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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
Picked Up on the Field.

Mayor Harrison says if nominated for gov.
srnor he will 4heat Dick Oglesby out Of his
boots"
The Republicans Of the First Kansas con-
gressional district have unanimously nom-
mated E. N. Morril for reelection.
The Republicans of the Fifth Kansas dis
trict have renominated John A. Anderson
for congress.
The gavel for the Republican convention is
to be made of pieces Of wood from every
state in the union.
At Milwaukee the Democratic primaries
resulted in the selection of Flower men as
delegates to the state convention next We'd
nesday.
The Democrats o. the Fifth Indiana con
grsssional district in convention at Bloom
ington renominated C. C. Matson on the
twsnty-ffth ballot.
The Young Mems Democratic club cf New
York has resolved 20 fuse all honorable
means to secure the nomination Ct Governor
Grover Cleveland as the Democratic presi-
Dental candidate
The Democrats of the southern grand di.
visiono of Illinois, at Centralia, nominated ].
o. Chance for clerk of the supreme court
and John W. Burton for clerk of the appel
late conrt. The meeting showed strong Til
den inclinations.
To his nomination for the presidency,
made by the students of Washington and
Jefferson college, in mock Republican ma
tional convention assembled, Senator Ed
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
The Weavsrs Again.

The Weaver family once more rushes
to the front. When not engaged in carv.
ing somebody else. they carve each other.
This time the fuss was all ehtre nous
that is to say, between themselves. Jake
and his brother George had a dispute
about road running through certain
forty acres OF land. Neither one would
give an inch, 50 George armed
himself with a club and went for Jake.
He hit him some half dozen times, and to
clap the climax he hit him on the elbow.
on what is known as the crazy bone,
knocking it off. George then clenched
with Jake but in some way he got loose
and picking up his club broke Jake's arm.
None of the parties have been arrested as
yet, but they ought to be. and then Sc
verely dealt with. as they are tough
gang.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
TELEGRAPHIC.
BEN BUTLER ACCEPTS.
Letter Accepting the Nomination of
the Anti-Monopolists.
What Special Has to Say About the
Republican Nomination - Don
Cameron at Home - Cam.
paign News Items.

New York, May 23-Gen. Butler accepts
the nomination Of the National Anti Monop-
oily organization for president of the United
States. The following Is his letter of ac-
ceptance:
LOWELL, Mass, May 81, :SS4.-GENTLE
MEN: l have the honor to receive your
courteous note giving me the action of the
convention at Chicago May IA, OF the repre-
sentatives Of Anti-Monopoly. The honor of
the designation by such body as their
candidate for the presidency Of the
republic cannot be too highly ap-
preciated. OOncurring with each measure OF
public policy set forth In the resolutions
need only to add that if the votes of the cleo
tors shall intrust me with the executive
powers of that high Office each of them will
'e fully, justly and energetically used to
make every measure Of relief TO the people
and reform in the government pointed out
by your platform, the principles and char
actor of The administration.
Accept for yourselves, personally, my most
grateful consideration.
BENZ F. BUTLER
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
A Nimble Sixpence.

1t was an old sage, if we rem ember
correctly, who said that "nimble six
pence is better than a slow shilling. .
That this is true none can doubt. and it is
on this principal that Manager Loeb, of
the great Golden Eagle clothing store is
acting. His competitors are too slow to
catch on" to his new American way of
selling the best goods for the least posi-
BILE amount of money, and give away a
present besides. His competitors rather
prefer to sit like owls on the limbs of
dead tree, and hoot at anything that is
beneficial to the public. Even in the
olden times there were doubling Thorn
ases, and it seems that the tribe is not all
dead yet for they rise up and yell them
selves hoarse at Mr.. Loeb, all because he
is taking their custom from them. Any
man who has little sense, who has eyes
to see and fingers to feel, can demonstrate
to his supreme satisfaction that the goods
sold by the Golden Eagle are better, are
nobbier and are cheaper than any of the
other cheap John" concerns can afford to
buy, let alone sell. The wolves who are
arrayed in sleeps clothing cannot succeed
in devouring the lambs and swindling the
credulous, SO long as Manager Loets
eagle screams aloud, and lets the public
know their little games.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
The River.

