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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
JOHN MCCULLOUGH.

Few tragedies are more painful to
witness than the gradual but constant
sapping and breaking down of master
ful intellect. The pupil and successor OF
Edwin Forrest never enacted on the
mimic stage sadder part than he has
been mechanically rehearsing in his daily
walks and talks during the past twelve
months. Like the lightning smitten pine
John McCulough's decadence began at
the top, and his malady has grown in in
tensity until the necessity for physical re-
straint can NO longer be ignOred or disre-
garded This precaution has already been
too long neglected, and there is reason to
be thankful that the disordered faculties
of the eminent tragedian did not prompt
him to some desperate climax before
now.
John Mccullough, like every other
great actor, earned his promotion and
reputation by hard. earnest work, and
collapse illustrates once more the intense
strain to which human powers and en-
durance are subjected in adequately in
terpreting the works of the dramatic mas
ters The memory, the judgment the
emotions, the voice and the whole ply
sique are simultaneously and heavily
taxed. When to these drafts upon mind
and body are added the duties and re-
sponsibilities of managership. it is plair
that nothing but an iron constitution and
the utmost regularity of habits can sur
yive the ordeal. Mr.. Mccullough deemed
himself invincibly strong; he overtaxed
his energies. and the penalty came upor
him in the form of brain derangemen
which the doctors pronounce incurable
The life of an actor possesses its own pc
culiar destinations but it is life of ear
ing toll for the vast bulk of those WIFI
pursue it.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

THAT basin Of the Congo must need a
terrible securing. According TO General
Sanford, our ex>minister to Belgium, the
basin in question contains between So
100000 and 10000, 900 negroes with only
few wants. Among the wants the gen.
eral enumerated cheap gin and rum. In
these commodities, he says, we cannot
compete with Holland and Germany, a
statement that throws terrible suspicion
on the character and ingredients of the
missionary liquids that are poured into
the basin of the Congo. In cotton and
iron, how ever, General Sanford thinks we
may safely compete, and he also looks
upon the basin as a future reservoir, 80 to
say. for any possible surplus of our own
African race. He thinks that our colored
people, with the advantages furnished
them by the fifteenth amendment, have
only to 90 to the Congo basin, whence
their ancestors were compelled to emf
CRATE, in order to set up as chiefs among
their kith and kin. This is very doubtful
The negro knows when and where he is
we'll of, and for long time to come he
is likely is prefer kalsomining, or wait,
ing, or driving, or backing boots, sober
and more profitable profession in the
United States, than visionary chieftain'
ship in the Congo basin. On the whole
he has not been badly treated by thu
whites since emancipation was pro
claimed.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

SPRINGFIELD, Ills, June 29-The exam
nation of Representative Thomas James, of
Randolph county, on the charge Of at
tempt to commit a criminal assault upon
the person of tho Child page, Mamie James
commenced Saturday morning Mt 1890
o'clock before Justice If the Peace Condell
in the circuit courtroom. The prosecuting
attorney was assisted by Gen. John A. Nc
Clernand, while Senator Hamilton ex-Gov-
ernor James Robinson. of Springfield, and
Judge w. J. Allen, of Carbondale appeared
for the defense.
Mamie James was the FIRST witness exam
mod. She testified that some time during
the month Of March, while she was visiting
the house sessions each day and performing
the duties of a page, she was one day sent
by Representative James to his commit
tee-room to get him pad
of paper; that she had been
in the committee-room q couple of min
utes looking for the pad when Mr.. James
entered the room, partially closing the door
behind him; that she told him she had Just
found the paper, and asked him IL 1t was
what he wanted. when he told her to never
mind that, that was not what he
came for; that he then, notwithstanding
her attempt to resist. committed crimina
as sault on her. She further testified that
the Sth or 9th Of May she went
TO Representative James commit
teeroom in company with another little
girl-page named Essie Miller; that the Mil
Ter girl left her for few minutes to wasl
her hands. and while she was left alone
Representative James entered the room, ant
Cor the second time committed erinlina
assault npon her. Pending the cross-exam
nation Of Mamie James the court took q
recess The defense expect to establish
case Of blackmail.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
FISH SENTENCED
70 TEN YEARS IN THE Az BURN
PENlTENTlARY.
The Judges CondemnatiOn-A Party o
Escaped Prisoners Hang boy in
Iowa-A Child nlurderess-
Criminalities.

