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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

graceful womanhool. She sat in front seat
in the members gallery and was an attentive
listener to the discussion. Though III COM
parative want, she has made no appeal to
her grandfather's country through its repre-"
sentatives for aid.
The opposition to the bill came chiefly from
those who do not believe it wise to establish
a precedent for civil pension list. The
minority of the committee which reported
the bill hold that however illustrious were
the services rendered by Thomas jefferson to
the government and the people, they were
purely of civil character as con-
ra-distinguishei from military OF
naval. They say, however, that under
the shadow of this capitol! with all its wealth
and dazzling splendor, this good lady should
he permitted to be in want, is a disgrace to
the people, but this furnishes no reason why
the government should grant her pension;
that it is not the business of the govern
ment to pension all who happen to be in
nsed. After long debate the enacting clause
was stricken out by over two-thirds vote,
which is the same thing as defeating the bill.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
NATURES CREMATORY.
The Pocahontas Mines Made Into a
Huge Incinerating Furnace
Mouths OF the Pit Sealed Up for the
Purpose of Extinguishins the
Fires The List of
the Lost.

PETERSBURG, Va. March H. Neither
words nor telegram convey to the slightest
degree the destruction wrought in the mines
of the Southwest Virginia Improvement com
pany at PocahOntas 10y the explosion there
on Thursday night. Nor can pen describe
the anguish and sadness that peryade the
little hamlet. The scenes around the mines
have been the sadiest that The human mind
can conceive or the fancy paint
One hundred and five of the miners are
known 10 he lost, and, to make the disaster
more awful, the bodies of the victims will be
cremated, as the mireS have been sealed ami
are now on fire and burning furiously The
victims Of the disaster are Hungari4ns,
Weishmen, Germans aud negroes, most of
whom are unmarried, only about twenty five
of them having families dependent on them
for support
As the mines will be closed for weeks the
party of experienced miners from the
Midlothian coal mines in Chesterfield county,
in charge Of Col Dood, mining engineer,
who went up to Pocahontas to render such
assistance as they could, will return to
Chesterfield, Gs nothing can be done at
present. 1t being feared that another ex-
plosion will ocelr, sentnels have been
stationed around the entrances of the mine.
The disaster appears 10 have been the re-
suit Of carelessness as no safety-lamps were
| used, and it is further alleged that the fan &c
the mines was not Of sufficient power to fur
nish necessary air. A few minutes before
the explosion occurred the fan was stopped
| as the lamps in the mine were going out Il
has now been astertained that powder had
been placed at different points in the mine
| and when the disaster took place flames shot
up in the air TO a distance Of over one hun
| dred feet
The greatest sympathy is felt for the vic
TINS and in the legislature this morning q
resolution was passed instructing Governol
Cameron to ascertain the extent of suffering
among the families Of the victims with 9
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
THS NEWS in BRIEF.

