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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-18

The use OF the term
short Line" in connection
with the corporate name of
1 grert road, conveys an
idea of just what is requir-
ID by the travelling public
= Short Line, Qnick Time
md the Best of accOmmO-
laiions-nll of which are
railway in America,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-18
ROCK ISLAND l. MERCER CO., X. R.
Rock ISLAND 4 PBORIh
RAlLW AY.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO TIE
EAST AND SOUTH

Trains leave Rock Island
400 u. m. Way Freight.
$40 81 Fast Express
la D. m Mail and Express
h5O Through Freight and Accommodation.
Trains arrive at Rock Island:
: 80 a. m. Through Freight and Accommodation.
IL Is p. III. Mail and Express
$40 " Fast Express.
4uu e Way Freight
The FAST EXPRESS, leaving Rock Island al $50
l. m arrives ut Peoria 123O p. M, at Springfield
- p. M, at Decatur 4.OGp, M, Jacksonville ITO
.. IN, Alton (. IN p. m, st Louis S.l5 p. m, and
ferrt Haute II So p. m, THE SAME DAY. Making
Jhis the BEST and QUICKEST route TO all points
southeast.
The % p. m. train makes close connection At
,iaIya with q. B. Il q. for points west; arriving al
lialeshurg at lbs p. M, At Burlington Gao p. m. at
keOkuk 1O25 p. IN, aud 1T Quincy lu.O5 p. III.
Arriving mt Peoria at 6.3U p. m, making close
connections with the |. Il. " W. and Il. Z, W q.
fer Indianapolis, connecting there with all fast
trains for he east and south.
kx"FAST TIME SURE CONNECTIONS, and
-qt"- as low A. by any other route.
Il n. CABLE A. n. MORTON,
Gen'l Snpt Gen'l Tiki. Agt.
The 80 p. m. Accommodation leaves every day
except sunday.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-18
D. SWEENEY
Z. d. SWEENEY. c. L. WALkEI
SWEENEY 81 WALKER

A TToRNEYS AND CoUNSELLoRS AT LAW
d0fice in Bengston's block, Rsck Island, Ill.
ang-1-dwY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-18
sCREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE"

AS mhaF
cohMcoious WELL WELL
MOST MAGNIFICENT
SEvENrY-FNE
the
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05
Altar of Roses.

Genuine altar of roses, which is
made in India and Australia. costs
500 an ounce at the places of distilla-
ton. 1t takes $4,000 rose blooms to
yield an ounce of altar. They are the
common roses, and grow in great pro-
fusion in California, where the distilla-
ton of altar could be made very pro-
fitable industry. In Northern India
the roses are regularly cultivated.
They are planted in rows in fields, and
require no particular care. When
they begin to bloom they are picked
before midday. The work is done by
women and children. who seem to re-
gard it more as pleasure than a pur.
suit of labor. The rose leaves are dis
titled in twice their weight in water.
which is drawn off into open vessels.
These are allowed to stand over night,
beng covered with cloths TO keep out
dirt and insects. In the morning the
water is coated with Il thin oily film
This is the rare altar of roses. 1t is
skinned off with fine feather and
dropped into vials. The process con-
tinues daily, until the bushes cease to
Weld.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05
Polite SalutatlOnS.

Some persons are very sensitive as
o the manner in which they are
saluted by acquaintances in the street
and elsewhere. There are mole of
these sensitive people than is generally
supposed. AS the process of accosting
person is an easy and simple one, it
therefore appears that lack of GOOD
form in this respect is ineXcusable
Truly there are many individuals who
are guilty of ill-manners, some not in
tentionally, but wholly because of
carelessness or ignorance; some
through sense of self-importance,
and others through downright mean
ness. A friend or acquaintance de-
serving of recognition on meeting is
worthy of being addressed respectfully
and decently. Not that bowling,
scraping, and grinning and other sup
posed ceremonies of polltenesS are de-
manded; but what is meant is that the
one addressed should be called by
name, with the addition of such other
civilties as may be convenient and APP
propriate. Many there are who would
rather be passed with a simple nod or
no recognition at all than be greeted
with a cold Good morning" or a gruff
"Good evening"" How easy thing
it is to add the name of the person adj
dressed, and change n seemingly
heartless salutation into one that is re-
spectful and friendly. A surly, "How
are you, sir?' is not only senseless,
but insulting to a man of fine tastes.
Not less hateful is the habit which not
few men have of addressing another
as "Mr.-oh, an" without pronounc-
ing his name, under pretense of not
being able to readily recall it. Super
sensitiveness in this direction is not to
be commended in our busy life, yet it
is more eXcusable than negligence and
boorishness.-C Commercial gazette.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05

