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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28

Liquid gunpowder" is the latest in
vention.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28

Los Angeles, Cal, has watermelon
weighing 17S pounds. which is to be sent
10 London.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28
sherman Opens the ohio Campaign.

MOUNT GHEAD Ohio, Aug. ~. Senator
Sherman deliFered stirring speech here
Wednesday afternoon. He dwelt at great
length upon the disfrancissment of the col
ored people In the south He regretted
being compelled to say that there were rebels
in the depart<lents at Washington to-day:
there we're rebels in the consular and diplo-
matte service, representing this country
The tendency of the DeIaocratic party, he
asserted, was to make no difference between
the blue and the gray. The line between
Republican ana Democratic parties was as
distinct now as it was during the war. The
past work of the Republican party was its
promise for the future.
The senator declared for protection as OPP
posed to free trade, and included among
the results Of Republican policy every wise
law of congress for twenty years In test
ing MIR Cleveland's administration by its
acts thus far, he cited the pardon, by the
president, OF Lieutenant of Police Mullen,
of Cincinnati, who arrested more than 100
colored mon the night before the last October
election, and held them in prison until after
O'Clock on election day, SO that they could
not vote
He defended John Roach in the matter of
| the Dolphin, and said of the decision of the
attorney general in the matter, that the
decision made Roach a guarantor Of the
! intelligence and skill of the government Off
! GERS, and yet required him without question
to follow their plans and specifications as to
| model. work and material.
| He mentioned another cease of disregard
| OF American in terests by this adminstra-
| ton" in the notification of the law of CON
| gress appropriating $400,000 Co enable the
postmaster general to contract with the low
est bidder among Americrssteamship com
panies for the carrying of foreign mails
This law, he said, was disrsgarded by the
postmaster general, and contracts were
mainly let to English companies He char
| acteriZed other minor acts Of the admins
tration as unwisa, and said that "the first
| fruits of Democratic success are contempt
for the law harder times. a want Of conf
dence in the future, and a widening of the
conflicts between capital and labor
Touching Ohio state politics he said the
temperance question should not enter the
pale of politics He was not for prohibition,
but for "wise system of tax laws, and
laws restraining the traffic" He said that
prohibition "could not be engrafted on the
constitution for Years, and II adopted, as
experience shows In many states, could not
be enforced in the large centers of popula-
ton"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28

G. N. CRITTENTON. N. v. General Agent.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-08-28
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Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
FLORIDA.

The widow of Florida orange
grower has Just received 500, 900
insurance on her husbands life.
Now look out for a stampede OF
bachelors to Florida, with the or
.ange fever,
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
Among the Moonshincrs.

I Charles Dudley Warner In the Atlonttc
The mountain regions of North
Carolina are free from musquitos,
but the fly has settled there and is
the universal scourge. The trav-
eler, who has read about the illicit
stills in the mountains is, however,
doomed to disappointment. 1t he
wants to make himself an excep-
ton to tho sober people whose
cooking will make him long for the
maddening bowl, he must bring
his poison with him.
We stopped at a house for a
glass of milk. While the woman
in charge went for it we sat on the
veranda and conyersed with a dis
Greet, pleasant, pretty girl. This
snrely must be the Esmeralda who
lives in these mountains and adorns
low life by her virgin purity and
sentiment. Asshe talked on she
turned from time to time to the
Fireplace behind her and discharg-
ed dark fluid from her pretty
lips with accuracy Of aim and with
a nonchalancc that was not ass um-
ed, but belongs to our free born
American girls. | can not tell why
tins habit CT hers should take her
our of the romantic setting that
her face and figure had placed her
in: but somehow we felt inclined
to ride on further for oar heroine.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
Our Continent Before the Advent Of
Human Life.

