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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07
Psshss and Dogs.

The dogs are a blessing to the Turks.
II a Mohammedan gets very drunk and
wants to run amuck and is AFRAID to go
out and kill a man for fear of the after
consequence, when he gets to feeling
real nice and murderous he takes his
knife and goes into the streets and
sticks it recklessly into the first dog he
meets. If he Is real murderous he kills
two, and so great is the respect for the
CANNES that he gets more reputation as
"a "bad man" out of this proceeding
than if he had killed four or tive mere
Mohammedans. A pasha ranks nearly
up to a dog in point of secular respect,
but the dog holds over him in religious
sanctity. The dog has the right of way
IN the public streets. and have seen a
heavy pack train turn aside for n ly'
ing asleep on the cobbles. So fully
assured are they Of their social position
that they have lost the sensitiveness
n expects from the race in civiliza-
ton. One day i'll the fish-market a
greasy, yellow fellow walked into a stall
and selected a good sized fish while the
vender's back was turned, hauled 1t
down and began licking it preparatory
to making a meal. a Turk never
allows his religion to drop into mat
tiers of loss and gain, and the owner OF
the fish sacrilegiOusly interfered with a
club. Acivilized dog would have taken
the hint and departed, but this canine
saint had too much respect for his cloth.
Relying on his sanctity, at thetlrst blow
he sat down on the pavement by the
hsh and lifted up bis hand to heaven in
a howl. He shivered and squirmed and
wrinkled his skin as the blows grew
more persuasive, but it was some min
utes before he was convinced that the
affair was not a joke ard that he really
was not wanted. 1t is the foreigners
who abuse them most. | kicked one SO
hard behind that he tilted clear over
and struck on his hose. He did not
pay any attention or make a sound.
He just tilted back into his old position
and went on summing himself without
even looking around.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07
Horse Cars IN turkey.

There are no sidewalks in Galata,
and everybody goes in the streets. AS
a the first weeks fatali-
ties of the horse car company included
four Armenians, three Turks, a Nh
bian, and a Greek, children and dogs
not counted. Business was equally
good the second week; but the third,
they had the misfortune to include a
Pasha. 1t was a bunglIng piece of bus
mess, for they did not kill the Pasha;
they only mangled him. And when he
got around again lie put in his wnole
time working for an injunction against
the road. 1t was shown in evidence
that the company did not want the
Pasha or the other people killed; that
they had been at considerable expense
to dispose of them; and further, that
1t had rung its bells, as by law required
and so was not responsible for the peo-
pie who got in the way. The Pasha
hled his answer, and said that he had
heard the bell; that any n not deaf
could not help hearing it; but that 1t
was not his bell, and he could moi be
expected to look out for every slave
that rang one in the public streets. If
the slaves were to he bell sheep for the
Pashas he thought 1t was time for the
latter to resign. 1t was a very pretty
quarrel, and occupied a good deal OF
Government time. But finally a COM
promise was reached and al arrange
ment adopted which has continued in
use until the present time. The speed
of the car was not slackened nor its
right of the way denied. But in con-
sheraton of the crowded state of the
thoroughfares and the impossibllity of
making the populace turn out or mind
the bells the company was handicapped
with outrunners. Each car was pro-
yided with a negro, armed with a club
whip and TIN horn, whose business it
was to run some fifteen PAGES ahead on
the track blowing his horn. They are
picturesque fellows, these outrunners,
in their red fezes and green shirts, that
are open nearly to the waist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07
Advice to My Son.

Did you ever hunt for something you
didn't want to find? asks Burdette2
People frequently do. No man wants
to find a horizontal collar button, nor
does the gentlewoman who carefully and
anxiousIy looks under the bed every
niSht for "a man, really went to find the
man. She believes there is ole there,
but she would be greatly d sappointed
and surprised to find him. Never look
for things'you do not want to find, my
son. IL is hard enough to find the
things you want. If you do hot want
to find faults III your friends. do not look
for them. If you do not Nant to find
your enemies, do not huns for them.
They will hunt for you, my son. And
What is worse, they will find you, too,
| have known men who passed 9ll
their lives hunting for things wuich no
body wished to have discovered and
which only made the finder miserable.
There are naen who can't smell a hello
trope held at their lips, but have a nose
for carrion that would be a fortune to
J some poor struggling buzzard. He
never looks for a good point about any
man. He finds the spots on the sun,
and sees not one ray of its brightness.
A clear running spring brook gives him
the hydrophobia, and a mud puddle is
reyivlng Turkish bath to his mean little
sonl. IL he could 20 to heaven, which,
praised be ali goodness, he never can, he
would be of all men most MISE able, be
cause he could find no mud to throw al
the angels.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07
Playing Chess BIindfoId.

