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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

If they could But the democratic party
viii unfold in the press and on the plat
form the injustice. cruelty and wasteful-
ness of the system of protective taxes,
and democratic congressman. and demo-
cratic president will enforce these con-
yictions after November 1884 There is
no-reason why democrats should seek to
delude or play game OF
hnggermugger with the voters !?
The democratic party has al
ready uttered, and will again utter after
the national convention assemblies an ov-
erwhelming protest against the constitu
tionality. policy. wisdom and justice of
protective taxes. The delegates, being
democrats, will remember that they are
only agents of the democratic voters who
choose them The manufacturers viii
find out long before our national coDyen-
ton assemblies what the mandate of the
voters about such taxes is to be and what
democratic congressman will do ii elected.
There can be no successful evasion and
concealmcnt in this business. More than
that No tongue. nolpen will be eloquent
enough, nor viii money or buldozing be
potent enough, to carry either the city of
New York or the city of Chicago for the
present tariff system and protective taxes
after the tariff reformers take the field
under the banner of 'sfree raw materials
and taxes for revenue only" The demo-
Gratis on that cry can carry and hold the
state of New York against all corners
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
The News in Brief.
Jules Geoupel, the French painter, =

Jules Geoupel, the French painter, (
seaa
The Importation of American pork
into Greece has been forbidden.
A heavy frost Monday morning In
northern Virginia damaged fruit
During the month of April twenty
nine new national banks have been organized.
At Philadelphia, during April, $3.50
900 pieces were coined, valued at 81 $50, COS
William Deminet, the first male
white child born in Louisville, lis dead, in his
1o0th year of his age.
IN the preliminary billiard tourna-
ment at New York last night Wallace defeated
Mclaughlin, 80 innings, 400 to SO.
The models for the statue of Lincoln
and fountain to be erected in Lincoln park by
the Bates estate as gift to the city have been
exhibited at the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago.
The decrease in the public debt for
the month of April viii amount to about S.
800, 0e0; s100o0.o00 was paid ont during the
month on account of pensions
Rains in the district of Wichita.
now five inches high and in excellent condi
ton. Fruit promises good yield
A cyclone Saturday evening in the
vicinity of Meridian, La, destroyed number
Of houses and valuable property But few
persons were injured, none MORALLY
Recently imported works of Voltaire
and Paine were seized at Montreal, aud now
the minister of customs legalizes the act.
alleging the books are indecent and immoral
The chaplain of the Protestant ceme-
terry at Leghorn, whore are inferred the re-
mains of smollet and other distinguished men,
appeals for aid to repair and keep the graves
in order
From London sources it is reported
secret negotiations are proceeding between
Great Britain and tho United States for the ex-
tradition of many persons charged with muir
der in Ireland.
At Princeton, Ill, Peter Andrews
spilled bottle of alcohol over himself. and
then in trying to light his pipe ignited his
the flames we're quenched
The collapse of n pillar in the Key
stone co1liery, at Ashland, Pa, caused great
fall of coal and rush of gas, which, coming in
contact with the miners lamps, caused an
explosion, killing three men, and wounding
three others.
The exchanges at twenty-five clearing
houses last week footed up total of SOC. 49,
423showing quite reduction from the previous
week. and indicating decrease of l7.9 per
cent when compared with the corresponding
period in 1852.
The six-day race at Boston between
two bicyclists and equestrian-the former
to relieve each other at intervals and the lat
ter to use as many horses as he desires-bas
begun, the score SO far standing-horses. 10
miles; bicyclists, I64
Don Pedro Diaz, governor of San
Luis Potosi, and Esther GSzman, sister of tho
well-known capitalist, were married in the
city of Mexico. White roses were strewn ON
the. church floor, and the Mexican cabinet
United States minister, and many prominent
ladies and gentlemen witnessed the ceremony.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
= ssnocI.Ing Boston scandal.

