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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05

One week from Saturday occurs the
democratic primaries. This is an occasion
of no small importance, but it is essential
that all democrats should attend the
caucuses, and select able and just men
for delegates to the county convention,
which meets here on the 18th inst The
prospects for grand democratic victory
this fall is unprecedented, and such a
splendid opportunity to overthrow the
party now in power has never been
afforded for the past twenty-five years
The ARGUS wishes to see the democracy
successful this year, both in county, state
and national contest This can be
achieved by united effort and general
movement of the masses. The democratic
party is composed of the bone and sinew
of the land, and to them belongs the right
of saying who shall manage our govern
ment
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
The River.

The White Eagle will be down tonight.
The Libbie Conger will be down to-
morrow.
The Fanny Lewis will probably be up
tomorrow.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
The DAILY ARGUS.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1884.
A nanPhtar.

Mr.. Emil Koehler, the Third avenue
druggist, is setting up the cigars today over
the arrival of fine little daughter at his
house Yesterday afternoon
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
Round Trip Tickets
Now on sale at the c., r. |. & P. railway
Moline avenue passenger station, to the
foIiouinU pniutS.

Tickets to above points on sale
every day until September 80, 1884, good
for return passage on or before October
81, 1884. For guide books of the northern
summer resorts, or any desired informa
tion regarding the above, apply to Jno.
F. Cook, ticket agent c., r. 1. & P. R'y.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
Masonic.

Rock Island Lodge No. 65s A. F. & A.
NJ, will meet Friday evening, June 9th.
Work on the Sd degree.
ARTHUR BURIAL, S. W.
LOUIS KoHN, Secy.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
Ice. Ice.

E. II. Barker is prepared to furnish
pure channel ice delivered to any part of
the city. Leave orders at Henry Lamps,
or address P. O. Box, No. 972.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
For Rent,

Two story brick house of seven rooms,
with large yard and barn; rent SIS per
month; on oath street between Moline
avenue and 9th avenue. Enquire of P
Fries 81 Co. 6tf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
Send Money by American Express Co. Money
Orders.

Receipts gwen. Money refunded if
Orders are lost. Sold at all offices of the
Co. Payable at $500 places. Rates. to
$5-5c.: $1O-Sc.: $20.10c.: $30-12c ::
$4O.15c.: $4,000. Apr2sd3m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-05
List of Letters No. 10.
Remaining uncalled for in the Postoffiee NJ RocI
Island, Rock Island County, Illinois,
THURSDAY EVENING, June 5, 1881

THURSDAY EVENING, June 5, 1884
Applehannes George (2)Heiterhends Zadie
Banstean Ella KlotZ J
Bowman Emma Thos Kennedy Il j RIOS
Boyer Henry Marin James
Bowman George Miner Miss Lon
Bernard John Olmskad K
Baker Louis Powers John
Barton Louis Porter James
Boyde Libble Ruin RH
Blose o P az Robb Will
Bradish " E Rock Island Paper Co
Grouse Albert Reed Mrs Caroline
Cupples C NJ Roberts Mrs b
Cooper Robertson Linda
Cleveland Mrs P Singer Susie
Drost Mrs SCherer John
Dormandy John Schaible james /
Bowed Minnie Steward Jerry
Eiserman Karl Smith Mrs Lizzie
EsteO Frank Schean Mrs M J
Fullerton Robert Shields W
Green Mrs Lydia Thompson William
Grazzer Lizzie Toner Mrs Jennie
Gale Miss Nellie Taylor Henry
Gilmore Mrs Mary E Thompson Charles 5
Groden Maggie Wilton DC
Gray Mrs Susie Woodland Chas
Clifford w d Weiss Mrs John
HullqustA WheelockJ
Haley John n Walker Miss c
Howard Thos Young j 5 90
FOREIGN LIST.
Carsten Bertha ErickssonJ
Edman A Schmidt Aug Carl
Splitter Otto
Give the number of the list when calling for ad
yertised letters
j. NJ. BEARDSLEY. P. NJ.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-09-13

A little girls definition of scandal was:
Nobody does nothing, and everybody
goes on telling of it everywhere"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30
Land Birds In Mid-ocean.

