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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
A Great Problem.

A Great Problem.
Take all the Kidney and Liver
Medicines,
Take all the Blood purifiers,
Take all the Rheumatic remedies,
Take all the Dyspepsia and indigestion
cures,
Take all the Ague, Fever, and bilious
specifies,
Take all the brain and Nerve force
revivers.
Take all the Great health restorers.
In short, take all the best qualities of
all these, and the best
Qualities of all tie best medicines in
the world, and you will find that Hop
-Bitters have the best curative qualities
and powers Of all concentrated
In them, and that they will cure when
any or all of these, single or-conbimed
Fail. A thorough trial will give posi-
tive proof of this.
Hardened Liver.
Five years ago broke down with kid
ney and liver complaint and rheumatism
Since then | have been unable to be
about at all. NY liver became hard like
wood; my limbs were pulled up and filled
with water
All the best physicians agreed that
nothing could cure me. resolved to try
Hop Bitters; | have used seven bottles;
the hardness has all gone from my liver,
the swelling from my limbs, and it has
worked a miracle in my case; otherwise |
would have been in my grave, ]. W, NOR
~. Buffalo, Oct, 1881.
Poverty and Suffering.
Il was dragged down with debt, pow
erty and suffering for years, caused by
sick family and large bills for doctoring
Twas completely discouraged, until one
year ago, by the advice of my pastor, |
commenced using Hop Bitters, and in
one month We were all well, and none of
US have seen IA sick day since, and want
to say TO all poor men, you can keep your
families well year with Hop Bitters for
less than one doctors visit will cost. |
know it. "A WORKINGMAN.
G3s- None genuine without bunch of
green Hops on the white label. Shun all
, the vile, poisonous stuff with Hop or
Hops in their name.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

In a recent sermon in Bennington Car
dinal Manning said that men were labor
ing to etface from the law of the land the
very name of God. Politics was goddess
1t WAS the same with eduction. There
was no true education without religion
What had made England great? No
warfare, not conquest not politics mo-
legislation. 1t was the one faith and thu
love of God and of the neiphbor.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
Iha Tastimonv of a Physlcian

James Beecher, NJ. D.. of Sigourney,
Iowa says: For several years have been
using a Cough Balsam, called Dr. VIM,
Halls Balsam For the Lungs, and in al
most every case throughout my practice
have had entire success. have used and
prescribed hundreds of bottles since the
days of my army practice 1859, when
was surgeon of Hospital MOI Louisville
IL
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
HAY FEVFR.

| have been afflicted for twenty years,
during the months of August and Septem
ber with Hay Fever, and have tried var
ions remedies without relief. / was induc-
ed to try Ely's Cream Balm; have used it
with favorable results, and can confidently
recommend it to all.-Robert W. Town
lev, (Ex-Mayor) Elizabeth, N y.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness, early decay, loss of manhood, &c,
| will send a recipe that will cure you
FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
Vn< discovered by missionary in South
America. Send self addressed envelope
to the Rev. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Station D.
New York City
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
Rucklen's Arnioa Salve.

The greatest medical wonder of the world
Warranted TO speedily cure burns, bruises,
cuts, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, can
GERS, piles, chilblains, corns, letter, chap
ped hands, and all skin eruptions guaran-
teed to cure in every instance, or money
refunded 25 cents per box. For sale by
Hartz & Rahnsen.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
Fusion in Michigan.

DETROIT, Aug. 19-The Democratic and
Greenback state central committee VII meet
here to talk over the fusion proposition. The
Democrats would like fusion all through, in
GLIDING division of the electoral ticket bat
the Greenbackers, while willing to fuse on
the state ticket, insist on taking their cleo
toral ticket medicine straight for Butler
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

Clergymen, lawyers and all those of
sedentary habits who suffer from nervous
prostration and loss of appetite should
try Nichols Bark and Iron For sale by
all druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
Stabbed Iuis VIE and Hung rslmseIG

MILWAUKEE. Aug. l0-The Journal,
Brodhcad special says: On Saturday night
Hall Tenyeck stabbed his wife and ther
committed suicide by hanging The woman
Is still living.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 10 Elias Lii
tleton, living near here, caught boy IN his
watermelon patch Sunday and filed him
with 100 birtshot 1t is thought the boy viii
recover
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

A child has been treated at Boston
hospital for several weeks for badly swol>
len feet caused by poison from cheap red
stockings
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
Administrators Notice.

