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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-24

OTTAWA, ILL-Dr. 7. A. Smurr says;
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-24

PUBLIC LEDGER biDdery and lob
Office, IL Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-08-24
THE AGONTEs OF BILIOUs CeIIC,

THE AGONIES OF. BILIOUS COLO,
THE INDEs0RIBABLE PANGS OF
CAR0EIC INDIGESTION, THE DEBILITY
AND MENTAL SruP0R RESI- LTING
TAINLY } AVOIDED BY NEGOTIATING
Tue SYSTEM WITH THAT AGREEABLE
AND REFRESHING STANDARD PREPA-
RATION, TARkANTvS SEIFZER Ape
R5ENT. PRoCURABLE AT ALL DRUG
GISTS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

quite as much a measure of protection
to Freeman as to the communify that
pramssed the decision of the court.
There is now an inEzlaation tat fhe Il
dictment win not be i-ged, which seems
a rather singular proposition considering
the character of the crime. 1t seems
hardy proper that the plea of temporary
insanity should be an effective defense,
since Freeman was one of a large number
of neighbors subject to the same religious
decisions, e'l-of whom had faith that the
child &oulasbe restored to Ffe.f II what
may be termed organized insanity. "a com
munity of lunatics. is TO preclude from
punishment indy. dual crimes committed
under the influence of generally claimed
inspiration, there is danger that ~ foE. n
OF conspiracy acting along a pretended
religions motive may violate law With inn
punfty The horror of the murder has
been tempered by the Intervention of
several years, but it seems rather an easy
let down to talk of entefshg d. nolle pro-
seoul, in which the court declared it
would acquiese should the Attorney Gen
ersl see a to propose il
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
transferred.
The Cougar HANDLER Difficulty Taken
into the Court OF Blood and Black

The Cougar N andleE hb1fhcuIty Aaken
iato the Court of Blood and Black
Eyes.
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 8.-The first
row over the Cougar Mandler Islander suit oc
CURED yesterday morning between Charles ii.
l. Poock, the witness who was with Mandler,
ans testified to seeing Mrs Cougar ac-
company Wallace to his law Office in
the night Wallace yesterday morning
had some business in the barber shop where
Poock is at work, and as he (Wallaee) was
leaving the shop Poock, who was standing in
the doorway, said: @When are you going t.
commit perjury again." Wallace was at tirst
uncertain to whom Poock was speaking, and,
confronting him, asked if he meant him oval
iace) Poock replied @fes, / do" At
which Wallace drew his cane, striking Poock
rapidly over the head The latter started in
side tina shop, followed by Wallace who de-.
manded to know if he intended to say
that he had committed perjury in his
testimony. Poockreplied affirmatively, en-
deavoring all the while to get away
from Wallace, who continued the
free use Of his cane. Poeek got out of the
back door into the alley, and dared Wallace
out to fight, but before the latter could get ont
there Poock had gone Ne serious damage was
done, butit excited considerable of sensation
for a brief time. Wallace has a. crippled right
arm it being stiff at the elbow joint, having
been ahattered by rebel bullet during the
wa
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
DECIDED
That Illinois Railways May Charge
But Three Cents Per Mile.


WASHINGTON, May S.-A decision was
rendered by the supreme court yesterday in tho
so called Granger case of Neal RnggleA,
plaintin in. error, against the People
of the state sof Illinois, This case
forth The 18th of March, 1873, Morgan
A. Lewis, passenger ON a train of the Chi
cago, burlington Quincy railroad company,
rendered Neal hughes a conductor of That
company, Is cents as fare fer his transporta-
ton from Buda to Neponset, distance of six
miles. This was at the maximum rate of three
cents per mile prescribed by fhe statute Of
Illinois then in force. The conductor de-
manded 20 cents, which was the fare fixed by
the railroad company Lewis refused to pay
more than Is, and the conductor thereupon
attempted to eject him from the car. For this
act the conductor prosecuted before a
justice of the peace upon a charge of assault
and battery, and was fined SO and costs The
case was then carried up through the state court
by successive appeals, the railroad COM
pany sustaining the conductor and raising the.
question of the night of the state 10 Interfere
with It's business by fixing rates OF fare and
transportation decision was finally render
ed IN favor of the state by its highest court
The railroad company thereupon appealed to
lit SHPTeinS cpuIt ol tne Lulteu obatess upon
the ground that the act OF the general assem-
bly, of Illinois of April Is, 1874 !, fixing q maxi
mum rate of charges for the transportation of
passengers railroads in the state was I'M
constitutional and void because it impaired
the obligation of the contract contained In the
charters of the various companies viii h were
merged into the Chicago Burlington a Quincy
railroad company by consolidation This
court holds: - :
l. That grants of Immunity from legitimate
governmental control are never to be pre-
sumed On the contrary, the presumptions
are all the other way, and unless an exemption
rs clearly established the Legislature free to-
act on all subjects within it's general iurisSiic-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

