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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
CIRCUIT COURT.

In Circuit Court the case of Wallace VS.
the city of Moline was given to the jury
Saturday afternoon with instructions to
bring in sealed verdict. Before evening
the jury had agreed and when the verdict
was opened this afternoon It was found to
be in favor of plaintiff in the sum of S275.
Notice of appeal was given by defendants
counsel
In the afternoon the motion was argued
to set ash e the default in the suit in gar
nishment of Richter & Husche VS. William
L. Ceyne, Mr. G. L. Walker appearing for
plaintiffs and Mr. R. T. McNeAl for de-
PENDANT Taken under advisement by the
court:
In chancery, No. 119. Anna F. Cole VS.
George R. Wells ct al, leave to complain
ant to withdraw mortgage from files.
The following petit jury was called for
this afternoon to serve two weeks.
Andalusia-AIonzo Mosher and Miner
Shuck.
Black Hawk--Phil zahn and J. B.
Haislip.
Buffalo Prairie-Harvey Howard
Cordova-Albert S. Marshall and John
Dean.
Coe-John Moody.
Coal Valley-William Wooley, Jr.
Edgington-J. A. Carpenteg, ". D. Crabb
and James Venable.
Hampton-Henry Mock Antonio Fled
Ter, John Ewart and ". H. Ziegler.
MolIne-James Carlin, Joseph Enderiy
August Nave, Frank Anderson, John II.
Young, Joseph Rank and James Eckhart
Port Byron-Daniel T. Pinneo, Thomas
Whiteside, Warren G. Rice and Joseph
Dale.
Rock Island-M G. Mills, j. L. Hardy.
c. E. Hawley. VIM. j. Surf, M. E. Swee-
ney and Conrad Schneider.
South Rock Island-Thomas Vincent.
South Moline-George L. Cornwall and
John Fairy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
MISSISSIPPI MUTUAL.

The officers of the Mississippi VALLEY
Manufacturers Mutual Insurance company
are as follows: j. S. Keator, president; S
H. Velie, vice PRESIDENT j. NJ. Gould
treasurer; W. B. Ferguson, secretary; W
E. Smith, general manager.
The classification of the fifteen gentle
men constituting the board of directors is
as follows:
One year,. Fl. Anawalt, Rock Island
A. Lamb, Clinton; w. p. Brown, Red
Wing
Two years. H. velie. H. A. Aims
worth, Moline w. E. Smith, Chicago.
Three years-E. ID. Rand, Burlington
NJ Donahue Davenport; c. NJ Smith, Chi
cage.
Four years.. s Keator, ]. NJ Gould,
Moline; Benz. Hershey, Muscatiue.
Five years-W c. Bennett, Moline;
P w Musser, Muscatine; w B. Ferguson,
Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
SMALLPOX MATTERS.

All the patients at the American House
are getting along remarkably well but
there Is one added to the list, that of a
Swede girl who has been at work there
for short time only She is down with
varioloid, taking sick on Saturday. By to-
day her case showed strong symptoms of
that dread disease and the necessary pre-
caution was taken. Marshal Henderson
informed an ARGUS reporter this morning
that during the afternoon the patients
would probably be moved as the pest
house was now thoroughly warmed and no
danger of fatal results was feared. And
while the ARGUS thinks that the patients
should be separated from those who as yet
are not sick, yet at the same time 30 risks
for the sick should be taken, as our citi-
zens remember too well the fatal results Of
last winter caused by the removal of
patients aud better than a repetition of the
same would it be to move those who are
well The new case mentioned above is
not serious one.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
WHAT A CAT DID.

Up in the Fourth ward there is at least
one family without a faint of superstition,
but the confidence of the lady of the family
in things terrestrial was most sadly shaken
| night or two ago. The hour was about
10 o'clock, and while preparing to retire
she heard the jingling of bells apparently
on the piazza of the house. Knowing that
she was the last memoer of the household
who hadn't already begun to WOO the
drowsy god. the sound startled her not
little, but possessing brave heart she
seized lamp, went into the kitchen. and
holding the light close to the window
peered out into the darkness Was there
a mischievous boy out there. seeking thus
to alarm a happy household? No, but
there was huge black and swhite spotted
cat, and that cat was striking the bells on
little Winnie's sled, which he had hauled
onto the porch at the end of the after
Moons coasting The animal would
deity lift its paw strike a bell quite
blow, and then listen, apparently, with de
light to the sound produced. Which it must
be confessed, was tremendous improve
ment upon the average cat serenade. Hav-
ing locked and listened till curiosity had
been fully satisfied the lady said scat"
quite vigorouslyand the serenader' seated.
Then the lady went to bed and was just
dropping off to sleep when jingle, jingle,
jingle went the bells again and she knew
that the cat had started in again with its
concertizing and while it was in the midst
of the second part she fell asleep. So far
most remarkable incidents of this character
yet recorded and the beauty of the whole
thing is that such midnight music by a
feline is great saving on boots, oyster
cans, boot-jacks etc.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
THAT ROBBERY