BosToS, May Madame Walcott, a
well known clairyoyant, was held in the police
court yesterday in "a 800 on six charges OF alb
duction and of keeping house of ill-fame
The testimony ut this woman's hearing was
that of six school girls, from fourteen to six
teen years of age. whom she had enticed from
good homes to a life of vice. The testimony
was horrible and sickening to the last degree
The girls have been in the business
only since September; yet all are in a pitiable
condition Some of the girls attend
school daily, going to the house after school,
and at about o'clock in the evening return to
their homes. They are kept.in school for the
purpose of procuring other school girls for like
purposes An employe of one of the northern
railroads, who was called away from home re-
Gently, leaving his sick wife In charge of his
little girl, returned the other day to find his
wife dead and his girl an inmate of Nine Wal
colts den. There is another den of a similar
nature on Harrison avenue where some six
teen girls from school are SINH
larry employed. Walcott's den is said to
have been patronized bv some of the wealth.
lest men in Boston. Her arrest is the result
of detective work, and marks the beginning OF
a determined war some half hundred she
devils advertising under the guise OF clair
VoYantS
- Madame Nalcott, being unable to obtain
81, $50 bail, is now in jail. She is a large
woman weighing 100 pounds When she APP
peared in the dock to-day she was dressed IN a
line suit of black paateriel and was heavily
yelled with Grape and earned book IN nef
hand Boston possesses no more dlsreputa bic
haunts of vice than those-presided over the by
women of the Walcott type, who style them
selves cIairVoydilts.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

The New York merchants all agree that
the spring trade has been prosperous, and
the outlook for summer and fall pTomis-
ing. A leading member of the firm OF I'll.
B. Claflin & Co is quoted as saying
From what 1 can judge business is in
creasing. We are shipping a great deal
of goods. We have received very large
orders from all Western and Northwestern
points. and money seems very plentiful
there. The failures we have heard of are
simply bagatelles when we consider the
very large business that is being done. /
never knew the country in more pros
porous condition. or business with a more
promising outlook"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
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Household Hints for Spring.

For ordinary woodwork use whiting TO
rub the dirt off, with ammonia.
Copperas mixed with the whitewash
upon the cellar walls will keep vermin
away.
Ceilings that have been smoked by q
kerosene lamp should be washed off with
soda water.
Good fires Eshould be kept up during
house cleaning time, even though the
doors and windows be kept open.
Drain pipes and all places that are sour
or impure may be cleansed with lime
water, copperas water or carbolic acid.
Salt literally sprinkled over carpet
before sweeping will absorb the dust and
dirt. and bring out the colors as fresh as
new.
Paper and plaster are active absorbents,
and when they become thoroughly satu-
rated with various effluvia nothing but
entire renewal will cleanse them.
If the wall about the stove has been
smoked by the stove, cover the black
patches with gum shellac and they will
not strike through either paint or calci-
mine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

japanese decorative art is booming in
| Paris.
| A Baltimore man has had his wife ar
rested for opening one of his letters.
| Oliver Ames is building a $500, 00C
house on Commonwealth avenue, Boston
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
novelist, is visiting friends in Cincinnati
Robert Collycr says that he Is going to
| Yorkshire to lie in the heather and cal
| oatbread and milk.
The Rev. Dr. Pusey left his property
worth more than $50, 900, to his daughter,
Mrs NJ A. Brine.
| The green three-cent stamp will have
| been in use thirteen years when the new
rate goes into effect next October.
A witty Frenchman said of Gustave
| Dore that he was born poet, that he
| grew into a painter, and died sculptor.
OF great men always before the public
the letters passing 10 and fro should be
burned, at least each spring when the
| house-cleaning has fully come. - Prof essof
tSsoing.
Lillian Whiting says that New York
takes theater performance as she does a
ball--simply as an objective point of so
art goes that consideration never occurs
to her.
Edwin Booth was nearly kissed to
death at Hamburg by his male admirers.
He objected, called out Mind the paint, .
and at last, IN a sort of comic desperation,
exclaimed. eff kissing be the correct
thing please stand aside, gentlemen, and
let the ladies advance.
Il
Hale sailed from New York for Paris
Saturday. on receipt of cable dispatch
that their daughter, Ellen ID. Hale, was
Frustrated with malarial fever. Miss
Hale has been in Paris for year study
ing art and serving as correspondent of
the Boston TrdDeier.
A pleasant incident occurred on the
East river bridge one day last week.
Although Mayors Edison and Low are
trustees of the bridge by virtue of their
offices, neither had previously ventured
upon the structure. 1t so happened that
friends across it. They met near the
middle of the bridge. and the meeting
was followed by general CONGRATULATIONS.
N 7. Tribune
Judge MORAN. of Chicago, is a man for
whom the women of this country must
entertain feelings of the deepest horror
and Imagination He has announced
from the bench his opinion that woman
who marries and finds after awhile that
her husband snores, and that he has not
all the elegence of manners that she ex
pected in her ideal. cannot obtain di-
vorce in Illinois. Judge Moran is man
of no true aesthetic feeling, and perhaps
he has never suffered.-Neao York Com
DerctaE AdUertiser
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

