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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-05-23
uREY wooDsoN.

The subject of this sketch was born
In Madisonville, KY, in 1850 and is,
consequently, % years old. lie has
been alinoat half his lite engaged in
the newspaper business and has made
steady progress upward until no is
now associate editor and joint pro-
prietor OF the Owensboro Messenger,
one Of tho best papers in the State.
After learning the art Of type setting
in All Evansville Office, Mi. Woodson,
after some years, became connected
with the Evansville Evoning Herald.
in the capacity ofrcporter. He after
wards filed a like position on the
staff of the Evansville Sunday Argus,
where he learned good deal about
editorial work. In 1877 he went 10
Princeton, Ky, and started little
sheet called the Saturday Echo. In
December Of the same year he moved
the Echo TO Greenvile and changed
It's name TO tho Muhlenberg Echo,
which hc continued to publish and
edit for four years. From a small
four column paient-outside paper be
gradually worked it up to a seven
column sheet, published entirely at
home. In October 1881 he sold The
Echo and moyed TO Owensboro, and
went into partnership with G. W..
Bransford in conducting the Weekly
and Semi Weekly Messenger. AT
the time Woodson began TO edit the
Echo he was only lS years old aud
was for several years the youngest
editor In the State. Although among
tue Youngest still, he is veteran in
The business, haying had eight years
ofexperence. lie is small of statue
with light brown curly hair, blue eyes
aud homeopathic" mousiache OF a
light color. lie is sharp, incisivc
writer and has q fine appreciation
for whatever is humorous. Hc is an
entertaining conversationalis: aud has
long rcigned throughout Western
Kentucky as a ''lady-killcr." lie is
not married, but likely to be at any
lime, as hc'has beon totterIng on the
verge of ma,rimony for two or three
years. Ileis very popular with the
press boys and Isl favorite with the
ladies. Heiis destined to rank high
as a journalist. He Ia a Democrat
aud never fails 10 support the nomi-
nee oflis party. Lie Is moi . ncm-
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-05-23
JOHN r. BARRETT

John p. Barrett is editor Of tho
Hartford Herald, one of the most
prosperous papers in Western Ken.
lucky, He is about 40 years old and
is a lawyer as we'll as al editor. lie
started the publication Of the Herald
In 1875 and has, therefore, had about
seven years of experience inncws-
paper work. he is good hand
with pen and generally expresses
himself in plain and unmistakable
terms. lie is tall aud slender,y built,
has dark hair and brown moustache
and beard, which he wears on his
chin only. He is a. Democrat, but re-
fuses to support Capt. Henry, the
Democratic candidate for the Appel
late Cierkship. He is married and
has family.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-05-23
@. W. DRANsroRD.

q. W. BRANSFOKD.
The young man whose namo heads
this sketch is ore Of the most ener-
geiic and effective workers on the
kentucky Press. lie was born in
Owensboro in 1858 and is, therefore,
"a years old. His newspaper expcr-
ieuce covers period of four years.
When be completed his education in
1878 he bought an interest in tho
Owcnstoro Messenger, then pub
lished by,Jas. A. Munday. lie con-
tinued as associate editor Of the Mes
sengcr ill January 1880, when the
Messenger was consolidated with the
Examiner, published by Mr.. Lump
kin. The latter gentleman shortly
afterwards retired and Messrs. Mum
day u Bransiord continued to publish
the Messenger Il Examiner till the
spring OF 1881 when the former re-
Tired, leaving Mr.. Bransiord 10 edit
three papers week, without assist
ance. lie did this until the follow
ing October when he formed part
nership with Urey Woodson. with
whom he is still associated. lie is n
lawyer, but does not devote any at.
ienlion to the law. He is small, like
his partner, but has big brain. His
hair is q bright auburn, very closely
approximating red aud Ire has a faint
red moustsche and blue eyes. lie is
very quiet IN his demeanor and loves
his profession more than he does his
sweetheart. lie Is not married but is
thought to be contemplating mairi-
meny in the fall lie is very temper.
ate and is model young man in his
habits, although he does not belong TO
any church. His style of writing
possesses degree of profundity fur
beyond his years when he IL hand
ling editorial subjects, but whcnhe ia
treating local matters he sometimes
lays aside his dignity and pcrpetratcs
a joke. lie believes in the freedom
of the press and backs with his mus
Gle what ho writes with his pen. Ills
fricnds call him Zip" Tor short.
JOHN r, BARRETT.
John P. Barrett is editor Of the
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