George W. Grim. in Popular Science Monthly.l
The appearance Of some Of the smaller
varisties Of migratory birds, such as
sparrows, swallows, doves, etc.. several
hundred miles away from the nearest
land 10 by NO means an unusual occur
renee on the ocean. About these little
erratic visitors there are curious and
interesting facts. Their appearance IL al
most always one at . time, though I
have known considerable number, rep
resenting, perhaps as many different va
rieties, to accumulate In The course Of q
day. 1t Ia usually, though not always,
In stormy or unsettled weather.
The first curious fact about these
birds is, that they never appear to be-
tired out; whereas birds ire often met
with near the land with their strength
quite exhausted. A second curious iact
about them is their pretsrnatural tame.
ness where there & no cat or dog on
board, and the crew show no disposition
to molest them, - exhibited By their ap-
parently seeking rather than avoiding
the presence Of man.
Anothsr curious fact about ihsm i
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30
4 aanAaxAs,E SURGICAL CASE.
How . Man With His Jugular Vein
Cut Had His Life Saved by
Mountain Doctor.
louisville Commertisl.l !

II sse," faid an old storm-tossed and
weather. r-braten tramp in Jefferson
street saloon yesterday afternoon, as he
laid down the Commercial, ''that story
is going the rounds about Polish Jew
having his threat cut one time from ear
to ear and then being hung up by an
angry mob and left to die, but It seems
he didn't die, for he is now living in
Buffalo. The story goes on to ray that
the windpipe was completely severed
but that the jugular vein escaped injury,
and thus the mans life was saved. The
papers speak of him as q physiological
wonder, who pHzzles the medical schools.
Pshaw! these fellows rs have never
heard Of any remarkable occurrence
make me sick. remember wonderful
case ~ came nnder my personal
observation when l wuz 'travelin'
In east Tennessee. struck one
OF them little mountain towns one
ume when they wuz holding
colnty court. Every man had
bottle Of moonshine, and they wuz all
feelin' mighty happy. Finally they got
a leetle bit too hilarious, and fight
sprung up betwixt great big duffer and
leetle bit Of wiry fellow. The big
duffer could eat the leetle feller up,
clothes and all, but the first thing he
done was to pull one of these old pot.
metal knives and jab the blade into the
lestle feller's neck. 1t went in right
alongside the jugular, and then it bent
kinder around and under it. When the
big fellow went to pull 1t out he
ripped the leetle feller's jugular right
square In two, and you oughter
seed the blood fly. 1t s4uirted about
twenty-five feet. As the leetle fellow
dropped, everybody in the crowd cried,
'Oh, he's goner; his jugular VEINS cut
and they expected to see him croak in
side Of three seconds, but there was one
Of them mountain doctors there, and to
look at him you'd think that he didn't
know o jugular vein from trombone
Stand back, he said, and give me
chance at him, and he elbowed his way
through the crowd to where the
little fellow lay breathin' his last.
He pulIed out Of his pocket some
thin as looked like q crooked darnin'
needle, and then he ished around in the
wound until he caught hold of both
ends Of the jugular vein and pulled 'em
out. Then he tied the ends tight with
piece Of thread to keep the blood from
squirtin' out until an old feller in
the crowd whitfield down pipe
stem to make 1t fit in the
jugular. When it was shaved
down small enough the old doctor in
serted the pipe-stem and tied the ends
Of the vein around it. In less than two
minutes that little feller was on his feet
and looking around for the feller that
cut him.
"You mean to say he recoverei?"
"Course he did, and you'll find the
case recorded in the medical works.
Only case Of the kind ever heard Of in
America"
"And the pipe-stem never bothered
himT
mo, only it made him sick at the
stomach at first. The stem was good
deal stronger than the kind he had been
used to handlin' and it made him feel o
loetle bit dizzy for few days"
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30

the recovery of all their native wildness
and their instructive avoidance OF mans
presence on approaching the land. The
first time noticed this fact was with a
pair Of olive-colored ring-doves, which
from their remarkable tameness and fa-
miliarity, was led TO believe had been
bred in domestic state and perhaps on
sbipboard. ] kept them in the skylight
In the cabin, where they seemed to be
quite contented; but on approaching
the land they became the widest of the
wild. One of them escaped and flew
away. / succeeded in taking the other
into port, where l gave 1t its liberty.
Now, / am certain that these birds
could not have been apprised of the ap-
proach Of land through the medium Of
any of the ordinary senses. This Gu
rious circumstance led me to notice
more particularly the habits Of other
varieties of these little wanderers upon
the ocean so far from their native hab-
itation. and find that they nearly all ex
hibit to O greater or less extent the
same curious characteristics.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30

szo. II. BosKBRAKx, JouS BRrsoS, SR.,.
Prest. vice-Pres't
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30

