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The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
HAMILTON. Nov. 1

Phil Wilcher is attending the Daven>
port business college.
Mrs. Z. w. Adams, returned from
Gardner, H., last Saturday, where she
has been visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Geo. Holland
Jas. W. Adams, left for Chicago Sun
day evening, where he has quite lucra.
tive position as prescription clerk in one
of the prominent drug stores.
Quite number from this place atten-
ded Gilmore's concert last night. Among
them were DR.. Hunter, Mrs. A. r. Stod
dard. Geo. and Mrs. Samuel Heagy, w.
A. Conant, Miss Nellie Hunter, Mr. and
Mrs. Balkan.
The funeral services of little two-year
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. d. d. Jones was
held at the M. E. church last Sabbath
The services being conducted by Rev.
Northrup, who preached avery excellent
sermon. The entire community dee ply
sympathize with the parents in their sad
aifliction.
Today little son Of Manuel Peterson
fell out of n wagon and broke his arm
DIR. Hunter reduced the fracture. The
child has been very unfortunate of late
having previously broken his arm twice
before. DR.. Hunter who has attended
him in all his mishaps reports the child
dong well.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
The Wait Fou nd.

Bonnie Benson, the 12-year old boy
who ran away from his home in Moline
the first of the week, was found at Dav>
export yesterday evening. he having en-
gagged himself as GRAND boy for the
clothing establishment of Isaac Roths>
child. During the early part of the day,
he called at the residence of Mr.. Fred
Hass on First avenue in this city, bare
headed, and representing himself as a pen
niless, homeless orphan, who had just
come in on train, and aroused the
sympathy of Mrs, Hass who gave him n
discarded hat, and he departed.
The boy, on being taken back home,
gave no excuse for his actions, except
that he had become tired of school and
decided to shift for himself. He slept in
vacant houses. ETC., in Davenport the past
three nights. A sound spanking might
prove effective to youngster who causes
his parents SO much anxiety rs this one
did
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
What Does This Meant

Rev. W. S. Marquis, of Rock Island.
will preach in the First Presbyterian
church next Sunday morning. Imme-
diateIy after the service n congregational
meeting will be held for the purpose of
electing pastor.--Davenport Gazette.
Does this mean that Mr.. Marquis is to
be interested in the election of pastor
for the church in Davenport? He is one
of the most able and eloquent ministers
in the state of Illinois, and a genial gen.
tleman, as well, and his congregation in
this city will not be very apt to let him
go, if such are his intentions.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

A heavy transfer has been made in the
saw,mill property at Hayward, Wis.
owned by the North Wisconsin lumber
company. by A. j. Hayward, president
of the corporation. dispos;ng of his Inc
terest to F. Weyerhauser of this city.
Mr.. Weyerhauser is president of the
Chippewa logging company, Mississippi
river logging com pany, and the Beet
Slough companyand is largely interested
in pine and hardwood tracts on the Chip
pewa and other points in northern Wis
consin. In fact he is one of the most
pushing and popular lumbermen IN the
whole country.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

Great preparations are being made for
the Sabbath School convention which
convenes at the NJ. f church next Sab
bath. The following is the programme:
l:3o p. m. Song service, led by Geo.
F. McNabuey,
200. Devotional exercises. led by L .
f. Baker
$50. Sunday School work in the
school, led by Deacon Clark.
$3.50 Sunday School work out of the
school, led by Rev. Northrvp.
700. Song Service. led by DR.. W.
Hunter.
7;30. Devotional exercises, led by
Ezra Wilcher.
500 Children's meeting, led by Dea>
con Edwards.
$50 Essay on prayer, by Miss Jennie
Albrect.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

Mrs. Matte Jones and Mrs. Henry
Ross, two specimens of dusky feminity,
were before Justice Bennett yesterday
morning for ''fussin' wild one annuder,"
Mrs. Jones charging Mrs. Ross with keep
ing disorderly house. Mrs. Ross charg-
ing Mrs. Jones with abusive language.
The cort found both guilty, and fined
Mrs. Jones Sc and costs and Mrs Ross
So and costs, in consequence of which
for a few DAYS.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
River Riplets.

