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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
THE BALANCE SHEET.
Some Figures Showing the National
Business Situation.
Revenue Receipts show a Reduction
of About 80 200, 0OO-The Pub
lie Electromagnetic
Results.

WASHINGTON Cry, June 24-The fiscal
gear which ends with next Monday will show
E fairly satisfactory balance sheet for this
country. The balance in our favor will not
be SO much as in some preceding years, butit
is fairly good The decrease of the public
debt during the year will be 800, 100000,
instead of SlS7, 600, as in the preceding
year. The expectations will be shown to
be about S725, 100000 and the importa-
lions about s665, 000, 900, showing bal
ance of 10000, 900 in favor of this country
for the years commerce. against SOC, 0O0, 900
in the preceding year. The efforts of the
last congress to reduce the revenue of the
government were, it will be seen, successful
in a moderate way. The receipts from Gus
toms during the present year viii foot up
little over 500, 000, 600, as against something
more than $500, 000, 600 last year. The re
ceipts from internal revenue for this year
will be about s125, 00O, 900, against $40, 0o0,-
900 last year.
The full years receipts will be about
$3.50, 900, 600; expenditures, about $3.50 900, 600;
leaving $1,000 900, which has been used in
the payment Of the public debt. This leaves
the outstanding debt at the end of the year
81, 240, 000,000 OF this, $24o,0O0,000 draws
interest at 3 per cent, $3.50, 100000 at Al
per cent, and s7S7, 900. 600, at per cent,
making our annual interest charge now
s47 100000
The expectations of grain have fallen off
somewhat in value, as compared with last
year. For the year the expectations of
wheat will be about SIS, 100000 in value, as
against Sis Geo. 900 in the preceding fiscal
year. OF corn, the expectations this year
will slightly exceed in value those of last
year, reaching nearly 1000, 900, against
about So, 00O, 900 last year. OF flour, the ex-
portations in this present year will nearly
equal those of 1888, being in amount strhaps
$4,000, 900, against about $53, 900, 900 in the
preceding year. OF cotton, the expectations
for this year will be about 500, 600, 900, a
falling off of $50, 900, 600 since the preceding
year. Hog products will, in spite of the OPP
position from abroad, fully equal that of the
preceding year, that of bacon running up to
above 3U,000,000 OF lard, the total will be
within 81, 900 or s., OO0, 900 of last year.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24

NEW YORK, June 24.-The New York
Cremation company, limited, has bought
fourteen lots, about one and quarter acres,
in East Williamsburgh, Long island upon
which 1t will build a stone crematory. The
building will be of the Grecian style of archi-
tectare, and will cost about $50, 200 1t will
contain the incineratiug furnace "a chapel
for religious ceremonies, and u coIumbarium,
OF memorial hall, for the reception
of the urns containing the ashes of
the bodies incinerated. Plans are now being
prepared, and work will begin in about two
weeks. The cost of incarceration will be from
$40 to SIS, and the time occupied will not be
over fifty minutes. The process is thus de-
scribed:
As the door of the retort is opened the in
rushing dir coolS it from white to red neat,
and the whole interior is filed with
beautiful rosy light, that is fas-
cinating to the eye TIE body, decently
clad as for burial, is laid in a crib, which is
covered with clean white sheet soaked in
alum. The crib is then put into the retort
The sheet retains its original position and
conceals the form until nothing but the bones
are left, and these gently crumble into dust
as under the mystic touch of an invisible
agent. There is nothing repulsive or painful
about it. There is nothing which need shock
the most refined tastes nor offend the most
delicate sensibility No flame touches tie
flesh or bones from the beginning to the end
of the process
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
Blaine's Foreign Policy
ST. Louis Republican.

