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The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12
The Revolution in Egypt.
FIRE DAMP.

Fifty-six Persons Killed il a Prussian
Mine.
LONDON. May 11.-Information is received
of a terrible explosion of fire damp in the
Pluto mine, town of Bochurm, Westphalia.
The bodies of 56 victims have thus far been
recovered.
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Indignation at Tombstone.

TOMBSTONE, A. T., May 11.-An immense
indignation meeting was held here last night
to express the public feeling over Ethe recent
proclamation by President Arthur. Speeches
were made and committee was appointed to
draft suitable resolutions expressive of the
sense of the meeting, and to forward the same
to the President and Congress.
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12
the wheat Crop Of Arkansas

CHICAGO, May ia special from Little
Rock states that the wheat crop of Arkansas
this season will be the best for ten years. In
many localities it is already harvested and the
yield is pronounced excellent. It is fully ma
tured and of firm berry. and in some counties
averages 20 bushels per acre.
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12
Faresgn Imports.

BARBADOES. Brig Magic 1853 pun. 50 hhds 81
bbls mol asses to E Churchill & Co.
LIVERPOOL. Bark John Gill-l405 tons salt 70
Emery & Furbish
MATANzAs. Bark Minde-59o hhds sugar to
Geo Hunt & Co.
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Eurspenn Markets.


I1vERpooI. May 11-I2.sOP. M.-Ootton msaket
active and flrmer; Uplands at 6ssd; Orleans R 1S-
Ie:sales Is 900 les;speculation snd export SUoo
futures quiet but steady.
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Base Ball.

At Boston-Bostons 8; Pre- vidence /.
At Worcester-Troys 4; W orcesters 0.
No games at Chicago and Detroit.
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12

The following quotations OF stocks are received
and corrected daily by Woodbury. & Moulton frnsza
bers of tho Boston Stock Exchan9e) corner Oh Mid
dIa and Exchange stree.a.
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12
MASSACHUSETTS.


MARBLEHEAD, May 11.-Ssmuel Harris sui
cided in the harbor tais morning by drowning.
His brother suicided in the same manner and
place 36 years ago. He leaves four children.
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12

The following quotations wholesale prices and
corrected daily by Store bros. q Co., Dry Goods.
woo,aps and Fancy Geocs. 144 to 152 Middle street
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12

Corrected for the PRESS daily by Wheeler, Swift
& Co., Commission Merchants in Chicago Dressed
Beef, Franklin Wharf:
sides... .....l1 @121s Kinds. .,.....l3 @l66
Fores @l0 Rattles...... 9 91s
Racks. ....... 99101s Rounds. ..... 10l5@ll1s
Rumps. -. .151a@161z Loins. GIL
Rumr Loins. .............s....'.-..-..io 9Ao72
The Portland daily press., 1882-05-12
Tnva1ids,
Epicures.

and, in fact, everyone should
understand the value of that
delicious food source SEA
MOSS FARINE. 1t is prOduc-
ed by inventive skill from the
nutritious Irish Sea Moss, and
is, without exception, the best
Invalids' Food and most useful
basis for light wholesome food
and desserts now i'm existence.
For puddings, jellies, creams,
blanc manages and other table
deIicacies, the Sea Moss Farine
excels everything known, and
i'm the sick room it is simply
indispensable.
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$500 REWARD /!

Ehaye this day deposited Five Hundred
Dollars in the Canal National Bank OF
PortIand, maine, which Il viii pay TO the
uerson or persons instrumental i'm the ar
rest and conviction of the cownrdly assas-
sims of LORD FREDERICK CAvEN-
DISH, Secretary OF hFetnnd' nm" ohafr
secretary BURKE.
GEORGE KELLEY,
Native of Galway, Ireland.
POrtlaud, Mas 0, 1882. maylodst
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SALES at tie Boston Brokers' Board, May II.
New Work stock and Money Market.