There is nothing very remarkable in
| playing a game of chess without seeing
the board. When one mastered, the
trick Is not only fairly easy of perfor-
nance, but the fact that the process is
purely mental rather facilitates than
impedes the action of the mind. To
the blind folded chess-player, there is
| present a mental picture OF the board
with the pieces in position. He can
change the position of the men as
| easily as he can think, and after he has
once mastered the difficulty of fixing
the mental picture, it is distinctly be-
fore him. Some players, who do not
In their common process of memory
use picture phantoms, work out the
moves as algebriacal propositions are
| occasionally worked, by phantoms of
! sound; but as a rule, chess-players are
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., and can at
pleasure call up any one of several
pictures of boards as they last conceived
them. The most difficult feat, and one
which very few mental chess PLAYERS
can accomplish, Is to play two or three
games simultaneously, the moves made
by their opponents being told them in
close sequence and their W moves
being directed after all the reports of
the proceedings Of their opponent, have
been received. Thus, if there be sew
eral PLAYERS against the one mental
player, he must be told and remember
what each of his adversaries has done
before he begins to give the instruc-
lions for his several counter moves.
In.fhiS nxnlnif tho most IarTanf .1aVaI-
opment of the mental faculty of dis
tinet Ficturing and tn displacement
and recall of mental pictures at will is
exhibited The prodigious difficulty
OF the feat can be realized in the at
tempt to perform it. Even the expert
blind-folded chess-player can rarely
succded IN accomplishing the perfOr-
nance we have attempted to describe.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07
Changed HANDS,

AT the beginning of the oil excite
ment IN Pennsylvania a very religious
old farmer who owned forty acres In the
center of the ''belU'' had offers for his
farm until he couldn't sleep nights.
They began at 81, 900 and went up to
$4,000, but to each and every would be
purchaser the old man steadily replied
"If the Lord has put coal-ile under
my farm it isn't for me to dispute his
will"
One day however the agent of q syn.
dictate came along and asked what figure
the Old a would set on his acres.
i've bin offered $50, 600"
Eyes"
Five bin saying as how the Lord put
the lie there for some purpose of his own.
Exactly"
well, now, if you could convince
me that about one barrel in ten Of the
lie from this farm would be used for
people to read their bibles by / reckon
I'd set my figures at about $50, 1000"
In less than three hours the farm
changed hands.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07

upon them with a curiosity tda' soon
deepens into awe.
The end OF my sightseeing OF Napo-
leon was reached when | entered golden
doomed Invalides through the high
rooted church where dozens of shot
stained and shell-torn banners-each a
history in itself-tell more eloquently
than words Of the glorious victories of
the dead Emperor in Italy, in Austria,
in Prussia-in all Europe, in fact.
Beneaththese old war flags the crippled,
battered soldier from the adjoining
hospital kneels before a golden Madonna
and reverently crosses his palsied hands.
We as reverently lean over the marble
wall and gaze long and earnestly at the
massive porphry mausOleum illumined
by golden and crimson and yellOw-hued
rays of sunlight that shine through the
stained glass windows mighty rock
covering a few specks of dust and
scattered pieces of withered bones-all
that is left on earth of Napoleon Boa
apartel
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07

The Government has pald out
since the close OF the war nearly $685.
100000 in pensions to the soldiers of
the Union, and is now distributing
among them over $50, 900. 900 a year.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07

Prince Leopold's widow will have
to struggle along on an annual income
of SAC, 900.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-06-07


The consumption of water within
the metropolis of London is at the rate
of about 81 gallons per head per day.
OF the total quantity, 1900. 900 of
gallons are obtained from the Thames,
and Il ZOO, 900 from the river Lee, the
New River, and other sources.
Cremation establishments under
the control of the Government are to
be found in all the chief cities of Japan.
Lon the South Park Railroad, Colo
RADIO, is a line of tree stumps of an uu-
known kind in all stages of petri6ca.
tion.
-Five-cent cigars, a correspondent
who alleges accurate knowledge says,
are smoked by most Congressman In
Washington.
Forty cords Of oak wood will yield
Just about ten cords Of merchantable
charcoal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
Danvilie Riot Investigation.

WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 2l.-W. II. Banks
dale tcolored), a clergyman, told a monoton-
Gus story Of the riot, which he had seen from
short distance without adding anything Of
Importance to the story. The witness thought
there was no danger to whites from colored
people. He had never heard any threats
by colored men, although his opportuni-
ties for hearing or knowing their sentiments
were excellent Witness did not vote, and in
reply to Mr.. Sherman's question why, he
said: "Welb I felt that a city of colored PEG
pie ought to be in sackcloth and ashes pray
ing instead of going to polls, and when
went on the street and saw the
blood of those men, my heart was full of
grief. l knew them all from boyhood.
Then saw men that were armed, and did not
know what might be the result; consequently
did not go to the polls at all" Witness
further described the sentiment of the colored
people as he had gathered it in inter-
course with them. He said, in effect,
'If can't 60 to the polls except
under lead and powder, won't go at ALL +"
He was further cross-examined by Mr.
Vance. He insisted that the crowd of col
ored people was composed in part of women
and children. The failure OF colared people
to vote was not the result of any orders re-
ceived from any source-not to his knowl-
edges
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
Slight Odds.
A Little Story with a Large Moral, One
Man who Knew his own Business.

Man who Knew his own Business.
mo, my dear" said the venerable keeper of {
country store to q timid little girl whose hest
scarcely came up to the counter, mo, my dear
haven't any red flannel, but We have some first
rate New Orleans molasses - Softly limiting tina
she didn't think that would answer the purpos,
quite as we'll the child went away in search Of tht
article shewanted. E
"Havc You BEFSoN,S CAPCINE PLAsTERS,'
asked a gentleman of certain dreggist whose
name could be given were it desired. Il am trou
bled just now with touch Of my old friend, the
lumbago, and the Benson's Plaster seems to &c
the spot almost as soon as it touches the skin"
Not at present. >, replied the druggist genially
"but we have lots of plasters just as good, There
is Allcocks. the Capsicum and others-won't one
of them do just as wellf'
my dear SIR" retorted the gentleman, with
slight show Of temper. Il say nothing against
those articles, but am a business man, and al
ways ask for precisely what want and for moth
ing else. / may enlighten you however, when
say that sometime ago, for another disease,
which the Capcine has since cured me, tried al
those you mention, with no appreeiable benefit
lbey are lhenicient, every one OF tnenl, the mean
est act of the proprietere Of some of them being
this: that they make plasters with similar sound
ing names to deceive the unwary into believing
they are the same thing. Experience Taught me
the difference. I'll 60 to the next man in your line
Good day" a..
Be on your guard against limitations. The gen
uine has the word CAPCINE cut clearly in the
middle of the plaster All others are imrDsitious
Seabury & johnson, Chemists, New York
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
ADVICE TO MnTHERs.

Are you disturbed at night and broker
OF your rest by q sick child suffering ant
crying with pain of cutting teeth? If so
send at once and get bottle of Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething. It's value is incalculable
1t will relieve the poor little sufferer i'm
mediately. Depend upon it mothers
there is no mistake about it. 1t curei
dysentery, diarrhoea, regulates the stom
ach and bowels, cures wind collie, soft
ems the gums, reduces Inflammation. ant
gives tone and energy to the whole sys-
tenn Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syru,
for Children Teething is pleasant to tht
taste, and is the prescription of one o.
the Oldest and best female physicians anc
nurses in the United States, and is fo
sale by all druggists throughout thu
world. Price % cents per bottle.
E feb-28 m-w-s m 1-y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
Three Tramps Killed.

