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The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
rbe CIosr on wall Stree.

WALL STREET, Aug. l6,-Stocks vera
strong aud higher during the last hour, and
prices were at or near the best Of the day
Western Union sold up to "a Union Pacific
to 50, St. Paul to 102, Canada
Southern 10 So, and Central Pacific to
GIN. Western Union ran off TO 739E in the
last five minutes of business, but the prices
quickly returned to "a In the spccialties
Chicago, st. Louis 4 Pittshurg preferred
rose to se1t In the fual sales the hears
made Efforts TO cover and prices moved up
to the highest of the day The market closed
very strGng
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17

TUCSON A. T., Aug. 16.-Mai Strauss, Of
Tucson has just returned from Hermosilo,
Sonora. and states that while there he madc
careful inquiry of both civil and military of
ficlais concern'g tue reported Apache depro
datinus III Sonora since Crooks return
They all told him they had not received any
information, official nr private Of II single
person being killed OF any depredations since
Crook left Sonora They believe that the
reports are without any foundation, AMI
simply started for sensational puIpose-.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17

at ttisi gave indications of being a very
stnhll well. When the drill was threp k,et in
The sand the hole contained less thar eighty
feet of oil. Drilling was continued, aud with
the second bit the well commenced nowing at
u terrific rate In the first hour production
was forty eight barrels, and in the first two
hours over 100 The production Of tim well
will he from 500 to ,0OD barrcls in the first
fnnr hnnlS
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
Financial.

LONDON, Aug rs Bar silVor Is quoted a.
50% pence per ounce
PARIS, Aug l6 Tho weekly statement of
the Bank Of France shows decrease Of
l,i25 ono francs in gold aud ,325 900 fraucs
in silver.
LONDON, Aug. I6-Ihe weekly statement
Of the Bank of England shows an increase
ia huIlion of Ism. 900. The proportion Of
tho banks reserve L. its liability Is &c 9-16
nnr tnL.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
Wtr,- Murder Most EouI.

BALrMoHN, Md, Aug. IA shocking
case Of ~ife,nurder was brought t., light in
West Baltimore Early in the morning Ed
ward J ChurTy, young married man, re
ported that his wife hud died during tha
night. and produced a physicians certificate
to show that her death resulted from
heart disease Investigation showed
that the representation about tho ply
sran was not trnc. A post mortcrn exam
ination WAS ordered, and the condition ct the
corpse showed that the wnman's drnih had
bcen the resnIt Of violence Her body was
covered with bruises and there was ,, srvrre
wound over the left temple. On" witness
testiIe,T Tint Churry whiln Intoxicated fire.
quuntly heat hIS wife aud that hr
heard him assnuItipg her and beard thr vic
Inn cNrlaim. "My Coil don't EIil u,r"
CLuft, was committed for trial
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
YELLOW JACK
The Terror Obtains EOothoId al
PCnSacNIa

WASHINGTON, Aug. l6.-The acting secrc
tary of the navy has received "a telegram frou,
Commander WEIGH, commanding tho navy
yard at Pensacola as follows Sur
geOu Owens reports cast "f
yellow fever ia the marine guard
ward The mhn was moved to Juai
terS in The second story of ths
bniIimg lie relieved tho guard, nunl",
ing thirty eight mon, from all dnty, il order
to isolate them from other persons, Two
other men we're sent to tho hospital,
their cases are not decided Would
like another surgeon "rdored or
authority to employ n civilian expert from
rensacnlan Instructions we're telegraphed
Commander WEIGH To transfer the marine
guard to Cape Arson, six miles from the navy
yar1, and mako all necessary arrangements
Tor the health OF tho yard. Orders were also
issund TO Surgeon Martin now ut New Di
IcIns, To proceed to Pensacola ami tender all
assistance in his power
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could get a place for themselves and
then desert their followers. The
government, she thought, should assist the
unemployed classes to go where they could
obtain employment This surplus only OK
isted in the large crowded centers nf popnla
ton in the east, and the witness Thought il
they were assisted to go to th6 west the
pressure would be relieved. Witness advo-
Gated the establishment of schools Of domes
tic economy for the benefit of poor people
and the taking of steps to elevate the condi
tton of the indolent, lazy paupers that intest
lin Iarga pitiaS
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
JUDGE JERE BLACK.
Probability Thar ~" iSyill Not Live
TIauI HOnEH

