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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

NEW YORK, Sept 5-The Pacific mail
steamship Colon, from Aspinwall, was
boarded at quarantine by two detectives,
who arrested Frank Frisbie, alias Kendall,
who, with his wife and two children, was
en- route to Paris via New York from Port,
land, Ore. Frisbie's crime was committed
during the past year while he was exchange
clerk OF the First National bank at Portland
at monthly salary of 1925 His defalcation
amounts to many thousands, besides the
81, 100, which he took when he went away,
ostensibly on a vacation. A roll of 81, 800 in
bills was found in his little girls dress. FRS
bic has confessed, and will be returned to
Oregon.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
Political Nnfns.

Mayor Harrison diseG sset the political is
sues to large audience at Fai,bury, Ills,
Wednesday.
" Z. Mason, who was nominated by Re
pubiicans Of the Third illinois district, for
congress, is the nominee Of Republican op-
posers of George r. Davis, the regular
nominee.
Mr.. Blaine made very short non-politicaI
speech at Topsham, Me, Wednesday, and
was received with enthusiasm He then went
to Manchester, N. H., where he was warmly
erected by large crowd.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

CHICAGO, Sept 5-The Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago railroad is selling ex'
cursion tickets to Philadelphia and return
at one fare for the round trip, S24 90 from
Chicago, for the occasion of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science
which convones il Philadelphia this month
These excursion tickets will be on sale until
the 18th inst. for the use Of members of thi
association and their immediate families
good leaving Philadelphia returning unit
fhe 10Th inst
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

of the African Baptist church here, and his
death on Saturday resulted from the COM
bined effects Of overwork, age and disease.
The funeral was in many respects the most
remarkable ever seen in this city
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
Missions Uninjured,

BosTON, Sept 5.--The secre taries of the
American board are informed by cabls
dispatch from Foo Chow, China, that the
missions as well as those of the American
Methodist society, were uninjured by the
recent bombardmerrt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

COUNTY TICKET.
For Representatives.. fl. PADDELFORD.
For States Attorney-ELMORE W. HURST.
For Circuit Clerk-GEO. ". HENRY.
For Coroner-JOHN BRECHT.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
THE MARKETS.


