: such
uncomproulising trutffulness is a whole
some relief after perusing the platforms
and campaign speeches concerning the
missions of the grand old party.
One of the shrewdest of Pennsylvania
politicians is Hon. John Cessna. who man
aged the Garfield campaign in that
state. He is quoted as saying:
II think the situation is grave
enough to call for very careful man
agement. There ought to be no guess
work about it. We are not fighting sim
gle deserter this year, but an organized
army of deserters with the sinews of war
at their command. / believe that Gen.
Beaver will be elected, and shall do all
can to promote that result but Ihave been
hoping all along that some way of reunit-
ING the party would be found"
Noting certain statements in a Boston
paper that there has been a change favor
able to the republican party in the Ohio
campaign, the Cincinnati Enquirer says:
There is no change decided or
otherwise in the aspect of the Ohio
campaign The statement made by
our Boston contemporary that the republi
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

Davenport Gazette: The next Star route
trial is set for the first Monday in Deem
Der, and the desperate defendants evidently
entertain the hope that before the time
approaches the tickle minded people will
have had their attention drawn off to other
matters so completely as to forget the
greatest criminals of the age; wherein they
are destined to be disappointed The
governments attorneys will prepare their
case with greater. care; the jury viii, if
possible, be composed of men of reasonable
honesty DIR. Dicksonswill not be allowed
to partit pate in the proceedings; the
authorities will carefully see it that the
affable lsradyrandihis gang of robbers are
carefully excluded from access to the jury,
it rather looks as thought there were just
the faintest prospect of o conviction.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
A WOMAN'S WAGES.
What She Can Hold Independent of a Husband

CHICAGO, Sept. 16.-An interesting case
was decided yesterday morning by Judge
Jameson, involving the right of a woman
to earn money from her husband and her
individual right Ito money earned other
wise. The decision was on creditor s
bill filed by Conrad Kolb against Catha-
rine Quinn and others to set aside deed
by which she claimed to have acquired
possession of a house at the corner of Tay-
Tor and Jefferson streets, worth $1,000,
and to sell the property to satisfy an ex-
ecution for 1870 in favor of Kolb. Mrs.
Quinn claims to have bought the property
from her husband The price paid for
it included $3.50 which she earned by
working at the furrier's trade, and 81, 100
which she earned from her husband as his
assistant in his grocery store. Occasion
ally her husband would divide the profits,
giving her from $50 to 800. These
earnings" were concealed by her under
her parlor carpet until they amouted to
80, 700. Her husband discovered the trick
finally and appropriated the money. On
being threatened with a suit he sold her
the property in question for this debt and
for other considerations.
The bill charges that loan was made
by the complainant Charles S. Quinn, on
Nov 16. 1875, of $500, for which Quinn
and his wife gave their note, due in
one year. Suit was afterward brought
on the note against Quinn, and judgment
was rendered ON Aug. s, 1877, for 1919.
An execution was issued on Feb, g. 1878.
afterward returned nulla bona. When
this note was given, and up to about April
80, 1877, Quinn was the owner of the
property in question. On April 30. 1877,
Quinn and his wife conveyed the premises
to Clinton S. Lamb, one of the defendants,
for $4,000. Contemporaneous in all
respects with this transaction was another
from Lamb to Mrs. Quinn, to whom the
property was transferred, the deed being
dated back to April 80, and recorded on
May s. The consideration expressed in
this consideration in these two deeds, it
appears in evidence was in that from
Quinn and wife to Lamb-an indebted
ness of $500 from Quinn to Lamb. This
indebtedness the deed was given to secure.
1t was therefore mortgage. The $500,
however, was Immediately paid by Mr..
Quinn. OF the deed from Lamb to Mrs.
Quinn the consideration was, first, this
payment to Lamb by her out of what she
claims to be her separate estate, of the debt
of $500 due from her husband, and sec
ond, the discharge of the Indebtedness
due from Mr.. Quinn to Mrs. Quinn for
money loaned soon after their marriage, in
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
THE sULTANs sERAGLIO.
How the Gre Establishment on the Bosphorus
is Conducted.
brooklyn Eagle.

