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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-28
TEE CONTRACT LET.

The building committee of the board
of supervisors met to day and opened the
bids for the construction of the new
county offices. The bids were as fol
lows;
Chris, schriner s, 500
John Volk q Co. Observation-Disclosures. 1910
S. j Collins 6,7S4
The bid was awarded to s. ]. Collins
The building will be located five feet
from the east side of the court house
yard fence
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-28

If you suffer with Sick Headache, Con-
stipation, Sour Stomach, or Bilious at
tacks. Emory's Little Cathartic Pills will
relieve you.-15 cents.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-28
For SALE.

Sixty lots in my addition to the city OF
Rock Island. Terms, one-fourth down,
balance in one, two and three years, with
six per cent interest
owl 70 d9m BAILEY DAVENPORT.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-28

Mt. E. A. Carter, SO Monroe street,
CHICAGO, ILL.,, says: Il found great relief
from dyspepsia by using Browns Iron
Bitters."
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-28
caRsE AND RETICKER

offer the following way down prices;
100 psirs ladies kid button shoes for Sl;7e'
5S9 hairs ladies' goat button shoes, SltO;
is1 pairs ladies' kid opera slippers, sl.Oo.
2 cases mems calf boots, 1926
And all other goods in proportion III
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
Common Phrases, and where
they Started.

Necessity. the mother 0. invention
F~arquehar.
Death loves a shining mark. -Toung.
Order is Heaven Grst law.-Pope.
While there is LIE there : hope
Gay.
The very pink Of perfection. COLI
Forbenance ceases to be a yir;ar a
Burke.
Small Latin anl Ics> Grces B>q
Johnson.
The child j. father 81 the man.
Worisporth.
A thing Of beauty !. a ioy forever
hedts.
III blowsth Il wind atproits nobody.
-Sadkespeare.
To maken ver,ue OF recess.tt,c.-
Chaucer.
Comparisons are odous.-Donne.
To err i human t. forgive. divine.
Pope.
Learn the luxury Of doing good
Goii.mita.
Il rkie Is willin'.-Dtetlus.
4 little learning i n dangerous ug.
-Pop-.
ali that glitters : not gold.-Slate-
pedTe.
Look before sou ere You leap Sam
ueI Bptler.
Remedy worse than the disease
Bneon.
lis distance lends e-nchantmcnt to
the view.-CGmpbsN.
Bread is the stall Of litc.-Srtt.
Thoughts that breathe and words That
burn gray.
Sea of GpturneI iacrS.-.ScOU
Just Is the twig IS bent the tree. n
clined.-Pope.
The human face divine Nzton.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

TIE ATLANTIC & Y. G. RAILROAD
LEASED. At a meeting Of Stockholders
of the Atlantic Il \. G. Road, held in
GoldSboro last week, 4 lease of the road
was made to the Eastern n. Z. Rail-
road Company for a term OF thirty
years. The state and a large majority OF
the private stock voted for the lease, and
now 1t only requires a concurrence on the
part Of the Directors, and a deposit OF
the securities to put the La>ses Ia full
possession Of the road, unless the i%njunc-
ton suit, brought by certain bOndholders,
and now pending In the United States
Court, for the purpose Of preventing a
lease, should be decided in favor Of the
said bondholders.
The new company are require | to put
up $4,000 securities IN 4 per cent. y.
&. bonds for the faithful discharge Of all
obligations, and it is further provided
that default in any of them is cause for
forfeiture of the lease. The new syndi
cate agree not to enter into any alliance,
combination or contract with connecting
railroads. either at Goldsboro or else
where, whereby a fair competition for
freigEts may be embarrassed or proven
ted, and they further bind themselves to
extend the road to some point Oh the
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Road either
at Fayetteville or Sandfora. within four
years, ana may use the Smithfield ex-
tension for this purpose if they can secnre
il. They also agree not to sublet the
road without obtaining consent from the
stockholders They may also mortgage
their interest in the lease
The Eastern Syndicate Is composed
mainly Of North Carolinians leading
business men Of Raleigh, Goidshoro,
kinston and New B2rne. It is thought
Col. Humphrey will be its President. =
MESSENGER.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