CHICAGO, Sept d.
Allan Mcintyre & Co.'S market circular
of this evening says: The markets on the
board of trade to-day were Very weak all day.
Whea.-September opened 79Ac, closed
7S9sc; october, opened Sic, closed S06W
SO4c: November, opened S24c, closed SIC.
Correspondence, opened 53l4c. closed 81 Nc;
October, opened 5O15c, closed 50Nc; No
vember opened 4515e, closed 451sc Pork
October, $1,000. Lard-Ocbober, opened
$7.55, closed 81. 80
Live otock-The Union nUoch yards reports
the following range of prices; Hogs
Market rather slow and weak: prices 56lOc
lower, especially for common grades; S5 5U(Q
6.55 light, S5.SO@625 rough packing,
ST. 35@G75 heavy packing and and
shipping lots, s45O@550 "grassers."
Cattle-darket firm; exports, S650G97; good
to choice, S6G6 to; common to fair 81. 80
@6.00; butchers, s.. 0u0t4 u; stockers, So. 80
@45O; Texans, Zoe higher, SS75045O
Sheep-Market steady; common to fair,
S25013U0; medium to good. So 25G420
Produce: Butter--Fme crea merry, 81 are;
good do, lS@20c; fair to good dairy, 12@
l4c; good pack.Dg, 9@l0c. Eggs-Demand
better; fresh-laid, 1415@15cs Potatoes
Good stock, Ace; no demand for car lots
Frults-Apples, good to choice, l.5002 per
Dbl. peaches poor TO fine Michigan. 50NS5c
per small basket; grapes, Concord, safe,
and Delaware, l215@l5c per h.; water
melons, good to choic, S6@lO per 100; musk
melons, $1@l.25 per crate.
New York.
NEW YORK, Sept 4.
Wheat-unsettled; 1s@Ac lower; dull
trading; No | white, nominal; No. 2
red September, 9O$4 @905zc; October, 9I$lg
&c; November, $50 M9334c; December, 9jgs
@955sc; April, SL0l4@l011s Corn-150
lc higher; scare; mixed western spot, CSC
sc; future, 56s4 @64c. Oats-Without de
cided change; western, 3id43c. Provisions
Beef, quiet and unchanged. Pork, quiet
and steady; mess, SlSG61S.25. Lard, dull
and barely steady; steam, $3.50
81. Louis.
ST. LoCts, Sept 4.
Wheat-Lower fairly active for nearby
months; No. 2 red, 81 nc cash. Sic Sep
TENDER; S319@S3@c, October; o5@S524c No
vember; No red, 71@.216c Corn-Steady:
| very slow; 4755c cash; Ale November; size
year; 3915 @39ssc May. Oats-Frmer and
Inactive; 2534e cash 251sc September, 3oc
doing. Whisky-Steady: Sill. Provisions
Quiet; only job trade. Pork-sl7 .50@1S co.
| Bulk Meats-Long clears, $1,000 short
ribs. $40. 10; short clears, 5000 Bacon
Long clears, 10Tc; short ribs, lie: short
clears, 1&@111sc. Lard-sZS5
| Toledo.
| TOLEDO. Ohio, Sept l.
Wheat-Quiet and easy: No. cash or
September, S21Sc; October, SS9sc; November,
s54e; No. 2 soft, SIC; No. 3 do, S0t0so16c;
No. 3 red, 1910. Corn-Dull but steady;
No. 2 cash or September, SIC; October, SIC
asked; rejected, SIC. Oats-Steady; No. 2,
BIC.
| Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept l.
Wheat Tame; No. 2, 7Sc; September, 7Sc,
October, 1870; November, sls1e. Corn
Stronger; No. 2. 6415c. Oats-Ffrnar; No.
| = 26szc. Rye-Fifm, No. 1, SIC; No. 2. SIC,
Barley Dull; Nc 2, dc; October, Gle; sx.
! ira No. 8, 4Sc
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
Remarkable Funeral.

WASHINGTON CRY, Sept. 5-Ffteen
Thousand eolored people, or one-fifth of the
total negro population Of Washington, fol-
lowed the remains of the Rev. j. H. Brooks
to his grave Wednesday Mr. Brooks has
been for twenty five years the spiritsalhAad
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

The weak, worn, and dyspeptic should
take Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic. Ask
for Colden's, of druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

GUNsMlTHS.
Wolff, Chas., iii Seventeenth street
HARNESS MANUFACTURERS
sauerman, John, 2i9 seventeenth street.
HARDWARE.
Stewart Montgomery .SD Second avenue.
MERCHANT TAILORS.
Wendt, II. 1909 second ayebae.
NEWS DEALERS
wilmaus, }. NJ Post Office Block
| NtE"sPAlPERs.
The Rock Island Danny ARGUS; published every
evening, Sunday excepted in Argus block. OPP
posite Postofiice Best advertising medium III the
city.
The Rock island WEEKLY ARGUS; published
every Friday. A fine Job department in connec-
| ton with the establishment.
RESTAURANTS AND CONFECTIONERS.
| Krell, Fred, 1919 second avenue.
Evers, Fred, 161l second avenue.
| STArIoNEFs'
Wilmans, j. NJ. Post Office Block,
lSAIooNs-
| Westphai, John, 1912 second avenue
WATcH MAKERS.
| Bromley, G. A., 1917 second avenue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
Mothers.