The particulars in connection with the
robbery of OF Miss One Hartwell, while on
her way to Davenport on Thursday last,
have just come to the surface. She was
going to that city to do some trading pre-
paratory to an event which is to be con
summated in the near future, and after
alighting from the street car at Rock ISL
and she was accosted by a hackman of that
city, who offered to take her across the
creek for ten cents, which she accepted
and got in the conveyance, bat had gone
but short distance when she missed her
pocketbook, which contained $40 She
alighted from the hack to 60 back and
look for it, but had proceeded but a short
distance when the hack driver whipped up
his horses and drove off, The young lady
telephoned friends in Moline, who came
down. A search being again instituted the
pocketbook was found about block fur
Their on from where she got out of the car
riage, but empty. The facts point quite
clearly to the hackman as the scoundrel,
who in some manner got possession of the
wallet and after extracting the contents
threw it away. The money is not recov-
cred vet
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
ALLEGED PARTIALLY.
Rock ISLAND, Jan. 90. 1

Rock ISLAND, Jan go 1888
To the Editor of the ARGUs:
The Union of Saturday says that Mayor
Carse at the instance of Mr.. p l.. Gable re
moved s. t Watkins from the position of
CITY scavenger, the complaint being for
eccessive charging. What alarcity the
Mayor displays in moving a poor colo red
man without rich and influential friends
or an active and prominent alder
man to defend him Compare his
action in this case with the
case of his pet protege, Street Commits
sioner Warren, last winter When Alder
Commissioner Warren at a meeting of the
city council, Mayor Carse refused to en-
terrain the charges until they were sub
mitted in writing and sworn to- which was
done at the next meeting. The charges
were proven and sustained by majority
of the council. Mayor Carse could not
conceal his anger, chagrin and disap-
pointment at the action of the majority of
the council for in a rude and unjustifiable
manner he charged the council with acting
as prosecutors of Commissioner Warren
and notwithstanding the charges were
proven and sustained by the council he
would not remove him and he remained
commissioner for some time afterwards
when other charges were about to be pre-
ferred against him, and force of circum
stances caused him to ask for Commission
CT Warrens resignation. This is a plain
statement of facts and every intelligent
and unprecedented reader can draw his own
conclusions. CRITIC
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29

VIM. Kernes is now ull-fedged mem
Der of the state board of equalization,
having received his commission on satur-
dav from Governor Cullom He fills the
unexpired term of Henry Ainswortb, re-
signed
No. passenger train over the c. b s.
@. was two and a half hours late this
morning. The tr ain was one hour late
when it pulled out of ST. Louis, and bad
connections at Monmouth and another place
made up the balance.
Levi Cralle is quite sick of neuralgia of
the bead; it was only a short while ago
that Levi had severe tussle with this dis
cease and he now thinks he is having more
than his share.
Marshal Henderson says ''he is bound
to EUt stop to this coasting down hill
on Sundays by the boys. who keep up .
continual 'hoop'la" much to the annoyance
of the citizens in the immediate neighbor
hood Yesterday the sleds were taken
from quite a number. but were given back
this morning, but if repeated the sleds will
be kept. There is an ordinance against it
and he intends to see it enforced, SO look
out bows.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29

Yesterday afternoon while Squire Crop
per and Marshal Miller were standing on
the corner of Second avenue and Seven
teenth street, two young Davenport fellows
came dashing dawn the avenue in buggy
drawn by spirited little nag and whirling
around the corner into Seventeenth street
would surely have upset had there not
been smooth icy surface over which the
wheels slipped. They drove down toward
the river but finding they couldn't get
across that way turned about and dashed
their horse into a run for the return trip
when they were arrested for fast driving,
their rig taken from them and they es-
corted to the Armory by the Marshal. This
morning, on being arraigned before Squire
Cropper they gave their names as William
Pearsan COB office compositor,) and Viii
liam L. Stearns ages eighteen years each,
but denied having been drunk. Five dol
lars and costs each.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
FUNERAL oBsEoU1Es.