CosHocToN, O., Feb 21.-At Trenton, a
few miles east of here, on the Pan Handle
railway, three tramps were killed outright
and one seriously injured, and the engineer,
the conductor and two brakemen of a train
badly injured in collision in which two en-
gines and twenty-one freight cars were almost
entirely demolished The scene of the mishsp
is at the foot OF a long grade, down which
the first section of a freight train was run
ming at a high rate Of speed At the foot of
the hill is little station and side-tracks. The
switch had been moved without disturbing
the signal, and the engine crashed into two
cars standing on siding. Before the flag
man could get far enough back to warn the
section following, it came crashing into the
first, piling the cars and the engine in mass
Of indistinguishabled debris 81 IS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21

As being without precedent, the
lower house of the Connecticut legislature
refused TO appropriate 5000 for the flood
mfferers
The Iowa senate has passed the
Donnan bill prohibiting the manufacture of
ale, wine, beer, and all intoxicating liquors
whatever by a vote of 35 to %. AKA
In new life of John Howard Payne,
written by Charles FL. Brsinard, it is denied
hat the poet was III needy circumstances
when he wrote "Home, Sweet Home"
A salesman in Covent Garden market,
London, recently advertised for q few pounds
IF ripe strawbegries, sta ing that he had a
special or Ter, and coatl get Is neT pound.
Mrs. Ann Stump, of Columbus Chic,
poisoned Ter pet deg, fearing it might t,2ive
her and hs uncared for Re.aorse "a the
Iced caused her to kill herself with stryeh-
nine
The motion in the British parliament
10 ceniure the Gladstone ,uinsLry was d.
feated- 81: to Goethe total vote being 573
The irish Nationalsts, thirty four in number,
Voted against the government
1t is expected that Mr.. Beecher will
go to Europe on lectaring tour in the
spring or early summer 1t is over twenty
years since Mr.. Beecier was in England,
where he made many stirring addresses upon
the war.
-Four Dakota stage coaches are miss
ing, api it is feared the passengers, drivers
and horses persisted in the blizzard. Sections
Of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa were visited
by the northern terror, creating heavy snow
drifts and Tetarding travel
Miss Grace Kean, of New York, visit
ing relatives at ST. Louis. mySteriously dis
appeared, but again came to her sisters resi-
ience The police had been informed, but
now that she has returned the family are ex-
tremely reticent about the affair.
Col. A. A. Talmage has been ap-
pointed fourth vice president of the Missouri
Pacific system, with jurisdiction over the en-
tire Wabash line, thus retiring Col. Andrews
from the general SUPPLEMENTARY The latter
has been appointed consulting engineer.
An elegantly dressed young woman
entered the hallway of public building at
st. Louis, and a rasser-by few moments
later found newly born babe on the floor;
but the mother notwithstanding her pre-
carious condition, had mysteriously van
shed.
Secretary Folger says; at was my
ambition to be governor of New York. but
that is a thing of the past. When leave
the treasury it viii be to go back to my farm
at Geneva, and spend the rest of my days
there l have worked hard and it is about
time To taxa some rest
The Liquor Dealers Protective asso-
citation met in Chicago and decided to take
out only the $50 licences, under which they
would sesl distilled liquors. If interferred
with the courts are to be appealed to. Steps
were taken to test the constitutionality of
the Harper law in the supreme court of the
United States
A heavy rainstorm wrecked the dam
at Los Angeles, Cal, flooding the town, and
washing away forty buildings. Hundreds of
families were compelled to move. Miles of
the Southern Pacific and California Southern
railroads have been washed away, and travel
in all directions is suspended. The greatest
floods ever known are reported in the lower
section of the San Joaquin valley.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
How Dorsey Is Taxed.

WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 2f.-Ex-Senator
Dorsey, in conversation with a correspond
emit about bis connection with the star route
cases said: u had to borrow in ready money
about SCOOP to defend these lawsuits. You
can see how cruel it is for an individual to be
bounded by this great government to oblige
a lot Of newspapers. Mr.. Bosler took a
portion of my herd of cattle for the
money 1t was an unhappy thing for
me, because it obliged me to have an
other man spying on the property
Since Mr.. Bosler's death his brother, Her
man Bosler, has sold those cattle to John B.
Alley, Of Massachusetts,, and has made
about 100000 on the operation. James
Bosler died worth sS,0O0,00O His brother
Herman is also a very rich man.
"How are you fixed, Mr.. Dorseyg'
II have got the best herd Of cattle on the
continent. My bulls are of the best breeds.
The increase OF the cattle goes on without in
Permission y -
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
A Fight VITA HIrhwaymen.

