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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-31
THE MARK ETS.
Flour, Grain and Provisions.

CHICAGO, aug o.
FLoUR-Market dun at unchanged prices.
New Winters, S52505.,5; Winter Wheat
Flours, S5.00G6.00; Spring, S4504.5. 50, and low
grades, $25113.I5 Rye Flour dull at $5.l5G
1856 in barrels; $500 in sacks.
WHEAT-Marlet quiet. No. Spring, Sl.OOH
0l.0O3s; new No. 8 g3lac; No. 2 Red, Sl.0GAi
No. 3 Red, Slt3; Rejected Red, a5c; No. z
Wheat seller September, $l002s1 OBS; sell
er October, $l,02t4Ol03A, and seller Novem-
Der, $l.O45s0lO5'B.
CoRN-Prices ruled steady. No. 2 in good
request at 5l@5llGC cash; 5l0jl9ac seller Au-
gust; SOL @501ac seller September; 49SQ5O1s C
seller October, and 461a04Basc seller the year.
High Mixed 5ia4c; Rejected, 4'1G04Sc; New
Mixed. 49c.
OATs--Market firm. No. 2, 2Stac cash; 2S1i
t029c seller August; 261aG2dasc seller Septem-
seller the year.
RYE-Steady No. = cash, SEC; seller Sep.
tember, sic; seller October, 51i2c
BARLEY-Dull and slow sale. No, ., &c
seller September; No auotable at 45c.
MISS pORK-Prices ruled higher, ranging
at 81 ajQll2 Is cash. seller August and Sep
tember; $l2.050 l227l4 seller October, and
SlI I6O6Ell.65 seller the year.
0LARD-Prices ruled higher ranging at SS.421l
0S41Is cash; SS.42laGS471i seller August;
SS42HG1S.471a seller September; $S.451S. .5211
seller October, and S8,O117OS.l0 seller the
year
BUTTER-Market steady. Creamery, good t0
fancy, I9Gl2lC; Dairy, good 10 fancy, l04ll2C.
CHEESE-Market tirmer- Full cream Ched-
dar good 10 prime, 909l4c; SKINNED Ched-
dar, 5QDGG.
EGCS--Markct uuiet at IGdI1c for fresh
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-31
New Enaland tobacco Crop.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Aug. 81.
Reports from one hundred tobacco towns
in the Connecticut and Housatonic valleys
indicate that the tobacco crop will be full
average one and excelling in quality.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-31
Live Stock imported.

CHESTER, Pa, Aug. 81.
Two hundred head of Jersey cattle and a
number of ponies, sheep and hogs, valued
at $4,000, landed here Wednesday from
Hull, Eng. The animals will be quaran-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-31

IVI.I-IJ'- % 4 II% IISI tU'
WHEAT-Steady: cash active, futures quiet
No. l White, 81 .; No. . ned cash, August
or September. 5 10; October, 81 .l2la; Novem-
her SI1Il.; December, Sil.; January, u 10;
No. Red, Sl.05; Rejected, 9Se.
CORN-Active and firm; No. cash, Au-
gust or September, 53lac. October, 54c; Re
jected 50i3c; No Grade 4yc; No 3 White, ole
OATs-Firmer and Quieter; No White ale;
No. = cash. August or September 2si.c; Oe-
tober, 2Sl4c; November, 30:&c; december, Sic.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-08-31
THE
Business Men s
ASSOCIATION,

WIsH to call the attention
w of Manufacturers in par
ticular, to the SUPERIOR INDUCE
MENTs offered for the establish
ment of Industries in this city.
The Railroad system of Rock
Island covers every point in the
compass, consequently her ship
ping facilities are unexcelled.
The Mississippi River also af-
fords another method of cheap
transportation.
For full particulars address
]. w. STEWART, Pres't
Or J. F. ROBINSON, sec'y.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
Premature Praises.
A spEonIEN OF MAYOR DRrRrNe's Won