Ahe supreme Court of Massa chusetts
declined to admit to bail Cherries T. Free
man, the man who sacrificed bis little
daughter in the fervor of religious fanati-
clsm. The plea was made that Freeman.
being now sane, was entitled to bail A.
different view of the case was taken by
the court, who expressed the opinion that.
If liberated, the prisoner might again
come under the influence of the emotional
excitement and do further injury. This
caution was so unusual as to be WORTHY of
commendation. while the law has a
hold upon men of this character it is to
the interest of the general community
that they should be restrained. Permit
ting bail to be gwen is a mitigation OF
ofense where the charge is murder OF
manslaughter, and it is apt to create q
bad impression on mind as susceptible
as that of Freeman. Exposed 10 the old
temptations in his present condition the
man might snffer a recurrence of the
former distemper of mind, and it was
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

together at Loiis Wow.
men, and Formerly from CHICAGO, where the
father of one Of the accused iii now connected
with the Chicago Buriington md Quincy road
Gaining access to the snspected mems apart
mant the detecfiyes founds two very large
trunks with intricately constructed locks
To catch them in the act of pilferlng
baggage was next 30 impossible, for the
baggage master had access TO the trunks at
times when he could not be observeas II was
risky bhsness to break open the Faaffoadefss
nlonstrous trunks without more conclusive eV-
idenee than had been obtained Several keys
failed to unlock them. One of the opera
tlyes took a room directly opposite, and, felgn-
ing sickness, sTennained= to watch. sHhiie
the other went Dallas, and procured fock-
smith The trunks were unlocked. Both trunks
were found packed with valnables of every de-
sefiption. The missing articles of Mr.s Gonk-
lin were found with Mr. Harris diamond
stud, and other things that had been taken
from his luggage, 1t was the brakeman 8
share in the conspiracy to gain all the mfor,
nation he could from passengers, and then tell
the baggagenlan what trunks could be OK
pected to yield valuable piander.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
How She Kept Him at Home.

heard good story the other day
about venerable ex-member OF Com
gress from Pennsylvania, who has been
married twice, and has for his second
wife lively young lady who is exfrenn-
ely fond Of social gayeties. Not long
ago she made an engagement to accom-
pany a young naval officer to one of the
fashionable balls, aud told her husband
she was going, but neglecting TO say
that she had secured an escort. He APP
peared-to be pleased and said that he
would accompany her. This was more
than she had bargained for, and she re-
sorted TO various expedients to get him
to stay at home. The more reasons she
gave the more he wasdetermined to go
Things were getting desperate when a
bright idea struck her. She took the
old gentleman false teeth and hid them,
and when the evening came he was still
without those necessary adjuncts to
mastication. He wondered and raved,
and raved and wondered, but it was
no use, hecouldn't find them, and final
ly was obliged to remain at home, while
his wife tripped gaily to her carriage,
and spent most delightful evening. =
Correspondence Boston TraDelcr
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

s. SPRNaF4ELD, III, May g. In the
senate numberaof bills were advanced to a
third reading, among them Mr. Mason's to
protect persons holding life insurance policies
Mr.. Gillhams'. TO consolidate the penitentiaay
boards; Mr.. Sunderland's appellate court bill F;
Mr. Vandeveer's bill making it penal offense
to enter a house with the intent to commit
a crime Kinks bill TO increase the punishment
OF criminals for repeated convictions; Dun
cans bill to amend the law SO that in suits
brought for death by accident the defendant
must prove thai deceased did not use proper
care to save his life
In the house. Mr.. Thorntons bill prohibiting
legislators from accepting railroad passes, was
referred to the railroad COMMITTEES.
The general appropriation bill was taken up
and several unimpOriant items were passed
Fifteen hundred dollars were stricken from the
salary OF the state superintendent of public in
structfons nd his appropriation for clerk hire
was reduced from ZOO to 81 600 The bill
was then ordered to q third reading
A resolution of coincidence with Representa-
tiveJ. ". T. Thomas, whose wife is dead, was
adopted.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