In mapping out the public do
main it has been found that our
western plains and mountain rang
es fucnished rare opportunity for
the study of the conditions of the
continent before man existed here.
There were two great island seas
;n the Western basin. Salt lake is
all that is left of them. The Gulf
of Mexico covered nearly all of
what is now the southern states.
The great mountain ranges had
already been thrown up, but they
were higher and rougher than they
are now. A great ice-sheat poured
dowL from the north and west, and
covered the country from the At
lantic coasl to the western edge of
the middle portion of the country.
Wisconsin was an island in the
midst Of sea of ice. We think
the leo river has not got done flow
yet when a Manitoba wave comes
down upon us from the north.
A map OF the continent as il was
then would be worth seeing. There
were animals to the south of the
ice. There was small horse with
toes, hairy mammoth bigger than
an elephant, pig with nose like
a knife blade, and buffalo three
times as large as he of our dav is.
Man was not and did not come for
several thousand years.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25

n Chicago, with q population of
about $4,000 collects 81, 100000 in
license fees this year.
Judge David Davis owns nearly
seven thousand acres OF farm land
in Illinois, and tho cultivation OF
these returns him more enjoyment
than participation in public life.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
Wait for the Wagon.

U s. Democrat itt .i
A farmer drove into AlIegsn,
Mich, not long since. In his wagon
was a good sized pig, several
pounds of fresh butter, packed in
wet cloth and cabbage leaves in a
pail, six dozen eggs in basket,
and two boxes of choice white hon.
'ey. He went into saloon, got to
talking politics, took few drinks,
forgot all about his load and went
to sleep. Later in the day when
he camc out hs found that the pig
in the wagon had rooted his way
out Of the box, had eaten the honey,
the butter and the eggs; the horse
got tired waiting, had gone around
the corner to drink from n trough,
upset tia wagon, broken the reach,
that the pig had gone home or
somewhere else. On SOLDERING up
he said lie began to comprehend
st. Patricks saying that Eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
The Ohio Yell.
[ Outing. ]

| Outing.
The Maumee, river, seems to
posses peculiar beauty all its own,
wriaes Thomas Stevens, in an ar
ticle descriptive of bicycle ride
through OHIO. The Maumee wa
ters smiling valley, where or
chards, fields and meadows alter
nate with sugar-maple groves, and
In its fair bosom reflects beautiful
landscape views that ale changed
rsbsautitied by the master hand of
the sun every hour of the uay, and
doubiy embelishsd at night by the
moon.
1t is whispered that during "ths
late unpleasantness" the Ohio reg
iment could out yelt the Louisiana
tigers, or any other Confederate
troops, two to one. Who has not
heard of the "Ohio yellY Most
people are magnaninousiy inclin-
ed to regnrd this rumor as simply
"gag" on the Buckeye boys, but
1t isn't. The Ohioans are to the
manner born; the Buckeye yell
is tangible fact All along the
Maumee it resounds in my ears,
Nearly every man or boy who from
the fields, far or near, sees me
bowling along the roads, straight-
way delivers himself Of yell, pure
and simrle.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25

From U. S. Democrat.
ALABAMA.
Mobile is proud of newly or
ganized Zouave military company.
A cotton seed oil mill is to he
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
NEW JERSEY.

About three-fifths of the area OF
the state is devoted to agriculture.
The average value OF this land is
500 per acre, AS against an average
of S23 throughout the United
States. The average value pro,
ducts is SIT per acre, as against q
general average of S6 throughout
the unlon,
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25

In the United States navy the
flagship of each station has brass
band, paid for by the government.
The smaller ships have string
bands, composed of sailors from
the ships companies.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25