New YORK, June 29-President J. d
Fish, of the late Marine bank, was arraigned
for sentence in the criminal branch of the
United States circuit court Saturday.
Judge Benedict presided, United States
District Attorney Root appeared for
the people, and at once moved sen
tence, Fish was placed at the
sar and in answer to the
question whether he had anything to
say replied in a low but firm tone that he
had not Judge Benedict then spoke;
James d. Fish, you were indicted by the
United States grand jury and tried by able
counsel in this courtroom OF misapplying
the funds of the bank of which you were
president and with classifying the
books of the Institution. Your
counsel made a motion for new trial and
the three judges who heard the argument in
your behalf ad judged that you were prop
erly convicted, and therefore denied the mo-
ton for new trial The evidence adduced
at the trial showed that your actions and con-
duct as president Of the Marine bank
were disgraceful and barefaced. The evil
dence showed that throughout your conduct
was unprincipled In order 60 deter others
from perpetrating similar frauds it seems to
me proper that the extreme penalty OF the
law should be imposed on you.
The court therefore sentences you to
ten years Imprisonment at Auburn In
consideration of your advanced years tbs
court orders that the sentence be entered
upon the minutes of the court as the
penalty for the fourth, fifth, elsv-
enth. fourteenth, seventeenth, nine
tenth, and twenty second counts
of the Indictment upon which the jury also
found You guilty" The aged prisoner, dur,
ing the judges remarks, although endeavor.
ing to maintain his composure, trembled Wis
IDLY. He will probably he taken to Auburn
Wednesday
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

as partner and when he became mana
ger of the firm on the death of Prosper
M. Wetmore. Mr.. Hedden is wealthy
man, but not millionaire, and his repus
tation stands very high among down
town business men as a solid and very
well informed merchant, free from all
connection with doubtful speculation
He is a member of several leading social
clubs Politically Mr.. Hedden is pro.
nounced old fashioned democrat, never
having voted republican ticket Since
the organization of the County democ
racy he has always supported the candis
dates of that organization. With the ex-
ception of service on temporary muni>
cipal commissions-th dry goods dis
trict fire commission and the Broadway
railroad commission-he has never held
public office. In personal appearance Mr..
Hedden is erect and of medium figure,
weighing about 100 pounds and standing
five feet eight inches high, and has dark
eyes and iron gray hair and m0ustache
He resides at SO West Forty ninth street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
The business Report.

NEW York. June 81. From the leading
business centers reported by telegraph TO
Bradstreet's word comes that trade contin-
ues quiet and singularly free from specula-
tive movements Surplus funds at the banks
at New York and Boston show no signs of
growing smaller, and the demand for money
at the interior has not equaled the expecta-
tions. The volume of general merchandise
moving Is made up Of hand to
mouth purchases. Since the labor trouble at
Pittsburg has been settled the local trade
situation has assumed better aspect. At
Philadelphia merchants arc inclined to q
more confident and hopeful view of the
nearby future, while at New York the
reverse is true Cotton and wooden
milimen in all directions are inclined to
regard the outlook as opposed to re.
vival, and their complaint as to the effects
of the late heavy auction sales of cotton and
wooden fabrics at the east are based, they
claim, on the injury done the textile manu-
featuring interests. At Boston there
has been some activity In sales Of
dry goods by jobbers, but agents and
makers report trade as dull as ever.
At New Orleans there has been some stock
ing up by country merchants, based on the
reported good condition and prospects of
crops at the south. There is an evident dis
position on the Tart Of a number in the
wheat crop to hammer the market, and
prices have been depressed in consequence
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
THEY HUNG tbs BOY.