SPECIMEN OF MAYOR DEERING's WORK.
We have the best authority for the statement that
the municipal tax for the current year will not ex-
coed two per cent. This is a lower rate than has
obtained since 1868. Let the taxpayers score this
chiefly to the judicious administration of Mayor
Deering Argus.
Suppose the Mayor and his friends wait
until the end of his term before they begin
Boosting. Or are they afraid there will be
nothing to boast of then? 1t is, however,
quite timely to say now that the lower rate
OF taxation which is promised this year is
not due to either Mayor behring's "work"
or his 'sjudici6hs administration" but to
conditions for which he deserves no credit
As a matter of fact, the estimated expen-
ses of this year, for which his administration
must answer, are greater Than they were last
year, $7o7, 1878. 70 instead of 7S9, TAI 20, and
they would have reached higher figure yet
If the Mayor could have had his way in in
creasing salaries. The sum required to be
raised by taxation this year is less than the
sum required last year, not because the
Mayor has done anything to reduce it, but
because the city receives this year an income
from other sources than taxes much larger
than it has recently had. This circum-
stsnce in connection with another, the in
crease in the valuation of property which
pays taxes, makes it possible to raise the re-
CURED amsunt, notwithstanding the in
creased appropriations, by lower rate of
taxation. But the Mayor has not contri-
buted any considerable portion of this in
crease of the city's wealth.
If the city's valuation were the same as
last year, if there had been no extraordinary
addition to the city's income, if the State
tax and the county tax were as large as last
year, the expenses of this Mayors admins
tration could not have been met without
imposing higher rate than last year. But
we shall not know until the end of the wear
whether this administration keeps within
its appropriations, some of which we under
stand already threaten to be insufficient ow-
ing to the injudicious manner in which they
are used. This administration is only about
five months old. Before final judgment is
passed on its financial wisdom we shall
want to know how much money it leaves in
the treasury
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

The Rev. Joseph Cook has been lecturing
at Chatauqua on the Religious Signs of
the Times" The good signs of the times he
stated to be the immense physical opportu-
nifty Of the United States, their unity, as
piration and intelligence, the prospective in
crease of the population to 100000 900, the
predominating influence of the American
people end of their free institutions in the
probable future history of the word, and the
self support of the churches and the growth
Of the power of pure Christianity in the
United States, The bad signs of the times
he stated to be the poisoning of America by
Europe through immigration, broad church
views and false philosophy, municipal mis-
management or the bondage of politics in
cities to the corrupt classes, Mormonism,
Sunday dissertation and the increasing des-
titution on Sunday of religious culture, the
invasion of Sunday time and opportunity,
by journalism, railways and the whiskey
ring, iliteracy among freemen in the South
and the great cities of the North, the greed
for gain and display, the deterioration of
manners on the part of the young and the
and the uneducated, UNCONVENTIONAL rivalry
among religious sects, the aggressiyeness of
vulgar infdelity, failures in family govern
ment, semi-universalism in fashionable
churches, factional orthodoxy and I'M
scientific religious instruction.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

Oscar Wilde's new play of Vera, which
was brought out in New York on Tuesday
night, receives agreat deal of attention from
the New York press. The general verdict
is that the play as dramatic work is a fail
ure. The Times describes it as an energetic
TRADE against tyrants and despots, full of
long speeches in which the glory of liberty
is cloquentlY described, but entirely want
ing in the dramatic element, though it adj
mits that there is good writing in the play,
and that some of Mr.. Wilde's characters ex-
hibit cleverness and wit. The Tribune is
even more severe. The style is pronounced
forid and sophomorical and unworthy of a
scholar. 'Such fustian," says the Tribune,
Gas Mr.. Wilde causes to be uttered about
liberty would hardly have been acceptable
even in the tumid and shrieking fourth OF
July orations of 80 or 40 years ago." The
best sentiment of the piece, it says, is taken
from Sheridan, and its best imagery from
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
Sanford's Ginger, the Delicious

A SA PURE FRUIT STINIULANr, for the aged,
a mentally and physically exhausted, careworn
or overworked, for delicate females, especially
mothers, for those recovering from facilitating dis
eases, and as means of reforming those addicted
to an excessive use of alcoholic stimulants it is I'M
equaed in the whole range of medicines Beware
of limitations. sANFoRD's is the finest ginger in
the world, and notwithstanding the high cost of its
ingredients, is the cheapest family medicine Sold
everywhere.
Potter Drug and Chemical Co., ROston.
Observation-Disclosures 3m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