4 SOAP WHICH WOULD CURE EVERY
THING EXCEPT LACK OF SENsE.-A
mouth or two ago, a citizen ofthis county,
with his wife, returnir G to their home
from town were met by a foot peidier in
the road, who, though a stranger, pro-
fessed anxiety to confer upon the inno-
cent citizen a special favor. Holding out
his hands, he said Here is box and
in it a cake of soap. 1t will cure the back
ache, headache, toothache, and all other
aches, to which human flesh is heir.
Just under it is a $50 note o If you
will give me $50, you can draw the box,
with the chance Of getting the $50.
The citizen. it is said, gave the $50, drew
the box, and when he opened it found a
small cake Of soap. Report says the
pair wept over their take m.-the loss OF
their twenty dollars. = Salisbury Hotch-
man. What is the price OF geese in that
township2
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

BURKE BRIEFS. Two mountaineers
brought a hog to Morganton last week
and sold it. They Immediately Jeff and
it was soon discovered that the hog had
died of disease.-There has been
more buildings in Morganton in the last
twelve months than in any other five
wears of il, history. Died, Deem
Der IL. Mrs. William Halliburton -
On Thursday night the residence of
Miss Anna Disco was entered by burg
lars who cut several Stats from the blinds
opened the window, and after going
through the house, escaped through the
front door by unscrewing the lock. Miss
Disco is visiting in New Orleans, and no
one was sleeping in the house on the
night -Wountdtueer.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

....W Washington has in course of cree
ton an Opera House which will seat SEQ
Greenville and kinstOn have new Opera
House. Tarboro has 4 little gem.
MIR. James r. Rodweil has opened
an academy in the healthfui and pretty
village of Macon. He has established a
most excellent reputation as a teacher.
MAJOR Robert Bingham delivered
an address at the Presbyterian church, in
Greensboro IN Sunday in behalfof David
son College.
....Enoch Brown, colored, who was to
have been hanged at Halifax Friday for
the murder of his wife was respited by
Gov. JARVIS until February Goth.
Greensboro Workman: Mr. Fresh
water was married in Orange county last
week. He Is no ways related-that we
know of-to either Mr.. Tarwater or Mr..
Atwater, who got themselves into hot
water several years ago
Beaufort Telephone: We under
stand that Major John Gatlin has made
arrangements to build a railroad across
the banks opposi'e the Atlantic Hotel at
Morehead City, on which to convey visi-
tors from the sound 10 the beach.
....Tarboro .Southesmtr: Last Satur-
day. about 4 O'Clock the gin house of
sheriff Bryan was burned down. He
ost cotton seed, Is bales Of cotton and
building worth all together about s., 600
or 50, 500. Last Thursday the dwell
ing and two out-houses ofDr. d. B. Bats
we're entire burned down. Loss estimated
at about $1,000.
1.-The Lincoln Press, in giving some
curious lawsuits says thlt 1.-TWO men
we're once hunting in Burke County.
They killed a deer and quarrelled over
the hide. One sued the other and the
costs, when the suit terminated, amount
ed to one thousand five hundred dollars
Another Burke man. old Col. David Tate,
once sued a CARPENTER in this county for
falling to make wheeibarrow according to
contract, and the clsc amounted to more
than five hundred dollars.
....Pickens, Charles and Henry Comfy,
(trothersl Of Caldwell county came to the
still house on Catawba river, got drunk
and started back, cmsing and qulrrelling.
As the mail rider came this side Of Love
Lady he met ore octhem. still drunk, Co.
ing to tell the news
Ia the road beyond Mr.. Settlemyres he
found Henry Comfy dead from \ pistol
ball in his forehead and the other brotheI
close by and still drunk TIE living
brothers say Henry shos himself acci1en,
tally, but their explanation is said not to
agree. Coroners jury say Henry Comfy
came to his death by the hand of Is
brother. Pickens Comfy aid the la;;,r
has eft Hickory Cnroiinin
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