Awfur Crime Of Escaped Prisoners-Nfak-
ing Away with Their Enemy.
OMAHA, Neb., June 27-From Nicola,
Iowa, comes the news Of the mysterious dis
appearance of William Hayes, aged l6, and
the discovery of his dead body hanging to a
tree. On Tuesday last he left his
fathers farm home in the town of
Persia to attend confirmation serv-
ices at the Catholic church in
Nicola. That was the last seen OF him alive
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock his parents
were surprised by the appearance of his
horse with the saddle and bride still on. A
party Of neighbors was organized to hunt
for him They first went to Nicola, but
found no trace Separating, they searched
all day and late into the night, all over
the country. Saturday morning his brother
found his body hanging to a tree twas sus-
pended from a limb, ten or twelve feet from
the ground, with a bride rein taken from
his horse. The spot near by was all
trampled by the horse, where it had been
strap showed that it had pulled
loose and started for home. The
hands of the boy were tied be-
hind him, and his feet were fastened to
gether. Death had resulted from strangula-
ton, as his neck was not broken. These
facts prove conclusively that he was hanged
and that it was not case of suicide. The
spot where he was found was nine miles
north of Neola in Harrison county. An in
quest was held. but sealed verdict was re-
turned, which has not been made public.
The theory is that young Hayes was muir
dered by four prisoners who escaped from
Harrison county jail Friday night Two
of these men had once before broken jail,
and had been recsptured through the efforts
| of the shsrifP's son, who followed them and
| reported their whereabouts Young Hayes
bore striking resemblance to Sheriff Gar
rison's son, and it is supposed that the jail
birds thought it was he again tracking
them. aud that they hanged him to put hin
out of the way. Excitement is running high
and if the murderer5 are caught they viii
be lynched. The four escaped prisoners sus
pected of this deed are Harry Lee, Will
lam Wood, George johnson, all burglars
and William Mattook, bigaIDist Liberia
rewards will be offered for their capture.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

hours. During the past twenty-four hours
the mucous secretions have increased, and
expectoration, which has tendency to
weaken the patient has been greater. His
pulse in The. morning was 70, but its fullness
has been affected TO some extent by the in.
creased secretions and expectoration.
A message Of sympathy was received
from the Republican Central club of Potts.
Vile. Pa.
The apprehensions of Dr. Douglas that
GEN Grant might have to pay for his re-
cent rally have already been partly met
The general had wretched night.
Mucus Accommodations began to gather
after midnight and he was scarcely free
from coughing and unusual pain until day
light. DIR. Douglas relieved him for little
while by treatment administered at O'Clock
in the morning and again at 9 o'clock, but
his sleep was badly broken until after his
morning nourishment was served, which
quieted him. No special alarm i
felt by this setback. The family
think the snltry day an importah
agent in depressing him, and are not yei
disposed to think reaction has set in. II,
will be watched with extra care to preclude
if possible the assertion of furtler unfavor,
ble symptoms
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

WASHINGTON CITY, June 90 Among the
the throng in Secretary Manning's Office
Friday was clerk who received his dismis-
sal a have called. Mr.. Secretary" said he.
ito ask you what the charges are against
me.
There are no charges" replied MFR. Man
ming. "You are a Republican. We want
your place; that's all there is about it"
The clerk withdrew without another
word
81 told that man an untruth," said Mr.
Manning, when MS visitor had departed
"Tbere are charges against him. He is a
shiftless and incompetent clerk. He ought
to have been discharged years ago, Why,
didn't ] tell him SO! Because he would
have insisted upon being heard. This would
have taken up valuable time that !
cannot afford to spare used to be honest
with these men until found they all asked
the same question. II heard their side OF
the story it would compel me to turn my
office into a court Of appeals, and
i should have little opportunity to
attend to anything else. / make SURE
the charges are In all cases cor
rect, and then when ] am asked for an ex-
PLANTATION tell them what told this man
that they are Republicans and we want
their places That gives them nothing tt
cavil about Such an argument Is unan
swerable. 1t is a good deal easier for u,
and much more satisfactory to them. They
| 60 away quietly and that's the last we ever
see of them" 90
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
THE GOVERNMENT AS AN ASYLUM.