The Pittsburg came up this morning on
her last trip this season. She had an i'm
mense cargo.
The Josephine will not come north OF
Keokuk this season again. She will tie
up in southern waters this winter.
The steamer Josephine left for LeClaire
this morning where she met the steamer
Sidney, whose freight cargo and passen
gers were transferred. Returning this
afternoon she left for St. Louis. The
Sidney turns back at LeClaire for Du>
buque, where she goes into winter quar-
tiers.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
X NELI'S
Furniture
Establishment,

And smile or look at his immense stock,
and smile again, beautiful uhe styles are
not as they were in Adams time) or hire
somebody to kick you around the alley,
because any man dare presume to make
such success in q business where you do
not want it. OF course we can't suit
everybody. Don't want to. We give it
up it kant be did. Some people don't like
our style. Well. we arc glad they don't;
it will prolong our life and make us much
happier. if we never see them; the world
and Rock Island will wag without them
Why, I've actually heard people say they
would not buy of Knel simply because he
was such pushcr and doomed trade, no
matter if it was dull. However, they gen
orally come for all that and buy from u.s.
Why? Simply because they know that
they can save money and get better as
sortment to select from. If | can't sell
patent chairs to the inhabitants of des>
ert island, can yet sell furniture to a
great many very pleasant customers at
prices that other dealers can not tumble
to.
But their was Mr.. Blinks, he thinks he's
so smart. OF course nothing suits him
that's his game from the start. And he
wnks Mt his wife so cute on the sly. As
much as to say you cant fool me if you
try. Over the creek everything is sold so
cheap. And all that he buys is counted
up in n heap. When he gets back he
only blows about the bargain he got.
But don't say word how he got gulled
on the lot. Oh no.not on a lounge would
he dare to lie For that wouldn't do in
the sweet by and by. He's so interested
at heart for the success OF this town.
You bet when be wants tick,
and hasn't the cash to pay down.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

Are what the human race has been
seeking since the days when the flaming
sword in the hands of an angel, turned Il
rather thinly clad lady and gentleman out
of home that was n perfect paradise, in
to the cold, uncharitable world To hunt
up a boarding house was Mr.. and Mrs.
Adams first undertaking, They bought
a Rock Island paper and sat down on the
watch tower under fig tree TO read the
stale adds, and talk over the prospects of
the election. Not house was for rent,
no nicely furnished front room for gen
tleman and wife; nothing even to be had,
not even stick of furniture for that
was before the sound of the hneU, no
body had died) so they and their children
commenced looking elsewhere. The old
folks were never able to find anything
like the Old home, sweet home, their &C,
cident deprived them of.
However, several years after this event,
lot of their distant relatives went west
to grow up with the country, and they
built up thriving cities all over tie prair-
les and along the banks of the great
river Now see how these descendants
are progressing. Motors run at large on
our streets to scare off trade and horses.
Then think of
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
A TERRIBLE FIRE.
Sixty Blocks Consumed at Galveston
Texas'..LOss So Far $4,000, 900.

GALVESTON. Tex. Nov. 49, Especial
A terrible fire is in progress; over sixty
blocks have been consumed and the fire is
still raging. There is mile and half
of ashes, and loss SO far of So, 600, 900.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
Hard Coal Market

Pea coal, $500; CRATE and egg, $7.75;
range, nut and No. 4, $500 per ton;
screened and delivered all best quality
of anthracite. Extra carriage charged on
orders of less than one ton. Blacksmith S
caol, Connellsville coke and charcoal.
1908 Second avenue. f. G. FRAZER.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

The manner in which the door is mani.
pulated by the Norton Door Check and
Spring is marvellous. The action resemb,
ling the quick but firm touch of human
hand skillfully closing the door without
Jar or noise.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

Send to CT. Hood & Co, Lowell.
Mass, for book containing statements
of many remarkable cures by Hoods Sar
saparilla.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13
Hard Coal

Have you bought your hard coal
Watkins & Hill will deliver all grades of
hard coal. Give them call. Telephone
1877.
The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-13

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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
A PonuIar Mexican Resort.

