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The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Alabama has 7,247 more women than
men.
There are 10000 orange trees at Bay
St. Louis, Miss.
There will soon be three cottonseed oil
mills in and around Cheraw, Ala.
Six moORshiners from Calhoun county,
Ala, were lodged in jail at Huntsville last
week.
A great deal of corn is being shipped
from North Alabama to Tennessee7and
other points.
l The A61tntain Prospect, of Missouri
states that colony of Swedes landed at
Evan station recently.
The Ben Hill residence in Athens, Ca,
which some time since sold for $4,000, is
now held at $12, 600
AT the next meeting of the Nineteenth
Century club, in New York. DR. Oliver
Wendell Holmes Will read a paper on
Emerson.
Mrs. Lily Langtry and Freddy Geb-
hardt have been spending few days in
Washington They kept very quiet, and
escaped publicity and comment
Dir. Stephens, the democratic mayor
elect of Cincinnati, served his term as a
cabin boy on an Ohio steamer He is
wealthy now, owning large glue factory,
in which he made his money.
Miss Emily Faithful, who is now in
New York, has not yet decided whether
to return to England This spring or not.
Her friends are urging her to remain dur
ing the summer, and lecture next winter
Pittsfield, Mass, win owe her new park,
it is said, to the persistent efforts of Miss
Dawes, daughter of the senator. She
talked and wrote in favor of the park
scheme, and finally the town voted in
favor of it,
Jay Gould has, it is said, declared to
neal. friends his purpose to retire from
active business. His son George will
take his place in Wall street The fathers
fortune is extravagantly estimated at 81,
600, ,000, 900.
A report that has been current in
Washington for some time of the engage
went of Perry Belmont, the young New
York congressman, to the beautiful Miss
LangdoD, daughter of the late Eugene
Langdon, and great grand daughter of the
first John Jacob Astor, has reached New
York, and is believed to be true.
James Park, Jr, one of the wealthiest
iron and steel manufacturers in Pitts
last night and will hardly live through
the day. Mr.. Park was prominently
identified with the tariff movement last
summer, and was chairman of the Nation
al tariff convention at Cresson, Pa. His
estate is valued at over $4,000, 600, and
he has insurance on his life for $500, 900.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
Mrs. Quinn's Triplets.

Philadelphia Letter: Charles Quinn, a
workman employed at the Midvale steel
works, Nicetown station, was on
Thursday last made the father of trio
of babies--two girls and "a boy. Mr..
Quinn lives with his wife and (up to.this
time) three daughters, aged six, four and
two years, in neat little brick house on
the Old Plank road, between Wayne
junction and Nicetown. Mrs. Quinn first
gave birth to girl weighing about four
pounds, and an hour later the first baby
was provided with sister of her own
weight; while scarcely had the two young
"a lies given their open concert before they
were followed into the world by baby
brother weighing six pounds. The birth
of the boy involved very difficult oper-
atien, known to the medical profession
as version by the feet" it being necess-
ary to administer ether TO the exhausted
The scene of this wholesale addition to
the population was visited yesterday
afternoon by reporter. A friend of
Mrs. Quinn was in charge of the house,
and was ably supported in taking care of
the triplets by half dozen motherly
women, all of of whom wed with each
other in lavishing unstinted praise upon
the three little bits of dimpled humanity
which were. being exhibited wrapped in
little blankets to some neighbors.
The dear little things, amt they just
perfect?" said one, and the others chorus
ed See what lovely eyes they have, and
such cute little heads" and such lots of
silky hair, ''and just look at their pretty
little ears" until every possible attraction
had been pointed out and commented
upon. The youngsters are indeed, pretty
little ba bies, being well formed and ap-
parently perfectly sound and healthy.
So far they have been they have been
raised on the bottle. The mother is
doing well. Soon after the birth of the
babies their astonished father sent for
Father Powers, the rector of st. Stephens
Roman Catholic church, Nieetown, who
ehristened them on the spot the eldest
girl being named Annie, the second Mar
celia, and the boy John.
bliss Marcella when seen by the report
er was decorated with bit of blue ribbon
to prevent her being mixed up with her
elder sister, Miss Annie, to whom she
bore so close resemblance that even her
mother could hardly tell which was which
without some such mark. The other
little Quinns before mentioned were de-
lighted with their new sisters and brother,
and took as much interest in them as did
their elders.
Said the eldest of them There's jest
one apiece for US, and when thase bit
bigger wese going to have them for doll
babies.
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OPENING oP BROOKLYN BRIDGE.

