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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
Rsoeynlenca and Gratitude,

One day lie Bon Dieu determined te
give fete in his azure palace. All the
virtues were invited, and only the vir.
tues; no gentlemen asked; all present
were of the gentler sex.
There came many virtues, great and
small. The latter were the most agree
able and courteous, but every one
seemed TO be happy, and they talked
politely one to another, as if they Were
intimate friends, or even relatives.
But lie Bon Dieu observed two charm
ing women who did not seem to be ac-
quainted. The master of the house took
one by the hand and lead her up to the
other
..Beneyolence, he said, this is Grat-
itude.
The two virtues We're SO astonished
that they could not speak; since the
world was the world. and that is very
long time, they had never met before.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
CRIMINAL.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 11-An attempt
was made early yesterday morning, to
burn the residence of Daniel Crowley, in
this city. by saturaiine the walls with
coal oil The fire was discovered in time
to prevent serious damage. II is evident
the object was robbery, as considerable
sum of money is known to be in the
possession of parties during the confu-
sion. No arrests.
WORCESTER, Mass, April IL Edward
Ryan has been sentenced to hang June
Is foI the poisoning of his wife.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
MAsHlNar ON FACTS AND GrMeRs.

WAsnNGroN, April Ii Secretary Fol
ger, it is said, will soon appoint com
mission to examine the charges against
Supervising Architect Hill. which we're
placed in the secretarys hands just before
he was Frustrated by recent illness.
NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL.
The oath of office was administered to
Judge Gresham to-day. and he assumed
formal charge of the postoffics department.
The suite of rooms occupied by the post
master general were thrown open, and
the employees notified that he was ready
to receive them. The reception which
followed occupied about three ee-quarters OF
an hour
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
HEAVY DAMAGES.

BosToN. April lin the suit Lizzie
Cannon VS. Father Fleming. which was
brought to recover five thousand dollars
damages, because the latter a Catholic
priest had taken away some paper
images to which the child had become
attached, causing alleged serious injury
to her health and mental condition. The
jury brought in verdict of one cent
DAMAGES
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
Oniat.lu Sarcastic

Why he made the mistake: He came
home late the other night, and his
wife woke up and found him with a
burning match trying to light the cold
water tap over the marble basin in his
dressing room.
james" she said, ''that is not the
gas-burners. "
Il know it, my love. ;" he replied, un-
steadily The fact is, I've been over
worked and that's the reason made
the mistake"
Yes, you look as if you had been lift
ing a good deal, : she quietly answered
as she returned to her pillow.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
THE RAII.ROAp STRIKE.

LITTLE Rock. Ark, April H. With
the aid of Sheriff Fletcher and posse OF
fifty armed men and the use of some Wig.
orous measures of his own. Col Frey.
superintendent of the Iron Mountain rail
road, was able to move freight trains yes
terday, and practically broke the strike
among the brakemen on that road,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
WISCONSIN CENTRAL SOLD.

MILWAUKEE. April ia New York
special says: Negotiations are being
closed for the sale of the Wisconsin Cen
tral to syndicate, to be operated in con
nectiOn with the Northern Pacific. and
thus form a through transcontinental line
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11

Rev. George Hinkle, of Grace Church,
Cleveland. was born about 800 years too
late. He says that he does not believe
the laitj should read the Bible. he
thinks that they are likely to drop int
pitfalls.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
GRAND LAND EXCURSIONS

To the PRAIRIE LANDS IN THE CORN BELT
of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota, in the
magnificent Land Grant of the G. NJ. & St. P. X.
R., to Fredrieksen. Hansen & Drummond These
lands are especially adapted to slock and dairy
farming; wheat oats, fax and all OF crops are
successfully gTowa and corn is staple article OF
production. The purest water. superior drainage
and the crisp. dry atmosphere make this. accord
ing to United States reports, the healthiest region
in the great Northwest.
These lands range in price from 81 to 81 pen
acre, and are sold for small cash payment. bal
ance on time al per cent interest. Fare free 10
all land purchasers. For maps. pamphlets and
full particulars concerningthe weekly excursions
that take place weekly every Tuesday from the
Office of DaTnhs q Holland. Address
DAEMS & HOLLAND,
Cor Maia and Lynde Sts., Moline, Ills.
feb f6deod&w3m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11

ATLANTA, April 1.-THE convention
met this morning. A ballot taken result
ing in Boynton lat, Bacon 141.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
GRAIN.
Chicago Market.


