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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Gambling at Colon.

The gambling in Colon attracts n,
once strangers attention; it is seen
everywhere, at each street corner.
Gambling is not only an inmate habitnde
OF the Central American. but it is also
vigorously encouraged by the Co)um.
blan Government. A national lottery ia
drawn at Panama on the second Sunday
IN each month. The leading prize Is
Sl,250 Columbian currency, equal to
$1,000 in United States gold), and each
ticket bearing the final numeraI of the
winning number wins one dollar for its
owner Thus, at the drawing of last
sunday, No. 5,157 won 81, $50, and
each ticket the number of which ended
with ''7'' won one dollar. Very many
Americans crossing over the isthmus in
vest permanently few dollars in this
lottery. Licenses are freely issued to
any person who wishes to run a roulette
table. These are always conducted in
large drinking saloon, and every second
place OF business along the two princi-
pal streets of Colon is a bar-room. I
nave visited several of these gambling
places. Great crowds of Jamaica
negroes are there constantly, pressing
ABOUT the tables, stalking sums varying
from twenty cents to one dollar. The
gains OF the bank must be enormous. as.
during stay of half an hour at one
table, noticed that the bank won every
thing staked seven times, and the re-
naming three or four times that the little
Wheel went round the winnings of the
bank were quite equal to its losses.
Colon Cor. Boston Herald.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
THE NEWS m 1RlgF.
Carl sehurz and his daughters have

Carl sehurz and his daughters have
sailed for Germany.
Gen. Grant has sent $3.50 to the
fund for the proposed Confederate bone.
A marble bust of "Little Philn
Sheridan has been unveiled by the CHICAGO
Veteran club.
For the sixth successive year Mar
settles, Ills, voted mo license" Monday and
The temperance phalanx grows in numbers
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is giving
weekly receptions on Tuesday evenings at her
residence in Avenue du Bots de Boulogne
Paris
The preliminaries of the Egyptian
| conference have been settled and the cam
ference viii meet in London the first week
In June.
The arrests of persons known to be
Nihilists or suspected of connection with tho
order continue without abatement through
out Russia.
The lower section of Davenport
Iowa, was swept by cyclone, number of
structures being demolished One person was
Killed and many others wounded.
In the United States and Canada
during April the fire losses were $40 800 GOo
and since January S27, $50, 900, nearly IS 900
W. greater than for the first four months of
1888
A Washington item says Barnum's
circus is showing there, and that Monday
had the roll been called under the canvas
there would have been a quorum of the
senate.
An Illicit distillery and its contents
were wrecked by revenue officials in Newton
county, Arkansas, and in the melee one of
the moonshiners was killed and another
wounded.
DR.. John Fl. Barrows, pastor of the
slrst Presbyterian church, Chicago, was de-
teated Tor school director in a Kansas vii
iage few years ago because he was "a de-
scendant of the witch burners
Oliver Bros. & Phillips three iron
mills at Pittsburg have suspended until the
wage question with the Amalgamated asso-
citation is settled The indications for gem
eral strike June are increasing.
The clearing exchanges throughout
the country last week-S1, lac, 992, S3l-are
FAUv,opcI-IO greater buan LOT Inc DrHVIOuS
week, and as compared with the correspond
ing period in 1888 show an increase of 40
per cent
At Jackson, Mich, Allen was ae-
quilted of all completely in the Crouch mur,
ders, tending to deepen public suspicion of the
guilt of Jud Crouch and Dan Holcomb. ID
is now rumored that Henry Holcomb will be
arrested.
The Chicago Socialists, at arecent
meeting. after bearing number of speeches
declared that the poor of Chicago were as
badly off as the poor of Ireland. They
further charged Vanderbilt with having
made S2o0, 900, 900 by transporting the goods
of the laborer and mechanic
For defaming the characters of white
women Julius Patterson tcolorel) was taken
by mob in Galloway county, Missouri,
April Is, tied to a tree and scomged. He
procured the arrest of his assailants, but
they were acquitted at Fulton, April %.
Last Saturday night the mob went after
Patterson again, but by mistake captured
his brother and riddled him with bullets.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Personal AND IMPERsONAL.