The Sultan's seragio, whose buildings
stretch TO the length of mile and half,
within a mile of Therapia, contains more
than 5000 inmates, and is a city in itself.
Here the government of the empire is car
ried on chiefly by women and children.
The visiers and ministers are but the SER
wants of these secluded creatures, and al
though at times statesman, supported by
a strong palace clique. may WELD real
power, he seldom does so long, nor is his
power very great. From the moment he
enters office he is assaulted by host of enc
mics whom he does not see, and whom he
cannot disarm or propitiate. Turkish
minister who is advised to begin reforms
may promise all that an ambassador de-
mands, but he well knows that any innova
ton he attempted would disturb vested in
terests, ich might happen to be defended
by some Circassian favorite of the sultans,
or by some insolvent baltadji. the conf
Dental servant for the time being of the
sultana valide As for the sultan as a
rule, he is as much at their mercy as his
ministers. puppet in the hands of the
women, he never knows who rules him,
but is obliged, for peace's sake, to do as
his mother, sisters, kadines or favorites
order. More than one sultan, weary to
death of seraglio intrigues, would have
been glad to make clean sweep of his fe
male court, but any step in this direction
would have led to conspiracy and deposi-
sition.
The loyalty of the people, which is
great towards the office of the padishah, is
null as regards the individual who holds
the Office, so that, provided there be
sultan, the people care little who he is,
nor would they be disposed to take up
arms for any padishah who had been
deposed by palace plot. The seraglios-
for there are two, the new one, where the
court of the remaining sultan resides, and
the one to which the favorites of departed
sultans are relegated-harbor between
them some 1000 persons, and are source
of ruinous expense to the treasury. Not
only are the allowances of the sultans
kadines, ikbals (favorites) and guienzdes
(aspirant favorites) large, but the ways of
the palace are extravaganza. Each of the
imperial ladies has her daira or retinue of
companions. male and female servants;
and ali these people scatter gold about
without counting it whenever they have a
within to satisfy.
Sultans do not contract regular mar
riages and the reigning lady at the
seraglio is never the sultan's wife, but his |
mother. She bears the title of valide, and
all the inmates of the seraglio owe her
servile obedience Her household con-
sists Of about $50 servants and guards |
Next to her comes hasnadar ousta or mis- |
tress of the treasury, who is generally a |
shrewd old woman, promoted from |
the ranks of domestieity for her talents in |
gossip and housekeeping. If the sultana
valide dies the hasnadar succeeds her as |
queen of the seraglio; and this arrange
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

Upon conference of number of the
workers of the temperance people of the
Eleventh congressional district, it has been
decided to hold convention at Red Rib
bon hall, at Monmouth, on Thursday, the
2sth instant, for the purpose of nominat-
ing candidate for congress on the Home
Protection Prohibition ticket.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

During the first six months of 1882
27S, 342 immigrants landed at New York
Their destinations were, in part, as follows
Da kota, 2,107; Indiana, 3,543; Illinois, 33
S34; Iowa, 1856; Kansas, 2,209 Michi-
14,2S7; Nebraska, Ass; Ohio, 1908
Wisconsin, 1929.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
ILLINOIS STATE FAIR

At Peoria, on September % to aO ~,
Rock Island and Peoria railroad ,,i,, ne
excursion tickets at one and one tbi %di sell
for round trip from all stations. In ad i@fe
ton to the regular trains runnipn da 'iI-
there will be special train on TIursJil
September % running through I eauity
Rock Island at 6 a. m. F.; RETURNING ing og
Peoria at 6 p. m. Fare, Rock IsIo ave
Peoria and return, 1855. ~ " In 10
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

just now the editorial columns of the
American newspapers are filled with
articles giving advice to the Khedive.
We are pleased to see that all have
omitted to tell him to pull down his
vest. This proves that they know he
doesn't wear a vest in order to show
the dounces on his shirt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

