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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
BROWNSDALE.

A0 P"oSssDAS'
Have you shot your first duck yet?
Willie Knox arrived at home Satur-
day.
Mrs. A. D. Brown will soon leave for
Nebraska.
Maple sugar, nice and sweet, at Sleep
er & Sons.
John Wideman is busily engaged in
pressing hay.
-Chas. Gage has moved into the H. E.
Anderson residence.
"A. L. Sleeper has been cutting down
and thinning out the trees around his res
idence.
Friday evening seciable was held at
Sleeper's ball for the benefit II Mrs. Car
oline Cassidy,
The City Hotel is the popular resort
for the travelling man, and for square meals
and clean beds.
Monday morning A. L. Sleeper &
Sons again commenced to manufacture
their celebrated fly paper.
w. 3. Sleeper will soon go to D. t.,
and intends to start drug store there
in connection with his jewelry business.
On account of the railroad washout
near Lacrosse. our merchants had to
express their butter aud eggs from Lam
sing.
AT the old millinery stand of Mrs. A.
L. Sims, Miss Jessie Hauck will dc dress
making in all the latest styles. Charges
to suit the times.
Lock
BY furnishing satisfactory recommends
you can procure the agency in YOU
neighborhood for new patented article
Will sell at sight to every merchant il
your city. Good commission. For fur
Their information. address
HAMILTON & KATE, Two Rivers, Wis.
DON'T HURRY. GENTLEMEN" Said {
man on his way to be hanged, "there'll
be no fun till I get there" We say tt
the dyspeptic, nervous, and debilitated
don't hurry thoughtlessly for some rene
dy of doubtful merit, uncertain of relief
when you can get at the druggists fo1
one dollar Burdock Blood .Bitters almos
sure to cure and certain to benefit. Sole
by Dorr g. Void.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
CLOSE OF THE MARCH TERM,

CLOSE OF THE MARCH TERM.
The LEARNED twelve" scored another tri-
umph for the jury system, in duly acquitting
all the criminals who we're tried at this term
of court.
After the criminal calendar was disposed of
the Austin Canning & Preserving Co. cases
were taken up. The Co. has brought suit
against certain alleged members for the pay
ment of stock subscribed for at the time the
company was organized. The issues involved
are of the highest Importance, not only to the
stockholders who are willing to stand by the
enterprise and to see it through the difficult
ties of the present, but also TO the community
at large. There are four of these cases, en-
titled as follows; Austin Canning and Pre-
serving Company vs.. e. J. Phillips, same VS..
Thomas Riley, same VS.. II. w. Films, same vs..
9. D. Belden. Only the first ease was tried,
that Of the Co. against Phillips, and the result
of this will practically decide the others. The
witnesses were examined, and the counsel
given week in which to submit their points,
authorities and arguments to the Court for in.
spection, and the decision will be forthcoming
In his honor's own good time.
The other court cases were either put over
OF settled, and the court adjourned Wednes.
day, being in session one week.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02


THE FARMERS SATURDAY MEETING.
The Alliance met in McClelland block
Saturday p. M, as per appointment
President Grimshaw in tho chair, J. J.
Furlong Secretary,
Minutes of last two meetings were read
and approved.
The matter of starting starch factory
by Mathew Gregson was considered. The
farmers manifested a hearty sympathy
for the enterprise, and the following
named persons agreed to plant the num-
Der Of. acres of potatoes indicated, and
furnish the product thereof as per con-
ditions required John Mathieson 5, H.
P. Chaplin s, NJ. Teeter s, Thos. Craig 5,
VIM. Exelby 5, G. F. Corneveaux 2, A. J..
French2.
John Mathieson agreed to devote one
day to canvassing among tho farmers, to
see how many would contract to raise
potatoes for the factory.
It seems to us that no farmer ought to
object for moment to agree to raise a
given number of acres of potatoes for
this enterprise. No bonus is asked by
Mr.. Gregson. All he asks is that the
farmers in this vicinity shall plant and
cultivate 400 acres Of potatoes, and furn.
ish him the product thereof for 20 cents
per bushel. 1t is cheap and easy way
to start manufacturing. Let every farm
er hereabouts encourage Mr.. Gregson,
and the factory is sure to start. If it
proves success, it will be a benefit to
Mr.. Gregson, and to Austin, but more
than all, a benefit to the farmers in the
vicinity of the factory.-ED.]
The Alliance adjourned for one month.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-02
NOW Is THE TIME

