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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
The Row ontba Obain-(aang.

\ They were working right In front OF
the hotel at little hamlet In Alabama
tile chaiil-gang There We're nine vii
Misunderstanding men, each wearing
shaekles and having no shame as they
looked into the faces of the strangers on
the veranda. A chain-gang IS an every
day sight in the South, and few people
waste sympathy upon the justly-pun-
ished Wretches, but all of a sudden some
thing happened in this gang never to be
forgotten. A boy not yet IA years old
came up with n pail of water. and we
saw that he belonged to the c!Iain-gang.
Larceny had sent him to associate with
those villains for three long years. He
looked pale and broken down, and his
shame compelled him to avert his face
as he came up. 1t was sad sight to
see a tot of boy like him brought out
and degraded and disoraced, and he
felt the situation so keenly that at the
first kind word from the platform the
tears welled up and blinded his eyes.
There was woman there from In
diana who walked straight down to the
boy and put her hand on his head and
shed tears with him. There must have
been something in his look to remind
her of some one-perhapSa son at home
or one under the sod. Her heart was
full of sorrow and sympathy and her
words broke the lad down. This lasted
four or five minutes, to the great aston
ishment and annoyance of the armed
guard in charge. The lightning express
coming down the road had just whistled,
and the iron rails were quivering under
the approaching thunder, when the guard
called out:
Come, you young thief, get back af-
ter more waterp'
The woman started back at the words,
dragging the child with her, but in an in
slant he broke away wheeled and clasp
ed her hand and kissed it, and then
what? Not hand could have been
lifted to prevent The express was thun-
dering up at forty miles an hour. not in
tending to make a stop here, and the lad
turned from the woman whose kind
words had opened the well-springs of
his heart, and at the same time Mortified
him at his situation, and with one spring
he alighted in front of the locomotive.
Next instant his crushed and mangled
body was flung into the roadside ditch,
and he had served his sentence We
picked him up tenderly, and the women
wept over him as they washed the pale
face and folded the boy-hands over the
crushed and broken breast, but the lad
was beyond the need OF earthly friends.
M Oatad
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

Mrs. Langtry, now in Philadelphia
thinks of making the United States her
home. Mr.. Schwab, manager for the
Lilly, says that on the 9th of June he
will fill a check on New York bank
payable to Mrs. Langtry, for 100000 as
her share of the profits of her seven
months season in this country On that
date she will close her season, and after a
months sojourn at the principal watering
places win cross the Atlantic and spend
July and August in England, returning to
this country in September, when she will
begin her second season at Montreal
where she will produce drama written
expressly for her by B. G. Stevenson, of
London.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

MIR. Preston Powers marble bust of
President GARFIELD is new on exhibition in
Boston, A critical view of it, the Boston
Journal thinks, indicates that the artist
has striven more to show the man than
the soldier or statesman; but the work IN
no respect lacks dignity or force 1t is to
some extent work of ideality and imagi-
nation. but Mr.. Powers has given play to
those elements SO carefully and cleverly
that the statue is still faithful portrait,
and viii not fail to add to its makers
fame. The bust is to be sent to Cincin-
natl this week, to be put on exhibition
there ON June 5, IN competition for the
commission of heroic-sized bronze
statue for public square in that city.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
A Prehistoric Oematarp.

Two miles from Mandan on the bluffs
near the junction of the Hart and Mis-
souri, Rivers, saws the local newspaper,
the Pioneer, is an old cemetery of fully
100 acres in extent filled with bones of a
giant race. This vast city of the dead
lies just east of the Fort Lincoln road.
The ground has the appearance of hav-
ing been filled with trenches piled full
of dead bodies. both man and beast,
and covered with several feet of earth
In many places mounds from to 10
feet high, and some of them 100 feet or
more in length, have been thrown up
and are filled with bones, broken pot
terry, vases of various bright colored
flint, and agates The pottery is of a
dark material, beautifully decorated.
delicate in finish, and as light as wood,
showing the work of people skilled in
the arts and possessed of high state of
civilization. This has evidently been O
grand battlefield, where thousands of
men and horses have fallen. Nothing
like systematic or Intelligent explora-
ton has been made, as only little holes
two or three feet in depth have been
dug in some of the mounds, but many
parts of the anatomy of man and beast,
and beautiful specimens of broken pot
terry and other curioSfties, have been
found in these feeble efforts at excava-
ton. Five miles from Mandan, on the
opposite side of the Missouri, is an
other vast cemetery, as yet unexplored.
We asked an aged Indian what his peo-
pie knew of these ancient graveyards.
He answered.: ME know nothing about
them. They were here before the red
man. -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
Wanted Perfect Rest. ]

