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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-11-21

AN ENGAGEMENT BROKEN UP.
Clinging closely to each other
Round the rink they go together,
Chances loving glanccs meeting,
Words of tenderness repeating.
Roses in her checks are glowing,
JOY her heart is overlooking,
And his manner is CareSSing,
Love his every look cOnfeSSng.
Ger them smiling Cupid hOYers,
Happy, joyous pair of lovers!
Ha. they OsCillate, they stumble.
Crashing to the floor they tumble.
He the maiden quickly raises
With apologize phrases,
But the angry dumScl, turning
From him, his excuses spurning,
SmoOthes her ruiied frills and laces,
While with chagrin red her face is,
And declares It's really shocking
His unSlllfulncSs provoking,
HOrrid, dreadful, aggravating-
Where did ne learn roller skating?
Clumsy fellow! He. retortng,
Says she's worse. Thus ends their coul
ing.
-ROStOJl COlIl,ieJ,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

A RECENT statement of the quantity OF
land in the United States held and con-
trolled by foreign capitalists, prepared by
Hon. William G. Oates, a member of con-
gress from Alabama, and member OF
the house committee on public lands
shows an aggregate of 2O,541, 1856 acres SO
held and owned, the largest owners being
two English syndicates possessing, res
pectively, 1000, 900 and 100000 acres.
These owners have not intended and do
not intend to become citizens Of the Uni>
ted States, and some Of them are titled
noblemen of different countries in
Europe. Yet by the laxity Of the preemp-
ton laws of this country they are ena-
bled to secure the privilege Of holding
this vast domain-a privilege denied by
the laws to our own citizens The senti-
ment Of the country is opposed, and has
always been opposed, to this system Of
foreign ownership Of our public lands
but every attempt to discourage it by
congressional action has thus far me
with defeat before the bills TO that emf
could be gotten out Of committee.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

can have no claim to inodesty. and are unfit
persons to enter respectable society.
N. BIZ parents, pastors and the press
are incapable of teaching public propriety,
you win hear from us in palmer terms in
the near future.
BY order of the Committee of Disguised
Gentlemen.
So great is the public Indignation that
even the mayor has taken cognizance of the
matter, and has instructed the chief
of police to arrest the authors if
they can be properly identified.
at would be absurd" says The
Landmark, in vehement editorial, ito
make believe, as the chillren say, that this
placard had not been very widely read, and
it would lie unmanly not to denounce it
Our ladies in blistering hot weather wear
their fabrics, and very properly So for
their comfort, and none but those of vile
imagination could ever have looked
on them as reprehenslble for
this When anonymous writers APP
pear in community TO attack any class
these writers should be hunted up; but when
they attack the church-going ladies, the
duty to hunt them down becomes doubly
imperative. A second placard is threatened.
This, if it should come out will be still
more offensive, and we call on the police
| and on the young mon Of the community tc
aid in bringing this matter mora fully into
the light of day. Every man should
unite in this inquisition and there
should be a general hunt and an earnest
| hunt. The miscreants, if discovered, will
receive dire punishment at the hands Of al
outraged community. We understand thai
the chief of police will offer a reward o.
500 for information which will fastan thu
crime upon the guilty party, and it is unnec
essary to say his efforts will be seconded b
the entire community"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

dodecahedron In another section Nine
Traube Meugarini studies the function OF
the brain in fishes; while in our own
country Mrs. Treat and others have made
valuable progress in scientific research.
All this biological and mathematical de.
votiou, if increasing among womankind,
NAV create the fear that, while the scien>
tific flame burns brighter, the household
fires may go out The author of John
Halifax" answers very well. "The world
has found out that it is possible both to
write book and make pudding; to
study deeply art or science, how to keep
house with economy. skill and grace
The writer once tasted some excellent
raspberry jam made by a girl Who while
cooking it, studied the Greek irregular
verbs. 1t was more than usually delicious,
Probably her method was TO give it
genuine Attic flavor.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
SOME OPINION ON DRESS