Now let us beg Of you, don't put off
what you can do at once. Our time is alws
the peculiar circumstances in which we are
the delay in transit las we have already ex
us to give
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30
Dr. Joseph Kurtx

No 2o5 Main street, opposite Baker Block
sBEys and ear diseases treated with the care Of
. specialist. ap22
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30
WEEKLY HERALD.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
SPECIAL TO THE HERALI.i
Erect OF Rain ON Markets.

Erect OF Rain ON Markets.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20. = Heavy
rains have prevailed and it is thought
that half an inch has fallen here in the
last twelve hours. The total for the
season is 8. 10 inches. The effect OF the
rains has been to largely increase sales
ut the Produce Exchange. The transac-
tions OF tho last two days have been the
heaviest during the year. A large guam
tity of wheat which had been held for
higher prices has been put on the mar
kei.
Another Murdered Sentenced.
SALINAS, Jan. 20.-Torres, who was
convicted of the murder Of Chinamnn,
was to-day sentenced to he hanged ON
March the twenty-first. Judge Alex
ander denied the demand of the pris-
oner's attorney for stay Of proceedings
until decision in the Hurtado case was
rendered.
Overland wires Down.
San FRAHcIsco, Jan. 29.-The over
land lines are down between Cofax AID
Emigrant Gap.
Transfer of Telegraph stocs.
NEw YoRK, Jan. &C.. 5. Bryce.
President Of the National Telegu, h
Company, transferre the capital stock
OF that company to the Baltimore Il
Ohio X ,ilway Company. Its capital
stock was one million ,'nilars. Davsd
II Bates was el-c,.d Vice President,
aud will remain in charge uf the Nation
al CoInpany's Iropcrty, and George ID.
Williams will remain General Manager.
Gs0vcrD0r Fosters Predictions.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Ex.Govern-
or Foster Of Ohio. In connection with
Chandler and Logan, stated that If the
Republican party expect to save Ohio in
the next Presidential election, it must
be with some other candidate than
Arthur, who could not carry evan one
side of the State.
Another Absconding CasL Ter.
BosToN, Jan. 29.--Tilden G. Abbott,
for ten years cashier OF the Union Mar
ket National Bank Of Watertown, Mass,
has absconded, taking funds Of the bank
aggregating s3l, ,160.
Assassination In Chihuahua.
CHInuAnuA. Mex, Jan. 20. = An
assassin went to the Governors palace
yesterday and shot at acting Governor
CuelleAn.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-30
Dr. J. 8. Griffin.

OFFICE At RESIDENCE. lel MAIN STREET.
Ones Hous-s to II A. NJ, to 8 and to
I'm
Rssidence-EAst side Of Main street, below
First. mlb-u
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-27
THEY COULD NOT AGREE.
A POWERFUL SWORD THRUST.
The Blade of a Swordfish Driven Nine
Inches Through Copper and Wood and
Causes a Serious Leak