A prominent chemist asserts
that in every 100 pounds of grean
tea used in this country the con-
sumer drinks more than half a
Eonud ~ Prussisn blue and gyTsum
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK.
Miss Kate Field believes in cre-
nation, and IS a member of tt Q
New York Cremation Society.
During 1884 there were ll,224
! arrests in Brooklyn for drunken
ness, while the total number Of
arrests were 26,1l9, making very
nearly az many for drunkenness
alone as for all other causes COM
bined.
NORTH CAROLINA.
During wind and rain storm
in Raleigh, a number OF turtles
fell on ihe streets. They are de-
scriDed as Of the size of trade dol
lars, and were probably sucked up
by the meeting of two currents OF
air over shoal water.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
A Spartansburg young lady adj
vertises in the local paper for
husband. She describes herself
"young and pretty, charming and
witty, petite and piquante.' Eth
er there are no young men in Spar
tansburr or the damsel has over
rated her charms.
TEXAS.
Farmers Of Waskon, are COM
planning of too much rain. Grass
looks unusually fine, and corn and
cotton are doing well.
Sixtp-fve white persons, large
number of them Western drum
mers, are indicted at Dallas, tor
playing poker, and 250 negroes are
being tried for "crap-shotting,"
game played with dice.
The Grayson county Jail, ut
Sherman, holds eleven prisoners
charged with murder and three
charged with assault to murder, all
awaiting trial at the September
term OF the District Court.
A meteor about the size of
-four barrel fell at Sherman, the
other day. 1t was accompanied by
a kissing and rumbling noise.
A Texan, who has lived for years
among the cowboys, says tnat many
Of them are graduates of Eastern
colleges.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25
NEWS FROM EvE2YWdER
Gleanings and Condens atoms from
Exchanges.
ALABAMA.
From U. S. Democrat.

From q. S. Democrat.
ALABAMA.
Mobile is proud of newly or
ganized Zouave military company.
A cotton seed oil mill is to he
built at Mobile by d. H. Caswell
d. Co., Nashville, Tenn. firm.
Mad dogs are spreading hydro
phobia among the cattle of Tusca-
loosa county.
The Birmingham iron makers
contemplate manufacturing their
iron into steel.
ARKANSAS
". W. Taggart, the largest cot
ton buyer in tho state, says Of the
present prospect: IL think the
acreage this year over last will be
about two per cent. The stand Is
excellent, and all that is desired.
Planters have been more careful
than usual IN the selection Of their
seed, using more prolific and stand
ard varieties, with the crop later
hy ten days. The plant is staky,
healthy and vigorous, and under
the inspiration of the past ten
days Of hot. sultry sun, and warm
nights, is growing rapidly. Labor
is abundant and cheap. The labor
is better and more reliable than
ever ! knew it,"
One of the funny bills in the
California Assembly is one which
gives to any Young man under
twenty-one years OF age, who learns
a trade by serving an apprintice-
ship for three years and is moral
young man, $3.50 out Of the state
treasury.
A very active red insect has ap-
pepred in some of the vinyards of
Yolo county, in immense numbers,
covering the ground in places. A
vine attacked by the new pests
dloops in an hour.
After trying many methods for
driving away or killing grasshop-
pers, n Californian finally resorted
to sulphur smoke, and it proved
decided success.
COLORADO
A foolish fellow named Weaver,
recently sfIot with a Winchester
,ifie at mark on the door of a
powder magazine near Pueblo.
The magazine blew up and Wea-
yer was instantly killed. His CON-
penion, Charles Nelson, was fatally
wounded.
FLORIDA
The widow of Florida orange
grower has Just received 500, 900
insurance on her husbands life.
Now look out for stampede OF
bachelors to Florida, with the or
ange fever
GEORGIA..
Georgia exults iD its magnificent
crop prospects. La all lines, they
say, the yield will be very great.
A field of wheat in Taylor county |
averages four feet five inches in
height Plumbs, peaches and app |
piles, in Lam ems and johnson coun-
ties are breaking the trees with
their weight of good fruit. They
say the recent rains were worth
$4,000 bushels of oats to Talbot
comfy alone.
Among the stockholders of the
Enterprise factory of Augusta is
an unmorried lady of advancing
years. self dependent, who has
earned With her needle over 81 900
and invested it III the stock, and an
old man, the bulk of whose estate
is about 100 shares of the stock,
his main reliance for the coming
wants and helplessncss of age.
A farmer near Macon, has 4O0,-
600 willows growing on bis place.
He has set out $1,000 this season.
ILLINOIS.
The root web worm is causing
l. 4 -, ?
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25

