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exchanges naielsstoyes, refrigerators, gas,
gasoline uenH oil stoves for old ones or
DEMONSTRATING goods.
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1884-06-12
MEDICAL.
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VIZ ILL be paid to any one who will find par
w ticle OF Mercury, Potash, Iodine, Arsenic
or any poisonous substance In
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Housewives scrap-Book.

To PRESERVE BUTTER FREsH.-l
find that the best way is to take Of
salt two parts, sugar, one part
saltpetre, one part. Beat and
blend together. One ounce of this
mixture Is to be used to every
pound of butter. Work it we'll in.
Let it remain about three or -four
weeks, which time it will take to
sufficiently blend the salt.
HANDY CovER FOR FLOUR BARREL.
Take the top hoop after you re-
move the head of the barrel, and
sew in white muslin. This makes
a nice, convenient and firm cover,
and you have a strong protection
against dirt, insects, etc.
Every wife that has house Of
her own, shonld cultivate little
garden with il. It not only affords
pleasure, but develops the muscles
and gives shealthful employment.
1t is nice recreation after a series
Of household duties. Besides all
this, so many little vegetables can
be raised, that 1t will often be but
a moments work to get cold sup
per, or extras for a Sunday meal.
Don't forget your flower garden.
The roses, the daisies, the shrub
berry, the vines, and all the little
flowers, rich in color and sweet in
scent. How they beautify the
home, and how much enjoyment
they give. Always try to make
home cheerful and pleasant, and
you will be doubly repaid for your
lahors.
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Cron Mortgages.

The man who shall persuade the
people of the south to bandon the
crop mortgage system of agricul-
ture and adopt the better practice
of paying the expenses of one year
with the proceeds of the previous
years crop will entitle himself to
the honor of life-size statue in
every southern capital 1t matters
little whether this mortgage sys-
tenn is one of the inseparable ae-
compartments of exclusive grow
ing or not, or the results of certain
traits in the southern character, il
is vicious and destructive, and
ought to be got rid of at any cost
of inconvenience and even of suf-
tering. The abolition of IT would
be cheaply. purchased even by the
sudden and absolute destruction of
indiEidBalcredit in the south, and
forcing every farmer TO pay cash
for every article he buys. Such a
destruction of credit would involve
great hardships and poor living
for one Year, but it would be fol-
lowed by . blessing which many
southern planters have never en-
joyed. The practice ofmortgaging
a crop before it is planted, for the
necessary supplies for the planters
family, keeps him forever one year
behind. Cotton is the most impor-
tant commercial crop raised in the
country; but, while it enriehes all
through whose hands il successive
iy passes, from the time it leaves
the Sin-house, it leaves but little
profit TO the planters who raise ii
or the section that yields II. The
charges and exactions levied on a
bale oflcotton from first to last az
gregate about one cent per pound,
OF, Sa per bale; and this, on crop
of 7,0t2 900 bales, is s35, 600, 600.
Western grain and stock farmers
would make the world ring with
their complaints lfthey were sub.
iccted to such toll on their crops
for single year. Ii lisa matter Of
surprise that the planters of the
south do not demand and secure q
larger share of control over theiI
chief product. They have com
mon interest, and this interest die.
tates Il common measure of self
defense. Cotton-raising in the
south is more profitable TO the acre
than embarrassing in the west, yet
the west grows rich raising grain
and hay at SIS to $50 por acre,
while southern planters do not gel
out of debt raising cotton at from
$50 to $50 per acre. The expla
nation must be found in the mill
stone they carry round their neek'
in the perpetually renewed mort
cages on their erops--Arlngton
World.
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Ts,a.'Ri1s Grass.

