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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
Is "a Really Reliable Rem
edy for Wasting and
Nervous Diseases.

After numerous experiments Mr.. Fellows sue-
ceeded in producing this combination of Hv9o.
phesphIIes, which has not only restored him IN
health, but has since been found so successful in
the treatment OF disease emanating from loss OF
nerve power, and consequently muscular reIaxa
ton. viz:
Aphonia Gloss of voice,) Neuralgia,
An9Via, Nervous Iebi.ity,
chronic Diafrhea, Whooping Cough,
Dyspepsia, Congestion of the LuDgs
Fewer aud Ague, Palpitation OF the Heart
LeucorrhGa, Melancholy.
Malaria, Mental Depression,
Nervousness
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.

(RAcINE AND oUTH-wEsTERN DIyIsIoS)
Leave for Racine and Milwaukee S:25 a. m. and
liz p. m.
Leave for Dubuque Winona. st. Paul and Minneap
oils, 100 a. m.
Leave for McGregor, Portville, Calmas, Sioux City
and Yankton II 100 p. m.
Arrive from Racine and Milwaukee, sos a m, and
6:25 p. m.
Arrive from Minneapolis, St. Paul, winona and Du
buque, 9:05 p. m.
Arrive from Yankton, Sioux City, Portville and Nc
Gregor, sos a. m.
Through sleeping cars are run on all night TRAINS
The Night Express leaving Rock Island every Sun
day night at II 100 D. H. connects with the train ar
irving in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock Is
land to Chicago. Through tickets only good on this
frni
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
VIEWING THE SCENE.

Crowds went down yesterday and viewed
the scene with wonder and astonishment.
And to-day, should the weather PEI init,
many viii take advantage of trip down
to see the results of that terrible thunder
clap, for such even those living near
thought it to be, never imagining until
daylight revealed the fort, that the powder
magazine had exploded.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

We suspect the iron workers of Ohio
win find something less pleasing in the re-
iterated devotion of the republican party
of that state to the policy of protection to
American industry this year than they did
two years ago. Protection that breeds
strikes is not for the workingman, but the
"a nitalist
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
THE ONLY DEATH.

The only death from the explosion is
Judge Cooks old horse Billy which for
years he has driven back and forth on his
daily visits to Davenport. He was grazing
in q pasture half mile away. A stone
from the exploded magazine struck his
ancient limb, completely severing it from
the body as neatly as though done with a
surgeons knife. He was shot yesterday
to end his sufferings.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

$4,000, 900 of nearly $500, coo, 900 of cap
ital in sugar in the country, and pays no
importing tax, against payments of nearly
$50, 600. 900 by eastern and northern inn
porters. In view of the presidents knowl-
edge of this fact and of the statement in
Secretary Folger's last report that nearly a
fourth of the revenues were derived from
sugar, and hence that no occasion ought
to be lost to relieve importers and at the
same time protect planting interests, it is
thought strange that the president should
have not only overlooked but antagonized
the importers. Sugar men say that if he
has done so for political advantages in the
south, he win be apt to meet with more
than compromising losses north and east.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

How does the programme for an ex-
odus of Mississippi negroes to Mexico
please the republican leaders? Doubtless
they will want congress to put an embargo
on the expectation of voting. cattle if
the hegira grows to considerable proper
tions
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

We read in the Washington dispatches
that in .the Alabama contested election
case Mr.. Jones, of Texas, (greenbacker),
voted with the republicans We read in
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
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Fitting Of MALL
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Ulcers purified and heal
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Gangreneprcvented and
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Dysentery cured.
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Scurvey cured in shor-
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For Sore Throat it isl
aura feV1Pn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