The river is slowly on the rise again.
The Sidney was at this landing this
morning.
The St. Paul was at this landing this
afternoon.
The Libbie Conger will be down tomor-
row evening.
The R. R. Springer was at this landing
this morning.
The Isaac Staples came down with a
large raft this morning
The Golden Gate, Sam Atlee and the
Menomonec were down with RATS yester-
day.
The Winona St, Croix and Penn
Wright left for the logging regions last
night
The Josephine came down this morn
ing. A large number of passengers were
on board.
The Springer will not come up this far
again, but will run on the lower Mississ
ippi river. She is too large for the uI
river trade. The Port Byron band made
a trip to st. Paul on the Springer, getting
off in this city today noon.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

New YORK, May 23-The Sun has the
following editorial On the MacVeagh letter;
"Mr. hacVeash studiously omits all mention
Of the fact that with the exception of
Abraham Lincoln, Chester A. Arthur is the
best Republican president the country
has ever had. His purpose is to
point out and set in lurid light the faults and
misfortunes of the president, but the picture
he paints is overdrawn. All intelligent per-
Sons who have observed Gen Arthurs con
duct since President Garfield was shot will
resent the imputAtioii conveyed in Mr. Mac
Vsaghs statement that Guiteau was the
original Arthur man, and in that portion Of
the letter which represents Gen. Arthur as the
prize winner in the lottery Of assassination.
These iniputations are both cruel and unjust
We have an idea that this blast from Penn
sylvania originated in wind cave from
Maine
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

, CINCINNATI, May 23-The Enquirer's
Washington City correspondent telegraphs as
follows on the Republican outlook:
AS the time for the holding of the conven-
tion draws nigh The evidences multiply that
it is not to be stampeded and a "dude" candi-
date nominated. The two dark horses tried
by the Republicans have not given satisfac-
tioh. Hayes proved to be poor party presi-
dent, and Garfield had before his death
driven wedge into the party organization
deeper and wider than Mercutio's wound
Had he lived it might by this time have be-
come irrsconcilable. Arthur is entitled to
credit for having kept the organization in
good shape by throwing sop to the Half
Breeds at the expense of his standing with
his best friends
All of the candidates-their friends, at all
svents-concede that the key of the situation
is with the southern delegates. If Blaine can
get fifty of these delegates, his nomination,
his lieutenants say, is certain The Blaine
men are exceedingly confident, and 60 into
the contest with more assurance Of success
than in 1878 or 1880. They say the following for
Arthur is not of that loyal cohesive kind which
stood by and went down with Grant; that
after the first ballot Arthur will lose rather
than gain votes, and that In proportion TO
Arthurs loss will be Blaine's gain
The friends of Arthur are making q very
still hunt, bat thus far, it must be conceded,
a vigorous canvass. Arthur will have strong
following in the convention at the start be-
yond peradventure The assumption that he
cannot gain votes may be incorrect, If Ed
nj unds can transfer. 1t is not thought Ed
mundS can; hence the New England and
Blaine vote, which at first will be for Ed
munds, is liable to 60 to Sherman or
Hswlsy.
The fate of Sherman as a candidate de-
ponds very much upon the support he re-
csives at the hands of the Ohio delegation
and the loyalty with which the delegates
vote for him. Ii they drop him after the first
ballot, or there il a bad break, bis chance, of
course, goes glimmering. His opportunity is
when Arthur and Blaine are out OF the way,
and Ohio must needs be the rallying point if
that contingency is to be met
The talk Of Arthur debating the nomina-
tion If he can not get it himself is not born
of good Judgment. He can not transfer,
because the bulk of his strength, being in the
south, Is as a rope of sand
1t begins to look now as if Blaine and
Arthur will both fail. and that some one
from the field will be drafted Arthur can
hardly win with his own state divided
against Linn, and with hardly any support in
Ohio or Indiana. He may be powerful
enough to defeat Blaine, though, and then it
Is anybods's race Don Cameron, If he de.
clarss for Senator Sherman, as has been al
legged, will add good dssI more than cubit
to what as yet can hardly be called "Sher.
man boom"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
Tha Sfnrm.