She was a sensible girl. She wanted
perfect quietitde when laid to rest in
that silent city of the dead. The nee
ropolis of her dream was not the vaunt-
ed piles of stone and the eoquetry OF
landscape gardening, but a very differ
emf siesta She made the following re-
quest to her friends here:
..Do not lay me down by the ripping
brooks side. lest babbling lovers wake
me from my dreams, nor in the beauti-
full cemeteries in the valleys. lest sight
seers. coming over epitaphs. distract
me; but let my last sleep be under the
counter of the merchant and the bus
mess man generally. who never adver-
tises. There is the peace which pass
eth all understanding, and deep sleep
on which neither the buoyant foot
fall of youth nor the weary shuttle and
drag of old age will never intrude. -
Cheek
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
AGAIN THE CYCLONE.
Havoc in Indiana---Twelve Persons
Killed and as Many More
Wounded---A Babes Fate.

TETl-E ITAUTE, Ind, May GA double
breasted tornado swept by Clay City at 5
O'CLOCK yesterday afternoon, the extrenlities
mile apart. Clay City, which was in the
centre, escaped with slight damage,
but at Meals MILL on one side,
house was swept out of
existence, six persons killed, bridge destroy
ed and havoc played generally. On the
other side in little settlement five persons
We're Killed, houses were blown to pieces and
one child blown to heaven for all that is
known be the contrary, as it has not yet been
found Ia all twelve persons were injured,
besides the killed Trees are blown down over
a wide area
NEAR EDINBURG.
INDIANAPOLIS, May o. Yesterday even
ing, about o'clock, a cyclone struck the
town of Edinburg, Ind, following
heavy rain fall. The wind storm lasted
for ten minutes with great violence,
taking the spire from the Methodist
church, and throwing it upon the par
sonage, crushing through the roof to
the ground South of the town a grove of
timber belonging to George Cutsnger was
demolished and four miles south the farm of
b. j. Deming caught the fury of the storm,
tue barn ON the place being DESTROYED and
Deming's son Frank killed, and a farm hand
also fatally injured.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
The News In Brief.

Charges OF contempt of court have
been entered against Miss Kate Kane, tho
Milwaukee iawyeress
Troops have been called ont in Ken
lucky to guard bennett and others in the
Mt, Sterling jail against the Menifee county
mob
A cranky woman in Washington pro-
posed to Marry VIM F. Chandler, SECRETARY
of the navy, the other day, but her offer was
declined
A member of the Ohio supreme court
on a visit Ia Chicago is said 10 have gone to
see the elephant, while in that city and to
have seen it, in all its vastness.
The Protestant clergymen of Des
Moines met and resolved that the Iowa pro
hibition amendment is valid, the supreme
court 10 The contrary Notwithstanding
There are several ex-ConIederate
soldiers in position in the pension office at
Washington where their duty is to pass upon
the claims OF Union soldiers for pensions.
Judge w d. Kelley, of PENNSYLVANIA,
has improved SO far in health since the oper-
alton which he had performed on his jaw
that he viii sail shortly for Europe The aft
lection is authoritatively declared to be can
cerouS.
1t is stated that ninety three rolling
mills i'll the United States will shut down ON
the LIST of June. There are eighty thousand
worlmen who win I've more or less affected by
this action, one in every five of whom is a
union nan
Margaret Graham, n homeless woman,
threw her two children into the East river
and jumped after them. They were.
however, seen, and all were saved. The
woman declared that she had been made
desperate by restitution.
The Santa Fe New Mexican, paper
which has run for twenty three years, has
suspended. The paper has lost 81 900 in the
last two years. This leaves Santa Re without
a paper, bat The Albuquerque Review will
immediately remove there
Phoebe Couzins, the female lawyer
of st. Louis, has sued Geo. j. Schoeffel, of
Milwaukee, for s., 900 fees alleged to be due
for her services in settling a Observation-Disclosures
suit brought Last year by Martha X. Prescott.
OF Boston, Mass, against Schoeffel
A New York correspondent declares
that the Cinnamon of New York are in no
wise to blame for the increase of opium sr1oIy-
ing in that CITY, that they do not invite or
encourage white people To visit their joints,
and are usually found attendants in Joints
owned and run by Americans.
The first rebel battle-hag of the war
was recently presented at New Orleans, by
Gen. Beauregard, to the Washington Ar
tillery. The flag was made by a Miss Hattie
Carey, a Baltimore belle, out of her own silk
dresses. Miss Carey married Gen. Pegram,
OF the Confederate army, who was killed
three days after the wedding. Mrs. Pegram
rs now school teacher IN Baltimore.
Among the destructive blazes re-
ported are Reynolds & Wheatosl's sash and
door factory, Minneapolis. Mimi, with q
loss of s100, 600; Mancelona, Mich, Pine Lake
Iron company's furnace, ST, 1000; johnson
Danley a. Co. 5 planning mill, indianapolis.
Ind. 81, 600; half block, and dozen horses
at Raleigh, N. c., $1,000, corbett,s CARPET
warehouse, Charleston, s. c., So, 600; sixteen
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
Whara Titles Come from.