Mr.. Blaine is credited with favoring an
aggressive" foreign policy, and it is init
mated, rather than declared, that if elected
president he will give US something more
spirited and American than the tame, pu-
sillanimous policy that We have had for
twenty years past.
VIII he, indeedf But the tame pusil-
Luminous thing that has passed under the
name of our foreign policy for more than
twenty years past has been the policy of
Mr.. Blaine's own party and this is the first
time we ever heard that he disapproved
it. He has been in public life quarter of
q century, leader of his party, and in a
large degree an author and shaper of its
measures; yet it never occurred to him to
raise his aggressive voice when President
Grant received sinking vessel as pay
ment in full from the Cuban authorities
for their massacre Of fifty four American
citizens captured on the high seas; nor
did he ever utter note of warning against
the two successful attempts of the British
government to strengthen its position in
Central America. Mr. Blaine is spoken of
as a champion of the Monroe doctrine"
- doctrine that we heard good deal
about, and was kept alive when the
democracy ruled the country twenty-five
wears ago, but which the republican party
has allowed to become obsolete But how
would be take the first vigorous step in
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Governor Begole, of Michigan, has given
300 to the fund for q soldiers monument at
Kalamazoo.
A wealthy resident of Lynn, Mass, has
been sued for S., 900 by lady acquaintance
for asking for kiss.
By the death of Bishop Simpson the ven
cradle DIR. Bowman, of St Louis, becomes
the senior Methodist bishop
Across the Virginia line, opposite Romney,
W. Va, a woodchopper found 81, 600 in gold
concealed in a hole in a tree.
Barney Kelley, of Champaign, Ill, well
known as a breeder of fine horses and as
business man, is dead, age 90
A sparrow has built her nest in the left
hand of the bronze statute of Daniel Web
ster, in Central park, New York.
Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, will leave
America July ., on a trip to Zurich, to visit
his daughter, who is at college there.
The soldiers and sailors resident at WASH
ington serenaded Senator Logan Saturday
night marching from the city hall in
platoons.
Leagne ball games Saturday resulted: Chi
eago, II; Boston. 7-Providence, 10; Detroit,
|0-Cleveland, "A; Philadelphia, I2-Bufalo,
6; New York, 2.
The gavel to be used at the National Dem
ocratic convention will contain fragment
of Washington's tomb and Il bit of marble
from Caesars palace In Rome.
William Dunn hanged himself in police
cell at Hamilton. Ont, with leather belt
he had worn. He was compelled to hold his
feet up from the floor in order to hang
Charles II. Niehous, native of Cincinnati,
has just finished statue of President Gar
field at his studio in Rome, which is to be
set up in enc of the public places of Cincin-
natl.
Mrs. Edith Allen, of New York, gives as
one of her reasons for asking divorce from
Col. Vanderbilt Allen. that she found long
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24

A VAssAR College girl graduate thus
treated the dude" in her recent commence
ment essay: God made the dude, therefore
let him stand for man. Man wants but
little here below, nor wants that little
long. The dude is a curious specimen of
the genus homo, made over year ago
The brain of dude is not the real brain
it is only something like it, The object
Of the dude is to render himself agreeable
to society. Had Darwin lived he would
have used the dude as an illustration of
the development of the species. His plu
mage, though not brilliant, is abundant
All the sensible of both sexes tire of him.
In the future he will exist only in a
museum of anatomy"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24

THE editor of the Washington Sunday
Capital, independent republican, publish
ed the following racy editorial statement
in the last issue of his paper
"A gentleman who closely observed the
convention at Chicago tell me money was
used in large quantities to secure the
nomination of Mr. Blaine. Nor was
there anything haphazard about the way
in which the bribery was done. A man
to do the buying was assigned to each of
several delegations from the south, and
all the trading for votes from that state
was done through him. 1t began very
early in the preliminary days of the con
vention. Thirty votes were wanted for
not later than the third ballot, and prices
were arranged for the first, second, and
third ballots. The delegations selected
as most apt TO furnish suitable material
for the commerce in votes were from
North Carolina, South Carolina Florida,
Alabama. Tennessee and Askansas. Ten
thousand dollars came to the Sherman
house for six votes from South Carolina
Only two we're obtained, one on the first
and one on the second ballot. The sum
was ready for the same number of votes
from North Carolina until the third ballot
when four went over. Ex-carpet>bag
Senator Conover took In FIVE votes from
Florida on the fourth ballot. These hat
been valued at 1000 if turned in on thu
ballot. The Arkansas trade was mort
thoroughly understood early in thu
struggle Eleven of her votes went tt
Blaine after the first ballot. Alabams
yielded two votes on the second ballot,
and no more until the fourth ballot, wher
she gave eight. Louisiana and Missouri
made up the 30"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
Made an Assignment.