An Englishman living in Yorkshire.
Mr.. r. b. Madison, writes that, being
a consumptive patient in Madeira in
1871, he tried the use of carbolic acid
at his bedside merely as a preventive to
mosquitoes, and, finding his lungs cas-
Ter, continued its use. and has become
convinced by his restored health that
the vapor of inhaled carbqlic acid de-
stroys the bacilli in the tubetcles.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

The contest for political ascendancy is
now being waged between Blaine and
Arthur. The Plumed Knight seems to
have the call just at present. Arthur,
however, has the offices, and what else are
we here for
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

By the breaking down of the seats in a
circus at Mount Airy n c., Monday
evening, 1900 persons were precipitated
to the ground, many being seriously in
lured.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

The steamer Alaska has just made the
trip from New York to Queenstown, Ire
land, in 6 days Is hours and 10 minutes =
the shortest time on record
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

Eliza Pinkston is in jail at Canton, Miss.
for theft.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
CANADA EXCURSION

The Chicago, Rock Island & P,c;e.
railway will sell tickets, either via '' % ,,e
Grand Trunk or Michigan Central raiIuo rll
Sept. 18th and goth. at the following A.!
ures: =
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
HONEY TO LOAN.

On good farm lands, at per cent. No
commission. QUINCY MCNEIL.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

Particulars at the Moline avenue sta,i..
G. NJ. LoOsELEY
DAT Ticket Agent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20
"REMINISCENCES Notice.

Estate of William Frick, deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed Admin.
istrator of the estate of William Frick late V'
the county of Rock Island, State of Illinois, decgs-
ed, hereby gives notice that he will appear beloi
the county court of Rock Island county, at me ui
hce of the Clerk of said Court. in the city OF hotA
Island. at the Nov, term, on the Second Monua( p
Nov. next, at which time all persons having cain y.
against said estate notified and requested 10
tend for the purpose of having the same ADJUSTED.
All persons indebted to said estate are requesleu "
make immediate payment to the undersigned
Dated this 18th day of Sept. A. D., 1882.
HENRY j. Prick, Administrator.
Sept. 14-d3w
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-20

ADVERTISERS by addressing GEO. p ROWELL
" d CO. 10 Spruce St. New York can learn threg
act cost of any proposed line of ADVERTISING
American Newspapers. IOO-page PAMPHLET
70 cents. sept-lJdWfw
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10
Startling story.

The New York Sun on Tuesday published letter from Syracuse re- lating a ghost story of which the Courier office was the scene, and its late manager, MT. Daniel J. Hal stead, the spectral visitant. The ap partition, it is claimed, was seen one light about three months ago hy Charles Meigs, the foreman of the composing room. He says he saw Mr. Haistead as natural as life lean ing on cane which he always car ried in his later years. The ghost was subsequently, seen by James B. Hopkins, a reporter, aid more re- cent y by the pressnan, Robert Moore, who claims to have seen Mr. Haistead standing behind the desk in the counting room. He was in hts shirt sleeves and was trying to open the money drawer. Before Moore could take d second look the appari. ton had disappeared.
 For ten years previous to his death it was known that Mir. Halstead had become convert to spiritualsn, and frequent seances were held at his house. Hopkins was seized with d violent fit of sickness the day after he saw the apparition, and was con fined to hls bed for two weeks. His life was despaired of for awhile. Mrs. Halstead is said to have manifested no surprise when informed of these appearances. but desired to be in formed of all the details. Mir. Hal stead, previous to engaging in the newspaper business, was captain of the steamer Maid of the Mist, which used to carry passengers up to the Horseshoe falls at Niagara.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10

