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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

There was a melodrama enacted al the
Pittsbprg opera house recently tna' was
not down on the bills. When the peffor
nance was about half over man cahle
rushing out of the audience in very eX-
cited manner end asked if there was a
room attached to the theatre where he
could take his wife, who was very SICK.
He was shown to the ladies' retiring room'
to which he conducted two ladies, one OF
them appearing to-suffer great pain. fhen
an inquiry was made for physician but
before one arrived it was all over, ana the
population of Pittsburg was increased by
one boy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
A FEW REFLECTIONS UPON NIGHT.
'etroit Free Press

| 1t is night. A policeman awakes with
a sudden start and moves around the cor
ner, having secret fear at his heart that
he Slept through all that night. all next
/ day and far into tomorrow night 1t is
night in great city. The poker and faro
rooms are in full blast, 10000 loafers
are holding down street corners, and here
| and there an intoxicated alderman can be
seen making his way TO policy shop or
| gathering of the pavement ring Under
cover of darkness, first manufactured over
| 5000 years ago, the hotel beat lowers
| his duds from the fourth story window
all who have deadhead tickets start for
the opera houses; huadreds OF young men
set out to spark; reporters look forward
| to fires, robberies and murders, and
church choirs meet to rehearse and wran-
gle and lay up clubs for each other.
It's nigh in the country. The stock
has been fed, the squeaI of the pig is
his corn and wonders why his master
a kernsl on them. phe watch
willing to chew up any of the neighbors
for cent, and within the farm house all
is serene, or would be if John Henry
could find the grease for his boots, Mary
Ann could find her novel, the old man
discover the hiding place of the bootjack.
and the mother selve the mystery of how
some of her neighboEs managed To get a
dress costing two shillings per yard while
she had nothing but calico.
IT'S night on the ocean. The proud
steamer sails gallanty on and on, the
captain snoring in his berth, the mates
playing euchre, the lookOuts asleep, and
everything in readiness to swear, in case
OF collision, that it was all the other yes
sells fault. Nothing is heard but the
steady beat of the propeller, the groans of
the immigrants, and the voices of men
and women declaring that anybody who
plans an ocean yoyoge for pleasure ought
to be shot to death with Goldfish balls.
The sportive dolphin gambols away his
hard earnings, the whale rolls over for
another nap. and the business like shark
follows in the wake to pick up any OPP
portunities which may tumble overheard.
IT'S night on the prairie. The red men
gather about the camp fire TO count the
sealps they have taken within the last
week, and to grumble at the government
for not furnishing them with port wine
and repeating rifles. The white hunter
and trapper eHFls himself up to wonder
where he can find old bones for breakfast,
and realize what fool he has made of
himself. and the gaunt wolf shoulders his
empty stomach and sets out in search
of something to make life worth living
for. s.
Night grows apacc. Ia the city the
weary wife takes her place in The hall with
club in hand. In the country the old
folks fall into bed weary with the work
of the day, and the young people spanked
and chewed popcorn. On the ocean the
sea-sickers continue TO grow worse, and
the songs of the mermaidS fall fiat. On
the prairie the Indians finally decide to
make war in the spring. the hunter falls
asleep to dream of eating his boots for
dinner, and the wolf meets wildcat and
offers to toss up to see which shall eat
the other. e
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
"A FREAK OF THE FLOOD
A Farmer Loses Forty Acres OF Land, and a
Neighbor Is Ten Acres Ahead.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
Oae of the strangest freaks of the
tleod is reported from Whitewater river,
few miles above Lawrenceburg, where
Farmer Hunt lost forty OF land. and his
neighbcr, Fred Newhouse, had barren
and rocky mill site converted into ten
acres of as rich land as the fertile valley
affords. The land along the whitewater
is as rich as any in the west. An acre of
ground here is an independence for a
gardener. and ten acres are little less
than a bonanza. During the flood the
Whitewater bottoms were oveiflowed for
miles along the stream, and the extraorJ.
mary height of the water created currents
that had never been known before
Since the substance of the food il has
been found that forty acres OF farmer
Hunts richest soil has been carried AWAY.
leaving that portion of the farm practic
ally worthless until restored by system
of tillage and fertilizing Fred New
house, who recently removed to the
Whitewater bottoms from Aurora, owned
a mill site just below Hunts farm. New
house property consisted of ten acaes of
rocky and barren land. unfit for farming
purposes A portion of this was a large
mill pond. The mill-pond is now filed
to the level of the breast of the dam with
the richest soil in the valley, and Mr.,
Newhonse's remaining acres nf unprod
pctiye rocks are covered to the depth of
several feet with the same rich deposit
Instead of being u loss by the flood. he is
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
Come I'm