"A S BEVERAGE, with hot or cold water sweet
"A ened, or hot or cold milk or added to Ice wat
err lemonade, efervescent draughts of mineral wat
ers, it forms refreshing and invigorating beyer-
age unequaled i'll simplicity and purity by any tonic
medicine, while free from alcoholic reaction.
Avoid mercenary dealers, who for few cents extra
pront try to force upon you their own or others
when you call for sANFoRD's GINGER. Sold by
wholesale and retail druggists, grocers, etc. ey
erywhere.
Peter Drug and Chemical Co., Eeos,op.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

A champion of the much maligned Eng
fish sparrow has finally appeared in the
shape of an anonymous correspondent of the
Boston Journal. To most of the charges
made against this bird the corr espondent
puts in general denial, which he backs up
by proof founded on his own observation
and experience. He has seen them eat grubs
when they could get other food, a
thing which their enemies allege that
they never do, and he asserts with great posi-
tiveness that they are guiltless both of fruit
stealing and driving away the song birds.
There is still left one grave charge against
them however, which he overlooks, and that
is their hideous.and persistent chipping IN
less his voice can be improved the English
sparrow must 60.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

The total vote in Ohio last year fell off
from that of the previous year 100,4SS. OF
this failing off the Republicans suffered to
the extent of 1900 and the Democrats 49,
537. The Prohibitionists cast 1900 votes
and the Greenbackers over 5000. The
Democratic majority over all was 1880.
This would seem to indicate that all the Re-
publicans have to do to carry the State is to
get their vote out.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

A letter appears in the New York Obser-
yer from gentleman long resident in Mad
agascar which, if it be an impartial state
ment, shows that the conduct of the French
forces III that country has been shameful in
the extreme and contrary to all the rules of
civilized warfare. The bombardment of
Madagascar towns was begun without
sending an ultimatum or message of any
kind to the Queen, and even while the
French consul was protesting friendship to
the Hova governor. At Majunga the French
landed i'll most friendly way, and we're re-
ceived by the governor as friends and shown
over the fort, Within an hour they began
to lombard the place, and in a few hours it
was nothing but heap of ruins. Cruelty
and falsehood seem to have been the most
prominent characteristics of the French
campaign throughout, and the affair at
Majunga is only one of many of similar
kind.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

Wthe IeW OHe INOHSdRd EfgRt Hundfed anu
Eighty Three
A Ordinance relating to the protection Of the
n Public Grounds Of the City.
BE 1t ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen ard Com
mon Council of the City of Portland in City Coun-
Gil assembled as follows:
Section mo loaded draw, wagon cart or other
vehicle, shah be allowed to pass over or through the
roadways or grass pats, within any of the parks or
public grounds belonging to the city. without the
written consent of the Mayor Chairman Of the
Committee on Cemeteries and Public Grounds, ex-
pressly given therefor.
Section 2.No person shall cut, mar, deface or
destroy any seat or stand, or any other structure
erected by or belonging to City of Portland in or
upon any street. promenade, park any of the pub
Tic grounds OF the city, cut, defaee Destroy
or carry away any tree, shrub or plant within such
parks or public grounds.
Section 3.-Any person violating this Ordinance
shall be subject to penalty of ten dollars for each
violation thereof.
IN Board Of Mayor and aldermen, august g. 1888
Read and passed to be Ordained and sent down
for concurrence.
Attest: j. W. DEERiNG, Mayor.
IN Common Council, august 6, 1888.
Read and passed to be ordained in concurrence.
Attest: SAMUEL b. KELSEY, President of
the Common Council.
Approved August o, 1888.
j. w. DEERING, Mayor.
CLIO C. BURGESS, City Clerk.
augl7 DIV
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

EDREPAkED with the utmost skill from IMPORT
- ED GINGER, CHOICE ARoNIATICs and the
purest and best of MEDICINAL FRENCH BRAN
DY, from the world-renowned winners, Messrs. or
ARD, DuPUY CO., CoGNAC, rendering it vastly
superior to all other "Gingers," all of which are
made with common alcohol, largely impregnated
with poisonous fusil oil and strengthened with cay
anna rerynar
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