LIVE 4sToCK.
HOGS-Receipts 6,000; slow; 10c higher; light
{ 200I7 90; mixed packing 2oG07 40; heavy pack
ing and shipping. : Co., 80.
CAITLE-Recepts 2,200; lower; fine
exports 10; EXPORTS 45616 30; good to choice
shipping, 000D6 40; common to fair, 40115 30
butchers ; 5tkfD5 90; stockers and feeders, lOGt
81
wHEAT-Lower. regular GOls April; 1 C5h
May, " June; / 0S4 July
GDRN-Iower; 51196n5I34 cash; l61s April
5tIs6ah414 June 57lsD5714 July
oATS-Lower; 4 cash; do bid April; 43A@44
May; 43 bid June; 4i5s July:
RYE-16M.
BARLEY.-75n7.
WHISKEY-l l6.
FLAX SEED ii.
PORK-Lower; $500 April; SIS 12H May
SIS 275a June; $1s 421z July :,
LARD-Lower; Sf1 Is April; $11 2712Gp$11 30
S1f 81 June; ST. 3711 July.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
SheriH's Sale.

By virtue of an Execution and Fee Bill No
5614 issued out of the clerks Office of the circui
court of Rock Island county, and state of illinois,
and to me directed, whereby am commanded to
make the amount of certain judgment recently
obtained against George r. Wells and in favor of
Estine Freghan out Of the lands, tenements. goods
and chattels of the said defendant. George K.
Wells, have levied on the following property, to-
wit Lot No one ID. in Block No. thirty, (30) in
Hampton, old town of Milan in Rock Island conn
ty Illinois. Therefore, according to said com
mand, shall expose for sale, at public auction, all
the right title and interest of the the above named
George Wells in and to the above d. scribed
property, on Friday the 10th day Of APRIL 1885, at
Z o'clock p. m, at the north door of the Court
House in the city of Rock Island in the county of
Rock Island, and state of Illinois, for cash in hand
to satisfy said Execution and Fee Bill.
Dated ut Rock Island, this Soth day OF March,
A. d., 1888.
J. NJ. RETICKER,
Sheriff of Rock Island County, Illinois
mar 30-dtd
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
WIRED WORDS.
NINE ACCIDENT.

NINE ACCIDENT.
a Mine Gives Way. causing
Death of several Miners
Streator Miners return to work
after a Weeks Idleness.
The Walls of a House Satura-
ted with Coal Oil and set
a Fire, Robbery the
Object.
Judge Gresham takes the oath
of Office as Postmaster
General.
A Wife Poisoner Sentenced to
Hanged june 18th.
The Jury bring in Verdict of
One Cent in the Cannon
Fleming Suit.
a Negro Sentenced to Thirty
Nine Years in the Peniten-
tiary for attempting to
Wreck a Train.
The Wisconsin Central sold to
aSyndicate.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
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JoRBlN0 AND CARPENTER WORK DUNE
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1861 street Residence next door. Rock Islaac,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-04-11
Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE. AIlrtI T.
WHEAT-Irregnlar and unsettled No2 / 0lh
cash / U5A March; 0l y April 075s May; / 0S7s
June. No 3, 81 No d. ~.
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New York Market.

NEW YORK, April II
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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-29
AN ASTONISHING FACT.

We do not realize that we are growing
old until it has become an accomplished
fact. Children grow up around us,
but we get used to that, and seldom
stop to compute their ages and realize
the swift flight of the years. In fact, ,our
children never get old to us. The wife
who has stood lovingly and faithfully
at our side so long, never changes, and
is always the fair young bride OF
the old and happy days. And SO with
the husband-to the wife. Though
his hair might have grown gray IN
some way which we do not understand,
and his firm step may seem little less
elastic or firm than 1t was, the husband
does not seem to have changed much
after all. The friends of our youth be-
come grey-headed; yet they are not
old. Some one-he may have been q
philosopher-has said, that if we doubt
whether we are really growing old. we
should look i'll the face of friend we
have not seen in twenty years. The
writer tried that few DAYS ago. He
did more; he looked in the face of a
friend he had not seen for nearly forty
years. What his thoughts of him were
he does not know. They were both
too polite to express their thoughts. Hc
knows he kept wondering, and WON
ders yet, what had happened to hi.
friend that he should look go very old.
1t was shock to him, and brought
him face to face with an unwelcome
fact.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-29
The Last New Years Call.