Everything is going up" Dick Prin-
dies wife would say when Dick came
home to dine. Sometimes the canned
beef had taken jump, and some days
the butter was so high they could scarce
Iy reach it, while at all other times
she'd cackle about the eggs, how they d
taken a leap. 1t was rather rough on
Dick who worked hard for 81 day, for
when she found how things were going,
she up and procured a divorce from him
on the grounds of nen-support deficient
wardrobe).
How are you, Dick?" said a friend,
meeting him shortly after. What's the
wordp''
s'Ahi said Dick. soberly, EVERY
things gone up nowr'-Cape A'sas id
f,e1fis21.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
sEDUcER KILLED.

NEW YORK, March 19-George w.
Conkling, United States surveyor on gov
eminent surveys, Nevada, shot dead Viii =
liam Haverstick, the seducer of his sister.
The tragedy took place in Paris Flat, !"
351 West Twenty third st.eet. Conkling
arrived in the city few days ago. Ten
years ago his sister married man named
Uheler. They soon quarrellcd and sep
arated. Falling IN with Havelstick. she
came to New York and lived with him in
Paris Flat" Learning her whereabouts.
Conkling came on to New York and
obtained an interview with his sister. She
promised to go west with him, but 1efus-
ed to live with her husband. To night
Conkling went again to see her, and was
met by Haverstick, who swore that the
woman should not leave the house. The
two men came to blows. Haverstiek
threw copper statute at Conkling,s who
drew a revolver and fired. The ball struck
Haverstick in the pit of his stomach, in,
fiictinga wound from which he died an
hour later Conkling left the house i'm
mediately after the shooting, and walked
TO Eighth avenue and Twenty street
and surrendered to the officers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

Hereafter tue clerks in the departments
at Washington will have to work al ho~'
longer each day than they have been &C
customed to, congress making TINS re-
ouiren,ent in law passed at the recent
session. There is a great deal OF remon
STRANGE upon the part of the officials VINO
will be confined to their arduous lsoors
hereafter from IL. m. to P. M Du'
there have so far been no designations.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

ahead the value of ten acres OF White
water valley land, which, when there Is
any of it in the market. commands from
$500 to $500 an acre Mr.. Newhouse is
fine practice miller, and the whole
neighborhood just now is put to great in
convenience by the temporary shutting
down of his mill IF it were not for
the annoyance and delay of changing my
mill from water power to steam power,
for am left without DAM" said Mr..
Newhouse, Il would laugh at nv loss.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

Brown. Jr., the recently aPpo'H'eu
United States marshal for tue easeeAA
trict of A rkansas, was Saturday arrested
for collecting money on vouchers winch
he had forged He has heretofore Oo'ne
high reputation, and though inc "a
has not been had, the evidence seems -
he strong against him.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
THE ART OF LYING IN BED.
Great Achievements Accomplished and
Noble Thoughts Born of
Genius Abed.
[Cincinnati Enqurer.l

One of the most useful, yet neglected,
of all the arts is that of lying in bed. The
damage that is done by persons getting
up is past all reckoning. All the mischIefs
and crime, the counterfeiting and forgery.
the murder and theft are perDetrated BY
parties who persist in getting up. Not
only individuals do wrong by leaving
their beds. but rivers as well do an i'm
mense amount of damage. Witness the
Ohio river, which left its bed few weeks
since How much damage has its diver
sion wrought? What an immense, in
calculable amount of work, labor and ex-
perience has not its early rising caused!
What man was ever dunned by a creditor,
had its eye put in mourning By too close
proximity with some ones fist, broke his
leg on a slippery pavement was run over
by an omnibus, who lay in bed?
What great achievements have been ac-
complished in war, in poetry, in itera
ture. by genius abed! What noble
thoughts have been born between the
sheets. once delivered from their authors
brains, gone, Jehu-like, whistling down
the race course of timei Coming events
cast their shadows before one of the
most memorable lines in the English Ian
guage-originated with the gin loving
poet, Tom Campbell, one morning before
he had arisen. LongfelIow thought out
that equisite poem, The Wreck of the
Hesperus, after he had retired. Ben
Franklin said, early to bed and early TO
rise makes man healthy, wealthy and
wise" No, Franklin started all right,
but got terrible mixed when he said early
to rise" There is the fatal mistake
People who rise early are sure to catch
the malaria; the ground is full of half
Matched poisonous germs; the sun is not
up and has not warmed them into life,
given them wings and set them adrift.
Poor, misguided man, he arises, inhales
them all; they fructify and poison his en-
tire system: hence chills, fever, malaria
and half the ills that human flesh is heir
to-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

the fellows who play soldier. cares .
banbee whether another state encampment
is ever held. and why. in the name of all.
that is sensible and honest, should the
burdens of taxation be increased just now
for this worse than foolish purpose? We
protest against it. once and all the time.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

yanderbilt's grandson. no" months
old, has been presented with rOr'S-'"o
siluer mugs. This is inherited mon
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