= Some three or four years since l
began to experiment with the Poa
Arachnifera, or Texas blue grass,
and being Statistician to the De-
partments of Agriculture for many
years from this county, l wrote to
Mr.. Loring on the subject and sent
a specimen to him, giving my ex-
perienees with 1t. The letter and
"a notice and a plate of the grass
was printed in the Agricultural
Report of1SS1 and 1882, which has
brought on me an avalanche of let
tiers ofinquiry from all the South.
ern States and Tennessee. l tried
to answer them at first, but found
1t impossible to continue to do so,
And now, your able correspondent
J. H. Moore, has published my let.
ter, in your valuable paper, my
troubles will increase unless you
help me by publishing this, giving
my experience and answering the
numerous inquiries on the subject
of this grass, how to plant, wher
to plant, etc. E
The grass can be raised from the
seed or propagated by putting out
sets in September and October ant
even in February in this latitude
32o. Plant the seeds about two
feet apart, in rows, as you woulC
| beets or other fine seed, keeping
the grass from them the frs
spring; they will occupy the grounC
in the fall, and can be taken VI
and set out as potatoes, in row
two feet apart and teninches apar
in the row; they will grow all tn.
winter and make perennial sod
4 In February, 1883, planted
patch Of sets in the above manner
on quite thin, sandy land. 1t hac
no cultivation, the following sum
mer, was over-run with crab grass
endured last summers grea
drouth, and stood the extreme cole
weather, and now april S. it il
eighteen inches high and going t.
seed. My young calves have beef
running on it some time. 1t ripeni
its seeds in May, and the stem
grow two feet high. Being bus!
time then in ehopping out cottor
lit is difficult to get labor to gathe'
the seed, as the, heads have to b.
picked by hand, stripping the sect
listens. NJ t
! l have no seed for sale. having
planted all / raised last fall. Slice
and frozen ground three inches
deep did not affect it at all las
wintor. 1t grows as well here il
winter as Bermuda does in sum
mer. Chickens are as fond of it a:
wheat or oats, and it is very ten
der. Mules and cows prefer it t
rye or barley.-C. B. Richardson
Henderson, Texas, in Home ane
1 Farm.
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Several of the cowboys in the
vicinity of Deer Trail, Colorado,
are agitating the subject of start
ing company to be called the
Cowboys Cattle Company. Any
cowboy on the range can invest his
earnings at so much per share, and
hard-earned dollars, which are now
thrown away, or worse, be saved
to the country as a whole and the
toilers of the range in particular.
There can be no question that IN
terests of n substantial nature, as
this would be, must make the boys
better citizens in every respect and
more faithful in their work for
their employers. 1t would also,
to no small extent, influence their
feelings in regard to the coming
and going of thieves. and there
would be vastly less winking go.
ing on and less camp chuck eaten
by crooks. Where cowboys regard
their employers as driveling re,
CARDS his master, it is possible that
the thief may receive his dinner OF
lodging and not be "given away"
The scheme among the boys in
Colorado is a good one, for them,
selves their employers, and the
range interests generally.-Texaf
Panhandle.
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The awful silence of the Martin
boom seems to worry great many
papers in the state. 1t will be well
not to boast just yet. There is a
current of undertaking and senti-
ment IN Texas that will sooner or
latter unhorse the bosses and re-
store the rule of the people, Mar
tin may not be the man, but he
will be found when the occasion
demands it.-TeXas Farmer.
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Mocking Bird Whistles in Arkan.
From the Little Rock Gazette

From the Little Rock Gazette.
The steamer Ella, which plies in
the Upper Arkansas, has little
whistle that will certainly get her
into trouble. She took a trip up
the river a day or two since, and
when the whistle let out its pent
up steam in a series of long drawn
shrieks it frightened the natives on
both sides of the river. They arm
ed themselves, not knowing what
sort of wild animal was coming.
Many darkies ran to the woods, and
there was a similar scene ofexcite-
ment and terror when "she blew"
The sound starts off ona low pitch,
like a suction pump, and gets high
er and higher until it ends IN an
agonizing shrek, which suddenly
drops into a pitiful sputter. Such
combination of sound heard in
the night, if a person didn't know
what it was would almost brighten
him into voting the Republican
| ticket.
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Large development of the com.
mercial sense: "Did not the sons
of Jacob commit a heinous sins
when they sold their brother Jos.
eph?" asked a Sunday School
teacher of the son of an Austin
merchant. ayes, SIR" What sins
was it they committed ''They
sold him too cheap."-Texas Sift
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Farm Items.
Weeds steal nourisbmont fro