Lielt. Harder, of Jeannette fame, is
visiting Mrs, garfield in Cleveland
Mr.. Dana, of The New York SIM
viii start for the City of Mexico on tn lstl
irst
Estimates place the cattle drive from
Texas Tie coming season in excess Of SD3, 03a
head
The Oldest empress living is Augusta
Of Germany, who is "A years old. lac yoang-
EST is the Queen of SsIvia, who is %
Children emp!o ed in the lace-mak-
nlg schools in Belgium work twelve hours,
ami sometimes earn i cents per day.
Madame Mimic Haul, is teaching
the Texas cowboys to love opera. At Austin
and Galveston she called forth the wildes:
applausA.
The indian CHIEF Sitting Bull, visit
inG st. gal with agent Mclaughlin, cx-
presses surprise at seeing So many houses on
top of each other.
Professor j. Ct. Wood, the British
naturalist finds people aad thing 80 much t.
his mind IN Boston that Ie has concluded ia
permanently settle in that city.
William H, Hubert, formerly owner
of the New YORK World, was best man tit the
recent marriage in Pdr!s Of w. II. Rus Il
the famous war correspondent.
Eighty-one Thousand dollars in
United States per cent. bonds dated July
/, 1877. and numbered from IS, 425 to 50, 49,
were taken by burglars from a safe in Cen
terville, Ind
The editors of three provincial Ger.
man newspapers were recently sentenced e
years Imprisonment for auti-BismarcI
utterauces. In PoSen there are only two
editors of political sheets out OF Jail.
Mr.. Frederick Rietbrock, Of Mil
waukee, is the possessor of a turning lathe
with which, family tradition says, MGximil
ian l. of Germany used to divert his Thoughts
from his matrimonial complications
Clark r. Robinson has brought suit
at New York against Commodore Garrison
for s., S95, $50, the proceeds of the sale Of
bonds of the Wheeling and Lake Erie rail
road. The answer is general denial.
France of all European countries has
the largest percentage OF electors to the pnpu
lation, &c IS to every 100 inhabitants; Swift
erland, with % So, stands second; German,
third, with 20G9; Denmark fourth, witt
IS 46; England fifth, with S.S3.
Minister James Russell Lowell
wouldn't or couldn't accept the rectorship o
St Andrews, and SO the university, whcl
| is bound to give him Something is about t
confer upon him the honary degree of Ii
D., which he has already received from Har
ward.
A New York dispatch states that
Henry Willard, ex-president of the Nor.her
| Pacific railroad, has very recently made BIZ
| haul in Oregon real estate, having pnr
| chased tract Of land at Portland for SIS
900 and disposed Of one-seventh of it 70
| $3.50, goo
The sultan has agreed to grant
franchise Tor firmanl to the Palestine cana
| syndicate, recently organi zed in Londor
which proposes to cut a deep-water cana
from the sea of Tiberas to tie gulf of Akaba
by the Jordan valley end tie Red sea. Til
canal, if constructed will be a formidabl
rival of NJ de Lesseps' waterway. The diff
culties in the way, however, are formidable
| The cost would be enormous.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

view TO making appropriations Tor thelr re-
lief. Another resolution. was also passed
instructing the committee on mines to i'll
quire as to what legislation may be necessary
to secure further safety to persons working
in mines.
The citizens of Lynchburg held meeting
and appointed committee to solicit contri-
buttons for the relief of the sufferers
The generally accepted explanation Of the
explosion is that it was occasioned by fire
damp. Some claim what has always been
contradicted by mine officials, that there is
gas in the Pocahontas min e, and that the
explosion was caused by miner striking
gas fssure On the contrary. expert
enced engineers say they have never
known case of explosion from striking
gas assures III mine above the water level,
as is the case with the Pocahontas Those
who contend for the first mentioned theory
cited an instance of the recent killing of two
men in the Pocahontas mines as alleged from
the effcts of gas explosion. The men were
blasting, and after the charge had been fixed
retired behind ledge where they would be
safe from flying debris but both were
killed, and it is believed by gas.
The list of the victims so far as ascertained
at this hour is as follows:
Whites-Boone Maxey, NJ. L. HAMPTON,
Ed Mitchell, John Hicks, George Hicks, John
l. Hicks, John Keys, N. j. Jewell, Luke Ray,
Rush Davis, John Pelfrense, Carol Gear
bates, A. NJ. Dougherty, Paul Revell, George
Mules, Lacorno Camera, Emil Goodman
Andrios Frito, Mike Beckeys, Pinto Jacobs
Kgabanski, John Krabanski, andre Beckeys,
Arthur Dansle. John Key Peter Rogen-
dorf, Jordon Hicks, Jacob Pocate, B B.
Moore, L. c. Hopkins, Robert Davis, Ellis
Miller, Lewis Schultz, James Crimo Daniel
Robertson, George Chapman, johnson Sur
face William Cummerford, A. A. Campbell,
William S. Lusher, Thomas Woods, John
Jewell, William Cutler Candell, Josiah Hoff.
man, James Corbett, and Joseph Edmends
Thirty-two Of these men were Hungarians,
| ami the others were frcm Virginia ana Penn
| sylvaaia.
Colored-S. II. Ambartous, Robert Lewis,
| Amos Conner John Hicks, Joseph Witter,
| John Lawson, John Maxwell, James Max
well, George Maxwell r. Richardson, James
Hampton, Henry Sears, Daniel Johnson, Ed
| Tucker, Wade Stewart, Howard Quarles,
| Henry NJ .Iyey. Henderson Miller, Jordan
| Hicks, Charles Wyatt L. Richardson, James
| Purdue Robert Pndae Reed Howard,
| Daniel Wright, James Wright, Lucas
| Watson, James Clnweil, Creed Burrows,
| Joseph Dung, Pharoah Bowers, Joseph Price,
Henry Henly, B. Hcnly, J. w. James, Henry
Sales, Phillip Raglanl, August Hog, Andrew
| johnson, Wade Stewart, John Littler, Will
| lam Moore, Riley Austin, Allen Graves,
Giles Bacon, James Campbell, Milton Heath,
| Samuel Lawson, Lewis Cockerhan, Andrew
Marshall, an Baker Wilson.
| RICHMOND Va, March 1.-THE general
assembly, in view of the awful coai-mine
disaster at Pocahontss, and the likelihood OF
great destitution among the families of the
victims, adopted joint resolution authoriz
ing the governor to ascertain the approx
mate amount of money necessary to relieve
| their immediate wants
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
K in the conference.