Estate of John DietZ, deceased.
The undersigned, having been appointed Admin
istrator of the estate OF John Dietz. late OF
the county of Rock Island, state of Illinois, de
ceased hereby give notice that he will appear
before the county court Of Rock Island county, a
the Office of the clerk of said court, in the city o
Rock Island. at the October term. on the thirC
Monday in October next, at which time all per
sons having claims against said estate are notified
and requested to attend for the purpose of having
the same adjusted All persons indebted to sale
estate are requested 10 make immediate paymeu
to the undersigned.
Dated this 18Th day Of August A. D.. 1884
HENRY BJ RGOWER.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

Near Turin, Italy, young woman pois-
oned herself last month on the marriage
of her younger sister from fear of becom-
ING an old maid
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
E,ocus, r,apuc in spain.

MADRID, Aug, IA terrible piasra Of
jocu>ts has visited Central Spain. Tho
damage to tho crops about Ciuda4 heal i
slu,UOA 600
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

Rough on Itch osres humors, erup-
ton, ring>worms. tetet, salt rheum, frost
ed feet, chilblains.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

President Arthur. out driving with a
lady friend in the mountains the other
day, sat for his picture by summer re
sort artist-tin types, -four for so cents. .
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

Investigation by the health officers of
Brooklyn has led to the discovery that the
sod and mineral water fountains of the
city are unspeakably nasty.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

A niche for statue in the Saratoga
monument will be left vacant as a memo
rial to Benedict Arnold.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

The fashionable baby carriage at the
seaside is canoe-shaped, and sometimes
has miniature sail for sunshade.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
Pretty Women.

Ladies who would retain refreshness
and vivacity. Don't fail to cry "Nelis
Health Remover
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

On an average fifteen states are daily
represented among the visitors on Noun
Washington.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

The nutritive properties of Golden's
Liquid Beef Tonic sustain the body with
out solid food. Golden's; no other
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
..Rongh on Toothache.'

Instant relief Tor Neuralgia, Toothache,
Faceaehe. Ask for Rough on Tooth
| ache" Is and 25c.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
ssRough on Itch. .

Pixies Toothacbe Drops cure in one
minute
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

To Danish contagion from garments
and linen, disinfect with Glenn's Sulphur
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
blaine ut AupuAta

BAR HAaBoR, Aug. 19-Mr Blaine la
gone TO Augusta
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

Many HindoO husbands in bombay cut
their wives noses By way OF punishment
Five such cases occurred in one week
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
SWEENEY & WALKER,

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
AOtiicr in Bengst0ns block, Rock Island. III.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

A TTORNEY AT Law. Solicitor in Chanccry and
Il Notary Public Abstracts. Loans aud coec
lions. Odicc Buford's Block. I'd avenue, over
RAker's ,lcwpirV store nOv-2ld1v
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19
nj. M. STURGEON.
M. NJ COR.RETT

A ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office No. 1919 Sero
n Avcuue, between 18th and 18th SITS. Cup stain
Rock Island. IN. dec I2-dlS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-19

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
Domestic Recipes.

Two small tart apples are toothsome
addition to the stuffing of a roast duck
or goose.
Apple fritters make nice entree to be
served with roast duck.
One of the wisest precautions to take
when you are baking is to have the oven
e1fectly clean, and yet it is one that is
often neglected, and many an otherwise
faultless dish has been spoiled by the
sitting of ashes from the upper CRATE in
the oven.
Nice rolls are made of two teacups OF
sweet milk, two eggs, three and a half
scant cups of -four, sifted, of course,
good pinch of salt. Bake in very hot
gem pans, in quick oven.
This is a good dish: fry one pound
of veal in hot lard, having first cut it in
strips about two inches wide, and three
or four long when nearly done, add
little butter and half a pint OF oysters
chopped or cut in small pieces; season
with pepper and salt serve hot with or
without toast.
If a goose that is to be roasted is al
lowed to lie in a deep pan with cold
water over it, in which tablespoonfus
of soda is dissolved, all the oil can be
scraped out of the skin, and the coarse
flavor which is greatly objected to may
be entirely removed. The goose NUT
first be perfectly cleaned by rinsing
with clear cold water.
Out cold meat as for hash; fill deep
dish with boiled macaroni, pour over any
gravy you may have, on the top of that
place the meat, cover it with tomatoes,
over which sprinkle breadcrumbs, with
little butter bake until nicely
Drowned
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
A Butter Idyl.
[From the Detroit Free Press.

"Talk about creamery butter" said
the grocer, ttgive me the old-fashioned-
sweet-cream-h home me-made-churned butter
of the country, like this" and he laid
roll on the counter and proceeded to
butter some crackers. 50
"Eh? what's that ?" inquired GUS
toner. Country butter? Let me
taste it."
So more crackers were buttered,
which he ate greedily.
"How much of that butter have you
got?" he asked, wiping his chops with a
smack of satisfaction.
'"Took the most of it home to my own
family, Colonel M bought some and
will be in after the rest. You see, it
isn't easy to get June, clover-fed, cream
butter at this time of year. You could
not find pound in any other store in
town, said the grocer, proudly.
"Send me up the lot" said the Gus
toner; 'I don't want any creamery
butterine after eating that. You can't
fool me on genuine butter. I was
brought up on farm, was, and know
good butter when [ see it.
And he paid for his goods and went
out
'Where did you strike that butter {?
asked man who was eating prunes and
pickles near the stove.
'Down at the factory where they
make it," replied the grocer, calmly.
And the beating of their own hearts was
all the sound they heard.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
A Mexican Hurricane.

