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The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by a sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth2 If so,
send at once and get bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. Its value is incaIculable
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately. Depend upon it mothers
there is no mistake about it. It cures
dysentery, diarrhoea, regulates the stom
ach and bowels, cures wind collie. soft
ems the gums. reduces inflammation. and
gives tone and energy to the whole svs-
tenn Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrur
for Children Teething'is pleasant to the
taste, and is the prescription of one Of
the oldest and best female physicians anC
nurses in the United States, and is fo
sale by all druggists throughout th'
world. Price 25.cents per bottle.
feb -2S@m IN "
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
COLES CIRCUS.
A Good Procession Viewed by Thou
sands.

w. W. Coles great colossal show
arrived from Peoria this morning on their
special train, and unloaded their wagons
and animals about nine o'clock Theii
mammoth tents were erected on Bailey
Davenport's ground west of the Milan
street railway track, where the procession
formed shortly after twelve. 1t had
been raining steadily all morning. until
II O'Clock when the clouds commenced
to break, and the storm was over An
immense crowd thronged the streets, de
spite the rain, and the youth from the
country, with his girl by his side, compla
Gently waited for :he long coming pro-
cession. When the long looked for sight
appeared there was stretching of necks,
and jostling and crowding to get a good
look at the many wonders. The windows
along the streets were filed with people
who feasted their eyes on the gorgeous
and magnificent display. If the weather
had been propitious the crowd which
would have fiocked here would be legion;
as it is the city is filled with strangers
The Milan street ears were kept busy
hauling people to and from the grounds.
The afternoon performance was well
and the entertainment was
will be filled to its utmost capacity.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
Geo. w. d. HARRIS,
Real Estate
Insurance Agency.
FOR SALE

200 acres, fine stock farm, in Rock Island county
good Improvements, fine neighborhOod; price vrry
low, on easy terms.
60 acres, new honse, improvements good, ~
acres in fruit of all kinds only miles from Milan
nice place very cheap
IA acres good bluff land at a very low price:
20 acres all cleared and cultivated good house
barn. &c, on the bluff, mile from the city; will
sell very cheap;
A nice house with acre, barn, trees. etc. on
Elm street, short walk from upper saw mill-
round honse and depot; terms easy;
Good house Of five rooms, well located on Mo
line avenue viii be sold cheap. only short dis anre
from II | q = round house, passenger depot and
upper saw mills;
Neat house, nice neighborhood, convenient ia
factories and saw mills IN lower part OF city. very
cheap;
Fine building lots in upper, lower and central
part of city on terms to suit customers;
Sl5O0 to 1000 will buy one OF several choice
homes that cost much more;
$500 TO S90J will buy two good houses with good
sized lots;
$4,000 will buy of three buildinds that rent
for S25 per Vponth;
Hotel of IA rooms with good barn. will be sold
cheap on easy terms; the former owner made
fortune and the right party can make another in
this property;
nice residence, large grounds, fine neighbor-
hood on easy terms;
$500, 5000 and $3.50 will buy comfortable home
easy terms.
- For REET-S25, 18th street. 3 rooms and barn:
S25, 23d street, rooms; $50, 2nd avenue, rooms
oatn &c; Si6. 18TH street, rooms; SIS, 18th ST.,
rooms and barn; Sl2. rooms, on bluff Sll 30
avenue, rooms: S. 18th street. 3 rooms; S.,
rooms on clua.
INSURE your property with Geo. w. d. HAIR
RlS; Standard, Reliable Companies represented,
No. 1920 SECOND AVENUE,
apl-9-d1y Under Harper House
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
THESE ARE SOLID FACTS.