Frederick Douglass troubles, growing
out of his marriage with white lady,
instead Of decreasing are multiplying
When he recently married his colored
friends turned their backs upon him be-
cause they thought he should have select
ed wife from his own race. Now the
woman sufragists, with whom Douglass
had formerly been a great favorite, have
snubbed him, it is said, for the same
reason. AT their recent convention at
Washington be was entirely ignored-not
being invited to address them, which he
has always heretofore done. And this
all happened, notwithstanding the present
Mrs. Douglass is prominent advocate of
woman suffrage
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
BOGUS SILVER CERTIFICATES.
COunterfefters Believed To BE Get
ting Ready to litter Them.

WASHINGTON CITY, March l7.-The secret
service division of the treasury depart
ment reports that it believes that GER
tain counteIfeiters are concerning
measures simultaneously to pass upon
the public, especially in the
cities of tie south and west, counterfeit $50
silver certificates. A sample of the same has
Just been received at tine offica of the secret
service division. The issue is a series of 1880,
James G.lGllau, treasurer of the United
States. The paper is thick, greasy and
stiff, and tbs note is one-eighth of all
inch shorter than the genuine There is no
distributed fibre OF parallel silk threads in
Tie paper, as in the genuine. The words
SILVER certificate appear in the panels twice
in the upper border on the face and not in
the panel to the left In the counterfeit
The letters "R" 1T" and "F,n in the
word Certificate" are engraved wrong
side up. In the counterfeit there
are no periods dividing the initials
in B. K Bruce. Ga the lower left cor
ucr the check-letter "C7 is without tho &C.
companying number, ana in the name of Gil
tillau only the first =" is dotted. On the
back OF the note the word taxes is
plainly spelt "taris.' and the word Ten
grased' is spelt engraved The color Of
the seal is lex red; it should
be vergilig on, brown. The foregoing are the
salient point, and If carefrliy noted will, for
the present protect the public. While the
ny sulud not deceive careful hanilers OF
nioHey, especially when the geometrical
lathe wo!k IS examined, yet among tie hur
ried and careless, because of its fair appear
alce, it might work great damage.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17


The Modern Age for April opens with
an interesting story BY Canivet entitled
"Sosthenes Barrel "a New View Of
Mormonism' is by an. English member Of
parliament, ,aud. gives.the of the case
favorable to the Mormons. The Story
of Genius" is concluded:in this number,
and proves it to be a !mostipowerful and
interesting piece of fiction. Marine, the
great. tenor, is .agreeably written of in an
article of some length. Sentenced to
Spitzbergen' is thrilling story by
Alarcon, the Spanish writer who is just
becoming known in this country. Ban
quoting iifroms Reporters Standpoint,
is gossipy description of public ban
quets in England, The number contains
two poems, one by Robert Browning, and
the other by D. R. Blackmore, the author
Of Lorna Doone." The editorial depart
nent is even better than usual, ard the
prizes are awarded for the second ''Ex-
animation Papers" (2Q Lafayette Place
New York city. SLIGO per annuml
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17


A project is on foot to erect near Cen
trail park in New York; "a new hospital
devoted exclusively to the treatment of
patients afflicted with cancer. An organ
ization has been effected with five men
and five women, not physicians, and five
reputable physicians as a board Of mana
gers, and arrangements are being made to
to purchase an eligible lot on the west
side Of Central park, at a cost of $780,
900, and to erect on it $3.50, 900 build
ing. At first only female patients will be
admitted, but later on males will also be
taken. No incurable cases will be re-
ceived. 1t is believed that it will be self
supporting, but if not wholly so, its
friends will.makc up any deficiency that
may exist There is but one institution of
the kind in Great Britain, and none in
this country, although it is stated that
there were 700 deaths from cancer in the
state of New York alone IN the year 1882.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
Cnitiuw Against Anarchists,