ness, the roof of thick sheet iron. The
contents of the magazine, as well as the
building itself, was the property of the
Oriental Powder Company, of Boston,
Dessaint s. Sons being the agents
of the company here, selling the powder
on commission, and having charge OF the
building. The contents were worth in the
neighborhood of ST., COO. the value of the
structure being variously estimated At
the time stated, lightning struck the maya
zine followed by an explosion. so terrific
in its force, that.
NOT STONE Is LEFT
to mark the place. In the place where
Friday the magazine stood there is now
nothing within a hundred yards of the
spot, except the furrowed earth, and a
hole, ten feet in depth, dug in moment
by the flying rocks and the powders
strength Around the place where the
building stood the earth is thrown up in a
circle, resembling miniature circus ring.
with the gaping depth in the center.
A short distance away stood another
for the same purpose, which is unframed,
with the exception of one corner being
torn off by flying boulder, it is presumed.
THE EFFECTS.
An ARGUS reporter went down yester-
day to view the sight. Hundreds of yards
from the scene can be found the stones
which composed the structure, the evil
dences of the force with which they sped
on their journey being plainly visible in
their passage across this county. The
earth is torn here and there, thrown up in
heaps, where the rocks would strike and
then bound into the air again, speeding
along until their force was spent Old
soldiers gathered around and looked on
with admiration, the appearance resembl-
ing, they said, battle ground after a
fierce engagement The rocks sped along,
the majority of them meeting no resistance
in their journey except mother earth.
Like ponderous shells, belched
forth from the lannon's mouth,
what stood in the way of their passage was
sure TO be hewn down. Fences in the vi
cinity are wrecks of what they were, in
some instancee neither boards or posts
can nowhere be found. A half dozen tel
egraph poles are down, one being snapped
off in the centre, not vistage, not even
splinter having yet been discovered, blown
no one knows where. The railroad track
is unframed
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

William FL. Ramscar, manager of the
and Sanitarium for Young Children, in
New York, has been sent to the Tombs in
default of 5000 security for his appear
ance to answer charges of manslaughter.
The house was Ramscars own enterprise.
He said he received and expended all the
money-charity offerihgs-and selected
his advisory board. Somehow he got hold
of infants to rear, and fourteen of them
under nine months old had died since Jan
uary 1. 1882. Fifteen living babies were
found in the institution when an inquest
was held on one just dead. The president
of the society for the prevention of cruelty
to children took the whole matter of the
home in hand, and the examination of wit
nesses before the coroner lasted three days.
The evidence was damaging to Ramscar,
and proved the home grave of innocents.
It was filthy and the air sitting. Ramscar
went his rounds among the babies, and
would occasionally say to nurse: THAT
baby won't live; just let it lie there; it
won't need any more nourishment. This
was doubtless the best advice, since the
anourishment" was curdled milk, and the
absence of it let the child off with less
anguish than it would have had to endure
if fed. The Unsectarian Home was pulled
up by the roots, and the babies that were
left were put where some of them may
have chance to live. Of the fourteen
dead since January 1, nearly all are on
record as ''died of inanihon." That they
went off that way with unanimity led TO
the, investigation and landed Ramscar in
iail
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

Beecher has given hard blow to reve
nue. reform by coming out in advocacy of
it. He is one of the friends that we wisely
pray to be saved from.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
MATAR A.

Persons living In MalariOus districts may prot. ct
themselves from attacks offeVer by the use If FEL-
Lows COMPOUND OF HYPoPH sPBITE-. Its effects
In to ing up he system enables to ward of con.
ag1ous disorders. and successfully combat disease
The soluble Dhosphifes AID the other life sustain
ing principles composing Fellows HypOphosphites
mingled, that their action upon the nerves mus
Giles and membranes In imparting vitality, strength
and heal by action Is generally apparent within
twenty-four hours, and The good effects experien-
ced are Of permane Mt character.
For gale at Harper House Drug Store.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
ROCK ISLAND & PEORIA RAILWAY,

(sHoRTEsT ROUTE TO THE EAST AND wEsT)
LEAVE ARRIVE.
Fast Express. s:45 a. M Mail and Elk AS P. NJ.
Mail and Ex. / :35 P. NJ. Fast Express $40 P N.
Freight and Accommodation, 100 p. NJ.
The AS D. m. train makes close connection at
GaIva with the c. B. & O., for points west; arriving
Keokuk 10: 25 p. M; Quincy 1905 p. M; also max
ing close connection at Peoria with l. b. 81 w, and
T. p & W., roads for all points east and south.
ROCK ISLAND & MERCER CO., r. r.
LEAVE ARRIVE.
Rock Island 300 A. NJ. Cable, 1855 a. N
Cable ........ 6:30A NJ Rock Island, S:15 A. N.
- ..........1 :O0P. M g rs p. NJ.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

