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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04


OMAHA, Neb., Dec 4-Nettie Howard, a
young courteSan of English parentage, died
in this city Tuesday, after terrible sufferings
from the burning of her body Saturday
morning last The fire was claimed by the
people in the house to have originated i'll u
lamp explosion, but an investigation has led
to the arrest Of the girls elder sister,
Lizzie Howard, and her alleged hus-
band, John Thompson, for the
murder of the girl, who, in her ante mortem
statement made after the arrest, declared
that her sister threw coal oil over her and
Thompson set it on fire II Is alleged that
persons passing by who endeavored to rescue
the girl from the flames were driven out of
the house by Thompson, and he allowed the
girl to burn, and carried off her dresses and
jewelry The motive for this horrible crime
was doubtless revenge upon the girl Nettie,
through whose information the police had
recovered property which he stole, and he
had just served u term in Jail
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

buildings AMI grounds appointed sub-com
mittee to interview the state delegations in
congress in reference to the consideration of
bills favorably reported to the house
by that committee. 1t is intended to
secure the consent of interested members to
drop the bills providing for public buildings
in small cities, and consider only those in the
large places, which would, it is believed, ia
cilitate the passage of a class of measures
that otherwise would be left unconsidered at
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
The Holiday Recess.

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 4.-There seeni
to be clash in opinions of leading Demo
cratic members of the house about the hoii-
day recess. Chairman Morrison. OF the
ways and means committee, said to
limited Pess reporter that the recess
would doubtless be taken about
Saturday, Dec. IS, so that those who desired
TO do so might attend the opening oil the
New Orleans exposition on Dec. il. There
will not be such recess as tna'
would indicate" said Mr.. Holman,
mot by any means" He continued; ed
~ think the recess should be very brief we
have too much before us in this session to
waste time A recess taken just before
CHRISTMAS and reconvening Immediately
oftar the New Year comes in is about the
right thing" The majority seem to favor
Mr. Morrison's suggestion.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

Ammonia is obtained in large quanti'
ties by the putrefaction of the urine OF
animals Encyclopedia britannica.
Every housekeeper can test baking
powder containing this disgusting drug
by placing a can of the Royal" or"An-
drews" Pearl" top down on hot stove
until heated, then remove the cover ant
SMELL
Prove it by the above test jn26dwtf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

New YORK, Dec L DIR. r. H. Russell, of
4G6 Canal street, will start some day this
week in a canoe for New Orleans via the
Hudson the Erie, and other canals to the
Ohio, and down the latter river to the Mis-
sssippi The trip will take about six weeks.
The doctor will then exhibit his boat at the
exposition, and challenge all corners to CON-
pete in canoeing
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 4.-Tbe house
committee on public lands will hold its first
meeting of this session Wednesday. There
is a disposition among members of the com
mittee to dispose of the Northern Pacific
land grant forfeiture bill now pending in the
house and it is thought that the committee
will pass a resolution urgine, speedy action
on that measure.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
Is IL Mahdi Dead?

CAIRO, Dec 4-The mudir of Dongola
telegraphs that he has just been informed
that the mahdi has died from cholera, and
that his death has created alarm in the rebel
camD
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
Another Slap at Bismarck.

BERLIN, Dec, 4-The reichstag committee
on the budget has rejected Prince Bismarck's
proposal to maintain a German consul a.
Cape Town.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
A FAIR OFFER

The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall.
Mich, offer to send Dr. DYES Celebrated
Voltaic Belt and Electric Appliances on
trial, for thirty days, to men. old and
young, afflicted with nervous debility,
lost vitality, and many other diseases.
See advertisement in this paper.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
HEAVY Failure in Louisville.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Dec. 4-Hill, Fletcher
& Co, wholesale furnishing goods and no
tions have made an assignment. Their LA
bilitie5 and assets are unknown The firm
did an annual business of S250,000 Then
principal creditors are in the east. They ara
rated at from S75, 900 to SIS, 900
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

E. W. Hurst represents the leading
American and Foreign Insurance Cos.
Policies carefully written at current rates.
Agency established 1874. Office over
Rock Island National Bank.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
An Agricultural Exposition Scheme

WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 4.-There is
scheme on foot to procure a loan of 81 ,000, 900
from the government to aid in establishing
an international agricultural exposition, to
be held at Louisville, Ky. Representative
Willis will offer resolution on the subject
as soon as an opportunity offers
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
Hard Goal Market.