NOW Is THE TIME
To open the bitches.
TO repaint your houses.
TO clean the front yard.
!, TO prune the shrubbery.
TO hear the spring robin.
To clean and repair sewers.
TO get nice new awnings ready.
TO get ready to plant shade trees.
For merchants to do more advertising.
To whitewash your cellars and stables.
To clean the alleys and back yards.
To hear the boys say, ''knuckle
down."
To shoot ducks and divide with your
friends.
TO listen to the blue jays morning
serenade.
TO hear the housewife scold about
the dirt.
To haul away the debris that you
cannot burn.
TO fill up the mud holes in the streets
and elsewhere
10 put disinfectants in the out-houses
and cleanse them.
For some Of our young men to VOW
they will drink ne more.
TO subscribe for the TRANSCRIPT for
yourself or your friends.
To take up and clean your carpets,
and make dust generally.
TO bring down the wild geese for
yourself an extra good dinner.
TO look ever your garden seeds, test
them, and be sure they are good.
To tear down old sheds and get the
lumber ready for kindling and summer
wood.
To tell the husband not to swear
when he thinks of the coal-stoves to be
taken down.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

people, Democrats as well as Republi-
cans, want most of the things there de-
manded. 1t is unfortunate for the Re-
publican party that, having had almost
exclusive control of the government for
a generation, it has not stopped these
abuses, corrected these evils, prevented
these extravagances, built the navy that
is called fOr-having expended the
money-and reduced taxation instead
of submitting to all these things pas.
sively or openly defending them.-
While the platform is good, the party
cannot complain if it is judged by its
acts rather than its promises.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19
Boats, Bicycles and Hay Fever.

With the opening of the season of
outdoor sports comes the time of trou-
BILE for the poor victims of Hay Fever.
For them flowers have no Odor, and the
summer little or no beauty. To snuff,
sneeze and wipe their weeping eyes for
three or four successive mOnths:-this
is their pitiable portion. There is no
help in sea voyages, there is no help in
high mountain air. These only tighten
the pocket and leave the disease un-
abated. But there is positive cure in
Ely's Cream Balm. Try it. If you
continue to suffer it is because you neg
lect remedy as sure as it is cheap and
pleasant. It
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

George Edwards, living north of town,
received letter this week from his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Buel Edwards, near
Leipsic, Ohio, in which is stated a
wonderful incident, occurring to neigh
Dor lady of hers. The lady was in a
delicate condition, and the first part of
last week seemingly died. She was
buried two days later, but some of the
mourners were not satisfied as to her
death. After being inferred six hours
the body was exhumed, the coffin was
opened, and to their surprise and sad
ness they discovered flush on her
wasted cheek, and life seemed visible.
A physician was hurriedly summoned
and the unfortunate lady brought back
to life. Another strange part of the
affair is that the following day she gave
birth to healthy twin babes, and the
mother and all those interested are
highly elated.-U Upper Sandusky Chief.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob Kile, of
Richmond Pa, are brothers. They are
triplets y years of age. Isaac is fifteen
minutes older than Jacob and is fifteen
minutes the junior of Abraham. Their
mother, Catherine Kile, died recently,
aged 9S. Besides these three children
she left nine others, besides eighty-two
grandchildren. One hundred and twen-
ty great-grandchildren, twenty-eight
great -great-grandchildren, and two
t-great-great-g grandchildren. She
had been widow four years, her hus-
husband dying at IS. They had been
married seventy-five years.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19
Somebody has wisely said: Dull times

Somebody has wisely said Dull times
are saving times. There is never more
money in the community than when
men are keeping it; there is never less
than when men are spending it. The
margin of expenditure is never wider
than when low prices reduced fixed
charges. Fortunes, big and little, are
made not in the bottom but the ebb.
The man who buys on the flood is
stranded some day; the man who in
vests on the ebb is t1oated to fortune.
Any man can sell goods in flush years,
but the man who can sell goods dull
years ends in millionaire.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19
WHY thew call Him "Old Man"

eyes, that's sadly So" said Jenkins,
"my hair is turning gray and falling out
before it's time. Use something?
would, but most hair restorers are dan.
gerous. - "True," answered his friend,
"but Parker's Hair Balsam is as harm
less as it is effective. I've tried it and
know. Give the Balsam show and
the boys will soon stop calling you "Old
Man Jenkins" 1t never fails to re-
store the original color to gray or faded
hair. Richly perfumed, an elegant
dressing. ma22-1m
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19
Something for all the Preachers.

