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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-27
AtlntiOn. knights!

AttnGiOn, Knights
St. Paul Lodge No. 105, X, of p. meet
in regular convention Friday even
ing at 7:30, sharp.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-27

List of letters uucalcd for, nj the Postofite, IL
Rock Island, Rock Island county, Illinois, Feb
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-27

Seighs are still running across the river
although, in places, there is nearly foot
of water on the ice. A day or two more
of this pleasant warm weather will make
their occupation dangerous one. Foot
men find it wet walking over the ice.
The consignment of steel cngravings,
etchings and photographs at Champion II
Co.'S is being sold ont rapidly, but the
large supply yet affords splendid ops
portunity to make first class selection.
Col Fred Welker, of Muscatine, it Is
said, will stand as one of the most prom
inent figures in the proposed great pano,
rama of the battle Of Shiloh, representing
that part of the field known as the hor-
nets nest to be painted by the artist
Paul LameTauX.
Quite number of young people were
gathered around the fire, talking Of the
hereafter and expressing the hope that St.
Peter would open the gates to them. One
of the society bellies of the city, however,
after reflection, decided that she did not
wish to go to heaven, naively saying;
None of the boys would be there"
2sRobt. Kuschman, the flour and feed
| dealer on Fourth avenue, Is considerable
of bird fancier. He has some very
choice breeds in pigeons and derives quite
a revenue from the sale of them. This
winter has been very severe on the
younger pigeons, large number of Mr..
Kuschmans having frozen to death.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-02-27

o. J. DIMIcK.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

questioning as to receive with dumb acqui-
escence this sharp reminder that Rome pro-
poses to do their thinking for them.
What we have written has been with regret.
We have no tinge of unkindness toward either
the Catholic Church or its able and
scholarly head in this diocese. On the
contrary, the Journal has the profoundest
regard for the venerable and grand Catholic
Church-with its history, its present great
services and its future possibilities. But we
must insist that in this country there shall be
such complete divorce between church and
state that no church authority shall ever seem
to exert itself to the deprivation of the
fullest liberty of speech and action in matters
outside its proper spiritual domain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16
A coMPLTMBNT TO PREACHERS.

In recent lecture Mr.. Robert G.. Ingersoll
makes the statement that "a lawyer on the
defense never accepted preacher on the
jury" The inference intended to be drawn
from this is that clergyman's hatred of evil
doing extends to evil-doers to such degree
that he cannot be trusted to do justice to one
accused of crime;- that the charity with which
he should be endowed is in reality but mar
row prejudice, making him less liable to exer-
else unbiased judgment than the most ignorant
if irreligious, juror who can be chosen What
Mr. Ingersoll may choose to say in regard to
the attributes and character of ministers is of
very little consequence, his natural and
cultivated bias against the profession, and his
lack of acquaintance with the subject, render
ing him unfit to discuss itintelligently Being
member of the legal profession, however,
his utterance in regard to the '1awyer for the
defense" may be entitled to some weight. If
it be true that an attorney in such position
invariably objects to preacher as juryman,
the public is likely to draw very different
conclusion from the disclosure than that in
tended by the speaker. The fact, If such it
be, is more damaging to the lawyer than to
the preacher rejected, and adds to the weight
of testimony pointing to corruption in court
and bar. 1t is well understood that the de-
Tense of an accused criminal, as now con-
Quoted, is merely matter of clearing him, and
has no reference whatever to his actual guilt or
innocence. The criminal lawyer" whose
name too often has double fitness, takes the
case, not because he is convinced that the eli
ent is wrongfully accused, nor because he
wishes to properly give him the one chance
before the law to which he is entitled, but be-
cause he is animated solely by the desire to
set him at liberty, without regard to his de-
serts or the effect on the community. If by
taking advantage of technicalities and the
tricks of the law he may secure the discharge
of confessed murderer, he considers the act
as redounding to his credit If he can tamper
with the jury in order to attain his end, so
much the better. No wonder he objects to
the presence Of a preacher among the i'm
pcrtant twelve. 1t is not unbiased justice he
Is after, but defeat of justice, and, in This
respect, he is well aware that tho preacher is
not likely to agree with him. This barring
oct of ministers and other good citizens from
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Miss LULU HURST has made $50, 600 within year
out of her wonderful magnetism"
The cheapness of living is illustrated by the fact
that the price of board for students at Harvard me-
mortal hall 1914 per week during january, tho
lowest point reached.
MRS. EDMOND ABOUT pays the finest possible trib
ute to the domesticy of her departed husband in the
declaration: When he to go out to dinner the
whole day seemed intermnable to u.s."
GENERAL w. H. F. LEE, of General R. e. Lee,
is prominently mentioned in connection with the
Democratic nomination for Governor of Virginia He
is an able speaker and of popular manners.
MANY years ago the late Colonel Burnaby passed
for the strongest man in England. He used to show
his strength by twisting poker around his neck and
carrying ponies I'D flight of stairs. He had an illness
after performing these feats and subsequently, did not
renew them.
Mr.. WILLIAM HENRY HURLBERT called on Mr.
Cleveland on Thursday but was careful to say to a
third person that he did not aspire to be Mr. Lowels
at the court Of st. James This must have
taken awful weight off Mr. Cleyeland's mind-f he
ever got to hear of it.
JAMES MORRIS MORGAN, who is now engaged in
writing up of the inside naval history of the late
Confederacy, particularly in regard to the cruisers
has had pretty wide military experience for young
q man. He served in tho confederate navy all
through the Later he went to Egypt, where he
was made captain of artillery, and served under
Ratb Pasha in the region now made famous by Cor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16
NATURAL GAS,

