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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
Hazen,s Statement.

Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen
In his annual report OF the operations of his
office for the fiscal year ended June so, 1884,
shows the receipts OF the postal service for
the year, to have been t48 33S, III, and that
the disbursements were $40, 404, 969-au excess
Of expenditures amounting to a, 068 $50. Tire
outstanding liabilities for the year are est
mated at &ST7,47l, which sum, added to the
amount actually expended and 81, 26O, 179 cred
tied to the Pacific railroad companies would
make the total cost OF the service for the hscal
year $4s $40 GIL, or Is, 204 4S3 in excess OF the
receipts. Tue decrease In receipts from those of
the lrevious fiscal yesr was &2,1705 65
or 40 per cent. aud was caused ma ipIy BY
the reduction of the latter rate Of postage from
three to two cents which went into operation
on the LIST of October, 1888. The weight OF
second-clsss matter, newspapers, periodicals.,
etc, mailed during the year was 4724O tons,
the postage on which was e1,Ss9 5e2 an in
crease OF $lS5,000 over the postage collected
on such matter during the preceding year
During the year l,245, 545 registered letters
and parcels were handled, and OF this immense
number, only 1896 were reported as having
been lost or rihed, and Of this number 5,9l7
were found to have been properly delivered or
accounted for, AMI 1882 are still under iuves-
tigation, leaving the actually ascertained losses
sic, or one out Of about 2l,975 pieces mailed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
GI;C0Nrs EDITION.

For thirty cents in cash or ten three
cent stamps, We will mail to any address,
postage prepaid, an octave illustrated
book of 1l2 pages, with handsome illum-
mated cover, entitled Donald Mckay
or, The Last Var Trail OF the Modocs. This
bool is true exponent ofthe old saying
"Truth is stranger than fiction" and
contains the romance of the life Of Dom
aid Mckay. the great Scout and Chief Of
The Warm Spring Indians. The story Is
founded on facts, and is the only true his
tory of the capture of Captain Jack, the
Chief of the Modocs, the warrior who
defied the United States troops In the
Lava Beds; and every incident men
toned therein can be corroborated by
Donald Mckay, who is still living, and
for whom this book was published.
Address the Publishers,
q. p. SOULE &c CO.,
l75 MONROE ST., CHICAGO, Ill
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
Darlington Blamed.

Chief Signal Officer Hszen has made the
following addition to his annual report re-
speeding the Greedy relief expedition: "At no
time after reaching Cape Sabine could Lieut..
Greely's party have crossed Smiths Sound TO
Littleton island. While his men were strong
the current was so swift and so filed with
masses OF drifting ice, that there was not the
slightest prospect Of success, and any attempt
could only have ended In drifting he'plessly on
some ice foe, condition from which, after
30 days, the party had Just been rescued. At
Cary islards, directly In Lieut. Garlington's
path, 100 miles south OF Cape Sabine, there
were 1900 rations In the Mares cache In good
condition, which he had inspected but six days
previously. This made II unnecessary to take
from Cape Sabine OF Lieut.. Grecly's stores
more than four days rations for his owa
party. This would have left for Lieut.. Greedy
ut Cape Sabine 1900 rations and placed his
safety beyond question
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
Short Of Funds.

The work of building the Pedestal for Bar
tholdi's statue has ceased because of lack Of
money. The American committee, Of which
VIM. M. Evarts lie chairman, and the sons OF
the revolutionary committee which has been
furnishing money for the work since early in
September, have had falling out, and the lat
ter committee has withdrawn all money assist
apce. This leaves the work in bad way.
The pedestal Is now up TO the eighth course Of
masonry, and the wall Ia only one-ffth Of the
required hight Early in May next the statue
will be ready TO leave France, but there will
be no pedestal on which to place Il. Gen. Stone,
who hss charge of the great work, says he
could have the pedestal ready May II money
was forthcoming He admits that he cannot
proceed further because Of the new trouble.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
Patent once Report.

Patent Commissioner Butterworth, In bis
annual report for the last fiscal year, shows
that 3S,S22 applications were received, 1912
cavets filed and 24,615 patents, etc, granted.
The receipts from al sources aggregated vi.
A5,432 10, and the expenditures mot includ-
Ing printing! were e901, 4l3 81, leaving sur
plus OF e244,019 III. The increase In The re.
the previous fiscal year Was l49,54s 40.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
STATE ~ .EWS
Outragers Captured.