Pea coal S. 50; CRATE and egg, SS.25;
range, nut and No. $3.50 per ton,
screened and delivered; all best quality OF
Anthracite coal. Blacksmith S coal, Con-
nellsville coke and charcoal at 1903 Sec
ond avenue diff +. G. FRAZIER.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

DR.. A. T. Hawley, dentist, corner Sew
teentn street and Sixth avenue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04
BILLS for Public Buildings.

WASHINGTON CRY, Dec. 4.-Wednesday
.,.4-~ing the house committee on puone
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-12-04

FOR SALE-At my office, on Eleventh street,
the best quality of coal. Also dry oak cord wood,
stone and sand. Orders received by telephone at
car house. d. G. Dohlman, agent. ml3d3m
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
THE CRY OF THE JORBERS,

The solid South! Thecontrolo fthe
Rebel Brigadiers!are the cries which
go out from Mr.. Blaine and the
Northern Republicans. Mr.. Blaine's
party didn't want the South out Of
the Union and insisted with strong
emphasis that she remain a part
Of it. The South accepted and is
to-day a very important part. 4s
a part, the South has a right to
choose between good and corrupt
men to administer the government.
When the South in the exercise of
that great privilege puts her men
forward. the dishonest jobbers of
the North cry out The Rebel Brig
adiers they come" There was a
time when such immaculate men as
Blaine and others could have been
rid Of the Rebel Brigadiers simply
by letting them alone. Oh, con
sistency what a Jewel thou art'.'
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
MOST TOO FAST.

The did Journal published at
Lebanon Pennsylvania, raves over
the result Of the election after this
fashion,:
For the people of the Southern
States to come as a solid body and
ask that the government which
they tried to destroy should be
handed over to their indirect control,
is a demand in such unreasonable
shape that it seems impossible that
sensible men should make it, The
unreasonableness OF the implied
proposition that the defenders and
p~reseryers Of the governments should
turn it over into the virtual control
of those who tried to destroy it. for
the sake of reconciliation and peace,
or for any other reason, has no par
alIel in history, and can have no
other effect than to invite and pro-
woke the bitterest opposition against
such an unjust, and to the people of
other States, dangerous looking
proposition. X y So long as
the South remains q sectional unit
o,yuyed against the parties that sared
the Union, so long WiW it proroke q
united opposition, and so 1t sho"|d;
for the encouragement of sectional
solidity for partizan purposes is the
worst form Of demagogism, danger
to the peace and Happiness of
tho people. and should destroy the
influence and power of any party
that seeks. to be benefited by it."
If the editor Of the did Journal
lived during the war he will perhaps
remember that DEMOCRATS as
well as Republicans contributed to
the. prosecution Of the war on the
Northern side, that thousands upon
thousands Of the soldiers which COM
posed the Yankee army were mem-
bers of the DEMOCRATIC party.
He will remember that Gen. McClel-
Ian at one time Commander III
Chief of the Yankee army, was a
DEMOCRAT. He will also remem-
Der that Winfield Scott Hancock a
Major General in the same army
was a DEMOCRAT. The Demo-
cratic party was in a minority North
during the war but it contributed
its might toward the support Of the
Uuion, and the. editor Of the did
.Jouyuol had better be less extreme
and more honest.
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
CLEVELAEDs ADMINISTRATION.

Some Of the newspapers are dis
cussing or rather specializing upon
the course President Cleveland will
take IN the selection OF cabinet and
other government officers. The
pittsboro H1uc saws:
"But the question comes up, will
the president confine himself to
Democrats IN making MS caolle'
aPpoln'niell'S anu III hiii"S 1"hP0i-
r1aNnfnSI - Do,o,ro+ ona :
Doubtless attached to his party. but
he is thoroughly imbucd with the
sentiment that a public Office Is a
popLlc trust,
MI o~lt'ei'h' Will 9eiecI HIS oi1Io-
u iiohi 'i,'on5 De",o0 ''''
HIS country HIS 'eeii 'a'o ~ 'ie
hePuoilcaHS loI "ehi'y-io" Se"i''
anu the corr"p'iolls OF 'ila' parry
lofceo cl!an5e "iiion was eiieo'e''
by the EOlERo OF this country on
the 4th day Of November. That
cbanoe meant q Democratic Gore,7,-
cL,.-H H. onoors e tbo
"s'"' I~''i' ~
general "o'ernlleh oe 'pPoinoe'
from both the Democratic and he
publican parties, the Government
would be neither Democratic nor
Ponnhl;c,n and tho will Of the
nennle exnressed at the no]]s uou7d
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25

