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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. l5.--Twenty five
hundred circulars were sent from Sacramento
to Democrats of the state. inquiring their
preference for presidential candidate A dis
patch says 900 answers have been received,
giving 500 for Tilden, 1876 for Thurman and
five for Field
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
The Very Coolest.

LEADv1LLE, Colo, Feb. Is Wednesday
was the coolest day of the season At 6
o'clock in tie evening the mercury was 81
degrees below Zero
SAN FRANCISCO Cal, Feb Is Reports
from Nevada state that Tuesday night was
the coolest ever experienced. At Halleck
the Thermometer was IS degrees below Zero
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15

LONDON, Feb 15-The authorities of the
province of Victoria, New South Wales, have
offered the queens government two gun
boats and a torpedo boat owned by the
province for service i'll the Red sea.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Commercial Treaty signed.

MADRID, Feb. 15.-The Correspondence
says the commercial convention with the
United States has been signed 1t takes
effect March l, except certain clauses deferred
to the meeting of tine cortes.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15

:. ,.Ues Inuiana feei concerning Logan;H
II 40 not think that Logan boorns in our
state He has many admirers, but Blaine is
more talked of than he. ;"
Mr. Bell has been state senator from Fort
Wayna fnr. eight YaarSn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Help for the Needy.

hut ENCcuf.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 15.-At citi-
zens' meeting, sl,142 was Immediately sub
scribed for the food sufferers, and COM
mittees were appointed to canvass the city
for money and supplies. The American Ex-
press and the Vandalia road offer to carry
oil contributions free.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 15-At public
meeting of citizens at Ii o'clock a. m. re-
lief movement was organized, committees ap-
pointed and contributions made The steamer
Isabella has been charte red. and will leave
with provisions, clothing, ETC., at o. ~, for
points below Another boat will be chartered
to visit points above.
P1TTsBURG, Feb. 15.-The citizens and the
press relief boats, for the assistance of the
flood sufferers in towns along the Ohio, will
be ready to leave soon, and will be laden with
supplies of all kinds A special meeting Of
the relief committee was held and 50, 900 cash
appropriated. Two thousand of the amount
will be expended in provisions, $500 in cash
for necessary cases, and the balance for bed
ding, shoes, etc. The citizens are responding
to calls for clothing most generously, and
supplies of all kinds are being hurried The
boat will proceed directly to Parkersburg,
where the work of distribution viii be com
menced
The United States government has appro-
priated SEQ, 900 for the relief of the sufferers
between Ironton, Ohio, and Pittsburg. The
steamer Katie Stockdale has been secured,
and will be under the charge of Capt Rose
The boats will proceed direct to Ironton,
and will meet the press relief boat at Par
kersburg.
Up to noon Maj. Gushing, of the commits
sary department, had spent So, 900 for pro-
visions, clothing and general supplies. 1t is
estimated that it will relieve 5000 people
New YORK, Feb. 14.-Mayor Edison has
received another telegram from the mayor
Of Galipolis, Ohio, telling of the great desti-
tuition prevailing on each side of the river in
Chat vicinity The mayor sent the following
note to each of the exchanges: appeals for
aid received by me from the flooded districts
in the Ohio valley ara of such urgent charac-
ter that it seems necessary that some sys-
teinatic action be inaueurated by our
citizens through the exchanges of our city.
Therefore it is respectfully urged that you
appoint representatives Of your exchange to
meet Inc at the mayors office for the purpose
of consultation respecting the matter" Ad
ditional contributions aggregating 81, 800
have been received at the mayors Office.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15

LONDON, Feb. 15.-The police are search
ing for the parliamentary robes of Lord
D'Eyncourtt ALFRED Tennysonl which are sup
posed to have been lost while the poet peer
was on his way to London to take his seat at
the opening of parliament
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
The Queens Book.