| VIM. Mackey died at Denver few
months ago leaving $4,000, and no
relative who can claim the estate is
known except a ninety year old cousin
In Scotland.-Denuer Tribune.
e. V. Ashton, a Bostonian, who
died at Tunbridge Wells, Eng, recently,
left over $500, 900 to various charitable
associations in his native city, though
he had not lived there for years. B0s-
ton Herald.
When Mrs. Mackey was danger
ousiy sick at Paris, lately, her daughter
Eva went to the grotto of Our Lady of
Lourdes and, on her knees, prayed five
hours increasingly for her mothers re-
covery. Chicago Tribune
Rev. j. W. Plsbury, of Mt Ster-
ling, O., has become a raving maniac
over the subject of sanctification. He is
very eloquent preacher, and for some
time past has been brooding over the
subject with intense enthusiasm, until
finally his mind gave way under the
severe tension Cleveland Leader.
Pretty Mrs. Wise, of Virginia, says:
when my husband was elected to Con
gress l said l would not 90 to Washing
ton, as | had nothing to wear. NY
friends wrote me to get out the fam
ny laces and cover my old dresses. So
here am, as you see, with my grand
mothers laces over my old gowns"
These laces have been the envy of all
beholders.-R T. Herald
In 1857, in Philadelphia, daughter
OF General Deshs, of Mobile, was di-
Vorced from her husband at 2 O'Clock
p. m. and at 8 the same evening
was married to George E. Coolidge who
had alienated her affections from her
husband She then had $4,000 cash.
and she is seeking divorce from Cool
idge, charging that he spent her fortune
IN about two years and never did any
thing for her support Philadelphia
Press.
The London Times says of the late
United States Minister at St. Peters
burg; '.Mr. Hunt was Southerner,
honest and sturdy and of venerable
presence. He might well have sat to a
painter as type of the Puritan father.
Ills was prominent head among the
crowd of diplomates present at the cor
onatlon at the Kremlin last NAV. Hos
pitality was nowhere more freely or
graciously dispensed than at his elegant
hired villa in Moscow, over which
waved the stars and stripes
Gin dark ruby velvet dress, which
she is fond Of wearing, relieved by the
point-laee tichu and cuffs presented her
by several ladies of the association lust
as she went abroad, her still abundant
dark hair, threaded with gray, combed
back in plain bands from her forehead,
as pleasant and matronly lady to meet
as you might find in many day, and
her conversation rich in the experiences
CLEANED from her long life of devotion
70 the cause and in the resources of her
strong and cultured womanhood'' -this,
according to a Washington letter, is
susan b. Anthony.-Detroa Post.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
VERY REMaRKaRLE RrcovrRy

MT Geo, Y. Willing. of Manchester
Mich. writes: my wife has been almos
helpless for five years, so helpless tina
she could not turn over in bed alone
ohe used two bottles of Electric Bitters
and is so much improved, that she is nov
able to do her own work"
Electric Bitters will do all that il
claimed for them. Hundreds of testi-
monlals attest their great curative powers
only fifteen cents a bottle at Hartz &
Bahnsens
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
6uck1en's Arnica 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, 1884-05-07

"a God-send is Ely's Cream Balm, /"
writes Mrs. NJ. A. Jackson, of Pots
mouth, N. H.. on May %, 1882, had
Catarrh for three years. had tried nearly
all remedies but to no purpose. Two or
three times week my nose would bleed
quite freely snd thought the sores in it
would never heal. Your Balm has cured
me- This preparation is not q liquid or
snuff, andis easily applied, price SO
cents. See adv't.)
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
REMEDY FOR LUNG DISEASES