ST Louis Republican,: If there could
be more monumental M istakc than the
deadlock which the republicans of the Hi,
nois assembly kept up for week in then
vain endeavor to put a republican in seat
to which the people of his district had
elected a democrat, it would be deadlock
on the democratic demand for economy in
the appropriations. 1t may be remem-
bered, however, that those whom the
gods wish to destroy they first make mad,
so no sort of political lunacy need be
wondered at, into which the Illinois re-
publicans may be betrayed. There are
indications that Illinois is gradually
swinging over to the democratic side of
politics and the progress Of the. revolution
is bound to be accompanied by incidents
of more or less remarkable folly.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
The Cincinnati Enquirer has this p

The Cincinnati Enquirer has this pleas
ant notice of the chief examiner of the
civil service commission just appointed:
The appointment of Mr., De B. Ran
dolph Keim as chief examiner of the
civil service commission relieves the
country of much anxiety. 1t was feared
that the appointment might, by some
oversight, fall to a person who does not
part his hair in the middle. The public
had not the honor of Mr. De B. Randolph
Keim's acquaintance, but we notice with
pleasure that the young gentleman is dis
posed to grant the public the boon of
knowing him. Yesterday we printed a
very pleasant sketch of Mr.. De B. written
by himself and kindly handed In by the
author for publication. 1t will be seen.
that if the public does not hereafter know
Mr.. De B. Randolph Keim it will not be
the fault of the gifted young man who
bears that picturesque patronymic. Our
first i'm OPPRESSION of Mr. De B. Randolph
Keim was that he was dude, but he does
not confess it in his written statement,
and on this point we will suspend jadg-
ment until other witnesses are heard.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
CARTER HARRISON AND THE sUBsIDIZ.
New York World.