The recent explosion of natural gas, used
for house warming and cooking in Pittsburg,
has led to much inquiry as to the nature and
source of this new combustible Analyses
made by Mr.. s. A. Ford, chief chemist of one
of the steel works. show that it is mainly
marsh gas and hydrogen, over three-fourths
of it being marsh gas This is the "fre- damp
of the coal miners, which causes the explos
ions in mines, and to detect and guard against
which Davy devised his famous safety lamp
Of fine wire gauze.
Next to hydrogen, marsh gas is the most
powerful of gaseous fuels. A pound of coal
in an ordinary furnace will evaporate nine
pounds of water, while pound of natural gas
evaporates over twenty pounds Of water. The
gas is free from phosphorus and sulphur, and
so makes better iron and steel than
GOAL fuel. The change from coal to
gas in the great steel mills is
a startling one. Where ninety fremen were
using 400 tons of coal a day, you now see but
one man attending at firing the long rows of
boilers. The furnace houses have been white
washed, and all dust and dirt done away with.
Most of the iron and glass firms are now u.s.
ing the natural gas or preparing to do SO.
The cost of coal, of firing and handling is
saved, the repairs to boilers and CRATES are
much less, and the glass and iron better in
quality. The supply seems endless 1t is
found in an area forming three -fourths of a
complete circle about Pittsburg, at distance
of from fifteen to twenty miles, and at depth
of about 1000 feet An eight-inch well
is put down in forty days. and supplies
30 O0O,0 5000 cubic feet of gas in twenty-four
hours, coming at pressure of 200 pounds to
the square inch, and still showing seventy
five pounds after passing through twenty miles
of pipes to the sity and iron works. Eight
pie fines convey the gas to the city from the
three districts in which the wells are located.
The source of the gas is the same, probably, as
that Of the oil and coal Of the region-in the
coal plants of the carbouiferous age Prof.
Dewar, of Cambridge, thinks the gas is con-
stantly distilled from the oil, and this again
from the coal, and that long after the oil fails,
if that is possible, there will still be abundant
gas.
The use of gas in place of coal is likely to
restore Pittsburg to daylight and cleanliness.
The subterranean treasures of this region
coking coal, gas coal, petroleum and natural
gas-bid fair to make it one of the cheapest
regions for the production of light and heat in
the known world.
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indicating the Press.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 14-Late last night, at the
banquet of the Lincoln Club, Assistant City So
licitor Harry Bunts toasted the ladies' He said
jokingy that the members Of the club were all
susceptible young men, with the exception Of
two, who were writing a book the subject Of
ladies. L. H Cowles, son of editor Cowles q
Cornell graduate, misconstrued the toast to be
an insult to the press. After adjournment,
young Cowles walked UP to Bunts and, without
word, slapped him in the mouth. Friends
rushed between them, when Cowles held up his
hand in dramatic manner and said:
THE press has been insuted here this even
ing, and l wished to retaiiate. Gentlemen the
press has been indicated" No cause can be as
signed for his action unless he is writing book
or wishes to create the impression he is &aing so.
Judge Griswold refused to shake hands with
Cowles. calling him dirty puppy" dirty dog"
Cowles is denounced on all sides.
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press has called the attention Of the Legisla-
ture, now in session, to the paramount inn
portance of seeing that every public
institution of the State be at once
thoroughly examined, and if the pre-
cautions against fire are not sufficient,
to have the deficiency supplied at once.
Officers of the institutions have either antici-
pated or supplemented these urgent appeals;
and yet what has been done2 Have the com
mittees looked into this matter thoroughly
Have the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind, and
the Insane Asylums, the Woman's Reforms
tory, the House of Refuge, the Knightstown
Home (already once destroyed by frey, the
two prisons, and whatever other institutions
the State may have wherein people are con-
fined, been thoroughly and systematically ex-
amined, their wants intelligently discovered
and arrangements made to supply them9 1t
will not do for this Legislature to adjourn
with this important and imperative work
unattended to. This is Of vastly more i'm
portance to the people of Indiana than the
passage Of an apportionment bill, whereby the
Democratic party can steal power in the State
and Nation to which they are not entitled in
justice or equity.
And while the States attention is being
called to the condition of it's public institu-
tons, the counties should look into their
poor-farms and asyiums If the truth could
be known, we make no doubt that hundreds
and thousands of dependent people are con-
fined in houses from which there would be
little chance of escape in case of fire. In the
name of humanity, for decency's sake let not
Indiana be forced to follow Kankakee and
Philadelphia in the awful experiences of roast
ing to death the poor unfortunates who are at
the mercy of the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

