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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-27
A VALUABLE MEMENTo OF LINCoLN's
SKILL WITH RIFLE.

SPRINGFIELD, H., January ga
highly priced memento of Abraham Lin.
coin was received last evening at the Ad-
jutant Generals office, to be placed ia the
military museum, of the Capitol It is
only little piece of pine board with
some holes in it, but it has history con
Meeting it with the life of the first mar
tyred president that will make it much
sought for and eagerly scanned. II is a
piece of dressed pine board, six by eight
inches in size, with black spot about the
size Of a silver quarter, marked in the
center to serve as bulPs-eye, and it was
used as target for rife practice by Mr..
Lincoln while an inmate of the White
House. A pencil memorandum on the
board explains that the seven holes were
made by seven consecutive shots fired
from Spencer rifle, at a distance of forty
yards, by Mr. Lincoln at Washington,
Aug. 49, 1868. One shot was q center"
and all the rest but one were planted close
around the dusky pupil. The odd one is
down in one corner, four inches from the
bulPs,eye. The craftsmanship is pro-
nounced excellent Captain Frazier. of
New York city, was the posessor of this
little relic until lately when he made a
donation of it to Abe's Station.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-27

Send postal card, with name and address
pilanly written, to H. G. Davis, Asst gen
eral passenger agent, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils 81 Manitoba r. r, St. Paul, Mimi
for full particulars and sectional map for
North Dakota country. See advertise
ment headed 1920 acres free,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-27

Fred Gerhard, Mrs. Langtry's fool,
made his appearance last evening at the
Union club in New York, where he told his
cronies that he left St. Louis because he
found that he was getting Mrs. Langtry
into trouble. Gerhard admits that he
does not enjoy the notoriety he has OBJ
tanned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-27

In New Zealand, Mr. A. T. Urquhart
states, earthworms not only leave their
burrows but climb up trees in search of
food in the night or at late hour if the
morning is damp and warm.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-27

OFFICERS: IS. W. WHEELocK, President: JOHN
GooD, Vice President; G.. X. HENENwAY. Cashier
TRUsTEEs:-S Nv. Whselock, Porter skinner G
w. Lobdell, Nelson Chester, ". Candee 4. u.
Grant,, A. s. Wright, G. f. Hemnway. JOIN
Good, j. NJ. Christy c. Ii. Stoddard.
EB The only chartered Savings Bank in Roos
Island County aug2dwy
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
vENERATloa OF Tag moNKEY.

Victor Jacquemont estimates that the
Bengal Presidency alone contains sixteen
hundred monkey asy lums, supported chiefly
by the very poorest class of the popula-
ton. In the rural districts of Nepaul the
hanumans have their sacred groves, and
keep together in troops OF fifty or sixty
adults, and, in spite of hard times, there
associations multiply like the monastic or
ders of medieval Europe; but they must
all be provided for, though the nativt
should have to exc out their crops with the
wild-rice of the Jumna swamp-iungles.
The strangest part of the superstition is
that this charity results by no means from
a feeling of benevolence toward animals in
general, but from the exclusive veneration
of special subdivision Of the monkey
tribe. An orthodox Hindoo must not will
ingly take the life of the humblest fellow.
creature, but he would not move finger
to save starving dog, and has no hesita-
tion In stimulating beast Of burden with
dagger-like goad and other contriyances
that would invoke the avenging powers of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Nor would he shrink from
extreme measures in defending bis fields
from the ravages of low caste monkeys. DR..
ailSA NhaChSLLlGO1C saw = swarm OF eAclE6u
natives running toward an orchard where
the shaking of the branches betrayed the
presence of arboreal marauders. Some of
them carried slings, others clubs and cane
spears. But soon they came back crest
fallen. whats the matter" inquired
| the doctor did they get away from
you ?" KAPPA Num-" was the laconic re.
ply, sacred monkeys" Holy balloons
that must not be interrupted in their little
pastimes. They had expected to find q
troop of common makaques, wande-
roos, or other profane four handlers, and
returned on tiptoe, like Marryat's sergeant
who went to arrest an obstreperous drunk
ard snd recognized his commanding officer
Unarmed Europeans cannot afford TO brave
these prejudices. Captain Elphinstone's
gardener nearly lost his life for shooting a
thievish nanuman; mob of raging bigots
chased him from street to street till he
gave the slip in Mobammedan suburb,
where sympathizing Unitarian helped
him to escape through the back-alleys
The interference of his countrymen would
hardly have saved him, for the crowd in
creased from minute to minute, and even
women joined in the chase, and threatened
to cure his iupiety with a turnip-masher.-
Popular Science Monthly.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
THE LESSON IT TEACHES.