1t is said Great Britain. Russia fia.'e'
and Germany intend concerlins
against the anarchists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

If Virgins had only fixed SUNDAY '"o
18th of March for his great pio" o"'
might I'VE hit it ia this latitude
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE cuRRrNrY
Washington, February cath, 1881 I
WHEREAS. BY satisfactory evidence presented N
the undersigned It has been made 70 appear thai
. me FIRST NATIONAL BANK or Rock IsT kN..,s
IA the city OF Rock Island, in the county OF Rock
island, and state of Illinois. has complied with al
the provision OF the ssact of Congress 10 enable
corporate existence aud for other puTnoaesfs an,
proved July 18TH 1882 81
NOW, therefore, /. JOHN JAY KNOX, Cemptrollar
OF the Currency io hereby certify that s.rhe First
NationaI Bank Of II ok island in the city OF Rock
island, and state OF Illinois, is authorz ed to have
succession for the period specified in its amend-
ca articles of association. namely until close If
business on February "a 1873 =
10 testimony whereof, witness my hand and Seal
OF Office this Gath day of February. isS3
JOHN JAY KNOX
No. ITS. Comptroller of the Currency
feb-27-d30d
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

Estate. Desertion Non-Support Advice ard
applications for stamp. W. II. LIE, Atty. 239
Broadway. Ny,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-20

w PorrEa. EDITOR AsD-P Ubllsi1A.-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25
Painful Accident.

Yesterday afternoon, about 5
o'clock, as two little sons of MIR.
Join Lollins, residing in the Sew
enth ward, were chopping wood,
one of them sustained painful in
jury. The older, aged IL years, was
welding the ak. and one of his
blows had the effect Of displacing
the stick he was working upon.
The younger, aged 8, picked it up
and put it back on the block just AT
the time that the others ak was
descending, and caught the little
fellows left hanT. The ak was
very dull aud did not completely
sever the fingers which were struck,
hut the fore aud middle digits were
badly bruised and cut, and the
third, while not being cut, has q
broken bone. DR.. Benedict was
called in and is doing his best to
save the fingers, but he thinks the
first one will have to 60.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25
For Rent.

Ten-room furnished house, SIS.
Large adobe barn close to business centre,
Opposite SCOTS warehouse; suitable for sew
eral horses or for a warehouse.
The Whittemore terrace Is now com plete
and ready for occupancy; each house has
seven rooms with gas. bath room, hot and
cold water, and is situated near the Cont;nen.
tai hotel and business centre.
s25. Five room brick, on car line, Third
South.
$50. Five room house, South Temple street
$50. Ten room house, South Temple street,
$45. furnished five room house.
Fine office room, nice location, $3.50.
Pine suit OF rooms In the Keyser book, SIS.
Seven rom rev brick house, near Main,
on Seventh South, 81.
Five room house, Barvey's row, S25.
Pcs. "~'
cine large private residences, either fur.
nished or unfurn!sbed; gas and water.
Three FOOD adobe hoase, Sixteenth 1Sx
10.
Eight roou aoass sloss ay, Ia
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