If you are failing broken, worn out
and nervous, use wells Health Renew
er." 81. Druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

For COngress-W. II. Niece.
Member Board Equalizaton--R, j. CABEEN.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
STATE

For President GROVER CLEVELAND.
For Vice President-Td0MAS A. HENDRICKS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

STATE:
For Governor. GARTER fl. HARRISON.
For Lieutenant Governor, SETTER.
Secretary OF State, MICHAEL j. DOUGHERTY.
For reasurer,-ALFRED ORENDORFF,
For Auditor Pub. Acc'ts-WALTER E. CARLIN,
For Attorney General,-RoBERT A. MCKINLEY
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
New Combined Remedy

SUFFERERS from Nervous Weakness, Pre-
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ing results of youthful imprudeuce ETC., radically
Cured by the remarkably effective remcdy-by
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reira, r. r. S., London, England, Royal Hos
pital Highest medical endorsement Circular
FREQ. Address
PAREIRA CHEMICAL COMPANY, Chicago, Ill.
aug-1S-dw1y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. T.
Wheat Tame; No. 2, 7Sc; September, 7sc,
October, 1890; November, Sl9+e Corn
Stronger; No. 2. 5415c. Oats-Firniar; No.
2, 263zc. Rye-Fifm, No. /, SIC; No. Q. SIC.
Barley-Dull Nc. 2. dc; October, Gle; az.
ira No. 8, 4Sc.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
d T. D "
SWEENEY & WALKER,
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

A TT0RNEYS AND CoUN5ELLORS AT LAW.
1Ofice in Bcngstons block. Rock Island, Ill.
aup-1 -dWV
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
81. Louis.
Toledo.

TOLEDO, ONO, sept l.
Wheat-Quiet and easy: No. 3 cash or
September, S21Sc; October, S35sc; November,
s5Ae; No. soft, SIC; No. do, S0@so15c;
Nc. 3 red, 73i1c Corn-Dqll but steady
No. 2 cash or September, SIC; October, Sic
asked; rejected, 53c ats-Steady; No. 2,
BIC
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
1H. C. CONNOLLY.
M. M. STURGEON,

A ATTORNEY AT LAW, -Onicc No. 1919 Seco
IL Avenue, between nth and 18th sts., Cup stail
Rock Island. IN. dcc-l2-d1A
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-05

Only Democratic Daily In the Eleventh Con-
gressional District.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02
Bogus Butter.

Within short period New York has
passed seven laws to suppress the trade in
sham butter. A committee of the senate
of that state has been thoroughly investi.
eating the whole subject of the trade in
oleomargarine, butterine aud other imita.
tions of butter, and has reported bill
absolutely prohibiting the manufacture or
sale of the bogus article, by whatever
name it is or may be known. 1t is be.
lieved that the passage of this bill, which
has been ordered to third reading in the
senate almost without opposition, will ex.
clude the detestable product from the
markets of the Empire State, and protect
consumers from the tricks of grocerymen,
landlords, restaurant and clearinghouse
keepers. IL is estimated that the people
have been eating this stuff at the rate of
forty million pounds in year. The laws
enacted for their protection have been per.
sistently and shamelessly violated. The
difficulty of preventing the deception of
the confiding customers of grocerymen, of
clearinghouse and restaurants, has been,
it is believed, one of the obstacles in the
way of enforcing the old laws, though it
is conceded that the statutes have been
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02

shamefully disregarded by heofficials and
that, If faithfully enforced, they would sup
press the trade in the sham product by
exposing its true character. So the New
York senate committee propose to solve
the problem by the application of the
temperance remedy, absolute prohibition,
and thus TO protect both the swindled and
long-suffering consumer and the great
dairy interests of the state. OF the man.
ufacture aud sale of sham butter the
New York Times, from which we gather
these particulars, says: The industry
that transforms hog fat aud cotton-seed.
oil into something that closely resembles
butter by means of nitric acid and other
chemicals (which destroy the natural
smell, render the article more insoluble
and indigestible, and serve as agents to
prevent decomposition or putrefaction
thrives only by deception and fraud. The
manufacturers may not deceive those to
whom they sell the stuff, but there must
be deception and fraud before it reaches
the consumer. How many men and women
are there in this city who would know
ingly buy this deodorized fat to be used
on their tables in the place of honest
butter? The rapid growth of the trade
has forced farmers in some places to
smother their consciences and to deal in
the product that threatens to ruin them
by fraudulent competition. The butter
ine-makers of the West have filled the
markets of the city of Washington. The
District authorities have tried in vain to
enforce their laws, which are similar to
those heretofore enacted in this state.
Some of the neighboring farmers in
Maryland and Virginia now deal in the
stuff, buying it from the wholesale grocers
aud jobbers and selling it in the city as
the product of their diaries. So democrat
izing has the trade in bogus butter become
that prohibitory law may be defended
upon the ground of public policy, as well
as by other powerful arguments. The
Low bill as originally drawn provided that
the enforcement of the new law should be
entrusted to the State Dairymens Asso-
citation. This association was empowered
to employ experts, chemists, agents, and
counsel, acting as commission, and the
sum of $50, 900 was to be appropriated for
the expenses of the work. As amended
the bill provides that the work of enforce.
ment shall be done under the direction of
a commissioner to be appointed by the
governor. If the bill shall become law,
the commissioner will not have an easy
task, but he will have the hearty sym
pathy and support of hundreds of thou.
sands of consumers whose righteous in
dignation has been thoroughly aroused"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02