/ about $4,000 collects 81 ,000,OO in
license fees this year.
Judge David Davis owns nearly
seven thousand acres of farm land
in Illinois, and tho cultivation OF
these returns him more enjoyment
than participation in public life.
KANSAS.
Topeka claims d population o'
$1,000.
Two lads out in Kansas loved
the same lass. She was unable to
decide between them. They agreed
to leave it to battle. They fought
at 10 at night, and nearly killed
each other. A draw game and
still the trouble exists.
The Inter State Railroad Com
pany Eled Its charter with the
Secretary Of State recently. Its
line is from st. Louis, Mo-, to
GAINESVILLE, Texas, taking in Kan
sas Oh the way. If it runs through
ali the counties designated in the
charter it will be preeninertly
crooked.
FIG KENTUCKY.
Hogs are dying at fearful rate
from cholera III Mason county.
Over 2, 100 have died within the
last few weeks.
A torrible story comes from
ths Anchorage asylum. While
the nurses of holm Dearing, an in
mate from Louisville, were pre-
pairing bath for him, had in the
tub tue hot water and were about
to let IN the cold to bring it to
proper temperature, the unfortun-
ate man, who was waiting for his
order, plunged into the boiling wa
ter. When taken out the flesh was
cooked and the skin crisp and
peeling from every portion OF the
body. He died soon after in greal
agony.
LOUISIANA.
A little girl in one of the Orphan
Asylums of New Orleans was re-
Gently stung by.a bee on the ball
of one of the eyes, the sting caus-
ing the sightto be utterly destroy
ed. The physician in attendance
states that he never heard of
similar case.
New Orleans was founded by
company of French adventurers in
l743.
,zz 4 AZ ~ =. IN !; Z. is
A Kocklsnd Exchange says: A
lady was walking along Main street
very rapidly. A gentleman was
walkinh just behind the lady at an
equal rapid pace. The lady saw
a pin on the sidewalk, and stopped
to pick it up. The gen.
tleman failed to put down brakes
and took header over the lady.
Neither party secured the pin.
MARYLAND.
Hessiau flies are doing mnch
damage to the wheat in this state.
Recommendations have been
made of reductions in the custom |
house at Baltimore, which will
make a savlag of $4,000 annually. |
MASSACHUSETTS,.
1t is said that the railway travel
Of Massachusetts is greater than
that OF any other state in the Union.
Prize-fghts in Boston are now
held in private club-rooms, from
which the police are excluded.
The State of Massachusetts, has
sold the Hoosac tunnel to new
corporation, Of which the FIchburg
is the moneyed power.
MICHIGAN.
yshe extract works Mt MHflet Lake
IRE giving the farmers of that Sec
;ion considerable pocket money in
exchange for their hemlock bark.
MISSOURI.
Some ole curious to know how
he ST. Louis people kept Sunday,
Investigated the matter recently
With the following result; Num-
per at the churches, 10000: at the
base ball grounds, 10000; at the
cowboy exhibition, 10000; at the
,eer gardens, 10000; at Bob Inser.
ats a-l..- : fuln
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-07-25

A foolish fellow named Weaver,
recently slot wIUn winchester
litie at mark on the door of u
powder magazine near Pueblo.
The magazine blew up and Wea-
yer was instantly killed. His com
penion, Charles Nelson, was fatally
wounded.
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02
The Soldiers and the Civil Service
a long list of Massachusetts veterans have
signed the followino DrOtast.