NEW YORK. May 11-Eveaing. Money loaned
between 3Q4 closed offered at 2; prime mercantile
paper 415. Exchange steady at 4871z for long and
490 for short. Governments are weak and n low
er for 415s %s lower for As. State bonds inactive.
Railroad bonds fairly active and irregular.
The transactions at the Stock Exchange aggrsx2s
ed 18O 600 shares.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
THAT BANQUET.

Now that the smoke of battle has lifted
and the clever combatants are well off the
field, it is incumbent upon the ARGUS as a
nesospaper to refer to Tuesday nights ban
Duet in Turner Hall as its merits deserved.
From the outset Mr.. August Herkert, pro
prietor of the Turner Hall restaurant, as a
member of the committee of arrangements
bore very large share of the brunt of the
work of preparing for the proper reception
of the visitors. For this reason he was
not seen much in public and thus escaped
the quill drivers generally. But it is of
the banquet that the ARGUS would speak,
which was prepared under the superin
tendence of Mr.. Herkert, who evidently
understands all about the science of gas
tronomy. The floor of the hall was COW
were covered with almost every concelv-
able specimen of skill in the culinary line.
Indeed, it ought to be mentioned right
here that the guests were so numerous that
Mr.. Herkert found it necessary to set an
additional table upon the stage. At mid
night every chair at these tables was occu-
pied and without preliminary ceremony
the guests. one and all, made a gallant
onslaught upon the tempting array of
edibles These consisted of cold meats IN
endless variety, roast turkey, chicken, etc,
salads. oysters, cake, fruit, candies and, IN
short. nearly everything that could be
thought of to tempt the appetite of the
veriest epicure. Nothing was seemingly
left undone by Mr.. Herkert and his
efficient assistants to please and fully
satisfy in this direction and the visitors,
who well knew what constituted good
bill of fare, were emphatic in their COM
mendation of Mr.. Herkerts quite elabO-
rate spread, which proved to be one of the
chief features of the convention and a
notice of which would have been appended
to yesterdays report had there been suf-
ficient space.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
THE RIFLES.

The service of number of the members
of the Rodman Rifles has expired, as they
have been connected with the company
for the past five years, the limit of enlist
ment. As a result number of them will
secure an honorable discharge. while 9TH
ers will continue with the organization.
Among those who will retire at the eXpi-
ration of their terms of service are II. l..
Schill, Geo. E. Barth, Geo. E. Baily, Geo.
T. Eyster, D. W. Heath, Thos Johnston,
p. O'NIara, f. E. Parmenter, J. w. Stark
and E. B. Sargent.
Among those who remain are Capt. C.
W. Halves. First Lieut.. Harry Abel, sec
ond Lieut.. c. c. Carter, Sergt. VIM. Steel,
Sergt. James Johnstod, Cory. w. c Chan
non. Corp. E. B. McKown, and Privates
James X. Cooke, A. d. Frantz, Geo. E.
Lambert, John J. Reimers, T. H. Thomas,
and W. A Swiler.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
NEW PASTOR.

A Congregational meeting of the mem
bers of the Central Presbyterian church was
held last evening in the auditorium of that
edifioe. The audience was quite large, as
the object of the gathering was to issue a
call to the Rev. S. S. Cryer to become the
pastor of the congregation. The meeting
was called to order by the Rev. j. G. Holli-
day pastor of the Broadway Presbyterian
church who served as moderator. Mr.. j.
M. Buford acted as Secretary. Mr.. Fl. c.
Blackbu moved that the meeting pro
coed to elect a pastor, and amended his
motion by naming the Rev. S. S. Cryer
with a salary of 500 per annum. The
motion was carried unanimously and Mr..
Cryer was declared the choice of the meet
ing.
At the conclusion of the meeting the
officers of the church held a consultation
and selected Mr.. Blackburn as delegate
to the Rock River Presbytery, which meets
at Norwood, Mercer county next Tuesday.
At the time the call will be presented and
acted upon, and date for his installation
decided upon. Mr.. Cryer. the pastor has
been in the city for the past ten months,
during which term he has proved himself
in every way gu lifted to fill the position
with credit to himself and to the benefit of
of the church and religion generally. He
is popular alike with the members of the
Central Presbyterian and the outside
public
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
A RUNAWAY.
once.a