The best blood purifier and system re
ulator ever placed within the reach oi
suffering humanity, truly is Electric Bit
tiers. Inactivity of the Liver. Biliousness
Jaundice, Constipation, Weak Kidneys,
or any disease of the urinary organs, or
who ever requires an appetizer, tonic or
mild stimulant, viii always find Electric
Bitters the best and only certain cure
known. They act surely and quickly,
every bottle guaranteed to give entite
satisfaction or money refunded. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by Hartz 81 Bahnsen.
A Boston milliner earns 50. 500 a year
and her husband stays at home aed keeps
house. That's the kind of wife to have,
and by the way, that's the kind of hus-
band to have, when you want such a
one
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

DIR. }. W. Waite. who is a regular
graduate of the famous Chicago medical
college class of 1872. has devoted great
deal of time to the study of electricity in
relation to its action on the human sys.
tenn, and has watched the developement
of electrology in the science of medicine.
DR. Waite has opened an office at the
northwest corner of Third and Main
streets, Davenport. He has invented a
Galvanic-Faradic apparatus, for physi-
clans use only. The doctor treats al
diseases of the brain and nervous system
Consultation free. Read his card i'm an
other column.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

that overlook the broad and placid Sus-
ouehanna, in classic Auburn, where mlngie
the ashes of heroes and sages; in Oak
Ridge by the Sangamon. where Lincoln
sleeps; among the Berkshire Hills. where
Bartlett, the more than Sidney OF our
times rests at last, the toll and tumult of
the battle over; on the sacred slopes where
the murdered Garfields tomb is garlanded
with the laurels of all mankind, on the
heights of Arlington, overlooking the
Nations capital, where the precious sod
is billowy with almost twice ten thousand
still further southwark where our soldiers
died shall patriots gather and loyal hands
shall lay the blossoming wreathes, en-
twined with loving and grateful memo
rics and dewy with tears that tell of pride
and sorrow both on those hammered
mounds-how the number of them grows
as the years pass away! beneath which
rest the forms of men, the flower and
beauty of their time, who plunged into
the red fog that stretched
2 600 miles along the ridge of battle, that
the flag of An unbroken nationality and
an invioiable freedom might forever float
above the republics undivided and imper-
ial domain.
The glory of this day is that it commemo-
fates the preservation of that independent
national life, which our fathers declared to
la
of the nation, and make it perpetual, that
the men of the northland rose up and sent
their sons in hot haste to the scene OF
danger Let us bow in reverence and
respect to-day, to the men who climbed
the heights of Lookout Mountain, follow
ed Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and
rode with Sheridan down the Shenandoah
Valley Ours is a land to human nature
dear, and hence, wien the national life
was threatened, what multitudes Of citi-
zens not born upon her soil. but prizing
her blessings, rose up to defend her. The
sons of Germany and England fought
side by side with the children of the May
flower, and on many a deadly field the
storm Of battle ragged fiercest where fought
the gallant Irish soldiers, whose fathers
proved their valor with Wellington at
Waterloo.
When our horizon was lurid with battle
fires. behind which appeared hostile
confederaey; when brave men walked
with troubled and clouded brows through
the streets of the great cities; when long
delays made even the patriot heart sick
for moment of the agony of war; when
gentle wives and mothers listened for the
daily tidings from the front as for the
thunder of artillery carrying doom to their
own households, in those days when Lee
marched over the mountain wall" and
poured his armies between the loyal north
and the nations capitol there still glowed
in the peoples deeper consciousness the
sense and certainty of a national life, in
destructible. all persuasive God inspired,
reaching like the air we breathe, from
the fishing huts of our northeastern shores
to the woodmans camp and the herds
mans ranch by the western sea, and
eager TO rush like the north wind, south
ward through the long line of battle
smoke, till it met the warm water of the
gulf Such a consciousness inspired a
passionate boldness in holy women, as,
bidding their sons go FORTH they cried,
"Oh God save my country"
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
Beyond the River.
Away Across the Mississippi is held Con-
vincing Conversation.