We had genuine rain storm last night,
with lots of water and plenty of thunder
and lightning thrown in. AS early as six
O'Clock the clouds began to gather, but
the rain did not descend until after eigh,
o'clock. The clouds were of inky black
ness, and as they drew closer and closer
the wind commenced to howl in an un.
pleasant manner. Finally the rain came,
and the timid persons who had been an
ticipating cyclone, felt somewhat re.
lieved Considerable rain fell at intervals
during the night
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
EXCURSION

To Clinton and return. Sunday, May 25,
1884. The Steamer Josephine, B. A.
Cougar, Master, will leave Davenport and
Rock Island, Sunday, May 25th, 1884, at
s so'clock a. m. A fast and pleasant trip,
splendid music by the Great Western Mil
itary Band, 81. Restorff, leader, The Jo-
sephine will arrive at Clinton at 2 O'Clock
p. NJ, and leave Clinton on her return
trip promptly at o'clock p. m. Round
trip tickets rs cents each. Tickets fol-
sale by GEO. LAMONT, Agent,
81 At Rock Island.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
A Fight,

A fight occurred about half past nine
o'clock last night on Fourteenth street,
between two drunken men. The dispute
was about girl. Both parties had en-
gagged the girls company for the dance,
and they couldn't agree who was entitled
to take her, so they pitched into fighting
One of the fellows got bloody nose. and
the other black eye. To cap the climax
the girl refused to go with either one OF
them after the fight.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
Blaine and Butler.

WASHINGTON CITY, May 23.-Mr. Henry
Cabot Lodge, one of the delegates from
Massachusetts, says that the nomination of
Blaine will be equivalent to q Republican
defeat in Massachusetts, particularly if the
Democrats should take Butler for candi-
date. With any other candidate on the
Democratic ticket and Butler as the indie
pendent candidate, the contest would be be-
tween Butler and Blaine, with the chances in
favor Of Butler
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
Don Cameron nj Home.

HARRISBURG. Pa, May Ex-senator Cam
eron, who has arrive at home, states that he
will not attend the Chicago Republican con-
vention in any capacity. As to the story
that he would turn up as substitute, he had
never thought of such thing. He expressed
a decided disinclination to interfere with the
nomination of Republican candidate for
president, but said he hoped very strong
man would be chosen.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
THE pRErrIEsr LADY IN ROCK ISLAND

Remarked to a friend the other day
that she knew Kemp's Balm for the
Throat and Lungs was superior remedy,
as it stopped her cough instantly when
others had no effect whatever. So to
prove this O. Grotian will guarn=
tee it to all. Price 80 cents and 81
| Iria2 size free
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

Teeth extracted without pain, by Nor
gan & MeCandless, dentists, Bird avenue
and 20th street. Telephone 68. a1-dwtf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

munds says that he much prefers it to the
real thing, as he dislikes to assume the en-
barrassments of the highest officer of the
nation
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

Send Money by American Express Co. Money
Orders.
Receipts gwen. Money refunded il
Orders are lost. Sold at all offices of the
Co. Payable at $500 places. Rates: to
$5-5c.: $10-Sc.: $20-10c.: $30-12c
$40 $50-20c. Apr2Sd3m.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23
NOTICE.

FOR RENT double house on First avenue,
between Twelfth and Thirteen streets. Six rooms
each department; good well and cisten. Enquire
of Fred Hass ul22d1m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

AGENT-Calling on mines mine supplies, etc
can add 1 line; samples small; commissions cash
Pennsylvania agent earned s. 400 in 1888 Import
er, box 1871, New York.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

FOR RENT-A house on Fifteenth street. next
door TO First Baptist church parsonage. l6dGt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

FOR SALE-At my office. on Eleventh street
the best quality of coal. Also dry oak cord wood
stone and sand. Orders received by telephone a
car house. D. G. DOhlman agent mI3d3m
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