Local freghts run daily except Sunday. Othe,
ans daily. Z. P. PRICE. Agent.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-29
A CURE FOR ISLANDER.

The following very homely but sing
ularly instructive lesson is by St.
Philip Neri p
day accusing herself to be given to
SANDER: "Do you frequently fall into
this?" inquired the Saint. eyes,
father, very often," replied the peni-
tent. "My child" said the Saint,
''your fault is great, but the mercy of
God is greater: For your penance do
as foll1ws: Go to the market, pur-
chase chicken just killed and still
covered with feathers; you will then
walk certain distance, plucking the
bird as you go along: your walk finish
ed you will return to me-"
Great was the astonishmet of the
lady i'll receiving so strange penance :;
but silencing al! human reasoning, she
replied, 81 will obey you, father will
obey" Accordingly she repaired to
the market, bought the fowl, and set
out on her journey, plucking it as she
went along, as she had been ordered.
In short time she returned, anx-
ious to tell of her exactness in accom-
plishing her penance and desirous to
receive some explanation of one SO
singular.
'sAh !" said the Saint, ssyou have
been very faithful i'll the first part of
my orders; now do the second part,
and you will be cured. Retrace your
steps; pass through all the places you
have already traversed, and gather one
by one all the feathers you have scat
tered"
"But, father" exclaimed the poor
woman, "that is impossible. least the
feathers carelessly on every side; the
wind carried them in different direc-
tions! how can recover them %
"Well, my child" replied the Saint,
$50 it ia with your words Of SANDER;
like the feathers which the wind has
scattered, they have been waited in
many directions; call them back if you
can. GO and sin no more.'"
History does not tell us if the lady
was converted; but it is probable. 1t
required Saint to give the lesson; one
should be fool not to profit by it.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-29
The German crown prince visited

The German crown prince visited
the pope Tuesday. The cable, among
other things, informs us that, "The
pope received the crown prince with
great cordla ity and affability. The
prince was visible affected, and ex-
pressed i'll the name of the emperor
qualification in being able to manifest
his respect for his holiness. The pri-
vate conference lasted an hour. The
crown prince, upon leaving the vati-
can, appeared deeply moved" Very
affecting, truly, when we remember
that William is protestant, and that
Bismarck is the arch-enemy OF ultra
montanism. There must, of course, be
something behind What is it? The
Moniteur, at Rome, seems to hit it. 1t
says:-'The visit is the outcome of
Bismarck's project for federating the
conservative forces against the
audacious democracy, and the place OF
honor in the alliance has been assigned
to the papacy as the first in influence
in the world" That is about the
meaning of it all. Prince Bismarck is
| old. His vision is not so clear az it
once was. 1t is natural that his ideas
should be more fitting to the past than
to the active, living present, or the
progressive future. His "conserva-
tism" is reactionary. There has been a
great revolution quitely growing and
asserting itself Of late years. 1t is
brave if not "audacious" as it is called.
Indeed it cannot fairly be called auda-
dacious, because it is careful and slow
Nihilism and communism are its ebul.
litions, its eruptive volcanoes, its earth.
quakes, as it were. The grand, final
convulsion need not be radical or un.
reasonable. 1t will evolve pure repre-
sentative, constitutional government
Jeffersonian democracy. The great
Virginian planted the seed when he
wrote the declaration of independence
1t has not fallen upon stony ground
or been lost by the wayside. Its roots
are deep in the sol of Germany, Rus.
sia and England. The day of dynas-
ties is drawing to close. In England
the love for Victoria, in Germany the
veneration for William and the admi.
ration for Bismarck hold the move.
ment in check. 'Tis but for day
There will be no other Victoria, nc
ether William, no other Bismarck
The pope can no more stop this ire.
sistible stream than he could that one
started by the little monk that he ar.
raigncd at Worms. And it is not wise
to attempt it. Checked, and the flood
will break all barriers in communism
and excess; guided. and it will run
into the safe channel of liberty. without
| license,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-29
Agnes and tho Years.
III CELIA II. BURR.