NEW YORK, April 14.-The committee
appointed to consider the question of
formally opening the Brooklyn Bridge
have determined that Thursday, MAY "a,
shall be the day for the ceremony, and
the programme fixed upon is as follows:
Invitations will he extended, to the presi-
dent and ex-presidents of the United
States, to the cabinet officers the men,
bers OF both houses of congress, the gov
ernor, lieutenant governor, and ex-
governors all over the states and terrific
ries in the Union, to the mayor and ex-
mayors of New York, and the leading
officials by both cities, as well as to the
army and navy and 10 distinguished citi-
zens from all over the country Repre-
sentatives of foreign powers in this
country, distinguished foreigners and
representatives of the press from all parts
or the Union will also be invited The
bridge committee will receive the guests
IN the main building at the entrance to
tDe bridge on the b. ooklyn side at
o'clock p, IN. Half an hour later the
bridge VIII ne formally presented to the
mayors OF New York and BROOKLYN by
President Kingsley, OF the bridge commit
tee, and Mayors Edison and Low will
make appropriate responses The Rev.
Df- Storrs will be invited to deliver an
oratlon In behalf of Brooklyn, and it is
expected that the Hon. VIM. nj. Eyarts
Will reply for New York The BRIDGE
Will not be thrown open to the public on
the gath, and only those who are invited
will be admitted. No carriages will be
allowed and there viii be no procession
or military display. the bridge will be
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A Few Reflections Uuon Night.

1t was night. A policeman awakes
with sud..en start and moves around
the corner, having a secret fear at his
heart that he had slept through all night.
| all next day, and far into tomorrow
night. 1t is night in great city
! The poker antL faro rooms are IN fuil
blast, 10, 900 loafers are holding down
street corners, and here and there an
intoxicated alderman can be seen max
ing his way to policy shop or gather
| inc of the pavement ring. Under cover
of darkness, first manufactured over
f6, 600 years ago, the hotel beat lowers
his duds from the fourth story window;
and all who lave dead-head tickets start
for the opera house; hundreds of young
men sit out 10 spark; reporters look
forward to fires, robberies and murders,
and church choirs meet to rehearse and
wrangle and lay up clubs for each other.
'Tis night in the country. The stock
has been fed the squeal of the pig Is
hushed, and the tired horse munehes at
his corn and wonders why his master
throws in so many cobs without kernel
on them. The watch dog sits at the
gate. perfectly willing TO chew up any of
the neighbors for cent and within the
farm house all is serene, or would be if
John Henry could find the grease for his
boots, Mary Ann could find her novel,
the old man discover the hiding place of
the boot-jack, and the mother solve the
mystery of how some of Tier neighbors
managed to get a dress costing two shil-
lings per yard while she had nothing but
calico
'Tis night on the ocean The proud
steamer sails gallantly on, the captain
snoring in his berth, the mates playing
Al,
thing in readiness to swear, in case of
collision, that it was all the other ves-
sells fault. Nothing is heard but the
steady beat of the propeller, the groans
of the immigrants, and the voices of men
and women declaring that anybody who
plans an ocean voyage for pleasure ought
to be shot to death with Goldfish balls.
The sportive dolphin gambols away his
hard earnings, the whale rolls over for
another nap, and the business like shark
follows in the wake to pick up any OPP
portunities which may tumble over
board
'1'is night on the prairie. The red
men gasher about the camp fire to count
the scalps they have taken within the
last week, and to grumble at the govern
ment for not furnishing them port wine
and repeating rifles. The white hunter
and trapper curls himself up to wonder
where he can find old bones for break
fast, and to realize what fool he has
made of himself, and the gaunt wolf
shoulders his empty stomach and sets
out in search of something to make life
worth living for.
Night grows apace. In the city the
weary wife takes her place. in the hall
with club in hand. In the country the
III fol into bad aNyaaJ.v with the
work of the day, and the young people
spark and chew popcorn. /. On the ocean
the sea sickers continue to grow worse,
and the songs OF the mernaids fall fiat.
On the prairie the Indians finally decide
to make war in the spring, the hunter
falls asleep to dream of eating his boots
for dinner, and the wolf meets wildcat
and offers to toss up to see which shall
eat the other.--Exch0nqe
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
A Chinese Fishing Village in California