| Away Across the Mississippi is held Con-
vincing Conversation.
Il tell pou, sir, that they are one of the neatest
combinations produced, and my experience
of that sort of thing has been wide enough to enti-
tie my Judgment to some respect"
"Oh, don't know, ," responded the first speak.
ers friend, with little yawn, though ne didn {
take much interest in the subject, II have never
been able 10 see much difference in those things
They are all pretty nearly the same size ami made
of about the stuff"
The talk, OF which the foregoing is a fragment
took place In Gaatin, Missouri, not long ago. in
| the snug office of DIR. NJ. p. Flowers, one of the
leading hyseians OF the State, who followed up
the vein in which he had introduced il snbstantail
ly IN these words
Nonsense, that is the rigmarole of a boy, or
rather of who either doesn't know or
doesn't care what ne says. Those thngs, as you
call them, just different the moon Is from
green chesse. Now, liniments lotions and oinr-
ments very good in most for the relief OF
pain inflammation. But, in the 6rst place they
are unelean. They soil the hands and the linen,
besides being always out OF reach when they are
most wanted
Well, my dear Doctor" sighed the Traveller
from the North, what would you have This IL
wretched world anyhow, and nothing In ever M
hand when il is wanted You can't suggest any
thing"
. YeF, can, broke in the Doctor, humping
the table with his fist, . can suggest BENSoN's
CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER 1 have tried II
on my patients, and have tried 81 ON myself for
an attack OF Neumoua, and IN all easses reliefhas
followed In from three 10 forty eight hours. The
Old plasters gre stage coaches-fhe Capcins 10 a
teiegraphic dispatch. For instance in cases Of
Neuralgia, Muscular rheumatism Lumbago, re
tated action OF the Kidneys and"
II give 1t up, Doctor. and I'm case of need I'lIbuy
Benson's, said the traveller, pleasantly.
In the center OF the genuine Is cur the word
CAPCINE
seabnry . JohusopA Chemists, New York.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

Carse & Reticker wish to inform the
public that they intend engaging in other
business and will sell their entire stock OF
boots and shoes and slippers at and below
cost, commencing with Monday the 9th
day of April. Our stock is complete
as we have just received our entire spring
stock. CARsE g. RErICKER.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
ANFD1roRrAL PLEASURE Party.

70 special train, consisting of coaches,
smoking. dining, chair and sleeping cars
loaded with eastern editors, left Chicago
at IL m to day for the west
There were 2o9 journalists and 80 ladies
on board representing twelve states A. rs
Sheldon, of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy will have charge of the party dur
ing the trip.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
WIDE AWAKE DRUGGISTS.

Messrs HartZ & Bahnsen are always
alive to their business, and spare no pains
to secure the best of every article in their
line. They have secured the agency for
the celebrated DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. The only certain cure
known for Consumption, Coughs, Colds,
Horseness, Asthma, Hay Fever Bronchi-
tis, or any affection of the Throat and
Lungs. Sold on positive guarantee.
Trial Bottles free. Regular size 81, 90.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.

The greatest medlcaI wonder Of the world
Warranted to speedily cure burns, bruises.
cuts, ulcers. salt rheum, fever sores, can
GERS, piles. chilblains, corns, letter, chap
ped hands, and all skin eruptions, guaran-
teed to cure in every instance, or money
refunded. 25 cents per box. For sale by
Hartz 81 Rahnsen.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

Five sea elephants recently shipped
overland from San Francisco to New
York have been purchased by the Phila-
delphia geological gardens for $4,000
The Philadelphia collection is now one of
the most complete in the world.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

The mineral exhibit of the Denver
Exposition grows in magnitude every
day. Every mineral-producing State
west of the Miss issippi River will be rep
resented by largely increased exhibits
over last year. Counties in Colorado
under the State law have thus far appro-
priated $50 600 for the mineral collection
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
TIE DAILY ARGUS.
Wednesday May 80, 1888.
FrNEsT IcE CREAM PARLORs

b. Birkenfeldt has now the finest az
ranged ice cream parlors in the Wesl
having been lately refitted and refnInlsned
at great expense. Pure ice cream fnrnisnea
to pic MICS. sociables, private parties,
etc. No, 2011 Fourth avenue. I2-lmo
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
nhaan Ints for Sale.