The Milwaukee disaster is the subject Of
general remark by the press of the country.
This should not be the topic of an hour,
merely, but continue to be the theme of pub
lie comment until measures have been taken
throughout the country to remove the
possibility of like events in the future.
We deny ourselves credit for common
intelligence if such lesson as this yield
US no beneficial results. The possibility
suggested may be attained. Every room
of lofty structures for human habitation
can be provided with adequate means of
escape from fire. We remember one form
in use in az Eastern hotel many years ago
"A simple cord.bound roll of stout canvas
secured to hooks beneath the window
seat. When cast out and held below il
formed an easy and safe chute through
which persons could descend and goods be
sent to the ground. But that was not
fre-proof escape, and therein was its de.
feet A mechanic of this city writes to say
that he has experimental with flexible
wire braids less than half an inch in width.
and that they afford safe means for low
ering oneself or another from lofty win.
dows, and that two coils of the woven wire
and the necessary tackle occupy but few
cubic inches Of space. There are very
many cheap and practical fire escapes, and
many costly and elaborate ones. The in
ventive genius of the age must be equal to
the production of an Escape that shall be
cheap enough and simple enough to be ap-
piled to every upper floor exterior hotel
window, and landlords should be required
70 supply them, on the same principle that
the law obligss passenger carrying ships to
be equipped with life-saving appliances.
But the chief result of the lesson we are
considering, if the holocaust to negligence
at Milwaukee is to be needed at al, will
be found in official supervision of hotel
construction, and enforced means of closing
the chimney-like elevator shaft, that serves
to fire all the floors of building simulta-
neously.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
IMIrArIoss, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

limitations Of butter appear to be special
objects of legislative assault. One bill
proposes to compel landlords and keepers
of eating-houses to post CONSEQUENTLY in
their places of business the fact that the
imitation article is kept. Another is to
compel oleomargarine and butterine factors
to color their product a delicate pink.
This is paternal regard On the part of
legislators that food consumers will appre.
ciate. By all means let some of these bills
pass, but let the spirit animating this kind
of legislation extend its benefcence in still
other directions. Let the consumer insist
that when the cigar vendor furnishes cab.
bage he shall supplement it with the corn
beef that dairymen shall attach galacto-
meters to their cans, that the specific
gravity of the milk may be determined !;
that the grocer label his coffee packages in
a manner to express the proportions of
other Ingredients they contain that the
dealer in spirituous beverages be compelled
to indicate by the color of the bottle the
precise adulteration which il is believed
will reproduce a corresponding tint upon
his patrons countenance in fact, sugges-
tions in this line crowd upon each other
for consideration. One, at least, may be
seriously advanced in favor of some meas-
ure by which the consumer can be assured
that he receives the full pound of butter
he bargains for. In serious earnest there
may be judicious legislation in this direc-
ton. The standards Of weights and meas
ures established by law rest dust-covered
and unused in peaceful retirement at the
Capitol. Pounds are largely such as deal
ers choose to accord measures in wood
have ceased to have to be of much signifi
canoe, and full weight in coal is too often
grim fiction to the consumer. There
should be here, as in most of the older
States, enforcement of the law regulating
weights and measures, and come system
adopted by which the purchaser can be
assured, whatever the price he pays, that
he receives the weight and the measure for
which the consideration passes.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
tbs FORESTRY QUESTION.

The position of this journal on the for
eatry question is well known. For de.
cade it has urged upon successive Legis.
lstures the necessity of some inquiry,
If not some action, regarding the
destruction of our forest growth.
Recently we published valuable tabular
statements Of the timber supply On
the coast, as collated by the Census
Bureau, and these, with maps showing
the extent and density of the tree growth
and the area occupied, form more than
usually Interesting census matter. New
England has awakened to the fact that
forest tree cultivation is becoming neces-
sary there, and is regretting her inaction
IN the past. Vermont has just appointed
q Forestry Commission. The New Hamp.
shire Commission recently closed an inter-
esting session. In Massachusetts, the sub
ject is being warmly discussed, and
associations are forming to plant barren
districts with trees. Fire and the ak have
wrought ruin in the North Atlantic
forests, and the protection heretofore
afforded the headwaters of New
England's streams has been with
drawn to an extent threatening disastrous
consequences. In New York the alarm
has been sounded, for vast tracts in the
grand forests Of the Adiroadacks have
been sold to spectators TO be cleared, and
the chief streams of the State are threat.
ened in consequence. To what extent
California is in danger from like causes
ahould be officially ascertained, If repair
Of loss, or prevention of destruction is
necessary. the better time for either is the
present. A citizen of Sacramento, who
has made life study of the coniferous
trees of the State, addresses us, saying
that the destruction of mountain timber
growth is greater than there is any neces.
sity for that much of it is ruthless, and
that the situation demands immediate
State inquiry. He probably puts the mat.
ter very modestly. While the Sierras are
crowned and its slopes robed by vast
forests as yet almost untouched, there are
sections where tree destruction has pro-
crossed to an extent threatening serious
results. 1t is not the purpose, however,
now to pursue that subject, but simply to
cali attention to the wisdom of at least
setting on foot inquiry, if not of establish.
ing working Commission. Immediately.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
CAUSES AND CURE OF RHEu nAr1sn.