Rev. H. H. Fairall, D. d., editor of
the IoWd Methodist, says editorially, in
the November (1SS3) number of his pa
per: 1--WE have tested the merits of
Ely's Cream Balm, and believe that, by
thorough course of treatment, it will
cure almost every case of catarrh. Min
listers, as class, are afflicted with head
and throat troubles, and catarrh seems
more prevelant than ever. We cannot
recommend Ely's Cream Balm too
highly" Not a liquid nor snuff
Applied to nostrels with the finger. ct
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

Without pretending to give an edito-
rial opinion of a remedy of which we
know nothing personally, we desire to
ask those of our readers who are affiict-
ed with scrofulous or other diseases of
the blood, to examine and test the
claims of Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t comes
to us with high individual endorse
ments, is compounded by practical
druggists, and is made Of materials
recognized as valuable by all physi-
clans. j121m
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

Miss Rachel Ewing, the Oldest teacher
in the Pittsburgh, Pa, public schools,
has just resigned her position at the age
ofseventy-six. She began when but a
girl, and kept at her work until COM
PEELED to desist by the infirmities of
aUe
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

"What is a wink?' asked the teacher.
1T is the thing you season your soda
water with" said the new boy, who
was as smart as he was annoying. But
the teacher marked him away down
and pretended not to understand him.
-Er.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

When a man writes a letter to the
editor and dates it 'Goon the lest" we
begin to feel as if he had committed
himself to expression just two months
too late for his day.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

A woman was arrested at Varanda,
Hungary, who confessed that she had
poisoned four husbands and about a
hundred women in the past two years.
A number of accomplices were also ar
rested.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

The Greenback party in its prospectus
announces that it "knows no East no
West, no North, mo South" A statement
of what it does know would be much
more to the purpose. Philadelphia
Press.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-19

If you have failed to receive benefit
from other preparations, try Hoods
Sarsaparilla, it is the strongest, the
purest, the best, the cheapest.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02

Shall / help you to some butter,
Mr. Smith," asked the host, No,
thank YOU" Don't you eat butter?"
mo, not now. used to, but I've
reformed you know. Tmproud to say
| am now aGemperate mar" '1know:
but l don't see why that should inter
fere with your eating butter" Il don't
take anything strong. - Chicago Jour
nal.
-Pater familias, who is perusing the
morning papers at breakfast, meets
with an item that excites his utmost
surprise. He says to mater familias:
my dear, only think of it! Eighteen
billion of eggs are consumed in this
country annually. Where in mercy's
name, can they all come from?" Mater
familias, not without something of a
tone of reproachful sarcasm: ''chiefly
from the hens, ] suppose " The head
of the house resumes his reading with
a mental -objurgation at the literalness
of some people.-BurLingtOn Has0bege.
First boy-'I understand you
have left the Office of the Buglc, Johnny"
Second boy-"Yes. l was obliged to
leave First boy Editor gave you
the bouncep Second boy-'Nary a
bounce. He was taking away my
character. You see he started funny
column in his paper and all his jokes
began Our devil says so and So ]
could have stood it if the jokes had been
passable at all, but they were too bad
altogether, and as | had reputation to
sustain [ left him. / couldn't stand
having the responsibility for such stuff
put on me" -L0uisUilIe Journal.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