Between one and two O'Clock Saturday
morning, thcresidents of Davenport, and
in fact for fixe miles around, were startled
by what at the time appeared to be a
furious clap of thunder, which shook
buildings and ratified the windows at a
frightfnl rate TIE furious rain which
was pouring at the time, and the vivid
flashes occurring every few moments. ac-
companied by the rumbling sound of
thunder ciaps, led most everyone to be-
lieve that nothing unusual had occurred
Some. more suspicious of the unusual oe-
currence than the rest, listened attentiveIy,
expecting each moment TO hear. the clang
Of the FIRE alarm. but as all was silent, ex-
cepting the pattering rain, and the rever-
berating thunder. their suspicious were
allayed, and they slept until morning not
knowing. that the unusual noise was the
result of an explosion. fortunately bringing
no loss of human life. but trouble when
viewed In the light of what il might lave
been.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
DIPTHERIA
PREV q Mt ED.

Cholera dissipated.
Ship Fever prevented
by its use.
In case of death i'm the
house, it should always
be used about the
corpse-it viii prevent
any unpleasant smell.
An Rntidote for Animal
or Vegetable POisons,
Stings, &C.
Dangerous effluyias of
sick rooms and hospi-
tails removed by its use.
Yellow Fever
Eradicatet.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11

About mile and half below the city,
in the vicinity OF Cooks Point, and near
the little hamlet known as Fishertown,
Z. C. Dessaint & Son yesterday had 5000
pounds of powder of different kinds stored
Id magazine, the dimensions of the
building being about 12x16 feet, and
about twelve feet high. The building was
of solid stone. the walls two feet in thick
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
Small PoX
5:ERADIC u =
Contagion destroyed.

Contagion destroyed.
Sick Rooms purified and
made pleasant.
Feyered and Sick Per-
sons relieved and re-
freshed by bathingwith
ProphylacticFluid add
ed to the water.
Soft White Complex
ions secured by ITS use
in bathing.
impure Air made harm
less and purified by
sprinkling Darby s
Fluid about.
To Purify the Breath,
Cleanse the Teeth,
it can't be surpassed.
Catarrh relieved and
cured.
Erusipeias cured.
Burns relieved instantly.
Scars prevented
Removes all unpleasant
odors.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY.

Local passenger makes CLOSE cohneSslon ~ LUNA s
Kansas CITY Council Bluffs and points west; at
Bushnell for Quincy, Hannibal, st. Joe and points
in southwest.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-11
THE DAILY ARGUS.

DAILY, by wear .:.....:.-..- 1890. s. 90
g by the week. delivered by carrier 15c
per year, by mail ....-....--- $50
RICHARDSON & POWERS, PRoPRIEToBs.
H. w. PARKER. Business Manager
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-25
Tipping His Wife Out.

The women of the lower and middle
classes of Wales are noted for their lnde-
pendence and the tenacity with which
they hold to their own, ways. Mr.. Writ
Sykes, in his book on sold South
Wales" gives an illustration of the per-
tinacity with which a married woman
strove to retain her reputation of being
"the better man of the house."
A middle-aged and thrifty couple were
OF one mind as to their frugality and in
dustry, but constantly at loggerheads as
to who should be master. One evening,
when the domestic storm had become
too severe for the husband to endure, he
shut himself up in the stable in order to
escape his wife's tongue.
His intention was to remain there
alone until two o'clock in the morning,
when it would be time for him to start
with his horse and cart for the market
town. His wife, anticipating his pur-
pose, hid herself under the straw in the
cart.
When the man was well out on the
road his wife popped up from the straw
and began her " Caudle lecture at the
exact point where it had been broken
off by his retreat to the stable. For a
moment he was dazed by the unwelcome
apparition. But recovering himself he
executed a flank movement which eman-
cipated him from her strategy.
Pulling out the pin, he tipped the
cart, and the voluble woman was shot
out into the road with her unfinished
lecture. Whipping up. his horse, the
triumphant but ungallant husband went
rafting down the road, leaving his per-
sistent wife to get home as best she
ao.,1J
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-25
The Red River Country.