weight about five inches into the brain
when he stopped short and held it in
place. Carefully studying the angle
in which it entered. he marked point
at the back of the head where il would.
if further pushed. come out, and there
cut OIL three flaps around it. and sawed
through the bone. exposing the brain
coverings in the rear. These he cut
through. and met with mass of hair,
half-clotted blood mixed with particles
OF brain, which floated about. This
was carefully washed out.
lie passed in Il probe smaller than
the first and felt the bullet lodged as it
was in the brain. With delicate forceps
1T was pulled out through the opening
behind. The operation occupied four
hours. y rubber tube was drawn into
the wound through the channel cut by
the bullet, by means of which the septic
matter was allowed to flow. 1t re-
malned there for over month. until
recovery had SO far advanced that the
patient was declared out of danger, to
the surprise of all and in conflict with
the established rules of surgery. Prof.
Fluhrer enlighted his hearers with the
u olACl tIIc oDcIdllOH. ana pre-
sented chart showing the variations
of the pulse, temperature and respra-
tions which he observed during the
progress of the case. He laid great
stress upon the difficulty he had :.
drawing out several horse hairs which
he introduced around the drainage
tube to preventits adhering to the walls
of the wound.
After the most critical stages had
passed, it was found that Knorr had
lost his memory, powers of speech, and
was partially paral yzcd, but he has re-
covered all his faculties, and pro-
nounced himself as safe and sound as
a dollar when questioned by the doc
tors yesterday. The nearest approach
to Knorr's case is one reported by
Prof. Detmold, of this city, who about
fifty years ago, trephined the skull of a
patient suffering from an abscess of
the brain. which he located, and, bv
trephining the skull; exposing the
brain and opened the abscess, by cut
ting into it, but the patient only sur
vived a few months, when he died from
a recurrence of the diseas e.-NcW York
Hera,d.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05
A Militant Bishop.

Turner, the negro bishop of Georgia,
belongs to the church militant. He got
aboard train with his wife in Tennes-
see, IA brakeman ordered them into a
second-class car and started to take
hold OF the woman, and the bishop
made a remark. Said he; please
let me say a word TO you kindly. |
want no trouble, and | pray God you
will save me from any, but if you
touch my wife there will be a funeral
tomorrow in either your family or my
own Then the brakeman passed on,
the woman sat down in the Grst-class
car, and the bishop went to the smok-
ing-salOOn so as TO avoid oflensc as far
as possible. - IRdt0nupoAS Jo1uRal.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05

lie asked few questions of Hartman
and his witnesses, compelling them to
commit themselves as deeply as posi-
BILE, then stating that he had one wit
ness to call, he whispered a word to
the man sitting beside him which sent
him instantly from the room.
Perfect stiffness reigned.
The messenger returned, leading a
child-and 10! little Sally Parsons,
recognized by every one as Lettv's
housin who had often visited at the
couse of her grandparents. Only a
child at best, and very small for her
age. Sally's appearance was by no
means formidable, and Hartman, with
a.sneering smile, exchanged glances
with his lawyer.
Good old Squire Lee cleared his
throat and wiped his glasses, and sew
eral minutes elapsed before he was
ready to proceed. He administered
the oath, and Sally told her story. 1t
was but short one. During a visit at
her grandfather's she had often seen
Mrs. Hartman of whose child she was
very fond. On the day referred to she
had gone to see her little playmate,
and walk home with Lefty. She had
carried the baby out for a walk, com
ing back into the room with her, Just
as Lefty was receiving the iewelry.
But instead of walking home with her
cousin, she had been sent few min
utes earlier to do an errand for her.
and wait to be called for. She remem-
bered the charge of silence, and con-
scientiously said nothing on the sub
ject Her father came the next morn
ing to take her home earlier than had
been expected, and fit of sickness
following soon after her return pre-
vented her joining in the Thanksgiving
festivities. Her home was at some dis
tance, and communication being in
frequent nothing was known by her
family of Letty'S disaster, till young
Bradbury, the lawyer, had in his per-
sistent inquiries concerning every in
cident connected with that memorial
bic day, discovered the fact of the
child's presence which every one had
forgotten.
Before Sally's simple story was end
ed, Mrs. Hartman had gone home
During the remainder of her stay in
Greenplain, she had ample leisure for
reflection. Her husband very soon
closed his business there, and they
moved to some distant place, whittier
few regrets followed them.
Young Bradbury gained great re-
pute, and was always called "a very
smart man" He, as we'll as the other
subjects of this little sketch, has long
since "gone over to the majority" but
the story of Lefty Parsons is among
the romantic incidents of that unwrt-
ten history dear to the hearts of the
people of Greenplain.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05

a RAGGED little girl in a London
school was recently asked why Adam
and Eve were turned out Of Paradise
She promptly answered; because
they didn't pay their rent" Her par
ents had been eyicted for non-payment
of rent several times within a few
months.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-07-05
NOTES OF THE DAY.