ANSH AS.h No4ius
The Tribune and other organs of sub
sidy taxation are doing their best to con
vince the mayor of Chicago that he over
estimated the strength of the projections
lists when in his speech at the Iroquois
banquet he advised the democratic party
to postpone a direct grapple with the
monster protection until after the pres
identIal election in 1884. The nonsense
cal efforts which they are making to ex-
aggerate the significance of this advice
prove how devoutly thankful they would
be if they could believe that the demo
cratic party will take it. No man should
be quicker to see this than Mr.. Carter
Harrison. The events of the recent city
election in Chicago, in which all the bat
teries of abuse, SANDER and corruD ton
were brought to bear against the demo.
cratic candidate, sufficiently explain Mr.
Harrison's intense feeling about the
power for evil in our politics of the pro
tected monopolies. That power could
hardly be more forcibly depicted than it
was in these words of Mr. Harrison's
speech.
Mr.. President, no man in this audi-
ence believes less in protection than I. I
believe it is a fraud on the masses. It is
a thing gotten up to make tho poor man
poorer and the rich man richer But the
poor man working day by day for his
bread is more or less the machine and
tool of his rich employer. We have seen
it here in Chicago; we have seen it else.
where. The other day the democracy
rolled up HOOD votes. In the presiden
tial election in 1880, the democracy had
but ~ ,OC0. Whet caused the differenee7
We aEe not more democratic today than
we were then. But it was be11rse mo.
nopoly eli sled the laborer and made him
vote with it,"
NhaG an indictment is this, at the bar
OF American manhood of the whole
scheme OF protective taxes as formulated
IN our latest tariff law, and how bitterly
1t emphasizes the whole contention q
revenue reformers
Emerging from heated local canvas
in which he found himself forced to d
battle against this bulldoziug, Mr.. Harrj
son may be forgiven for couuselline
flank movement upon the enemy. But lie
him take heart of gracel Let him remem
Der that his recent canvass was conducte
with no such adequate discussion of til
relation of wages, and of workinomen I
protective taxes as he has now beplI
and as was opened before the Who'll
country at the meeting of the Iroquoi
club. The advocates of protective take
no doubt will be formidable antagonists
They can readily combine togcthe
They can easily raise large sums of none
to use in futherance of their private il
terests through a presidential electio
and they can quickly bring certai
amount of terrorism to bear. as Mr.. He
rison says. on those of their workingme
VINO are voters. The buyers and col
sulners OF the country cannot organize s
easily and so quickly. Nor would the
attempt to bulldoze their fellow cit;zer
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth2 If SO.
send at once and get bottle of Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. Its value is incalculable
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately. Depend upon it mothers.
there Is no mistake about it. 1t cures
dysentery, diarrhoea, regulates the stom-
ach and bowels, cures wind collie, soft
ems the gums, reduces Inflammation. and
gives tone and energy to the whole sys-
| tenn. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Svrlp
for Children Teething is pleasant to the
taste, and is the prescription of one. OF
the oldest and best female physicians and
nurses In the United States, and is fol
sale by all druggists throughout the
world Price % cents per bottle.
| feb 80 m-w-s MI
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

Cornell University, at Ithaca has assets
TO the value of $7.oo0,000 and an annual
income of 800, 600 The alumni are
moving to secure a larger remuneration
for the professors. in view of calling out
the best talent. College professors live
now largely upon the honors of their posi-
ton, and seek to better their finances by
outside writing aud lectures, a college
with such an income can afford to pay its
instructors.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
Lost in the lake.

CHICAGO, May 1.-The schooner J.
T. Tracy, loaded with W God, arrived in port
from Grand Haven at 7:3O last evening, bear
ing tidings that her commander, Capt Archi-
bald Doyle, had fallen overheard and was
drowned. The accident happened Off Wauke-
~ at 3:30 in the afternoon, and although tho
crow sande every effort to save their captain.
they could lower boat and pull to the assist
ance Of the drowning man he sank from sight
The captain wife, who accompanied her hus-
band ON all of his trips, Witnessed the scene
from the deck of the schooner. Capt Doyle
was one of the oldest and best known men on
the lakes over which he had sailed for mp
wards of thirty years. He was the owner of
the vessel which he had sailed as well az
the cargo
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
Political Notes.

Sow Porter. or Indiana, om the Pres.
identiaf Outlook Wallace of Penn
syIvami:. "Don't David
Davis.
KANKAKEE, H., May 1.-Governor
A. G. Porter, of Indiana, with his State Com
missioners ON Public Charities visited the in
sane hospital here yesterday. In answer to
inquiries by The Herald correspondent hs
said:
believe the Republican party will go into
the campaign of 1884 reunited The reduc-
ton made in the tariff by the Repub-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
ROCHESTER, N. Y. March 80, 1888.

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
Murder and Lynch7nG.