DR.. Robert Newton, late President OF
the Eclectic College of the city of New
York, and formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio,
used DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam very
extensively in his practice, as many of his
patients, now living and restored to heath
by the use of this invaluable medicine.
can amply testify. He always said that
so good. remedy ought to be prescribed
freely by every physician as a sovereign
remedy in all cases of lung diseases. 1t
cures Consumption and has no equal for
all pectoral complaints.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
AN EDITORS TRIRUrF

Theron p. Keator. Editor of Fit.
Wayne, Ind, Gazette" writes For
the past five years l have always used DR..
Kings New Discovery, for coughs of
most severe character, as well as for those
of milder type. 1t never fails to effect a
speedy cure. My friends to whom have
recommended it speak of itsn the same
high terms. Having been cured by it of
every cough | have had for five years, |
consider it the only reliable and sure cure
for Coughs, Colds, etc" Call at Hartz
& Bahnsen's Drug Store and get Free
Trial Bottle. Large Size 81 90.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Nervousness, Nervous Debility, Neu-
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Prostitution. and all diseases of Nerve
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and radically cured by Aliens Brain Food
the great botanical remedy. 81 pkg,
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Mensman's Peptonized Reef Tonic

Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic, the
only preparation of beef containing its
entire nutritious properties. 1t contains
matchmaking, force generating and life
sustaining properties; invaluable for Indi
gestion, Dyspepsia, nervous prostitution
and all forms of general debility; also, in
all enfeebled conditions, whether the re-
suit Of exhaustion, nervous prostration,
overwork, or acute disease. particularly
if resulting from pulmonary complaints.
Caswell, Hazard & Co., Proprietors, N.
Y. Sold by Druggists.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
ROCHESTER, n. Y. March 30. 1889

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and the desire to help others prompt me
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
WcToRIA's soN.iN.LAw.
He Shocks His MOther-in.Law by a
I.eft-Handed MARRIAGE


BERLIN, May THE great social sensa-
ton of court circles is that Louis ", grand
duke OF Hesse Darmstadt the son-in-law of
Queen Victoria, has suddenly and secretly
concluded left-handed marriage with the
Countess Alexandrine Czapski, daughter of
Russian chamberlain, Count Adam
Czapski She is 80 years old and of
extraordinary beauty. She was for
merly the, wife of a Russian secretary of le-
CATION, De Kalsmine, and lately divorced.
The ceremony took place April so, after the
ritual marriage of his daughter, the Princess
Victoria, with Prince Louis of Battenbsrr,
This left handed marriage has caused the
gre atesl sensation in the palace of the crown
prince, for the grand duke was the intended
husband for the Princess Beatrice of Eng
land, but the rejection of the bill permitting
marriage with deceased wife's sister pre-
vented the alliance
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Furnlshe by the gFeatsst
CHICAGO,
AND ST. Paul

1t owns and operates over 4, 500 miles of road il
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

The following advertis ement appears
in Wisconsin paper: "Wanted--A med
ium size house for man and wife as near
new as possible" This is delicate way
of informing the public that this couple
haven't been married long.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Charlie Woodward. of New Egypt, N !.
j., fifteen years old, picked a cartridge
with pin. lie now has one thumb ani
two fingers less than when he began thu
experiment
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Having used Ely's Cream Balm for
Catarrh and Cold in the Head, am sat
lsfied that it is a first rate preparation
and would recommend it to anyone af-
fected.-R W. Cheever. Editor Herald,
Clinton, Wis. price SOC See advt.)
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Strictly Classical.
New York Graphic. I

An inquirer asks: "How can l tell class.
icai musicP That is easy enough. When
You hear everybody app and and look re-.
ileved after the pie, e is finished, then you
can know that it is strictly classical
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Avoid Pills Being largely composed
of mercury they eventually ruin the
stomach, but Aliens Bilious Physic q
vegetable mixtures, acts quickly. and eff
tectually cures % Cents. At all Drug
piSts
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