Sheriff Tosn has captured the two
men who committed the dastardly out
rage on the 14-year old daughter of
Stephen Kimball, near Lyons, Ionia
county, last July. Their names are
Adelbert Bellows and Eli Harvey. Bel
lows home is at Lansing and Harvey's
in Indiana. Both have confessed, and
both tell the same story, corroborating
the girls statement. Bellows commit
ted the outrage and Harvey stood by.
They are in Jail at Ionia and will be
tried al the present term of the circuit
court Sheriff Toan is given great cred
it for the capture.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
TraveIers, Letter..

Postmaster General Hattou has issued an
order which provides that "unclaimed letters
enclosed In envelopes upon which hotel cards
mailing Office unless such envelopes have
written or printed upon them the words re
turn to- In addition to The hotel card"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27
POrter,s Figures.

night of the murder, and can identify
the men who fired the fatal shots.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-27

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delay Start now Address Stinson and Co, Port
land, Maine.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19

The pedestrian feats of the present
day are cast into the shade by the re-
corded exploits of Earnest Mensen, a
Norwegian sailor in the English navy,
early in the present century. Mensen
first attracted attention by running from
London to Portsmouth in nine hours,
and soon after he ran from London
to Liverpool in thirtv-two hours. Hav-
ing distinguished himself at the battle of
Navarino, in 1927, he left the navy and
became a professional runner. After
winning a number of matches, he I'M
dertook the feat of running from Paris
to Moscow.
Starting from the Place Vendome at
4 o'clock in the afternoon of June II,
1881, he entered the Kremlin at 10
o'clock A. M, on June 25, having &C
complished the distance of seven
teen hundred and sixty miles in
thirteen days and eighteen hours
The employment of Mensen as a
courier-extraordinay became a pop
ular amusement in European courts.
He ran from country to country, bear
ing messages of congratulation, condo
lence, or dispatches, and always beat
mounted couriers when matched against
them.
He never walked but invariably run,
mis- refreshments being biscuit and rasp-
berry syrup. He took two short rests
only in twenty-four hours These rests
he took standing, and leaning against
som" support; at such times he covered
his face with a handkerchief and slept,
Ia 1886, while in the employ of the East
India Company, Mensen was charged
with the conveying of dispatches from
Calcutta to Constantinople through cen
trail Asia The distance is five thou
sand six hundred and fifteen miles,
which the messenger accomplished in
tifty-nine days, or in one third of the
time taken by the swiftest caravan. AT
last he was employed to discover the
source of the Nile.
Setting out from Silesia on May IL,
1843. he ran to Jerusalem, and thence
to Cairo, and up the western bank Of
the river into Upper Egypt Here, just
outside the village of Syang, he was
seen to stop and rest, leaning against a
palm tree. his face covered with q
handkerchief. He rested so long that
some persons tried to wake him; but
they tried in vain for he was dead. He
was buried at the foot of the tree, and
it was years before his friends in Europe
knew what fate had befallen him. lid
Bits.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19

the famous academy, to the question
concerning the naming of the State of
Virginia.
WALL" said MIR Brown, sour teacher
has got the symptoms. If she whoops by
Tuesday mornin' we shall hev to hev
supply. We've had thirteen applicants
Already, jes' ON the chance of that whoop.
Maybe twon't come to nuthin'.
On Wednesday morning. as she was
sitting in her blue room, hopelessly
crocheting a royal-purple mitten for the
pea-green old lady who bought the sky
blue hood, and had miracuously turned
to the grocer with the news that her
dentists bill was smaller than she ex-
pected, and if she had pair of mittens
of the precise shade of purple she
thought she'd like to see aiong O. that
hood, she didn't know but she'd take
'em-as Lotto was thus patiently sitting,
Melted within her web of purple worsted,
| with crooked fingers, and sweet, sad
face, and aching shoulders, and heavy
heart-S'reeny came up stairs with
some cookies. and the announcement
that man wanted to see the Doctors
daughterin the parlor.
1t was Mr.. Brown. He came to in
form Lotto that the teacher at Browns
| Ferry Grammar School had been ex-
cused to have the whooping-congh, and
that he didn't know but Lotto might as
well have the supply till Miss Mizery got
| well.
s'She begun to whoop come o. Mon
day night" said Mr.. Brown, land
along o SO many scholars that you
amt sure of, and takin' in them you
know hasn't, the committee told her
she'd better stay to hum. She was ex-
posed long of her half-sister. which
is an infant, and Miss Mizery sleeps
with her Can't say how long you'll be
wanted. She mought whoop two weeks,
and she mought whoop six months. I've
kmoaon 'em whoop year." added Mr..
Brown, encouragingly, though they
was mostly babies. Yer pad a known,
may be, if he'd been living. Better
come along in my team-save expense
an get yer traps fast as yer know
how
''Some may whoop for years and she
may whoop forever % cried Lotto, as
she kissed her mother goodbye between
a laugh and a sob and courageously de-
parted with Mr.. Brown for Browns
Ferry.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19