Apart from those two classes the greatest mass q
Americans, the quiet majority, whose names never
find their way into the newspapers enjoy domestic
life pure, modest and aectionate than that OK
any other nation. Philadephia Press.
THIS year we are not manufacturing possible pres
dential candidates. 1t is not fashionable The gen
tleman from Buffalo does not like it. The mn OF il
all is that Mr. Cleveland to take kindly TO
tho little great of manufacture than to the
somewhat larggr sort who were known beyond the
borders of their school districts ninety days ago
For not commonly explained Sy his
party, his admiration for appears to be IN in
ratio to his size If the man is Intellectually large.
Mr. Clevelands affection is moderate. But II he u
one of those great statesmen who have been manu-
featured out of nothing next to nothing Mr..
Cleveland is apt to regard him with interesting
thusiasm.--New York Tribune.
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PROHIBITIONS I'm IOWA.
How the Prohibitory Law Works in Favor Of
Free Whisky.
Indianapolis Freeman.

Indianapolis Freeman.
One of the editors of the Freeman has Just re-
turned from trip through Iowa, and has had
his convictions of the futility of laws attempting
to make men honest or moral greatly strengthened.
Creston Is town of perhaps three thousand peo-
pie. One OF the leading business men, in speak
ing OF the new prohibition law, says that on
July there were eight saloons, paying license
OF 5000 each; they were all of them kept orderly,
and no habitual drunkards or minors were allowed
about the premises. From business interests.
the saloon-keeperS promptly informed on all
drug stores selling without license. On the re-
peal of the license law, the drug stores all took
out United States revenue licenses, and there
are now over thirty places where LIQUOR can be
had, and drunkenness has greatly increased.
Conviction is made difficult from the fact tha6
nearly all the business men are opposed to the
law in sympathy with the liquor dealers. Former
ly a large amount of beer was sold, but it is 50
bulky that its transportation and storage with
out detection is almost impossible, and as
whisky can be carried about the person,
whisky of the vilest quality is the only beverage
that can be had.
The revenue from the saloons had built their
schoolhouse and about supported the town, but
now the treasury is empty, and the legitimate
business of the town must bear the burdens
taken from the shoulders of the liquor dealers.
A proposition to restore the license law would
easily receive 80 per cent of the vote.
In DesMoines Clarkson's home, the saloons
are in full blast, with elegant bars; and no att
tempt at evasion In one saloon half dozen
men were seen drinking beer and whisky as
openly and as leisurely as at any bar in Indian
aDOliS
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jury service, the accepting Of unprincipled
men in their places, and the liberation of cor
rupt methods on the part Of certain attorneys
by the courts Of Cincinnati, had their result
in the riots in that city last year. That
termination of these disgraceful practices was
then effected is too much to say, since the a,.-
ton Of the courts in the case Of one notorious
attorney has become known. He was
conspicuous in reputation as a manip-
ulator of packed juries and weak
judges, and, whether justly or not, was cred