A hurricane occurred on the Mexican
coast on November 4, which entirely de-
stroyed the town of Altata, at the port
of that name. Not a house remained
standing, and vessels and launches at
anchor suffered severely. At Mazatlan
the wind blew with great violence, and
the sea was excessively rough. When
the gale commenced the Mexican steam
er Democratic and barks Carlos Paladin
and Harmodius were at anchor. The
Paladin cut away her anchors, losing
her first mate in the operation, as he was
washed overheard and drowned. She
then commenced to drift, and finally,
after striking on the rocks in front of
Olas Atlas, drifted on the beach at
Puerto Viejo, near the Cameron. Her
crew succeeded in reaching the shore,
with the exception of two, who were
drowned. The Harmodius sent down
her upper masts and yards, and rode
the gale out in safety.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

were burning low from the charred wood,
and an attendant, stepping up to the
one opposite to us, poured oil into it.
As the glare of the flame leaped up, it
showed men whose heads were covered
with fresh blood-clots, their breasts
drenched with the streams from their
wounds, yet cutting vehemently as they
| passed along. Some SO weak from loss
of blood that they were fainting, held
tightly to their neighbors' girdles and
pulled the whole lire into confusion as
thev reeled about; others in burst of
frenzy rushed hither and thither until
thev we're siezed and calmed down.
Attendants mopped the blood from
the faces of those whose eyes were
blinded by it, and threw the soaked
cloths upon the ground. Others stand
ing behind the line with sticks tried to
prevent the maddest from cutting them
selves to death. noticed one man
the shape of whose head indicated more
brutality than braiES-become SO wild
that he would have dilled himself but
for their interference. When they had
passed us they all left the court and
paraded no more, but were succeeded
by another band which the same spirit
tortured and tore. Thus they went past
us twice with more bowling, bleeding,
and fainting, the last time headed by
musicians, who increased their fervor by
wailing flute notes and clashing cymbals.
A horse which bore upon the pommel of
its empty saddle the green turban of its
slain rider, another little child of Hus.
sein, mounted like the first, and two
horses with empty-cushioned saddles
were added, to impress upon all the fate
of the unhappy house. But these
swordsmen, like the first, just as they
seemed at the height of their fury, went
out at the same side door, like torch
dropped in water. This was the close
of the exercises, the procession of breast
beaters and back.beaters dissolved, the
European and Turkish guests retired
and their places were taken by melan-
choly, low-voiced Persians, who ap-
peared to be musing over the events
commemorated.
Then the beings who had so terribly
mutilated themselves began to emerge
from their hiding places, and cross the
darkened court, their heads bound up
in the once white garments they had
worn, and their faces covered with the
gore that had dried upon them. Some
of them could not walk alone and had
to be supported on each side, but most
of them clung to their swords as if they
could not trust them out of their hands.
After one of them had left his weapon in
the hands of another friend and had gone
away, we approached and asked him the
price of his charge. ''No," he said, 81
will not sell it. The sword has become
sacred with the blood of a believer; if you
want swords buy them in the bazars."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
Shipping Bill to be Reported.

The Shipping Committee, of the
United States House Of, which General
Slocum is Chairman, are prepared to re-
port bill which has been drawn mainly
by Governor Dingley, one of its mem
bers, who was also prominent upon the
Special Investigation Committee of last
season. Its provisions will very nearly
accord with the suggestions of the ship
masters memorial forwarded from San
Francisco. 1t will be regretted that the
office of Shipping Commissioner, of
which they complain, will not be inter-
fered with by the committee, although
in other respects the bill, it is believed,
will meet their requirements. The
measure, if passed, will be valuable
rather on account of its humane provis-
ions than because of anything in it
which will tend to the restoration of our
flag upon the ocean. That appears to
be a matter upon which the committee
cannot agree.
The charges proposed in the ship
masters memorial referred to are as
follows -
First-The abolition of consular fees.
Second The limitation of personal
liability of owners to the value of in
terest owned.
Third-The reduction of tonnage dues
and the hospital tax.
Fourth-The privilege of choosing
subordinate officers regardless of nation
ality.
Fifth-The abolition of advance
wages.
Sixth-The abolition of compulsory
payment of three months extra wages
to sailors discharged in a foreign port.
Seventh-The granting of adequate
payment for the transportation of desti-
tute sailors from foreign to an Ameri-
can port and limiting the number car
ried by each vessel to one sailor for every
hundred tons register.
Eighth-The abolition of the office of
Shipping Commissioner and granting to
masters the privilege of shipping sailors
by the month or run, to be discharged
as mutually agreed upon; masters to
give security to the extent of one months
pay that American sailors so discharged
shall not become burden to the United
Staes in the country where they agree
to accept their discharge.
Ninth-The enactment of q national
pilotage law.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
"A PSALM OF LIFE.