syracuse, N. T., is driving out he
gamblers.
The frost ruined tobacco around Ian
caster, Pa.
There is a Chinaman in Boston VIII,
rides bicycle.
Vassar girls consume 2. 400 pancake.
at one breakfast.
New York city's employees viii hav,
holiday July 5.
Little or no rain has fallen in Cuba
the past four months.
Sweet potatoes sell at 75 cents a
bushel at kissimmc. Fla.
The Tennessee Irish potato crop will
be ready to ship next week.
Forty million acres in Texas are de-
voted TO educational purposes.
Morelia, Mexico. recently celebrated
her 343d anniversary as q city.
The cost of erecting crcmatory of
ordinary capacity Is abou. $4,000.
1t is said that there are 4S.644 Wild
ows under l0years of age in Bengal.
In August Miss Agnes Benedict will
attempt to swim the English channel.
The army worm is said to be doing a
great deal Of damage around Greece.
n. Y
In southern and middle England
thirty thousand women steer canal
boats.
The Washington whcelmcn are to
take four hundrcd-milc jaunt rcxt
month
a Goldfish bank has Eeen discovered
near San Pedro. Cal Fishing is said
to be good.
Hiram Siblcy, of Rochester, has
given $50. 600 to the Cornell mcchan-
ical school.
Over 400.0J0,000 gallons of pctYo-
leum. valued at 100000, GEO were eX-
ported last year.
a Southin ton, Conn, man has in
vented noisclcss roller-skatc, and APP
piled for patent.
A man in North Tisbury, Mass, saws
he has recently drawn up eighty-ninc
snakes from his we'll.
Boys at the forks of Coos river, Ore
gon. receive 81 for each crane killed
in that neighborhood.
The citizens of Pittsburg, Pa, are
proud because their city covers more
territory than Chicago.
All but four prisoners in the Stcuben
county. New York, jail have signed
the temperance pledge
The railway system of Prussia covers
about nine thousand miles little
more than that Of Canada
The police board Of New York city
has created % new election districts,
making III districts in all.
The Massachusetts legislature tried
to raise salaries from $500 to $3.50,
but the senate killed the bill.
Glass made from sand procured on
the Geiser ranch, near San Antonio,
Tex, is now made in that city
Potato bugs are more numerous than
for years in New Jersey, and are de-
stroying potatoes and tomatoes.
The swinging signs of Philadelphia
will swing no longer The mayor has
ordered them to be taken down.
About six thousand fathoms of gill
nets will be used on Rogue river, Ore
gon, during the coming fishing season.
Five of the six murderers hanged on
recent Friday in this country de-
clared that rum had led them into
crime.
Dogs in Orange county, Florida, are
dying of the "staggers,' - a disease akin
to that with which horses are some
times afflicted.
A clearinghouse war in Buffalo has
been waged SO ercely that on Monday
last one firm began making suits to or
der for II each.
Mount Clements, small town in the
interior of Ohio, makes $4,000 worth,
or about $500, 900 yards, of straw
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09

cans had captured many of our friends
among the liquor people, and some
members of the Liquor league were ac
tuaAy at work in the interest OF their ticket,
and were spending money for it. Just then
an unlooked-for aid came to us in the form of
the Women's Temperance league. The
strength Of this association was mainly in
northern Ohio 1t at once took the field
in the most aggressive shape in favor of
the pending prohibition amendment. Our
friends saw their advantage and seized
It All of the northern counties
along tine lake, and especially those west of
Cleveland produced immense quantities of
grapes. Our people were not slow to point
out that If the amendment was adopted grape
growing would be a worthless occupation,
and these interested took the alarm and gave
us the victory. On the Scott law alone,
the Republicans would have carried
the state, When the temperance PEG
pie took the aggressive, Judge Foraker
and Foster both saw the result;
and while Foraker was publicly proclsiming
that he would vote against the amendment,
Gov. Foster was assuring the Liquor league
that his party friends should vote against it;
ana his committee sent out privately that
Kind of instructions. Had they done so pub
iiciy it might have been better fer them The
Democratic managers were entirely consist
ent III their management of the campaign all
the way through.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09
HENRI ON HAND
The Courier-Journai EeditOr Goes to
Washington.