Opinions differ. And on no subject are
they so diverse as in the matter OF cos
tunes. You have heard of or perhaps
seen the stage beauty, Lillian Russell.
She has been singing ina comic opera res
curing her to put on the dress OF sal
lor. She has remarkable mother in the
person of Cynthia Leonard, who wears
her hair short and has the outward marks
of strongmindedness One of her theo-
ries is that human beings would live for
ever but for their breakage of natural
laws. Another is that by certain precau
tions on the part of parents children OF
almost any desired mental sort can be
produced. In proof OF this she declares
that Lillian is the result of deliberate
intention to beget beautiful vocalist 1t
was the nautical costume OF Lillian that
led her to emphatically condemn trousers.
They're garment that ought'nt to be
worn by either man or woman" she said.
"They are unhealthy and excessively
ugly. Those women who are endeavor-
ing to force their own sex into panta-
looms are making huge mistake. Men
ought to discard the present style OF
| trousers and put on more comfortable
and more ornamental clothes. My notion
of the right thing is costume composed
of stockings to the knees, then trunks OF
loose material and every article of male
dress frilled. embroidered and otherwise
decorated after the manner now monopo
lized - Albany Journal Correspondence
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
THE senate committee which is junk

The senate committee which is junk
citing through the country under the name
of the Inter State Commerce commission,
has already discovered that barrel OF
-four can be transported from Minneapo'
lis, Mimi, TO New York city for one NTH
of the present freight charges. and then
leave q good margin for profit to the rail-
roads. Now if the aforesaid commission
will discover way to make the railroads
carry barrel of -four for one fifth OF lh'
present rates, than the Inter State Com
merce commission will not have junketct
in vain
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
sarbarous Case Of Infanticide.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July l7.-Geurge
Thorn was arrested here Wednesday morn
ing on n telegram from Pcovo charging him
with chiil murder. IL i, alleged that he
seJuceI his half-sister, AMI she becoming
enciente he gave her medicine t. produce
an abortion This failing the child was
born Tuesday when the mother who was
alone at the time, first sta 5hed the babe in
the throat with pair Of scissors and then
stranglcd it. The woman made full con
feSsion AMI produced a number of letters
from Thorn instrucung her how TO get rid
Of her trouble. She also declares that Thorn
has seduced two OF her relatives, one Of
whom will soon become a mother Thorn
is in prison here and will he sent to Provl
for trial
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
TIE studying and exnarimenti

TIE studying and experimenting with
cholera germs is not confined, it seems,
to DR.. Koch, of Berlin. and DR.. Fcrran.
who is now laboring with varying success
in Spain. DIR. F. s. Billings is now busy
in the laboratory of the Polytechnic insti
tute, subjecting cholera and cholera NOR
bus germs to micrOscopical examination.
These germs are like infnitesimally small
white worms. The present experiments
are mainly directed to ascertain under
what conditions of temperature, etc,
these so called germs best exist and soon
est perish. DR.. Billings is still little
skeptical as to whether the true cholera
baccilli have yet been discovered, from
the fact that he has swallowed some OF
those he has received from Europe with
out any perceptible effect InoculatiOr
for cholera with these and others Of
slightly different character will soon take
Mace
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
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Indigestion Cured.

suffered for more than five years with Judges
ton, scarsely able to retain the simplest food on
nv stomach. The burning sensation was almost
intolerable, and my whole system was deranged
was wakeful and coHld not sleep, and conse-
quently more or less nervous all the time. / de
clned in flesh, and suffered all the usual depress-
ion attendant upon this terrible disease. In a
word, was miserable AT last, failing to Iind re-
lief in anything else, / commenced the use Of
Swifts Specific. began To improve at once, The
medicine toned up the stomach, strengthened the
digestive organs and sooI all that burning ceas-
ed. and could retain food without difficulty.
Now my health is good, and can eat anything in
the shape of food, and digest it without the
slightest dim Guilty. most cheerfully bear this
testimony, because there are hundreds suffering
as was and am sure they can be as readily
healed. Take the prescribed dose after eating.
instead of before
JAMES MANN, No. 10 Ivy St.
Atlanga, Ga, May 13, 1885.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

How ca silly man may hide his identi-
ty ind evade the quest of his friends in a
large city is again demonstrated in the case
of the Chicago merchant, Charles A. Lib
by, so long missing, whose abrupt disap>
pearance drove his wife to suicide. He
abruptly reappears in New York and e.
plains that he first went off on spree,
which was renewed and protracted, when
he read Of his wife's tragic death. His
has been an experience which carries q
very obvious lesson on its face.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

Father. Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.

Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead.
Mr.. David Claypool, formerly Sergeant
alarms ofthe New Jersey Senate, and now
Notary Public at Cedarville, Cumberland
Co, n. j., makes the following startling
statement: any father, mother, and three
sisters all died with consumption, and my
lungs were so weak raised blood. Nobody
thought | could live. My work ship
smithing) was very straining on me with my
weak constitution, and Twas rapidly going
to the grave. While in this condition |
commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters,
and it saved my life. Because it was SO
difficult to get it in this little place, and |
had improved so much, stopped taking it
for a time, and the result is that | have
commenced going rapidly down hill again.
Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters gives
appetite and strengthens and builds me up
as nothing else does, and / must have q
dozen bottles at once. Use this commu-
nication as you please, and if any one wants
to be convinced of its truth, let them write
me and | will make affidavit TO il, for
owe my life to Mishlers Herb Bitters."
The secret Of the almost invariable relief
and cure of consumption, dysentery, diar-
rhGa, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and
liver complaints, when Nlishler's Herb
Bitters is used, is that it contains simple,
harmless, and yet powerful ingredients,
that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver,
and through them strengthens and invigor-
ates the whole system. Purely vegetable
in its composition; prepared by regular
physician; a standard medicinal prepare
ton; endorsed by physicians and drug
gists. These are four strong points in favor
of Mishlers Herb Bitters Mishler's Herl
Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price LOG
per large bottle. bottles for $500.
Ask your druggist for MTsHLER's RERB BITTTRs
II he does not keep it. do not take ANYTHING else but
send r postal card TO MisHIFR herb BITTERs Co.
Us Commerce Street Phladelpbia.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

SoMEBoDY-yes. of course, it was a
Boston journalist-writes from behind
his classic spectacles on the decay oil
American wit and humor. Nonsense,
man. Look beyond your little village and
YOU will find more laughter moving gos>
sins and cranks abroad in the journals
TODAY than ever we're before. The pro-
fessional Boston humorist may have gone
to ioip the other mummies, for he was
born prehistoric; but we still live and
lauph from Maine to California.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
seMI-rRANsPARENT DRESSES.
A Very Particular yirginisn Who Didn'i
Sign His Name.

A Very Particular yirginian Who Didn'i
Sign His Name.
NORFOLK, Va July 17.-This community
is much excited over document plaeardei
here few nights ago by persons who,
though apparently anonymous, are il
fact we'll known, and who threaten another
public notice quite as offensive. The pla-
card is follows:
We recommend public meetings to be
held under tho auspices OF every Christian
church. to take into consideration the speed
lest ami most effective means Of purifying
the temples of the Almighty God, AMI
guarding them against inroads being made
on public decency or morality by an incon-
siderable number of the female attendants
Of our various churches, who through ignor.
ance. or perhaps worse, dare to enter
the house of prayer in semi-nuie or
tran parent garb, which would be more in
harmony with the yotaries Of the Colnique
or the shrine Of Babel than the humble pen
itent seeking peace with God. We therefore
publicly proclaim to whom it may concern
that all females who can so grossly insult
both their own and the o posite sex as t.
appear in tight-fitting dress made of whits
muslin, or transparent material of any
- ~-i~- without an outside garment
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
BEWARE OF THE MlCRocoCCl,
And Also Look Out for PtomaHes When
You BUY Dried Beet.