tied with doing more, perhaps, than others to
create the contempt of court which brought
out the mob. To clear themselves of suspi-
cion, the reputable lawyers of the city de-
manded that their associate be disbarred. The
trial resulted in sentence of ten days sus-
suit The sentence was afterward modified
by the withdrawal of the order of suspension;
later, one-half the bill of costs was RENTED
1t is possible that the other half will yet be set
aside, or charged to those who preferred
charges against him, and the lucky lawyer
presented with a chrome If he is not salts
fed with the triumphant success Of his own
methods when applied to himself, he deserves
to be retained by no criminals in future The
Cincinnati bar must try some other method of
purifying itself; but to be successful seems to
need an entirely new judicial system. As re-
marked by one Of the respectable, but indg-
nant attorneys, the perjury mill will soon be
reopened, the bunko gang will commence opera
tons, and juries and courts will again be
packed" Mr.. Ingersoll did not learn the dark
ways of the law in Cincinnati-they are prev
alent everywhere-but he will probably be
gratifed to learn that as matters now stand no
preacher stands chance of getting onto ajury
in that city. But he had better be silent as
to the triumph of justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

The Philadelphia Evening Call says eyes
terday the high liquor license bill was re-
ported favorably in the lower house at Har-
risburg. 1t is wise measure, and one that
should become law. For too long almost
every corner in this and other cities in the
State has been occupied by beer or whisky
saloon, kept by people too lazy towork at any
thing else, and satisfied with the small finan-
cial return-in many cases not over $500 per
annum the amount it is now proposed to
charge for g retail liquor license. Under the
new order of things the smaller saloons would
be weeded out and the business concentrated
in fewer and better hands," Is it possible to
have high license law in Indiana9 The
treasury empty, temporary loan necessary,
debt of million dollars, the possibility of
an increase of taxation upon real estate and
personal property, and yet the Legislature
afraid to lay a proper tax upon the liquor
traffic. What sort Of record will this be to
go before the people who will be compelled to
pay more of their hard-earned money into the
public treasury If Legislators do not think
that liquor tax law is popular with the
people, let them study the history of the Scott
law in Ohio
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

THE copyright bill introduced into the
House of Representatives by Mr.. English, of
this district, applies only to dramatic compo-
sition, and not to books. By the terms of the
bill a foreign writer of a play can copyright
it in America for twentyeight years, and then
for fourteen more under certain condi-
tons, providing that the country of the writer
extends the same privilege to American play
writer's. Mr.. English says that the adverse
influence of certain large ook-publishing
houses is too powerful to permit the passage
of a general copyright law. 1t was Mr.
Dickens who called the head of the Harpers
the greatest pirate in the world.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16
T1oKLrsG BEN BUTLER.
How Els COlOred Servant Reused Him from
His Presidential Dreams.
New York Special.