CHICAGO, June 24-The Brown & Van
Arsdale manufacturing company, 2s Kings.
bury street, have made an assignment to
john T. Noyes for the benefit of
their creditors Charles B. Brown, presi-
dent OF the company, was seen at the
works and said the failure was due to the in
ability to meet certain paper which became
due in a short time 1t was thought better
TO make an assignment, so that all cred
itors would be treated alike. While
no inventory has as yet been made out,
Mr.. Brown thought the liabilities would
be about $4,000 and the assets 500, OO0.
The company has been doing business OF
$4,000 a year, manufacturing cast-iron
wagon material. The works occupy the Ell
tire block on Kingsbury street, between
Michigan and Illinois streets, and extending
nearly half way east to Market street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
HIGH HANDED PROCEEDINGS.
kidnapping a Man in New York by
Chicago Police.

NEW YORK. June 24-Otto A. Nubell is
charged with conspiracy in Chicago, and
an application for extradition was made to
Governor Cleveland and granted, but friends
got writ of habeas corpus and had the pris-
oner brought before Judge Burnett, who de-
cided to admit him to bail, pending an appeal
against extradition-
On May IA Mr.. Nubell was at home when
suddenly two men entered his room unbid-
den. One was Moynihan, the Illinois agent,
and the other a police officer in citizens
clothing They proceeded 10 arrest Nubell,
forced him into a coach in waiting and drove
him, in spite Of his struggles, TO police head
quarters, where he was locked up. Mrs. Nubell,
who had accompanied her husband thus
far, was allowed to remain with him
but was advised by Inspector Byrnes to go
home and return in the morning to see her
husband But she went Immediately to
Counselor Wlder's residence, and upon her
return with Mr. Wilder to headquarters,
they learned that Nubell had been taken to
the Grand Central depot and was by that
time far on his way to Chicago. Next day
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
hen Buffers Campaign.

CINCINNATI, June M.-The Enquirer's
Pittsburg special says: A weli-known labor
leader of this city has received letter from
the managers of the national Greenback
movement, advising him and others to be at
Chicago prior to the national Democratic
conversion meeting The idea in
gathering the labor class is explained by the
letter as follows;
I'VE propose to make every effort to have
Butler nominated by the Democrats Ac-
cordingly we will meet there a little in ad-
vance of tho convention and work for old
Butler. We will show the Democrats that
the working people of the country want the
man of destiny to fill the presidential chair,
We will warn the Democrats at Chicago
that the Greenbackers, Anti Monopolisrs
and labor men think better of Blaine
than of Cleveland, Bayard, or,
indeed, of any one whom the aristocratic
dude bolters of the Republican party may
pick out. Blaine is peoples candidate, and
the Democrats cannot win with any one but
a peoples candidate in opposition. So we
propose to do our best to have Butler nomi-
mated by the Democrats, and for that pur-
pose quite number of prominent labor lead
ers will be on hand at Chicago"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
BUSINESS TROUBLES. :
A Chicago Board of Trade Firm Close
Their Deals.
Belief That They VIII Settle in Full
-Sensalf0nal Reports on Wall
strcct-0ther Financial
Difficulties.