YoKB, Pa, Aug. II Judge jeremiah S.
Elack, is in very lHccairouS condition, and
mny di" in few hours. Dr.-Garnett Of
Washington. arrived here, aud in company
with The York phySlri'lus is watching the
case. From conversation with one Of the
doctors it is learned that very little hope is
entertained for the Judges recovery. The
operation gave temporary relief, ThcIe is
an enlargement Of tn" prostate gland and
spastnodic structure Leut.-Gov Rlncls Is
much depressed in spirits. and Ills face shows
signs Of fears for fatal termination OF hi,
fathers Illness
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
New Hatlroaa TroiCct q

MADISON. Wis Aug 10 Articles ot rs
s0cihtion havo been 'iIad with thc secretary
Of state. a. follows. Thn MIunrnpoil Snnlt
st Maria & Atlantic railway, Ia start
fron Big Rock Geek, ON the 1t Croix
river nrro>~ ard through the state In
nuTthwestrily direction ta ii
point on tln MrnnIahee river aud the NORTH
eastern boundary Of the state at az uear
Florence distance If ?3j miles through the
rruntrr, of rok. Barron, WaShhufn, Saw
yer, Chippewa Fr,co, lincoln, LanglpAc and
Florence, capital stock, Sl2,0o0 go The
rrtnrIpn directors are W d. WaNhhmn,
rDoup.s Lowry, { \. FhIshap, G J Mar
IIu. II +. Wcll- aud J. X side
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Newspaper Sued for EIheI.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. Aug l6-This
morning papers were served on Kedzie Il
Kedzic, publishers of Ghc Herald, for an al
legged libel on one Patrick Lee, claiming
$40, 600 damages. Lees store was burglarized
some time ago, and The Herald insinuated
that there was something queer about the
burglary. When the burglars were arrested
and the goods found Tho Herald apologized
for the mistake, hut Lees ire was mp, beuct
ka
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
Contest Of Artilierisfy.

LONDON, Aug. 1G.--ln the artillery meeting
at Shoebnryness. the prize in the Repository
competition given by the Marquis Of Lorno
TO the detachment shifting o gun in the
quickest time was won by the CanaJiian de-
tachmeut in splendid STYLE in four minutes
and thirty-five seconds; the WooIwieb arse
nal detachment second, time five rlinutes aud
ifty-eight and three-quarter seconds. The
commandant of the Shoeturyusss school of
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
THE OiL-FlELDS.
A Well IN the Ra,ltOwn District
Yieiding ut the Kate of z 400 Bar

otl WILL wis opened III the Baltown district
Forest county The PorcupiDe Oil company
drill'.i their weil No 9.eight feet into sand
few hnys ago. aud have since completed it
1t startei Off ut the rate of 2,406 barrels a
day, doing in til" first three hours 5l3 barrels
This is the biggest well by far yet struck in
Forest county.
TIrosvLLE, Pa, Aug. 16.-Grandin No. 6,
Ralltowu district was drilled into sand, and
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WITH ARMED GUARDS.
TRAINS o" the Wabash Road Prepared
for Raids Hy Miss0urI Rohners

for Raids by Missouri Robbers.
OMAHA, Neh, Aug. l6.-The morning train
on the Wabash railway from st lons ar
rived here three hours late, having made
Part of its run with great caution, 10y reason
of a warning that train-robhers were lying in
wait for II IN the vicinity of Mexico, Mo The
conductor received the dispatch at st
Charles, and informed the passengers who Sc
creted their valuableS, and finally fell asleep
Nine men in the employ of the railway, all
heavily armed, boarded the train at Mont
geometry and rode through to M"hcrIy, where
they left this train and divided, returning
over the dangerous part of the route with the
trains from Omaha and Kansas City The
trains were run slowly through rits and
ar"unh curves, but the robbers, who had
doubtless learned that they would he given IL
hot r+,rptIou did not show their h"a.is
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IRISH NEWS.
Another Appeal 70 America -.sudt-
Cial Rents Denounced.
The Cholera

I,oNDoN. Aug. 1G.--A special from Cairo
say there were sixty-two deaths from chol
era in Alexandria during twenty-four hours
The Times Cairo correspondent says thcrc
were iifty-iive deaths from cholera ut Dam
anhonr on Tuesday.
ALEXANDRIA, Aug. l6-lt Is officially
announced that the number of deaths from
cholera here since last report was ~ The
French mission, to study the feutures Of thu
cholera, has arrived here
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
Another washington monument.