obscurity, and any kind of detestation
preferable to oversight. Yesterday he re-
piled in the Tribune, in an article two
columns long the sum of which is that he
did advise Coniling to go to Albany, but
did not mean what he said; did not desert
him, but thought he was justified by the
hopelessness of the fight. and meant no
more by saying Conkling was advised not
to be candidate than that at Albany Ger
tain republican assemblymen and senators
who were counted among his enemies, de-
clared they would never vote for him. As
an exhibition of human nature totally
blind to what is disgraceful, this publica-
ton is interesting. 1t is also significant
as a disclosure of what the political code
of honor is in the republican camp at the
present time. Otherwise it is calculated
to turn the stomach of decent men. Conk
ling is to be congratulated on having got
rid of tie friendship of Sharpe.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
A grateful RECOGNITION.
RAILWAYS
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Chronic Skin Diseases Carries of thu Bone, Hn-
mors IN the Blood, Scrofuious Diseases Bad or IN
natural Habit of Body, Syphilis and Venereal, Fee
yer Sores, Chronic Old Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Ricketts, White Swelling, Scald Head, Uterine Az
feceions Cankers, Giandular Swellings, Nodes,
Wasting and Decay of the Body, Pimples and
Blotches, Tumors, dyspepsia, Kidney and Bladder
Diseases, Chronic Rheuma ism and Gout, Con
sumption Gravel and Calculoue Deposits, and va
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times given specious names.
We assert that there Is no known remedy that
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rHE WASTES OF THE BODY ARE STOPPED AND HEAL
THY BLOOD Is SUPPLIED TO THE SYSTEM, from which
new material is formed This the first correc-
tive power of RADwAY's REsoLYENT
In CAGES where the system has been ealivated,
and Mercury, Quicksilver, Corrosive Sublimate
have a, cumrlated and become deposited In the
bones, joints, etc, causing carries of the bones,
ricketts, spinal curyaures, Con .orons, white swell
lings Yaricose veins, ETC., the SARsAPARtLLIAN
the virus of the disease from the system.
cure OF Chronic Scrofulous Syphilitic diseases;
however slow may be the cure, feel better" and
and Their general health improving, their flesh and
weight increasing, or even keeping it's own, Is a
sigh that the cure is progressing In these
diseases the patient either gets better or worse
the virus of the disease is not inactive; II not ar
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continue to undermine the constitu ion. As coon
As the SARsAPARILIIAH makes the pst.1nt feel
better every hour yon will grew petter and In
cr~< In health, strength aud neeh.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
SHARPE AND CoNKLING.

From the Brooklyn Eagle
Ex-senator Conkling has probably had
keener experience of the meanness and
treachery of professional politicians than
any other public man of our time. Lauded
to the skies by hundreds of them who had
been lifted to positions of Importance by
the force of his mind, like the dogs of
Action they turned and tore him the mo-
ment he needed their aid. A man of ex-
ceptionally large information, he would
never have known this side of human ma
ture, had he gone on prosperously IN the
United States senate He now understands
the height and depth of political gratitude.
ANY person at loss how to value party
applause aud the praise of officeholders
than Roscoe Conkling. He is not so IN
fiuential in public affairs as he was, per
haps, but he is much wiser than ever be-
fore. If increase of wisdom be indeed
more than compensation for any loss sus-
tanned in the pursuit of truth he is per
son to be envied.
Among the broken reeds upon which the
senator leaned, General Sharpe, ex-speak-
er of the assembly, was conspicuous. In
the day of Conkling's power Sharpe was
almost without rival as parasite. The
senator could not open his mouth on any
public occasion without being assured by
this interesting creature that such elo-
quence had never been heard before. Ev-
cry political move was statesmanlike: every
political harangue was 1.-THE greatest effort
of his life" This is the individual who,
according to the eternal fitness of things,
has been most active in assailing the sena-
tor since his downfall. After urging him
to 90 to Albany to stand for re election
he, at the first favorable opportunity, play
ed traitor and deserted hlm, and since then
has been active in the newspapers and out
of them spreading stories likely to excuse
his behavior i'm the public mind. Some
weeks ago he caused an article to be pub
lshed in the Kingston Freeman to the eff
feet that the senator became a candidate
phrase is, of his own head, and remained
in the field after he had been urged
by .his friends to retire In reply
to that he published letters from the chief
men who took part in the first conference
which was held in President Arthur's
house declaring that the sentiment in favor
of his candidacy was unanimous, that he
was urged to go to Albany and went
rather reluctantly, and that Sharpe was
the most ardent advocate of this course
present. This would have shut up less
garrulous or more sensitive person than
Sharpe, showing him as it did to be at
once an migrate and a falsifier. It did not
shut him up, for the reason that any
species of notoriety is dearer to him than
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