Santa Anita, the first village on the
Yiga beyond the city Of Mexico, writes
a correspondent to the San Francisco
Chronicle, is the universal rallying point
on SUNDAYS for both natives and sight
seers from the capital. There is always
a fiesta at Santa Anita, and there the In
dians are eternally dancing, singing and
pulque- drinking. On arriving at this
village the first business of everybody i
to secure wreath Of poppies and corn
flowers, which the women wear upon
their tangled hair aud the men upon
their sombreros though perhaps the
human form divine thus beautifully
crowned may be but partially covered
with scant and dirty rags. Lovely
wreaths sell for a madeo (six cents)
apiece, and the woman, young or old,
who is not wreathed before the day il
over is either deep in disgrace or hope
lessly out of fashion. This native love
Of flowers is a direct heritage from the
swarthy founder of these floating gar
dens. History tells US that the most
valuable gift which Montezuma present.
ed to the Spanish ambas ador Of his
court was accompanied by a bouquet;
and a strange anomaly it must have
seemed, this love Of the beautiful com
bined with their blood -curdling religion.
Baron Won Humboldt remarked upon it
centuries afterward. To-day those who
sit in the market places must emboweI
themselves in green branches garlanded
with flowers, while even prosaic pulque
barrels are wreathed with roses, ans
mugs and pitchers similarly bedecked.
The poorest village church has its foN1
strewn with blossoms, and fresh bou-
quets are arranged upon all the affairs
before service begins. The babe at itg
christening, the child at its confrmatione
the bride at her wedding, the corpse
its coffin, are alike adorned.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
Runninn for the Train.

More than one medical authority has
admonished people of the danger OF
running to catch train, especially for
those who are subject to heart disease,
one of the most common of ailments in
these latter days. The following, from
an English paper, may serve to empha-
size the warning: A few days since,
a railway clerk, aged twenty, was found
dead in sitting posture in second
class railway carriage when it arrived at
Woolwich. At inquest, it was stated
that deceased had been suffering from
heart disease for two or three years, and
it was supposed that he had hurried to
catch the train that morning The sur
geon who made the post-mortem ex-
animation stated that the heart was en-
larged. Another case of death from
exertion in man suffering from dis,
eased heart has occurred. A signalman
at Brixton railway station, while pulling
on the levers, suddenly fall backwards,
and on the arrival Of surgeon was pro-
nounced to be dead. The widow stated,
at the inquest, that deceased had been
treated for an affection of the heart for
some time. In this case there does not
seem to have been post-mortem exam
nation. Yet another death from exer-
ton has occurred. A young lady, aged
sixteen, expired suddenly in gymna-
SUM after performing feat OF skill.
According to the medical evidence, she
was suffering from valvular disease OF
the heart. How often has the hurry to
catch train, or some other sudden ex-
ertion, throwing extra work on dilated,
fatty or otherwise diseased heart, re-
suited in fatal syncopei It is our duty
to warn such patients Of the risk they
will run if they allow any consideration
of business or convenience to attempt
them to single rash act Of this kind
London Lancet.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
Woods Or WISDOM.

This man might have been coanseloE
at State till he spoke.
The world is full Of people who strain
at gnat and swallow whole menag
erie.
Nature is a rag merchant, who work
up every shred and odd and end into ne
creations.
Though fattery blossoms like friend.
ship, yet there is great difference II
the fruit.
The most delicate, the most sensible ot
all pleasures, consists in promoting the
pleasure Of Others.
Much learning shows how little NOR
tails know; much wealth, how little
worldlings enjoy.
To an honest mind the best perquisitei
Of place are the advantages it gives "
man Of doing good
To be absent from the one we love il
to carry vacant chamber in the hear.
which nothing else can fill.
War is but an organized barbarism and
an inheritance Of the savage state, how,
ever disguised and ornamented.
Every kind of suffering, sorrow cE Del
reavement, is endurable, when there
is no self reproach to lend double edge.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.