persons in the North" he continued,
"realize how completely the chiefs
OF the rebellion WELD the political
power which has triumphed in the
late election. It is a portentious
fact that the democratic Senators
who came from the States Of the
late Confederacy all-and I mean all,
without a single exception-person-
ally participated in the REBELLION
agalnst-Tr national government. 1t
Is a still more significant fact that III
those States 10 man who was
loyal to the Union, no matter how
st org Democrat he may be to-
day, hasithe slightest chance of po-
litical promotion. The one great
avenue to honor In that section IS
the record Of a Jealous service IN
the war agains the government. 1t
is certainly an astounding fact that
the section in which friendship for
the Union in the day Of its trial
and agony is still a political dis
qualification should now be called
to rule over the Union.
"AIl this takes place during the
lifetime Of the generation that
fought the war, and ~elevates into
practical command Of the American
government the identical men who
organized for its destruction and
plunged xs,into the bloodies contest
Of nod14times. ! have spoken of
the South as placed by the late cleo
ton in possession Of the govern
ment, and | mean all that my words
imply. The South furnished near
" t~hree-fourths Of the electoral
votes that defeated the Republican
party, and they will step to the COM
mand of the Democratic party as
unchallenced and as unrestrained as
as they held the same position fo1
thirty years before the civil war.
"Gentiemen, there cannot be po-
litical inequality among the citi-
zens Of a free republic; there can,
not be q minority of white men in
the South ruling a majority Of white
men in the North. Patriotism
self-respect, pride, protection fol
person and safety for country, al
cry out against it. The very though
Of it stirs the blood Of men who in.
herit equality from the Pilgrims whe
first stood Oh Plymouth Rock, ano
from liberty-loving patriots wh(
came to the Delaware with VIM
Penn. It becomes the primal ques
ton Of American manhood. 1t de
mands d hearing and a settlement
and that settlement will vindicatt
the equality Of American citizens il
all personal and civil rights.
Purposely-l may say instructive
ly-I have discussed the issues an;
consequences Of that contest withou
reference to my own defeat, without
the the remotest reference to tn
gentleman who is elevated to tn
Presidency. Towards him per
sonally I have no cause for tn
slightest ill-wili, and it is with cor
diality | express the wish that hi
official career may prove gratifying
to himself and beneficial to the coun
try, and that his administration ma,
overoxs~fe embarrassment which
the peculiar source Of its power i'm
poses upon it from the hour of it
birth.'
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
FOR THE NEW DAY.
On the Broadcast Base yet Laid
in North Carolina.

The STATE CHRONICLE (Weekly) which
closed its first year September Is, has
been the most successful newspaper en-
terpriSe in the State. 1t goes into 50
counties and has the largest home adj
vertlsing patronage enjoyed by any
State newspaper.
Eli DAILY CHRONICLE will begin it's
career on September 10. 1t has come to
stay. The CHRONICLE Publishing Com
pany. which now owns both papers, has
an authorized capital of $4,000 and is
composed of q of the most progressive
merin North CarOlina-frOm Asheville
& Wilmington. 1t will be conducted
as the needs of the new day in North
Carolina demand-lively, progressive,
clean.
The conduct of both daily and weekly
will be in the same hands that have
hitherto made the weekly.
DAILY-So a year; $2.5OfOr 6 months.
WEEKLY-(again to be enlarged) 50
a year; 81 for 6 months.
PAID CORRESPCNDENTs AND CAN
VASSERS WANTED EVERYWHERE. (Ref-
erences from strangers.)
Address,
THE CHRONICLE,
! 2. o. Drawer 8. Raleigh, N G.
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
THE LATEST.