Weeds steal nourishment from
the crops.
Matter composed of carbon is nc
use as a fertilizer.
Experiments have proved thai
wheat fourishes best when tn,
seed is sown two inches deep.
During the winter 800, 900 bush
els of turnips have been shipped
from one locality in Canada to b,
manufactured into jam.
Don't allow any sudden or ex
treme change of temperature t.
affect your milk and cream it viii
spoil the keeping qualities of tn,
butter.
Ducks should have separate
houses from other fowls. They
should have troughs, as they dc
not like to pick and hunt on the
ground like chickens.-Cincinnat
Times. ..---
An old-fashioned pudding sauce
that can be made in an instant is
simply milk sweetened and flavor
ed with grated nutmeg. This is
really palatable with corn-starch
blanc-mange.-N. Y. Post.
1t is estimated that the garden
products of Massachusetts, exclus'
i've of potatoes and beans raised
on the farms, equaled S5,000,00C
last year. 1t was ten times as
great as that in 1860.
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Two votes more in the Legisla-
ture would have given New York
prohibition law, which was a pref
ty close call for the liqnor inter-
est. The vote by which the bill
was lost was reconsidered, only to
be again defeated on its final pass
age by vote of So to 60.
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As a modest but profitable in
vestment, we suppose. the best is,
next to q few newly Invented min
ing shares, a small interest in a
Florida orange tree. 1t might not
be prudent, however, to buy a
whole tree at once, In view of the
dangers attending q too rapid &C
emulation of riches.
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Oushioned in Rosv tiums.

inclosed in lips that part in smiles like the
opening rosebud, the teeth CLEAN with dsg
ziing whiteness If the charming posscssol
uses identifying S0ZODONT, which clean
ses and blanches the teeth without abgading
their enamel like mineral preparations de
signed for the same purpose. This agree
ablyodorous and salutary article not only
benefits the teeth and enhances the beauty
of the mouth, but removes canker, and rene
dies liberation ftke gums.
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Mr.. Henry Willard, ex-president
of the Northern Pacific Railroad
will not go abroad, it is now stated
as the representative in Europe o.
the Edison electric light enter
prise. 1t is said he is about to re,
turn to his old profession, that OF
journalism, and will shortly appear
upon the editorial staff of one Of
the leading New York morning
papers. 4--sr a a.~aaE
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1t is said of a deceased citizen OF
Nelson, Va, that in hislong life he
never bought a match. A fire,
either open or banked, was kept
up continually on his hearth In
this he trod in the footsteps of his
father, and the fire upon that one
hearth was continuous fire for
more than 100 years.
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Gov. Crittenden's friends are
urging by letters and personal ap'
peals that the governor should be
a delegate at large to the Demo
cratic notional convention. Why
should he be required to 60 to Chi
cago in July when it is warm
enough for him here st. Louis
Republican.
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Piles are frequently preceded by sense
ofweight in the back, IONS and lower part OF
the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose
he has some affection of the kidneys or neigh
boring organs. At times symptoms of indl-
gestion as fatnlency, uneasiness of the stom-
ach. ETC. A moisture like perspiration, pro-
ducing a very disagreeable itching, after get
ting warm, is very common attendant
Blind, Bleeding and itcning Piles yield at
once TO the application of DR.. BoSank kos Pilt
Remedy, which acts directly upon the part
affected, absorbing the tumOrs, allayins the
intense itching, and affecting permanent
cure. Price, so cents. Address, The DIT
Bosanko Medicine Co., Piqua, Ohio. Sold
by Walker & Co.
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The great, fuss and blow. about
corrupt ring rule in Louisiana
seems to be all fuss and blow.
Judging from the overwhelming
Democratic majorities, the party
is about as deeply Undecided in the
affections and hearts of the people
as any party ever was in any
State.-selma Times, Dem.
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Increase of bees early in the
spring, when judiciously conduct,
ed, is attended with great good
The best stimulant in the spring is
salty water, placed in a trough
where the bees can have access &c
it. Do not get the water too salty:
a teaspoonful to pail of water is
enough.-Ex. .sr-s 4s-,E
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TO ' PHYSICIANS Is AND INYALIDs