Tuesday evening, a young girl arrived
in this city from the west. Immediately
upon her arrival, she made inquiries as to
an intelligence Office where she could pro
cure a situation. She was given the
proper information but failed to reach that
place, and has not since been heard from.
Her neat appearance and general behavior
was sucn that some surprise was manifest
ed at her request, She failed to give her
name or address, but stated that she ran
away from home because she was COMPEL
ed to attend school when she had no such
inclination. 1t is believed that she resides
in Des Moines although no positive infor-
nation of that character has been received.
The local police have not been appraised of
the fact that a girl has run away from her
home, as is generally the case when such
an affair occurs in a neighboring city.
There is evidently some little mystery con-
nected with the affair, that few days will
probably bring to light.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
SIGHT SEEING.

After the adjournment sine die at noon
ton, very large percentage of the dele
gates left on the first trains for their re-
spective homes. Those who remained, in
GLIDING the Peoria delegation, took car
riages at the hotels at 100 P. NJ. and
devoted the afternoon to sight seeing.
Having been invited to accompany the
Peoria delegates an ARGUS reporter was n
hand at the Rock Island House at the APP
pointed hour and the start was made, the
Island being the objective point. The
first thing that awakened the curiosity of
our Peoria visitors was the order to throw
away their cigars as preliminary to enter
ing the Arsenal grounds, but they very
good naturally complied and after the pass
had been properly .'visedn by the guard
the grand entree was made. The party
first alighted at the gun yard and seemed
deeply interested in the examination of
the munitions of war, including the siege
guns captured at Vera Cruz in At. From
there they drove to the machine and car
penter shops and inspected the work GO
ing on with considerable interest. From
thence trip was made around the Island,
which took in the residences of Colonel
Flagler and his associate officers, the bar
racks, headquarters, etc. Having made
the grand rounds the party started upon
their return to the city, taking in the city
brewery on the way, Mr.. Huber extend
tending cordial welcome
to his visitors. From the
brewery the party went directly to the i'm
mense establishment of B. d. Buford s.
Co, and under the courteous guidance of
Major Buford, visited nearly every portion
of the same. To most of them this was
like visit to wonderland and an hour or
two seemed but few minutes to all, so
intensely interested were they in all that
they saw. From the pillow works the
party drove to the Rock Island Glass
Work, where many of them for the first
time, looked wonderingly upon the process
of manufacturing window glass. By the
time they had seen all that was sseeable'
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
POOR SIDEWALKS.

Rock Island is deserving of an unenvia
BILE reputation on account of the numerous
poor and defective sidewalks that offer pc
destrians foothold throughout the city. A
number of accidents have already occurred.
and damage suits have resulted, which
have generally terminated in favor of the
injured party. The city has been called
upon to pay several thousand dollars foI
such luXuries as defective sidewalks, and a
number of suits are yet to be commenced
wherein damages are claimed. The last
accident from this cause took place on
Wednesday. Jessie Van Wiper, little
girl some four years of age, was playing on
Eleventh street between Fourth and Fifth
avenues. She got her foot in one of the
holes that disfgure the sidewalks all over
the city, and was thrown to the ground.
Both bones of her right forearm were dis
located. DR.. Pelham reduced the fracture.
A new suit for damages is expected.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
SIGNALS.