The United States Supreme Court rem
dered a very important decision yester-
day, affirming the decision of the Illinois
Supreme Court, declaring the validity Of
the state. law regulating the passenger
rates ofrailway companies Ex-Attorne5
General James Z Edsall. of this state,
who argued the case for the state before
the United States Supreme Court, and
the result is another handsome feather in
his legal cap,
The principle t,us affirmed by the
tribunal of last resort is, in effect, that the
state and its people have rights which the
railroad cor2oratiors are bound to re
spect
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

She was arenarka ABLY sensible young d
who made the request of her friends that
after her decease she should not be
buried by the side of brook. where bah
ling lovers would wake her from hel
dreams, nor n any grand cemetery, where
sight seerss corning over epitaphs, might
distract her, but be LAID away to teke hel
last sleep under the counter of some mer
chant who did not advertise in the news
papers. There, she seid was to be found
peace passing all understandings depth
of quiet slumber on which neither the
sound Of the baoyant foot of youth nor
the weary shuttle of old age would ever
int rude
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

Mrs. Lowell, the wife of the American
Minister to London. is in very delicate
health, and was not able to go to court
last season. Tbs year, however, she re-
solved to run the risk Of attending the
first drawing room, but was obliged to
apply for dispep satiOn N some small
matter of costume Tle C1een, besides
asserting to Mrs. Iowelrs request, sent
her private message that she was on no
account to come to the dray ;1g-room IN
less she received ne pc: risson of her
medical advisers. and hat, if they coeld
not sanction her ATTENDING at the palace,
Her Majesty would have
much pleasure in having
her visit at the Legation. Ms Lowell
was so much pleased WI the Queens
friendly sympathy that, in order to testify
her appreciation, she attended both draw
Ing rooms.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

They do some abducting In Persia
There was the wife of a Finnish captain
They lived at Backa, the husbend being
in the employ of Nobel, the great petro
leum firm. She went to sit some friends
in the outsks- It's of the town As she had
not returned at midnight, the Captgesn
went to fetch her. She had gone Two
months passed, end no trace of her was
discovered. Quite recently it has been
learned that, returning home, she was
seized by four mon, mpffied in a shawl,
and borne on board Persian crsft.
lying IN the harbor. She YVES taken to
Teheran, end lodged in a reyal harem,
where 1t is supposed she now IS The
RUSSIAN government now demands that
Persia give the woman Backa gain OF
there VIII be trouble, The Captain would
like to attach dynamite cushion to the
ottoman of the keeper of that harem.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
The News III Brief