LONDON. March 11.--In Berlin, it is
officially announced tn. principal powers Of
Europe hal agreed To join in the co1federa-
ton proposed Jointly by Germany and
France for ile suppression Of all anarchcial
forms CT socialism. The announcement, was
however, coapei with the statement that
tho country post necessary 10 the sue
cess Of the federation, Switzerland, had
finally and uHrese.veiiy refused TO join. The
Swiss federal council, N its note of daclina-
ton, takes tn position that tie nature of
the government of Switzerland forbids aud
renders unnecessary The espionage and dis
elimination proposed AMI states that,
So lar is Swiss c1ps rience has
shown, the so-caiied anarchists are O
vulgar ana un.rfIential 10. Of Grim
inS!s. easily made ageuahle to the regular
criminal laws and not worth the especial
notjce Of the government or & confederation
Of governments. The attitude of Switzerland
IS a seriCjis disGppu intmeit TO Bismarck, and
it is believe! he will eventually cause the
abandonment Of the proposel confederation,
which would be impract.cable so long as
Switzerland offered har5or TO anarchists
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
The Eaxorites InFndiana.

WASHINGTON CITY, March ;7.-John c
New, of Indiana. arrived Lere 20 attend to
some private affairs, bus will return home
at once. In speaking of presidential pros
poets in Indiana he said there was
great diversity of public sentiment
Blaine was strong and so was Arthur;
there were many Elmulis men, and there
was a good deal Of talk about Lincoln, as
being an available candidate. OF course
Gresham and Harrison both had active
friends, but Indiana would not present a can
didate to the Republican national convection.
Her Republicans would give a hearty sup
port to any candidate, aud only wanted the
best man, whoever he was.
With regard to the governorship, Mr.. New
said that it was close fight between Dudley
and CallliGs. The former had said all along
that he would not be a candidate, and for
that reason Calkins had come into the field,
any was not meeting with much opposition
until Dudley declared himself. He didn't
know how it woul come out
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
Slight Odds.
A Little Story with Large Moral, -0ac
Man who Knew his own Business

A Little Story with Large Moral, -0ac
Man who Knew his own Business.
mo, my dear" ssid the venerable keeper of i
country store to timid little girl whose head
scarcely came up TO the counter, No, my dear,
haven't any red flannel, but we have some first
rate New Orleans molasses - Softly limiting that
she didn't think that would answer the purpose
quite as well, the child away in search of the
article she wanted.
Have you BEFSoN.S CAPCINE PLAsTBRs,' -
asked gentleman of certain drczsst whose
name could be given were Il desired II am trou-
bled just now with a touch of my old friend, the
lumbago, and the Benson's Plaster seems to go
the spot almost as soon as it touches the skim
Not at present. replied the druggist. genially,
but we have lots of plasters just as good There
Is Aucock's the CapsiCum and ethers-won't one
of them do just as well?n
MY dear sir,' rstorted the gentleman. with a
slight show Of temper II say nothing against
those articles, but am a business man. and al
ways ask for precisely what want. and for moth
ing else. l may enlighten you, however, when l
say that sometime ago, for another disease,
which the Capcine has since cured me- tried all
those you mention. with no appreciable benefit.
Theyare inefficient, every one of them, the mean
est act Of the proprietor. Of some of them being
this that they make plasters with similar sound
ing names to deceive the unwsry into believing
| they are the same thing. Experience taught me
The difference. III go to the next man in your line
Good day
Be on your guard against limitations. The gen
uine has the word CAPCINE cut clearly in the
middle of the plaster. All others are inpositions
| Seabury Il Johue0n, Chemists New York
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
VERY REMARKABLE RECOVERY.

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, writes; my wife has been almost
helpless for five years, so helpless that
she could not turn over in bed alone.
She used two bottles of Electric Bitters,
and is so much improved, that she is now
able to do her own work.
Electric Bitters will do all that is
claimed for them. Hundreds of testi-
monials attest their great curative powers.
Only fifteen cents bottle at Hartz &
Bahnsen's
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
An Alleged Massachusefts Miracle.