Nowhere else in the United States,
unless it be in the distant and little
known valleys of Eastern Oregon and
Washington Territory, are such large
crops of wheat raised with such small
expense and such certainty of success
year after year. The grain is sown late
IN the spring, as soon as the hot suns of
the northern latitude have dried the
soaked lands, and grows with marvellous
rapidity. BY August it is fully mature
and ready for reaping. All the farm
work is done by machinery. The plow-
man rides upon-a sulky pillow; the grain
is sown with drill or broad caster
the reaping machines bind the sheaVes
as they move over the ground,
and the threshers do their work in the
fields driven by portable steam engines
that burn the straw for fuel. The grain
is hauled at once to the elevators at the
nearest railway station, and then the
whole farm equipment of apparatus is
left standing in the fields until needed
the next year. Except on the big
"bonanza FARMS" owned and operated
by capitalists, it is rare to find any sheds
for implements, or, indeed, any farm
buildings save a little bare box of
dwelling, and rude stable of boards,
sod and straw, to shelter the horses from
the winter billiards. The red barns of
the bonanza farms make great show
upon the wild, vacant prairie, but they
are not much larger than thrifty Penn
sylvania farmers, who till hundred
acres, build to house their crops and
stock.
It is within bounds to say that, taking
one year with another, profit of $40
an acre is made on the Red river wheat
lands, after paying all expenses of seed,
cultivation and marketing. The great
merit of this magnificent grain field
does not lie wholly in its richness, how
ever. Its structure is peculiarly favora-
BILE for the transportation of its product
to the searoard. Two hundred and
fifty miles of rail transit brings the Red
river wheat to Duluth at the head of
Lake Superior, from whence there is
water carriage all the way to New York
harbor. Dakota seems to have been fit
ted by nature for a vast, permanent
wheat field. The conditions of climate
and soil exist for producing the best
grade of wheat and the largest average
crops harvested for a succession of
years in the United States, except, per-
haps, Washington Territory.-Century
MnO1zine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-25
THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Gable dispatches of the 10th inst. state that
there is no prospect that England and Turkey
will agree touching the proposed military con-
vention. The policy of Gen. WoIseley is to
divide Arabis forces, and he, with the author
ity of the Khedve, has issued procla nation
to the people Of Egypt representing the sole
object of the British to be to restore the au-
thOrity of the Khedive. 1t is said the
hopelessness of the struggle is becom-
ing apparent to the Egyptians. Gen.
Wolseley, at Alexandria, issued mani
festo saying the chief object of Great Britain
is to restore the authority of the Khedive in
Egypt, promising at the same time that peace
full natives wll be kindly treated and the
mosques respected. The report that the
Ulemas had deposed the Sultan is untrue. as
also is the statement that Menotti Garbatli
was organizing force in Italy to aid the Egyp-
Gana.
Disp. tches from Alexandria of Aug. 90 state
that four English regiments made a reconnois-
sauce along the Mahmouaieh canal, drawing
out shells from Arab PaSha's force. British
troops occupied Port Said and Ismalia and dis
armed he native soldiers. Rear Admiral Hew-
it stopped traf1i3 on the S1ez canal at which
De LesSeps made a very strong protest. A
Port Said the British troops threw up some
earthworks between the European and Arab
quarters, AMI Admiral Seymour and Gen
VOL eley were on hand with seventeen tr ms
ports and five men-Of-war. The Directors of
the Suez Canal Company held a meeting in
Paris, at which resolutions We're pas ied re-
aff ming the neutrality of the highway. de-
nouucing the warnks measures of the Brit h.
and reserglng the right to claim compensation
from Englaud4
The British Admiral Hewitt telegraphs from
Suez that the men of the gunboats Sea Gulland
Mosquito. aided by 2O0Hghlanders, carried the
intrenchments at Shaluf at the point of the
bayonet, killing 100 rebels and capturing forty
five. 1t was given out at Port Said that
traffic on the Suez canal would be suspended
only long enough to permit the British vessels
to pass to Ismalia. Arab Pasha was erecting
extensive earthworks in the vicinity of Aboukir.
The French Government sent to De LeSseps in
Structions to be more prudent in his language.
The Porte refuses to permit the expectation of
mules for the British forces in Egypt.
A battalion of 600 Highlauders made re-
connoisssnce at Ramleh, and the guns at the
water-works hill simultaneously opened fire, to
which the Egyptians replied after the third
round. The Seventy-second regiment engaged
the Egyptians at Serapeum, killing 100 of them.
The transports which went into the Suez
canal debarked their troops at Ismaia.
Gen. Wolseley had an interview with De Les
seps at lsmalia. After hearing the Generals
explanation, the Count expressed himself as
fully satisfied with it. and regretted that there
had been any misunderstanding. The Khe-
dive of Egypt has ordered the authorities to
implicitly obey Gen. Wolseley. The French
papers generally condemn England's occupa-
ton Of the Suez canal the Gambettist organ
asserting that it has been made branch of St.
Georges Channel
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-25
Science of Perfumes.