e0OO0 BRICK COTTAGE OF FOUR
SlOOO. rooms, Ninth Ward. Third Ess
street, well and pump, porch. outhoGses, ETC.,
WE HAVE A BUILDING LOT CLOSE
w 70 business center or 5x12 rods, be-
tween First and Second South streets, suitable
for ins residence. See rs for price and
S1I0O THREE ROOM ADOBE HOUSE.
%A1OO hall, pantry, close. and ellars
Twentieth Ward, corner lot 6x10 rods, fac
ing east, well fenced, shade trees around It.
G1SOO EIGHT ROOM ADOBE HOUSE,,
9ICOo 18th Ward, four and a hah BLOCKS
1900 FOUR ROOM ADOBE HOUSE
glow 18th Ward, four and half blocks
~E0OO ADOBE HOUSE, OF SIXTEEN
QtOOO' rooms, cellar, barn. lot 41Ixl2
rods, 18th Ward. east front, hydrant water
suitable for boarding house.
$4,000 SIX sEsni s2oM w ADOBE sood ao 5s56
plenty of water, corner lot IOx10 rods, south
an east front, excellent fruit; near car line.
$4,000. MOD MODEM STYLE ADOBE ADOBE
block from business center; in q very valuable
location; fine lawn ana shade trees.
1000 Adobe house of rooms, 11th
ward, close to car line, pleasant
neighborhood, nearly full lot, we'll
fruited. Hydrsnt water close by.
1000 Modern style s room house 18th
ward, with closets, bath room,
cellar and hydrsnt water, lot 60x166
feet, with lawn, shrubbery, etc. Parties
wishing fine home and good location
should apply soon.
SPLCIAL-DurinS the balance Of the season
We will sell on the instalment plan what lots
we still have emaining Of Block in Plat B,
near Liberty park. each hiving frontage OF
five rods, with q four rod centre street and
one rod rear alley. This offer is made thRt
parties Of limited means may be able to secure
homes for their families. Full information
on Application at our office
DINE AND ELIGIBLE RESIDENCE
corner on Main street, l65 feet ives. front
by lbs feet deep, across the street from
Walker B others block. The surroundings
are unsurpassed, and this corner shoui6
command the early attention OF our uoneyod
men, 1t being the only corner for safe fox
residence purposes on that street
ANOTHER ELEGANT LOCATION F0K
a one or more fine residences Is now on the
market, situated four and half blocks east
Of Main, on Brigham street, and surrounded
by first-class residences. This lot 70 ls5 by
185 feet, and we will sell either the whole OF
only hat, to suit purchasers. ~
&OO0 FULL LOT, 10x20 RODS, on Gag
WV line, or half Oft, 5x20, for 500.
&dO0 SIS RODS, FRUIT TREES, NEAB
p1OO Liberty Park, RICH. of rear alley.
oS50 s11xs RODS, CAR LINE, NINE.
So76 FULL DAY LOT ARSENAL HILL
PS'o near Harnson's Castle.
N1O0O THREE-QUARTERS OF LUT
VAOOO in second Ward, near car line:
CLIO WHOLE LOT, TWENFY-HRSt
VAoO Ward.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

on the southwest cerner of the
Twenty -6rst-every ward in the
city thus being represented to 9
greater or less degree.
This information was in turn
conveyed by the Mayor to the City
Council, and that body Immediately
set to work to perform its portion
of the necessary labOr-viZ., to pro
vide for numbering houses. An
ordinance was framed and passed
in August last, and the intervening
time has been spent in having the
city measured, plated and notices
issued to owners OF houses. That
this work has been we'll prepared
an inspection CT the various maps
and diagrams at the City Hall will
bear abundant evidence. In fact. it
is difficult to imagine how the gen.
eral arrangements there could be
made any more complete than they
are. Every piece or parcel of land
in the city is plated, and every
house In its proper place, with the
correct number to which it is en-
titled, so that the number of any
house in the city may be instantly
referred to. These plots are cOnve-
niently bound and will remain in
the Office of the City Recorder for
reference.
The only obstacle in the way
of obtaining the delivery at the
present writing is little more time.
The law allows each person thirty
days after receiving notice Of the
number to which his house is en-
titled for the putting up of his
number; this time, in some in
stances, has not wholly expired.
Immediately the time Is up, how
ever, City Marshal Phillips has ar
ranged to begin proceedings against
all persons who have failed to num-
Der their houses, though it is not
expected by him that there will
be many, as the greater part of
the houses, particularly in the free
delivery district, are already num-
bered. AS soon as possible there's
after, he will officially notify Post
master Lynch of the fact that the
streets of the city are named and the
houses all numbered; the pest
master will endorse this certificate,
forward the same to Washington
and in all probability the system
will be inaugurated by the begin
ming of next year.
Concerning the benefits and adj
vantages which will accrue to
the city from the establish.
ment of the letter carrier system
there can be no opposing opinions.
They are SELF evident and need not
be discussed. A man who would
not rather have his mail delivered 10
him than be obliged to go after it,
ought to be compelled to go after it
the remainder IF his natural life
There are only two classes Of people
in the city who will not relish the
innovation-the giddy girl who goes
to the post Office every half hour te-
cause she must get sp town and
knows of nowhere else to 60 and the
man who leaves home about eight
o'clock in the evening to Ego after
the mail" and comes back perYaded
with strong OdOr Of allspice.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25
Building Lots,