proYsiois of Nc Btaiinga;ne treaty. To that sffeet regal this provision ol lhe a'' t as s<A Jr,.ach If our national t4th, amd beinpsa0ah)e 10 hring my self in harasf,,gr grwith ;he views of congress eif1 'fhls vie,i point, honor pf coun;ry gss strains me 10 return the act Vi ths my hjecffssns tp its pas age adding that good policy yas well as good fai th re- qaIre rnoditsatiqu of the twenty years suspsa,hiQp:'' The pTesisiept further says, Aeldr treaty wIIh China Is not fony years oId; it iioply since we acquifest ;s ljtornia Il ad < s,s taol shed the great seal conlinefce, on the Pacific thai may be said 70. have broken down the barriers which fenced that ancient moIiarchy. Under the spirit which iuspired the BurIlngame treaty inany rhorsand Chinese lahorerS have como here, These people have heeu instruniental, in building railroads, and our country has prospered by their m-,I dustry. Tiere may be other 61c-a. tions of the country where t]1is., species of labor may be adVxnta{ geousl Y employed without intefrrine with laborers of our own rac,:ss< ,li<za pas port system," he says, "is faliin6 into disuse in Europe and besisla6 that, experience has shown thatpasss ports are easily borrowed orevens forged The message speaks of opening China to the woiId's coii- marce as having enormously sbA1b.,' fitted the Pacific slope and depfes ciates the policy which would drive Oriental trade and commerce from the United States. It concludes, While protection of our laborers from Aslatic competition may justify this policy, it is wiser now to make shorter experiment with view of maintaining permanetly only such features as time and experience com mend"
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10

Francisco, a:d your company con trols the town and the country for miles around it."
 "My dear boy, you have read our prospectus. Cuntess," said the visi Or.
 And all this has been brought about by the judicious investment ot paItry thousand dollars CT SO In the hands of few experienced eastern capitalists of unqurstioned ability and integrity" said the editor. "And these gentlemen, from purely philan throplc motives are nov ready to share their good fortune with their fellow men, and they have maenaui- mously placed the stock of the com pany at figures within the reach of the struggling working man, as wei! as the man of more ample means"
 "The words If our prospectus to a -yllablr," said the visitor, winking. "You'ye been there.''
 "Yes, l have," said the city editor.
 "rhen that settles it," said the wis. itor, rising and hastily taking his de parture on recognizing peculiarly warlke g!eam in the editors eyes.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10
ITEMS AT LARGE,
From the Phenix Gazette.

From the Phenix Gazette.
 Several of our solid farmers have made pool and sent an order to Chicago, to-day, for seven grain headers. They clam that by order ing direct they can save over hun dred dollars on each machine.
 From he Prescott Courier.
 The supposition is that Judge French will open district court at Mineral Park, Mohave county, this forenoon.
 Robert Grigsby is in town from Cherry Creek, where the work of putting the mill in order for a run goes on fast as poesiable. The stamps will probably commence to drop next week. The ore to be treated has, with little sorting, yielded about S75 per ton in arastras. It will not be sorted for the mll and il, IS probable that the yield per ton vii fall short ot the figures given above but will still leave good margin for profit.
 From the Tucson Star, April5.
 E 0. Stratton, was yesterday ap- pointed by the supervisors as a jus tice of the peace at Santa Catarlna.
 The Cochise county warrant Tn fla vor of Pima county, iu the sum of Sl0,432, has been received. It is how drawing interest at the rate of ten per cent.
 From the Tucson Citizen. April 1.
 Mir. $. w. George, of Total Wreck, Is registered at the Russ,
 The Cosmopolitan mine, situated in the Chuvaca district, and belong ing to quartette of printers, Is in creasing in value with depth. and bids far to become one of the really valuable properties of the district. The vein proper is about three and half feet wide at the bottom of a thirty foJt shaft, giving on three av- craze assays made general average of sixty dollars. There is no vase rock, but every pound taken between the well dehued walls will pay largely for reduction, and from the surface to the depth stated it IS all good. Printers are not proverbial for luck, but the case in question may be put down as a genuine ex- ception to the rule, inasmuch as thelr luck reaches beyond the Cosmopol. tan and takes in q twenty foot ledge of good looking copper ore, which, when properly developed, will bridge the yawning chasm that now inter- vencs between them and the Bo- uanza Kings of California.
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10
Poor Tombstone