organs, talked and shouted; and even
the shrieking newsboys, with ghastly
sarcasm, murdered the sleep of the tired
old printer by yelling the name Of his
| own paper.
Year after year the foreman roared al
him to remember that this wasn't an
afternoon paper, editors shrieked down
the tube to have blind man put OIL
that dead mans case; smart young proof
readers scrubbed sarcastic comments on
his work, on the margin of bis proof
| slips, they didn't know how to read.
| long-winded correspondents learning to
write, and long-haired poets who could
pever learn to spell wrathfully cast all
their imperfections upon his head. But
through it all he wrought patiently, and
| found more sunshine than shadow in the
world; he had more friends than enc
mics. Printers and foremen and press
men and reporters and editors came
and went, but he saw newsroom and
sanctum filled and emptied and filed
and emptiea again and filled again with
| new strange faces. He believed in his
craft, and to the end he had a silent
pity, that came as near being contempt
as his good, forgiving old heart could
feel, for an editor who had not worked
his way from regular devilship up past
the cases and the imposing stone
He worked all that night, and when
the hours that are so short in the ball
room and 50 long in the composing-room
drew YEARLY on, he was tired. He
hadn't thrown in very full case, he
said, and he had to climb clear into the
boxes and chase type up into corner
before he could get hold of it. One OF
the boys, tired as himself-but a printer
is never too tired to be good natured--
offered to change places with him, but
the old man said there was enough i'll
the case to last him through this take,
and he wouldn't work any more to-
night. The type clicked in the silent
room, and by and by the old man said:
| I'm out of sorts"
And sat down on the low window sill
by his case, with his stick in his hand,
his hands folded YEARLY in his lap.
The types clicked on. A galley of tele-
| graph waited.
| what gentleman Is lingering with
D 1922 called the foreman, who was
always dangerously polished and polite
when he was on the point of exploding
with wrath and Impotence.
Slug Nine, passing the alley, stopped
to speak to the old man sitting there SC
quietly.
The telegraph boy came running il
with the last manifold sheet, shouting
"Thirtyn'
They carried the old man to the fore
mans long table and laid him dowr
reyerently and covered his face They
took the stick out of his nerveless hand
| and read his last take:
| Boston, November 23-The American
| bark Pilgrim went to pieces off MarbleheaC
| in light gale about midnight She was OLE
and unseaworthy, and this was to have beer
| her last trip.
| darlington Hdl0Eeye.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19
LOtO's Call on the Committee.

From Miss Phelps's entertaining Sc
rial story of "a Brave Girl" in the
Vide Aaoake. we take the following &C.
count of an interview between the
heroine, Lotto, and the Chairman of the
District School Committee. Loto's
father had died recently, and the girl is
trying to find some way to support her.
self and help the family:
ken ye spell straight" asked one
committee man in neighboring village
whittier Lotto, one desperate Saturday,
had gone alone and without recommen-
dations, in search of school rumored
to have a teacher with the whooping-
cough. Browns Ferry was the name
of the village. Brown was the name Of
the committee man. He did not look
like man who could have written bis
own name without screwing his mouth
open while he dotted his is and crossed
his is and curled his y's-if he had any
is or is or US to dot, or cross, or curl.
Girls air apt to be weak in spellin'
and 'rithmetic, said MIR. Brown, loft
lily. 1--WE had one apply for the High
spelled apology with two-no, with one
p, that was it; she spelled 'pologY with
one p, and couldn't cal'clate the inter-
est on a Government bond. We re-
jected her. They give the place to a
distant connection of my wife's with a
Moo York eddication.
II knew of a boy at a famous acade-
my who was asked after whom the State
of Virginia was named-he ought to
have known, don't you think, sir?''
asked Lotto, mildly.
"The State of Virginia." said Mr..
Brown, uneasily. why. certainly. ]
think boy had ought to know who Vir-
ginia was named for"
HE said, replied Lotto, with vicious
gentleness. 'tthat it was named for the
Virgin Mary, who was at that time
Queen of England"
WELL" said Mr.. Brown, after a
grave pause, Il admit that was an I'M
called-for answer. / don't think we
should have required that young mans
services at Browns Ferry
But across Mr.. Browns big red face,
there did not fit the shadow of smile.
1t is doubtful if to this day he has be-
come fully aware of the depth of singu-
larity in the reply Of the Boung man at
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19
How the Old Printer Passed Away.