The Blade of a SwOrdfish Driven Nine
Inches Through Copper and Wood and
Causes a Serious Leak.
A very remarkable event, says Biloxi,
Miss, special to the New Orleans Times
Democrat, has occurred in the recent ex-
perience of the three-masted schooner
Themis, of Boston, commanded by Capt.
N. E. Kendrick, and now lying in Ship
Island harbor.
The Themis sailed from Mobile on Aug.
4 with a cargo of lumber for TampicO.
She was a tight vessel, taking in very
little water and requiring but little use of
the pumps. On the fifth day out from
Mobile Capt. Kendrick himself tried the
pump and found no water-that is, none
above the 8 inches play allowed between
the lower end of the pump and the bot
tom of the hold. An hour or two after
wards the mate happened to try it, and to
the great astOnishment of the
Captain reported 20 inches OF water
The water was pumped out, but was soon
found to be running in again at the rate
of nearly II inches an hour. This was
near the bottom, and of course the rate of
leakage would diminish as the elevation
of surface of the water and extent of
it's crOss-se section would increase. 1t was
enough, nevertheless, to create alarm and
to keep the crew continually employed at
the pumps during the passage to Tampico
all efforts in the meantime to locate the
leak proving unsuccessful. On arriving
at TampicO, and while discharging the
cargo, these efforts were redoubled. 1t
was fully ascertained that the leak was
not near the water line-as had been
hOped-but at the bottom of the vessel
Finally the mate, grOping and exploring
about the bottom, reported that ne had
found horn sticking in the ceiling or
inner lining of the timbers, which he
could not remove. He was told to break
it off, and at length brought up about two
inches of what the Captain at once recog-
niZed as the end of the blade of sword
fish.
On further examination it was found
that the blade had penetrated in the first
place, the copper sheathing of the schOOn-
er; then the outer timbers of the hull
four inches in thickness; next a vacant
space of nine inches between the outer
and inner timbers, or "ceiling," and
lastly four and half inches more of solid
wood constituting the ceiling-altOgethe
nearly nine inches of plank and copper,
with eleven inches of vacant space-in-
cluding the twO inches of the end broken
off. How much of the sword remained
outside has not yet been ascertained.
The blow was struck from below, in a
direction nearly vertical, and some idea
of its amazing force may be found from
the figures above given. The point of
impact was a little forward of the mizzen-
mast, about three feet from the keel, on
the starboard side.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-27
REDUCING THE DEBT.
Magnitude of the Sum Paid Out


WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The general
newspaper reader who, in the several
days of each month reads the Treasury
announcement that the public debt was
reduced during the preceding month by
so many million dollars, does not, per-
haps, pause to reflect that this steady de-
crease of national obligations means a
steady and permanent decline in fixed
expenditures, and that it indicates con-
slant growth in national resources and
prosperity. Nor is the general reader
perhaps aware of the magnitude of the
national debt and of the remarkable
swiftness with which it is being paid.
In August. 1865, when the highest fig
ures were reached, the total debt of the
United States was 50, 757, ,431, ,571, the an
nual interest upon which was nearly $15l,-
100000. Since August, 1865, period of
10 years, the debt has been reduced nearly
One-half, and the annual interest charge
is now few thousands more than one
third of what it OF ce was. On June 30last
the total debt was SLABS, ,542, ,995, and the
interest actually paid for the year ending
with that date was $54,57S,37S.
1t is only when these figures are ar
ranged so as to show what was done
monthly or daily in this direction that the
average reader can be made to fully COM
prehend and appreciate the magnitude of
the aggregate sum paid. Since August,
1865, there has been paid, down to June 80,
1884, 81, ,317, 1886, $40, which is equal to $685.
362, ,557 each year for the nineteen years.
Reducing these figures to months shows
an average monthly reduction of So, $780,
213, and counting 80 days to month, the
reduction for every day during the nine
teen years was $192674, which is equal to
$S.028 for every hour, and $134 for every
minute, which would be 81 SO for every
swing of a clocks pendulum for the entire
nineteen years.
An expert counter in the Treasury De-
partment who can count 1900 new notes
an hour for seven hours a day is con-
sidered unusually deXtereus. If three fair
average counters had been detailed nine
teen years ago to count out 81 notes with
which to pay the amount of national debt
that has been discharged in that period,
they would have been required to work
continuously day and night to meet the
demands of the Treasurer to pay national
creditors for bonds surrendered. 1t is not
within the power Of human endurance for
one man to count in nineteen years in
United States notes of the denomination.
of $5 the sum Of the public debt dis
charged since August, 1863.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-27
THE INDEPENDENT BOLT.
Cleveland's Expectations from the nti
Blaine Republicans.