This camp has hld some severe draw - backs. Il seems that We no sooner gel out Of one than another looms up in such gigantic paroportions as would seem to crush us. But we are a recuperative peo. pie, and have successfully "downed" floods, fires, Indians, washouts, cowboys and whisky. Our children have wreStlel with the measles and have got away with them; but now, alas! We are threatened with an epidemic which casts all previous ones in the shade. l. is no less horror than Pinaiore Young men whose voices were picke'i before they were ripe, pas, along the street at all hours of the nigh warbling, For crime unknown I'm socked in a dungeon cell" while people in bed gnash their teeth and heartily wish th'y were in d place that would rhyme with cell. Gentle maiden, with me"zo-tinted voices make lightning changes from Buttercup 10 Josephine, ut terly regardless of the tympaniums of their hearers And thus we suffer on the frontier. The governors attention was called to this outrage while he was here, and the Tombstone rangers have been O. ganiZed Sabe?
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10

would get from 10000 to sl.OO0 moe votes for governor than any other pr6orsble re. publican governor. The Mail and Exmt ss admits that the politics of the state prom Ise to become very complicated and inter- csting before next November. Should the human jackals who have been preying upon the reputation of Garfield continue their ghoulish work, and still call them- selves republicans, it Is probable that ;he complications Will bee me of a decidedly unhealthy nature for that wing of the party to winch those malc0ntents ally them. selves Tie fall elections bid fair to be- came exceedingly interesting wherever held
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10

THE San Francisco Chronicle of Sunday last, devotes a column edi- torIal to the vivisection of Oscar Wilde, and his phantasmagoric ideas of art. The closing paragraph, winch is a key to the whole article, reads as follows:
 His advice in respect to key of color Is by no means new. We have heard it from milliners and house fur. nishers for many years. He carries out his principle poorly in his own costume, for even his friend Whistler, the artist, would tell him that black velvet coat harmonizes i'll with dark cassimere pantaloors, and these gar. ments are absolutely discordant with a claret. colored neck'ie and handker. chief, and an olive green face. La dies arc advised not to wear false flowers. Would you, gentle esthete. cut a real segment from the land scape and put it in your wall: Would you weave real flowers into your tissues, have real storks for bronzes, and real men and women for statues? Must limitations be never used for ornament? Think little, iong-hsired mentor, and do not be be guilt, of such absurdlties. We torbear, however. to analyze further. He will leave us, we grieve to say, with many mysteries unexplained We can never learn why, as a ques- ton of art, the hair should be parted in the middle, why knee brooches should be preferred, why the sun. flower is beautiful, or why an asinne
 rhould admire a leonlne flower.
 reasons of these things lie
 h art, or cannot they be touched
 lse they are part of the masque.
 which makes this silly dispensa-
 pf half truths and utter false
 financially successful?
The Tombstone epitaph., 1882-04-10

CREED RAYMOND, associate coun- Sel of the Central Pacific Railroad company, has published an exhaus tive letter in the Colusa Sun, which has been copied by the San Fran ,isco Chropicle of Sunday last, upon the subj ,ct of railroad taxation, in which he gives the whole subject and the many aspects in which it has been brought before the courts. In 'peaking of excessive valuation, he 'ites the Southern Pacific road trough the Colorado desert, in San Diego county, where the land, as he says, could not be sold for one dol lar an acre, and as we say, it could rot be given away, and yet the land If the railroad is assessed at one hun fred dollars an acre. He also claims hat the track has been assessed at 25 per cent more than it would cost to replace It. Be this as it may, the subject of railroad taxation has vexed the law-makers and executors of the ,aw in California for over d decade, md there seems to be no let up to the legal bubbles. Arizona is now m for her share of the trouble and expense of collecting revenue from one of the great octopean's tentacles, md it remains to be seen whether ~he will come out as well or better ihan her neighbor or not. Precisely the same grounds have to be fought over here that have been gone over there.