One hundred lots in my addition at one
half their value Low taxes six per cent
interest. Deeds given and no money
down if tbey build. Also lots in Allen d
EsIemino,s. Webb & Henricks additions
Cheap Enquire of o. j. Dimick, or nj
E. Sweeney, in my absence. 2Sdlm
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
ROCHESTER,, n. Y. March 80. 1888

Stilwell Medicine Company:
GENTLEMEN-As a rule do not be
lieve in giving testimonials but gratitude
and the desire to help others prompt me
to- add mine to your list Your Still
wells Specific" and Specific Pills"
consider the most valuable remedy of the
age for the cure of all kidney and liver
troubles And when | find medicine
that has so mnch merit as yours | cannot
retain from recommending il to all who
suffer from those complaints | have
taken great pleasure in commenting it to
my friends, who have anxiOusly watched
my case. Today feel as strong and well
as ever did in my life, Many thanks to
your timely aid.
Yours Very Truly.
G. j. connolly.
Prop. Rochester Rubber Stamp Works
Rochester, N. Y.
mi 9r, III
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

If disease has entered the system the
only way to drive it ont is to purify and
enrich the blood. To end this, as is
acknowledged by all medical men, moth
ing is better adapted than iron. The
fault hitherto has been that iron could
not be so prepared as to be absolutely
harmless to the teeth. The difficulty has
been overcome by the Brown Chemical
Company of Baltimore, Md, who offer
their Browns Iron Bitters as a faultless
iron preparation a positive cure for dys.
pepsia, Indigestion, kidney troubles etc
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

Quite a novel spectacle was witnessed
at Pensacola, Fla, one day last week in
the way of a funeral. A drayman died,
and his brother draymen attended his
funeral on drays. BY the same rule the
friends of brewer would attend his fun
eral on beer wagons.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
AT LARGE.
THE EXERCISES

To day, the Both of May, all over this
broad and beautiful country. the people
are occupied in the holy and praiseworthy
task of decorating the soldiers graves.
Although the hand of time 10 moving on,
and many years have elapsed since the
war of the rebellion, yet the scenes and
incidents of that fearful time are bright in
the memories of the people, The men
who fill the cemeteries of the north were
among those who fought for just cause,
and although they were moved down by
the thousands, they succeeded in abolish
ing slavery and gaining a grand victory
for the Union. Can we forget the men
who stormed Vicksburg, and whose loyalty
to the stars and stripes was not. conquer
ed by the horrors of Libby and Anderson
vile? In how many hundreds of peace
full cemeteries throughout this continental
republic, by tue rushing Penobseot, the
majestic Hudson, the historic Potomac,
where ''all is quiet" now; the beautiful
Ohio, the turbid Missouri, and the far-off
streams which glide to the Pacific sea, in
our own Graceland and Oakwoods on the
shores of Lake Michigan, on the heights
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL.

The Voltaic Belt Co. Marshall Mich,
will send DR.. Dyes Celebrated Electro
Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on
trial for thirty days to men young or old
who are afflicted with nervous debility
lost vitality, and Kindred troubles,
guaranteeing speedy and complete restora-
ton of health and manly vigor. Address
as above-N B. No risk is incurred, as
thirty days trial is allowed
dec % d-w1y
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
He may Well be Joyful.

TOPEKA. Kans., May 12, 1881.
II. FL. WARNER s. Co.: rs-After 10
years of unmitigated suffering from chro-
mic kidney disease 1 finally found joyful
restoration to health in your Safe Kidney
ana Liver Cure. D. b. OWENS.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
A Young woman died in Nov Have

A young woman died in New Haven,
Conn, few days since from the effects
of phosphorus poison which she got into
her system while working for match
company in Westyille. Her employment
was simply handling and wrapping up
matches, but in doing this her hands,
clothing ana skin became saturated with
the phosphorus and she also inhaled the
Uap0rC
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
cARaE ARD RETICKER

offer the following way down prices
1so naiys ladies, kid button shoes for 81 rs
1aO I,airs ladies' goat button shoes Sl.SO
$50 pairs ladies' kid opera Shippers, SI'oV
3 cases mems calf boots, $40.
And all other goods in proportion /"
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
For aALE.