THE call for republican convention of
delegates for the second congressional dis
trict to choose delegates to the national
convention is published to-day. The con-
vention assemblies on the Goth and the
state convention on the following day.
The delegates to the district convention
will be delegates to the state convention
also. Two district delegates and four
delegates at large will be chosen by the
two conventions, and, as two of the latter
will also come from the second district,
the question which directly interests the
people east of the Green Mountains is !:
Who shall be the four men whom they
will select to represent themselves in par.
ticnlar and the state in general at Chicago?
1t is immaterial whether these men are
classified as delegates at large or as dis.
trict delegates. All distinctions of this
kind are of no special consequence. The
honors will be easy by whichever body
the delegates are chosen. There is ex-
pressed on all hands a sincere desire to
get the best men, and there has been con-
siderable unsnimity in the development
of special preferences. In choosing the
delegates we believe it will be quite as
we'll to heed, what is evidently in con.
formity with their sense of propriety, the
wish of our congressman that they be al
lowed to remain at their post in Washing
ton. There are plenty of good men among
the people to whom the duties of delegates
may be safely intrusted. Frederick Bill
lings of Woodstock is by common consent
given the post of honor. On B. F. Fifield
of Montpelier and B. d. Harris of Brattle-
boro public preference seems to have
concentrated. Both of these gentlemen
are warm personal friends of Mr.. Ed.
munds, gentlemen of education and of ex-
psrience among men, sagacious, capable
of winning hearing and enforcing con-
viction. Ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks
also has been nominated for delegate and
it is nomination eminently fit to be
made" These men would combine va.
rious claims upon the attention of dele.
gates and various means of exerting q
wholesome and effective influence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02

THE riot in Cincinnati is one of the
astounding events of the day. The read.
ers of Dickens, perusing the account, in
stinctively revert to scenes in the Tale of
Two Cities" and to the excuses during
the Gordon riots in "Barnaby Ridge"
That such an outbreak could occur so
suddenly in an American city celebrated
for its public institutions, for the liberality
and intelligence of its citizens, for its
music, its schools and libraries and all
humanizing agencies, is an appalling de-
velopment of the condition of society.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02