UNIoNTowN, Pa, Feb. 2l-The people liv.
ing IN the mountainous regions of Fayette
county have been terrorized by a band of
Highway robbers and burglars who made
their headquarters IN the mountains and
sailed forth at night, aud frequently IN
broad day light, to plumber Two months
ago the, Fairchance postoffica was,
robbed, and the United States inspec-
tors since have been on the lookout for the
thieves Early Tuesday morning the mem
bers OF the band were surrounded while at
tempting to rob a house, and in a fight
which ensued Sheridan Monteith was fatally
shot The others escaped From Monteith
information has been obtained which win
lead to the discovery of the mountain hiding
place, and win result in the capture Of the
others
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
RELIEF ON THE OHIO.
Tae Iron Cffy's" sffssion--- 8ziscel.
Ianeous Flood News.

PTTTsBURG, Feb. 21.-The work of thu
press and citizens relief boat, "Iron City"
has been completed, and she is now en- route
to this city Those engaged in the work Of
distribution labored theoretically for sue
cess. This boat was the first to reach the
inundated district between Wheeling
and Parkersburg. They leave the peo-
Of themselves as regards food They don't
know where to begin work repairing the i'm
mense dana e. A general disposition to help
each other prevailed, but the means of doing
so are very meagre The steamer Resolute,
with barge loaded with many tons. of sup
plies, has departed for the food ravaged dis
tricts down the Ohio The purchases were
made with special reference to the wants of
the sufferers, in the shape of clothing, bed
ding, cooking utensils, etc. Capt. Gray, Of
the citizens relief committee, has charge of
the expedition. "a.
PoMERoY, Ohio, Feb. 2l.-The original
plan of the United States relief steamer
Stockdale to proceed direct from Hunting
ton, w. Va, to the sufferers in
Pomeroy's Bend was altered on account
of the signs of distress and signals
for aid that met the steamer. On every side
as she took her course up the stream, men
and women came out and waved signals
from the hanks. The seventies of the flood
are felt more now than ever. Even the peo-
pie with money say they cannot buv, for
there is nothing to purchase,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
rnE pocroR,s ENpoEsEnEnr.

Dr.. W. D. Wright, Cincinnati, O.,
sends the subjoined professional endorse
ment. Il have prescribed DR.. VIM. Hall
Balsam for the lungs in great number
of cases and always with success. One
case in particular was given up by, several
physicians who had been called in for
consultation with myself. The patient
had all the symptoms of confirmed con.
sumption-cold night sweats, hectic fever
harassing coughs, etc. He commenced
Immediately to get better and was soon
restored to his usual health found DR..
VIM. Halls Balsam for the lungs the
most valuable expectorant for breaking
up distressing coughs and colds.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
scene In an-rndsanapo,is Court.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. Elm. the superior
court Judge N. D. Taylor and Solomon Clay
pool-a prominent attorney became in
volved in a controversy that occasioned
quite scene, and was the sensation of Che
day in legal circles. In an argument Clay
pool jocularly referred to an alleged
bribing Of witnesses, and the court responded:
"May be the attorneys were boughtup too -
and then noticing that lClaypool stopped,
said the question at issue would be decided in
a few days. Claypool was angry, and, shak-
ing his fist under Judge Tay1or's nose, asked
him to step down and give him satisfaction.
This the court started todo, but thought bet
ter Of it, and ordered a fine of $50 to be
entered against ClaypooL Afterwards when
Claypool rendered tho money the court said
no record had been made of it, and the tender
was refused. Taylor and Claypool have been
political and personal friends, and it is sup
posed reconciliation will be effected
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-21
su.nected NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nile, ,.ir;er. .r.r,e.s,,.,e

CHICAGO, Feb. 2l.-J. b. Hall and a man
named Long were placed under arrest at st.
Louis, and two other persons were imprisoned
at Mt. Pulaski, Ills, Tuesday night, the charge
against them being the murder of the
farmer, Charles McMahon and his two hired
men in August 1882. Hall is brother in
law OF the man FarrisA arrested some time
ago for the crime, but almost Immediately
discharged, and Long is the man who first
discovered the bodies. Pinkerton detectives
worked the clews and claim to have good case
in..which woman prominently figures Hall
and Long were lodged in Jail at Mt. Pulaski
A reward of $4,000 was offered for the
capture of the murlerers