WASHINGTON, Aug I6-The government
having secured the title to Wakefield,
WestmoreIand county, Va, the site OF the
birthplace of Washington, Il monumental
building twenty feet square and thirty feet
high will bc erected Congress has spplc
priatet s33 600 tor the purpose
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
Drowned in a.ake ChamplaIn

Taoy. y Y, Avg. lo.-Ths body of T. T.
Griswold. prominent CITIZEN Of Burlington,
Ossego c2rc;y. was found drowned in Lake
Cha-pla.1 Tsare are TO EasSs OF violsnee
on the bcdy, Il Is supposed to be case Of
accidental drowning or suicide,
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-08-17
DtafnfprfpN

QU E., Aag. l6.-The ship Fredsrika and
KArolina, before reported at quarantine with
yellow fever aboard, fas come up to port
having landed Eer sick sailors and been lis.
infected.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-11
A Short catechisru.

Dues. What is corner?
Ans. A scorner" in gold, stocks
cotton produce in fact anything
is produced when one or more per
sons obtain control of all the arti-
cles in question, and those who have
contracted to deliver a certain
amount of it within a specified time
are unable to fulfill their contracts
In such case they are driven into q
corner" and have to settle on the
best terms they can make.
Q. Who makes a profit out OF
''corners"?'
a. Sometimes the men who get
them up; generally the bona fde
owners of the articles in which the
corner is gotten up, for they get
a higher price for their property.
Q. Who losses in corners?
A. Always and inevitably the
fools who think they can speculate
without making speculation their
business, and who buy the stocks,
produce, or whatever it may be, be-
cause it is rising, or agree to deliver
it at future time, without having
any in their possession, because the
present price is lower than the price
offered for the future.
Q. Why are they sure to lose9
A. Because the property pur-
chahed on q rise is sure to fall
back again to its natural value: and
because small spectators, who
agree to deliver property yet to be
purchased, are powerless. against
the combinations of great specula-
tors who are able to make the prices
high or low at will.
Q. Is it right to make corner?
A. Not if it is duty to love ones
neighbor as ones self.
Q. How does it differ from rob-
berry?
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Fat Men and Criminals.

The New York Sun has ascer-
tanned, by inquiry in proper quar-
tiers, that the most marked peculiri
ty in the person of criminals is their
small size-that is the fat man, as
a rule, forms the very smallest
minority in the legion of social
offenders. On BlackwelPs island,
n. Y, the number of the prisoners
constantly continues to be about
nine hundred. For many years not
2 per cent, of these have been men
weighing 200 pounds. The heaviest
criminal ever detained there was
Tweed, whose weight was 263
pounds. The present champion
heavy weight is man weighing 259
pounds, who was sent thither for
larceny a few days ago. Fatness
and comparative goodness seem to
have a tender utilization. More
over, fat men are like to be good
natured, easy souls that think no
evil.
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Mother Lave.

We were at a railroad junction
one night last week waiting a few
hours for train, in the waiting
room, in the only rocking chair, try
ing to talk brown-eyed boy to
sleep, who talks a great deal when
he wants to keep awake. Presently
freight train arrived, and beauti-
full, little old woman came in, es-
corted by a great, big German, and
they talked in German, he giving
her evidently lots of information
about the route she was going, and
telling her about her tickets and
her baggage check, and occasionally
patting her on the arm. At first
our United States baby, who did
not understand German, was tickled
to hear them talk, and he ''snick-
ered'' at the peculiar sound of the
language that was being spoken
The great, big man put his hand up
to the good gold lady 3 cheek, and
said something encouraging, and a
great big tear came to her eye, and
she looked as happy as a queen
The little brown eyes Of the boy
opened pretty big, and his face
sobered down from its laugh, and he
said:
Papa, it is his motherr'
We knew it was, but how should
a four year old sleepy baby, that
couldn't understand German, tell
that the lady was the big mans
mother, and we asked him how he
knew, and he said:
"Oh, the big man was so kind to
her,"
The big man hustled out, we gave
the rocking chair 30 the little, old
mother, and presently the man came
in with a baggageman, and to him
he spoke English. He said:
"This is my mother, and she does
not speak English. She is going to
Iowa, and I have got to go back on
the next train, but l want you to
attend to her baggage, and see her
on the right train. the rear car, with
good seat near the centre, and tell
the conductor she's my MOTHER
And here is a dollar for you, and /
will do as much for your mother
some time"
The baggage-man g1asped the
dollar with one hand and grasped
the big mans hand with the other
and looked at the little German wo-
man with an expression that showed
that he had a mother, too, and we
almost know the old lady was well
treated. Then we put the sleeping
mind reader on a bench and went
out on the platform and got &C
quainted with the big German, and
he talked of horse-trading, buying
and selling, and everything that
showed he was live business man,
ready for any speculation, from buy
ing a yearling colt to crop OF hops
or barley, and that his life was a
busy one, and at times full of hard
work, disappointment, hard roads;
but with all this hurry and excite
ment he was kind to his mother,
and we loved him just little, and
when, after a few minutes talk
about business, he said, You must
excuse me, 1 must go in the depot
and see if my mother wants any
thing we felt like taking his fat,
red hand and kissing it. Oh, the
love of the mother is the same in
any language, and it is good in all
languages Burlington Hawkeye.
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Farm and Home.
Farmers VS.. Manufacturars.