The funeral of the late Otto Carlson oc
CURED from the residence of his half
brother j. A Johnson, No 16 East
Charles street at O'Clock yesterday after
noon and was largely attended by friends
of the deceased, besides 102 of his brother
Odd Fellows. TheI funeral was in
charge of Swedish Olive Lodge No. $50
but Moline Encampment, Manufacturers
and Moline Lodges were all represented
John Soderstrum of the first named society
acted as chief marshal. The services at
the house were by the Rev. Waller of the
Baptist church, and were very impressive,
after which the members of the society
formed in line two abreast and passed in
and through the house to take a last
look at him who had been a co-worker in
the interest of the society. The remains
were then taken in charge by the pail
bearers. At the grave the services were
by the Chaplain and Noble Grand of
Lodge $50 and were those usual in the
order. The floral decorations were
beautiful, among which was an
anchor and star besides crosses
and wreath, the latter having lotto"
interviewer therein. The remains were
inferred at Riverside cemetery
The funeral of VIM. Junge, who was
accidentally killed at the wagon works, DC
Cured from the residence of the deceased
upon the bluff at 100 yesterday, about
900 of his fellow workmen marching in the
procession. The services, which were
quite brief, occurred at the house. The
Moline wagon company stand all the ex-
pense Incidental to the burial
Selma Lindell. mention of whose illness
of diphtheria was made in former issue,
breathed her last this morning, aged 8
years. at the family residence on First
street. The funeral occurs at 1890 to-
morrow. On account of the disease being
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
WARNING NO. /.
John Fairy

Yesterday afternoon. while large party
of young men and beys were coasting on
Dimick's hill, young man named Park or,
brother of Melvin Parker, was so serious
" hurt by collision that it became neces-
sary to take him home When last seen
blood was seen freely flowing from
his mouth, and his tongue protruded,
leading to the inference that in the shock
his tongue was badly bitten. This ought
to be warning to the Elm street coasters,
but it is matter of doubt whether it will.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
SURPRISE PARTY.

Last Saturday evening Misses May
Wollenhaupt and Clara Alter organized a
little company of about twenty young
people who made up surprise descent
upon Albert W Henry The company ar
rived about ? o'clock p. m. and spent the
time till 8 o'clock in the jolliest manner con
eeivable Mrs. Henry furnished splendid
supper which was not the least pleasant
features of this very admirably arranged
and carried out surprise visit.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
Personal

Messrs~ Ira d. Burgh and John Weyer-
h@usef viii leave on business trips for the
Rock Island Lumber company.
Mrs. S. J. Duffield, who has just re-
turned from her Woodstock, H., visit. re-
ports having had very happy time. With a
host of other relatives she celebrated on
Sunday the 14th inst, the S0th birthday
anniversary Of her father When she left
there the snow was two feet deep on Ii
level and in driving about the country the
usual highways We're ignored and people
drove anywhere and everywhere, over the
tops of fences etc. More snow in that sec
ton than here, evidently.
ROCK ISLAND HOUSE
w B Boutwell,, Hillsdale; D. Tomlinson,
Mt Carroll: j r McCabe, Sheffield, III; Peter
Kehl, Lodi, Wis: II Klueter, Madison; A
" Lee, Muscatine: j c Stanton, st Louis;
Lancashire, Moline, J b Dur
ham, ST. Louis; j Casey, Jr., n Y;
G L Mitchell, Monmouth; E Ladwig Mil
waukee; II J Walker, Chicago; III B Car
penter, Edgingten; r Frazer, st. Louis;
@ Fyfe, Chicago; George Brandenburg.
Cleveland; w j Spencer. Cleveland; c F
Horn, Beardstown; j J Wall Muscatine:
Geo Morrow. St. Louis
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29


A surprise party is on the tapis for this
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs NJ W Smith, who reside
in East Incline, will celebrate their golden
wedding tomorrow evening.
The Rev. Waller preached an excellent
sermon on The Prophets Mistake" at the
First Baptist church yesterday at 1890 in
the morning after which collection was
taken up for the Morgan Park seminary,
which netted neat little sum
A dancing club has been organized and
is now negotiating for the renting of the
new Armory on Tuesday evening of each
week for place of holding dancing
school.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
NEW CONVERSIONS HOUSE.