Common rheumatism Is disease which
affects the joints, the hinges of the body,
in such way that the slightest motion of
the ailing parts gives pain. A creaking
hinge is dry and turns hard. A single drop
of oil to moisten it makes a wonderful
change, and it instantly moves on itself
with the utmost facility. All kinds of
rheumatism are an Inflammation of the
surface Of the joints. Inflammation is
heat this heat dries their surfaces hence.
the very slightest effort at motion gives
piercing pain. In healthy condition of
the parts. nature is constantly throwing
out lubricating oil, which keeps the joints
In a perfectly smooth and easy.working
condition. Rheumatism is almost always
caused-indeed, 1t may be nearer the truth
to say that it is always the result
of cold dampness. a dry cold
or warm dampness does not in.
duce rheumatism. A garment, wetted
by perspiration or rain or water in any
other form about joint, and allowed to
dry While the person is In a state of rest, is
the most common way of causing rheuma-
tism A partial wetting of garment is
more apt to induce an attack than il the
entire clothing were wetted; because, in
the latter case, it would be certainly and
speedily exchanged for dry garments.
There are two very certain methods of
preventing rheumatism. The very moment
garment is wetted, in whole or in part,
change it, or keep in motion sufficient to
maintain very slight perspiration until
the clothing is perfectly dried. The failure
to wear wooden flannel next the skin is the
most frequent cause of rheumatism for a
common muslin or linen or silk shirt of
person in perspiration becomes damp and
cold the instant puff of air strikes it, even
in midsummer. This is not the case when
WOODEN flannel is worn next the skin. The
easiest, most certain and least hurSful
way OF curing this troublesome af-
lection is, first, to keep the joint
affected wound around with sew.
eral folds of wooden flannel; second,
live entirely on the lightest kind of food,
such as coarse breads, ripe fruits, berries,
boiled turnips, stewed apples and the ike.
Ii such things were eaten to the extent
OF keeping the system freely open, and
exercise were freely taken, SO that slight
moisture should be on the surface of the
skin all the time, or If in bed the same
thing were accomplished by hot teas and
plentiful bed clothing, grateful relief and
an ultimate cure will very certainly result
in short time. Without this soft and
moist and warm condition of the skin and
an open state of the system, the disease
will continue to torture for weeks and
months and years. Inhammatory rheuma-
tism may, for all practical purposes, be re.
garded as an aggravated form of the com.
mon kind, extended to all the joints of the
body, instead of duplicating only one or
two. For all kinds, time, flannel, warmth,
with light and cooling diet. are the great
remedies Halls Journal of Health.
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
PERSISTENT MISREPRESENTATION.

When a journal which assumes to speak
upon questions Of fact persistently misrep-
resents, there is but one term remaining to
be applied to it, and that not polite
one. The RECORD UNION has repeatedly,
and with clearness that admits of no
Misrepresentation, stated its objections to
the ruling of Secretary Lincoln to be based
on it's belief that restraining dams are i'm
peratiyely necessary to prevent mining
debris and the detritus of mines, already
in the upper reaches of our rivers and their
tributaries, from being carried down upon
valley lands; that tkis threatening matter
is all belo,o the points Of mining operations,
and restraining works to check its course
could have no relation whatever to, or in
any degree whatever affect or benefit,
hydraulic mining. It has, from the out
set, maintained that either the flow OF de-
bris to the valleys must cease or the in
dustry causing it be no longer pursued.
Notwithstanding these facts, persistent
and mendacious attempt is made to repre-
sent this journal as advocating the plans Of
| Colonel Mendell and other eminent eDgi-
neering officers az being in the interest of
hydraulic mining at the expense Of the
Government. All such puerile persistency
to make capital at the expense of truth
will fail, and the sooner it is abandoned
the better. The people will not be
deceived by Misrepresentation and
denunciation. The patent and unde-
niable fact remains, and no word to
the contrary has been printed by those
who delight in perverting the truth, that
millions OF cubic feet OF coarse sand and
gravel, with COOLIES, powders and de.
structive composition, known as slick.
ems" are upon the threshold of the
chief navigable stream of the State, and,
unless held there, must very shortly be
precipitatsd into tie bed 1.-THE river, TO its
diversion and degradation, and that
Of all adjacent low-lyipg agricultural lands.
That is all there is of the matter. Those
who put a single obstacle in the path OF
the authorities who would prevent such a
catastrophe are laying up for them
selves trouble against day of judg-
ment over which the people will
preside with a vigor devoid of mercy
As fnality on this point let us say that
the RECORD UNION from the first held that
natural justice demanded hydraulic min.
ing should not be conducted to the injury
of the people of the valley, and if that
could not be prevented its works must
stop. At one time we did advocate reme-
dial plans proposed BY eminent engineers,
which, however wise, are now impracti.
cable. The RECORD UNION is the friend
of the right. and believes the right to be
with the people of the valley. It believes
that the pittance the Government has
granted for the improvement of the Sacra-
meuto river should not be cut short, but
fully expended, and that the plans of
Colonel Mendell are in the interest Of the
valley people, and of no others.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
Teamster Attacked by Apaches.
Utah.
Items from, saIt Lake