The st. Louis Republican has the follow
ing anent river signals;
Ever since the change made in the sig
nal system BY the board of supervising in
spectors in 1880, by which the descending
boat was given the right of making the
first signal, no end of contention has re-
suited among steamboat men. Those on
the upper Ohio oppose the change as wrong
and Mississippi men approve of it. AT
Pittsburg not long since petitions were
gotten up asking to have the old system
restored, thus giving the ascending vessel
the power to select her course, but still al
lowing the descending vessel the right of
changing the signal. thus consuming valu-
able time which might be productive of
accident The Mississippi men, on the
other hand, have always contended that
as the descending boat is the more unman-
ageable, she should have the right of way,
and in order To avoid the loss of much val
liable time, and to prevent confusion, she
should give the first signal, and
have accordingly gotten up petition re-
questing that the rule remain as it is at
present. AS New Orleans, Little Rock,
Memphis and Upper Mississippi and Mis-
souri, river steamboat men are as much in
terested in this matter as any others, it is
to their interest to give their views upon
the subject, as it is one of vital Importance
to safe navigation. Let the captains and
pilots and other practical steamboat men
speak out, as the weight of such mems
views will determine the action of the
board. From what the Pittsburg papers
say it is to be inferred that the petition
from that point will be largely signed by
the merchants and others who have no
practical knowledge of steamboating; on
the other hand the petition from the Mis-
sissippi has on it no names but those OF
practical captains and pilots and every one
of them can be found on the inspectors
register.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
Location of the Electric
Light Towers.
A Girl and Her Strange Mis-
sion to this City.
Sightseeing by the Dele
gates to the Late Con-
venti0n.
Callender's Colored Minstrel
Performance.
Buffalo Bill Tonight, and
Other Stage Gossip.
THE TOWERS

w. H. Barber, who took the contract of
constructing the foundations for the ten
electric light towers that will be used in the
new system of city Illumination, has COM
pleted three of the foundations, and is now
at work on two more. Those completed
are on Franklin Square, at the corner of
Third avenue and Ninth street and at the
corner of Seventh avenue and Eleventh
street. Work is now progressing on the
foundation located at the corner of Fourth
avenue and Fourteenth street. Some little
difficulty was experienced this morning in
selecting the location for the tower on
Seventeenth street and Second avenue.
The corners were found to be poorly adap-
ted for tower purposes, and it was thought
probable that the tower viii surmount the
drinking trough on Market Square. The
mayor, members of the street and alley
committee of the city council and the
officers of the electric light company were
in consultation during the morning, when
it was decided to locate the tower on the
southeast corner of Mitchell 6 Lynde
block, and the work of erecting the founda-
ton on that spot will be commenced at
once
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21

has been deserted by the Hancock county
republicans, thought it would be a good
scheme to materialize in this city on that
occasion, and he was also invited. These
two great and good men will HE themselves
to this city next Saturday. They will adj
dress large crowd of office holders, who
will be told that if the republican party
goes out of power, the office-holders will
be deprived of their salaries and 'tMy dear
HubbelP' will no longer be able to assess
them at per cent on their annual salaries.
The meeting will be held in Union park.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
TAcHERs' INSTITUTE.

| County Superintendent Southwell an
nounces the next teachers institute to b.
held at Hampton, Saturday, Oct. 18th, il
the following card:
| The worlds industrial expositions are
| Identifying mechanics and artisans. Far
mers hold their fairs, printers, carpenters
| machinists and laborers have their socie-
| ties, and the lawyers, the doctors the den
| fists and the clergy have theirs. And il
must be self evident to every teacher il
our county that if he would exert any
marked influence. he must take every op
| portunity presented to associate with his
| fellow laborers in teachers meetings and
| institutes, and assist in conducting such
| meetings so that they may be profitable in
| producing the useful and the beneficial, and
| in Graduating the useless and harmful
| from his professional methods. Associa-
| ton is the motive power of progress. That
| a thousand Robinson Crusoe teachers, each
always alone upon his own school house
| island, cannot exert their greatest
possible powers for progress in their re-
spective schools, is a truth of which | am
convinced that teachers are fully conscious.
Therefore | desire of all teachers of the
county that they will, even at the expense
of some effort, furnish their personal
presence at our next monthly institute,
which is to be held in the school house at
Hampton, on Saturday October Z. AT the
monthly meetings already held there has
been an excellent attendance-never less
than forty, and at some sessions as many
as seventy teachers have been present.
After inviting all who are educationally
interested, to be present, let me take the
liberty of especially urging upon all that
are now engaged, or expect to engage in
teaching, to attend each institute, if it is
in any way practicable for them to do SO,
and it is hoped that there will be good
attendance at our first institute after the
vacation, for it is desirable that methods
be discussed and some good one chosen,
so that each may reap the greatest benefit
possible from the investment of time and
attendance of one day in each month.
To outline the work for the first meet
ing, l will assume that it is probable the
method to be chosen as the best, will be
to take the various subjects of the common
school branches, and, beginning at the
.rudiment of each, assign lessons for each
succeeding meeting four weeks in advance,
taking up subject at one session at
point where it was dropped at previous
one,kapportioning the day in such a way
that time may be had in which such sub
jects as school government, and methods
and principles of teaching may be dis
cussed, and for the reading of papers
upon the subjects appereaining to our
work.
A programme will be announced and
the work for Saturday, Oct. z will be upon
the rudiments of the branches therein
j. III. SoUTHwELL,
County Superintendent.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21