A. Foss, formerly of st. Louis, has
opened commission house at No 1924
Second avenue He will make a speciality
of foreign and domestic fruits, oysters in
season, wild game, etc. Success to the
new firm.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29

Oysters and CLANS on the half shell. or
served in any style desired, on short no
tice, at O. F. Soper's. No. 100 Eighteenth
treet. Give me a trial. nov-3-tf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
ROCK ISLAND HOUSE.
tax COLLECTORS NOTICE.

Major Frazer Wilson. town collector is
now ready to receive the taxes for 1882.
Office under the Harper House, in Western
Union telegraph office. dwtf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
DELIcAcTEs IN PORK.

Pork tender loin, spare rib pigs feet and
leaf lard, at Gilmore's pork house
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-29
MOLINE DEPARTMENT.

T. L. EASTMAN Reporter
Headquarters, one door West of Reimer,s
CigAr Store.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08
SEA FANciEs

u. cl,yd mon the limpid sky.
NJ, Nine Of vapor on the sea beneath
Tbs clear pools on the rock unwrlhAseu ~
And only stirred a. by an miami + ot'A'''
The salt grass rustles taint anu G'lo.S
NJ muiHed landward echoes borne stSr
Thrill through the moon.sutused ira"
guilty
But where The breakers glmmerV ~
A long. low murmur, like a summer So,
Grows deep and organ-toned, then iS'i'
sgsiB.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08
A Students Duel.

Hearing that there was to be a stu
dents duel, we planned to crafty our
curiosity in seeing what has been so
much written about. Taking a car
Rage, We rode across the river, up the
side Of a mountain and down a narrow
gorge to a public house. We went in
and ordered some refreshments and
chatted for half an hour, when a white
capped student passed. | accosted him
and earnestly made known u wants
in the language of Goethe and Schiller.
He gave me a long and earnest answer,
not a word of which could / under
stand. AT last a waiter who spoke
English came, and we sought her kind
Offices. She agreed TO take US in ten
minutes TO a room where we could see
the combat through a window. We
waited on hour, and, as patience
was about exhausted, she returned.
Through the window we could see two
men confronting each other, with their
hands extended straight over their
heads. Their left arms were tied be-
hind their backs and goggles over their
eyes. The men were padded every
where except their heads, which were
left uncovered. At the appointed sig
nal they began cutting at each other
with lightning-like rapidity. Neither
seemed to try to ward of the blows OF
his opponent. AS o o as one was cut
the seconds ran between th EN- and
knocked up tine swords. The doctor
examined thu wounds, staunched the
blood and the fight was resumed, and
went on until the doctor decided that
further fighting would endanger life,
1t was the most beastly tomfoolery ]
ever saw. The hurt inflicted was moi
enough to satisfy a man seeking redress
for a real or fancied insult, but was
too severe for play. l could see no dis
play Of skill nor any particular NANTES
tation OF courage.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08
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The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08

ed in the Forests of the dismal Swamp,
/ n Virginia and North CAROLINA
Thomas Brown, Jr., a member of the
New York Democratic State Comnittee
has directed his attorneys to bring suit
for libel against the New York Times
for publication of alleged false state
ments in reference to his attend
ance at a meeting of the Committee.
He claims $50, 000.--Amelia Hender-
son committed suicide in Syracuse. New
York, by taking morphine. She was
in bad health and had been deserted by
her husband.-An attempt was made
to wreck the Albany express on the
Boston and Albany railroad by placing
two sleepers on the track Just above
Ashland. The engine struck the sleep
ers, but was running slowly and DO
damage was done. At the County
jail of Wyandotte, Kansas, five prison.
ers overpowered the guard and broke
jail. The Sheriff endeavored to stop
them, and fatally wounded a confidence
man named Dunbar. A second man
was recaptured the other three are still
at large.-John Woolver has been ar.
rested at Perry, Michigan, for fatally
poisoning Henry Cutcher with strych-
nine. Cutcher was recently married to
a young woman whom Woolver loved.
Hilbert Dubers visited his brother
in-law, Richard Magee, neal Colfax,
Louisiana to collect a debt of thirteen
dollars. Magee could not pay and
Dubers shot him. 49, Daniel Mckay,
Thomas Ewing and Henry Satchwell
were lying beside the road near Wades-
boro, North Carolina, when William
Shepherd, who was passing, playfully
aimed his gun at them. The weapon
was discharged, MORALLY wounding
Mckay and Ewing and badly injured
~Satchwell. john Fletcher shot and
killed the telegraph operator at Spring
Hill station, Utah. There was an old
grudge between the men.-During a
row at the canning works, at st. joseph,
Missouri, Mary Fuhey threw a box At
a boy. 1t missed him, but hit Caroline
Hupp and killed her.
FOREIGN.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08
Scraps.