The predilection of Southern people
for titles has often furnished amusement
for their brethren in the Eastern States.
Mr. Charles Reed, the well known turf
man, who has recently been visiting
New York after two months sojourn
at his new stud farm, near Gallatin,
Tenn. gives a rather humorous recital
of his experience. When l first went
down there, says he, they called me
MIR. Reed; then it was Mr.. Charles
Reed. Esq. BY and by they began to
call me Captain Reed, then Major
Reed, finally Colonel Reed, and at last
/ was staggered TO hear myself address
ed as General Reed And mind you.
Id only been there two months. and
hadn't been off of the place half a dozen
times -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
Rejecting Books for Various Reasons.


/ once picked out handsome assort-
ment for customer about to refurnish
his house. He had no acquaintance with
books, but he looked over the titles, and
made some rather interesting expurga-
tons. He told me to pull all the stand
ard Authorities in, anyway, and he would
attend to the rest. He threw out ssIn
the Meshes' which he supposed to be
book of tishing-because he was mo
angler" Boswells Life of Johnson
was rejected because he didn't want
political campaign works, and wouldn't
have the biographies of the Presidents
they all lied so His wife discarded
The Sparrowgrass Papers on the
ground that they did not want any books
about vegetables, and The Law and the
Prophets was not wanted because the
old gentleman had given up business
altogether. The man, who once pur-
chased The Mill of the Floss, believ-
ing it to be an account of a prize fight,
was tolerably well-informed man com
pared with this customer, who said that
Beauties of the British Dramatists''
was a sell, because the work did not
contain picture of one of them He
expected to find it full of portraits of
actresses. The man even held up fine
edition of ''Piutarck," and asked how
many lives man was supposed to have.
He had not once thought of opening the
work. These men do not bother us
much, for they are easily satisfied; but
what do you think of a gentleman who
refuses to pay his bill because you have
''l0ft out the dictionary-the most i'm
portant work of all''-from a complete
edition of .'Old Daniel Webster works.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

JACKSONVILLE, H., May 29.-The usual
annual graduating exercises at the Illinois
institution for the education of the blind
occurred this morning in the chapel of the in
stitution. There were seven graduates,
namely, Harry Carpenter, of Champaign
county Martha Congieton. of Jackson county;
Frederick Drew, of LaSaIl9 county, Helen
Gourivan, of Will county; William
Henry, of Winnebago county; Sher
man Kocher of Richland county
and John sSchrage of Adams county Bach
graduate delivered an essay or Grafton. and
the teachers and pupils furnished the must
cal numbers of the programme. The pro
ficiency in the writing and delivery, and tho
skill in Instrumental music and song was
nothing short of marvellous Mr.. Heury's
oratorical and musical powers are especially
praiseworthy. A large crowd was IN attend
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