By a process known as enfeurage,
which is the exposure of beef fat to fresh
flowers in close boxes until it is thor
oughly permeated and charged with
their odors, the perfumes of SIX flowers
are obtained, which could in no other
manner known to science be preserved
apart from the fresh petals. Those
flowers are violet, jasmin, tuberose, rose,
orange flower and cassie cinnamon
flower. From those six there are fifty
or more combinations made for the
stimulation of the odors of other flowers.
Sweet pea is made with jasmin and
orange flowers, hyacinth is counterfeited
by iasmin and tuberose; lily of the val
ley by violet and tuberose. But the re-
sources of the perfumer are by no
means confined to the pomades, as the
scented fats are termed. He uses many
essential oils, the principal of which are
sandalwood, bergamot, lemon, rosemary,
neroli (made from bitter orange fowers)
paschouli and the altar of roses. It Is
very difficult to get the last named in a
pure state, because its great cost tempts
to dishonest adulteration. Very often
rose geraniIm oil is substituted for it.
Musk is another important ingredient,
entering as it does, into almost all per-
fumes, except those which are actually
limitations Of flower odors, or. as styled
by perfumers, natural, ''-as, for in
stance, heliotrope, tuberose, white rose
and violet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-08-25
Genius and Beauty.

It is an admitted fact that genius and
beauty are rarely found in the same
person. The handsomest man of Lon
don society in the opening Of the pres
emit century was Count Dorsey, but he
was in every other point very inferior.
The chief soldier of the age Wellington
was deformed by his prodiRious Roman
nose. SOuthey was always distinguished
for the same feature, which, indeed, was
of the most unparalleled extent. Pope
was partially deformed, and OF course,
was ready object for caricaturist.
Hence he speaks of the '1ibelled person
and distorted shape" Another refer
ence to his personal defects is as follows:
"There are who TO my person pay their conrt,
cough like Horace, and though lean, am short;
Ammos' great son one shoulder had too high,
Such Ovd's nose-and. sir, Won have an eye,
GO on. obliging creature-bid me see
All that disgraced my betters met in me-"
Byron had handsome face. but his
club-foot was crushing bow to bis
pride, and the self-consclousnes of -uch
a defect seemed never to abate. This is
illustrated by the following incident:
Ono night, as Byron and some friends
left the theatre, one of the '1inh-bot s"
volunteered to illuminate the way, ex-
pecting the usual fee.
"This way, my lord" exclaimed the
Eght-bearer, uttering the title at ran
dom.
.'How does no know you are a lord?"
asked one of his friends.
"Know me!' exclaimed the poet,
"why, they all know mel am de-
formed"
Walter Scott was man of fine per-
sonal appearance, but he, toe, was lame
having been iniuredin childhood-and
walked with peculiar limp. When
Lady Blessington first met him she ex-
claimed:
"Why, sir, have you got hurt?"
"Yes," was the reply; "about fifty
years ago"
Campbell, the author of pleasures
of Hope" though small man, was con-
sidered handsome. but his life was a
failure. and its miseries afford a painful
contrast with personal beauty. 1t is
probable. however, that Burns was the
nearest approach to manly beauty that
authorship ever produced. Walter
Scott, who met HIM once, and once only
said that "his eyes literally glowed,"
and added that, having seen most of the
distinguished men of that age, none of
them had such eyes as Burns.