The news comes to Us that a plan
is on foot to weaken President
Cleveland's Administration by a Re-
publican Senate's refusal to con-
finn his appointees to office. Really
this is the smallest thing we have
heard, except Blaine's Augusta
Speech. The Senate Of the United
States engaged in a childish attempt
to clog the wheels Of government!
We trust all sense of decency and
honor has not deserted the Republi-
can party at the first approach of
defeat. Those venerable grey-beardS
were not sent to the council cham
Der of the nation to place obstruc-
tons in the way Of the progress OF
government, but to aid IN its i'd
r~onceDa6nt. Cleveland has been
made President of this country by {
large majority of its voters, and any
Senator who lends himself to a con
spiracy to weaken Clevelands adj.
1ninistration abuses a public trust
and will Of necessity follow in the
footsteps Of Mr.. Blaine and other
corrupt men. The country has just
made a new departure. Reform now
Is the watchword, and political deati
will be the portion melted to those
who recklessIy place themselves IL
the way Of its execution.
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
MIR BLAINE.

Mr.. Blaine says:~The colored pop
ulation with more than 100000
legal votes have been unable to
choose a single elector. Mr.. Blaine
could hare gone on and said the
Republican party with 100000
votes were unable to choose a Pres
ident.
For ways that are dark, and for tricks
that are vain,
The heather Chinee is mo longer Pc
culiar.
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
BLAINEs SPEECH AT AUGUSTA,

Elsewhere in this paper is pub
lished a speech delivered by Mr..
J. G. Blaine, at Augusta, Maine,
on Tuesday evening 18th inst.
Every man of self-respect in the
South or III the Union, may fer
vcntly thank God for the Country's
deliverence from Blainism, and earn
estly ask that it may in the future
be spared such fate. The civil war
has been ended twenty years. The
South has enteed the Union again
on terms OF equality with other
States composing it. The increase III
the Southern electoral vote was made
by her prosecutors for partisan pur-
poses, Mr.. Blaine aiding, and his bit
ter denunciations against the use Of
that vote by the Democracy to put
down snch demogogues as himself,
are rs silly as they are bitter.
Mr.. Blaine has just passed through
an exhaustive and warmly contest
ed election, in which he was one of
the two aspirants for the high office
Of President Of the United States.
Had he been elected, he would have
been President of the South as well
as of the North. Could he have
discharged the duties Of that high
position with equal fairness to all
parts of the Union, entertainingsuch
sentiments as was given out in his
speech at Augusta on the 18th inst?
Can any man of intelligence fail to
see the kind Of government he would
have extended towards the South,
had he been made President? Nc
honest, straightforward, moral man
will array one individual against
another, yet without any cause more
than the pique Of his personal defeat
Mr.. Blaine arrays the voters Of the
North and West, against the
WHITE men of the South.
How can good feeling between
the North and South ever be restor.
ed while such fanatical demagogues
as jim Blaine live?
The following from the Raleigh
Ne1rs and Observer on the subject is
very forcible:
Mr.. Blaine complains that there
are many negroes in the South anC
they have been unable to choose {
single elector. What I'D coptondtD
nonsense is this? There are many
Democratic Irishmen in Massachu
sets who are unable to choose ;
single elector! There are many
white Democrats in Illinois and they
are not able to choose a single cleo
tor. There are many white Dem.
ocrats in Ohio, in Iowa, in Kansas
in California, &c, &c, and they arr
not able to choose single elector
There are more white Democrats a
the North who cannot choose d sin
Gle ~elect0r than there are Negro
Republicans at the South. There
are three millions OF Democratic
white voters living IN eighteen
Northern States who are not able t
choose a single electOr, and are en-
tirely unrepresented i'll the electoral
college. But what Of it? Does Mr.
Blaine propose any way for them t
have a voice in the electoral college
these three million white men?
The sun. (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1883-188?, 1884-11-25
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Town Lot For Sale!