II analysis of " CoIdeIs,s Liquid Bee
Ionic." by the eminent chemist, ARTHUH
HILL. HASSALL, Md, FRS, of London,
England; and an endorsement h tho eel,
belled on each bottle.
snld at Wholesale by all leading
Druggists, and retailed generally, at 81 pei
bottle; for s.. c. y. CRITTENTON, GEN.
ERAL AGENT. il5 Fulton Street. New York.
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"What causes the great rush at Walker &
Cos. Drug Store?" The free distribution
of sample bottles of DR.. Bosanko's Cough
and Lung Syrup, the most popular remedy
for Coughs, Colds and Consumption ant
Bronchitis now on the market. Regular
size SOC. and 81. 81 =. FL - 81 sEi
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Bonnet strings are very wide
and short, forming a large bow,
with short ends under the chin.
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SHnnr Men

Wells Health Remover" restores health
vicor, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual
Debility. 81.
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The Only True Remedy for Biiiousness
ALvARDo, TEN.
Ihave taken many different kinds of medi
cine for biliousness, but never found any
thing to compare with Smiths Bile Beans.
Respectfully yours, j. C.sARNOLD.
For sale by R, Z. Luhn. H.,
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IT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF

the Blood and enrichesit. and is there
fore q fine iIsriQorolst and corrective
in cases OF all chronic nldLddies which
are associated with IN IMPovERIsHED
STATE OF THE BLOOD. These all yield
tothe regulating and nourishing prop
critics OF It's great food tonic elements
It compansates for the loss of rifaIify,
induced by Consumption, CdtdTTh or
bronchial and Throat affections. n
sriU remedy Feminine Debility and
reimburse the Female physique for
those losses Of ritGlity accompany
ing complaints peculiar TO the ser.
Mothers nursing their own children,
and delicate tronIep who expect TO
become mothers and bring up cioof-
oILs childreIs should by all means use
it. 1t tciU restore sufferers Prom
Mental or Nervous ProStrdtfoTl arts-
ing from Orer-trorL=, ErceSSeS or
f,rotrdeted Disease. IL tctIt cure
Drunkenness aud the Opium Habit
Tor as the appetite grows healthier
and digestion more vigorous through
the use OF this Tonic, the unnatural
craving dies away until totally ex-
tInct. IT Is highly bensJicint ia Ldrer
COMPLAINTS, MdldridL Ferer, and
AL AaLGriaI Disease; and for tho
facilitating effects of Ferer Of a,iy
Kind Il has no eqI30it ~ scpatTs
,saste, improves Digestion and Ap-
petite, and affords the Dyspeptic lil-
valid an easily GSsiSaildble article
Of food; and is so pleasant TO the taste
that the most sensitive palate VIII not
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SINGING. irritation, Inflammation, all Kid
ney and Urinary Complaints, cured by
,'Buchu-paiba." 81. - iFL-E1I X
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Mother Swans Worm Syrup.
Infallible, tasteless. harmless, cathartic; fol
feverishneSs, restlessness, worms, cOnstipa-
ton. 25c.
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WAR! BOOKS,

SEVEN GREAT MoNARCHIEs of the An
Gent Eastern World. By GEnRGE R,wLISsoS.
what is more TERRIBLE than War ?-Unless
II he war among publishers, then what could he
HAPPIER, for rejoicing book-buyers? such
4 war l. in progress. Price reduced from sis. 20
TO $40. Specimen pages free. Not sold by
before payment. JoHN d. ALDEN, Publisher, Is
Nesey St, n. Y.
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\ The best smoking tabacco
'Iittle Joker"
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Benson's CaTAclne Porous Plasters are beyond
all comparison the best. Prompt, sure. Price.
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'Castoria is so well adapted to Children that
recommend it as superior 10 any prescription
known TO me-" II. A. ARCHER, ". D.,
s. Portland Ave, Brooklyn, n. Y.
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for Infants and Children.

riapromotes Digestion
and overcomes Flatulency, Constipa-
ton, Sour Stomach, Diarrhua, and
Fevcrishness. 1t insures health and
natural sleep, without morphine.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17

ERIE, Pa, July IA young man in this
city has for some years made electrical mat
ters study, and has at last constructed a
telephone transmitter which many regard as
superior to those patented by Bell or Edison
A correspondent saw tests made over a wire
eight miles in length, no battery of any kind
being used. A conversation was carried on
in whispers no difficulty being expert
enced in hearing what was said at the
other end. The ticking of a watch was
also heard, and when one cell of
a battery was added the breathing of the
person talking was plainly discernible. The
new transmitter and receiver are smaller
than those now in use and the listener
is not required to have the instrument SO
close to the ear. In place of ferreotype for
sounding purposes mica is used. The neces-
sary electricity is supplied by the use Of
copper and zinc plates, which furnish an in
exhaustible supply. The inventor who has
applied for patent, has watch which has
run without stopping for two years, being
propelled by the same force as that applied
to the telephone
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17
THERE'S MANY A SLIP
Between the Kiss and the Lip-An
Elepement Spoiled.