The following part of an editorial
in Thursdays American contains q
wise suggestion. At the north fac
tories are frequently gotten up in
that way and whenever it becomes
apparent that any particular ven
ture is for the good Of the commu-
niLN the necessary capital is sub
scribed in a short time. 1t seems
to have been written especially for
Giles county. If we had some one
to lead in this matter it could be
made to pay certainly. Read it
and.refect:
But in the south we are undergo
ing a change. The signs are visi-
BILE everywhere of a healthy and
sound progress. In southern com
munities a few men have shown
what can be done by going bravely
to work, and their success has slim
ulated others, until, without reach
ing a point where we can claim to
be manufacturing people, we are
showing what can be done, and
many Of ourpeople are weighing the
arguments-reading up and gather
ing the facts-as they never did
before.
We want to makea suggestion for
the consideration of farmers and
hope they will take it into consid-
Grafton. Every county in middle
Tennessee has a number of farmers
who are doing well-making some
spare money. AS general thing
these farmers do not wish to buy
more land--before the war ali spare
capital was put in lands and slaves
and they must embark in some
new business.
Suppose the farmers of each
county in Middle Tennessee would
unite, and each year put their spare
capital-any surplus they may ha ye
into some manufacturing enter
prise, a single decade would not
pass until signs of new life, of an
enhanced value in lands, of a great
ly increased percentage of produc-
ing and prosperous people, will be
visible on every hill and in every
valley. Twenty years will change
the entire face of things and like
the great states of Pennsylvania
and Ohio, we will be a rich and
prosperous people--capabie of fur
nishing our own capital for the de-
velopment of all our interests in
stead of appealing to other people
to help US.
AS in all other countries, manu-
featuring will prove a success. Not
that every man embarking in it will
succeed, but larger proportion OF
those who do succeed than in any
other business. Prudence in max
ing the investment, and in selecting
an agent for the management of
the combined capital, is all that is
needed to guarantee success in
manufacturing.
Our farmers are the people of all
others most interested in building
up these industries. Without them
the farmers must remain poor; with
them the farmers are rich.
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Whv and How women Should roll,

Why and How Women Should Toll.
Miss Emily Faithful discusses a
subject to the study of which she
has devoted her life She is good
and true and earnest. She said in
| her lecture in Boston that women
should work as well as men, and
said that the idea that woman I'M
sexed herself by striving to earn
her living was not only erroneous,
but ridiculous. Unfortunately,
women do not have the advantage
and appliances that men have in the
various branches of industry. The
memorable laws of custom deter
women from doing many things
which ought to be perfectly legiti-
mate for them to do. In the face
OF the increasing preponderance of
women of the work, Miss Faith
full said that it was cruel to put oh
stacles in the way of their learning
some self-sustaining profession or
trade. There are five or six per
cent. more women than men, and
unless women were prepared to en-
courage or advocate polygamy they
must acquire the means of sup
porting themselves. The lecturer
drew particular attention to the
freqent instances where the widows
and children of well-to-do men
were suddenly left to shift for
themselves without homes and
without money. Such painful oc-
currences emphasize the necessity
of educating women early in life
to earn their own bread. Parents
considered it their duty to prepare
their sons for the battle of life
why should not be equally consid-
crate of their daughters?
Miss Faithful urged that it would
be good thing for humanity if
each and every girl could be taught
trade or n profession early in life.
No girl had the right to assume
that she should lie clothed, fed and
cared for always. She should be
prepared to go through life as
bread-winner if need be. There
was a great difference between the
past ana the present acceptaIlonS
of the term gentiewoman. In olden
time the term meant one who exer-
cised an active supervision of the
fosd and clothing of the entire es-
tate. The very name of ''lady"
signifed bread giver. The gentle
woman Of the present day, however,
holds herself as beng too fine for
work. The fact of her being a ''la-
dy" must needs exempt her from
doing any kind of work. idle
ness" said Miss Faithful, lis al
ways discreditable in a woman"
The lecturer had no objections to
innocent social amusements, but
she strongly condemned the grow
ing tendency among society women
to give themselves up entirely to
the pursuit Of frivolous pleasure.
Without the proper employment of |
their natural abilities and ener-
gies young women are left to drift
with the current OF life,
easy victims of every temptation
that modern social life presents.
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Who Knows that Ncses