There were two pupils in the colored
school at Strongtown, Tex, when it was
struck by tightening and demolished
None We're killed, although several were
injured by the falling timbers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
ROCK ISLAND & MERCER CO., r. r.
,a0cK ISLAND 4 PlORIA
RAHW AY.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE
EAST AND SOUTH

Trains leave Rock Island
400 a. N. Way Freight
S.45 - Fast Express
lao p. m. Mail and Express
$50 . Through Freight and Accommodation.
Trains arrive at Rock Island.
2.S0 g. IN. Through Freight and Accommodation.
Las p. m. Mail and Express.
$40 Fast Express.
? 400 " Way Freight. ~
u The FAST EXPRESS, leaving Rock Island at $50
3. arrives ut Peoria 12.s0 p. H., at Springfield
AS p. M, ut Decatur 400p. m, Jacksonville TO
P. m, Alton Z. 30 p. M, st Louis S15p IN, and
Terre Haute II. IS p. M, TIE SANE DAY. Making
this the BEST and QUICKEST route to all points
southeast.
The $50 p. a. train makes close connection at
aalva with G, B. & Q. for points west; arriving at
Galesburga as p. m, at Burlington so p. m.
keokuk 1925 p. m, and at Quincy 1905 p. IN.
Arriving at Peoria at $50 p. m, making close
connections with the !. B. " W and T. p. 4 ".
Tor Indianapolis connecting there with all fast
trains for the east gndsouth
RFAsT TINE SURE CONNECTIONS, and
rates as low rs by any other route. s.
Il. n. CABLE, A. N MORTON,
Gen'l Supt. Gen1 Tiki. Agt.
The 80 p. m. Accommodation leaves every day
5XC0pl sunday Fl
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
W d. SONOLLf,
Prop. Rochester Rubber Stamp Works.
Rochester. N Y .+

At Lima. Ohio, April 10, fourteen
year Old schoolgirl named Wilhelm, in q
rope skipping contest, jumped 256 times
fell in comatose state, lay insensible
twenty days, and died.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Lizzie Fonda and Laura Watson,
OF NeW ! ork, agreed to &C on the street
and smash every plug hat they saw.
After they had caved in four or five the
police took them in charge.-M Z.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

GUNsMITHS.
Wolff, Chas., III Seventeenth street
HARNESS MANUFACTURERS.
8auerman John. 219 seventeenth street.
H ARDwARE- ' "
Stewart Il Montgomery, 800 second avenue.
MERCHANT TATLORs.
Wendt, H. 1902 second avenue
NEWS DEALERS.
Wilmans, j. M. Post Office Block
NEWSPAPERS
The Rock Island DAILY ARGUS; published ever,
evening, Sunday excepted in Argus block, op
poslte Postoffice Best advertising medium in til,
city. rsql .t..
The Rock Island WEEKLY ARGUS; published
every Friday. A fine job department in connec
ton with the establishment.
r RESTAURANTS AND CONFECTIoNERs.
KreI, Fred, 1919 second avenue.
Evers, Fred, 1911 second avenue.
s TATIoNERS'
Wilmans, j. NJ. Post Office Block.
SALOONS
Westphal John, 1912 second avenue.
warren MAKERS,
Bromley, G. A, 1917 second avenue
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

An old duck shooter calculates that
broadbillcs fly at the rate of thirty five to
100 miles an hour and other varieties from
forty five to eighty and 100 miles per hour.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
THEIR ONLY FAuLr.