Sixty lots in my addition to the city OF
Rock Island Terms, one-fourth down
balance in one, two and three years, Win
six per cent interest.
apl 13 d3m BAILEY DAFENfohi'
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

A Grocer at Des Moines put stone
under an old hat, and james Welch
kicked it and broke his big toe. The
grocer didn't quit laughing until Yer
dict of $500 was rendered in favor of the
kicker
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
West Point Cadetship

Notice is hereby given, that on Tues
day, the 18th day OF june. 1888, at the
Hendee House. in Bushnell Ills, com
petitive examination for the appointment
of candidate for Cadet to the West
Point Military Academy, will be held by a
Board of Examiners. All applicants will
please he present.
VIM H. Niece
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

Red Cloud has discovered a gold mine
on his reservation. He is one of the few
clouds which have a golden lining
-Aeao York Ad8erfiSer.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
TncreduIify exists. but nobody h,

Incredulify exists, but nobody has been
heard 10 DENY the wholesomeness and
purifying effects of Glenn's Sulphur
Soap.
Physicians attest: 'tColdens LIQUID
Beef Tonic is particularly useful in dip
iberia. fever, and every depressing dis
ease.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
MAooMB. Ills, May %, 1883.

Mr.. T. w. Lusk, Galatia H., says: Il
have used Browns Iron Bitters for gen.
eral debility with good results"
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30
w. T.. MAGILL.

DENTIST. OfHice, corner OF Second Avenue and
~ Eighteenth street. Room 8, over ROCK Island
National Bank, Rock Island, nlineia. nOVlaa-dGn
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

A white squash can't be sold in Boston
and yellow squash can't he sold in New
York
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

Mr.. John Bundy, Galatia, H., says: II
used Browns Iron Bitters for General
debility and found relief"
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-05-30

president; Daisy Hardy, class of II sec
retary, and l.. Kaufman. class of 80,
treasurer, A programme for the annual
reunion, at Armory Hall on June II. will
soon be announced.
Henry Clay Dean will lecture at Town
Hall, Milan on Thursday evening, Nav
31st Subject the ''Old Senate com
pared with the New" Street cars will
run to and from lecture. 29-3t
Marshal Miller arrived home from Clin.
ton, Tuesday night having in tow Kate
Top, 1.-THE invincible" She was lodged
in the county jail over night. The mar
shal had quite a time getting her at
Clinton, having to fight "a writ of habeas
corpus Kate is the pugilistic damsel
who pounded" Maggie Hurley, for
which she was fined So and costs This
raised her feminine ire to such degree
that she threw quantity of acid in the
trunk of Miss Hurley, destroying the gar
ments contained therein Kate is wanted
en- the latter charge.
If the weather had been pleasant to-
day, the new bakery wagon of Mr.. John
Aster would have been seen on the
streets, outdoing anything of the kind
ever before seen in this city The wagon
was built at the establishment of Mr..
Cyrus Churchill, on Seventeenth street.
and is a marvel of neatness and COM
pleteness. 1t is composed of the best
material in the market, and for durability
will out last any ordinary wagon manu-
factured. The body contains receptacles
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-02
Black Bass.

?
There has been more confusion and
-uncsrtafIity attending the scientific
classification and nomenclature of tho
black bass than usually falls to the lot
of iishtS, 4SctI{r dozen generic appella-
tions ard nearly fifty specific titles hav-
ing lRen bestowedsupon the two species
bg hat uir:tlists since their first scientific
descriptions BY Count Lacepede in 1902.
Nor has this pOlvonomouS feature been
confined to their scientific Technology,
for their vernacular names have been
as numerous and varied; thus they are
: known in different sections of our coun-
try as bass. perch, trout. club or sal
mon, with or without various qualifying
adjectiyeS, descriptive OF color or habits.
Much of the confusion attending the
common names of the black bass arises
from the coloratiOn of the species, which
varies greatiyyFyenin1the same waters;
thus they ge.kpown as black, green,
yellow, and spotted bass. Then they
--havercceived names somewhat descrip-
tive of their habitat, as lake, river.
marsh, pond, Slough, bayou, moss,
grass. and Oswego bass. Other names
{ iave5been confHre,l on account of their
pugIl,city or .-voracity. as tiger. bull,
sow and buck bass, In the Southern
States they are universally known as
TROUT In portions OF Virginia they are
called club. Southern club, or Roanoke
club. In North and South Carolina
they are variouslv known as trout,
trout seaeh- or NelsIsnan: indeed, the
large-mouthed bass received its first
scientific, specific name frem a drawing
and description of a Carolina bass sent
to Lacepede under the local name of
trout, OF trous-perch, who accordingly
-nafaef II safmfoides. meaning trout-like,
or salinon-like. The Century.