| n OulNoS6 L iSuilS image III OdIiIOFHld
1t was close on the edge of the water
where a little inlet rounded in, below
high hills. As we drew near it, the odor
of fish came up. over the hills, like a
smell ffom something cooking in vast
caldTon. The fences, the rocks, the
ground--all were covered with little
shining fishes, spread ont to dry; those
on the ground being. laid on frames of
wooden Stats. There was only. one mar
row lane running through the village,
and hardly room on that 10 step between
| the frames for drying fish. On the roofs
OF the novels, even. poles were set up,
and stretched from corner 70 corner;
and on them long lines of fish fiuttered
in the air, like clothes hung out to dry.
Cinnamon were rIinnin@ about, emptv-
ing big baskets of fish; other Cinnamon
were spreading them, turning them,
,raking them apart, gathering up the dry
ones. and packing them into baskets.
The place fairly swarmed with laborers
and their implements; but all the work
ers kept steadily on, as regardless of
our presence as though they had been
ants on an ant-hill Every man, wo-
man and child was nard at work; chill
dren that were too small for anything
else had babies strapped on their backs,
anu NcIC lily tnt1li dUOul. t&itbIc
girls, not more than eight or ten years
old, were at work indilstriously cleaning
the fish, to prepare them for drying.
This was disagreeable sight; II was
done in open sheds, where the floor was
black and dripping wet with water and
the Shiny offal of the fish. Here the
women sat on high stools, in a squatting
posture, with their feet curled up under
them, cutting and slashing, stripping
the fish, and dropping them into the
baskets with as swift motion as if they
were shelling peas. They had the fin
gers of the left hand rolled up thickly in
black rags, to protect them against
chance slip of the sharp knife. They
chattered and laughed, as if they were
engaged in the most agreeable occupa-
ton in the world. There did not seem
to be an idle pair of hands in the village.
Old men were mending nets, old women
putting bait on hooks. The only unem
ployed creature we saw was one small
baby.
1t would not be possible to give any
idea of the way in which the houses,
sheds, boats, barrels, poles, nets, bask
cts, scaffoldings, and lumber of all sorts
were huddled together in one narrow
alley not wide enough for two wagons to
drive abreast. There was not a~foot of
open ground. Looking down from the
hill on the roofs of the houses, one
would think they all belonged to single
set of walls, rooted at different heights
and angles. 1t was n squa1id and filthy
spot; it would seem impossible for hu-
man beings to breath such air, and
sleep in such dark. unventilated novels
for any length of time, without being
made i'll. Yet there are in this little
village nearly two hundred people.
many of whom have lived there for thir-
ty years in good health. They are di-
vided into three companies, each COM
pany having its leader, who pays wages
to the men and women, and has the
charge of selling and sending away the
fish.-St Nicholas
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
Ex-Governor sprague, of Rhode Isl