The Moscow Gazette publishes the
proceeding of the trial of seven Chris
ti8n Tartars at KaZan, who were re-
Gently convicted of reviling and re-
nouncing the orthodox faith, and were
sentenced to exile in Siberia. They APP
pear to have been the ~ringleaders in a
movement, which began soon after the
Turkish war, for the revision of the
whole village to M lomedanism.
The average longevity in England is
increasing. Not many years ago a
celebrated author denied the existence
of such a thing as a centenarian. The
statistics for 1881 record ninety-one
persons who did not die until they had
completed 100 years and upward. OF
these twenty-five were men and sixty
six woman. The oldest mar was l12
years of age ; the others ranged between
that and 100. Three of the women
were 107, three LOG, two los, six 104,
five 103, eight 102, and the rest were 100
and upward.
A religious agitation of a very singu-
lar character is manifesting itself
in some counties of the grand duchy of
Finland. The new heretics call them
selves the PURE by Excellence" and
profess the superiority and supremacy
of woman, who must control the family.
In every house where the new doctrines
are practiced a woman, elected by her
companions, is invested with a sort of
directing power, which gives her the
right to infiict penance and even rigor
Gus ehastisement. The new creed re-
quires that all its disciples shall confess
their sins to certain women at least once
a week.
The greatest eel-pond in America is
on the farm of James n. Wells, in the
town ofsRiverhead, Massachusetts,. 1t
covers five acres, and is so full of eels
that they can be raked out with a gar
den rake. Two years ago Mr.. Wells
put 20O0 dozen of eels into the pond,
intending to have them undisturbed for
five years These have increased to
millions. They are fed regularly every
third day on ''horse feet" a peculiar
shell-fish. The eels know when they
are to be fed and the stroke of Mr..
Wells whip against his wagon calls
thousands of them up to dinner, although
any one else may pound away all day
without any effect. One of these shell
fish, fastened to a strong cord and
thrown into the water, may be drawn
out in a few minutes with hundreds of
cells fastened to it.
Simon Ferguson, an illiterate negro
coal miner at the Campbell Creek
mines, West Virginia, told a Mrs. Will
liams that she was possessed of devils
and that he was the only man in the
country who could cast them out. As
she had been ''daunsy'' for some time
she believed him. He then prescribed
pokeroot, smartweed and ironweed, to
which he added grasshoppers, angle
worms, grub-worms, flies and other
insects. This, being mixed, was placed
in a quart bottle, set in hot water and
stepped for some time. The quantity
taken was a wineglassful every four
hours. She was to have a teaspoonful
of tobaccO-snuff blown up her nose
with a pipe three times a day, while her
diet was to be nothing but raw salt
mackerel, fresh from the brine and I'M
washed. She took several doses of the
mixture, which stirred the devils up
to such an extent that she had to send
for another doctor to settle them.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08
Henry James Appearance.

At the Boston train when we were
entering the town a person Of rather
robust size, wearing a blush gray suit
and with blackish side ~whiskers, began
to speak to a lady in the most ultra
awfully awful West End Of London
style. The first word he got out of his
mouth vas invariably a stutter, and ne
stumbled on as if biting at his sentences.
When he had passed out my friend re-
marked to me Whom do you sus-
pect that to be S' Said l sit might
be Lord Manderville, or it might be his
valet" NO" said he, shat is Henry
James, the author"
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08

Since 1864 the warhorse of Stone
WALL Jackson has been on the Morrison
farm neal Charlotte, N. G. He has
been. at the request of Mrs. Jackson,
sent to the Virginia Military Institute,
Of which General jackson wa so lorg
a professor. The horse is at least
twenty-five years old, is u dark bay,
but is in good condition, and shows
few marks of age.
The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-08

Al Cd @o4axl t0Ok = snai in Grand
EzxAds church, II the time Of the usual
eyessszsz services, and weat To sleep.
As<>sa ngAAnlzis she swoke, locked In
"a zAD1s. Hes er1s made tnghtful
sexs<s 1d - sas nesfiy dead with
t@xra sisn rskessod.