RUTHERFORD REPORTS Taylor
Webb died at Burnt Factory.-We
regret to learn that Mr.. Reynolds Tan
merry was entirely destroyed by fire
Wednesday night Lynch King,
TT burglary and attempted rape. was
sentenced to be hung on the 18th day
Of January. Appeal to Supreme court
granted. When asked if he had any
hing to sag why the penalty of the law
should not be imposed, he said, Il am
% guilty of tit was two more beside
me ."-On the trial of john Twiggs
Tor the murder OF William Mccall III
I,uthertordton last week. the jury failed
q, agree. eleven being for acquittal and
one Tor conviction OF manslaushter, and
O. Iui>trial was entered.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

EXPERIMENTS WITH SUGAR-MAKING.
The Rio Grande Sugar Company, at RIO
Grande, Cape May Co., \ j. will short
ly receive from the State of New Jersey
a good round sum of money as its share OF
the bounty for fostering the sorghum in
dustry. The State gives 81 er ton tor
sugar cane crushed and treated. and !
cent per pound upon the sugar. Las
year the corporation experimental with
Cuban molasses for the purpose OF max
ing sugar from it The result of this has
been kept secret, and will not be made
known until next spring.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
ANOTHER SCAFFoLD SAINF.-Char-

ANOTHER SCAFFoLD SAINE.-Char-
lotte, n. c., Dec. 14.-Burt Ellis,
colored, was hanged at | O'Clock to-day,
in Shelby, for the murder of Mrs. VIM.
Logan. an old lady of Cleveland county.
The hanging was public and was witness
ed by 5000 people. On the scatfold Ellis
made a full confession OF the crime, and
said his trial was fair and just, and that
it was only right that he should be hang
ed. He was willing to die and was conf,
dent that his sins were pardoned and
that he was going straight to heaven.
lie spoke composedly for about twenty
minutes and warned the crowd, especially
his ovn race, to let whiskey and bad com,
pany alone. To these faults. coupled
with disobedience to his parents. lie owed
his downfall and his end on Tic eallows.
After bidding all farewell, ,bc black cap
was adjusted and IN approp1is.e prayer
was made by Rev. Samcel Hunter,
colorcd. The trap was then sprung At
the expiration Of twenty minutes his
pulsc ceased to beat and the body was
cut down. The crowd which witnessed
The ev eutiou was very orderly.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
GOOD CORN BREAD,

We are making tie best corn meal
now yer offered il the county. The
corn Is cleaned, thcn crushed by Roll
lers, then ground and boltcd. 1t re-
mains cool all the while. and is as
much superior to other meal as patent
-four is to ordinary flour. It is worth
more, but sells as cheap as any other.
Jones 81 POWELL, Raleigh. n. &.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

Clara Louise Kellogg Is to receive
$4,000 for singing twenty nights IN
Paris.-s6OO a night! No wonder she
is in love with DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup,
the great remedy for coughs and colds.
for what would she do without it, if she
should be attacked suddenly by hoarse-
ness?
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
U. S. urseon Recommends,

DR.. j. Nj. e.. PheetOn is q L. S. EX-
Surgeon, residing now at Bloomington.
Ind. The DR.. writes to say: Il recon-
mend Samaritan Neyriae because it
cures epilepsy" Physicians, generally.
are its friends.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
60

W5r>ran I.lot: Parties from Stokes and
ROCKINGHAM say that j. W. Reid has the
inside track FIR CONGRESS naxt yes1" on tie
democratic tichc,. Wo learn that
Col ID. Settle, of Rockingham county,
SHOT a negro man one day last week.
The shooting was strictly in seli-deiense.
At lasJ accounts the negro was ST. II alive,
though very dangerously wounded.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

Pug dogs as pets have had their day
among the extremely fashionable. but
colds never 20 out of fashion. so that
it is always necessary to know that d..
Bulls Cough Syrup is a sure cure for all
coughs and colds.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19
Please Mentioo 70 You Hei.r-
bors.