Tucson, Arizona, May w A
Holbrook, the jailer, was attacked in the cor
ridor of the jail by Joseph Casey, one of the
most desperate criminals in this territory, who
put drawn pistol to his breast and told him TO
throw up his hands. HoIbrook grasped
Caseya pistol hand and turned it away just in
time to avoid the shot Casey fired again, the
ball passing through Holbrook's back. Hol-
brook was removed TO the hospital, but died in
a few hours. A mob soon gathered, which was
only prevented from hanging Casey by the de
termined stand taken by the sheriff and his as
sociates
Vigilants, made up of men from Pyramid
City, Shakespeare, and Lordsburg, New Mexi-
co. surprised sheriffs posse at the latter
place. and took John Walsh, the murderer OF
Thomas Galvan, and hanged him 10 a wagon
RI sf,l-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
WISCONSIN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

MADISON, Wis, May 1.-The governor
to-day made the following appointments: Emf
Walker of Milwaukee, to be regent of the Nor
nal shoots for the balance of the term, endins
February, 1885, vice James McAlhster, re-
signed; General James Bentliff, reappointed
member of the state board of supervision fos
fire years; DIR. Samuel @. Johnson of Hudson,
member of the state board of health and vital
statistics for tho succeeding four years, vice
James Bentliff resigned.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

in ia results. the immigrants being pro-
noHaeed to be apparently IA a perfect physical
condition The HISTORIAN. which brought ont
554 TasssisteIv Immigrants. was also
yery lucky in the character Of its
carlo. They were mostly young, healthy
and intelligent domestics, with some
clerks and farm hands. These are all going
west The Canadian had 81 assisted I'M
fayorabfy Impressed tbs officials here. Not a
single person brought here can be ciassed az
panpef or criminal, and nobody has had to be
returned. The state laws, which are very
strict provids that no insane, idiotic, MANNED
or deformed person shall be permitted to land,
and fix severe penalties for violation thereof
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02

so,no foIi,s in Montana are starting a
town on: there to be called GinntVliie'
No man under six feet in height and no
woman gaeasuring less the five feet eight
is to be allowed to buy property. by
this means it is proposed to establish. IN
due course of time. race of giants
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
Dou,t like q,nat E>ay,

BROOKLYN, May 1.-The board OF
aldermen yesterday passed series of resoln
tons demanding that the ceremonies attending
the opening of the East River bridge be pub
lie and not private, and that the local author
tiles be fully notified as TO the programme and
be given invitations to attend. During the
discussion Alderman Neuninger asked if the
oath of May Queen Victoria's birthday" had
not been selected because the president of the
board of bridge trustees had been once subject
of the empress of India. He demanded the
seIaetion of Decoration day
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
The Demand Miss Kane.

MTLwAUKEE7May 1.-Mr. Orton. of
counsel for Miss Kane, states that the case
will be carried to the supreme court. All three
of the attorneys, who have so ably and 50
kindly appeared for Miss Kane have urged
the lady to make an apology to Judge Mallory,
but she remains defiant, and announces her
decision to remain hereafter in jail rather than
mako any apology or pay the fine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
ahootang ARRAY in sxEntucay.

STANFORD, KY, Mdy News has
been received that three Smith brothers with
Esfley and Yocum on one side, met three Cain
brothers in drinking house at Mckinney
when quarrel arose between the parties, dur
ing which forty shots were exchanged. Vii
liam Cain was shot through the head and
Peter and James Cain was seriously woqnded
robert Smith was shot in the mouth
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
Ohio Etenas.

COLUMBUS. o., May 1.-The sale of
seats for the Columbus May musical festival
is unprecedented, about 500 seats having been
reserved in three hours.
The supreme court to-day refused to grant
the motion for petition in error in the case of
J. d. Watson, convicted of bribing members of
the legislature The sentence of the court to
imprisonment viii now be carried out
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
ncaAly HEaladx Among Horses.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, May An In
dian territory Especial reports great loss Of
life among the horses of the herdsmen in the
counties along the Texas border from the dead
" poison of the Loco" plant. 1t is especially
unfortunate at this time as all the horses that
can be- procured by cattle-men are needed for
the spring roundup to take the trail. One
party owning $50 first-class horses can use but
ten of them, the poisonous "loco" having taken
the rest
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-02
He may well be Iovfnl.

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