Manchester Guardian says the pope confirmed
the appointment of the Very Rev. Thomas
j. Carr. rector of Maynooth college, to the
bishopric Of Galway. after being assured that
he was not connected with the agitation IN
Ireland.
Another eilcyclical letter viii shortly be
issued by the pope to the faithful in all parts
OF the world ,it.nouncing secret societies. He
wiIl also enjoin priests'to refuse the s;iefa-
melt to all persons connected with seditious
movements.
SWITZERLAND.
ZURICH, May 29.-The people of Zurich
have by a popular vote sanctioned the bill
providing for the restoration OF capital pun
isilment.
EGYPT.
PARIS, May 29-The Suez Canal company
and the British government have arrived at
an understanding in regard to the constr1le-
ton of a second canal across the Isthnrs OF
Suez The arrangement must receive the APP
prevail of the stockholders of the company be
fore it can be carried out.
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, May 29.-The letter sent to the
queen by the mother of Michael Fagin, who
was hanged yesterday for the murder OF MT
Burke, in witch Mrs Fagin protested TIE IN,
Docence of her S0lf, was referred To Eatl
Spencer, lord lieutenant, who, however, re-
,iemned man.
GREAT BRITAIN.
LONDON, May 29.-The Evening News pub
fishes a statement which is probably without
foundation, that Prince Leopold the duke of
Albany. offered his services for the governor
generalship of Canada, before the Marquis OF
Iansdowne was appointed
The British sIoop-of-war Dragon has left
Odin for Tamatave, Madagascar.
Lord Edmund Fitz- Maurice, under secIe
tary for the foreign department, stated IN tht
commons this afternoon, i'll response to an IN
ouiry that no protest had been addressed by
the recent attack by the French on the Mad
agascar forces at MaJunga.
At meeting of the Mexican Railway com
pany, to-day the chairman complained that
the Mexican government had granted sub
gilv to the InteT-O oceanic Railway company,
in violation of Mexican Railway com
pany's exclusive rights. he said
that the 10000 due from
the Mexican government was prac-
tically a bad debt There was no reason to
fear a subsistence of the late heavy traffic IN
railway material If, however, 1t did sub
side. he said they would have for compensa-
ton the general development OF the trade
which must use their line.
FRANCE.
PARIS, MAY 29-Tricour, the new French
minister to China is expected TO arrive at
Picking shortly, to replace Bource, the present
there. The Chinese embassy
in Paris in accordance with the request of
ChaIlenlel I.acour minister of foreign affairs,
has teleoraphed the Chinese government ask
ing that Tricour be received without await
ing the arrival of his credentials
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

At the cars coronation the special
guests to be fed number 5000; and for
these, according TO the cable, have been
provided 1000 tablecloths Zone and one
seventh fer each guesD, 10000 napkins
(six or seven apiece, and for the whole
one hundred tons of table cutlery, china
and glassware. For the people generally.
sixteen reservoirs, each holding 40. 900
buckets of beer will fill 800, 900 eaTthen
mugs. A three quarter-pound meat pie
goes with each mug and SOC, 900 pack
ages of nuts, cakes and lollipOps will be
fired into the crowd
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

ST PAUL, Mimi, May 29-There We're sew
eral fires in Minneapolis last night, all be
lieved to be the work of incendiaries.
The first one occurred just before midnight
burning frame building belonging to Louis
Deunsing The loss to the owner and tenants
is $4,000.
Later fire occurred in the lumber yard and
planning mill of Wheaton, Reynolds & Co.
and the shingle yard of Meiriman, BaTows
& Co The property of the former firm was
consumed, including the shops and $4,000
feet of lumber. The loss is $50, 900. Mer,i-
man, BaIrows & Co. s loss is 81, 900 The
warehouse of Aterill Russell & Carpenter
filled with paper stock, was also burned.
Loss, 5000
The total loss on all the fires is about $50,
600 The insurance thus far ascertaned is
S37, 500. Probably there. IS not over 81, 800
more No insurance company lost more than
81 900. Several firenlen narrowly escaped
injury. All the fires believed to be in
cendiaIy. Several men were arrested upon
susf5icio, this morning, some of whom were
concerned in the strikes on the Manitoba Air
line Yesterday morning.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
Flattery Prom an Unexpected Source.