The Welland and New York canal:
were opened Monday for the season. .z
The Rev. DIR. Darnell has abseonded
| from London, Ont. leaving liza hilites of 81,
The supreme court of Louisiana ha.
decided that municipal bonds cannot b.
| taxed
The Massachusetts senate passed the
| bin paying s. ton bounty on beets raised foi
| sugar-making
Joseph l. G: Clark has become man
aging editor OF the New York Morning Journal
quitting his position ON the Herald staff
Isaac Born, who ran a bucket shop
at Lafayette, Ind, has abscounded leaving be
hind debts aggregating several thousand dol
lars and wife and family.
The bill in the New York legislature,
making tie Brooklyn bridge free to podestri-
ans, could not be found on the closing dav of
the session, when final action waste have been
taken
The governor of louisiana has called
convention to assemble at Baton Rouge, june
Is, 70 consider the building and repairs of
igation.
William l.. Dodson, who recently
attempted to defraud insurance companies at
Danville, Va, by burning the corpse of ne
gro IN his house, was indicted Monday for
murder, arson and embezzernent
In the Continental Colliery, near
Ashland, Pa, Monday, gas generated by a
small locomotive sufTocated many men Some
were revived with difficulty and three are suf-
fering severely. All work was stopped
Edwin NJ Church left the employ of
the National Bank of Illinois, of Chicago, last
Monday, slept at his boarding house that night
and has not been seen or heard of since the
following morning. He was ordinance ser
geant OF the first regiment
Last week clearing house exchanges
1851, 790, S40-exceeied those for the previ-
Gus week by $50, 672, 34s, indicating an i'm
provement in business. The Chicago clear
ings are greater than those of the correspond
ing week of 1882 by Isl per cent
A French journal in the city of
Mexico says France ought to make SPECIAL
efforts to secure a treaty of commerce with
Mexico, which offers a field for great enter
prises, and not permit Americans tn become
masters of Its immense resources
The Vandalia, Pittsburg, Fort WAYNE
& Chicago, and Pittsburg Citeinnati Il st
Louis roads Monday adopted a new rule, to
take effect june ], that no single piece of
luggage weighing more than 200 pounds
cars.
Mr. Wade, chief of the district police,
of Boston, shot Monday noon by lunatic
named Richard Brennan, an 4ex-soldier, and
dangerously wounded. The affair caused
great excitement in the city 1t has been as
certained that Brennan intended to shoot MANY
persons. Governor Butler included
Theresa Fair, wife of the Nevada SEN
ator and millionaire, has filed petition for
divorce on the ground of her husbands adul-
teries- Current rumors are to the effect that
Fair viii allow the case to go by default and
has already arranged that she shall receive
s5,uO0,Ooo IN cash and 81 500 900 in real
estate.
Precautions have been taken at Hail.
fax 10 guard against a suspicious craft. alleged
70 have left Boston few days ago, loaded
with torpedoes, for the purpose of wrecking
shipping IN Halifax harbor The crew are
supoO"ed to be Fenians. and it is thought viii
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
DE LEssEPs AND THE PANAMA cANAl

The Panama canal enterprise does not
seem to prosper as well as its promoter
could wish. M. De Lesseps the Younger,
who went to the isthmus some time az o
to take charge of affairs, has been carried
away by earthquake; fever has stricken
down dozens of officers, and many others
are preparing to quit the unwholesome
country to return 10 La Belle France.
there to remain in permanence. In atldi-
ton to this, the working staff and I the
expenses aTezbeing largely reduced, and
the enterprise is falling to pieces of It's
own weight Not to put too fine point
on it, the Panama canal enterprise is a
gigantic failure. Millions of francs
have been wasted over this i'm
possible undertaking, and misery
doubtless brought to the home of many a
Spectator through paying attention TO
the fervid eloquence of the great trench
digger, M. De Lesseps Even the turning
of the desert of Sahara into an inland sea
is a more plausible undertaking than the
cutting of the Panama Canal, the impos
sibility of the construction of which was
fully explained to De Lesseps years ago,
Americans are not as rule against any
thing likely to add to their commerce, yet
Americans have, with scarcely any excep-
ton, strenuosly opposed the construction
of the Panama ditch. M. De Lesseps
might as well give way with good grace
for he viii assuredly achieve nothing in
Central America but disaster Paris
american Register.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
..Hamlet" was gwen the other ever'ng

Hamlet was gwen the other cver'ng
IN tbe Cincinnati; G -smatic festivei, With
James E. Murdoch in Settle role. N.
Mprdoch first played "Her'eto in 1845,
when he was "a years old. and he made
it his most successful character He is
now in his I'D year, and that he was
chosen to once more represent the mel
ancholy Dane" was graceful and fitting
compliment on the part of the MENACE
ment to the veteran actor
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
Oscar Wilde on thu Unuttsrabls wh,sl


"a wheel is in ITSELF said Oscar
Wilde, "a very beautiful object. All
the noblest forms of the ceramic art are
derived from the potter's wheel. And
yet in England have always found
machinery such apitiful and ugly thing:
tumble of cranks and cogs and petty
pieces, you know, without touch of
grandeur about them. So / enfered that
castellated horror at Chicago, and there
at last ! came upon wheel the wheel
OF the Chicago Water Works. mighty,
majestic, tnutterably harmonious wheel.
l saw the beauty and the poetry of
America IN that revolving wonder; and
said 60 myself, if ever America pro-
auces a-great musician, let him write a
machinery Symphony He could have
no more worthy subject
But OF course they never will have a
great musician out there continued
Oscar. dropping from the clouds to earth
with singular snddenness, until thew
have abolished the shriekfng steam
whistle. Their tympanums have an
been ruined by these whistles. Cor
irespondence Chicago Tribune.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