The Democratic candidate for Governor
OF Iowa has been compelled by the force Of
public opinion to explain his famous speech,
in which he advocated saloon on every hill
top. 1t seems that the candidate was in
dulging rather freely in hyperbole. All he
meant was that it would be better to have
the business carried on openly rather than
in secret.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
rn-sCELLANEOUs.
SUMMER COMPLAINTS

CtHoLERA MoRBUs, Cramps, Pains, Diarrhoea,
Dysentery Indigestion, Colds, Chills, Simple
Feyers, Exhaustion, Nervousness or Loss OF Sleep.
whether caused by Unripe Fruit, Impure Water,
Unhealthy Climate, Unwbolesome Food Malaria,
Epidemic or Contagious Diseases that beset the
traveller or household at this season are nothing to
those protected by timely use CT sANFoRp's GrS-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

The charges made by Howard Potter, one
of the trustees of Union College, against Rev.
Dr. j. Trumbull Backus and Mr.. Plat Pot
ter, fellow trustees of the College, are not
new. They were made year ago. Recently
they have been formulated and presented in
the shape of a three-column letter to the
trustees. The substance of them is that DR..
Backus has for sixteen years held at cost
of $4,000 certain certificates transferred to
him by the college, from which he has re-
ceived $25, 900 in land dividends and real
rized additional profits from the sales made
by him, the implication being that he has
used his position as trustee to make money
at the expense of the college. Dr. Backus
is hostile to the president of the college who
is brother of Howard Potter, and the OBJ
ject of the publication at this time is doubt
less to influence the public in the controyer-
sy now going on in regard to the presidency
of the college. DR.. Backus's friends claim
that these charges have once been investi-
gated and pronounced false.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
II Fl Il y r E s 8
THURSDAY MORNING. AUG. 20.

. We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publca
ton but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munications that are not used
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
A Temperance Movement in Ger
many.


A new and vigorous temperance movement
has sprung up in Germany. Beginning at
the time of the silver wedding of the Crown
Prince it is now attracting the attention of
the press of that and other countries. The
Pail Mall Gazette reproduces an account of
Its progress and aim from recent number
OF the Deatsche Rundschau. 1t is the first
instance of general interest in temperance
In that country for quarter of century,
but it appears to be deep and serious. Count
Moltke heads the movement and all the reli-
gious bodies are working with much zeal TO
forward it.
1t will not be thought by Americans to
be very radical reform, for in what it at
tempts it resembles the scheme of New
York society the members of which are
pledged not to indulge in certain forms of
drinking and not to exceed certain limit
OF indulgence supposed to be on the safe
side of an intoxicating allowance. 1t does
not imply total abstinence. "The term tenn
perance is no longer COMPOUNDED with tee
totalisn." The sole object is ''to prevent
number of those who from time immemorial
have been victims of intemperance." The
German periodical says that the reason WHY
there hassheretefeSe been no organized and
Sustained effort to promote temperance in
the Empire is because Germany has been
swayed to and fro by the waves of war and
revolution. Every attempt at systematic
organization was bafied by the political I'M
certainties which monopolized attention.
Now, however, an era of peace has come
and the whole nation is in arms against in
temperance. Men of science, physicians,
clergymeD, soldiers, are working together
with common purpose to expose the evils
OF intemperance, and the people listen with
eagerness.
The writer in the Rundschdu says ''Some-
thing must be done, and it must be some
thing different from the former agitation
which knew only one narrow method for the
removal OF the evil, namely,to persuade each
person individually to abstain totally from
the use of strong drinks. The Pail Mall
Gazette says, in reference to this last re-
marx, tnat The temperance reformers of
Germany have arrived at the truth which
the English reformers are gradually learn
ing,that ''the propaganda of total abstinence
has failed, and is certain to fail AS long as
the causes which render it easy to drink and
difficult to abstain from drinking flourish
untouched on every side''. Probably the
Germans will find out, as the English are
finding out, and as Americans have found
out, that the propaganda of temperance is
just as likely to fail under such circum-
stances as the propaganda of abstinence, and
that the suppression of "the causes which
make it easy to drink and difficult to abstain
from drinking" namely the dram-shops, is
the necessary condition of any marked sue
cess in temperance reformation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

the Bible. By judicious pruning the Trib-
une thinks the play may possibly be made
useful on the road. The World thinks the
play is enough of one for the market, but
considers it wanting in dramatic excellence.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
CITY ADyERTIsEHIENTs.
City Of Portland.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE, /
Auoust 3. 1881.