CHICAGO, July III Professors G. A. Mari
ner AMI Henry L. Tolman made examine
tons of the dried beef which caused So
many cases of poisoning recently at Mo
mence, Ills They found portions Of the
meat completely honeycombed by micro
cocci, microscopic vegetable bacteria, which
in many places had completely destroyed
the ii sue of muscles and left little
granule>, or, AS Professor Mariner
terms it. ptomane, OF violent alkaloid
poison Professor Tolman says the meat
was overcured and oserheated, and had
every indication of having been bad before
was cured These mierococci are Of nc
kin to trichinp the vicious little par asite Of
the hog, and are not of Themselves harmful
The work they carry on develops the aka
Ioid poison, and it was this that allied the
Mumonce Ee0ple Professor Mariner in
tend, 10 continue his Investigations
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

BREAD is by universal concession the
staff of life Corn enough is grown IN
this country to feed the world. But the
art of baking threatens to become one OF
the lost arts among Americans. Why
should the average German or French
restaurant always have good bread. and
of many varieties. while the bread in The
average American restaurant is of de-
cidedly inferior quality? 1t is with corn
as with meat; God sends both, but the
devil sends too many of the cooks and
bakers.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
MEXICAN securities just now seem any.

MEXICAN securities just now seem any
thing but secure. 1t ia curious, by the
by. to notice how wealthy Mexican resi-
dents and those of the Central and South
American republics. as we'll as the high
officials generally. grow out of impover'
ished people. However the public funds
NAV suffer, the people who control them
never seem to starve for or want for mon
ey. But they have way of their own OF
managing these things in the sister re-
puhlics,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

A VERY common belief Is that women,
even when studious. are rather literary
than scientific. Statistics prove either
that they are changing in this regard or
that the notion Is erroneous. The great
majority Of woman at the universities OF
Zurich and Geneva study, not letters, but
science and medicine. M. Ernest Legouve
reported in recent competition for fell
lOwships in the university of Frar ce,
"The papers Of the scientific candidates
were greatly superior TO those OF letters.
This result contradicts q very general
opinion which / myself have strongly
"a that scientific studies, the abb
and mathematics must
- ace in women's edu-
are incompatible
female intellect
We have been In England
Miss Ormerod ,Lnguished' herself
by her Observable s on Ninsect life. Very
recently paper was read before the
Mathematical society Of London by Mrs.
Bryant, Sc. D., on the geometrical form
Of perfectly regular cell structure illus
trated by models of cube and lhombic
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
BagaIey Versus Vanderbilt.

New YORK, July 1T.--In the suit of Ralph
Bagaley against William II Vanderbilt and
others, composing the South Pennsylvania
railway syndicate, Chief Justice Sedgwick,
in the superior court. has refused TO grant
the plaintiff an injunction TO restrain the
defendants from continuing tn act under the
syndicate agreement Judge Selgwick says
that the facts before him show that Baga-
ley's pecuniary interest will not be enlan-
gered pending the suit
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
Monmouth Park Races.

LONG BRANCH, July l7-The races at
Monmouth park were woh ms follows Thurs
day:
First race, mile; Choctaw first. Herbert
second, Detective third; time, "A.
Second race, q mile; Portland first,
Electric second, Salisbury third; time,
l:l6sI.
Third race IL miles; Grano first st.
Augustine second, Katrine third; time,
2:40.
Fourth racs. Is 10 miles; Jack of Hearts
first, East Lynne second, Conkling third;
time, 305.
Fifth race. u mile; Error first, Fellow
play second, Cricket third; time, l:l5X.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR.

Is separately connected with Hoods Sars-
aparilla, and is true of no other medi-
cine. 1t is an unanswerable argument as
to strength and economy, while thous>
ands testify to its superior blood purify
ing and strengthening qualities A bottle
of Hoods Saisaparilla contains 100 doses
and will last month, while others will
average TO last not over week. Hence,
for economy, buy Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