LONDON, Feb. 15.-Ten thousand copies Of
the first edition of the queens diary were
sold the first day. The second edition will be
ready by the end of the month
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Indiana for sHeDanaid.

CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-Tn regard to the pres
idency said R. C. Bell. of Fort Wayne, Ind
at the Sherman, ethe Democrats of Indiana
are for Mcdonald, and he can carry the state
by y, 600 majority. The delegates will 20 to
the convention to support him. am in ia,
vor of having the convention held in
Chicago, and Austin r. Brown, of In
dianapolis, member of the national
Democratic executive committee, will 90
to Washington to attend the meeting on Feb.
ruary ", and will cast his vote for Chicago
In regard to the gubernatorial candidacy. /
believe Gen. Manson and Isaac P. GRAY are
spoken OF as being in the field. voorhees, is
not candidate. !.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
The EgyntIan Rebels.

SUAKIN, Feb 15.-NewS of the dispatch of
the British forces is spreading rapidly, and
the rebels are dispensing.
LONDON, Feb. IA battery OF the First
brigade of artillery, at Chatham, has been
placed on full war footing for foreign service.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Drowning Catastronhe.

LONDON, Feb l5-It' is reported that
mass Of ice near the Caspian sea, upon which
some fishermen we're working, was carried
out 70 sea, All the fishermen are believed to
have been drowned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Year for Year.

ERIE, Pa, Feb 15.-The man Nesbitt,
convicted of outraging his l5-year-old
daughter, has been sentenced to fifteen years
in the peniteptiary. His declaration that he
was the victim Of conspiracy through his
daughters, was shown to be false.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
iwE Dana ARGUS
Friday February ID. 1854.
TILE DANIiLLE RIOT.
Testimony Bsaors the Senate Inves
iisating Committee
Ihe Renaepin Canal Patent Law
Amend uieHt---TariR an Wo0ien
ods---Proceeaings in
Congress.

WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. IA good deal
Of interest is taken 10y those interested IN
patents in the bill in congress reducing the
duration of patents to seven years The
pro- 'ysition is so it appears, in the interest OF
the poop rs against patent rights and
monopolies, and that cry is likely 10
receive good deal of attention
when it goes before the house. The
term for which patents are now granted is
seventeen Years, and reduction Of the time
to seven Years would be, it is thought by the
patent Office people, very serious blow to
the system. The length of time required to
introduce and indicate the value OF certain
patents is often as much as the seven years
proposed, and the law which would only
make the life CT apatent seven years without
the possibility of renewal would, it is
feared, have depressing effect upon the in
ventive genius of the country, which has
been SO active and SO valuable TO our indus
tries in the past tew years The patent laws
of other countries give even longer time in
which patents may run than they do in this
pfTDilN- I
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Drowned.

PTFgauRG. Pa, Feb. 15.-Frank Helm
berger and John seepan, while attempting
70 cross the river IN skiff near Port Perry,
ten miles from this city, were upset by row.
ing too near steamboat and both were
drowned
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
sKlNNlNG HIS soN-lN-LAw.
Fred Douglass Writes with a sharp
Pen

WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. l5-Fred Doug
lass has had presented to him bill for
81, 965 for the services of Louisa Sprague as
his heusekeeper for eleven years. He has
written sharp reply in which, after denying
the claim and agreeing to submit to arbitra-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15

capitol from the British in ls14,. is dead.
He had lived here since the foundation Of the
city. M
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
A Haul of Rare Coins.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. l5.-A skilled
craftsman stoIa from the Office of Dr. H. c.
Brainerd the finest num;smatic collection in
Ohio, embracing every. coin issued by the
United States, except seven pieces
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
AS n Matter of Course.

LONDON, Feb. 15-Matthew Arnold will
publish his impressions of America along
with the lectures he delivered while in the
United.States
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Falling at Last.

CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.-The first fall since
the beginning of the food is recorded The
river is seventy-one feet half an inch. 1t is
impossible to give details Of the losses in this
city by wrecked and floating houses. The
wind during the night added to the num-
Der of wrecked in the eastern part of the city,
where the. greatest loss has been felt, there
being more frame houses there. Fortunately,
SO far, there has been no loss of lie, though
in several cases families have been taken
from their houses just before the waters bore
them away. As rule people cling to their
houses until there is immediate and absolute
danger.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
THE GREAT FLOOD.
81 sns That tie Rise In the Ohio Is
Nearly Over.
Over Seventy One Feet mt Ciurianati.
Beating the Record Nearly Five
Feet News from
Numerous Points.

CINCINNATI. Feb, I5-The weather is clear
and cold. The river at s a. m. had reached
seventy -one feet and has remained stationary
up to present time. The decline may be re-
tardea by the Little Miami, which is rushing
out a strong, swelling current, but it will
certainly reach here by night and the river
will continue to rise slowly during the day.
TIE situation at Newport is one of terror.
Thirty five houses were carried of during
the night, and now the greater portion of
that city is filed with floating and over
turned houses.
Two stone houses in this city on
Race street, occupied by three families,
have fallen in. The people, ten in number,
were taken out in time to save their lives
At the foot of Elm street large lot of lum-
Der and several houses are afioat.
Parkersburg, w. Va, reports a fall OF
twenty feet; Gallipols, eighteen inches in
twelve hours; Maysville, sixty miles above
Cincinnati, stationary, which indicates that
there viii be very few inches more rise here
Telegraphic communication has been re
suned with Parkersburg, but Marietta,
Ironton, New Richmond, Ripley and other
small towns are entirely cut off
LATER. The river is slowly rising, having
reached seventy-one feet and three -fourths
of an inch at noon. The sudden cold last
night made the suffering intense, as many
people in the flooded houses are either not
provided with fuel, Or have not the facilities
for using it,
The water is now within few inches of
being five feet higher than the great food of
last year. 1t reaches more than half a square
above Third street at Lock street.
The Panhandle depot is entirely sur
rounded with water, and there is several
feetof water on the floor. The Grand Central
depot has from six to eight feet of water on
the floor. At Mill street the water reaches
into Fourth street Farther west it crosses
Fifth street, and at the Cincinnati Hamilton
& Dayton depot, reaches half way up to
Sixth. In the west end the encroac hments
extend eastwardly as far as Freeman street.
Lincoln park is lake, except little corner.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Evansville.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb 15lThe river is
rising steadily, and at II o'clock was forty
SIX feet seven inches-fourteen inches be
low the highest stage reached last year No
further damage in this section reported
Evansville is still several feet above the
food and in no danger.
The Evansville and Cairo packets are still
running regularly, and doing great good in
rescuing people, stock and perishable prop
erty.
Noon-The river rose three inches during
the last twenty-four hours, and Is still rising
slowly. The Dexter, which arrived at 10 a
M, reports the people of Shawneetown in
safe quarters The boats are still bringing
stock and grain. White river is falling.
Cniontown is completely submerged and
all business is suspended. The people are all
living in the upper stories of their buildings
Boats find great difficulty to land there, and
the citizens are opposed to any attempts.
Weather clear and very cold.
The Wabash river is falling.
At Shawneetown, finding escape from the
food impossible, the levee was cut and the
water gradually admitted to the town. which
IS nov in three or four feet of water, and the
citizens are either occupying the second stories
or leaving.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Death nf Veteran.

WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 15.-Cl Edward
Simms, aged 80. one of the defendants Of the
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
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Our treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed
free To applicants.
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-02-15
Cairo.

CAIRO, Ills, Feb. 75.-Rixer forty-eieht
feet four inches, and rising very slowly.
Weather clear and cold. Thermometer at G
a. m 12 degrees above zero
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-01
A CORRESPONDENTS SUGGESTION.