at the glass works it was so near tea time
that the party reluctantly started for their
respective hotel homes, but the pleasant
recollections of the afternoon are not like
ly to soon be effaced.
The other carriages made substantially
the same round of visiting with the addi-
ton, however, of trip to Moline. which
was greatly enjoyed.
All in all, our visitors turned their faces
toward home with most pleasant memories
of their temporary sojourn in our excep-
tionally attractive city.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21

and jail account committee of tho hoard =
supervisors.
This afternoon at a o'clock, Alfred Gate.
who does business at No 1921 Seco,1
avenue, was found in an unconscio,,.
state in the upper rooms of that buildiro
1t is supposed that he was suffering From,
a stroke of apopleXy.
The volume of business transacted h,
the Chicago postoffice makes it the leadir.
office of the country. Of the ,OcO busi
ness firms who receive matter through III.
office the largest amount delivered to anu
one individual firm is to Lord & Tbor,o.
the well-known newspaper advertisino
agents.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21

cess out of States Attorney" He was
sober at last account.
Haverly's raany amusement enterprises
are now owned by Israelites who use his
name.
Joe Emmett has a new play called
among the Gypsies" that is almost iden-
tai with his first play Fritz. The old
water wheel scene is again introduced
Henry Irving the great English tragedian
will visit America.
The Whitley dramatic company with
Ida Lewis as star, will play a weeks en-
gagement in this city early in October.
There are said to be more shows on the
road this season than ever before known.
Some of the companies will find the walk
ing good before the season is over.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN.

Major Beardsley, the political manager
of the local postoffice, has just returned
from Chicago, where he has been in con
sultation with the Republican State Cen
trail committee, of which he is member.
The Major appreciated the fact that there
was general apathy among the rank and
file of his republican household in this i'm
mediate locality that BODIED no good to the
republican congressional candidate nor to
the county ticket. He therefore urged
action, and advocated the opening of the
campaign at an early day. Gen. Green b.
Raum, of the Internal Revenue depart
ment, 'ewho wants to be senator and
with the senators stand" has been
dying for an invitation to speak, and he
Immediately signified his willingness to
1nflict an address on the long-suffering
people of this community. Major Boards
ley, of the postofice department, there
upon invited Gen. Raum, OF the Internal
Revenue department, to come down to
Rock Island and make it pleasant for .'the
boys" Col. Marsh, the republican candi-
date for congressman in this district, who
failed to secure his own county delegates
to the congressional convention. and who
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-21
CIRCUIT COURT.

The assault to murder case of the people
versus F. w. Fitch is still on trial in the
circuit court. This noon the prosecution
concluded the testimony and rested the
case. A large number of witnesses from
Whiteside county, where the ARRAY oc-
CURED, are in attendance at court. 1t is
believed that the case viii not be given TO
the jury before tomorrow evening.