Maiden Agnes. !" said the Year In going,
. hat the message shall bear from thee
70 the sng, IL. who with love past knowing
=, so thG Iiie-iamp OF Thy iniancyf
w hen reach them they will murmur low,
W nat Of our Agnes doth thy record show ?n
Tell them. tell them that beside the Sea
walt IL passage TO the Land oil Morn;
For Hope has said, that o'er the waves to me
4 goOdly vesael by the winds is borne;
10 walt me proudly to tn at sunny land
Where AL the castles OF my dreaming stand.
Day after day watch the ships go by,
AND strain my eyes across the restless deep,
ns a,%iy M pictured Eainst the sky.
But lookI even now across the shlning sea
The ship Of promise bearing dows for mo-
Woman, Agnes. on the eck-strewn shore,
When the angels OF thy infancy
Az II homeWard turn thy steps once more,
What. pray thee, shall my answer be?
Tell US. tell u, they will say, % Year,
Draws the loved one Nnto MS more near f''
Leave mo. leave me: all 10 lost-is lostI
NY goodly ship is crumbled in tho deep;
NY trusted helmsman in the breakers tossed;
ALPS wrecked, all's wasted, e'sn the power to
The mocking waves toss scorntully ashore
The ruined treasures that are mine no mors
Leave me alone. to pour upon the waves,
hltened with upturned faces oil the dead;
1arth for such cOrpses has alas! no grayes;
! 40 no!y priest has rss1HisscSf said,
Inere's nothinR lett me but the bitter sea;
Cod and His angels have forgotten me-"
Christian. Agnes, In the freight dreaming.
" Mhat the message shall bear from thee
10 the angels, whose solt eYes are b-aming
iom the portal where they watch tor ne Z?
rs she coming p they will say; % Year,
Draw her footsteps to the Homsland NJ ar ?'n
This the message-that l sit no more
w. lin eyes bent idly on the Hills OF Morn,
A holier purpose to my soul was born.
Gs>s Ssars 70 G0tSr, was the prayer said,
Leaving the dead past to inter its dead.
And Al u was granted. By my heart Tonight,
Tell the beloved ones, 1slt alone,
hut not unhappy; for the morning light
y, Mll show my pathway with its uses strewn,
dappy in labor. say to them, o Year
l wait the Sabbath which trust draws near.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-12-29
THE CENTURY.
Programme for 1SS3-'S4'

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ORIGIN OF THE "TE DEUM.n ~
frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. !

When Augustine, he who was after
ward bishop Of Pippo, and who is
known alike among Protestants and
Catholics as St. Augustine, was in the
Baptistry of Milan, Ambrose
was pouring over him the puri-
flying water in the name of
the Father, the Son and the HOLY
Ghost, Ambrose, in his great Joy over
the conversion of such notable sinner
as was Augustine, broke forth into tho
jubilant cry
"We praise Thee, o God !"
WhercupOn Augustine replied
"We acknowledge Thee to be the
Lord"
And so the grand hymn to the Trim
was antiphonally e1temporized by
these two.
Such is the beautiful tradition of the
origin of the "Te Deum;" but, alas it
is based upon very slight foundation.
The authorities which set forth this
view Of the authorship have been i'm
peached, and the stronger opinion is
that the "Te Deum" antedales Am
brose and Augustine.
There is a Greek morning HYMN in
the Alexandrine Ms. of the bible.
This morning hymn is made up Of
parts Of the ''re Deum" and the "Gle-
ria in Excelsis," and is still in daily
use in the Greek Church. St Cyprian,
in his treatise "On the Mortality"
ETC., then CA. d. S52) affecting Car
thage, refers to quotations strikingly
familiar to the language of the s:Te
Deum." Blunt, in his "Annotated
Prayer Book" concludes that it repre-
sents the ancient Greek morning hymn
in the Alexandrine manuscript, and
that i'll its present form it is a compost
ton of the fourth or fifth century;
while DR.. Hersh, in his "Church Die
tionary," gives it Gallican origin. It
has been variously assigned to Abon.
dius, Nicetrius, the Bishop of Triers,
Hilary of Poictiers and Hilary of Aries.
But whether its composition be assign
ed to Ambrose and Augustine. or to any
of the foregoing, or whether it be
founded on the Greek morning hymn,
or whether its origin be Ante Nicene
or Pest-Nicene. it accords exactly with
the Niceo-COnstantinopolitan creed.
The same spirit is breathed forth from
both, and the "Te Deum" is as truly a
hymn to the Holy Trinity as the creed
is dogmatic statement Of belief in that
same Trinity.