Surface Drainage, Street improvements, Good
Sidewalks and Extension or the wsterworks.
Editor San Antonio Light.
The election ''for" OF against sewer
age is over, although those "for" having
been badly defeated cannot quit their
croaking for sewerage, but the people Of
San Antonio will get used to 1t just as
the people of the Fourth ward got used
to the croaking of the bull frogs in the
duck ponds.
An Austin paper, the Capital, predicts
bad future for San Antonio. 1t says:
"a city, like San Antonio, Is in great
peril without a perfect system of sew
erage." / would like to know what that
paper means by ''periect." Is there any
such thing? "Without it they may ex-
pect disease, epidemic, slow growth,
gradual diminution of population, depre-
citation of values and ultimate stagnation
and death" BY jove! that is a horrible
prediction; that is worse than the pre-
diction by Jesus about the destruction
of jerusalem. | wonder If II would not
please that "edtor" If San Antonio
would go to perdition. The fact of the
matter is, that Austin has no sewerage
at present, and may not have it for the
next decade, at least not ''perfect,n and
the city of Austin neeIls Ii worse than
San Antonio, which has smaller popu-
lation to the square mile than the great
city OF Austin.
Mr.. Editor, | would like to make
lew suggestions to our city administra-
ton, which, when carried out, would
ha falf - sl...
which would not cover three square
miles. (San Antonio covers about nine
square miles.)
!. a system OF street grading to carry
OIL the rain water collecting in ponds at
ter every rainfall, which has been al
lowed TO remain to get stagnated with
green crust on top until ii dries up by
evaporation, creating malarial, typhoid
and other fevers.
=. A regular system OF sidewalks all
over the city, no matter what class or
kind; Mesquite block is the best.
8. No manure piles should be allowed
limits.
1. Every property holder should be
compelled to keep his yard clean and his
water closets disinfected.
D. The waterworks should be extended
so That every family in the city can get
good and wholesome water to drink, and
for less price than it costs now.
Another thing would be very desirable
and that is to stop the youngsters play
ing base ball and using "nigger-
shooters" in the public streets.
All the above could be carried out with
less than one-ilith the cost Of sewerage.
IL would be = benefit to the general.pnb-
lie, and should it prove, after some
years, not adequate to the health and
prosperity Of the increased population Of
San Antonio, then, if the people want
sewerage, they are going to have it, and
II that health and life preserving sewers
are constructed, when nobody gets sick
and nobody dies, then we will have the
"millennium" in San Antonio-then
many. n one will have to take in his
sign, hang up his fiddle and say adieu.
san Antonio, you are no place for me.
HENRY SEMrINGER.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-01
City Property For sale

|. Three and one half acres on NacoVdoohes
street, running 10 San Pedro creek, with inn
provements. Fine fruit orchard ON ground.
2. Lots and L. block ., San Pedro avenue.
3. Lot o, block 7, San Pedro avenue.
4. Two lots on Garden street, running
through to Presa street.
3. Lot on South Prcsa street running to Gar
den street, with improvements.
9. Lots No. IL and ID, block is, corner Live
Oak and Dawson streets, with improvements.
T. Two lots with improvements, ON Sixth
street. between Avenues ID and E.
y. Five lots, corner Austin aud Grayson
streets, Immediately east turn OF street
o. Fifty-two acres, with improvements im-
mediately below Mission Conception, 800 yards
river front
30. Lots with improvements on CARA street,
near San Pedro springs. House two story;
IL Twenty-four acres, lot go west of San
Pedro creek, at crossing OF International and
Sunset railroads.
~. House and lot corner North Concho and
Hidalgo streets, on Franklin square.
IL. Entire block No. 3d. and lots in block
No; 81; on Par Avenue,
Labor ditch.
is. Ten lots in block No. 3, above Upper
Is. Fifteen lots on Grand avenue, near Lone
Star brewery, running back to river.
II. Three and enc half lots In Post home
tead, corner Commerce, kusk and North
streets.
IS. l25 lots in lot No. ", near Prospect hill
street railway, ut prices RAJ ging from 500 to
tional depot, and eaet OF Aazan creek.
10. Five acres running from Camden street
TO upper Labor ditch.
20. Three lots on Elmlra street, corner Tren-
ton avenue.
81. Seven lots on jackson street.
~. Sixty-fve and one half acres under fence,
with improvements. known as race and fair
grounds"
%. Seventy-hve lots on east side OF Austin
street, above Sunset round house.
"a. Twenty Ave lots on Burleson, Lamar,
Hays and Burnett street.
20. Twenty-one acres on South Flores street.
running back to river.
20. All property belonging to Messrs. Adams
Wickee comprising building lots near Inter-
national, Sunset and Government depots, San
Pedro springs and other parts of the city,
which we offer at liberal prioes and on easy
terms; also, all their irrigable lands In and
about the city.
We will examine titles, write oonveyances
attend to the renting of houses, negotiate
loans on reasonable terms. Notary public at
Office. j. III. FRENCH * CO.,
BIB Commerce street.
The best smoking tobacco is ''Little
Joker"
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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-01
"A BIG THING"