Ex-Governor Sprague, OF hhoue Isl
and. previous to his recent marriage at
Staunton, Va, having stated 10 court
clerk and the minister who performed the
ceremony that he was granted oiVoice
from Kate Chase SpTague on Inc GROUND
of her adultery, the latters attorneys
write in contradiction. and state the Iacls
to be that Mrs Sprague presented charges
of adultery, cruelty, and non support that
Snrague retaliated by also alleging
odultorv nm his wife's part; but in court
.c,ra,d tn withdraw the charge if his wife
wonld proceed on the minor allegations
!, her hill This was accepted, and Mrs.
snrague was granted divorce on the
Ground of non-support, with the custody
OF the three younger children The at
,orneys f4rthe1 add that when the State
of Rhode Island granted Mrs SpTague the.
divorce, it permitted her 10 use her maiden
name. a privilege never granted when the
SLIGHTEST stain rests on the lady's name.
They deplore having TO accuse SpraSne OF
falsehood, but are led to it through MS
Misrepresentation OF defehceless
woman
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into the executive mansion and got their
tighttrousered legs under the mahogany
in the state dining room they gave up the
idea Of continuing their musical expedi-
tion. The boys sang some very good
songs in front of Mrs. Hayes vine-ciad
portrait, and had very good time indeed.
am sorry to say that some of them were
mistaken for Dudes" on the avenue. 1t
is stated that Nr. Allan would only be too
happy if he could escape from college
cares aati devote himself entirely to the
three minute trotters, who have the
primacy in his affections. Dom PEDRO.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
Where thu B.okb,pad Animals Bsgiu.

There is much uncertainty as to how
the backboned or vertebrate animals
began; but the best clue we have to the
mystery is found in little, half-trans-
parent creature, about two inches long,
which is stiil to be found living on the
English shores and the Southern Allan
tic coast of the United States This
small, insignificant animal Is called the
''Lancelet, because it is shaped some
thing like the head of lance; and it
is in many ways so imperfect that nat
uralists believe it to be a degraded
form, like the acorn-barnacle-that to
say, that it has probably lost some of
the parts which its ancestors once pos
essed. But, in any case, it is the most
simple backboned animal we have. and
shows us how the first feeble forms may
have lived. Truly, it is only by courtesy
that we can call him backboned ami
NAL, for all he has is Il cord or gristle,
pointed at both ends, which stretches
all along the middle of his body above
his long narrow stomach; while above
this, again, is another cord containing
his nerve-telegraph.
There are large fishes, too, which have
this cartiiaginous back bone The young
shark has nothing but a rod of gristle
or cartilage, and. though he is one of
the strongest of sea-animals, he retains
this gf9stty state OF his skeleton Mroaqh-
0ut his life; however much he may
strengthen it by hard matter. it never
becomes true bone.
The first feeble ancestors of the shark
and the sturgeon appear at time when
the crustaccans were the most powerful
animals in the world. and the huge.
lobster-like Pterygotus was the monaFch
of the seas. The plated-scaled fish
which existed at the same time were
clumsy creatures. for their skeletons
were probably feeble, and their armor-
like shields were heavy. So. as history
went on, they gradually gave way. be-
coming smaller and rarer. while the
more active little shark-like animals
gradually grew strong and powerful,
and from them are descended the giant
sharks of to-day.
The powerful gristly-boned fishes are
much exceiled in agility by the herring.
the salmon, and their other bony com
panions, which move with much less eff
fort in the water, and SO have naturally
made their way into all parts of the
rivers and seas. But where have they
come from? We know very little of
their early history, but what little we
do know leads us to think that long ago
they branched off from the enameled-
scaled fish, and struck out path of
their own, to make the most of the
watery world-P Popular Science Monthly.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
Insane Patients.

Boston, April 19-Mrs. Powers. EN-
ployed at Tewksbury, took six children
with her. Her baby was taken from her
and thrown into bath tub where other
diseased children had bathed, and was
wiped with the same towel. 1t was the
most horrible place she was ever in. She
reitered the abuses of the females in bath
ing One woman of seventy was beaten
with sticks. All the women had their
hair cut close, and soft soap was deluged
over them.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20

OF the $50, 900 Indians in the United
States, about 100000 in the west, north
west and southwest require moro or less
military surveillance One fourth of
them-eF $4,000 in round numbers-are
adults capable of bearing arms, but there
are seldom more than from 100 TO 900
indians on the war path. Yet we have
on the border force of II. 500 men for
purposes of repression and suppression.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
Let Us Speak English.