New YORK, March 17.-Arthur J. Sloan,
rector Of Christ church, in STAFFORD, Mass,
is reported to have performed some wonder
full faith cures. Miss Fanny Curtiss, about
40 years of age, who has been a sufferer
from disease for twentythree years,
incapable of walking save few steps at
a time, is one of his latest cases. Miss
Curtiss was seen and said by faith and prayer
Mr.. Sloan instantly cured her on March Z.
After that she walked in the evening to serv-
ice at Christ church, quarter Of a mile
away. Mr.. Sloan said: II do not place the
cure of Miss Curtiss on the list Of miracles at
all. As long as her faith continues she will
remain healed"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
OPPOSING CIVIL PENSIONS.
The granddaughter OF Thomas Sef-
feFse- :actased ga.iOna! Help.

EAsEIINGT IN CITY, March 1.-THE house
devoted Friday afternoons session to dis
eussing AMI determining very important
question in regard to pensions The bill
under consideration was one to grant
pension to Septcmia f. Meikleham, the
only Surviving grandehild Of the author of
tie Declaration OF Independence. Thomas
jefferson had six children, only two of whom
arrived at the age OF maturity. Mrs. Meikle-
hams mother, Martha, was Jefferson's
favorite daughter and housekeeper All
Of his children but three were
born at Monticello. and one at the White
House. while her father was president Mrs
Meikleham was IL years old when he died,
and was present when his eyes closed in
death She is said to have imbibed and
still retains much Of his spirit, and
Inherited much of his genius and
his striking features, refined by a
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
A SENSIBLE MAN WOULD USE

Kemp's Balsam for the throat and lungs.
1t is curing more cases of coughs, colds,
asthma, bronchitis, Group, and all throat
and lung troubles, than any other med
icine. The proprietor has authorized o.
Grotjan to refund your money if, after
taking three-fourths of bottle. relief is
not obtained. Price 50 cents and 81,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

The Fitz John Porter bill has passed
the senate and is. nowsbefore the presi-
dent 1t is to be .hopedzthat he will sign
it promptly and that thus justice will at
last be done to Il much injured man.
Among the republican senators, whose
sense of justice triumphed over party
prejudice is d. NJ Sabin, chairman OF the
republican national committee
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

Sorakichi the japanese wrestler, APP
pears to be a bad man in Il rough and
tumble Six New York toughs stopped
him on the street the other night, and
insisted thai, he must either sing or fight
The Jap hesitatrd until one of them
tilted his hat over his eyes when, with
lightning rapidity. he. seized one after
the other and threw them into the street.
Finding there were no:more who wanted
to listen to his music, he quietly walked
home
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

The population in. Ireland is now very
nearly the same asst was the year Of the
Union. 5,10D, 900, .the great increase up
to 1871, when it reached ES,19900G, hav-
ing been entirely lost. But .whereas in
1882, on the passage of the reform bill
Ireland had 32.33 per cent of the3populs
ton of the United Kingdom, it has now
but IA 81 per cent iandg its .electnrs, who
were II 30 per cent ofsthe whole in 1882,
are nov. hnt ! .45:per, cent.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17
Tired Of the SsNI

NEW YORK, March Il. Captain Richard
W. Meade, for some lime past captain of the
Brooklyn navy yard, will leave this city for
st. Louis, He has obtained q long
leave of absence, and practically resigned
from the navy. In an interview with
a Brooklyn Union reporter the captain said:
leave the navy because 1 do rot think it
has any future in it for an active man II
a man wants to lead lazy, monotonous
life the navy is the place for him
But if he wishes to push himself for
ward-to really mingle in the fray
he had better keep ont of it. Commodore
Usher is going to the Pacific I am go
ing to the Missouri Pacific, / am to be as
sistant vice president OF the Missouri Pacific
and the great Gould system of railroads
Some Of the best ralroat men in the country
have been naval officers. | have been out
west for the last tarea months looking into
the matter, and find nothing in the work
that do not think | can master in time
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

BosToN, March 17-Ifhe silver coinage
resolutions passed by the produce exchange
have called out letters To the secretary of the
board from Representatives Long, Ranney,
Morse and Senator Dawes All agree that
'omething ought to be done, but think with
he present committee on coinage and
Teigats and measures no action is likely to
- takpn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-17

The national democratic convention at
Chicago will be composed of fifty four
delegates, as two delegates are allowed to
every congressional district, and four al
large Great:pains should be taken TO
secure none but representative men to
this convention, as. it is one of great i'm
portance The convention will be held
within our borders, and it is meet that
Illinois should be represented by first
class delegation, auds secure a foremost
rank in the conference.