READING, Pa, july 1.-Two officers have
frustrated an eiopement from this
city For some weeks past Winfield Frying,
haillng from Philadelphia, has been work
ing in this city He became ac-
quamted with young married woman
employed at Flying Hill park as
domestic, and the acquaintance ripened into
love. She was hVhg apart from her nus
band, owing 10 some misunderstanding, and
frying PAID ner frequent visits. Ihey at
length resolved TO nee TO some locality where
both we re unknown, and Tuesday was deter
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17
List of Patents,

The following patents were granted to
citizens of Illinois, bearing date July s,
1884. Reported expressly for this paper
by LOUIS Bagger s. Company, mechanical
experts and solicitors of patents. Wash
ington, D. c.:
Augsburger, Fred, Belleville combined ladder
and truck
Bean, j. D., Wimon, tooth for horse hay rakes
Burbank, A. j., Harvard, hay elevator and car
rier.
Burgess, L., Woodruff, corn harvester.
Connect, NJ. F.. Springfield, machine for making
wire and picket fence.
erich, Fred, Joliet. wire galvanizng apparatus
Davidson, D. j., and C. II. Michael, Marshall,
harness hame.
Donaldson; David, Rock Island, saw swaging
machine.
Fay, Patrick j., East ST. Louis, velocipede.
Giles, William, Mount Olive, safety catch fol
elevators.
1de, A L., Springfield steam engine governor
Lane, John, Hyde Park. Alton, wheel land side
plow.
Mcmillan, Duncan, Macomb, machine for shock
ing grain.
Morrisey, j. F., Joliet, knotted wire for checl
rover.
Palmer, H. II. Rockford, milk cooler
Powell N. B., Versailles coffee roaster.
Richardson, J. W, Riverton, horseshoe.
Stover. D. c., Freeport wire barbing machine.
Swedberg Oliver and E. Rantone combined
fifth wheel and head block.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17

Miller, Horace Russell, Jesse Seligman, ex
Postmaster General James, John Jay Knox,
Whitelaw Reid, Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, and
ex-senator Platt.
The crowd was so large that an overflow
meeting was organized and addressed by
local Republican politicians.
William NJ Evarts was the speaker of the
evening He leveled a good deal of his
speech at the bolters, and said they wanted
impracticable things; that to desire thu Re-
publican party's success while conspiring to
defeat the nominees was a rather peculiar
position. He was no orator. like Mr.. George
William Curtis, but believed what that gen
tleman had said about the two great parties,
and consequently had no difficulty in deciding
which way to vote. Il fought for Clay, for
Webster, for Seward, for Grant, for that
orator and statesman James A Garfield, and
l will fight for that orator, statesman and
public leader, James G. Blaine, and for that
soldier and senator, John A Logan. [Grea,
applause The issues are unbrUkenn
The speaker was enthusiastically cheered
during his speech, and was followed by Sena
tor Hawley, who spoke against free trade
Resolutions were adopted endorsing Presi
dent AIthurs administration, and eulogiZine
Blaine and Logan.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-17
An Indianapolis Failure.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 1.-THE finan-
ciai situation is much improved. The
runs on Ritzinger's bank and Fletcher &
Churchman'S bank continued in the morning,
but the number of people demanding their
money was smaller, and the runs had entirely
ceased by noon 1t was feared that the country
banks might become alarmed and draw the
balances held by the banks in the city, but
all fears of danger from this source are now
allayed. Letters have been received from
the officers of several of the country banks
having balances here, expressing the utmost
confidence in the security of thescity banks,
and stating that they will draw as lightly as
possible on their balances While the feeling
is still very nervous, confidence is steadily
growing, and from the present outlook there
is nothing to warrant apprehensions Of any
further trouble with the city banks.