1t is painful to be told you are having
bouillon d'hultre, Roti and cafe noir,
when you know you are only eating
weak broth, stale oysters, tough roast
beef, washed down with miserly cup
OF coffee without any milk. 1t is un-
bearable to have Your wife tell you she
has bought robe de souie and q Henri
quatre chapeau, and find out she has
only silk dress and a bonnet some-
what the shape of your great-grand-
mothers, for which You have to stand
a heavy bill.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
Reduced Rates,

CHICAGO, April 19-The General
Freight A gents of the east-bound roads.
at meeting today in accordance with
Instructions from Commissioner Fink,
adopted new tariff on 8th class freight,
making reduction of cents per hun
dred. This class of freight covers grain,
flour. malt, hay, etc, but excludes provi-
sions, in which no change was made.
This sudden reduction is said to be made
because il. was found that some roads in
the pool were talking of reduced rates
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
The Indian Question Carlisle.

I asked young lady who had been a
Sunday-school teacher in the school, and
who has been the recipient of many
epistles from the Indians, if any of the
famed Indian eloquenee found express
sions in their English, and she said it
did not. The most expressive declara
ton of feeling she had seen was shown
by an Indian girl, sho said that her
heart was SO 1ull of gratitude that it ran
over, and with gestures she indicated
that it ran down her arm and dropped
from the ends of her fingers. | asked if
her pupils ever asked questions.
"Never," she said, and then added:
cone young Indian did ask if had ever
seen Jesus Christ l have a record of
two other questions asked; Where does
temptation live?' and, lis Jerusalem
alive vet?n
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN

New YORK. April 19.-Ex-President
Grant in introducing exVice President
Coifax to lecture upon the late President
Lincoln said that he had heard Abraham
Lincoln tell inumerable stories. but never
heard one from his lips that might not be
repeated from that very platforms
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Chancerv Notice.
STATE OF ILLINOIS, -
RoCk ISLAND COIrNTY.


Rock ISLAND COUNTY.
In the Circuit Court, TO the May Term, 1888.
Sarah l.. Crosby y. Vim. W. Crosby in Chan
Gerry.
Affidavit of the Hon-rcsdcnce Of VIM " 6,rosb,,
the above named defendant having been fled In ne
Clerk once OF the Circuit Court OF said county no
tiee y therefore hereby given TO the said non.resi
deht aeleisiani That the complainant filed her bin of
cohilalnt IN sand Court on the Chancery sislt. there
of, on The 2lst day of March 1881 and Ii,s,
lhefeai'on a summons issued out OF said Court
wherein ssd snt - row pending. returnabIe on Ibc
nrst Monday Ia the month Of Nav next ~ is d.,
Jaw req9ired Now, unless you. The said non-resi
aeli defendant above named, shall personally be
and appear before said Circuit Court on fhc 6r~t
1ay sof the next term thereof to be holden at Inc
court House IN Rock Island, in and for the said
piead: answer or demnr 10 the said complainant's
Diil of complaint, the same and the matters ana
thlngs therein charged and stated viii lie taken
az confessed and decree entered against Won
according TO the prayer of said BILL
Rock Island, Illinois. March 21st Iss3
NJ ~ c LEVI +. HARSON. Clerk
A. A. coRRETT, compt's Sol. mch- S2-d4w
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opened tc carriages and foot passengers
on May 25th, It has cost so far over
SIS, SOC. 600, and at the formal opening it
win be just sixteen years and one day
since the work of preparing ihe plans first
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20

The well-known Southern authoress,
Augusta j. Evans, now Mrs Wilson,
lives in comfortable style at Mobile A
recent visitorfound her no longer young,
but says she certainly has no grounds
for any feeling of spite against Father
Time for any diminution of her personal
charms, heightened as they are by such
graces of manner.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20
ANNIVERSARY.

Boston, April, 19.-The 1s0th ami.
veisary of the Battle of Concord and
Lexington was observed in those towns
by firing cannons, displaying flags. and
the parade of military Organizations.
The Rock Island Argus., 1883-04-20

nIVORCES.-No publicity; residents Of any
bState. Desertion. NonSupport. Advice and
applications for stamp. ". Ii. LEE, Atty 239
Broadway n. y,
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