They are too cheap for the good they
do, they say of Bensons Capcine Por
GUS Plasters Price 25 cents.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Shlson Hutchins, whose wife died a
week ago, has offered for sale the beauti-
full house he built for her on Scott circle,
Washington.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

Trains No. Z, s, and 10 are MaQuoketa Branch.
Trains and 4, Accommodation for oxford Juuc-
tion l aad =, Passenger, for Celmsr.
Flying Dutchman" leaves Rock Island 6:45 a.
m., arrives at 9:06 p. M. arrives Dubuque ~ ~ a.
m, leaves o8 p, m. arrives at st. Panl 9: 30 p.
IN, leaves :25 a. m arrives Minneapolis 1919 p.
m, leaves at4 so a. m
~ E D. W HOLMES, Agent
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Catarrh of the Bladder

Singing, irritation, inflammation, all
Kidney and Urinary Complaints. cured
by "Bnchu paba. 81.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

A dog in PalOa, Kan, ran rabbit into
hollow tree, got his head fast therein,
and was found dead. When the body of
the dog was drawn out the rabbit escap-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
LOyLIEsT AMONG THE LOVELY

is she who renews or preserves the beauty
OF her teeth with Sozodont, confessedly
the most effective preparation for them
Volumes of evidence might be adduced
IN support of its claims to public conf
dence, as mean of invigorating the
teeth and rendering them pure, glistening
and spotless, and not less satisfactory
proven, is its balmy influence upon the
breath. Ask for genuine Sozodont, and
accept no cheap substitute.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
M. T.. SWEENEY.
e. w. HURST

A TToRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
II Office No. IS, P. o. Block, Rock Island
apr30-dwGm
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
ROCK ISLAND Il PEORIA RAILWAY
(suoprrsr por-rv mo rup p .Sr AMI wrsr1
Depot, Twentieth s

The rs p. m. train makes close connection
at Gslva with the C. B. & O., for points west; ar
riying At Galesbarg at 4:25 p. m; Burlington $40
also making close connection at Peoria with l. B.
% W., and =. p u W., roads for all points east
and south.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
Pensions d dr. sHfPd $ Sisass or % sfas1

I HHNVHTN dlsablIlty. WIDOWS, minor
tStOttO children and dependent pa
rents entitled when death resulted Claims re-
opened, restaestion, increases, bounty, back pay
and discharges obtained. Apply at once, delay
greludices yer rights Fees fixed by law Ad-
dress, with stamp, the old established firm of ED
SoN q CO., Attorneys and Claim Agents, 917,
st., Washington, D. C.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
II Office in Masonic Temple block, over Rock Is
land National Bank, Rock Island, III.
sept-26 dWtf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
mt M STURGE(
nj. III. CORBETT,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Office No. 171s secol
II Avenue, between 18th and 18th sts., tup stair
Rock Island, Ill. dec-12-d1y
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Solicitor in Chancery ant
II Notary Public, Abstracts, Loans and collec
tons. Office, Buford's Block, I'd avenue, ovel
Bakers Jewelry store nov-a9-dIy
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
CHICAGO, BURLINGTON g. QUINCY,
sHIcAan. MnMAUKEE & ST. PAUL.

DAVENPORT TRAINS.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1884-10-31

pabulum; and the lives of most OF us
are virtually effected by our dietic
habits. Only exceptional men and
women break away from the influences
that hem them in, and rise above the
level of their surroundings. A wide di-
versity of opinion exists among chem
lists and psychologists as to the nutritive
value of various articles of food; but
there is unity of sentiment in regard to
each kind yielding the greatest amount
of nutriment it contains, only when
properly prepared, assimilating per-
fectly, without infaming the blood or
deranging the digestion. Every ounce
of force expended by the individual
man, or woman, in endeayorlng TO Oh,
gest and assimilate badly prepared
food, is simply the equivalent OF cor
responding amount of vital energy
needlessly wasted And the struggle
for life against the numerous evils that
seem to be inseperably connected with
our modern social customs is so sharp
and intense that all the energy that we
can secure under the circumstances, is
necessary to enable us to combat them
with any degree of success. Can it then
be denied that there exists in this coun-
try to-day, a greater need for the per-
feet preparation of food than has exist
ed at any period of the worlds history.
Do not the conditions of our daily life
require it? Is not the preservation OF
of the national health dependent upon
it? Does every public and private con-
sideration imperatively demand itP