The official statistics of specie exports
ure that every year is sent across the wa
ter from this country The amount of
freight charges paid to England, Germany
and France every year is enormous. For
instance, most of the tonnage required to
toward the million tons of surplus wheat
which California was able to export, came
over from England, and the English con-
sui at San Francisco says that quite SO
600 600 was paid to English ship owners
last year for freight on grain alone. While
of course freights from the Pacific are far
higher than from the Atlantic ports, the
above statement simply shows the i'm
mense sum paid every year to England and
other foreign nations for American
freights.
Commenting on these facts, "a financial
writer in an English journal very truly
says: lin sense this Indebtedness both
diminishes the profits upon the exports
and enhances the cost of the imports of
the Union, that is to say a portion of the
wealth. resulting from the LABOR OF Tie
Union which might be distributed at home
is distributed abroad, and to the no small
injury of that labor as compared with labor
here. But, thanks to our system of po
litical economy, we have no ships of our
own in the foreign carrying trade, and the
laboring man is made to pay the penalty
of the stupidity of our national legislators
in driving our merchant marine from the
seas in order to keep one or two Pennsyl
vania and Delaware ship builders in en-
ployment. The effort has proved futile
after years of trial, and should be abandon
ed. Not only has it wiped out our ocean
marine, but has put the business in foreign
hands. Is it not time that we should have
free trade in ships?
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Guardians Sale of Real Es-
tate.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, |
Rock Island County.

Rock Island County,
In the County Court of December Term 1881.
In the matter of the petition of William Mclean,
Guardian of George NJ. Harper and Mary w. Harper
minor children of William H. Harper, deceased, for
leave to sell real estate.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of
an order of the County Court of Rock Island Coun-
ty Illinois, made and entered aforesaid in said court
on the 22d day OF December, A. d., 1881 in GER
tain proceeding therein pending. wherein the under
signed, Wflliam Mclean. SIS Guardian of George NJ
Har per and Mary w. Harper, miH0r children Of
William w. Harper, deceased made application for
leave to sell real estate of said minors: the under
signed Guardian as aforesaid, will, on Friday the
23rd day of June, A. d. 1882, AT the hour of Eley
O'Clock In the forenoon of said day. at the front
door OF the dwelling house on the premises, to
be sold in the city and county Of Rock Island, and
state of Illinois, win sell at public sale to the high
est bidder, the following described real estate OF
said minors, situate in the city and county of Rock
Island and state of Illinois, toit. The west half of
out-lot five (51, in John w. Spencerss addition TO
the city OF Rock Island said sale be made on the
following terms viz; One-third thereof In cash at
time of entering order confirming the sale. and
the remainder in year from the date of said sale
with interest thereon from said date at the rate of
eight per cent per annum, to be secured By note of
the purchaser and mortgage upon the premises
sold.
Dated at Rock Island, May 18th A. D.. 1ss2
WILLIAM MCLEAN
Guardian of said Minors.
KEHwoRTHy u BEARpsLEY, Attorneys.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
COnseryator's Sale OF
Real Estate.

STATE OF ILLINOIS GO
Rock ISLAND COUNTY os
In the County Court of said County of the July
Term, 1882, in the matter of the Estate of Edmund
II Cline, an idiot.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given To all persons
concerned that on the first day ot June. A. D., 1882
CUSTOMS A. Marston, the conserpator of said
Edmund T. Cline, filed in said court his petition
asking for an order of said court 10 sell the one
seventh part, being the whole of said Edmund t.
tate to-wt: The west half of the, southwest quar-
ter of section thirty six, in township sixteen range
four west of the 4th p. m. in Rock Island county,
Illinois. And also thirty acres of land III the north
west quarter OF section one, in township fifteen.
range four, west of the 4th p. M in Mercer county,
Illinois, said last mentioned tract being also de-
scribed lot two, in subsection in said town
ship fifteen in said county and is bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning at the northwest of said
section one %, and running thence east on said
section line to the land of John Castor thence run
ming south to the land of Lenhardt Gaber thence
running west to section line of said section one az
thence running north to the place of beginning.
That said application will be heard before said
court on the End Monday of July, A ID. 1882 at the
Office of the Clerk OF the County Court of said
county, in the city Of Rock Islsnd at which time
you can appear and defend against said application
If you see fit so to do. GUsTAyUs A. MARsToN.
Conserxator of said Idiot.
WILKINSON KENwoRTHY BEARDsLEY.
Attorney for Conservator.
II. A. DONALDSON,
Clerk of said Court.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
NERVOUS DEBILITY.
A Cure Guaranteed.