It was formerly supposed that lion
would not injure royal prince.
A French scientific journal reports that
in Paraguay tribe Of Indians with tails
has been discovered.
During all seasons Of the year, it is
said, the earth at Yakutsk, Siberia, is
frozen from the depth Of fifty feet to
that of about /, 200 feet.
A tree growing in New Zealand proves
fatal to birds in singular way. A
gummy substance is emitted from the
seed vessels, and birds get SO covered
with the fluid that they are unable to
fly.
For some undiscovered reason cat
was formerly called Tybert or Tybalt;
hence some of the insulting remarks Of
Mercutio in sRomeo and Juliet, who
calls Tybalt rat catcher" and liking Of
cats.r
A design has been submitted to the
Australian minister for water supply of a
contrivance for bringing down rain. It
is in the form Of balloon, with charge
of dynamite underneath it. The balloon
is to be sent into the clouds. and the dy-
Mantle is to be fred by wire connecting
it with the earth.
Soldering seems first to have been
employed upon iron. Glaucos, Of Chios,
attained great results by these means,
and attracted general attention to it in
the seventh century B. G. His iron era
ter stand, dedicated at Delphi, by Alyat-
tes, was an elaborate work, ornamented
upon the legs and clasps with scnlptured
animals and plants.
The elder has from time immemorial
possessed an evil reputation, and been
regarded as tree of bad omen. Ac-
cording to popular tradition Judas was
hanged on an elder. Sir John Vaudeville
tells us in his 'sTravels, (" which he wrote
in 1854, that he was actually shown the
identical tree at Jerusalem.
Abram Hanson, negro boy of Law
renee, Kan, can pick up piece Of clay
and model in few minutes to almost
any form that suggests itself to his mind,
with a life-likeness truly astounding.
From the common clay there found in
abundance, without tools Of any kind,
without models or designs, he forms men
and beasts with wonderful reality and
no inconsiderabIe artistic talent.
The Labyrinth was one of the most
remarkable and mysterious monuments
of ancient Egypt, near Lake Meris-
According to Manetho, the Egyptian
historian, it was built by Meris as sep
ulchre for himself. In 1843 the site Of
this monument was excavated and ex-
plored by Prussian expedition under
Lepsius, but without fully satisfactory
results. It was described and greatly
admired by Herodotus, who said that il
surpassed the Pyramids and consisted ol
5000 chambers, half Of which were be
low ground, and contained ''the sepul'
chres of the kings who built the Laby'
rinth, and also those of the sacred croco-
| di1as y
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
SINGLE COPY FIvI CENTS
NUMBER 46.
FUN


ssThe Northwest lumber resources
have decreased twenty-five per cent. in
the last year." The supply Of block
heads, however, keeps right up with The
demand.
A Wisconsin man was reported AZ
murdered" when the word should have
been married, but the distinction waa
so slight that the proof-reader let it pass
-Bost0n Post.
You can find a man who enjoys break
ing in new boots good deal easier than
you can converse with woman who
wouldn't stop eating pie to kiss baby
any time Chicago Ledger.
Asking too much--A man applied at
house in San Antonio for aid 'fYou
should go to work and earn living,
was the indignant reply. ''Go to work
1t isn't bad enough that I am 50 pop
that have to beg, and here you come
and want me to work beside. ."-SJy
ings.
ssWhat and When to Eat" is the title
Of an article in an exchange. This is .
subject on which we are posted. The
''when7 never gave US any trouble in AZ
our eating, but We have been compelled
to do laundering sight Of sEirmishing
around after the ''what. Norman IN.
dependent.
THE MERRY MAIDEN.
The sealskin sacque, that erst with pride she
Is now in camphor safely laid away,
And from the sultry city to the shore
With pleasure hastes the maiden fair and
gay.
In linen, lawn, or muslin, or pique,
| And ribbons at her throat, vision fair,
| Along the yellow sands where wavelets pla7
| She passes slowly, with pensive air
Creating havoc 'mong the hearts Of mash.
Boston Courier.
Call girl a chick, and she smiles
call woman hen, and she howls.
Call young woman witch, and she il
pleased; call an old woman witch, and
she is indignant. Call girl kitten,
and she rather likes it; call woman 8
cat, and she'll hate you. Queer sex, isn't
ita-Red Bluff (Cal.) NelOs.
essay not that the day Of disinterested
benevolence has vanished. We know o.
man who has the rheumatism, which
has treated him in the MOST cruel man
ner, and yet there is no end tothe things
that man has done for that rheumatism,
and he still continues in the same IN
selfish course. - Boston Transcript.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
The Aiuhan and His Gun.