And SO, year after year. he wrought
among the boys on morning paper.
He went to bed about the time the rest
of the world got up, and he rose about
the time the rest of the world set down
to dinner. He worked by every kind of
light except sunlight. There were can
dies in the office when he came in; then
they had lard oil lamps that smoked
and sputtered and smelled; then he saw
two or three printers blinded by explo-
sions of camphene and spirit gas, then
kerosene came in and heated up the
news-room on summer nights like fur
mace; then the office put in gas, and now
the electric light swung from the ceiling
and dazzled his old eyes, and glared
into them from his copy. If he sang on
his way home a policeman babe him
'cheese that" and reminded him that
he was disturbing the peace and people
wanted to sleep. But when he wanted
to sleep the rest of the world for whom
he had sat up all night to make a morn
ing paper, roared and crashed by down
the noisy streets under his window, with
cart and truck and omnibus; blared
with brass bands. howled with hand
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19
PSALMS.
REVISED.

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19

Can any ore bring us case of Kidne..
or Liver Complaint that the Electric Bitter
will not speedily cure9 We say that the,
can not, as thousands of cases already per
manently cured and and who are daily re
commencing Electric Bitters, will prove
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tie by Hartz & Bahnsen.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

GuNsMlTHs.
Wolff. Chas, III Seventeenth street.
HARNESS MANUFACTURERS.
sanerman, John, 2l9 seventeenth street.
H ARpwARE-
Stewart & Montgomery, 800 second avenue.
MERCHANT TAIL0Rs.
Wendt, H. 1902 second avenue.
NEWS DEALERS
Wilmans, j. NJ Post Office Block.
N NEWSPAPERS.
The Rock Island DAILY ARGUS; published every
evening, Sunday excepted) in Argus block, OPP
pOsite Postofface Best advertising medium in the
city.
The Rock island WEEKLY ARaUs; published
every Friday. A fine Job department in connec
ton with the establishment.
d ESTAURANTs AND CoNFECTIONERS.
Krell, Fred, 1919 second avenue.
Evers, Fred, 1911 second avenue.
STATIoNERs'
Wilmans, j. NJ, Post Office Block.
SALOONS.
Westphai, John, 1912 second avenue.
warren MAKERS
Bromley, G. A., 1917 second avenue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Depression
of Spirits and General Debility in thei
various forms; also as preventive a
gainst Fever and Ague, and other Inter
mittent Fevers, the Zero Phosphoratet
Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell Fla
card & Co., New York, and sold by al
Druggists, is the best tonic; and for pa
tients recovering from Fever or othe
sickness. il has no equal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19
"A Philadelphia dispatch saws tn

"A Philadelphia dispatch says the
recent association of superintendent of
insane asylums passed resolutions de-
claring that one-third of our insane PEG
pie are brought here by foreign immi-
grafton, and urging Congress to give
attention to this subject, that immigra-
ton laws may be enacted, which, while
not measurably obstructing the immi-
grafton of healthy and self-dependent
persons, will efeetually prevent the i'm
migration and expectation to our ports
Of the defective classes of Europe and
Asia.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-19

The Blood Would Run-For five years
| was great sufferer from Catarrh. My
nostrils were so sensitive could not bea,
the least bit of dust; at times so bad the
blood would run, and at night i could
hardly breathe. After trying many things
without benefit used Ely's Cream Balm
| am living witness of its efficacy. Peter
Bruce, Farmer, Ithaca, N. Y. EASY tc
use, price so cents.)