CHICAGO, June 24.-At a little before L.
O'Clock the secretary of the board raped for
silence and read a communication from Ker-
shaw & Co, announcing that all their trades
tad been closed, and asking that people who
had trades open call at the office either to
transfer them OF check them The
announcement created a momentary
sensation. The firm, one of the
largest, and supposedly one of the
strongest here, had the confidence of every.
body here, The market for moment suf-
fered. The excitement following the an
nouncement did not, however, by any mean
equal a panic. There was no rushing to
close out trades on account of the embarrassed
house. This was for the reason that the firm
had taken the precation to close its own
trades to prevent being slaughtered.
"Kershaw & Co.. said gentleman who
is near enough to the firm TO know the in
side of their affairs, will Pay everything in
full, and have something left A cursory
examination of their books shows that"
The cause of the failure is much discussed.
An inSider says: while believe Mr. Ker-
shaw TO be solvent, and that he will be able
to pay ill full just as soon as he can turn
himself around, the fact is, that he suffered
big loss when Alexander Mitchell suddenly,
and without notice to anybody, decided to
| close out the Young wheat deal kershaw,
with his acute perception of the progress of
| things on the floor got ION to- this deal very
soon, as it had been started in dead earnest
| and knowing the vast amount of money be-
hin | it, got "long" himself, and undoubtedly
got his friends "long." The speculation was
abandoned without any warning, and KeI.
shaw suffered The terrible state of affairs
| at New York only made matters worse The
traders who were ~long" property stood not
ghost of a show.
Kershaw & Co. is one of the est-known
houses in the grain trade. The head of it,
| Charles J. Kershaw, is a Scotchman, and
intimate with all the rich and influential
| Scotch traders at Milwaukee and in Canada
He had for years the cream of the great
Canadian shipping trade at Milwaukee, and
did at the Cream city as large shipping
business as was done in the country The
News says the firm has simply closed up
their business and will resume business inn
mediately.
The liabilities and assets are said to be
large, but no statement can be obtained yet.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24

TIE republican ticket in Wisconsin is
being bolted on all sides on account oil
Blaine's nomination. A large number of
popular republicans have openly an
nounced that they will not support the
republican ticket. The ticket is particu-
Iarly obnoxious to the German Ameri-
cans. The Freie Press, the afternoon
German Paper, bolted the ticket On the
day of the nomination. A sensation was
created in political circles by DerHerald
the most influential aud widely circulated
German newspaper in the west and the
northwest. Hitherto it has been stanch
republican or gan. 1t announces in a
doHle-leaded editorial that it will not
support the Blaine and Logan ticket.
Furthermore, that in the event of the
Democratic national convention nominal
ing Cleveland or Bayard upon a sound
democratic platform it will support such
ticket, without prejudice to its return
ing to Its allegiance to the republican
party in future campaigns DR.. Senner,
editorin chief of Der Herald, in an inter
view, said he believed that this view
voiced the sentiments of the great mass
of the German Republicans of the west
and northwest.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
Rnmors on Wall Street.

New YORK, June "A -Rumor reached the
street shortly after noon to the effect that ex-
Judge Hilton, of the late firm of A T. Stew
art & Co, had failed. 1t is said the embar-
rassment is due TO unfortunate speculations
in West Shore stocks. Hilton was seen BY a
reporter at his Office, but refused to speak
saying that he had no information for the
press.
LATER-Inquiry shows Judge Hilton
to he at. Saratoga, and his three sons in
Europe Persons intimately acquainted
with Hilton's affairs denounce the rumor as
absurd and sensational utterly and un-
founded.
NEW YORK, June %. -Rumors telegraphed
west respecting the failure and embar-
rassmsut of leading capitalists and business
men here have no foundation whatever, SC
far as the most vigorous inquiry can discover.
Not failure has been announced on the
stock exchange. The president of the
Standard OH company scouts the idea that
he is in trouble, and Mr.. Huntington merely
smiles at anxious inquirers who visit hin
asking about his alleged troubles.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
lockout Among the Plumbers,