CHICAGO, Jan. "A Washington City
special 10 The News says: Henry Watterson,
one Of the proprietors of the Mcdonald boom,
arrived here to take temporary charge Of the
Democratic party. Dressed in a dark Morn
ms suit, with a grey lap coat, he accompanied
his mother in a round q calls upon the wives
Of tie justices of the supreme court.
Mrs. Watterson is tall erect.
active old lady, with coal-black ewes
and snowy white hair arranged in round
vutfS about her expressive face She looks
nearly as young as her son, who is careworu
from excessive responsibility. He was al
most the only gentleman in- the long lines
which filed through the houses of the various
judges He deployed all Of his social bat
teries and was rated the sweetest fellow by
the wives Of a number Of prominent and IL
auant:al official persons. He is highly de-
lighted with nus first days work He feels
that he has tie ladies with him, and, if he
only can secure n few naeE, n, Mcdonald
boom will once more he able - walk alone
The next and most difficult task that Wat
t-rsan has in hand Is q preparation of bill
for tie ways ami means committee and the
arrangement Of the tariff policy of the pres
elt h1usa majority. 1t IS a fact that there
Is only one member in the present house and
he i from Kentucky who thinks that Wat
tersoa has in him the stuff for g great party
leader. out with this man as a nucleus the
kestucky editor expects to draw about him
formidable following before the winter Is
ryas-
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09
Mrs. yermilpe.s Answar.

81. PAUL, MINI. Jan. 9-Some months
ago Daniel 8. Vermilye brought suit for
divorce from his wife, charging adultery
with Gen William Meyers. Mrs Yernilyes
answer has been filed in court SIZE deniesthat
Nermilye has ever been citizen Of Mime
sofa. and charges that1he fed from his credi-
tors i'll 1889 in order to avoid arrest for
swindling transactions in which he has
been engaged She also expressly denies
that she has ever committed
adultery with Gen. Meyers, and declares
that her husband knows the charges to be
false, and has made them to extort money
from Meyers and TO compel her to surrender
real estate in Dakota belonging TO her as sep
arata property, She declares that her bus
band, by drunkenness and gambling, re-
peatedly brought himself into such pecuriary
straits that his father, who was president OF
a savings bank in Orange, n. j.. was obliged
to advance him money to save him from dis
grace. She concludes with many charges of
adultery against her husband, whom she &c
cuEes Of having brought disreputable women
to his house in St Paul
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09

NEW YORK. Jan. "A five-story coffin fac
tory, owned BY Smith Winston s. Co. at I9i
and 19S Chrystic street. caught fire and was
destroyed in about an hour, As the London
theetre, in Bowery, almost adjoius the fac
tory, Il report was spread that another
theatre was burning The factory
stands between two tail tenement
and abuts in the rear OF an alley
cutting in from the Bowery and Rivington
street, and inhabited by denSo population
The denizens of the alley were threa tened by
the tottering walls of the burning factory,
and were hustled out by the police The fire
men fought at a great disadvantage. owing
to there being a scarcity of water, and to this
circumstance is due the destruction Of the
rear building Of the factory. The total loss
IS about so, 90,
PITTsBCRG, Jan. 9-The new Lake View
hotel, Evansburg. Pennsylvania, at the foot
OF Conneaut lake. a popular summer resort,
was burned. Mcclure s. Nickum, Of New
Castle, the proprietors, lose $4,000
Lucas, Ohio Jan. 9.-The large general
store Of ". W, Lemon was destroyed by fire.
los. Sto.eOl
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09
Furry AhnutaRanh.