Political interest in this city, saws a
New York special to the Philadelphia
Times, Oct. %, largely centres in the
three-cornered fight between Tammany
Hall, the County Democracy and the Re-
publicans. YeTit can hardly be called a
three-cOrnered fight, for there is hardly
any one who believes that deal won't be
made between Tammany and the Re-
publcans, the former putting the knife
into Cleveland up TO the hilt. But possi-
bly, the County Democracy may make
deal, too. No one can tell. The three
municipal tickets nominated show that
the candidates are put up to be knocked
down. Tammany has every reason to
deal with the Republicans. If Cleveland
is elected there will be precious little
comfort lett for the braves of Tammany.
But at the same time John Kelly and his
chiefs know that they must play their
cards mighty we'll in order to keep within
calling distance of the Democratic fold in
case Cleveland is beaten by any deal they
may make.
Cleveland's great hope now seems to lie
in the Independent Republicans. How
ever much the regular Republicans may
endeavor to belittle the movement, the
great fact remains that there are thou
sands and thousands of Republicans in
this city and Brooklyn who are not only
not going to vote for Blaine. but are work
ing hard for Cleveland. The dry goods
district here never held so many men who
will vote the Democratic ticket as to-day.
So with the district where the exchanges
are located. The parade of next Saturday
will show this, undoubtedly. Brooklyn,
too, is perfect hot-bed of anti Blaineites,
as the great meeting in the rink to-
night showed, where Beecher spoke
and the movement Is growing,
The assurance made early in the cam
paign that along towards election day the
kicking Republicans would be kicking
themselves back into the party is by no
means proving to be founded on fact. On
the contrary, the Independents are max
ing new converts daily. If the movement
extends through the State in anything like
a fair proportion the $1,000 Independents
that are claimed is not large estimate
at all. AS to New Jersey, there is lot OF
them there, particularly among the hun
dreds of business men who do business in
this city. A prominent government Off
cial, whose work is here and whose home
is in New Jersey, said to-day:
81 can't see how the Democrats can
help carrying New Jersey. Why, about
all the Republicans l meet are for Cleve-
land. l begin TO feel lonely. The Prohi-
bition vote there will offset Buffers easy
enough, and as for the tariff question,
that's played out. Blaine's jump for the
bloody shirt shows that.'
This man will vote for Blaine, but he
says he is beaten. The impression getting
abroad here now is that the Republicans
have about given up New York, and will
concentrate all their energies to carry
Indiana, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The last State mentioned is bound to go
Democratic, the managers say, and there,
too, the Independent movement will do
the business.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-27

Mr.. W. W. Pascbal, foI many years Or
the Alabama tripod, says the Tuscaloosa,
Ala, Gazette, is in our city, and will
probably make it his future home. He
published the Alabama ReDorter, at
Gainesville, Ala, in 1847. We heard a
story on him which is too good to keep:
While he was publishing that paper an
old gentleman from the hill country came
into the office and wanted ''genuine old
Bibie.printed," like the one he produced
from under his coat, and said that he
would give 800 for new one 'sust like
it," Mr.. Paschal told him he was not
prepared to print Bible. A Scotch prin-
ter in the Office spoke up and said they
might take the job and deliver the book
in two weeks. When the old gentleman
left the Office the Scotch printer went over
to the book store and purchased Bible
for 81, tore oct the title page and printed
one and pasted it in with the imprint OF
the Reporter on it. The old gentleman
came in on time, spent some half day In
comparing it with the old one, found 1T
correct, paid $50 for his book and went on
his way rejoicing. Hence, Mr.. Paschal
got the reputation of being the Bible prin-
ter of Alabama.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-27
TRIED AND FOUND WANTING.
A Fatal Defect in the Divided Skirt Dis
coyered by CIara Belle.

covered Dy CARA Belle.
l have made downright serious trial
of the divided skirt, says Clara Belle, as
invented and recommended by Lady Hab-
erton. A set of the garments was brought
to America by Mrs. King, Secretary Of
the Rational Dress Association, who has
ridden her hobby astride from England to
America. The Haberton idea consists OF
a skirt separated practically into two
skirts for its entire length, and the whole
covered clear out Of sight by an overskirt
of usual length, so that to the outside
observer there is nothing unusual. Mrs.
King lent the toggery TO me, in order
that l might be convinced that
it was a failure. | couldn't un-
understand why it would be any worse
than regular skirts and petticoats, but in
taking a walk discovered vital defect.
In going down stairs, or an incline in the
sidewalks, in stepping up into carriage,
in crossing a muddy gutter-in short,
whenever it became desirable to lift the
skirt, with her clutch and whisk so char
acteristic of a graceful woman's manage
ment of her drapery, the thing was put to
trial that found it wanting. One hand,
reaching back for grip, wouldn't accom-
plish the purpose at all. Nothing smaller
than the hand of Providence would suffice
to get a hold of both divisions at once, and
the alternative was to use both hands, for
all the world like an ancient spinster
from the country, who takes that method
of securing herself against possible TN
evenness of her hem. No, the Haberton
skirt won't do.