S10aO BUILDING LOT, 3x1e RODS.
pleasant location, little nsTth OF
0606 CHOICE CORNER BUILDING
DoOO lot. fine fruit and shade tTees. E,s
rods, with right Of rear alley, near Liberty
.,5OO .NOTnER CHOICE BUILDING
49, lot, fine fruit and shade trees: 5S9
Tods, Win right OF rear alley, near Liberty
5000 BUILDING LOT 1c4lO RODS, on
Qo00 Bingham srreer, well fsRced and
good water facilities. This lot can be bough.
oy paying part cash, With ample tims on bsl-
S3OO BUILDING LOT, sx1o RODS
PoO0 ID Ward; cheap.
S400 CORNER BUILDING LOT ON
Nst Ward car line, ID close TO Nv
drant water. Part cash. balance you can have
1926 1--WE BY TEN RODS, THIRD
S55OO BUILDING LOT, saxx1cs FEET
Second West strees, near South
Temple. Fourteenth Ward; or will sen ban
for $3.50. rhis lot being so close 70 busi-
our business men.
$4,000 BEAUTIFUL BUILDING SITg
on Brigham street, S21Sxle6 feet,
south front, adjoining and In line WITH soma
Oh our elty,s finest residences. This ios viii
not long be on the market, being the oaI
site offered on that street and for shs. Age
within reasonable distance.
$50. iBuildinglot 211xlO rods, close to
1000. Fine building 10: on 7,b Ess,
near car line, either in whole on
Two parcels on the instatine1t nIEo
EOR SPECULATION VIZ rWO1rrn
L can special attention to a fuII c,tv Mo-
fust placed In our hands to sell. not fs, frono
S puSLr, snd which, if cut Up into proner
r u1iSs dots now 30 much in demand, wouiG
realize good Percentage. The bioct ea, h-
Snt up into thirty.two lots of fYe rods f,oosaos
eacn Win streets and alleys: diarrsmS o.
~Ilich can De seen at our offise. -
~ hASs Lot. NINETEENTH WARD. $40
$500 CHOICE BUILDING lot sxaa
VOW. rods, near Captain Hoo nor. 2 oass
dence, 18th Ward. -Oop'i resi-
$1,000 BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ror
3Hx10 rods, pleasant locatson
, , oioeHs es,s OF Main street, soutA front
irult trees and new picket fence.
BUILDING LOT CLOSE To 1rrs,pRss
- centre, sxl0 rods, suitable for ons or two
1ne residences. Very desirable locatfon
S5hO FULL LOT, 10 10 ROSS rE
SoOo fuenty-hrst Ward.
$3.50 T Tuah Lon 10 10 < 10 RODS. Pm
S4OO nOLL LOT, 10 10 RODS. IN
Iwenty-frst Ward
I6OO. Elegant building site, Second
South street, near business, For
,srtIeuiaIs enquire st our offise.
5000. Five ny ten rods in 7th Ward ~
wa tony location not far from
$500 EAsT FRONT. sx1o RODS.
-. only three blocks from MAR
,l100 CHOICE BUILDING LOT NEAR
,rbo.s second South street; nice neigh
II 600 FOUR FULL GRASS LOTS
I'VE acres In each, 18th Ward
$50 EB3lDENOE LOT ON Arsenal
Hill; fine view, close to business.
BUSINESS GROUND.
5OxS3l feet on line of new cable car line.
eeond South street. $l2O.
2ixI65 feet FIRST South street. $3.50 per foot,
2oxl6o feet Mein street, $500 per loot.
zzxIo. teet near Opera House, s275 per foot.
4Azlo5 feet Second South street, $a75 per
Of w. ~
1885 feet Comm src.al street, slice
z51s2H feet Main street, $50 per fooI
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ANDERSON & P0NER0Y,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
AND
LOAN AGENTS.
Office Uader. MeCoruick's
Bank, Salt Lake City.
20. Box 57S.

MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL
Ill Estate. Partial payments re-
ceived on loans. Cheap lots for sale
On the instalment plan. Houses to
rent. Rents collected. Money
loaned for other parties on first
class security and thorough exami-
nation of titles.
We Draw up Deeds, Mortgages,
Leases, Wills, etc., in careful and
systematic manner.
Notary Public always in the office
We have the finest reference maps
of the city anywhere to be found.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

TERRITORIAL AND COUNTY SCRIP
L bought and sold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-25

Though shaken in every joint and
fiber with fever and ague, or bill
lious remittent, the system may yet
be freed from the malignant virus
with HOstetter's Stomach Bitters.
Protect the system against it with
this beneicent anti-spasmodic,
which is furthermore a supreme
remedy for liver complaint, consti-
patton, dyspepsia. debility, rheuma-
tlsm, kidney troubles and other all
mentS.
For sale by all Druggists and Deal
s.s sensIally.