The Afghan matchbox or jazail has
no parallel as firearm on the face of
the earth, says letter from abroad. It
is about nine feet long, and is fitted near
the muzzle with prong which supports
it on the ground when it is about to be
fred off. It is fitted with powder-pan
and catch for holding fuse. An
Afghan marksman has to depend upon
the state Of his fuse, and therefore he Is
by no means certain shot During the
last Afghan war it used to be a joke among
the British soldiers that an Afghan
would poise his jazail upon q rock, cal
culate when his enemy would be likely
to arrive in front of his muzzle, fix his
fuse, and then 60 off to some little dis
tance and sit down and smoke. # the
enemy arrived in front Of the matchbox
just as it went off, why he would most
likely be killed, but if be didn't, and the
weapon went off quarter Of an hour
afcer be had passed it, then no harm was
done, and its owner would phiIosophi-
cally s'se." his jazaiI again in hopes Of
catching the next conner, and then 60 of
to his rock, smoke and wait develop
ments.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09
The Iapanese Way.

An invitation to dinner among the
middle-upper classes Of Japan com
mences as follows: 81 beg pardon for
thus insulting you in begging your com
pany at my house to dinner. The house
is small and very dirty. Our habits are
rude, and you may not get anything fit
to eat; and yet hope that you will con-
descend to be present with US at s o'clock
the 9th of December" On arriving at
the house you find it spotlessly clean,
tasty in arrangement, and the host and
hostess afable. The bill Of fare consists
of ten or fifteen courses, the best the
market can afford All the self-humilia-
ton Of the host is the method adopted
TO do you honor.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09

The leather product Of this country
reaches S2oo, 0O0, 900 per annum.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09

The value Of the farms, live stock, una
farm implements in the United States Is
estimated at $12, ,O40, OlO, 5sa, divided
as follows: Land, $40, 197, 096, 77S; live
stock. 81, 500, 9s4. .707; farm implements
s406. 52O. .055.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-07-09

OF edible fruits and seeds 100 are
classed az vegetables, 100 o. roots and
bulbs, thirty yield oil, twenty produce
sugar or sirup, and six species ore made
into wine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-19

Upon reaching Grand Gulf, after running its
batteries and fighting battle, I received a
letter from Banks informing me that he could
not be at Port Hudson under ten days and
then with only 5000 men. The time was
worth more than the reinforcements. I
therefore determined TO push into the uteri-
or OF the enemy's country With a large
river behind us, held above and below by the
enemy rapid movements were essential to
success. jackson was captured the day after
new commander had arrived aud when
large reinforoements we're daily expected. A
rapid movement west was made, and the gar
rison Of Vioksburg was met in five battles
and badly defeated The city WAS then sue
cessfully besioged
HHis First Meeting with LincOIn.
When called TO the capital in March, 1864, ,
10 receive his commission Rs Lieutenant. Gen
eral, Grant first met Lincoln. In my irst
interview with Lincoln alone" be says ''he
stated TO me that he had never professed to
be q military man. or to know how cam
psigns should be conducted, aud never want
cd TO interfere in them, but that procrastina-
tion on the part of commanders, and the pres
sure Ofthe people al the North, and Of Gong.
ress, which, like the poor, he had always with
him, had forced him into issuing his we'll
known series OF Executive ORDERS. He did
not know but that they we're all wrong, and
he did not know but that some Of them we're
All he wanted, or has ever wanted, he said
was that some QUE would take the responsi-
bility and act, aud call on him for all the
assistance needed"
A FUnny story About Bragg.
Finally, here is funny story about Gen
Bragg, which Gen. Grant tells in his charac.
teristically short and simple way
II have heard q story ia tue old army very
characteristic OF Bragg. On one occasion,
when stationed at post Of several compa
nies, commanded by field officer, he was
and at tho same tune acting post qnArternias-
ter aud commissary. He was a first lieutan-
ant al the time but his captain was detached
on other duty. As commander Of the COM
pany, he made a requisition upon the quar-
tsrmsster himself for something he want
ed. As quartermaster, he declined TO ill the
rtquisition and endorsed on the back Of it
his reason for 10 doing. As company COM
mRnder he responded to this urging that his
requisition called for nothing but what he was
entitled TO, and that it WAS the duty of the
quaItermsster to fill it, The quartermaster
still persisted that he was right. In this con-
dition Of affairs Bragg referred the whole
matter to the commanding officer. The lat.
ter, when he saw the nature of the matter
referred, exclaimed My God, Mr.. Bragg,
you have quarrelled with every officer il the
army, and now you are quarrelling with
yourself, Longstreet was sn entirely differ
ent man"