The Soldiers and the Civil Service
A long list of Massachusetts veterans have
signed the following protest:
The undersigned soldiers and sailors in the late
war, respectfully, but earnestly, protest against
the passage of the bill exemptiug them from exam
nations for positions under the civil service rules
for while feeling the justice of preference being
given to them. other qualifications being equal as
is done by the present civil service act they do not
want to be made to appear desirous of being sup
ported at the public expense by appointments po-
stons for which their fitness is not established IN
der the general laws of the State.
In commenting the other day on the bill
alluded to in this protest the opinion was ex-
pressed that there was no general demand on
the part of .!he soldiers for the passage of any
such measure. The number and respecta-
bility of the soldiers whose names are APP
pended to this document is strong confirma-
ton of this view. The self-respecting SOL
der does not want to appear in the role of
beggar. All he asks is justice, he spurns
charity 1t is simple justice that, other
Things being equal, he should be accorded
the preference in appointment to public Of
fee over men that have made no personal
sacrifices for their country. 1t is asking
aims to demand that he be placed in an Of
fee which he is incompetent to fill simply be-
cause he has been soldier.
ALI measures of this kind originate with
politicians who advocate them either for the
purpose breaking down civil service reform
laws, or in the mistaken notion that there is
a demand for them on the part of the SOL
diers. Publicly, of course, such measures
are always advocated on the latter ground,
but the real motive is quite as likely to be
desire to undermine the civil service laws, as
to beuedt the soldier.
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02
Read This RemarIsnbIe Letter.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Nov. %, 1884
was very much afflicted with Neuralgia in the
mead and back and was unable to work for twenty
eight days, and was out Of my head for two DAYS
suffered all the pain that man could. I employed
three dluerent doctors, but to no avail / couldn't
touch my head to the pillow without its causing me
pam. Having tried your medicine last winter for
sore throat and burn on my little girls hand with
lmmedlate relief, thought would try a bottle,
although believing that my case was too severe for
chs to reach. applied nearly half bottle at once
TO my neck and head In less than one hour my head
was easy and free from pain. The cords in my neck
which were so stiff couldn't turn my head without
pain, were much relieved and after using two bot
Ties and in just three DAYS / was completely cured
ana as well q man as ever l was and went to work
ana have felt no symptoms of it since This valua-
bic remedy, Bakers Great American Specific was
Godsenq to me- for l0hdt the best physicians failed
70 d0, dHd 1rQt cost me about one hundred dollars
tHtS "cc0HlpttShe0. X. PURDY, Ships NTH,
AIT South Main Street.
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02

Yes, we admit the statement of Demo
cratic contemporary. There is good deal
OF get-up-and-go to the administration, but
1t is confined entirely to Republican Office
holders, who get up and go to make room
for the friends of "those wicked Cabinet
members"
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02
Another strong statement from a srnager

Alter spending a large sum Of money for doctors
and medicine for pain in my wife's side without
DONG her much good, bought bottle of Bakers
Great American Specific, and bathed her side with
it and it helped her imme diately MY little girl
was taken with cold that left her with very bad
cough. She would cough at night for hours with
out stopping had the doctor and tried his medi-
cine but it did no good. 1 bathed her throat with
the Specific and She stopped coughing within 10
minutes. Since then have bought one and one
halt dozens of the Specific and let my family have
it, and hare ieger heard Of case that IL did not
help tHt1lcdiatety Our engineer had the rhe una
tlsm IN ms Knee. 1t was swelled very badly. Your
medicine cured it in one night
o. e. HEATH Plumber
Providence. r. /.
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02

Mr.. Hendricks who is in favor of removing
first and insuiring about offensive partisan
ship afterwards, says that this administra-
ton OF which he is supposed to be a mem
Der, is "too conservative in the matter of re-
novals and appointments"
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02

At Milford, Mass, the priest in charge of
the Catholic cemetery refused to allow the
Grand Army to enter. The comrades, how
ever, promptly jumped over the fence and
decorated all the graves of deceased soldiers.
The priest says his objection was that the
Grand Army proposed to decorate the graves
with flags. he would not Lave objected to
flowers. The matter is to go to the courts
on an action of trespass brought by the
Drieaf
The Portland daily press., 1885-06-02

The money order department is great
convenience all around. 1t allows people to
send money any distance with perfect safety
at very low rate. 1t is also source of
profit to the government when we consider
that there are over 100000 of unclaimed
orders inthe department.