baby girl at Amsterdam, N. Y. ha.
two tongues.
Cholera has never penetrated the pin.
regions of the south.
The corners stone of the Bartholdi statue
pedestal will be laid Aug. 8.
TIE number of tax-paying Indians has
mon than doubled in the last decade.
Mr.. Tiiden expects to take southern
cruise in his yacht, the Viking, next winter.
A chicken killed in Sacramento, Cal.
recently, had nugget of gold of the value OF
$3.50 in its craw
An Ohio man bought a load of hay and
gave IN payment a note which falls due when
Cleveland is elected president
The French chambers by vote of
294 to 1871, adopted the revision OF the consti-
tuition bill as passed by the senate.
Mr.. Sydney A Foster has withdrawn
from the canvass for the Republican nomina-
ton for secretary of state in Iowa
Crop prospects from over the entire line
Of the Missouri Pacific railway are IS PER
cent. better than ever raised heretofore
The National Photographers convention
at Cincinnati elected James Landy president,
and decided to meet next year at Buffalo.
Mrs Palmer, wife of ex- Mayor Palmer.
CT Boston, has sued that city for $4,000 dam
ages on account of fall on the sidewalk last
spring.
League ball games Thursday resulted:
Chicago 4, Detroit 0; Boston 9, Philadelphia
L; New York Providence draw game, .
each.
The explosion Of lamp resulted in a
fire which destroyed nearly the whole busi-
ness portion of Hot Springs, Ark The loss
| is S65, 900
Canadian hotel managers are lamenting
the decrease in the customary American tour
| ist travel in that country, caused by the con-
| tinued cool weather.
The daughter of respectable parents in
! Barry county, Michigan, built a fire and
cremated her Legitimate child. 1t is not
known whether the infant was born alive
A San Francisco woman is suing "a man
for 1000 damages, because, on the 2lst OF
last June, he promised to marry her within
"a reasonable time" and has not yet fulfilled
the agreement
Canueny, the murderer who so mar
nowly escaped lynching at Minneapolis, was
held to the grand jury, after which he was
secretly taken out of town by officers. His
place of Imprisonment is unknown
While practicing on the Shelbyville,
| QndJ track, Miss Nellie Burke, the rider
was thrown from her stallion Hancock, but
not seriously hurt while by rushing against
a fence, the horse, which was valued al
$1,000 was impaled, and died on the spot
A sailboat containing two SheboygaT
| wis., mon capsized off that port in a gale
and the occupants We're spilled out. By
ciinging to the bottom of the boat for tive
days they escaped being drowned They
were picked up by the schooner Windsor il
| an exhausted state.
Little Lucy johnson, of Tucson, A T.,
recently escaped its mothers notice anC
crawled out of the house into the woods
When found by the mother the youngstel
was fondly careSSing huge rattle snake
who made no attempt to harm the child
The mother repaid his Snakeship's kindness
to her child by coaxing the baby away anC
then killing the reptile
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
ADVICE To MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken
of your rest by sick child suffering and
crying with pain of cutting teeth2 If So
send at once and get bottle of Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
tecthing. 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 cures
dysentery, diarrhoea, regulates the stom
aeh and bowels, cures wind collie. soft
ems the gums reduces Inflammation. anC
gives tone and energy to the whole sys-
ten. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
for Children Teething is pleasant to thu
taste, and is the prescription OF one Of
the oldest and best female nurses and ply
sicians in the United States, and is fol-
sale by all druggists throughout the
world Price 25 cents per bottle.
feb-9S-m-W-s m 1-y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
SHERIFFS SALE.

By virtue of an Execution and Fee Bill No.
57b3 issued ont of the clerk Office of the Circuit
Court of Rock Island county and state of Illinois
and to me directed, whereby am commanded to
make the amount of a certain Judgment recently
obtained against James w. Ballard and Bnrril
Smell in favor Of Lorenzo parmenter, out of the
lands, tenements. goods and chattels of the said
defendants, James W. Ballard and Bnrril Smell.
have levied upon the following property, to-wit
The southwest quarter ca of the southeast
quartert4) of section No. twenty-six (96l in town
ship Number seventeen 40 north range Number
four ID west Of the fourth (4thl principal merid
ian; therefore, according to said command. shall
expose for sale, at public anction all the right, ii
tie and interest of the above named James W
Ballard and Burril Smell in and 10 the above de
scribed property on Friday the Sth day of Au
gust. 1884 at O'Clock P. NJ, at the north door OF
the Court House in the city of Rock Island, in the
county of Rock Island and state of Illinois, foI
cash in hand to satisfy said execution and fee bill
Dated at Rock Island, this 10Th day of July, A
D., 1884. }. NJ. RETICKER,
Sheriff of Rock Island County, Illinois.
jHly-19 did
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
Boats, Bicyclss and Hay Fever.