The millers have won two notable vic
tories in the United States supreme court.
the Deuchfield and Downton patent suits
having been decided in favor of the de
PENDANTS. The royalty sought to be re
covered under the Deucbield patent for
cooling and dying meal amounted to
$1,000, 600, while the Downton patent for
manufacturing middling -four was esti-
mated to be worth SO, 600 0OO 4
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
HerrIBre Crime. e

#HARTEoRD, Conn, May 6-West
Hartford is in a high state of excitement over
q heinous outrage committed there At /
o cIock this morning the residence Of Mrs.
Moore was entered by two burglars. After
rarsacking the house, one of the ruffians, with
drawn pistol, stood on the stairs and kept
Mrs Moore and her crippled granddaughter
on the second floor, while the other committed
an assault upon another granddaughter on the
lower floor The girl was then assaulted by
the burglar who had kept guard, his com
girl now lies in a precarious condition.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

ncHtdl lHlSf1Oflty Is Illustrated, says ttie
Boston Transcript. is an, 5incilitnt fe-
ported III the New York newspapers as
follows w@s
Mrs Susannah Taylor, in the Essex
Market Court, charged her husband with
having called her vile names, struck her
ia the face and put her into the street.
He was fined SO, The prisoner went
Through his peckets and pulled ont
IS, %. 1T is all / have" he said.
We'll, You II have to pay the whole,
said the judge. Get it from your wife.
You've beaten her, but like most wives
she'll no doubt, take pity on you.
Taylor, Led toward the prison, was met
by his wife, who handed him 50,
Il can't bear to see him locked up" she
said, her eyes filled with tears. Taylor
took the money rudelE. paid his fine.
and then said to her, roughly: This is
the last time You IL see me. I'll take
good care to leave the city and YOU to
night. The woman drew the little
child who accompanied her to her breast
aud kissed it tsnderly, but uttered no
protest against her husband S latest act
of unkindneSS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

A moulder named George Richmond
who works in a foundry at Hamilton,
Ont. has unexpectedly fallen heir to
$3.50 COO left bin by his father, who was
an extensive carriage builder in Plymouth,
Emo A brother and sister are each re-
cipients of Exc sum.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
NOTES.

A city paper publishes double loaded cd
itoliai, column long, bitterly abusing the
president, chiefly because he went on pleas
ure trip to Florida Morrow says; I'm the
midst of upheayal which seems likely to
overwheIm the robbed and the wretched the
helpless and hated peasantTy of Ireland, the
president was gorgIng liquid shrimp salad
while American citizens were being rail
roaded to the galiows in Dublin with
out word of protest from him
or fronl that half breed Harvard English silsb,
our minister to England, James Russell
Lowell" On the same page Secretary Ere
linghnysen is addressed as dotard Secretary
Folger as a debauehee, and Acknowledgement
Brewster as sot, while Assistant Secretary
French is fold If he does not resign the method
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

Miss Emma Abbott has closed her sea-
son of thirty five weeks, in which she has
given $50 performances, and produced
twenty-one operas. In few weeks she
will sal for Europe. 1t is stated that the
season just closed has been the most
profitable in her career.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09

Mr. Vanderbilt seriOr is said to l.
afraid of death; afraid of getting free
pass to that BORNE from w CHINO return
tickets e-e issued. end Cath suggests
that he wepr a ta'isman in the shape of
lizard skin stuffed VIII o. beprs, and
that he rattle it when he says his prayers.
Good idea
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-09
Death of a Western songster.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May 6.-Mrs John
Ketchum, noted musician, died here Sunday
night of pneumonia. She was a neice of Mr.
Reed, the Chicago music dealer. The deceased
lived many years in Fond du Lac, and was
well known in the northwest as a soprano of
rare ability Althongh en5oying the adj
vantaeesA of wealth, Mrs @Ketchum was
SO thorough a musician that she followed the
profession with unfiagging zeal. The tamil Y
Mr. Katchum purchased censiderab Bile propor-
IS and his wife started large conservatory of
music ) or late they have been residing in
Buffalo. he having determined to study metli-
cine. Mrs Ketchum horn in Toronto her
father being the late Baron de F1eur a French
gentlemani of distinction. Her mother has been
conducting the conservatory of music at Santa
Barbara during her daughters absence The
deceased was thirty seven years of age.