NV YORK, Jan. 9-Ihe designations oi
Henry V. Ford Is president and Thomas T.
Buckley As vice president Of the Bank Of tbs
Republic, which were accepted by the di-
rectors Of that institution, gave rise to wild
rumors concerning the credit Of the bank and
Of the Cleveland, Youngstown q Pittsburg
railroad, Of which Mr. Ford is president and
Ar. Buckley is treasurer. An official OF the
bank Of the Republic authorizes the state
Inent that the bank has advanced less than
SIS, 100, or under 50 per cent Of the value OF
the bonds Of tbs Cleveland, Youngstown &
Pittsburg railroad. and they are thoroughly
protectei; that in any event q
small loss could not possibly
effect the institution President
Hatch, Of the stock exchange, had an inter
view with prominent director and member
Of the committee on accounts OF the bank,
and says that after everything IS charged of
which is in the slightest degree doubtful Oh
suspicious. he bank will have clear sur
plus of 500, 900, independent Of its capital Of
81 80, 600 Much satisfaction is expressed
at the exhibit Another director Of the bank
said that President Ford and Vice Presi dent
Buckley were interested in the Cleveland,
Youngstown & Pittsburg road to large
amount First mortgages bonds Of the road
We're hyPothecated some time ago. Vice Presi-
dent Buckley endorssd the notes. The bonds
were sold to an English syndicate, but the
money was not paid The bank Is not in
volved 1t could lose all its doubtful assets,
and vet nay the stockholders $50.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09
Frizhfful Accident.

MILWAUKEE Jan "a frightfu1 accident
occurred at the Como building, in course CT
erection ca Broadway. Three men standing
on scafold in the third story were precipi-
tatsd to the cellar, distance of forty or fifty
fest, one being almost instantly killed and the
others mortally wounded Henry Hosey,
foreman, and Charles Kloperdick, a
workman, were standing on a scat
fold, when John J. Dunn, the con-
tractor, stepped On it, board broke and the
three men went crashing through to the
basement Dunn, who was well known
builder and contractor, and was 35 years old,
was frightfully crushed. He was pulled out
of the debris, bat died In few minutes He
leaves a large family. HoseY was fatally
injured and may die at any moment He is
40 years cid and leaves q family. Kloper-
dick was crushed and bruised and cannot re-
cover. He is 10 AMI man of family. No
one is apparently to blame for the accident.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-01-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Father Ryan, the poet-priest, is leo
turing in Michigan.
William Black, the novelist, is re-
ported to be seriously i'll.
Paral Taglioni, the ballet composer,
died at Berlin, in his 10th year.
Senator Aldrich is the junior partner
in wholesale grocery in Providence, R. 1
A Catholic priest was beaten by some
persons in Paris SO badly that his condition is
critical
The Evening Pest company, of New
York reduces it's capital from goo, 900 TO
100000.
Forty-fve cows were burned to death
in the barn of Henry Wall, near Elgin,
Illinois
It is now stated that thirty persons
lost their lives by the burning of the Belle
vile convent.
The old mansion of ex-President Fill
more at Buffalo, is to be converted into
boarding house
Young orange and pineapple groves
on tine gulf coast of Florida have been seri-
ously injured by 1fosts
Proctor & CANDLES soap and candle
works, at Cincinnati were destroyed by fire
entailing loss Of $500
At Gloucester, Mass, Will E.
Livesey defeated Arthur Ball for the skating
championship Of England and America.
The Crawford Iron and Steel COM
pany, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, with a
capital of sl,5oO,0oo, has applied for a char
ter.
Nearly 1000 miles of railroad were
constructed in Massachusetts, last year, and
the net earnings of all the lines amounted to
$40, 900 0O0
A broken rail threw passenger train
down a five-foot embankment near Valpa-
raise, Neb., twenty persons being injured,
six seriously.
In his inaugural message at Boston
Mayor Martin said the city debt-s42, 544,
123-had been increased about 81, 500, 0)0 dur
ing the year.
The last census Of Alabama shows an
aggregate gain of 6,02l white and 1921 col
ored voters in the last decade that cannot
read or write.
The Worse & Fowler company, agri-
cultural implements, Des Moines, have as
| signed Fowler was arrested on a charge of
ENLIGHTENMENT preferred by Worse.
Fruit experts in southern Illinois re-
| port heavy damage by the intense cold
| There has been continuous snowstorm in
! the Anna district since last Friday.
| Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore.
/ goes to Nice, Trent and Lyons on an impoi-
| tant mission, and has baen confirmed by the
| pope apostolic delegate to preside at the coun-
/ ell in Baltimore next year.
Clearing house exchanges last week
S1,GSl, S46, Oo6-sre $40, l01, 2G3 greater thar
the preceding week; but when compared
with the corresponding period in 1885,, inii
cate a decrease Of 80 par cent.
| A water famine prevails at St Louis
and the city is i'll danger of destruction
should a fire break out Ladders and host
are buried i'll the ruins of recent conaagra-
tons, and one-half the fire department
suffers from frosted hands and feet