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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

...Cornclius NJ. Krum, Of Kingston,
y. Y, fed to Texas in 1876, after COM
uniting a forgery. He there married, but
his crime being outlawed. he visited his
frat wife in 1877. He returned to Hous-
ton two months later, but in 1882 his first
wife's son Sam discovered the bigamous
conduct of his father. Sam threatened
t. present the case to the Houston grand
jury. but his father entered the young
mans room at night and shot him six
times. The socoA'l wife declared that
she had done the >hooting to protect her
self from an assault by her step>on, and
shortly after sam was induced to hold
his tongue and 90 to Florida Sam re
turned. however, the father fed yester-
DAY. the wife confessed and the husband
is to be prosecuted for bigamy. Krum's
alias IN Texas was John ". Rose.
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Chr Editors Desk.
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NEsAta os cALLs. Cor
a.~rU>nEscE hNo CAsH gScEsrst.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

1.-THE report Of a revolution ia An
nam and the poisoning Of the King IS on
frmed wal against France has been pre-
claimed French adgices state that the
murder of the King was instigated by
China.-A cotton mill burned at Leigh,
Eng, loss $50, 000.--The divorced
wife of Senator Christiancv died insane.
a victim of the choral hab.t. -Total
net receipts of cotton at al the ports p
353 COB bales. -Business failures for
the week number 325 as compared with
3O7 the r~reviou week a mi
burned at Lowell, Mass; a falling wall
injured ten ti~emen .-Geo. Orr muir
dered an old blind man rear Poala, Ks.
and after brutaily beating the mans wife
robbie / The house OF ) .-Twelve sa-
loon keeper at Cambridge, O., finel il
the aggregate 81 400, ard to a tota #
400 DAYS in ini for violation Of The
Scott law. --At Rockville. III ),
Jro. Bonner locked his wife out for re-
flSing him money to continue drunk;
while building a fire outside the house
y . was burned to dcath.-The Stand
| ard Theatre. New York burned - b.
c.. Wickham & Co., bankers of Tioga.
n. Y, fai~led.Three men killed and
len or twelve others wounded in New Or
leans, in a row at a primary election fol
delegates to the Democratic State NOml
mating Convention.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-12-19

Cur Best Brands Ot Pate
Raleigh. Agents wanted. Sen
any size sack you want. Every
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26
Stimulants and Intellectual
f.s.f-tsf = 49,. Work.

Mark Twain finds two glasses ofcham-
payne admirable for loosening the
tongue. and happy inspiration for all
after-dinner speech; but his experience
has been that wine clogs the brain for
mental work, and he can never write to
his own satisfaction after drinking even
one glass. He likes tobacco as stimu.
liant. Oliver Wendell Holmes prefers
an entirely undisturbed and un.
clouded brain for mental work, unstim.
ulated by anything stronger than tea or
coffee, unaffected by tobacco or other
drugs. His faculties are best under his
control in the forenoon, between break
fast and lunch. The only intellectual
use he can find in stimulants is the
quickened mental action they produce
when taken in company. He thinks
ideas which thus reach the brain may
remain after the stimulus has ceased.
w. d, Howells never uses tobacco, ex-
cept "a self-defensive cigarette" where
a great many other persons are
smoking, and when he takes wine
wine it weakens his work and his work.
ing force next morning. Lyman Abbot
uses neither alcohol nor tobacco. Math-
0W Arnold drinks claret haDttt1ally, ana
it suits him. The late George NJ. Beard
found alcohol benumbing and stupefy-
ing. but tobacco, opium, tea, and coffee
had. an effect precisely the reverse.
Professor Blackie takes wine to sharpen
his appetite, but never as stimulant
for intellectual work Wilkie Collins
says that he is nerved and composed by
tobacco. Thomas A. Ellison is too
violently excited by smoking or. drink
ing, but gets inspiration from chewing
tobacco. Gladstone regards wine in
moderate quantities as necessary to him
at tie time of the greatest intellectual
;exertion, but he detests tobacco.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26
Prevalence of Americans the
World Over.