The Wonderful Chair That Works Miracles
Untold.
Editor San Antonio Light
Believing that true merit should al
ways be brought to the front, and the
news having reached the undersigned
that the world renowned odontolagist
(dentist), +. II. s., of London and Paris.
had located in San Antonio, this special
reporter at once fastened to interview
him and inspect his wonderful chair,
which surpasses. anything which has
ever been produced by the skill of man.
1t is the invention of the Doctor him
self and is so constructed that the in
slant the patient sinks into its yielding
cushions all sense of feeling is taken
away and every old snag and aching
tooth drop out and new ones are pro-
duced from natures own laboratory, and
warranted to last n life time.
In fact, the patient never dies,
and the patient is aroused from his
dreamless sleep by the strains of sweet
est music issuing from an instrument
wonderful in all its parts, also the in
vention OF the Doctor.
The Doctor discards the use of all in
struments, believing them to be relic
OF the barbarous ages when men were
tortured by having their teeth twisted
out with turkeys and bored out with
engines. He relies solely upon his Won
derful chair.
The Doctor has upon the walls of his
elegant suite of rooms framed in pure
gold diplomas from all the colleges in the
world, and medals and certificates from
all the crowned heads of the Old World.
Also fine alabaster gold lined snuff box
from the King of Senegambia, which
was used by the King to take snuff when
his whole Kingdom sneezed. This won
derful piece of mechanism was given to
the Doctor in gratitude for his
services in removing one. of the
Kings molars and replacing it with n
tooth made from ivory from the tusk of
the sacred white elephant of India.
The Doctors parlors are thronged day
and night with the elite of the city, and
can be reached by ascending George
Dullnig's gold-plated silver-lined steam
elevator to the southwest tower.
For further particulars inquire OF the
Gar of Russia, who is now stopping at
the Menger hotel, having been attracted
to San Antonio by the news that the
citizens, by an overwhelming vote, had
defeated the sewerage proposition, and
the grand jury had indicted the city and
county officials for not enforcing the
laws against gambling and bawdy
houses. YACoUB STRAUs,
Celebrated Dentist from the East.
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-04-01

And anticipating the coming long spell
Of clear and beautiful weather, when
the ladies can go shopping and walk
about all day long, Mr.. Wolfson has
made a grand and successful effort to
make his millinery department COM
plete. His trade in that line has grown
SO rapidly that he has found it necessary
to keep two first class milliners, the last
OF whom, a French lady, arrived a few
days since from New York, where she
carried on a millinery establishment fol-
year, and previously in Paris, for a
number Of years. Mr.. Wolfson can now
furnish a large variety Of millinery
goods Of the latest and most attractive
styles, and at prices to suit all, from the
sos tIs to the cheapest A full line @