W. SUMNER, R MINoKIER,
National Wire & Iron Co.,
MICH.
DETROIT,
Office & Works, Cor 4th & Congress sts.

&COngess
Caaogue
an III
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-23

FOR SALE-Sixty lots in my addition To Rock
Island. One-fourh down, balance in yearly pay
ments, with six per cent interest B. Davenport
ml3dSm
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
THE OYSTERS ENEMIES.
Parasites that Prey Upon the Bivalve and
Suck Its Life Away.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
'Oysters are attacked by a number of differ
ent parasites said a Delaware-avenue oyster
dealer yesterday. Great care is needed, not
only to keep their enemies away, but to destroy
their eggs. Among the worst of these foes is
the drill, a small crustacean, who is supplied
with a tiny raSp or file, with which it bores into
the young oyster and sucks out the contents of
the shell. Its eggs are something like apple or
pear seeds, and are found in heaps or punches.
Each egg contains from twenty To thirty emu
bryos. AS soon as these are Matched they attack
the shells of the baby oysters, and kill %innuIner-
able quantities.
'"The oyster barnacle is another deadly foe.
This little ~creatute gets inside the shell of the
oyster, and fastening onto the upper valve,
breeds there. and feeds upon the oyster itself.
Then there are oyster tube-worms, which make
their tubes of sand and lime, lie upon the oyster
until they become firmly fixed to his outer shell,
and then bore their way through and feed upon
him"
Are any of these creatures found in oysters
that are offered for sale?'
mo. Thu only parasite we find is the tiny
crab. This is harmless to consumers, in fact, is
considered a delicacy, and besides, is really an
assistance to the oyster in helping it to obtain
food. But the barnacles and worms | have
spoken about absolutely destroy the oysters in
the bed, and if We occasionally receive an
empty shell or two in our consignments, that is
the way we account for it."
lis there any known way of getting rid of
these parasites2"
"Oh, yes, by great care and cleanliness.
Oysters that have been sent to Europe for relay
ing have been known to introduce the pest, but
by flushing and carefully draining and going
over the beds, they have been eliminated almost
entirely. This destruction of the eggs is the
surest way, and that method has been fairly
successfully carried out, / hear that Prof. Baird,
of the Smithsonian Institution, is now at Girls
field, Md, making a series of investigations into
the cause of the great fatality among the
oysters of Chesapeake bay and its tributaries.
No doubt if he has discovered a new parasite he
will soon find the eggs. And when he has found
the eggs he will destroy Them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16

one of the upper ten thousand, who was visit
ing America, accepted the hospitality of a gen
t.rman in New York. When taking farewell of
1i,e host, the latter asked him what he thought
of the American people. We'll" answered the
1u5leman, Il like them immensely, but 1 miss
something" "What is thatl' asked the Yankee.
miss the aristocracy," replied the English
n'an. What are they!" naively asked his host.
-the aristocracy," said the nobleman, in a some
what surprised tone of voice, why, they are
l"ople who do nothing, you know; whose fathers
d,A nothing, you know; whose grandfathers did
nothing, you known fact, the aristocracy."
alore he was interrupted by the American, who
ehimed in with, "Oh, we've plenty of them over
here; but we don't call them aristocracy-we
call them tramps.p
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16

Fall Mall Gazette.
The new number of that excellent periodical,
the Jahrbuch of the Berlin Museum, contains
the account of a notable artistic discovery, or
rather Identification. The extreme rarity of
authentic paintings by Leonardo is well known.
DR.. Bode, the accomplished assistant director of
the Berlin Gallery, now asks us to accept, as an
addition to tho scanty number of the great mas
ters works, a picture which was acquired for
that gallery with the Solly collection more than
half a century ago, and has during the greater
part of the interval lain neglected in the maya
zines. 1t is an upright panel of considerable
dimensions, some 81 feet high by 81 feet wide,
and represents the ascension of Christ, with st.
Lucy and st. Leonard Ia saint of somewhat rare
occurrence in works of art) kneeling in alteration
in the foreground. From the photograph which
accompanies DR. Bodies article, the Leonardesque
character of the landscape and drapery, and TO
a less striking degree of the personages, is OBJ
vious. For some time after its acquisition, and
before it was relegated to the magazines, the
picture had, in fact, been exhibited as a work Of
the Milanese school under Leonardo's influence.
But until it was recently unearthed and re
examined no one had thought OF %attributiug it
to the master himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
FROM THE FOREIGN PAPERS.
Some Unhappy Prineesses.