Prevalence of Americans the
World Over.
"What one thing interested you most,
or gave the feeling of being most worthy
of note?"
THAT is rather difficult to answer. as
there are number of things to be seen
IA voyage around the world if ore
keeps his eyes open at all. But think
that If there is one thing which attracted
my attention above another it is the
prevalence of Americans in the high
places of the earth. They have been
foremost in the work of intro ducing civ
i|ization into the East. The re is large
and ever increasing colony of Americans
is Japan, in India, in Australia, every
where from Constantinople to Yokoha-
ma. The first man who compiled a
Japanese dictionary was Dr.. Hepburn,
an American; the first one to compile
Chinese dictionary was DR.. Martin, an
American, and DR.. Verbeck, an Ameri-
can was the founder of the Imperial
University at Toxic, from which came
out the great reformers who have made
Japan what she Is to-day. The best
translation of the Bible was made by an
American, Van Dyke, Of Beirnt, Syria,
and scholarly Arabs admit it to be the
best. I could multiply instances and re-
late them by the hour if l choose. -
Joseph Cook.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26

and kindly face and good head. He has
done nothing else but play checkers ever
since he was fifteen years Of age. His.
game cannot be beaten. He looks aHay
into game, and before an ordinary op-.
ponent has commenced he has won the
game. He makes good living BY play
ing, as there are plenty of enthusiasts
who willingly give twenty-five cents
to play with him and plenty more who
will give that amount to see- him play.
He lives in Scotland and has been in this
country about six months, although this
Is not his first visit. - :.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26
JeffersOn's Rip Van Wrinkle.

The first impression introduced by
MIR. Jefferson in this part of Rip concerns
his admirable picturesQueness as an
actor. He now seems to be boor by
Teniers. and now grotesque figure by
Callot, while his aspect in the latter
scenes, after his awakening from his 20
years. sleep, conveys suggestions of Tin
toret or Titan. He has an ease of move
ment and grace of attitude that ::owe
but are yet invariably, appropriate and
of invaluable assistance to the illusion of
the scene. He has that seeming un-
consciousness of his audience which is
the peculiar possession of actors of the
first class, while he is, of course thorough
~ skilled in all the articles of the stage,
displaying his mplishments, how
ever, with rare moderation and discern
ment. His management of his voice is
mastery: his tones are seldom raised
above conversational level; his
distlnctness of speech has
about it no show of effort; yet every
word he utters comes home to and tells
upon his audience; the humor of his
Dutch accent never being forced upon
the ear as thing necessarily demand
ing laughter, but employed with ease
and calm, as though it were in truth in
separable from the actors own natural
method of utterance. 1t is simply by
his surprising naturalness. indeed, that
Mr.: Jefferson commands applause in the
earlier portions of the play. Rip is a
tippler and unlettered; lie loves the glass
out of an inherent conviviality of dispo-
sition; but he is acute witted enough,
and his sense of humor is exceedingly
strong. He perceives something CONF
cal even in his own degradation and
ruin; his weakness in resuming the evil
habit he ''swored of" is to
him more laugl,able than shameful;
he is amused by his own approximations
of his wife's scolding tongue; and though
he reviles his vehement bel pmate, it is
without real bitterness, with a droll
sense, indeed, that he fully merits her
worst treatment of him. lie is lazy, ine-
briate worthless; he has squan-
dered his property and stops ut q
tavern while his wife and children are
left at home but scantily provided with
food and raiinent; yet he never loses
hold upon sympathy. A certain tender
ness of nature redeems him from ateo-
lutte reprobation.-Nights at the Play
DuttOn Cook.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26
Death OF q Southern Congress-
man.

Colonel Thomas H. Herndo2, member
Of congress from the First Alabama Dis
trict, died at Mobile surrounded by all
his family. He has been i'll for more
than year, and was many times at the
point of death. Colonel Herndon was
native Of Alabama, and was born in 1928.
He was lawyer by profession, served
in the confederate army, and was twice
the state legislatures; Of the secession
convention of 1875, of the state legisla-
ture; and of the Forty-sixth and Forty
seventh congresses. and was reelected
to the Forty. eighth.