Nature has resolved that all the people
shall not enjoy themselves at once With
the opening of the season of outdoor
sports comes the time of trouble for the
poor victims of Hay Fever. For them
flowers have no odor, and the summer
little or no beauty. To snuff sneeze and
wipe their weeping eyes for three or four
successive months;-this is their pitable
portion. Whether this form of Catarrh
is called Hay Fever, Hay Cold, Rose
Cold or Rose fever, makes no difference
they suffer just the same. There is no
help in sea voyages, there is no help in
high mountain air. These only Tighten
the pocket andleave the disease unabated.
But there is a positive cure in Ely's
Cream Balm. We could cram these col
umns with grateful letters of the rescued
Try it and join them. If you continue
to suffer it is because you neglect a
remedy as sure as it is cheap and pleas
ant. so cents &c..
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02

Ia 1920 Two hills of an area of abou
500 acres. of almost no agricultural value
on the property of Lord Cawdor. in Scot
land, were planted with fir and othe
trees, and after successive trimmings, TIT
sale of which realized large sums, the re-
mainder of the wood was sold off tor the
sum of El6,000. The sum realized fo
the wood on this waste land during th'
fifty years is stated to be equal per acr,
to the return from the best arabic land il
the country.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
WIDE AWAKE DRUGGISTS.

Messrs Hartz & Bahnsen are always
alive to their business. and spare no pains
to secure the best of every article in then
line They have secured the agency for
the celebrated DR., King's New Discovery
for Consumption. The only certain cure
known for Consumption, Coughs, Colas,
Horseness, Asthma, Hay Fever, Bronchi-
It's, or any affection of the Throat and
Lungs. Sold on positive guarantee.
Trial Bottles free. Regular size $1,00.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
THE DOCT0R's ENDORSEMENT

DIR. W. D. Wright, Cincinnati, o,
sends the subjoined professional endorse
ment: Il have prescribed Dr. VIM. nall :
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 comfred CON
sumption-cold night sweats, hectic few
er harrassing cough, etc. He commenced
Immediately to get better. and was soon
restored to his usual health. also found
DR.. W 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, 1884-08-02
A prDstnn lCnnn mann An nihnr

A Preston Conn man the other day
came near furnishing another instance of
suicide for which no cause can be as
signed" He had been trying to discharge
in his cellar the cartridges from an old
and long neglected revolver but failed;
and leaving the hammer at half cock. he
peeped into the end of the barrel That,
of course, was the signal for the weapon
to speak, but luckily the man just at that
instant moved his hand and the bullet
whizzed harmlessly by his head The man
is said to have felt the effects of the scare
for several hours after the incident.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-02
Chancery Notice.
STATE OF ILLINOIS
Rock Island Comfy

STATE OF ILLINOIS
Rock Island County -
In the Circuit Court, To the September Tenn
1854 In Chancery.
Sarah b. Cobb vs. Vim. Doyle. Hannah Doyle
John Grogan, Frederick Melchert, and Meir Il
PTeisteT
Affidavit of uon-rcsidence of VIM. Doyle, Fred
erick MeChcrt and Meir Il Preister, implicated
with the above defendants, having been filed IN
the Clerks Office Of the Circuit Court of said
County notice if therefore hereby gwen to the said
non resident defendants that the complainant filed
her bill of complaint in said Court, on the ChanceTN
side thereof on the 2lst day of July 1884 and thai
thereupon a Summons issued ont of said Court
wherein said suit is now pending, returnable on
the first Monday in the month of September next
AS is by law required. Now. unless you, the said
! non resident defendants above named, Vim. Doyle
Frederick Mechert and Mer Il Preister shall
personally be and appear before said Circuit Court
on the first day of the next term thereof, 10 be
holden at Rock Island in and for said county, OIL
| the first Monday in September next, and plead
answer or demur tothe said complainant bill OF
| complaint, the same and the matters and thing,
| therein charged and stated viii be taken as con
| fessed and decree entered against you according
| to the prayer of said bill.
| Rock Island, Illinois, July 21st, 1884
| l. +. HARRISON. Clerk
| NJ NJ. CeRBETT, Compt's SOL july 23d4w