His Presidential Dreams.
New York Special.
AS General B. F. Butler ambled into the Fifth
avenue Hotel on Wednesday night Michigan
Democratic politician said to reporter:
''The General nearly missed three or four oe
his appointments in Michigan last fall because
the people on the train were afraid to wake
him up. The old fellow has wonderful
physical vigor. 1t has been preserved
better than his mentality. / think Chairman
Fuller, of the Greenback State committee, had
charge of the express train on which the General
travelled out of Detroit 1 was also on board.
After the first stop and speech, the General
dropped back in his seat, shut his eyes and fell
asleep. AS we neared the next appoints
ment Chairman Fuller tried to wake Butler
up 1t proved hard task-it was even neces-
sary to shake him soundly-and as he became
explosives that would serve the Irish cause bet-
ter than dynamite.
Fuller tried it again at the second appoint
ment, and after that said he didn't propose to
have his arm sworn off if Butler missed every
appointment in Michigan. Buffers body SER
want, an intelligent colored man, who had
kept out of sight all this time, now
volunteered to undertake the delicate task, and
when it came time to wake the General up again
he produced long feather, out of the porters
buster, and gently tickled the great mans nose.
Butler slowly attempted to brush the annoying
thing away, sneezed hard, and woke up, while
we all'faughed at our stupidity and the colored
mans cunning He woke the General up that
way half dozen times that afternoon"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

The State Geologst has submitted his
fourth annual report to the Governor, and,
according to present Indications his last
Maurice Thompson, ex-representative, and
known to dilletanti sportsmen as the writer of
brochure on archery, and to poets for his
lines, "Ho! for the Dells Of the Kankakee," is
believed to have first rank among the appli-
cants. DR.. A J. Phinney, of Muncie, one Of
the present field assistants, and an excellent
paleontologist, as far as a knowledge of Indiana
fossils is concerned, at least, is also urged by
his friends. He has a fine collection of In
diana fossils, and is well known to working
biologists. DR.. Phinney is an admirer of
Prof. Collett and regrets any move to cut his
head off for purely political reasons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16
A Very Good Change.

SATURDAY Heraiu.
The Herald has no longer any grievance
against General Grant A change of head has
given it change of heart. 1t will rather mag
Nifty mems virtues than their faults. Notwith-
standing the General did not give Blaine hearty
support, he carried Fort Donelson. The fact
that he called on Cleveland weighs nothing
against the enforced capitulation of Lee at APP
pomattox. True, he has taken gifts; he also took
Richmond. He has lost money, but he never lost
battle. You may shoot rockets at the Ursa
Major, but you cannot mar the constellation.
General Grant has made his name immortal and
all the moral sewers in Christendom cannot tar
nish it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

OLD Jefferson Davis, it is said, is preparing
o very bitter reply to General Sherman, which
is to be spoken by some mouthpiece of his in
one of the houses of Congress- possibly some
Mississippi member. At the late Davis matt
nee in the Senate both Mr. Lamar and Mr..
George were only too willing to act as the ex-
traitors defenders. Mr.. Davis will have no
difficulty in finding man who will consider
it an honor to speak his piece.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-16

JUST about this time letter from Mr.
Hendricks to Grover Cleveland, strongly urg-
ing the appointment of Mr.. Mcdonald as the
head Of one of the departments, would look
well in print and tend to compose the ele-
nental disturbances i'll the party. 1t might
rot 60 into history with the celebrated Du-
lsuque letter, but it would still have greatly
soothing effect. Mr.. Hendricks should take
ais pen in hand before it is eternally too late
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be opened2

CARL SCHURz is lecturing in Texas, and
being presented with resolutions of respect
from local boards of trade. If they don't give
him something more substantial than resolu-
tiOns he will never tramp that way again-and
perhaps that's the way they understand it.
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Judge Bradley Not to Resign.
Washington dispatch to New York Evening Pc,

Washington Dispatch to New York Evening Post.
The renewed reports that Justice Bradley con-
templates resgning have no better foundation
than those which have preceded them. To q
friend to day Justice Bradley said, with indig-
nant emphasis: "There is not word of truth In
subject of resigning. and do not contemplate
resgning You may say that with my au-
thorty." If anything can be inferred from the
manner of man we'll as from his language,
Mr.. Bradley is not considering resignation, dur
ing this administration at least.