7 TNLESS SOONER DISPOSED OF
= privately, | viii, on Saturday, De
cember Goth, 1891, at II o'clock NJ, at
the Market House in Fayetteville, sell
to the highest bidder, the lot with I'M
the Cedar Lot" and John Wright's,
formerly the properly of J. r. Lee, con
tanning over an acre.
Terms Cash. WIN. y. GUTHRIE.
Nov. 18th. 1884. is
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-08-28

NO. 81.
$50 acres-l6o acres under fence, 20 acres tim
Der. 10 acres meadow. 10 acres dasture. balance
and an du norch !. eo ; Sn sras,e Sa mouse eo 90 t mist h hoo.ns
and other good OutbuIidings good young Or
chard OF about sevensy five trees good ponds {:
good wen good hedge and rail iencing situat-
ed IL miles north OF Mexico, Missouri. Price,
$40 90 per acre.
232 acres, 6 miles south of Mexico, Missouri /;
all fenced with rails, save 8 acres timber; di-
vided into 6 fields about s. acres OF timber.
balance IN grass and cultivation good two
story frame house of 6 rooms fair barn good
well fair orchard never falling stock water I;
house on corner Of land churches con-
station on the G. b A. Railroad. Price.
$1,000 U~e-one-half cash, balance time at s per
cent. per annum.
NO. 1s9.
leo aeres-6e acres i'm cultivation and under
good garden, good weil-21 feet deep and 8 feet
In diameter stable for six horses with corr. CRIB
attached good pond, creek rms through tim.
Mexico. Price $500 per acre, $1,000 cash ; bal
ance, to suit purchaser.
NJ. Is.
Farm Of so ocres all well fenced, good one story
franc dwelling house Of four roomA, kitchen de-
tached. good frame barn AKA feet, and other
out buildings, yound orchard and abundance Of
small fruit, 10 acres in cultivation balance tim
bered pasture. sitngte 21-2 miles west Of Mexico
Price $2.50u. terms easy.
NO It's.
800 acres, all unner fence save 30 acres. SnD-
meadow ali enclosed susceptible Of cultiva.
ton creek running through pasture, furnishing
water all year round. 2 story frame dwelling
with one stGEy u; 8 rooms saas IN IA AZ, GOD 1--WE. well u, ant
fair orchard. Good tenant house. good rich land
and one of the best stock farms in the COUNTY
church situated 8 miles north OF Mexico, Pnc
suit.
500 acres, ALL fenced, save 20 aerest timber
subdivided into six felds /; 40 acres In meadow
and pastu4e, balance in cultivation. Good tw'
story frame house with ell comfortable stabllng
good orchard Of 100 trees well watered by fou
a mile south of Concord, Galloway county. No.
and four miles west OF AuXvasSe station on G.
A +. 3. In good neighborhood ; good school
and churches convenient. Price go per acre
ene-half cash, balance time at g per cent.
No. a2s.
80 acres. / "a miles north OF Laddonia- Al
| well fenced SO acres In meadow 20 acres ii
pasture and fenced hog tight large pond an
plenty OF water 40 young apple trees % cherr.
trees to plum trees grapes and Otner SINAI
Ell i4x1e frame barn i4xsa. Ali fenced wit
s2,4OO.
40 acres, 2 1-2 miles north of Mexico, Mo. /; al
with hedge and plank good lots and gsTdel
fenced separate; good orchard. One-st0r
frame house of 5 rooms smoke-hohse with eel
garden has raspberrtes, strawberries and grapes
Two elegant ponds that never fail and good els
tern. Price S35 per acre ; One-third cash, bal
anee one and years time at 8 per cent.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-08-28
". Baker
REAL ESTATE.
Loan & Insurance Agent.
- OFFICE--Front Room, upstairs, Over the
Mexico Savings Bank,
MEXICO, MISSOURI.
MEXICO,

Ihave for sale exchange 90 1000 acres Of the Finest Grazing and Farnins Iana.
in the State of Missouri, AT BED-ROC PRICES. Also, desirable Residence m
Business Property in the city Of Mexico.
Having correspondence all over the United States, my facilities fol- selling =
exchanging property are unsurpassed by n other agency in the ouutry
The largest portion of my farming lands are situate Within asyd stsa.ss
Mexico, the county seat Of Audrain county, and, for all purposes. are coma To- n.
lands In the United States.
The following list represents a portion of my Land Register.