Tall me not in mournful numbers
sTife is but an empty dream
For the souI is dead that slunbers'
And things are not what they seem'
Life il reall Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
lsr,,st thou art. to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not endowment. and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way.
gnt to act that each tomorrow
Finds us further than to-day.
Art is long, and time is tieeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still. like muf1isd drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the worlds broad field of battle,
in the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle
Be hero in the strife.
Trust no fortune, howe'er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead;
Act-act in the living present
Heart within and God o'erheadl
Lives of great men al remind us
We can make our lives sublime;
And. departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Footprints that perhaps another,
Sailing DER life's solemn main,
A forelorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate,
Still achieving. still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
HENRY W. LoNGFEILow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
The Lost Fishermen.

Of the eighty-eight persons who We're
drowned in mid-ocean, on October 30,
when the French brig Rocaberg was
sunk in a collision with the American
ship Thomas Dana, sixty belonged in
the village of Cancale, three miles from
st. Malo, on the Breton coast. The un
fortunate men were cod-fshermen re-
turning from five months cruise on
the Grand Banks of Newfoundla nd
Cancale has about l, 900 inhabitants and
is noted for its oyster beds, which are
doubtless the finest in France. When
the tidings of the disaster reached the
place, the shops were closed, the peo-
pie wore mourning emblems, and the
bells of the churches, after prevailing
custom in Brittany, were tolled 54C
times, or nine times for each of the dead.
Special service was held in the churches.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
ENGLAND and EgYpt.

The crisis in Egyptian affairs is en-
gaging the attention of the English gov
ernment.
The relations between England and
Egypt are strained. The government OF
Egypt has sent a note to the government
of Great Britain pointing out to the
latter that the present state of things III
Egypt cannot continue, and asking that
final decision shall be given upon the
Soudan question. If England refuses
the assistance asked by Egypt, the
Khedive and his Ministry have deter
mined to abandon to Turkey the Eastern
Soudan, and reduce the Egyptian tribute
to the Porte. The Egyptian troops would
then be concentrated in Egypt proper,
thus giving a force of Is, 600 men to pro-
tect the frontier without the aid of the
English army. Sir Evelyn Barring thinks
that IS, 600 men would be insufficient for
that service.
Besides the Khedive the English Off
cials in Egypt have agreed to reduction
of their salaries, and it is expected that
the Cabinet Ministers will q .-..-wise.
The saving thus effected is estimated at
H44S, 000.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

A BAVARIA editor urged in his news
paper that the King did not appear in
public often enough. The King has
managed it so that the editor will not
appear in public for two months. s.-Bo8-
ton Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

SYMPATHET1o.-AG Georgia editor CRATE
fully says !: ga kind neighbor' learning
that we had rather homely breakfast
Wednesday morning sent us large dish
of nicely Drowned chitterlings. Jove
and the ancient gods are said to have
lived upon nectar and ambrosia, but ii
the mighty Thunderer never tasted
Drowned chitterlings he and Juno, Nep-
tune, ct al, missed the incest dish that
ever tickled the palate of the dwelIers OF
high Olympus.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

WHEN you notice a man at restau-
rant order roast beef three times Won
can make up your mind that he is a yege.
tarian-at home,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31
LEAR WASTE.

"You don't call on Miss G. now?"
"No we've quit"
"Quit? What's the difficulty ?"
ooh. her fathers too penurious.
"Too penurious? Why, he has the
reputation of being particularly liberal
'Perhaps he has, but he told me the
other evening I'd better leave, MS he
couldn't afford to waste shoe leather on
me. It's my private opinion that that
man would skin flea for its hide and
tallow. "-OU city Blizzard.
MUSICAL COUNTERFEIT DErECTER'
zone of these dollars is counterfeit,
ma'am."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

FAITH is sometimes personitied as a
drenched female clinging to a sea-
washed rock; but better personifca-
ton would be bald-headed man buying
a bottle Of patent hair restorer,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

Love is sunshine: hate is shadow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-01-31

"Simply by sound. just tap it, and
hear how clear the genuine sounds.
That's tenor. Notice when / tap the
other one. That's base. Austin Slft-
mas.