The new cabinet officers and t he chiefs
of the bureau under them, says Wash
ingtOn correspondent, are very much en-
barrassed by their inheritance of asylums
for the aged, blind and deaf The gov
eminent offices are these asylums, and
there are in them hundreds of superan,
nuated men and women who do actually
no work. They were not remarkable for
energy and efficiency in their prime. Now
they are sans eyes, sans ears, sans every
thing but pocket. They go to the depart,
ments day after day as has been their
custom for years. They sit at their desks
and do nothing but once month, when
pay day comes, they are handed one huns
dred dollars in crisp new notes.
If these superannuated people should
be discharged, they would doubtless die
from the shock, and more or less suffer-
ing would be entailed upon their depend
ent families. But it is nevertheless q
gross wrong to the tax payer and a sub
version of the purposes of the civil service
to make the government Offices an asylum
for this class. The government pays
thousands of dollars yearly for rent Of
offices and the rooms of many deartmenti
are overcrowded with desks. 1t woult
be in the interest of economy to pay
these old and helpless people to stay
away from the departments so that COM
petent men might be placed at the desk
which they only cucumber.
There is another class that ought to be
discharged. The departments were fillec
with pretty women by system fosteret
and practiced by the republican party
There is not republican senator or ex
senator who has not lovely proteges, ant
some of them have dozens in the govern
meut offices. They were not appointed
under civil service rules, but in direc
contravention of civil service principles
because they were sisters, cousins, aunt
and mother-in,law. To say that they ar
not efficient is putting it very mildly
Ten good clerks, such as are found IN tn
business houses of the city, can do NOR,
and better work than one hundred @
these women. and will be glad to do
for less pay than the women receive
The fact is that the civil service has bee
most shamefullY run down at the heels 9
well as at the head during the long a:
tendency of the party of moral ideas an
. loose practices.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
She Win Not Resign,

CHICAGO, June 27.-Miss Ada Sweet, pen
sion agent at Chicago, in conversation with
a reporter said "The end OF the fiscal year
will be June so, but l have not received no.
tice that l must step down and out
on that day. No, l shall not resign,
she continued, as she closed her lips
firmly. a think, though, l may be mis-
taken, that the supposed political emergency
that called for the appointment OF success
sor being now thing OF the past that will
be allowed to serve out my term. Person
ally Gen. Black is very friendly, and / be-
lieve nothing but clamor and party exigen-
cies would induce him to think of making a
change until the expiration Of my
term. At all events it appears to me that if
q successor is to take charge on the LIST of the
month would recommend some notifca-
ton in order to b. prepared to turn over
the office. 1t will take this time for new
@hand" to get the run of the machine, but
so far as / am concerned can make the
transfer any day, as well in the middle as al
the first of the month. However the mat
ter does not interfere with my rest in the
least
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
THE NEW COLLECTOR.
EDWARD [. HepDEN APPOINTED COT
LECToR OF CUSTOMS
OF the Port OF New York, Vice Judge
Robertson Other Important Appoint
ments-The Ada Sweet Case
Political Pointers.