AT length, and by copying them from
The WATcHMAN, the Argus and Patriot
has got the main facts concerning Judge
Redfeld's list-giving before its readers.
In connection with the publication it
speaks of the "cordial support we gave
the Judge in 1882, notwithstanding his
alleged offenses. The stupidity of this
statement is evident on the face of the
case. We make no reference to rumors
which were rife in the summer and fall of
1882. These are foreign to the listing
matters and need not be here reviewed
Previous to May, 1883, it was locally but
not widely known that Judge Redield
had given in his list for 1882 only at the
last moment and upon the repeated i'm
portunity of one of the board of listers.
This was all that was known or surmised
by us in the fall of 1882. We did not re-
gard this as a sufficient reason for oppos-
ing his reelection, but we were not able
to join in the clamor for his advancement
w udBO AbOJCC . oCdus L uc bIuc bbbl6 VI
his tax affairs at that time, even so far as
they were developed, was known only to a
very few individuals. The real facts and
the fresh disclosures came out in May,
1888. They were brought to light by
that provision of the amended and revised
listing law, which requires the listers of
each town to notify the listers of other
towns of debts given in as owing to citi-
zens of such towns. When this drag.net
was examined by the listers of Montpelier
they were grieved to find that Judge Red
field was caught in its meshes. The de-
tails of this catch have all been published.
The sums disclosed as owing to him in
several towns dated back number of years,
and were owing in 1881 and 1882 when,
in answer to the interrogatory in the in.
ventory relating to the possession of such
property, he had answered no." and had
sworn to this answer. We published all
the facts at the time. Comment was
needless, and that 1t regarded the bare
facts as sufficiently damaging without en-
forcing the moral was shown by the
Argus suppression of them. They were
called up at this time solely by our con-
temporary's extraordinary course in keep
ing, for some sinister end, Judge Royce, a
republican, before the public as "tax-
dodger," and by its glazing inconsistent
cies in its treatment of other prominent
republicans. Had the scandalous dicker-
ing which was disclosed in 1888, the
pitiable display of avarice warping honor
and compromising truth, of forgetfulness,
of judicial ignorance of the requirements
of the law, or by whatever weakness il
may be characterized or palliated, had
these things been known in 1882 our cor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-02
Notes and Comments.

FARMER AND News (North6eld) {:
"Judging by current comment from all
parts of the state, an impartial observer
would conclude that the republican ring
machine was fast getting hot box and
would ere long have to be put by for re-
pairs"
New YORK SUN: "'The capacity of
the democratic party for gross and blind
laundering has never been fully tested
Times That is very discouraging view,
but we are convinced that our esteemed
contemporary, is mistaken. We can't
think that there is anything worse to
come"
BRATTLEBoRo REFORMER: "The st. AL
bans Messenger-which perhaps connects
by telephone-says the use of j. M.
Tyler's name for the governorship is
wholly against his Wishes This is con.
venient phrase by which the organs always
dispose of any project which conflicts with
the pre-arraDgements of our innocent
politics. But if the Messenger has any
idea that Mr.. Tyler would refuse nomi-
nation if offered to him, we beg it to
quiet its nerves. He wouldn't"
As BEARING upon the result of the ma
tional republican convention, the follow.
ing statistics are of interest The mum.
Der of republican voters to each delegate
to the republican national convention
under the present system, the vote for
president in 1880 taken as basis, is In
the state of Pennsylvania, JAIL; in the
state of New York, 7,7l6; in the state of
Indiana, 1888; in the state Of Ohio,
S,l53-sverage, 1853; in the state of
Mississippi, 1886; in the state of Texas,
1927 in the state of Georgia, 2,254; in
the state of Louisiana, 2415-average,
2,2OS. That is to say, 1886 republican
voters in Mississippi have the same voice
in the national convention, in selecting a
presidential candidate, as 8,153 republi-
can voters in Ohio Further, the electoral
votes of the states to whom this fourfold
representation is allowed will be cast
against the nominee of the convention,
while the four states first named, and to
which fair representation in the conven.
ton is denied, can all be carried by the
republican party if only proper candidates
are nominated.
BELLOWS FALLS TINES: "The state
papers continue to make shots more or
less on the governor question, and while
the indications are most prominent for
the two gentlemen named after Mr.. Bill
lings withdrew, there does not appear to
be any general concentration. The mos,
prominent talk on this matter is with ref
erence to selfseeking candidates and hot
house promotion. 1t is so strongly indi
Gated 10 some quarters that it looks as
though the man who puts himself for.
ward for governor this year will be likely
to 60 under. In such case, for such cause
for one we shall not be sorry. The days
have been when the people of Vermont
assembled to seek the man, and moi
merely to ratify and confirm some previous
understanding. Let those days return
We regard their return as even more i'm
portant than ordinary civilservice re-
form In fact one of the best elements in
reforming the civil-service is for the peo