New YORK, June 24.-Two weeks ago the
boss plumber, John Tourney, discharged a
journeyman plumber named John Leddy for
quitting work an hour too early. Twenty
two other journeymen in the shop, deeming
Leddy's discharge unjust, struck. Tourney
belongs to the Master Plumbers association.
Monday morning forty-eight shops
owned by members of the Master
Plumbers association locked ont the
journeymen and refuse to re-employ them
unless Journeys men return to work.
Tourney will not re-employ Leddy. The
master plumbers refuse to employ any men,
bers of the journeymen's union until the
lockout ends. Leddy refuses to work for any
one but Tourney. Clarendon hall is crowded
with locked out journeymen
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
she received the following from her husband:

she received the following from her husband:
DEAR MAMIE: write this letter in the
cars going to Chicago have Gone my best
to stay them, but they put me in irons and
took me to the Forty-second street depot, so
yon would not know where to find me. They
took me in coach, and when near the depot
halloed "Murderl help" as loud as could,
but five or six policemen took bold of me,
and then / was locked up, and this morning
they took me handcuffed to the cars
OTTo.
Mr.. Nubell was carried to Chicago, and is
now in jail awaiting his trial for "conspir-
aey," whatever that may imply. Upon
hearing the facts set forth above, Judge
Lawrence Indignantly and pointedly re-
marked from the bench that it was one of the
greatest outrages he had ever heard
of, and that he SHOULD sift the
matter to the bottom. He con-
tinued: "This man Moynihan ought
himself to be extradited and brought back
here for punishment for kidnapping, and if
any of our police authorities have aided him
in this high-handed proceeding, they must
satisfy me that the law justifies them in so
doing, or shall punish them, l care not how
high in authority they may be-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24
Truth nemands TiIaen.

New York, June 24.-The cry for the @old
ticket" is being revived here Truth says;
"Mr. Tilden must be made the candidate
either with his consent or without it.
The consequences can be safely left
with the Almighty. The American people
owe it to themselves to put Samuel J. Tilden
in the presidential chair, of which he was
robbed by Republican schemers eight years
ago. He is the only Democrat who can be
elected, and If he lives but an hour after his
election great wrong will have been re-
buked, and popular rights indicated and
upheld. Nominate the old ticket"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24

WHEN Guy Magee, city editor of the
Chicago Times. goes to Peoria next month,
he had better look out for his raiment. or
else 60 without any On his last visit
there he was robbed of his pantaloons,
pocket book and watch. Magee will not
be treated that way again, though, for a
different class of people will be present at
the next convention, than those who took
his garment and valuables.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-24

WASHINGTON CITY, June 24-CongreSs
has been in session six and half months
In the house 1866 bills have been intro
duced, and 260 joint resolutions In
the senate the number of bills and
joint resolutions reaches over 5000,
making II, 900 in the house and senate OF
this number 100 have become laws, l19 re-
ceiving the presidents signature, the odd
one, which makes the 100, having been
allowed to become a law without his sigma
ture. This one, which he omitted to sign or
to veto, is bill declaring the Cantil-
ever bridge at Niagara Falls a legal
structure. Of the 1856 b ills introduced in
| the house forty-six have become laws. OF
| the 1900 introduced in tho senate, thirty
| nine have become laws The following are
most important of the bills which have
passed both houses.
Authorizing the expenditure of $4,000
for Indian education.
Making it a felony for person to falsely
pretend to be an officer or employee of the
United States
Making an appropriation for the Agricul-
tural department for the fiscal year.
Making an appropriation for deficiency
in the amount required to ascertain the
depth of the water and the width of the
channel in the South pass of the Mississippi
river.
Authorizing the secretary of navy to send
an expedition to rescue the Greedy party and
also authorizing the offer of a reward of S25,-
900 for their rescue.
To prevent the counterfejting within the
United States Of notes, bonds or other securi-
ties of foreign governments.
Suspending the operations of the revised
statutes in relation to the Guano islands
Protecting the fisheries of the Atlantic
coast.
Extending the duration of the court of
Alabama claims.
Authorizing a national celebration upon
the completion of the Washington monu-
ment.
Directing the publication for sale of copies
of the "Tenth Census" and the rebellion
Record"
Appropriating $780, 900 for the sufferers by
the overflow of the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries.
Reducing the rates of postage on "tran
sient" newspapers
Making of public roads and highway, post
roads.
Repeating the iron-clad oath act
Appropriating IS, 75o, 900 to pay rebate to-
| bacco tax
Establishing bureau of animal industry.
Revising the laws relating to judicial pro-
| ceedings in the territories.
Making appropriation for the support of
| the Military Academy.