New York, June 27-The president has
appointed Edward L. Hedden as collector OF
customs of the port of New York,
vice Judge Robertson, whose term has
Just expired. Mr.. Hedden is a successful
business man. and not in any sense
the choice of the politicians Hubert Y.
Thompson, the leader Of the New York
county Democracy, and Hugh McLaugh him,
the Democratic boss of Brooklyn, made a
strong pull for the place, but the public
clamor against both was too pro
nounced 1t is an open secret that Score
tary Manning wisheh to appoint Thompson
and that he brought great pressure
on the president to that end,
Secretary Whitney, however. seeing
that the other candidates were objectiona-
BILE, supported Hedden for the position,
nj Cleveland thought it the wiser course
TO name a gentleman against whom not a
word had been said in any quarter, and
whose Appointment would not have a
tendency to stir up fractional strife.
Edward L. Hedden was born at New York
city in lS3S From 1859 until last year he
was partner in the shipping house of Wet
more Cryder a. Co, and for thirty
five years conducted the large Gus
tom house business If the firm. He
is vice president of the North River
Bank and a director in several insurance
companies He has always been Democrat
in politics. His father studied law with
Alexander Hamilton and was the represen-
tative of New York city on the occasion OF
the opening of the Erie canal.
Two other New York appointments were
also made-IIa S. Beatty, surveyor of
customs, and SilaS w. Burt, naval officer
The president has suspended Haratio L.
Burchard, director of the mint, to take
effect July l, AMI appointed James p. Kim
ball, of Pennsylvania, 30 succeed MIR.
Burchard
d. D. James p. Kimball is q professor
of economic geology in Lehigh uni
versity, mining engineer and metal
lurgist by profession. He was edu-
Gated at Harvard university and at
the mining school of Freiberg, Saxony, re-.
ceiving the degree of P.HD. from the
university of Gottingen in 1851.
He has held appointments in
several state and government surveys.
During the war he served in the army of
the Potomac as assistant adjutant general,
on the stats Of Gems Mcclellan, Burnside,
| Hooker and Meade SUCCESSFULLY. He is now
| president Of the Everett Iron company, OF
Pennsylvania, and is wsll-known In New
York, where he has an Office He is a mem
Der of the Union, Century and down town
clubs Of New York city.
| Gen. Frank Armstrong. Of New Orleans
has been appointed Indian inspector, to sue
coed Mr. Newell, suspended. 1t is under
stood that the reason for this suspension Wa,
incompetency arising from advanced age
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FAIRCHILp has

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has
just shown himself to be a sound lawyer
as well as a superior administrative officer.
He has decided the ground rice" case, as
every good lawyer must decide it. Rice flour
or ground rice is class of merchandise
that has come into existence since the ex-
listing law was framed. When the law
provides for an enormously high duty on
cleaned rice, those who are not lawyers
contend that the makers of the law in
tended to cover every form which rice
may assume. What they intended, Mr..
Fairchild says, we must learn from what
they said. They said Cleaned rice.
The merchandise in controversy is not
commercially known as cleaned rice. 1t
is hence not provided for in the law, un>
enumerated, and must continue to pay
duty at twenty per centum ad valorem
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

The intimate relation existing between
the liver and kidneys is shown by the fact
that when one or the other of these inn
portant organs is affected the other is
likely to suffer through sympathy. Mish>
ler's Herb Bitters acts with like efficacy
upon both. 1t drives out the impurities
that infest them, and restores healthy
and regular action. The true properties
of the preparation are among the most
valuable qualities, and have proved bene
fetal where others have failed.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

HANLAN and Teemer are steadily prac-
ticing with the SOULS at Buffalo for their
coming contest. The Canadian oarsman
thinks that Beech will not Voluntarily
quit the Australian climate and water, TO
which he is so well accustomed and risk
the loss Of the championship by coming
to America But if he cannot be induced
to visit us both Hanlan and Teemer will
probably go to Australia and try his met
tie in new struggle for the emblem oil
supremacy at the single shells.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29
Tho Deadly Hand-Car AGAIN.

WASHINGTON, Ind, June GA horrible
accident occurred on the Ohio & Mississippi
east Of this city about Q o'clock Friday
morning. There was dance at point
near the railroad which was attended by
several young people from here. There
were two hand-cars stolen by some of the
attendants, one four-wheeler and
the other "spider, About two
o'clock two young men were
returning on the spider, and seven
persuasive girls and two boys-had just
started ON the four-wheeler The two cars
met with terrible force at the bottom Of
a hollow in the track, and one of the girls,
named Miss Annie Taylor, was instantly
killed Several Of the others were severely
bruised, and their escape was most miracu.
louS
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-29

Now that the revolt Of the half breeds
and Indians in the dominion is practically
at an end. it might be as well for the Ca
madam government TO inquire honestly
into its cause. 1t was not all sheer Gus
sedness The Indians of the dominion as
rule have been very well behaved and
peaceable under the law II they had
real grievances the best method of putting
an end to such costly experiments as the
Canadian authorities have been conduct
Jog of late is to put an end to the griev-
ances. They have taught the Indians a
lesson. They have proved their superior
strength. Let them now teach lesson
of justice tempered with mercy.