Encourage newspaper men, for you
know not what annoyance they go
through. Their most deliberately pre-
pared articles sometimes thrown out be-
cause of the pressure on the columns;
expected to make accurate report of
some speaker, who is so indistinct of ut
terance the whole discourse is one long
stenographic guess; the midnight that
finds you asleep, demanding that they
be wide awake; their most careful work
DETAINED by one careless type-setter;
their lives ground out between the wheels
of our great brain manufactures; sick
ened with the approaches of those who
want a newspaper commentator or
retraction; now called out to sketch a
funeral and now a pugilistic encounter;
shifted from place to place by the sud
den revolutions any day liable to come
in any journalistic establishment; pre-
cariOus life becoming more and more
precarious Be affable to them when
you have no AK to sharpen on their
grindstone. Discuss in your own mind
what the nineteenth century would be
without the newspaper, and learn that
every opportunity to cheer all who have
anything to do with this great interest
from the chief of the editorial staff
down to the boy who throws in the morn
ing and evening paper on your base
ment window Tdl1aaqe'
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

A number of the old army officers in
Washington who have been mentioned as
among those who have roped in and
tleeced young army officers at the game
of poker are indignant and threaten to
bring libel suits against the papers pub
fishing them. Paymaster General Roch-
ester is one of those mentioned He
says he has not played poker since he
entered the army, and that so far as he
knows the Army Poker club has no ex
istence outside of the sensation mon
gers
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
Too Much Haste.

Gazing upon the rugged mountain
scenery near Austin, a young lady re-
marked:
Chow strange that all this beautiful
world should have been created in the
short space of six days.
''It does look as if it wasn't finished
yet, remarked the matter-of-fact Young
man; sit looks for all the world as If It
had been thrown together in hur-
ry. 1t would have looked much
more womanlike if it had taken three or
four weeks to finish the job properly.
Nothing that is done in hurry is well
done. "--Ie1as .StfIinos.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

Proceedings have been Instituted at
Milwaukee for the disbarment of Miss
Kate Kane, the female lawyer, whose
assault on Judge Mallory, in the munich
pal court, cost her thirty days imprison-
ment. The present action is based upon
insulting remarks made by the lady as
she was being removed from the court
room to the jail on that occasion, reflect
ing upon the official integrity of Judge
Mallory.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

outdoor nuisance, every atom OF decay
ing animal or vegetable matter, every
fostering spot, everything that could
cor,taminafe the atmosphere, Is careful
" buried, and the air, purified and
electrified by the sand, is so luxuriousiy
exhilarafing that the breathing of it is
a 10y which you feel more than compcn.
safes YOU for all the disagreeabieness of
the storm AkbnQnerqxe Journal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30
The Sporting World.
The VietOPs of the Race Course
Rnse Bali Playing Haud -. ON the

Base kaII k'4ayIuS--Mauo - On the
Track.
HARTFORD, Conn, May 29,-Bair, the
trainer and driver of Maud S, yesterday
trofted the little mare a mile in 2:l6. He
says he could have made it in 2:l3, and is san
guine of bringing the record down to POS dur
ing the coming summer.
LOUISVILLE JOCKEY CLUB.
LOUISVILLE, KY, May 29.-The first race,
"a mile was won by Lutte Fogle in two heats;
time, .2086, :22s1 The second race, Clark
stakes, /. miles, won by Ascender, Cardinal
McCloskey second MARYLAND third; time,
DIS Third race, weller weights, / mile, won
by Olivette in :524, Buc<master second,
Centerville third
The fourth race, Tennessee stake, 2-year-
olds q mile, was won by Eva s, Golden
Roll second; Bob Cooke third Time, :3014
The fifth race, club handicap $3.50, Z miles
was won by Wallerlsee.
BASE BALL.
CHICAGO, May 29-The clubs playing to-
day gave the following results:
Allegheny, 5; ST Louis, 10 Metropolitan, =;
Columbus, 2 Athletic ?; Cincinnati, l. Bal
tirlore 3; Eclipse, IL;
THE HANLAN- KENNEDY BOAT RACE.
Boston, MAY 29-The race between Han
La and Kennedy viii be witnessed probably
by many thousand people. Both men win
pull for all they are worth. Hanlan to-day
admitted that he wouldn't have a waIll-over,
and Kennedy's friends are pretty confident.
The course is a mile and half and return,
from GOodwood across the mouth of the
Saugus river and back; it is well ashore, and
the only danger viii be from the wind and
possibly tugs ON the river. The race IL for
81, 800 "a side. Hanan's rowing weight is Isl
pounds and Kennedy's l35.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-30

Ex-Governor Chamberlain, of Maine.
president of Bowdoin college, who is un-
der surgical treatment at Boston for a
wound received in the war, is not improv-
ing so rapidly as had been hoped. The
first surgical operation was found to be
insufficient, and a second was performed,
while third, even, is now anticipated
The second was similar to the first, and
was exceedingly painful