In the fall Of 1854 was taken with case Of
malarial fever which prostrated me both body and
mind | was dugged af er the old fashion with
mercury and other mineral mixtures, but with no
good results. My health was shattered and my
energy gone NV legs and feet would swell, and
| had what everybody thought was dTopsy. These
symptoms alarmed me, and was ready to grasp
al any remedy suggested. A friend advised me
to try Swifts Specific. | procmed three bottles
and commenced its use. The swelling soon sub
sided | have taken the three bottles, which
have made perfect cure, and | feel like new
maR today There never was more meritorions
medicine offered 10 suffering humanity. Ii has
wrought wonders for me. WILLIS JONES.
Leesburg, Lee County, Ga, March Il, 1885.
Pe sure and get the genuine, and send for Urea
tise on Blood and Skin Diseases free.
For sale by all druggists.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co,
Drawer g. Atlanta Ga.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
Incorpoyated a Tariff League,

New York, July 1.-THE American Pro-
tective Tariff league. whose object is to adj
vocate the protection of American labor by
imposing tariff to secure American prod
ucts against the competition of foreign la
Dor, was incorporated Wednesday, its
founders being Lsgrani B. Cannon, E. H.
Ammidoun. Smith NJ. Weed, William P.
Shinn, Deb Randolph Keim, C. ~ Bliss,
A. w. Snper, ?. c. Cheney, Theodore NJ
Ives. f. NJ Knox, Z. H. Cramp. and others
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
Opposed to Labor Unions.

WASHINGTON CITY, July II. Judge
Snell in disposing of a labor case, in which
union men had made threats against non
union mon. said: You come here from
Italy, Germany. Austria, and every
other country, and as soon as you
get here you join a labor union and
propose to control the price of labor in this
country. The people of this country are
not going to stand this. The time will soon
come when persons in this country will be
able to employ laborers as cheap as they
can and pay them in proportion TO their
work without the interference of labor
unions. The greatest nuisances we have in
this country are these internal unions, and
the sooner we get rid Of them the better"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17


A little incident happened at dwelling
house on Broadway which serves to illus
trate the mysterious origin of some fires.
A girl was sweeping room with carpet
sweeper, when she noticed smoke coming
from it On examination she discovered
that match had been lighted by the revo-
luton of the brush inside the sweeper
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

INNItIIITIC -NIItIICHII.I
DR.. V. Poulain writes to The British Med
ical Journal that he has always found
tablespo nful of fms bran in Bread and
milk, night and morning, to be the bost
method of combating constipation in chill
dren, and it Is very useful in conveying 10
the child silica and phosphates The bran
NAV tie allowed to soak in the milk. and
then, when warmel up to a little below
bollin; point, it should be poured on tho
LrAaJ
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
Down South.
New orleans letter.

A peculiarity OF the young southerner,
male OF female, is their early betrothal and
eventful marriage, q condition that usually
hinders undue dissipation, even if the desire
exists. As a rule fewer divorce suits en-
cumber the records Of our courts than in the
north, reason for which l am at loss to
give, not believing that climate has any in
fuence over it whatever
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

Clsveland's eldest sister has for twenty
years been a missionary in Ceyion, where
Arab Pt>ha, Egypt's false military leader,
is confined in luxury by the British. Her two
dau.; nters Mary and Carrie Hastings, have
teen educated i'll this country by their uncle
Grover They arc bright young ladies, have
leen much at the executive mansion in Al
hany, and will doubtless be seen at the
VI Int. H1u,a
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17
A earn.

To all who are suffering from The errors
and indiscretions of youth, nervous weak
ness. early decay, loss of manhood, &C.,
viii send a recipe that will cure you,
FREE OF CHARGE. This great remedy
was discovered by missionary in South
America. Send self addressed envelope
to the REV JosEPH T. INMAN, Station d,
New York City.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-07-17

SPRINGFIELD, July 17.-Four of the
Wabash railroad strikers who interfered
with the new men employed by the CON-
pany were sent to Jail for thirty days by
United States Circuit Judge Treat Thurs
days, for contempt Of court, and the two
whose offenses were less were sentenced for
ton days A striker who is we'll
posted, says the workmen will use force
now. This authority declares that over 100
have said they will risk the chance of go
ing to jail and boarding at the company's
expense. 1t is evident that there are pros
poets of more serious trouble ahead, if set
tlement is not soon reached.