SALT LAKE, January 13sh.-As Beaver,
Utah, yesterday, E. G.. Taylor. formerly an
operator in the employ of the DsseIet Tele-
graph Company, committed suicide by TAX
ing lsudanum.
John Moryneaux died at the Deseret Hos
pital yesterday half su hour after reaching
there. The deceased had been suffering from
heart disease, and it is supposed that the i'm.
mediate cause of death was asphyxia, result
ing from the patient having, the night pre-.
vious to his coming here, blown out the gas
at hotel
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15

Mr.. DEL VALE has introduced a resolution in
the Senate calling for the removal of the Cabinet OF
minerals from the State Capitol to the rooms of the
Mining Bureau at San Francisco. Is this necessary
or wise? Wous it not be well to leave object
of interest and value in the Capitol building which
may be shown to visitors with degree of pride
The Mining Bureau is under its accomplished Min
erAlogist Acquiring valuable cabinets and in short
time it will have no room fer the incoming contri
buttons. Its collection will early be complete, with
out the addition of the Capitol cabinet, which is
safely and well disposed, and source of interest to
visitors to the building.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat and lungs

EToR UPWARDS OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
DIR. LIGHTHILL'S professional attention has
been exclusively devoted to the relief and cure Of
these important ailments, and it is with pardonable
pride that he refers to the success which he has
achieved in this special department of medical SCI
ence. His apparatus and appliances for the exam
nation and treatment of the hidden cavities of the
head throat and air passages are original, and con
fessedy the most perfect Of anything of the kind
yet devised, enabling him not only to readily dis
cover the exact nature of the complaint but also to
direct his applications to the diseased parts effect
ually that relief is experienced at once and perma-
nent cures are often effected in the most stubborn
and aggravated cases. and it Is one Of the happy
features OF his practice that the applications
neither pain distress, ard therefore be read
lily administered to the most tmid or nervous per-
son.
candid opinion will invariably be given as to
the probabilities of cure, and no case will be
copied for treatment which does not offer reason
able chance OF success.
Ey Office Hours from 20 A. NJ. to IL NJ, and 1 to
p " dI2-2pIy
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PACIFIC SLOPE.

in Truckee-Tramps Out
wifted by COnduetor-Sherin's 0ffice
Broken open-shOoting ARRAY i'm n
Gambling Roem-A Young Medical SIN
dent Roughly Used-A ChInawOmaH
MISUNDERSTANDING Accident-Efc.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15
Salicylic acid, as disinfectant for cat.

cars, is said to be far preferable to carbolic
acid, as it is quite as energetic, and leaves
no unpleasant smell behind. 1t is en-
ployed largely abroad by veterinary sur
geons IS curative agent for many diseases
to which animals are subject, and is four d
useful in checking the spread of cont.gion
among them. Its most important use,
however, is for the preservation of food.
During the prevalence of hot weather meat,
fish, etc., can be preserved by its use for
several days.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-01-15

-" Figures are not always fscsr," but tt Q
incontrovertible facts concerning Kidney
Wort are better than most figures. Fer in-
stance: 1T is curing everybody" writss .
druggist. Kidney Wort is the most pc u.
lar medicine we sell" 1t should b. by right,
on the liver, bowels and kiins,s. Do not
fail to try it.
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WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
The oliver wolcott.s Expeditiou


PoRT TOWNSEND, January 18th. = The
United States revenue steamer Oliver VOL
colt, Captain Louis N. Stadder, left this
morning for Fort Simpson. B. G., to quell
the Indian disturbances there, at the request
of the authorities of British Columbia, no
British naval vessel being in those waters. It
will be recollected that b. M. ship Opal went
to Alaska on the occasion of the Iodian
trouble in 1879, and the present trouble in
British Columbia furnishes an opportunity Of
returning the courtesy.
Burglary-Hurrted Preparations.
New TACOMA, January 14.h.-On Saturday
night the store Of Daniel McCaskett, On Pa
cific avspue, was burglariously entered, and
over 1000 cigars, valued at about 5000 stolen.
TIE front door was unlocked. The burglars
helped themselves, relocked it aud retired.
A large force has been at work day and
night and all day on the coal bunkers, in an
iicipation Of the arrival Of the new collier