,s,opdon Spectator.
In her early days Frau Bauer, the Christei-
cl,en Stockmar. had beenon intimate terms WIN
the grand ducal family and the playmate OF the
,,eung Princes Ernst, Ferdinand and Leopold,
md Of the Processes Sophie, Antoinette, Juli-
ana and Victoria. Ernst was afterward Grand
Duke Of Saxe-Coburg Gotha and the father OF
the Prince tConsort; Leopold became King OF the
Relgiaus; Juliana married the brutal Grand
Duke Constantine, of Russia; A1toinette, the
hardly less brutal Prince Alexander, OF W urtenl-
berg. But for Victoria, a happier late was In
store: she became the wife of the Duke of Kent,
and lived to see her daughter Queen of England.
In 1895 the Hereditary Princess Sophia, moth
,er of these prineesses, took the three elder ones
to ST. Petersburg for a bride show, at the IN
vitation of the Empress Catherine, who wanted
! her son, Constantine, to choose a wife. 1t was
rather a forlorn hope. for the Russian Prince
had already seen and rejected two prlncesses OF
I Baden and three of Darmstadt; but the Coburgs
J of that age were very POOR, and the Hereditary
Princess was as anxious to get off her daughters
and find rich spouses for her sons as the most
match -making of Belgravian matrons, Con
stantine refusing to make a selection, the Gar
ina chose for him the youngest, Ju-
Llama, though the poor girl was only
in her fifteenth year. The marriage
turned out badly; the Grand Duke treated his
wife so abominably that she was compelled to
leave him and return to Coburg. Alexander of
Nurtemburg made hardly a more desirable hus-
band than the Russian prince. He had thin legs
and a bloated body, the expression of his face
was 'brutish," and his forehead was distigured
by a huge wen. He was also a fearful giutton.
when the young bride 1.-THE Princess Antol-
nettel awoke on the morning after the wedding
day, horror. stricken, she saw her husband be-
side her, g~nawing a big ham bone with british
frrocity-a sight which the unfortunate princess
could never forget"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
Philadelphia Times.

News has reached this city of the death of Mrs.
Bernice Panah Bishop, the wife of Charles Reed
Bishop, at her residence in Honolulu, Sandwich
Islands. For years she had been afflicted with a
to which her untimely end was undoubt-
edly due. Mrs. Bishop was the highest chief in
the Sandwich Islands, her maiden name being
Bernice Panahi On the death of Kamehameha
V, the last of the original line of native kings,
in 1872, she was offered the throne, but declined
it. When King Lunalilo died in 1874 she was
again recognized as the heir to the throne, and
again declined it, preferring to remain in pri-
vate life. Years ago she became the wife of
Charles Il. Bishop, a native of New York, who
went to the Sandwich Islands in 1917, and, after
pursuing various branches of business, finally
settled down as the senior partner in the bank
ing firm Of Bishop & Co. He has acquired Il
large fortune, and his wife was the wealthiest
woman on the islands in her own right. She was
a woman Of wide culture, the leader Of the best
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-16
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
a Marked Decline in Prices and Ia the
Volume of Business.

\ Marked Decline in Prices and In the
Volume of Business.
New YORK, Nov. l5.-Money easy at II per
cent, closed offered at / per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, sac per cent.
Sterling exchange firm, sixty days, $4soI
sight, $484t
Governments steady.
Railways firm.
State securities quiet.
There was a marked falling off in the volume
of business in the Stock Exchange t. -day, and
the tendency was toward lower figures. The
decline was ascribed to realizations and to the
reduction in passenger fares by the New York
Central. Prices dropped ] to Il per cent in the
general list, and % in Central Pacific, which fell
off 30 32S. Northwestern sold down from 87t
to 855, st. Paul from 7Gl to 7444, Lackawanna
from 1867 to 1O4s, Louisville & Nash
vile from 25g to 24A, New York Central
from 89s, to 81. Northern Pacific preferred from
438. to 424a, Pacific Mail, from 81, to 500, Union
Pacific. from 80, to 81, and Western Union,
from 6l4. to Coz. At the close there was a rally
of / to per cent, and the market left off
steady. Compared with yesterday the closing
prices are down to p per cent. Among tho
to 81; Illinois Central, Il, to u.s.; Manitoba, |, to
81. and st. Louis & San Francisco common, 1,
to p. The sales Of stocks for the week were
!, AS. 900 shares, including 200, 900 shares to-day,
of which IL, 600 were Lackawana, 20, 600 Lake
Shore, %, 900 Northwestern, -. 900 New York
Central, %, 600 st. Paul, -, 900 Union Pacific,
and 10, 900 Western Union.