For this funny experiment sheet
or shawl must be hung across a
room or doorway, and one-haif OF
the company placed on each SIDE OF
the curtain thus formed. All the
light must be on the front SIDE,
where the gueesers sit
A small hole is made, about four
and a half feet from the floor, near
lv in the center of the curtain. The
shape of the letter v is the best
form for the hole, which should not
he more than three inches long.
When all is ready the game is
begun by one of the persons behind
the sheet trusting his nose through
the hole. The players on the other
side then try to guess the name OF
the owner OF the nose, which it is
very hard to do correctly.
When a nose has been guessed
the owner of it must come out and
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pERSEvERE.
On. stem. and them another

One step, and then another
And the longest walk is ended;
One stitch, and then another
And the longest rent is mended;
One brick upon another,
And the highest wall is made;
One flake upon another.
And the deepest snow is laid.
So the little coral workers
Have, by slow and constant motion,
Bnilded all the pretty islands
In the distant, dark-blue ocean;
And the noblest undertakings,
Mans own wisdom hath conceived,
And by oft repeated effort,
Have ueen patiently achieved.
Rome was not builded in a day,
The ancient proverb teaches;
And nature, by her trees and flowers;
The same sweet sermon breaches.
Think not, young friends. of far off work
But duties which are near,
And having once begun your task
Resolve to persevere-
-lBoston Chatterbox
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Idleness is distasteful even to indo-
lent natures, and while the virtuous
society girl would turn with a
shudder from work, she would ac-
cept Irritation as a perfect god
send. 1t has been repeatedly said
that there never was any evil in the
world but that a woman was at the
bottom of it. Miss Faithful said
that the facts of history would
show that no great good had ever
been accomplished in the world
that women did not have a hand in
it. She did not believe in the no
ton that man was the superior
creature and woman merely his
shadow. She maintained that each
sex had its proper and equal
sphere, and that men and women
were designed to be co-workers.
ga woman cannot be a worthy
helpmeet to a man." said she, eff
she is his slave" The female mind
was fully as capable of cultivation
as the male mind, and the same
tree of knowledge would afford men
tai food for both. Miss Faithful
spoke Of the gratifying results Of
the educational reform movement.
She touched briefly upon the vari-
Gus branches of industry in which
women are engaged, and commended
the world Of the Ladies Art Socie-
ty Of this city. In London, she
said that women were making
their way successfully into the sew
eral professions and trades, and q
large number of female clerks, tele-
graph operators, copyists, etc., were
employed in the English civil ser
vice. She spoke of her own sue
cessful experience with female
type-setters, and that Queen Veto
ria had especially commended ty-
biographical work done by women.
As far the .bugbear that a woman's
chances for Inatrimony were de-
creased by her taking her place
among the working people of the
world, Miss Faithful said that if
a man desired a wife would not be
a drag upon him, the fact of her be-
ing able to earn her own living would
not detract from her value in his
eyes.
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Chokes are No. 1 hog feed,
healthy for the animals when grass
isscarce and may be had in good
condition from September to May.
They will produce from 300 to 500
bushels to the acre. They should
be planted and cultivated the same
as potatoes, deep rich soil is a ne
cessity. To kill them out SOW the
ground to spring grain, and after
the grain is cut pillow the stubble
deep. One blowing usually kills
them-two plowirgs will certainly
do so. Planting corn will not kill
them; cutting the tops in May will
not kill them, but if the tops are cut
away in the first Of July they will
give no further trouble.