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specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Commissions,
Nervous Headache, Mental Depression, LOSS of
Memory, Spermatorrhea, Impotency, Involuntary
Emissions, Premature Old Age, caused by over-ex-
ertion, selfabuse, or over Indulgence, which leads
to misery, decay snd death. One box will cure
cent cases. Each box contains one month"; treat
men one dollar box, or SIX boxes for five dol
las, sent by mail prepaid on receipt of price,. We
guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With each
order received by for elk boxes, accompanied
with five dollars, we will send the purchaser our
written guarantee to return the money If the treat
ment does not effect Guarantees issued
only by McCabe q Wheaton, Druggists. Rock lei 4
and. H. Orders by mail at re uIar price. d&u
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
Masters Sale

In the Circuit Court: In Chancery
STATE OF ILLINOIS.
Rock Island County. SO
Andrew Weinberger VS.. Elizabeth Myser, Margar-
ger, Clara Weinberger, Katherine Weinberger, Car
los Weinberger, Andrew Weinberger, John Vein
berger and Joseph Weinberger.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of decree
of said Court entered in the above entitled cause,
the 22nd day OF May, A. D. 1882 shall on Saturday.
the 18th day OF July, A d. 1882, at the hour of
O'Clock in the afternoon, at the North door OF the
Court House, in the City of Rock Island. said
County of Rock Island to satisfy said decree, sell
public vendue to the highest bidder for cash in
hand that certain parcel OF land. situate in the
ty of Rock Island and State of Illinois, known and
described as follows, to-yvit:
The South West quarter OF the South W est quarter
of Section thirty, in Township seventeen (17) north
of range one "a west of the fourth P. NJ.
Dated at Rock Island, Illinois, this 18th day of.
June, A. ID. 1882.
HENRY CURTIS, JR.
Master in Chancery. Rock Island County, H.
STURGEON IL OLSEN, Compt's Sol. dtd.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

If your complaint is want of appetite,
try half wineglass of Angostura Bitters
half an hour before dinner. Beware of
counterfeits. Ask your grocer and drug
gist for the genuine article, manufactured
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
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edy for Wasting and
Nervous Diseases.

After numerous experiments Mr.. Fellows sue
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health, but has since been found so successful in
the treatment of disease emauating from loss q,
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Dyspepsia, Congestion OF the Lungs
Fever and Ague, Palpitation OF the Heart
eucorrh9a, Melancholy.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
BEWARE OF IMIrA-
Masters Sale.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, lss
Rock ISLAND COUNTY 20

In the Circuit Court; In Chancery.
Emanuel p Feaster, j. Harvey Kempsteg and
James Cockiugs, trustees of schools of township
No nineteen t19), north range three{1 east of the
9Th p m, IN said county, versus Thomas w Qulck,
Florence a. Quick, William Orr and Frances Orr.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue of a decree
OF said Court entered in the above entitled
the Twenty day of May, A. D., 1882. shall.
Saturday the Fifteenth day of July A. D., 1892,
at the hour of Two O'Clock in the afternoon, the
North door of the Court House. in the city of Rock
Island, in said county of Rock Island, to satisfy
said decree, sell at public venue, to the highest bid
der for cash. that certain parcel of land, situate in
the County of Rock Island and State of Illinois,
known and described as follows. towit:
The northwest quarter ~ of the northeast quar-
ter CA of Section Thirty-two (32l in Township
Nineteen (19), North Range Three t3), East of the
Fourth p.
Dated at Rock Island, Illinois. this 18th day of
June. A. D., 1882.
HENRY CURTIS. JR..
Master in Chancery, Rock Island County, H.
SWEENEY, JACKSON 81 WALKER.
Cemplainant's Sole tors.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
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Catarrh relieved and
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-17
MALARIA.

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