I'm petition of Trustees of the Estate of j. b
~ Brown, for permission to erect and maintain
a stationary Steam Engine of One Hundred and
hereby given that hearing of all parties interested
in said petition will be had on Monday evening
September Sd, A. ID. 1888 at TIA O'Clock p. M, at
the Aldermen's Room, City Building.
GEO. G. BURGESS,
aug9dIaw3wTh City Clerk.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23

LADIES and sickly girls requiring gentle
and reliable stimulant, will find browns
Iron Bitters beneficial.
ELKToN, KY.-Dr. E. B. Weathers saws:
"Iregard Browns Iron Bitters as a medi-
cine ofunusual worth"
FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.--Rev. T. J. Reilly
says: 81 used Browns Iron Bitters for
indigestion and chills with entire satisfac-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
EDUCATIONAL.
English School for Boys and Girls.

English ScnO0i Tor Boys ana Girls.
MRs. CHAs, Va. PERRY will; open Sep
1sA TENDER Gath, at 119 Winter street, school
for children from six to ten years old.
Special care will be given to teaching young chill
dren to read. Glasses in Sewing on Saturdays.
Pupils from other schools will be admitted to these
classes and will be advanced in any other branch
of study.
Apply on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings
after Sept. 18th. For circulars, address 119 Win
ter street. aug1 Sd wteodtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-08-23
City of Portland.

IN the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Eighty Three.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE police recently closed Jesuit
Church at Lemberg, Germany.
THE statue Of the French Prince I'm
perfal who was killed in the Zulu war was
a few days ago unveiled at Woolwich, Eng,
by the Prince Of Wales.
IT was reported lately that the Lehigh
Valley Railroad had carried 1886, al tons of
coal last year.
II was believed that 100000 would
not cover the amount OF funds missing from
the City Bank of Jersey City, n. j. All
that was left Of the assets, it was said, was
cheap office furniture and 81 POO acciden-
tally left in the cash drawer.
AT a recent special meeting of the
Portland, ore, Board Of Trade resolutions
were adopted indorsing the action Of Cap
tain Merrimau in shellng the Indian village
in Alaska.
JOHN WELLEs HALLENBECK, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently presented Lafayette
College with second $50, 900 to eudow the
chair Of President.
IN late decision in a suit for the re
covory Of money advanced to keep up stock
margins, Judge White, Of the Pittsburgh
(PaD Common Pleas Court, characterized
the pretended purchases and sales on mar
gins as nothing but gambling transactions,
immoral in their character and exceedingly
perniciouS i'm their tendency.
TIE employees on the CaIedonian
Railroad in Scotland, it was said, we're on a
strike a few days ago.
JOsEPH G. RUSHING, of Pennsyl-
vania, the other day sued j. r. Mcpherson,
United States senator from New Jersey, for
500, O00, alleged TO be due for services in
organizing palace car stock company.
Ir was reported at Montreal, Cana,
lately that a project was on foot 10 unite the
Grand Trunk, North Shore and Rome &
Watertowu Railways with the Richelieu
and ST. Lawrence Navigation Companies, in
a general traffic combination.
WILLIAM GoUyERNEUR MORRIS, Col
lector Of Oa>toms at Sitka, recently stated
that last season small force Of men made
over s25O,OOO by surface digging on the
mountain sides in Alaska.
STRAGGLING bands of Indians, en-
route from san Carlos reservation to Join
! Ju in Sonora, were seen frequently near
/ Tombstone, Arizona. The Governor Of
| Sonora the other day ordered out a large
/ force OF troops to intercept the hostiles.
! In the suit of the Pacific Mail Steam
| ship Company against the United States.
/ Judgment for plaintiff for SS3, 333 was rem
| derelh by the District Court Of Claims a.
/ Washington the other day.
! MICHAEL DAvITT's appearance on
/ The platform at Oldham, Ireland, the other
| day, brought on a row. The mob drowned
/ his words by noise. The police removed
! the disturbers-